#context collapse

[incohearent]

Algorithms are breaking how we think by Technology Connections on Youtube

[nbundarin]

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[kakonoia]

https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/761185051012694016/like-holy-shit-throwing-down-the-wah-i-wrote-a?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761183292238200832/im-turning-off-replies-to-that-stupid-aita-post?source=shar

Roughly in reverse chron.

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761183218587303936/hey-if-you-found-this-annoying-you-could-have?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761185245417570304/i-think-they-immediately-blocked-me-but-i-still?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761185480215805952/what?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761186567797735424/comparing-a-meme-about-your-own-free-book-to?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761186925412532224/what-you-did-is-similar-to-rick-rolling-which-is?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761187059468763136/i-mean-it-was-deceptive-and-kinda-shitty-sorry?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761187274731012096/im-seeing-the-messages-in-my-inbox-and-i-will?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761187735612604416/hugging-u-im-sorry-youre-dealing-with-this?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761187854464483328/im-guessing-people-just-dont-like-getting-rick?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761189829133385728/hey-i-saw-that-last-comment-too-and-heavens-to?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761190390314500096/normal-reaction-to-your-aita-post-omg-wtf-this?source=share

https://www.tumblr.com/justsome-di/761190819769319424/before-i-log-off-for-the-night-i-want-to-say?source=share

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https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/761210118833618944/deceptive-links-are-against-tumblrs-terms-of?source=share

[slime-blossom]

annoyed that kurzgesagt observed the tendency of social media users to encounter viewpoints different from their own and took it as evidence against filter bubbles, as if the careful curation of only those examples of opposing viewpoints that are most unflattering isn't key to maintaining those bubbles, to keeping you from getting too curious about what's outside of them

[pokeberry5]

i can't believe alfred saw this and then let dick briefly believe tim was dead

ref panel + extra:

from DC #696/Contagion #8

i had to cover up dick's face bc of his domino and im kinda sad about it:

no text:

mushroom for encouragement while i drew:

[tanadrin]

It’s frustrating that falling-for-scams-as-a-virtue has spread to basically every corner of social media. You see the same dynamic with this particular cause all over TikTok as well. I mean, I guess I’m glad the people want to do something to help. But good intentions count for little on their own, if they get spent in useless or outright counterproductive ways.

[psink]

I think psi battle's ending deserves more attention, but especially this part, as it's just really nice: Kusuo: Unfortunate companions... I can't deny that. Everyone: !!! Kusuo: They're noisy... Nendou: ? Kusuo: They’re troublesome… Kaidou: !!!!? Kusuo: They're annoying…. Teruhashi: (Gasp—-----!) [...] Kusuo: However―... they are not just disasters. They are my… True KusuΩ: ...My? Teruhashi: ...My!!? True KusuΩ: Friends? Companions? Is that what you want to say? Kusuo: You can interpret it however you like. Now, I need to thank you for spreading so many bugs. Kusuo: Don't underestimate me. How long do you think I've been with these guys? Kusuo: Nendou, I thought your existence itself was a bug, but you think and act properly. I'm relieved. Nendou: Oh, buddy~!! After this, let's get ramen! I'll treat you to some seriously good ramen!! Kusuo: Chouno, I know it's tough, but become the world's best entertainer and scare... I mean, surprise everyone Chouno: M-Master!! Yes!! I'll bring laughter and courage to everyone in the world...!! Kusuo: Kaidou, you should face reality sometimes. If you want, I'll send my brother to talk with you. Kaidou: W-What the... why are you so serious all of a sudden... and by the way... your brother... he's kinda scary... Kuusuke: That makes me want to bully you even more~ Kusuo: Yumehara, you should have a delusion fasting day sometimes. Yumehara: No way~ But... Okay, I'll do fasting training with Kaidou-kun~ Kusuo: Mera, you should save in various ways. Mera: Gulp! Is that about my appetite!? It can't be helped! I have to eat to live, you know! It's an irresistible instinct! Kusuo: Kuboyasu... Right, you should take a deep breath before getting angry. Kuboyasu: Yeah, sorry for causing trouble, Saiki. The true interaction of men is supposed to be spoken through actions before words and fists. Thanks! Kusuo: Hairo, you need to be more calm. Hairo: Saiki-kun! So you think I'm a passionate guy, huh? I'm glad!! My passion isn't just this! When we get back, let's train together!! Kusuo: Saiko, your mansion was Saiko Land. Saiko: Hmph... that's only natural. I have plenty more to show you peasants. Participation is mandatory. No refusals Kusuo: Teruhashi, you... You can just stay as you are. Teruhashi: Eh... Saiki-kun? Does that mean... (That I'm cute enough as I am, and that you really love me!?) Kusuo: Akechi, I recommend you see a urologist or a physician. Akechi: Well, based on past experience, I believe that doing so could increase the chances of avoiding some crises.. Akechi: But this is more like a chronic condition stemming from mental aspects. Kusuo: Aiura, your abilities are real. Use that power for me now. Aiura: Huh!? Is this a dream!? This is the scene I imagined! Kusuo is relying on me!? I'm super, super happy~ This is so exciting~~♪ Kusuo: Toritsuka..................Well, do your best. Toritsuka: Wait, Saiki-san!! Aren’t you being too vague at the end!? Toritsuka: I decided to follow you the rest of my life, Saiki-san! I was fighting mind control till the very end, you know!? Toritsuka: To begin with, you forgot about my existence earlier, didn't you!? I feel like I didn't get much screen time—... Guh...!

[irradiate-space]

People don't play along with trolling anymore because context collapse can kill you.

(This is a slight tangent from what OP is talking about, but I think it's part of why the "hmmm mad?" responses happen instead of baiting.)

In nonymous spaces, I did used to participate in some trolling, some joshing, some banter. That ended when Quinn Norton was ousted from the NYT Editorial board in 2018. She was a tech columnist with a big following, who had correct and leftist-libertarian opinions, who would have been a huge counterweight to the NYT's right-statist tendencies.

Why did she get ousted, the same day as the announcement of her hiring? Because she was doing the same thing that OP advocates for. Someone found tweets where Quinn was replying-in-kind using the language of her interlocutors, as a way of communicating with them at their level. Think of the Black man who befriended Klansmen and deradicalized them. The loud angry leftist subscriber base of the NYT objected to this behavior because that meant she was using slurs and being friendly to nazis, including weev.

As a result, in wallet-name spaces, I think very hard about when I'm going to joke, and when in doubt, I'll post only in seriousness. I think very hard about whether I'll use the word "fuck". There are whole topics I mostly don't address on wallet-name media, because while my employer doesn't care about [insert topic here], an angry mob would make them care.

Quinn Norton was forced out of a job which would've provided financial stability to a principled leftist-libertarian critic of the USA. She became a disabled housewife who had to move to Europe to get her lifesaving medical bills covered by her spouse's citizenship. Without a rich European spouse, she would've been paralyzed, and then died, leaving her young daughter a penniless orphan. Because she trolled back.

Arguing with people online is weird now. I keep running into guys who talk like they’re trolling, but when you troll them back it turns out they’re dead serious and confused about why you have a sense of humor

[starflungwaddledee]

Has Morpho knight or the butterfly ever met Your Oc? Not like conversation wise but do they monitor them?

i would certainly say it's aware of her

who wouIdn't be?

[aceofwhump]

The unaired pilot of "Rex is Not Your Lawyer"

[quirkle2]

[zombie au] tome joins the gang. her special ability: AUTISM

[sluttyhenley]

Bruce Springsteen Series

If I hadn’t gotten up, I would’ve missed it.

Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen

[theatreandribbons]

drew that source memory I mentioned

[randomtheidiot]

Nate Adams and Ash Ketchum are on opposite ends of the kids show monster collector spectrum.

[artuurle]

You will come home one day and realize that they took everything from you, even the ability to recognize yourself in the mirror.

You're just the abandoned shell of someone who was loved. All the people who loved you are dead.

[serpentface]

What's the Wardi cultural take on Akoshos sleeping with/partnering with/marrying other Akoshos?

It's not highly regulated to a degree that there are overwhelming cultural norms about it. There's a lot of societal focus on akoshos being theoretically suitable sexual partners for both men and women due to being dual-gendered, but not to an extent that relationships with One Another are stigmatized.

They also largely get to escape from the most severe concerns about penetrator/penetrated power dynamics because they're not regarded as Men (they're regarded as dual-gendered, and they're a female social class on every practical level), there's no status of manhood to Lose by receiving sexual penetration. The only real thing you see in that department is people assuming that one acts as 'the man' and one acts as 'the woman', but this is largely due to preoccupation with a notion of sex being Penetration With A Penis (and that Penetration With A Penis means that one person is in a Man's Role and one person is in a Woman's Role). But this will not be regarded as unnatural as in same-gender male relations, akoshos will Have to take up a position in this sexual dichotomy if they want to have Real Sex (Penetration With A Penis) with each other, and this is not unnatural and doesn't involve gaining or losing status since they are simultaneously male and female, not men.

So like you might see individual culture critics finding stuff to nitpick about it as their annoyance of the week or a singular Guy here or there who thinks it's weird, but this isn't a widespread norm. The vast majority of people don't give a shit about akoshos having sex with each other. The worst thing you're likely to experience Solely by virtue of being in an akoshos-akoshos relationship is someone asking you (probably with genuine curiosity) which one does the man stuff and which one does the woman stuff.

Akoshos also don't experience Hard expectations for marriage (though there are societal pressures that make marriage an attractive safety net all the same, ESPECIALLY marriage to a man) so unofficial life-partnerships between akoshos are pretty much the Only same gender partnerships between unwed people that are going to go unquestioned. ((Sworn brotherhood is technically a same gender life partnership for men that is Functionally similar to marriage (in that it's a kin-making practice between unrelated adults), but the tradition is Built upon the assumption that both parties will be married to women and that a primary goal of this kinship is to provide security for both parties' wives and children)). Marriage obligations in general are more lax in the economically secure but not Wealthy lower mercantile classes (as obligations to support and perpetuate one's family are universal, but these obligations can be filled simply by having at least One son who can get hitched, and marriages in the lower classes have no political functions and therefore there's less reason to ensure All your children are wed (there's still incentives like dowry, but this is not desperately needed when a family is economically secure)). So akoshos in this class group tend to have a Lot more freedom in terms of their life arrangements and chosen partners (though still experience the limiting frameworks of structural misogyny in other capacities).

The only thing that is out of the picture is akoshos/akoshos marriage. Marriage in this society has a predominantly reproductive function, the concept of reproductively non-viable marriages is generally considered absurd. This is not JUST this culture's form of homophobia, as marriage is a very practical arrangement at its core - both in a reproductive capacity and as bedrock for the patriarchal blood-kinship family system that forms the core social unit. The idea of same gender marriage isn't just absurd because 'ewwww weird' it's like, that Cannot work within this system, it Cannot fill core functions of what a marriage intends to do here, the ways on which marriage and kinship are BUILT makes same gender marriage practically (rather than just socially) untenable.

The sole exception to the 'marriage = reproductively viable" rule is that akoshos can be married to men (which in practice is almost always as a remarriage after a man has secured At Least an heir). This has a Little bit of internal logic here in that they perform predominantly female social roles (thus are suited to being a wife, even if they can't bear children) (and also on practical levels of them having the same legal status as women) but it's really more of a 'this is just how it's always been' kind of thing. A lot of the older pre-Wardi identity dual-gender roles that got mashed together under the 'akoshos' name would have involved marriage to a man as a second wife/concubine, in addition to his primary wife who would bear his children. Men potentially having multiple spouses has not been retained as a cultural practice, but the notion that an akoshos Can be a wife to a man has survived into modern day legal and doctrinal practices around marriage.

So like this being said, marriage as it is legally defined is only between a man and a woman, a man and an akoshos, or a woman and an akoshos. In practice the latter two are comparatively VERY rare- a man/akoshos marriage cannot provide children (though an akoshos can practically fulfill all other obligations and duties of a wife), a woman/akoshos marriage Can provide children (and while akoshos cannot function as a male heir, these children Will take their akoshos-parent's family name (though the wife retains her father's family name)), but akoshos are legally grouped with women in terms of rights and privileges (including being permanently under legal domain of their father unless they have been legally handed off to a male husband) and Cannot provide hard power patriarchal support that this family system is built upon and therefore depends upon, which makes these marriages socio-economically insecure. They can obviously still be a good partner and parent, but this is not the same as having the Legal hard power of a patriarch.

Akoshos marrying each other would be reproductively and socially nonviable, and is treated as a similarly absurd concept to a man marrying a man or a woman marrying a woman. It's just not a part of the marriage and kinship framework, it's not a thing that you can Do.