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and i think about the function of coolness in this sense, for white kids, as a way of encouraging this sort of wasted energy to redirect them away from work which would actually force them to confront their privilege

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all of the useful skills i have learned have been through the process of needing to do a thing and having to learn how to do it, and very very little of that was ever supported nay discussed in school

i wasted huge amounts of time early in college taking classes aligned with my “interests” that i had no actual interest in applying, instead of learning about systemic injustice and the problems in the world which i actually cared about getting solved

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i was just thinking about a history report i wrote in seventh grade about assassins because i thought assassins were rad and what if i had been instead encouraged to study a history topic which was at all practically relevant or meaningful in my life

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can’t help but feel like there would be a lot fewer nft bros

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imagining a world where white kids were encouraged to study things which they think are necessary instead of things which they think are cool

this is a very good and helpful take; thank you to all of the people posting it today

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countries couldn't go to war if we lived in a fully automated luxury space anarchy communism because there wouldn't be any countries 🤓

python web server can’t colons in filenames

^/(?<path>(?:[^/]+/)*[^:/]+)(?:/[^/]*:[^/]*)?/$

« EARN-IT is an attack on section 230, which is the law that makes online platforms able to host user-posted material, and it does so in a way that allows U.S. states – many of which can be influenced by powerful anti-LGBTQ+ lobbying groups – to define what constitutes a visual depiction of CSAM » feel like OTW could have gone a liiiiitttle harder on why exactly this is a problem today

someone send me that “assumptions programmers make about names” post

i want to make a really deep and complex and interesting fanfic but the question is whether i can resist sticking porn in the first chapter

how many macbooks can i stack on top of each other

this fic is over 200,000 words and i am over halfway through it

archiveofourown.org/works/2590

« Zelda relived the horrors she had seen. "You don't know because you've been avoiding social media. People draw *ship* art of us, Link. And they *tag* me in it!" »

« There wasn't enough space for Link to go in all the way »

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