I am Boo Boo, Fool of Fools!

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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cummunismmm

Fundamental life advice: never trust a product from a youtuber/influencer sponsorship

cummunismmm

  • Raycons - overpriced repackaged cheap bullshit
  • Hello fresh - last years workers were on strike for shitty work conditions and there’s reports of union busting. Never have i seen a youtuber acknowledge this at all
  • Adam and Eve - the dildos aren’t all from body safe materials. Don’t risk it with cheap dildos it can fuck your body up
  • Audible - owned by amazon
  • Idk which one but one of the vpn ones mined bitcoin from ur computer and they’re useful but generally falsely advertised, not a big tech person but this guy talks about it
  • All the fit teas and shakes etc are bullshit that just makes you poop and loose water weight short term
  • Raid shadow legends - lol do i even need to explain this one
  • All the loot crates - filled with cheap junk they’re getting wholesale
  • The online coupon thingies are a data harvesting scam. Just google the shop name + coupon when shopping
  • The online therapy better help was a whole big controversy and i still see this shitty company being promoted

Idk maybe the learning platform ones are the exception but i never looked into them

highly--distractible

Adding on to this.
Skillshare is hard to cancel. There’s a slight chance this has changed but when I looked into subscribing, there was a lot of people complaining about having to email the company multiple times to cancel.

Since Squarespace is templets, they legally own whatever you make. If you decide to change providers, you can’t take it with you. You’re stuck with them forever or have to rebuild your website from the ground up. You at least own the domain name so there’s that, but for me it’s not worth the work if I have to restart should I ever decide I hate the company.

I want more people to know this because every time I’ve looked into something advertised by youtubers, it’s never been good.

beesmygod

if they werent scams they would do real advertising. simple as

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smol-blue-bird

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

smol-blue-bird

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

smol-blue-bird

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

smol-blue-bird

Reblogging again because I didn’t expect this post to take off:

  • The book is by Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park (among others—my favorite book of his is The Andromeda Strain.) So it provides a fair amount of insight into not only personal computers, but also the kinds of computers and software that were being used by professionals working in the TV and film industries at the time.
  • No, I did not make this quote up. You can buy the book and read it for yourself
  • I did, however, get the date wrong. It was actually published in the early 80s, as far as I can tell, not the 70s.
the-haiku-bot

Reblogging again

because I didn’t expect

this post to take off:

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

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shesnake
Disney Discontinues Physical Media Releases for an Entire Continent
'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3' will be the last DVD and Blu-ray release in the region.
Collider

Disney is going to stop selling DVDs and Blu-rays in Australia and to think of what this means for accessibility, residuals, quality, public libraries here etc and the precedent this will set for other studios and distributors around the world oh it's never been more over

dduane

...Not. Good.

do you WANT piracy?!?! cuz this is how you get piracy!!!
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normal-horoscopes

Y'all. "Hell is empty and the devil's are here" is not one of those epic Tumblr quotes. It's from The Tempest. The Shakespeare one.

apolloendymion

remember when that furry post went around with "you have nothing to lose but your chains" and people were saying "this is such a raw ass line and it's from a furry post" but it's literally karl marx

mercymorns

reading waiting for godot for class and finding out that’s where that “that’s how it is on this bitch of an earth” meme is from ruined me i think

astraltrickster

new game: "classic or shitpost?" in which we give you a raw-ass quote and you have to determine whether it came from an internet shitpost or classic literature

vaspider

What is classic literature but a shitpost persevering?

ebrithilbowser-blog

@vaspider I guess that one is from Shakespeare

vaspider

Indeed.

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womaninterrupted
Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history
What happens when the world’s knowledge is held in a quasi-public square owned by a private company that could soon go out of business?
MIT Technology Review
surroundedbybooks

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

daalseth

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

macleod

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

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eaglefairy

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katy-l-wood

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

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oriko-mikuni

I feel like when I say ‘relatable’ what I really mean is ‘resonant.’ I don’t want characters who I feel are like me, I want characters who have emotions so strong I can feel them through the page.

secretlyatargaryen

I think this is important because a lot of us forget the power of stories to make us feel things about characters who are not like us, who have experienced things that we never will. The purpose of listening to someone else’s story should not necessarily be identification, but understanding.

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gnometa233

idk i kinda don't like this idea that criticizing a show with lgbt+ characters/themes means you're joining side with the bigots and assholes. Because usually it's aimed at people of color and other lgbt+ people.

Yeah, maybe some people who dogpiled on Steven Universe did it for shitty reasons, but I saw plenty of jewish people, other lgbt+ people and black people fight against the show for its legitimate short comings. Did we forget the LITERAL HUMAN ZOO???

Yeah, a lot of the critics of she ra were homophobic assholes and don't deserve the time of day, but I saw plenty of sapphics (especially lesbians) who pointed out how much abuse was swept under the rug to make for the two female leads to get a happy ending, and not to mention the amount of autistic people and people of color who critiqued the show for its subtle ableism and racism

Yeah, most of the criticism against the owl house is bullshit and only there because there's a bunch of lgbt+ elements. But people of color are still allowed to critique how the side characters are handled. And even just in general, the show is a bit rushed in some places.

Especially with the first two, there's a lot of revisionist history that "both were just good shows, the critics were just meanie poopie pants :(" that simply...wasn't true?

We can have nuance here. And please listen to marginalized communities/critics in general. Not all criticism is inherently worthless.