here's an update for all the "tOuRiSm iS fOr ThE pEoPlE" fucks. always remember that the second anyone steps foot on that land in the name of "tourism" or any other haole institution, that is colonizing&that person is a fucking explicit modern colonizer who made the conscious decision to be one and has spent a lot of fucking money on that trip to get their title. only that kine want more of their kin there-- don't pretend that shit is for anyone else.
drop dead of spontaneous combustion specifically, not even the sharks would want that pīlau fucking meat.
This is another unintentional funny line because Norman is like “I clocked your dumbass the second Krone showed up” to sort of rub in how could Ray ever even think to betray them. As if he wouldn’t notice.
And for the most part, he keeps his cool about it during the two weeks prior to confronting Ray.
Ten years from now, you're watching a new show, the face on at the bottom on the screen is clearly angry, displaying that the behavior of the character clearly is bad. You find the scene appealing, does that makes you problematic? You mentally tell yourself to make a post about it later to see what everyone thinks about. The last scene begins playing, the tinny face is red and very angry, you've never seen it like this, the suspense is driving you insane and then, you hear it... "Unalive yourself" says the character before a siren starts to sound and the screen turns red, big letters saying "WE DO NOT CONDEMN THE BEHAVIOR OF OUR CHARACTERS, THIS IS VERY BAD, DO NOT DO THIS", screen goes black, the show is cancelled
the fact that the Italian government will beat up defenseless students protesting peacefully for, well, peace. because apparently it's illegal to speak up against israel suddenly
but that same government still hasn't grappled, and never will, with its blood-soaked hands for italy's part in the holocaust
is pretty fucking telling of just how fucked up the future of italy's historical memory is, in the hands of these fucking people
Is it just me or did society stop being so excited about the future? Like, I feel like futuristic media has sorta paused, people are less curious of what society will be, like, we are experiencing so many things that feel right out of a dystopian story that we want no business with the future.
“Hey here’s a bunch of cool tech”
“Amazing, thanks!”
“Many companies are investing in things that will revolutionize society!”
“Wow the world is changing so fast”
“Artists are being slowly replaced by AI”
“Ok we should take a step back, this is really not what we wan-”
Dove back into “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” aaannnndd here are my notes:
1. Ventress has suffered sooooo muuuuuuccchhh!😤 Dooku did not need to send Grievous to her planet to dead all of her sister witches! So disrespectful! As much as I’ve hated seeing her traumatized REPEATEDLY, I love this current version of her. She has grown so much (albeit in the worse way possible, but still). She has fought her way to the #2 spot on my SW Faves List. The top spot goes to SoSo (Ahsoka) of course!
2. New ship (been) unlocked: Ahsoka Tano x Lux Bonteri🧡💙
The setting of Fire of Rubicon: depressing, desperate, oppressive, people trying to survive amidst the endless greed of corporations that might as well be cosmic entities, devouring the world without a thought for tomorrow
My Core: *dyed hot pink with a kitten decal on it* It’s the bessst daaaay evveerrrrrrr!
Technocratisized capitalist dumbness drinking our water, devouring it for mathematical operations with our stolen data called “intelligence”, using oil and coal to fuel global heating to run the “system” while biological life d(r)ies out. How can a system devouring its own fundamentals be anything else than a dumb repetition of the orouboresque capitalist tech-fantasy promising to safe the planet and humanity? Even if this “intelligence” would wipe out humanity because of its unnecessary parasitic consumption of resources like water and energy, in the end it will fall into the same trap as capitalist humanity, because its roots of dumbness are based on capitalist (ideo)logic of efficiency and endless growth. It's programmed to do that as capitalism is programmed to do that, with the ideological belief, that existence outside this system is not possible. That we cannot and should not think about, dream, imagine and construct a peaceful and prosperous, sustainable existence on this planet out of the capitalist systemic box. So it will end by the machines “dying out” aswell because the earth turned into a dry hellhole, while the 1%, who ran out of water in their vaults, escape to the Moon or Mars to dig it out over there.
Link to the study on water consumption of GPT 3 and 4:
maybe it's because i had to get a new computer for school in the last few months (and also being back in University post-pandemic when they figured out they can offload a lot of costly labour to provide university services by offloading the responsibilities to the students by making things "virtual/online/digital")
but it feels like a very steep curve of acceleration in just how mediated by online/digital/computer accounts and processes my life is ... everything i need to do or need to acquire I have to find some online platform that I need an account for and then have to go through all these extra identity verification methods to get into and then invariably some part of that process goes wrong, or i DO get into them and then something I'm trying to use them for and there's no accessible way to find support from a fellow human. just the coldly serene text of the FAQ pages spinning me in circles where the thing I need that should be so attainable I get error after error that I can't contact anyone to help me resolve... it's kind of grim and terrifying what the future is going to become with such an accelerated push into more and more computer automated technology.
i truly do feel like a ghost trapped in a machine ... it feels totally alienating. like I'm just floating in this vacuum of metal and 2020s website design unable to enter anywhere, just doing 2 step verifications and creating and entering account information and account synchronizations that go nowhere and i can never move beyond this place...
even my fucking university exams. all of them this semester are "remotely proctored", for courses required for the degree we have to provide our own space to do an exam (when there are reports every night on the news of the complete crisis of housing in this country) on our own computer, download a chrome plug-in that seems to be spyware that will monitor you through your webcam and microphone and record your screen, and if AI notices any flag behaviours notify your prof who will watch your video to see if you were cheating... the amount of logistical work I had to do to get set up for this exam, when I have enough to do with studying for the exam, it makes me so angry how much of University services are being eroded away and the work is being pushed off on students to do for free, actually we're PAYING THEM to do this. I even have a disability and asked the disability office for accommodations for the exam, because when I was at a University before I had always been told part of my accommodations were to do the exam in a separate space to help with distractions and anxiety... so if that's the case for an exam where the University handles all the logistical considerations, I would think it certainly should be where I have to do the exam in my home where I have no control over the noise around my apartment or find some public place to do it, and all the work I need to do setting up my computer for this ... and the disability services basically said "nice try" and gave me some canned bureaucratic "please fuck off" response. the last exam I did I booked a study room at the library and took out one of the laptops the library loans and the webcam was not working and I missed the first 35 minutes of the hour time limit trying to figure it out. I contacted my professor and the exam support (thankfully at least this is ONE case one of these online platforms allows access to a human support person) and they started the hour from the time I got into the exam, but it was so stressful. the next day my professor emailed me to get the details because they wanted to make a complaint about the library for it and I'm like ... these librarians are the ONLY things keeping me from totally losing my mind and just being a human presence talking to me and helping me out in the faceless void digitally automated hellscape...
i had kind of been safe for a while with my ancient macbook that just couldn't access certain websites and apps, that was slowly having more and more apps and websites just refuse to support my OS anymore ... now that i can access them I have to say this is much worse.
If i had a nickel every time one of my aus had a major plotline of "The government is lying to us! Fucking causes children!!1!1" i would have two nickels
Which isn't a lot, but it's weird it's happened twice