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Resident Evil 8: Village (2021)

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i think you can recognize that the usage of ai by students of all grades and all around the world to cheat through their assignments is not a personal moral failing but just yet another symptom of the mechanistic if not, at this point, basically dehumanized processes of our education systems which are nowadays almost solely focused on demanding production from students and churning out degrees required for jobs while ignoring any tangible verification of their actual knowledge, intellectual development and critical thinking skills, much less their mental health, while also pointing out that using ai to write your essay isn't a power move to cheat a flawed system, it is behaving exactly as the system designed, it is cheating yourself by giving up your ability to speak, think for and challenge yourself and bowing your head to powers who will only benefit from not being questioned, and the only reason text genai is so widespread right now is because it was born on the perfect breeding ground that is anti intellectualism

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Oh so it's okay to judge people for their words and actions now?

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*looks at books* too tired for you *looks at films* too tired for you *looks at art supplies* too tired for you *eyes fall on tumblr* oho ho

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The history of ergodic literature is kind of a trip because half the time you end up looking at something you didn't know you could do with the written word, and the other half of the time it's just a guy who clearly wants to be writing hypertext fiction but has the misfortune of being born in 1899.

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let's go to the beach this summer @everyone

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girl who desperately craves something but is also deathly afraid of reaching for it: *hasnt responded to you in a week*

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Satisfactorio

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Do you guys know respectable mexicans absolutely LOATHE Emilia Pérez and a mexican trans woman did a short film in like a week mocking it and called it Johanne Sacreblue and it's all french sterotypes and at some point it has Ladybug and Chat Noir fighting a mime in the background while the characters talk and the amount of rats in the scene increases each time the frame changes? It's important to me that people know this

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They both suck at giving each other gifts but they look so pleased with themselves, neither of them could outright refuse

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date idea: we eat cheese

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Ruh roh! Fred really steps in it this time! He’ll figure it out someday. New comic inspired by Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated 🪤

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The thing about religions is that it's rarely useful to think of them as having innate political characters. At most there are certain tendencies derived from it's tenets and value systems, but these tendencies can manifest themselves in a broad variety of ways depending on the broader context. To take two examples (one broad and one narrow); Christianity's emphasis on Evangelism lent itself well to structuring and justifying European colonial atrocities right from the very start, while Buddhist ideas of Karma were used to justify the brutal exploitation of serfs in Feudal Tibet. Conversely Christian ideas of universal fraternity and kindness to the poor were employed to condemn Colonial cruelty and propose a better society by a variety of anti-Imperialist movements, while Mahāyāna ideas around non-violence to living things were often invoked by progressive Lamas as they worked with the Communists to tear down Feudalism and establish Socialism in Tibet

Now as a materialist I view idealist worldviews like religion to be inherently limited in their capacity to analyse and reform the world, but that doesn't make them worthless. Examples like Tibet or Nicaragua show how the progressive manifestations of religious thought can be harnessed to achieve beneficial ends regardless of what other broad tendencies those religions contain. Broadly speaking religion might have some inherent issues, but when problem with Reactionary Religious thought is largely that is is reactionary (often with much stronger ideological links to secular and other religious forms of reaction than with the thoughts of their progressive co-coreligionists) rather than simply being religious. And using a single isolated example of religious reaction to condemn an entire system of faith is the height of foolishness.

Now Atheism is not a religion as such; it's more an alternative framework to religion altogether. Still, it tends to occupy a similar place in people's worldview and when discussing broads school of thought much that can be said about religion can be applied to Atheism as well. Whatever tendencies you can attribute to Atheism's rejection of religious thought, they can manifest in a wide variety of ways. Atheism might not be inherently progressive but it isn't inherently reactionary either, and when it is reactionary it's closely related to broader movements of reaction. You can't treat movements like "New Atheism" as products of Atheism in a vacuum, using it to condemn Atheist thought as a whole. The problem with Reactionary Atheists is that they're Reactionary, not that they're Atheist

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crossposting here bc this tactic needs to spread like wildfire

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So, ICE just arrested the mayor of Newark, NJ for investigating the illegal ICE detention center in the city. Having the detention center there is against New Jersey law.

Right-leaning media is going to say he was trespassing and, if he was--though it does not sound like he was, then regular police could have arrested him.

THIS is a show. This is Homan, who heads ICE, trying to rattle and intimidate the public officials who have said their cities and states will not cooperate with illegal ICE activities. Because they are... illegal.

Various government officials and groups are speaking out against the arrest right now. There are also protests. And I suspect, based on past actions at least, eventually the govt will release the mayor after a lot of blustering and terribly handled legal attempts to hold him.

This goes along with Stephen Miller today talking about trying to suspend habeas corpus. That requires a war or an extreme situation, btw. The regime keeps claiming there is an invasion and a war and not proving it in court (also after a certain amount of time, Congress has to declare war for this to be valid). But they are claiming there is a threat to the Constitution--suddenly the Constitution matters to these people. Schroedinger's Constitution, I guess.

This is also meant to rattle and intimidate people. Stephen Miller is not an attorney. He's not a scholar of the Constitution. And this wasn't Trump saying it and it wasn't in the Oval Office. Miller was probably putting it out there to see how people would respond. If America would sit back and take it.

So far, the people in New Jersey have been showing up.

But again, I just want to remind people that yes, these people are dangerous. They are dangerous because they don't care about hurting others but also because most of them are incredibly bad at their jobs and make mistakes constantly.

But they are also doing this stuff *because* there is resistance, because more and more Americans are not happy. And by that I mean, even MAGA are peeling off from the cult, and you can tell this from the polls, and from the fact that even some mainstream media is starting to push back (ever so slightly) on the narrative, and because some Republicans in congress are quietly objecting to some of 47's ideas, and because the use of bots is increasing online which means you aren't arguing with MAGA because a lot of MAGA have left the chat.

(People love to toss around the "drinking the Kool Aid" stuff about cults and MAGA, but as a quick reminder, many in Jonestown had seen through Jones' facade and were terrified and wanted to leave but simply had no way to do so. Many cult members do in fact reach a point where they have questions and realize something is wrong.)

As Rachel Maddow said a while ago, the more the regime loses in court, the more cities and governors tell them no, the more protests there are, the more the boycotts work, the more Trump has to back down on his tariffs and make nice with the countries he insulted, the weirder and wilder they are going to get with their cruelty.

But they do mean the cruelty. These people would happily send immigrants to Libya on the *suspicion* that they have committed a misdemeanor. Don't underestimate them. Prepare yourselves.

But also they (Trump especially) are desperate to get massive public opinion on their side again. They need a win. And to a fascist, winning means shows of strength, whether or not the shows of strength work or are even popular.

They also want distractions from the fact that Trump has started to deflate and back down and lower the tariffs against China today. Because that's embarrassing for him and they don't want the news cycle to be about how he's lowered it now to 80% instead of 145%. (80% still isn't low enough, btw. But the public step back is what matters.)

Also they want a distraction from the empty ports, and the truckers losing jobs, and Newark Airport (and all of America's airports) being incredibly unsafe, and from the new Pope not liking them, and from Bill Gates saying Musk is killing children, and so on.

Also remember a lot of these unqualified people are already showing signs of cracking. These are high pressure jobs even for the qualified, and well, these people are not qualified. Many of these things they do seem to initially be mistakes by underlings that they then double down on because, again, fascism is about moving forward and showing strength and not backing down even when it makes political sense.

BUT, this fascist regime is Trump-helmed. And he can and will throw his people under the bus if he wants public opinion on his side (or wants to avoid jail). He has already blamed "his lawyers" for the court losses and is now saying the tariff situation is all "Scotty B" (Scott Bessant). He reportedly is already pissed off at Hegseth for embarrassing him and I doubt he feels great about Kristi Noem getting reamed by Congress. He also hates that MSNBC has been reporting on the airport failures all day and has been ranting about them about on Truth Social. Oh and the Republicans in congress can't agree on the bill Trump wants, so it might not go forward. See?

The situation is fragile and scary.

BUT this is (probably) why it's happening. And to be clear, America has done this sort of shit in its history before. Maybe not on quite this level, but we have. Pushing back against it is also something that we've done before.

(And before anyone can @ me about it. Jim Crow legislation was authoritarian violence leveled against American citizens. How America treated Mexican workers in the 20s and 30s helped give Hitler ideas. There are plenty of persons on US soil who have been kidnapped and disappeared by local governments or the federal government in our history. That is why they don't want us knowing our history--both to hide our sins and to hide how America, eventually, responded to those sins.)

The most dangerous time with an abuser is when the abuser thinks you might leave them. So yes, this is terrifying. But also, so is staying with them.

p.s. today's date is 5/9/25. You all need to enable the post date on posts you see so you stop reblogging old news.

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Last night in Nebraska's largest city, Omaha, 3 term Republican mayor Jean Stothert was up for re-election, in the final days of her re-election campaign she went all in on transphobia, with a TV add accusing her Democratic opponent, John Ewing, "Ewing stands with radicals who want to allow boys in girls’ sports,”

Ewing and the Democrats fought back

and last night?

Congratulations to Omaha on its first black mayor, and remember calling Republicans bathroom creepers remains undefeated.

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academic dishonesty is not something you can spin as moral lol i do not want to share a career field let alone a social sphere with a bunch of chatgpt using ass bitches