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thespaceinvader posted:Owen Jones is probably the single most leftist voice in the mainstream media, which is utterly terrifying. So, and to be clear I'm not using this to defend media in our country, I have seen it stated that basically the people who are on shows regularly are because they're always available for them regardless of how last minute it is. Ash Sarkar gets invited on because she is good for viewer ratings and is hot. Brendan O'Neill is on everything because his life has absolutely nothing going on meaning all the shows know he is always available. So when you see the same right wing talking heads it's because they have literally no life and can be relied upon for all shows
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XMNN posted:with the slow death of linear television I wonder if these enormous spikes in demand are such a big thing anymore Dunno but I work in Telecoms and they were expecting everyone at home due to coronavirus would cause peak bandwidth hours to expand. We actually saw something different, the peak demand dropped because people's active hours spread out. No longer was everyone coming home and doing their heaviest internet usage in the evenings after work. Lot of other interesting things we learnt in general from this. My job also hinted towards less international travel, seems a waste of time and money when inter company meetings have been going so well through zoom. And then the saved time and congestion from working from home. The way corporations operated now seems unnecessarily wasteful time wise, and not good for the climate either. It's almost as though capitalism isn't the most efficient way of utilizing resources.
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Jun 8, 2020 23:06
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lol an account with 14k followers just beat JKR's but but if sex isn't real tweet for likes https://twitter.com/insignificuntxX/status/1269650915033853956
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Marenghi posted:Dunno but I work in Telecoms and they were expecting everyone at home due to coronavirus would cause peak bandwidth hours to expand. We actually saw something different, the peak demand dropped because people's active hours spread out. No longer was everyone coming home and doing their heaviest internet usage in the evenings after work. Same, all travel in my 150k employee company is kyboshed for 2020. Apparently we can go back to the office a bit in late August (30% capacity), but I don't fancy it myself. I don't think there's been any real loss of productivity, some people are going mad though.
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Physio twitter continues to talk about how white and middle class physio is a profession and how we can change it, with like 800 tweets about it in an hour this evening. Seems like the leading voices are going to hold the CSP (physio union/registry body) to what they're saying too, lots of "this statement is a start but we want to see real action soon" rather than just applauding lip service tweets. I've not seen any idiots talking about "all lives matter" or any racist poo poo, and everyone does seem to be listening to peoples experiences. I really hope it kickstarts something and we can carry it on. Definitely made me more determined to call out any casual racism or microaggressions when I qualify next month.
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Jun 8, 2020 23:15
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Can someone explain to me what JK Rowling's tweet was even going on about? I read it but I couldn't understand how she phrased anything.
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punk rebel ecks posted:Can someone explain to me what JK Rowling's tweet was even going on about? I read it but I couldn't understand how she phrased anything. I found this summary on twitter which might help. as someone with experience of internet bigots i can confirm rowling's speaking the exact dogwhistle language of the mumsnet terf set. who she follows. https://twitter.com/MetteBundvad/status/1269715100165947392
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Jun 8, 2020 23:20
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I'm so glad that I'm not a fan of Harry Potter.
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Jun 8, 2020 23:27
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why do TERFs base their definition of gender on the amount of oppression experienced, it makes me deeply uncomfortable that to be a """woman""" in their eyes you must have suffered.
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Jose posted:So, and to be clear I'm not using this to defend media in our country, I have seen it stated that basically the people who are on shows regularly are because they're always available for them regardless of how last minute it is. Ash Sarkar gets invited on because she is good for viewer ratings and is hot. Brendan O'Neill is on everything because his life has absolutely nothing going on meaning all the shows know he is always available. I forget who posted it, but there was an article from someone at the BBC explaining its commitment to "diversity", and it basically came down to creating an identity matrix. They'd have a whiteboard with things like "white, BAME, gay, straight, female, male, left-wing, right-wing" and so on, and they'd plot that against their list of guests and mark which boxes each one ticked. They had to get a guest list where each one of those things was represented, and if someone dropped out they'd get someone else - who usually didn't tick the same boxes, so they'd end up changing all the other guests just to find a new combination (seems like they minded more about certain identities getting too much representation than others) So people who check a lot of those boxes pop up a lot, because they slot into that system pretty well and act as an easy grab bag. Young tory leave voting male spouting alt-right garbage covers a lot of bases owns
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I assume he also gets trotted out a lot because look at t'northern lad who like t'ories.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Same, all travel in my 150k employee company is kyboshed for 2020. Apparently we can go back to the office a bit in late August (30% capacity), but I don't fancy it myself. I don't think there's been any real loss of productivity, some people are going mad though. I'm loving it. I've taking up art and woodcrafts. And seeing so much more of my children. The office is opening in August at reduced capacity but I'm hoping to WFH until the years over. There's definitely a split between how people are handling it. Some like myself enjoying the extra time and lower stress. Others are climbing up the walls going mad. I think the second type are the ones going to IKEA or Pennys on opening day to queue for hours just to shop. It's like their whole being is so subsumed by capitalism that they cannot function without the ability to be consumers.
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Marenghi posted:I'm loving it. I've taking up art and woodcrafts. And seeing so much more of my children. The office is opening in August at reduced capacity but I'm hoping to WFH until the years over. Friend in London is an essential worker and has to go into the office 2 days a week and WFH the rest. She's never had any problem occupying herself at home (she and I could 'Potter About for Grate Britane' if there was Olympic sport of pottering about the house all day). She said some of the furloughed - including those who live with friends or family - are absolutely begging to come into the office because they are so bored at home. Meanwhile in Bad Takes on History Chat: https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1270057064832917506?s=20 I was working for an alarm company when the Brixton riots were on. We (the company - us plebs never saw any bonuses) were absolutely coining it with the callout fees to the alarms going off all night.
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Marenghi posted:I'm loving it. I've taking up art and woodcrafts. And seeing so much more of my children. The office is opening in August at reduced capacity but I'm hoping to WFH until the years over. Woodcrafts sounds like a brilliant thing to pick up - I'm a huge fan of the whole 'shopwork as soulcraft' theory - so much of what a lot of us do is moving numbers around on a machine that producing something physical has great mental value. I've used lockdown to do a bit of homebrewing, and write a really basic article about my experiences - I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking for something 'productive' to do with their time. And although it wasn't known when I wrote the article - the beer turned out great.
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OwlFancier posted:I assume he also gets trotted out a lot because look at t'northern lad who like t'ories. oh for sure, forgot about that one also people fined by the electoral commission
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Red Oktober posted:Woodcrafts sounds like a brilliant thing to pick up - I'm a huge fan of the whole 'shopwork as soulcraft' theory - so much of what a lot of us do is moving numbers around on a machine that producing something physical has great mental value. I've used lockdown to do a bit of homebrewing, and write a really basic article about my experiences - I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking for something 'productive' to do with their time. Woodcraft is a hearty rec from me as well, and I can recommend a goldmine of youtube channels about it from the msot basic to the incredibly complex. But. It does require a LOT of resources in tools, space, and materials. It's relatively easy to get a start in, but you will quickly find yourself getting frustrated by the lack of more advanced tools if you're not careful, and it DEFINITELY needs to be done in a different space from your living one if you're doing any sanding or sawing, it's very dusty. I'd personally suggest to people who can't meet that space and resource requirement, a lower-resource and less-space-and-dust-intensive thing like prop making with foam, or crochet/knitting. I've found it intensely difficult to be creative over the past few months, sadly, my creative brain just doesn't want to touch anything 
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah, I think 'modern slavery' works well to distinguish itself from chattel slavery, with all the implications that while the slaves aren't legally property, the authorities of austerity stripped states not being able to do anything about that past "we condemn all forms of slavery" leaving the slaves in functionally the same position. I think 'legal slavery' as it's own term makes more sense. If only to stop some pedant saying 'oh it's not technically slavery' about some sex-trafficked woman that can't speak english and has had their passport stolen and is systemically being used as a human product with zero recompense beyond basic survival needs and coincidentally has also been introduced to drugs by her abusers hmm yeah are we going to say that isn't functionally a slave? Or are we gonna pretend that the economic, sexist, nationalistic and racist power structures that also exist coincidentally just happened to create a functional slave class that is magically not slavery just because the legal structure wasn't involved (and also please ignore systemic failures of policing including that 90% of exposed prostution rings in the UK have had local police officers on the client list)? Slavery being only 'explicity legally sanctioned' is dumb as gently caress just call that 'legal slavery' don't pretend a woman literally locked in a basement with no bank account, passport or interaction outside the household isn't a slave. Vitamin P fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/witzhappening/status/1269988464243683328 Beginning to think the sea might be a comrade.
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Vitamin P posted:I think 'legal slavery' as it's own term makes more sense. The only edge case between the two is that prisoners in the US can legally be slaves but they can't legally be property because ~constitution noises~ which makes gently caress all difference in reality.
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I think the thing that pisses me off most about starmers horse poo poo response to the colston thing is his complete failure to recognise that there have been attempts to remove it/annotate it democratically which failed, or condemn the people responsible for that process failing, or to suggest that maybe we should do something about the other bad statues (before someone does something about them unilaterally) which you'd think he would if he was genuinely angry about us having statues of slavers in 21st century Britain, rather than thinking it's just not very polite completely unrelated, but I read it and thought it was interesting so now I'm posting it: the Wikipedia picture of the day is the nuclear icebreaker lenin  apparently when they needed to change the reactors it was too dangerous to disassemble them in case all the radiation escaped and made an army of supervillains so they sawed most of the way round the old reactors (and quite a lot of the bottom of the ship), blew the rest of it off with explosives, then just buried them where they ended up some dodgy looking russian site via Google translate posted:Unloading of the OK-150 nuclear installation from the Lenin icebreaker got to admit when I read the Wikipedia description, I was picturing something a bit more wile e coyote/Basque space program, like blasting them up into the sky and then chasing them with a barge full of concrete to tip on them quote:subsequently, all three reactors were removed by blowing them off the ship with shaped charges above a burial site off Novaya Zemlya although it's still fairly wile e coyote e: sorry for the long article, but the website was full of p intrusive ads telling me about Ekaterina who is 21 km from me and wants to meet up, so I thought it was probably best to not make people go to it also dumping toxic waste at the bottom of the harbour is actually very in right now, so I've decided this isn't a complete nonsequitur after all XMNN fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1270090014395977728 The Master Race, ladies and gentlemen! (Also sure glad that the US Gov is going to protect us from all those Antifa)
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I sometimes wonder what it must be like to create things without first believing in the death of the author. Because the only way to look at art, ideas, all that poo poo, that makes sense IMO, is to understand that the minute somebody else reads and accesses the concepts you put out, it stops being yours. The thing in their head is not the thing that you wrote down, and it's definitely not the thing that was in your head when you were writing it. The process of exposure to a work (and creating the work) is a process of transformation that fundamentally breaks the link between author and work, and work and reader, if you could even argue there was a link to begin with. Rather the perceived link is constructed afterwards by the reader, and is a form of parasocial relationship not intrinsic to the work. Which is all an overly covoluted way of saying that I really, really enjoy when dickheads realise that their personal fame and fortune is not the ontological anchor for the thing that got them there. And they themselves are entirely irrelevant compared to their works, and their works belong to each individual person who interprets them and to the communities they create based around doing that, and nothing they do or say can take it back from them. You can entirely cut JK Rowling out of harry potter, what the work is is not contingent on her blessing, and I think she really struggles to understand that, and the more she opens her gob the more we're gonna see it break her loving brain in half and I'm here for it.
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Yer a bigot Harr Oh, you've ruined my joke
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Harry Potter is poo poo independently of Rowling though
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I mean yeah but some people still read it and it means something to them, and not all of them are assholes. A lot of people also went on to make further transformative works based off it and form communities which I am willing to bet are much better than the source material, at least in some ways.
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Jose posted:So, and to be clear I'm not using this to defend media in our country, I have seen it stated that basically the people who are on shows regularly are because they're always available for them regardless of how last minute it is. Ash Sarkar gets invited on because she is good for viewer ratings and is hot. Brendan O'Neill is on everything because his life has absolutely nothing going on meaning all the shows know he is always available. This was making the rounds recently: https://www.the-fence.com/issues/issue-3/politics-off-grid
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OwlFancier posted:I mean yeah but some people still read it and it means something to them, and not all of them are assholes. One of my best friends had a really rough childhood and has told me that at times Harry Potter was quite literally what got her through it, both in the form of escapism and because it was showing her like, love and better relationships than she had and stuff. Harry Potter might therefore be liberal garbage taken as a whole, but it's also deeply meaningful and powerful for a lot of people outside of that, and as you say a great deal of that has no doubt been on the back of transformative works in the realm of fanfiction etc.. If the author is not dead, it is our duty to kill them.
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Exactly, and Rowling didn't make those communities and stories, the people who were part of them did. Cos god loving knows there's not enough depth in harry potter to make a decent story out of canonical parts. Kill you are authors and seize the means of meaning production.
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Though I confess that as an author I hope there's some ability to convey what was in my head into other people's heads, but I fully agree with the thrust of your posts on the subject.
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Oh yeah there's like, clearly a causitive relationship (sometimes, possibly less so in the case of what rowling thinks potter is and what potter actually is  ) between the author and their work and their interpretations by readers, but it's not a constant link that can be updated. Again even though rowling keeps trying. What's written is written and what people think is what they think and if you done hosed up with what you wrote and people think something other than what you intended, well, tough poo poo, it's done now and you can't undo it.It's like a platonic cave shadow kinda thing. Whereas Rowling I think likes to pretend the shadow is the thing, is the person holding it in front of the fire as long as all those things fit her self image (and makes her money), and has a pretty tense relationship with people who argue that the thing is pretty dogshit, the person holding it doubly so, and the shadows are only any good because of pareidolia. OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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If the transatlantic slave trade was legal and continuing today and had some basis of support among the voters, can you imagine the knots Starmer would be tying himself in right now trying to avoid condemning it lol.
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"The Labour Party is issuing today a firm, principled call for slave traders to show greater compassion."
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From the top of the page- how the gently caress did Jamie Bryson get a Twitter blue tick? The wee scrote who hid from the cops in his ‘pastor’s’ attic and went on a hunger strike that lasted just under two hours? On behalf of my people I apologise for him and for David Vance eta: also, not to rehash but I’m having a really hard time justifying continuing to be a Labour member, how about you guys?
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I'm not doing it cos they represent me, I'm doing it because they're an obstacle and will continue to be unless there is a left wing leader. For all the good the protests have done, any change is still likely to discharge through the current political system, so I'm quite content telling everyone that starmer is a useless sack of poo poo and they don't have to vote for him if they don't want to but continuing to use my internal vote to cause as much damage for his wing of the party as possible. If you've got a plan to render the british electoral process and the miserable sacks of poo poo that thrive in it irrelevant then I'd love nothing better but I don't think we're there yet. And the last thing I want is these idiots acting as a lightning rod for actually useful political energy. The last time everyone quit labour it ended up with blair so as cathartic as it might be it doesn't seem like a good idea. Besides what is being working class if not being accustomed to wading through poo poo? OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 07:31 on Jun 9, 2020 |
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