when you have a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day
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Ubisoft Assassin's Creed's Evie Frye Voice Actress Victoria Atkins has been replaced by AI while protesting for SAG-AFTRA
She also never receives residuals
And yet Ubisoft continues to make more AC games whilst not even paying their workers what they’re owed… and using AI. Wow.
Ubisoft is a gutter roach company
Anonymous asked:
I know child trafficking is important, but the movie Sound of Freedom is kind of making me raise my eyebrows. I heard that the movie has some QAnon adjacent stuff.
I'm not sure which specific things are QAnon adjacent but in researching the movie I found this article
and like mel gibson is a raging racist, sexist and antisemite. and this isn't the first article I've found that connects mel gibson to the sound of freedom I just can't find the other one right now. so that's enough for me to not want to watch the movie in theaters.
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Jim Caviezel, who stars in this movie, is a QAnon simp (and generally a far right weirdo). He was in Gibson's Passion of the Christ and it wouldn't surprise me if the two of them rubbed off on each other.
Caviezel seems to believe that "the cabal" - who of course don't exist, it's just QAnon nonsense - are child traffickers. This makes him possibly the worst person in the world to star in a movie about child trafficking, as it's bound to fuel his bullshit beliefs.
Ahhh thanks for this!!!
BTW here is some additional context about this movie from a Youtube commentator who usually puts out work addressing disinformation and misinformation
Hey everyone rb this version please!!!
The United Auto Workers are also negotiating new contracts with the big three US car manufacturers and have announced that they're prepared to strike if they can't get a fair deal.
Many people have told me over the years that it's extremely difficult to find friends or even fellow fat people who are fat positive. So I figured I would try to help with that problem by making this post. If you support fat liberation and are open to random users sending you an ask/message to talk or become friends, then like, reblog, or reply to this post. No one is obligated to share this post (I hate writing posts that ask for notes). This is just the easiest way to get a list of people who are fat positive and would like to make other fat positive friends. People of any weight can add themself to this list. The only requirement is supporting fat liberation and being open to friendship and/or conversation. I hope this post will help!
sapphics getting flustered over their new hairstyle being noticed by their crush
by far the most interesting part of the latest You’re Wrong About on homosexuality in the animal kingdom is the account of how science missed it for so long. the guest, lulu miller (of radiolab fame) basically divides the reasons into three categories: ignorance, self-suppression, and what you might call “official” suppression.
essentially, since the days of thomas aquinas when it had been simply declared that homosexuality was inherently against nature, you had a lot of observers of the natural world, even once the enlightenment got underway, who simply didn’t know what they were looking at. many animal species are very sexually dimorphic and thus easy to sex; but many more are not, and if your background assumption (because the background assumption of society in general) is that homosexuality does not occur in nature, if you see two animals of unidentified sex mating, you will assume one is male and one is female. or you might simply assume what you are seeing is an aberration, with no real systemic significance, and not pointing to any kind of underlying phenomenon, and simply fail to note it down–or talk to any other naturalists about it.
and this blends into self-suppression, which includes all researchers who might have noticed homosexuality among animals in the wild, but didn’t write about it. this includes researchers who might not have thought it was significant, or who might have thought nobody was interested in it–miller offers the example of a guy who died relatively recently who spent his life studying mountain rams, who omitted mentioning from his quite detailed survey of their behavior that about one in twelve males mate exclusively with other males, because it seemed to him (at the time of writing) an aberrant and unpleasant fact about an otherwise majestic creature.
“official” suppression we might apply to any time a researcher noticed and wanted to write about the phenomenon, but who simply couldn’t get their data published, including researchers who might have pressed the scientific community at large to recognize this phenomenon, only to be greeted with hostility and suspicion–i.e., what kind of pervert is so obsessed with this topic?
and out of a combination of all these factors you get centuries of a bias being confirmed, because anybody who might care to ask, “well, homosexuality clearly occurs in humans, have we observed it in other animals?” would have been confronted with a vast lacuna in the scientific literature, not because it did not occur, but because multiple intersecting cultural biases prevented anybody from actually talking about it. and it makes it hard to have a conversation about natural phenomena from an empirical and rational perspective when a bias that irrational runs that deep! and i cannot help but wonder what other biases we have in our culture, that might be producing similarly irrational lacunae in our apprehension of the world.
Luckily, the end of this is nigh. Recent literature all points to bisexuality - ie, nondiscriminant sexual behavior - being ancestral and the standard across Animalia. We’re finally admitting how queer nature is, and its awesome.
夕メシのあとの夕メシとか
くれてもいいですよ
Ah, you may give me dinner after dinner
I know a guy, but the guy is Google
[Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse director Phil Lord on whether the “42″ references were in honor to Jackie Robinson or The Negative Zone] : it’s a reference to a lot of things… 🙃
UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; SIDE C
*NOTE; propaganda is out of order due to poll length!
Eugenides Propaganda:
- the entire plot hinges on a detail he lets the reader (and every other character) assume is true. I don't want to spoil it because it's a really fun reveal but he is lying from the first second he appears on the page and you can't trust him to tell the full truth about ANYTHING related to himself and his goals. he mostly does it to keep his advantage and not have other characters be suspicious of him but it's just so fun when you realise he's been lying the whole time
Harrowhark Propaganda:
- She gave herself a lobotomy and gives completely incorrect flashbacks to the previous book. Things that straight up did not happen. Gaslight gatekeep girlboss.
- She’s schizophrenic (confirmed by the author) and also lives in a world with necromancy and ghostly revenants. She’s not just an unreliable narrator for readers, she’s an unreliable narrator of her own internal experience. She knows this and has to work with people around her to compensate for it. Descent into spoilerville below. Seriously Do Not Read if you want to read these books. There’s also the little matter about how she is *not actually the narrator* of a huge chunk of the story that we are initially led to believe is being told from her perspective.
- (Spoilers) Holy shit she is THE most unreliable narrator. This gremlin gave herself a lobotomy so that she could forget about Gideon Nav, the most important person in her life (for magic soul-preserving reasons) so half of the second book in the series is spent gaslighting the reader about a book they just read. She comes up with an entire alternate version of the events of the first book in the series to carefully exclude any mentions of Gideon, and any time someone says ‘Gideon’ in front of her she LITERALLY has a stroke and/or an intercranial hemorrhage as her brain overwrites the word with someone else’s name. God occasionally intentionally triggers her memory revision to get out of difficult conversations. She also hallucinates ALL the time (unrelated to the lobotomy). She shows up at her frenemy’s room in the middle of the night (think little kid stumbling to their parents’ room and saying “I frew up”) to ask her to come check underneath her bed for the corpse that’s been wandering the space station. When frenemy checks underneath the bed, frenemy claims not to see anything, and Harrow is such an unbelievably unreliable narrator that it’s an open question in the fandom as to whether frenemy genuinely didn’t see the corpse or if frenemy was just yanking Harrow’s chain. Harrow is also haunted by a literal ghost that fucks up her already fucked up alternate history. Girlie will pick up a piece of paper and read from it the most violent and haunting piece of prose ever composed, when in reality all that’s written on the paper is the elementary school Superman S*. I am NOT joking that is a real goddamn scene. Harrow was created to win this poll. TLDR; she has brain damage and memory loss, she hallucinates, and is also haunted. * https://twitter.com/vestenet/status/1301012651145859072
- Girl is so unreliable, she unreliably tells me events I was there for!!! She's retelling the previous book and I'm like "girlie, this is absolutely not how it happened". Also, she gave herself a DIY lobotomy, it has to impact your memory center I guess
- She literally had a lobotomy, how can she be reliable
More Propaganda under cut!
tags from @quimerical
Executives at the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) decided to replace hotline workers with a chatbot named Tessa four days after the workers unionized.
NEDA, the largest nonprofit organization dedicated to eating disorders, has had a helpline for the last twenty years that provided support to hundreds of thousands of people via chat, phone call, and text. “NEDA claims this was a long-anticipated change and that AI can better serve those with eating disorders. But do not be fooled—this isn’t really about a chatbot. This is about union busting, plain and simple,” helpline associate and union member Abbie Harper wrote in a blog post.
According to Harper, the helpline is composed of six paid staffers, a couple of supervisors, and up to 200 volunteers at any given time. A group of four full-time workers at NEDA, including Harper, decided to unionize because they felt overwhelmed and understaffed.
“We asked for adequate staffing and ongoing training to keep up with our changing and growing Helpline, and opportunities for promotion to grow within NEDA. We didn’t even ask for more money,” Harper wrote. “When NEDA refused [to recognize our union], we filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board and won on March 17. Then, four days after our election results were certified, all four of us were told we were being let go and replaced by a chatbot.”
Source: Vice Magazine
can we talk about the ups strike can we PLEASE talk about the ups strike
i know since writers and actors are already striking thats gonna take up most of the news space on social media but like. ups has until july 31st to meet the teamster's demands and if not then theyre going on the biggest strike against a single corporation since the early 1900s. the uaw (auto manufacturers union) contract is up this fall, and i believe the alu (amazon labor union) is as well. there's a huge possibility that they might strike as well, depending on how long the ups strike lasts.
im seeing a lot of talk about hollywood going down but i want to see more talk about labor rights and working class solidarity across the board... like A Lot of shit is about to go down
we're about to see a lot more propaganda by more than just hollywood, we're about to see a lot of bullshit political moves on local, state, and federal levels. dont fall for it. workers have power.
There are already news articles saying that striking UPS workers will kill people by refusing to deliver medical supplies and other vital necessities.
That is propaganda.
Striking workers are not withholding medical supplies, UPS is holding medical supplies and other necessities hostage because they don’t want to pay their employees a living wage.
Wholesome
i know i just reblogged this a few hours ago but i keep thinking about this man and his powerful emanations. i think this might actually be the physical manifestation of the soul of new york city. if he dies the city itself becomes pillars of dust
One thing I really don’t like in apocalyptic fiction is the heavy reliance on cars (not you, Mad Max, you’re the exception) and other motorized crafts with animals being a secondary afterthought in terms of transportation and labor. Like, gasoline expires. It degrades. And the motorways would be a fucking nightmare if there was an event that caused somewhat sudden mass human death. Horses would be able to weave around cars and onto the shoulder and also through deer trails and smaller paths. And the upkeep on horses is much easier to do without electricity and complex machinery than cars. You can learn to forge a horseshoe/oxshoe from recycled metal but making a rubber tire from scratch as one person would be nearly impossible. And you can eat a beast of burden once it reaches the end of its working life, it probably won’t taste good but it is nutritious. You can’t shoot your car and make a nutritious broth from its bones when the engine block cracks.
this is going to sound so bizarre but I’m a member of that extremely tiny minority of people who can ride a horse but can’t ride a bike. so I totally didn’t think of that
[id: tags reading #i think bikes would also be more widely used #there’s display models for the taking in every Walmart and sporting goods store in the country #you can get a little trailer for towing supplies /end id]
Bikes have the same issue with regard to rubber tires. Like, once the commercially-made rubber tires degrade or fall apart, that's... there's your bike.
Catch me cranking along the pedals with a wooden spoke cartwheel bicycle, bouncing so hard I need to bite down on a leather strap so my teeth don't shatter.
I know this kind of thing is gimmicky but:
the premise in my mind is: people, even small scale noncommercial workshop people are already solving these engineering problems for fun.
these small scale noncommercial (or attempted-commercial but it was unsuccessful) passion projects often incorporate much more recycled and repurposed material than commercial sources. There are multiple solutions to many engineering problems. Tires don't need to be full of air, or made of rubber, or etc. They need to present a rolling surface, and cushion the frame from bumps.
In a hypothetical more-collapsed fantasy world, these problems can still be solved. We are not dependent on the social institution of factories and mass marketing to make even high-technology high-precision things!
Still further tangential, these look to use rubber for traction, and PVC is petroleum based (similar problems to reliance on gas, oil, etc); but also I fully recognize the general concept probably has sufficient adaptability to use other resources which are more available, don't require refining etc. Although apparently PVC might be possible to manufacture using animal byproducts? So presumably in the future world without fossil fuels you can still get a plastic tag on your bread someday.
“Why use up the forests, which were centuries in the making, and the mines, which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?” ~ Henry Ford
while kissing my cat's little head: you're a problem *smooch* you're a terror *smooch* you're a menace to society *smooch smooch smooch*
The U.S. Navy has been polluting Hawaii’s lands and waters for years. Most recently, it leaked more than 1,000 gallons of raw sewage near Honolulu. Just days before that, Hawaii’s Health Department had fined the Navy more than $8 million dollars for committing hundreds of safety violations. As Trisha Kehaulani Watson, Vice President of Hawaiian social and environmental justice organization ‘Āina Momona put it, “it’s incredibly important that there is accountability and that accountability begins with the Navy assuming responsibility for the actions and the situations they’ve created.