ℕ𝕖𝕞𝕠 @ Nemo @slrpnk.net

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I have never done this. If I thought something would pissy parents off, I either didn't do it or didn't tell them.

Why are you asking us? You're the expert.

nyuk nyuk nyuk

Not to mention is an addition to a list that's so obvious it's an afterthought. I've never heard the other expression used.

"Ghostwolves"

"The Ghost Wolves? That sounds dumb."

"No 'the'. Just 'Ghostwolves'."

We talked with our voices on dumbphones, and it was awful.

They did it to Joe Hill.

I don't think it's the inmates OP is worried about.

First off, ignore the blurb, read the article. It's not about the President or his advisors. I'm including below passages I found especially interesting and wanted to discuss. I invite and eagerly await any responses.

Bhatt writes that she is skeptical of attempts to differentiate “positive” and “toxic” masculinity, which, she says, tend to portray violence and misogyny as tragic deviations from “real” manliness, rather than the norm and intended outcome of patriarchy. As long as masculinity is defined antagonistically, in terms of having more power than someone else, then subjugation and oppression will be essential to its performance.

Okay, so: I have definitely been guilty in the past of what's described in that first sentence. And while it's very easy to point at toxic masculinity and say, "not that" and condemn the toxic behaviors, it's harder to acknowledge what Bhatt describes in the second sentence. I'd never seen it put in words before and I certainly have never thought it to myself while ruminating on the subject, but it's so manifestly true that I'm both shocked and disappointed with myself for never having that insight. Competition is essential to my internal comprehension of masculinity, and competition relies on, as Bhatt says "having more power than someone else" and antagonism.

Middle-class and wealthy men are able to define masculinity in terms of “breadwinning” or “providing”—euphemisms for out-earning their female partners—but working-class men often depend on their wives’ paycheques. Are those men not masculine (which seems unlikely, given that fetishization of True Blue-Collar Masculinity is one of the few things right- and left-wing politics have in common) or are they just doing masculinity in a different way?

This one I have been able to address before. I've written elsewhere that when I was a boy, I had a solid idea of what manliness entailed. As I matured, I realized most of those attributes, maybe all of them, were really attributes not of masculinity but of maturity. What separates men from boys, if you will, not men from women.

Masculinity was not a single coherent code, but a constant negotiation with one’s social and political context.

Well, yeah, all gender is.

If masculinity is about context, then our contexts—and our masculinities—can change.

Seems legit.

Alex Manley wrote that they gained a crucial insight into men’s lives while providing masculinity-branded content

love me some nominative determinism

The quintessential experience of being a man is wondering if you’re really a man; it’s always acting like a man and never actually getting to be one.

This is the first thing I really have to disagree with in the article, and it was all the way at the end. Going by my (cis) experience, I've always felt the opposite; knowing I'm male, knowing I'm a man, but struggling with how that translates into behavior. And having "masculine" behavior seem so elusive has made me cling even harder to actions that I can point to as definitively masculine: eg. "men take off their hats indoors and while eating", "men walk to the left of ladies or on the side closest to the street".

masculinity is anxiety

This I can agree with, but maybe I'm just an anxious man.

any day happy day

Player Piano by Vonnegut

Yeah that does seem more likely.

Okay, thanks, the video made it look very pokémish

I don't know a lot about Fire Emblem, but... is it just human pokémon?

But did we fix acid rain? That's what caught my eye.

Body mirroring! Makes you seem more likeable, more familiar to the interviewer.

I did them locally, a long time ago, before cloud was ubiquitous. Some of the project files might still be on my university's servers, but I doubt I could find them again, at least for the sound editing robots. I know I've got some of the image-eating cellular automata around –I was looking at them recently– but the library they depended on is broken.

Some speech recognition work, some selective gain adjustments –not just amplifying certain bands of frequencies, but trying to write a robot that can identify a specific instrument and amplify or mute just that. Also fun with throwing cellular automata at sound files. And with throwing cellular automata at image files to turn them into sound files.

Sounds as though your script did all important work, not your AI.

It's a geometric pattern my son and I crayoned onto the white paper table covering while waiting for our pizza.

That's a big bound forward from last I was looking at it! Avoiding that nasty glyph was notably not in its portfolio of tricks. It would say it was avoiding the fifth, but still slip many through.

Assuming that this discussion is about LLMs, anyway.