re: f·b·i monitoring of activist movements
they’re using this as evidence to debunk the conspiracy theory that jan 6th rioters were provoked by the f·b·i but uhhh it’s kind of concerning in its own right
f·b·i monitoring of activist movements
« Most of the federal informants who have emerged from criminal cases related to Jan. 6 were not tasked by their handlers with spying on right-wing subjects — let alone with seeking to entrap Trump supporters into storming the Capitol. They were mostly far-right figures who were recruited by the F.B.I. to report on their adversaries in the far-left antifa movement. »
@coriander greatest genre of video games is clearly space western
@coriander god yes this annoys me so much
javascript
this is almost certainly a profoundly difficult-to-optimize way of doing this but i love giving browser manufacturers impossible problems to solve
javascript
const s = [,,,];
2 in s; // false
const d = dense(s);
2 in d; // true
d[2]; // undefined
s[2] = "value";
s[2]; // "value"
d[2]; // "value"
re: pokémon
@aescling ❗️
some words from my recent blogpost that i think the fediverse might relate to
« I want to be a part of scenes which give a shit about the silly things I care about (romantic c·dramas, anime, Pokémon, Nintendo). I want that much more than I care about belonging to any “fandom” or “fanspace” in the vernacular sense. And I think that having those scenes can form the bedrock of culture, not only fan culture but also culture in a general sense, a culture which produces interesting content for an audience of like‐minded people, some of which may reference some person or corporation’s Intellectual Property but a lot of which probably won’t. Plenty of “original content” is produced by S·F·F fandom, furry fandom, ⁊·c, and the willingness of people to create unique works within those spaces as opposed to without I think is a testament to the fact that they have some·thing which other spaces lack.
I’ve made my own small efforts at building these sorts of scenes, with the Mastodon instance I moderate and the Discord server I run and the wiki I set up for my friends. I don’t think spaces like these are enough (I’d love a forum), but I think they are a start. We need bigger ones, tho᷎, ones that are big enough to host events or challenges or other sorts of community happenings, and big enough to where they can adequately serve the function of introducing one to new people and ideas. I’m very interested in the inflection point from “friends and family” to “community” and think that transition is the only kind of scale which matters. »
New blogpost: “Racism, the O·T·W & the End There·of”
n·y·times; open·a·i
« Until Friday, Mr. Altman was the chief executive of OpenAI, the dominant artificial intelligence company. He promised A.I. would usher in humanity’s first golden age even though it came from the same kind of inventors who thought there was a market for internet-connected toasters. » wow i was not expecting this shade
@noelle sure but they aren't gender studies majors :P
the term “gender performativity” comes from judith butler [who, at the time, was a butch lesbian writing theory about their experience of gender as a butch lesbian—definitely not a “women should be womanly” kind of thing]
so i feel comfortable using judith butler’s intended meaning for it and not like, contrapoints or whoever
@noelle honestly it's just a miscommunication due to a term of art being taken out of context—nobody has seriously argued that gender is performative in the vernacular sense of the word
(performative here is intended with the meaning“performs a function”; gender, as a concept, is (a) performative because it performs itself in a certain way [can provide details on request]. it isn’t performative in the sense that we might call political posturing “performative”.)
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