#seizing

[sasuga-whump]

Whumptober 2023: Day Five - Pinned Down

Reunion the Sound of the Providence Season 2 Ep 25

Liu Sang is rescued and treated after being poisoned during human experimentation

#whumptober2023 #no.5 #pinned down #reunion the sound of the providence #video #whump clip #human experimentation #poisoned #rescue #concerned caretakers #helped to walk #carried to safety #shaking and shivering #seizing #heavy breathing #cwhump #chinese whump #liu sang #whump #asian whump #whump blog #whump community #field care #stoic caretaker

[whumpookies]

Arka sokaklar 561-562

#arka sokaklar #tunc #tunç #menatally tortured #seizing #seizures #hospital scene #prison #innocent and framed #whump cookies #restrained

[thechronicpaingame]

In true doctor fashion, I finally saw a neurologist last week who was about as useless as a wet tissue. Didn't have any answer / explanations for my hands / loss of grip / seizing etc. Focused heavily on my migraines which, whilst awful and too many per month, are not the overall issue I need addressing. Commented that perhaps I had mentioned a certain condition to my GP (which I hadn't - but I knew what it was as it was on my list of maybes). Did two blood tests. One for calcium (which he said was probably low and causing the cramping - it isn't, it was normal) and one for myasthenia gravis (which is the condition highlighted by my GP) which was also normal. So I now am nowhere further, with another useless consultant, and I'll just see him again in six months time for a laugh I guess.

During his brief testing, found little to no reflex in knees and ankles, didn't mention this at the time but is noted in his letter to GP. So what's that about pal. Also no scans, no MRI, nothing.

How on earth, am I someone with an autoimmune condition that literally affects the small and medium blood vessels, and not ONE doctor has ever thought to do a brain MRI 🙃 nevermind that the current cluster of symptoms really heavily play on MS being a possibility (which I have thought for years but never mentioned to any doctors because I'll be honest, I am very scared of being labelled "difficult" or "Google doctor" - when I know at this point I shouldn't give a shit). I genuinely had to talk myself off the ledge after that appt. How many ones like that are too many to take anymore hey.

#chronic illness #fibromyalgia #chronic pain #polyarteritis nodosa #adrenal insufficiency #stills disease #fibro #migraine #cramps #seizing #multiple sclerosis #MS

[anonbinaryweirdo]

YO. YO?!? 11?? 1

I WAS NOTICED BY THEEE VALENTINO BLOG IM. GRRRRJGRJRR

#IM CRYING HYPERVENTILATING #SEIZING #AAAAAAAAAAAA I LOVE YOU RAY !!!!11//p//resp

[staydandy]

12 Monkeys (2015) - Whump List

List by StayDandy Synopsis : Follows the journey of a time traveler from the post-apocalyptic future who appears in present day on a mission to locate and eradicate the source of a deadly plague that will nearly destroy the human race. (IMDb)

Whumpee : James Cole played by Aaron Stanford

Country : 🇺🇸 America

Notes : This is a Partial List - I didn't list every bit of whump, just what caught my attention the most • Episodes on list are formatted season-episode : 00-00

Episodes on List : 4 Total Seasons : 4 Total Episodes : 47

*Spoilers below*

01-08 : Cole didn't jump far enough into the future & is trapped under a collapsed building, wounded

01-10 : Body is shutting down from the cumulative effects of his jumps.. Collapses

01-12 : Railly finds a young Katarina b/c Cole is @ her place, dying from the jump effects.. Cole starts seizing

04-05 : Poisoned

#whump #whump list #american whump #america #12 Monkeys #James Cole #Aaron Stanford #trapped #wounded #dying #side effects #collapses #passes out #faints #seizing #poisoned #sci-fi #Mystery #Drama

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it

My next book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation: it’s a Big Tech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the audiobook comes from me — because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

Amazon owns Audible, the monopoly audiobook platform that controls >90% of the audio market. They require mandatory DRM for every book sold, locking those books forever to Amazon’s monopoly platform. If you break up with Amazon, you have to throw away your entire audiobook library.

That’s a hell of a lot of leverage to hand to any company, let alone a rapacious monopoly that ran a program targeting small publishers called “Project Gazelle,” where execs were ordered to attack indie publishers “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle”:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sadistic-amazon-treated-book-sellers-the-way-a-cheetah-would-pursue-a-sickly-gazelle-2013-10

[Image ID: Journalist and novelist Doctorow (Red Team Blues) details a plan for how to break up Big Tech in this impassioned and perceptive manifesto….Doctorow’s sense of urgency is contagious -Publishers Weekly]

I won’t sell my work with DRM, because DRM is key to the enshittification of the internet. Enshittification is why the old, good internet died and became “five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four” (h/t Tom Eastman). When a tech company can lock in its users and suppliers, it can drain value from both sides, using DRM and other lock-in gimmicks to keep their business even as they grow ever more miserable on the platform.

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

[Image ID: A brilliant barn burner of a book. Cory is one of the sharpest tech critics, and he shows with fierce clarity how our computational future could be otherwise -Kate Crawford, author of The Atlas of AI”]

The Internet Con isn’t just an analysis of where enshittification comes from: it’s a detailed, shovel-ready policy prescription for halting enshittification, throwing it into reverse and bringing back the old, good internet.

How do we do that? With interoperability: the ability to plug new technology into those crapulent, decaying platform. Interop lets you choose which parts of the service you want and block the parts you don’t (think of how an adblocker lets you take the take-it-or-leave “offer” from a website and reply with “How about nah?”):

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/adblocking-how-about-nah

But interop isn’t just about making platforms less terrible — it’s an explosive charge that demolishes walled gardens. With interop, you can leave a social media service, but keep talking to the people who stay. With interop, you can leave your mobile platform, but bring your apps and media with you to a rival’s service. With interop, you can break up with Amazon, and still keep your audiobooks.

So, if interop is so great, why isn’t it everywhere?

Well, it used to be. Interop is how Microsoft became the dominant operating system:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

[Image ID: Nobody gets the internet-both the nuts and bolts that make it hum and the laws that shaped it into the mess it is-quite like Cory, and no one’s better qualified to deliver us a user manual for fixing it. That’s The Internet Con: a rousing, imaginative, and accessible treatise for correcting our curdled online world. If you care about the internet, get ready to dedicate yourself to making interoperability a reality. -Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine]

It’s how Apple saved itself from Microsoft’s vicious campaign to destroy it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/06/adversarial-interoperability-reviving-elegant-weapon-more-civilized-age-slay

Every tech giant used interop to grow, and then every tech giant promptly turned around and attacked interoperators. Every pirate wants to be an admiral. When Big Tech did it, that was progress; when you do it back to Big Tech, that’s piracy. The tech giants used their monopoly power to make interop without permission illegal, creating a kind of “felony contempt of business model” (h/t Jay Freeman).

The Internet Con describes how this came to pass, but, more importantly, it tells us how to fix it. It lays out how we can combine different kinds of interop requirements (like the EU’s Digital Markets Act and Massachusetts’s Right to Repair law) with protections for reverse-engineering and other guerrilla tactics to create a system that is strong without being brittle, hard to cheat on and easy to enforce.

What’s more, this book explains how to get these policies: what existing legislative, regulatory and judicial powers can be invoked to make them a reality. Because we are living through the Great Enshittification, and crises erupt every ten seconds, and when those crises occur, the “good ideas lying around” can move from the fringes to the center in an eyeblink:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/12/only-a-crisis/#lets-gooooo

[Image ID: Thoughtfully written and patiently presented, The Internet Con explains how the promise of a free and open internet was lost to predatory business practices and the rush to commodify every aspect of our lives. An essential read for anyone that wants to understand how we lost control of our digital spaces and infrastructure to Silicon Valley’s tech giants, and how we can start fighting to get it back. -Tim Maughan, author of INFINITE DETAIL]

After all, we’ve known Big Tech was rotten for years, but we had no idea what to do about it. Every time a Big Tech colossus did something ghastly to millions or billions of people, we tried to fix the tech company. There’s no fixing the tech companies. They need to burn. The way to make users safe from Big Tech predators isn’t to make those predators behave better — it’s to evacuate those users:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/18/urban-wildlife-interface/#combustible-walled-gardens

I’ve been campaigning for human rights in the digital world for more than 20 years; I’ve been EFF’s European Director, representing the public interest at the EU, the UN, Westminster, Ottawa and DC. This is the subject I’ve devoted my life to, and I live my principles. I won’t let my books be sold with DRM, which means that Audible won’t carry my audiobooks. My agent tells me that this decision has cost me enough money to pay off my mortgage and put my kid through college. That’s a price I’m willing to pay if it means that my books aren’t enshittification bait.

But not selling on Audible has another cost, one that’s more important to me: a lot of readers prefer audiobooks and 9 out of 10 of those readers start and end their searches on Audible. When they don’t find an author there, they assume no audiobook exists, period. It got so bad I put up an audiobook on Amazon — me, reading an essay, explaining how Audible rips off writers and readers. It’s called “Why None of My Audiobooks Are For Sale on Audible”:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

[Image ID: Doctorow has been thinking longer and smarter than anyone else I know about how we create and exchange value in a digital age. -Douglas Rushkoff, author of Present Shock]

To get my audiobooks into readers’ ears, I pre-sell them on Kickstarter. This has been wildly successful, both financially and as a means of getting other prominent authors to break up with Amazon and use crowdfunding to fill the gap. Writers like Brandon Sanderson are doing heroic work, smashing Amazon’s monopoly:

https://www.brandonsanderson.com/guest-editorial-cory-doctorow-is-a-bestselling-author-but-audible-wont-carry-his-audiobooks/

And to be frank, I love audiobooks, too. I swim every day as physio for a chronic pain condition, and I listen to 2–3 books/month on my underwater MP3 player, disappearing into an imaginary world as I scull back and forth in my public pool. I’m able to get those audiobooks on my MP3 player thanks to Libro.fm, a DRM-free store that supports indie booksellers all over the world:

https://blog.libro.fm/a-qa-with-mark-pearson-libro-fm-ceo-and-co-founder/

Producing my own audiobooks has been a dream. Working with Skyboat Media, I’ve gotten narrators like @wilwheaton​, Amber Benson, @neil-gaiman​ and Stefan Rudnicki for my work:

https://craphound.com/shop/

[Image ID: “This book is the instruction manual Big Tech doesn’t want you to read. It deconstructs their crummy products, undemocratic business models, rigged legal regimes, and lies. Crack this book and help build something better. -Astra Taylor, author of Democracy May Not Exist, but We’ll Miss It When Its Gone”]

But for this title, I decided that I would read it myself. After all, I’ve been podcasting since 2006, reading my own work aloud every week or so, even as I traveled the world and gave thousands of speeches about the subject of this book. I was excited (and a little trepedatious) at the prospect, but how could I pass up a chance to work with director Gabrielle de Cuir, who has directed everyone from Anne Hathaway to LeVar Burton to Eric Idle?

Reader, I fucking nailed it. I went back to those daily recordings fully prepared to hate them, but they were good — even great (especially after my engineer John Taylor Williams mastered them). Listen for yourself!

https://archive.org/details/cory_doctorow_internet_con_chapter_01

I hope you’ll consider backing this Kickstarter. If you’ve ever read my free, open access, CC-licensed blog posts and novels, or listened to my podcasts, or come to one of my talks and wished there was a way to say thank you, this is it. These crowdfunders make my DRM-free publishing program viable, even as audiobooks grow more central to a writer’s income and even as a single company takes over nearly the entire audiobook market.

Backers can choose from the DRM-free audiobook, DRM-free ebook (EPUB and MOBI) and a hardcover — including a signed, personalized option, fulfilled through the great LA indie bookstore Book Soup:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

What’s more, these ebooks and audiobooks are unlike any you’ll get anywhere else because they are sold without any terms of service or license agreements. As has been the case since time immemorial, when you buy these books, they’re yours, and you are allowed to do anything with them that copyright law permits — give them away, lend them to friends, or simply read them with any technology you choose.

As with my previous Kickstarters, backers can get their audiobooks delivered with an app (from libro.fm) or as a folder of MP3s. That helps people who struggle with “sideloading,” a process that Apple and Google have made progressively harder, even as they force audiobook and ebook sellers to hand over a 30% app tax on every dollar they make:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/red-team-blues-another-audiobook-that-amazon-wont-sell/posts/3788112

Enshittification is rotting every layer of the tech stack: mobile, payments, hosting, social, delivery, playback. Every tech company is pulling the rug out from under us, using the chokepoints they built between audiences and speakers, artists and fans, to pick all of our pockets.

The Internet Con isn’t just a lament for the internet we lost — it’s a plan to get it back. I hope you’ll get a copy and share it with the people you love, even as the tech platforms choke off your communities to pad their quarterly numbers.

Next weekend (Aug 4-6), I'll be in Austin for Armadillocon, a science fiction convention, where I'm the Guest of Honor:

https://armadillocon.org/d45/

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con

[Image ID: My forthcoming book 'The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation' in various editions: Verso hardcover, audiobook displayed on a phone, and ebook displayed on an e-ink reader.]

#pluralistic #trustbusting #big tech #gift guide #kickstarter #the internet con #books #audiobooks #enshitiffication #disenshittification #crowdfunders #seize the means of computation #audible #amazon #verso

[mensmommymilkers]

Oh nebulously gay samurai we’re rly in it now…

#blue eye samurai #mizu #taigen #this show has seized me body and soul #WHY AREJT MORE PPL WATCHING IT WTFFFF

[jester-step]

“yay the bad kids can spend all their downtime doing mystery and relaxation rolls now that academics are out of the way!!” all i’m hearing is that murph has the opportunity to make riz’s arc this season even more heartbreaking as he continues to pour all his energy into mystery and helping his friends bc he simply cannot let himself relax or he’ll Die

also i have a feeling that murph is saving that rage token for a juicy plot/character moment and part of me hopes the npc he’ll mess up his relationship with is jawbone :) can you imagine jawbone finding out riz stole klck’s file from his office and, not realising that riz is this 👌 close to snapping, (rightfully) gets a little mad at him and riz bites back WAY too hard? and jawbone has to deal with the fact that, even though he had a right to be angry, he’s screwed up his chances of helping the one kid he’s been having so much trouble reaching?

the only thing worse than this to me would be riz snapping at his mom (unthinkable) or one of the bad kids (life ruining)

#OHOHOHO #this is canon to me #murph please seize this opportunity i beg of you #fantasy high junior year spoilers #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #riz gukgak #jawbone o'shaughnessey

[norris55s]

chaotic texts - lando norris

reader x lando norris texts except they’re crazy (pt. 2)

pt. 1 pt. 3 pt. 4

warnings: suggestive texts [18+ please], mentions of cheating (but it isn’t cheating)

a/n: i tried to include jealous/whiny lando per requests!

————————————————————————

#yall i love that you love my silly little texts #better seize spring break #f1 #f1 au #f1 fanfic #f1 x reader #formula 1 #f1 smau #f1 social media au #lando norris #lando norris au #lando norris smau #lando norris x you #lando norris x reader #lando norris texts

[epagxa8kn]

innocent teen gives blowjob BBC Voracious Joseline Kelly banged doggystyle Sorority teens deep throat challenge with el nino Polla Angel Wicky sluty milf nailed hard on camera Fernanda Tapia Mi flaca culona mojadita Novinha Safada Me mamando Boquete Top ALINE TINDER Boys fingering each other gay sex stories and tiny twink gets fucked Machine teen drilled deeply with sextoys Julia Cash em suas melhores cenas de sexo

#tragule #whats-its-name #totty #metafluidal #outflinging #Wynantskill #whimsied #recoining #Cristionna #syllab #acetyl #femaleidol #namco #circumcinct #retrenchment #seizing #afaint #outlooker #touch-type #peltish

[sasuga-whump]

Whumptober 2023: Day Sixteen - Flatline

God's Quiz season one ep 8

Han's heart stops after eating a kiwi

Find the full whump list for this show here

#whumptober2023 #no.16 #flatline #god's quiz #video #whump clip #sudden collapse #concerned caretaker #seizing #whump #asian whump #whump blog #whump community #kdrama #korean whump #korean drama #kwhump #collapse #allergic reaction #stubborn whumpee #struggling to breathe #eccentric male lead #suffering in silence

[whumpookies]

Teşkilat bölüm 25

#Teşkilat #teşkilat bölüm 25 #whump #treatment #de-brainwashing #heart stopping #seizing #care #comfort #pain #sadar needs help #whump cookies #omg i love this

[toutoshodoroki]

Do you think Bakugou would be instantly hooked on some sass? Like you’re some civilian who’s just really feeling themselves that day? Confident and on top of the world?

“Think you’re some hot shit, eh?”

You flutter your eyelashes. “I am, thank you for noticing.” And you flip your hair around and saunter off. Later when you come back down to earth you may be horrified and extremely embarrassed that you spoke to the number two Pro Hero of Japan like that

But I dunno. I think it would drive him crazy. What do y’all think?

#this probably sounds super dumb #but i’m in a great mood today #and i was just wondering how he’d react #idk #and i’m talking confidence not arrogance #you’re amazing and you know it and you’re going to seize the fucking day #fucking ruin him and all he can think of is you #kore blabs #bakugou katsuki #rambling

[retquits]

this patch note art alone compelled me to make a new stardew valley farmer

his name is cetus he's an angel(?) who crash lands in pelican town tomorrow 🫡

#stardew valley #stardew fanart #my art #ocs #stardew farmer #this is super hasty but i was SEIZED. SEIZED I TELL YOU #anyway less than 24 hours til 1.6 how we feeling!!!!!

[halcyon-autumn]

How about that last episode gang

(Template via @Titoro_ on twitter)

#this seized my mind and would not free it #fantasy high #fantasy high junior year #dimension 20 #adaine abernant #tracker o'shaughnessey #figeroth faeth #dimension 20 spoilers #fhjy spoilers

[mostlysignssomeportents]

I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back.

I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to:

• reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind;

• jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking; • move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want.

I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction.

I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats.

I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes.

I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.

-Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet

#enshitternet #enshittification #the internet con #seize the means of computation #the old good internet #the new good internet