YouTube rage

YouTube blocking my ad-free apps on the week that I confirm leaving microblogging social media and spotify, specifically because I want to be less exposed to an abundance of « content », might be a sign. tonight ended on nebula and Arte and was pretty nice. peertube sometimes has good videos. high quality stuff, no more endless…

messy queer representation

Liked I Want My Queer Representation To Be Messy — Even When it Comes to Real People by

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya (Autostraddle)

Seeing someone familiar fail gives us permission to fail, too. Or, at least, to be softer with ourselves when we do fail. (…) I want queer representation that is varied and dynamic and expansive. That’s what queerness is all about.

Vox Populi, Vox Deorum: Elections in ASOIAF, Part I

Liked Vox Populi, Vox Deorum: Elections in ASOIAF, Part I (Race for the Iron Throne)

In ASOS, the election of a new Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch is the first opportunity GRRM has to describe a Westerosi election. And thanks to Samwell Tarly and Jon Snow’s POVs being right at the heart of the contest – the campaign manager and his winning candidate, respectively – we have a wealth of information on how the elections process works in the Night’s Watch. So how do the black brothers run their elections?

An amazing look at the elections for Commander of the Wall in ASOIAF. Full nerdery ahead − I highly recommend it.

AI Is Threatening My Tech and Lifestyle Content Mill

Liked AI Is Threatening My Tech and Lifestyle Content Mill (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency)

As the editor of a content mill that generates great articles every 4.2 seconds, like “Five Hacks for Your Roku” and “Seven Hacks for Your Roku,” I feel the need to take a stand against the rise of AI articles and the threat they pose to my team of human writers, who we treat like robots.

reading as a disease

on this fine morning I give one thought and not one more to the therapist who told me that my love of reading was a coping mechanism that was stopping me from engaging with real people and suggested I should stop reading books ma’am I just enjoy books more than people it’s not a disease

Fascism: the decay of capitalism

Watched

Quelques notes personnelles, en français, sur cette vidéo en anglais. En bref : Le fascisme s’installe en temps d’instabilité économique et politique, et a une esthétique codée qui facilite le recrutement. Le fascisme est causé par le capitalisme (qui crée les crises) et mène à la guerre, qui équilibre les ressources et permet d’avoir un…