Mid Fimbulwinter

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A Mutant Metaphor. Pronouns they/them.
Reading a thread on damaging body standards in media: that's awful, we need to fix society!
10 min later: if I drive instead of bike to work 2.5 hrs of circus class in sub-zero temps that is clear evidence of intolerable weakness.
I mean, I could bike, just need enough layers...
Twice in a week I've had doctors tell me "Well, I can't do the things you can do, you're fine!" and like, no, I'm not fine. But I'm neither an athlete with a promising career to save nor currently disabled enough that I can't work so my issues are not worth treating.

Interesting graph shared by Caitlin Johnstone showing that hourly pay for workers [adjusted for inflation] basically flatlined after the early 1970s, while productivity continued to climb.

Her comment: "The dark blue line after 1973 is theft. They stole that money from their workers. But nothing happened, because capitalism legalizes theft from the working class by the capitalist class."

Too true!

@Caitoz #AntiCapitalism

Where Your Elements Came From

Image Credit & License: Wikipedia: Cmglee; Data: Jennifer Johnson (OSU)

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230108.html #APOD

APOD: 2023 January 8 – Where Your Elements Came From

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

Hello it is me

I am the extreme alt left

I am here to bully you online into accepting ridiculous ideas like:

* Literally everyone deserves a good life
* Universal, unconditional healthcare
* No one should have too much power over anyone else

Here, have a short story along these lines! Unexpected failure modes ahoy …

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/a-bird-in-hand.html

A Bird in Hand - Charlie's Diary

says the guy understaffing an IT department
Power went out around 5:15. This is why I have all my camping lights and batteries in the apartment.
On the Cyber podcast, a wild investigation into how a researcher at University of North Carolina used gender transition videos on YouTube -- without permission -- to build facial recognition software for trans people. His rationale? Terrorists might do HRT in order to evade facial recognition systems, sneak over the border and blow stuff up. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-trans-dataset-built-without-permission-and/id1441708044?i=1000592769166 #transrights #trans #data #privacy #AI
‎CYBER: The Trans Dataset Built Without Permission and Stored Improperly on Apple Podcasts

‎Show CYBER, Ep The Trans Dataset Built Without Permission and Stored Improperly - Jan 5, 2023

Apple Podcasts

Me: We've sped up the FOFA process, so now we can fuck around and find out at *the same time*.

@annaleen: It's Moore's Law for fucking around and finding out. Every 18 months the FOFA cycle doubles in speed.