#i did write a macro for this framework

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if ur lactose intolerant.... rember ur lactase... my final message before i go back to bed

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I Know There Were a Lot of Flubby-Flubs in Our Youth, But It Surprisingly Moved Me Enough to Want to Muse On It and Write Something About It

I am behind on ALL MY SHOWS, so I know I missed the fandom's last breath on Our Youth (Miseinen: Mijukuna Oretachi wa Bukiyo ni Shinkochu). But I caught up with the last episodes and with @bengiyo's fantastic round-up of meta from around the Tumblr way, and I totally agree with the thematic center of the post -- the "uncertain melancholy" that the show gave us.

I was not expecting to actually feel as moved by the show as I ended up feeling vis à vis this uncertain melancholy (a feeling I love, by the way, the unsettledness of it all), because I know the last few episodes of the series had a few missteps, which I want to acknowledge and process in this post.

I feel like Minase's suit that he wore in the last two episodes is a great metaphor for how I feel about his characterization in the show.

Having a 20-year-old actor like Motojima Junsei play a graduated salaryman isn't necessarily uncommon in Japanese doramas -- but the juxtaposition of Motojima's actual age with the air he was supposed to carry as an older Minase didn't quite magnetically catch for what I think the show was trying to communicate about Minase's mindset. Minase clearly hadn't "grown" into the suit yet by the end of the show. And I think where we were left at the end of the series, was with a Minase who hadn't quite grown into the understanding or knowledge of how to live in and with his relationship with Hirukawa, which I think lends to the melancholic feeling the show ended with. (More on this in a second.)

I realize that this is an issue I had with the Minase character that actually started earlier in the series. I felt, after Minase's and Hirukawa's first trip to Hirukawa's mother's house, when the boys were splashing in the water, that I felt that I hadn't quite been fully taken into Minase's process of growth and change into wanting to be fully with Hirukawa. His change was a very quiet change, almost too quiet as juxtaposed against Hirukawa wearing his heart on his sleeve for the entire series.

Hirukawa wasn't a mystery to us: he let us into his whole cycle of growth and goal-setting, not wanting to end up like his dad, and emulating the standards that Minase was trying to live up to.

I was so happy to see Minase happy in the water with Hirukawa, and prior to that, in bed with him. But I'm not sure the script gave us as robust a process of growth for Minase as it did for Hirukawa.

I wonder, though, if this was done on purpose. I'm not sure yet, but I want to play around, in this post, with what I thought were the larger, macro-level themes of this show, to possibly help me understand why I felt a little underwhelmed on fully understanding Minase.

Let me acknowledge that all them damn sea metaphors were a lot. THERE WERE SO MANY OF THEM! Every beginning and end of each episode, the ocean! Water! Ships! Water connects us, we are the water, the seas are connected, we are connected like the water! I got it, I got it.

There was also the frame, at the beginning of the series, of the victim, the perpetrator, and the bystander, that I thought would be a thematic framework that we'd have explicit closure to. We didn't.

So let me do the work of analyzing these themes to what I think might be their cyclic closures, and add in the acknowledgment of themes that cropped up at the end of the series because I do feel like the show addressed the cycle of youthful growth to a lovely extent.

Since the show was called "Our Youth," and the series ended with Minase and Hirukawa very much in their early adult/professional stages, this show was clearly a story about, not a singular youthful moment in time, but a young life's worth of growth.

Minase and Hirukawa both close the gap of high-school-level immature miscommunication by acknowledging that they like each other, five years after Hirukawa walked out of Minase's life, penning his thoughts in a letter he didn't think would ever be read. It was a moment of noble idiocy on Hirukawa's part to leave Minase, one that he immediately rectified when he caught Minase on his university's campus.

Regarding the theme of growing up: damn, did Hirukawa ever end up being a winner. I fucking LOVED this for him. Not becoming his dad, pushing himself to the standards that he loved seeing in Minase, finding support in his mother, getting himself into university, becoming a filmmaker, being such a simp for Minase.

Minase, on the other hand, follows the path that his mother sets for him. He gets into his top university, he becomes a salaryman. He's, finally, ready to begin rebelling a bit -- literally by being in a relationship that can't end with marriage, as his mother pushes Minase towards her next preferred step in Minase's love life.

When the "victim/perpetrator/bystander" theme was introduced at the start of the series, I thought it was an immature framework. And I wondered, a lot, about how it connected with the many minutes of sea-related themes we also got in the show.

What I think I'd like to propose, is that the show may have been trying to prove that that "victim/perpetrator/bystander" framework was as immature as it seemed on paper -- by proposing, instead, that being human, and being connected to other humans, like a sea to an ocean, makes those kinds of imaginary boundaries simply arbitrary, just one person's framework to understand and judge the world.

I connect this back to Minase's mother's constant setting of expectations, all while she herself fails at being a present and complete mother. She's a perpetrator of contradictory standards, and Minase is at first a victim to her expectations -- but, by the end, becomes a bystander to her vision, almost ready to begin fighting with her (but he's not quite there yet).

Minase's recounts and repeats this framework at the beginning of the series while he's acknowledging Hirukawa -- who knows, maybe he got this thematic understanding from his mother or auteur father. And we then see Hirukawa being both a victim and a perpetrator himself -- thus rendering these boundaries useless and arbitrary once more.

I think it was an incomplete flub of the show to not close the story on this thematic framework, and to move the show only towards the sea metaphors at the end.

But the sea metaphors -- the story of two humans moving together and apart from each other like waves, but always being connected like water -- ended up handling the closure of the victim framework, by erasing those boundaries through the growth of Minase and Hirukawa. It wasn't done gracefully, but I think I've glommed onto and understand where the script wanted to end up with that framework: that the victim/perpetrator/bystander framework ultimately doesn't matter, because we are all of these concepts, all at once, at every moment in our life, depending on who we're interacting with.

So, then, Minase and Hirukawa are connected like an ocean. Minase is still following his mother's orders, though. And Minase ends up in a relationship that is similar to that of his mother's before her divorce -- with a partner who is often absent while filming.

Here's where Hirukawa's growth comes in again to break up the risk of intergenerational trauma on the part of Minase. He shows up for Minase, and he starts to care for Minase in a way that neither of Minase's parents ever did for him. Hirukawa cooks for Minase, eats meals with Minase, and gives Minase the sense of family that Minase was missing.

Hirukawa's and Minase's relationship, then, is shown to have meant to happen, like a sea meeting an ocean. But Minase still feels a little empty to me at this point, like his spacious and oversized suit, and I still wonder why.

I think we're left with a Minase that's both underwritten, and also still in a kind of growing contemplation about where he wants to move forward in his life -- the uncertain melancholy of the show. He wants to marry Hirukawa, and he can't. He's not able to confront his mother yet. He's in a "I'm just here right now" state -- and he has a model of growth in his boyfriend, Hirukawa, to look up to for future growth. Hirukawa, who was inspired in his own growth by Minase himself. I think that bit is just so nicely cyclical.

The character of Minase, in the end, I think suffers from the common ailment of unspoken communication that afflicts so many characters in Japanese doramas (a syndrome that was delightfully challenged in the amazing show, I Cannot Reach You, in which characters talked to each other). Besides the sea metaphors, I really needed just some basic internal dialogue to help me understand where Minase was at in not wanting to get a little risky and frisky in seeking out marriage somewhere else with Hirukawa (I think the subs of that marriage conversation in the car were off), and in retreating from confronting his mother about her own love life.

I think the reason why I've been sitting on this for as long as I have in this post is that, if Minase had not been underwritten, we would have ended up with a potentially spectacular show. The cinematography of this show was out of control. It was SO beautifully shot, lovingly, giving homage to the fictional filmmakers that the show honored in Minase's dad and in Hirukawa. I wish the script of the show did the cinematography equal justice.

And Hirukawa was just written so well. We got him, we understood where he wanted to go in his life. Yes, he was a weenie for walking away from Minase in high school -- but he had also suffered massive trauma, a trauma he wanted to tackle himself. I'll give that to him.

I needed more explicit growth and less metaphors from Minase. I am perfectly happy being left with the melancholic ending we got from the show -- I think that's the right feeling for where the show needed to end. But I think I ultimately needed a few more words from Minase to help me get fully to that conclusion myself.

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kacy i wanna know how much of a perv you think daniel is LOL so much fic centers on armand dragging him through an experience *armand* wants. so like what's the ratio of daniel being a freak in his nature (and knowing this about himself) vs armand nurturing this trait into him?

My friend, I’m so glad you asked.

THE THING IS IVE GIVEN THIS A LOT OF THOUGHT and in some ways it’s like, what all of my Devil’s Minion fics are about LOL. And yet! I don’t have a simple answer to this question, the way real questions of nature vs nurture are complicated in the real world in real people!

But let me sketch out a framework of the way I’ve questioned this, and everyone might come to different conclusions and that’s the fun of fandom, because there can exist several thousand versions of Daniel based on the same text! AND I KNOW YOU KNOW THIS STUFF, I HOPE IT DOESN’T COME OFF AS MANSPLAINING LMAO but I’m excited to talk about this topic. 

Here’s what we know unequivocally from the text:

Daniel is 20 years old in IWTV.

That’s it, that’s the whole list.

And here’s some fanon that people often try to extrapolate from the text: 

💦 That he met Louis at a gay bar. UNCONFIRMED, but I think it’s likely? In the short story the bar is named the Pink Baby, I think that might be a gay bar or a dick reference idk lol. 

💦 Whether or not the Pink Baby was a gay bar, he and Louis essentially cruised each other and left the bar together! Daniel has the excuse that he’s hunting for interviews for his job, Louis has the excuse that he’s an apex predator who preys on people, but ? Take this wherever you need to. (Also blah blah Ricean biting=sex symbolisms.)

💦 Was Daniel bisexual outside of the assumption that most of the VC characters are bisexual/omnisexual? The only clue we get is that when he and Armand practice voyeurism, he hooks up with men and women. There’s a lot of interesting information packed into the voyeurism paragraph, like this line: Yet he lay empty afterwards, staring at Armand, resentful, cold. and I’ve seen the “resentful, cold” comment dissected many times in fandom. Is it the general resentment of their whole relationship? Is it because he wants to fuck Armand and not randos? Is it because he only wants the Blood? Does he not consent to being used like a zoo animal? Is he gay and doesn’t want to fuck women? Is he straight (minus the orientation-defying vampire attraction) and doesn’t want to fuck men? I’ve seen all kinds of takes on this LOL. But still, no real definitive answer about his orientation in the text.

💦 What did the “roaming the bars of the world” comment mean? Sometimes I read Anne Rice’s language as being kinda lofty and exaggerated but was he ACTUALLY traveling the WHOLE WORLD or is he hyping up that he trolled bars in the Bay Area? Is he FROM the Bay Area or was it a stop in his travels? He worked for a radio station (not in the book, but mentioned in the short story + The Vampire Companion and The Alphabettery) so did he live here, even if he traveled a lot? Was he wealthy before vampires if he was traveling this much, if you think he was a traveler?

AND AFTER ALL THAT, here’s some extra questions where Daniel is FREE REAL ESTATE that every fan has the freedom to make the fuck up:

💦 How much sexual experience did he have at 20? Do we assume that by default as an Anne Rice character he probably had ample teenage sexual experiences, and if he did, is there a quality over quantity aspect to consider? Is the sex we have as teenagers like, all that to write home about LMAO. Do we really understand kinks yet, or do we need to grow up and gain some perspective first? 

💦 As an Anne Rice character, by default, do we assume he & everything else is sexually charged LOL, are the interviews and cruising and taking people home a code for bringing partners home? What percentage of his interviews were also hookups?  

💦 When we talk about nature vs nurture for kinkiness, how micro and macro is this? As a fellow Off the Cuffs fan I know you understand the “radioactive spider bite into kink” concept, and some kinks are so specific to our experiences. But BEING KINKY in itself IS nature, isn’t it? I’ve read some sex & kink theory that kink is (psychologically) more like an innate orientation. IE: in the way you can be straight or gay, some people are also by default turned on by being smacked or by whatever paraphilia. Whatever that thing is, the way it takes shape, is the nurture half. But like, many people can have the same experience and 99% of them don’t develop a paraphilia right? So I think that capability exists in kinky folks at all times, especially when so many of the radioactive spider bites are things that people discover in childhood. ANYWAY I RANTED but I say that to say; DANIEL MOLLOY IS A MONSTERFUCKER, IWTV IS THE PROOF THAT HE IS A MONSTERFUCKER. IT WAS THERE THE WHOLE TIME. 

So I bring up all those questions to encourage everyone to make up their own story with this, but I’ll tell you where I personally landed and how I approach it in my fics!!!

The Daniel in MY OWN fics is 20, single child, estranged from his parents, dropped out of college because he didn’t have ADHD support and was struggling, bisexual and promiscuous! I wonder if he went through that like college freshman thing where he got out of his parents house for the first time and partied a little too hard because he COULD! I like to read “bars of the world” as an exaggeration, I like to think he was a normal guy NOT globe hopping, sticking to the Bay Area, maybe he was out there for college, and guess what! There’s a thriving gay liberation culture there, so he finds some safe spaces to experiment with that! 

However, I think the text leaves space to think he didn’t have a lot of close friends, or wasn’t close with his family, due to the way that he simply ✨fucks off ✨ after IWTV. NOW, that’s just me! Because there’s potential here for a TRAGEDY of people looking for him or grieving him! But idk I just like thinking that he was already on the outs and the interview pushed him over the edge.

So I ask like, does the 20 year old have a ton of kink experience? Is he good at sex? WHAT DOES RESENTFUL, COLD MEAN? Was he celibate during the chase years? Are the voyeurism sessions the first time he’s had sex since his old life? Even if he had random hookups during the chase years, was this qualitatively good sex? Can you truly get into good BDSM on a hookup or do you need a trusted partner? (This is subjective, idk, but!) 

Also, how much kink is theoretical and private (to masturbate to) vs stuff you actually try? Especially if we believe that kink is nature, someone isn’t less kinky if they’re celibate, the way someone isn’t less gay if they’re celibate, or even a virgin. As Daniel becomes more and more obsessed with vampires, and with Armand, does it take over how he jerks off? Does he think about getting bitten? HE LIKES SNUGGLING WITH DEAD THINGS.

So like, there IS an element of Daniel being the unwilling witness of Armand’s rapidly shifting hyperfixations, and it’s natural that fandom pervs would extend that to sex acts and kinks. I LOVE IT, yes! It makes sense. 

But when you say like, which one of them is in charge, I wonder if it’s relevant if we assume Daniel enjoys it. (Does he? Would he? Resentful, cold?)

Here’s some points that come to mind when I imagine it as purely Armand’s doing:

💦 People sometimes misunderstand BDSM dynamics when it comes to power and control, because BDSM is a consensual fantasy between two adults. The sub is just as in control, because they allow it. In that sense: Do we believe Armand respects Daniel’s consent? Would he force Daniel to participate if he wasn’t enjoying himself? 

🩸 (How much can we compare this to Venice and how Armand was prepared for vampirism? I’m putting this in parentheses bc I’m putting a pin in this one, I CANNOT ADD A SUB-ESSAY INTO THIS POST ABOUT COMPARING VENICE TO DEVILS MINION but thinking of this too. Returning to the under-negotiated kink in Venice and how much is diegetic to the text, how does experiencing a spectrum of sexuality benefit someone’s last years alive ((sub-parentheses: does Armand flip-flop on turning Daniel as much as Marius did with Armand, does Armand subliminally know he’ll turn Daniel one day, does he go through these experiences as a precursor to turning Daniel eventually?)) are these experiences more for Armand to process the way he was groomed for asexual immortality vs being purely selfless and for Daniel’s benefit?)

💦 Armand uses Daniel as his usher into the modern age, and is it fair to assume he could sense Daniel’s kinkiness and knew that this was the person for him? 

💦 How dubious is Daniel’s consent here? How addicted to Armand’s Blood is he by the time they start fucking around? Is he already within the throes of Ricean Omnisexuality where he’s down for whatever? Does the Blood influence this as well? Is there a secret subliminal violence creeping into your body when you’ve been drinking it again and again? What about less violent kinks, like your feederism fic? Does the Blood encourage all types of excess and consumption??? 

But if DANIEL is the driving force here, I still must consider:

💦 He meets Armand and his life essentially ends when he’s 20 years old. Was he really self-aware of his kinks? Did he know himself very well sexually yet? 

💦 While exploring kinks can be mutually beneficial by sating Armand’s need for WEIRD HUMAN STUFF, maybe it IS something Daniel wants. It’s something he’s missing out on, because he checked out of regular human life when he was 20. Like, everyone’s different, so, I’m not saying that people can’t be sexually articulate at 20, but I know I fucking wasn’t! And I personally never fucked anyone that age who was good at it LMAO. So like how old would Daniel have been before he experimented enough to really know what he liked, and how much of him getting to know his sexuality involved Armand during the next decade?

💦 And this ties into Armand being his sugar daddy! That’s canon! Armand is his sugar daddy! If Daniel, at 28 years old, starts lamenting “I wish I’d gotten the chance to try watersports when I still had a normal life :( “ wouldn’t Armand have arranged that for him? 

🩸 (Again let’s talk about Venice and what did Armand learn there about being the vampire lover, how much does he process and repeat on Daniel, and for whose benefit?)

💦 If Daniel is an innately kinky person, and realizes as he’s approaching 30 that he never really got to explore it properly, wouldn’t Armand usher him through that experience? Even if Armand didn’t plan to turn him, I wonder if he saw the window of Daniel’s mortal experience closing, maybe he worried that this is the type of thing people need to be wild about while they’re still so young. And outside of stigmatizing Daniel's age, it's also about how he was becoming less and less healthy, dying of alcoholism at 32, so there was a small window here for them to have sex adventures.

So basically, I’m saying that the nature half feels very much like Daniel being a monsterfucker, the nurture half is the actual experiences he got to have. And I don’t think he’d be in this situation in the first place if he wasn’t a bit of a monsterfucker, and wasn't a innately into danger and pain. Like, we don’t get a TON of examples but Gretchen and Babette didn’t try to fuck vampires! We know that vampires give humans the heebie jeebies! What kind of sick fuck is into that?!?!?!? 

I don’t really have one single answer here. When it comes to the large library of kinks I think either of them can be blamed, and I also think it 100% makes sense to use Armand as a vehicle to write fic about them as if they’re another collection of human oddities for him to explore. But even using Armand’s weird bullshit to process that doesn’t mean it’s not mutually beneficial, and I think it gets into a fuzzier area that’s up to the writer when it comes to their take on the relationship, how dubious the consent is, how much do they actually like each other and get along? Can it be mutually beneficial in the end even if one person is driving? (see: the conversation about the second whipping scene in TVA and how it works out in the end.) Is it something they have fun agreeing to and negotiating in advance? 

I can totally see how someone might write this as a fun thing that they talk about beforehand as easily as it could be Armand forcing mystery adventure on Daniel and suddenly he’s tied up in some shitty apartment in Hells Kitchen with some man pissing on him, and did he ever even reveal this kink to Armand or did Armand pull it out of his head? 

The ship dynamic is so fucked up and coercive and resentful and toxic, even though there is real love here, so there’s this whole spectrum to use when you build your fanworks and headcanons!!!!!!! AND LIKE

IF IT’S COERCIVE AND FUCKED UP, DOES IT DRIVE THEM FURTHER APART OR BRING THEM CLOSER TOGETHER? IS DANIEL RESENTFUL AND COLD AND DOES THIS CAUSE FIGHTS? IS THIS A WAY FOR THEM TO PROCESS SOME OF THEIR COLDNESS AND RESENTMENT BECAUSE THEY AREN’T GOOD COMMUNICATORS? DO THEY DO BETTER AFTER THESE SESSIONS AND FEEL CLOSER BECAUSE THEY BROKE THROUGH SOMETHING NEITHER OF THEM KNEW HOW TO SAY?

Gosh idk.

Anyway I apologized in the beginning for mansplaining but I also want to apologize for this non answer LMFAO. I hope it doesn’t feel like a cop-out to not have a real answer, it’s just that I think there is such a rich context with a MENAGERIE of possibility !!!!!!! 

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This Week in Rust 526

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

Blog: Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey Survey

A Call for Proposals for the Rust 2024 Edition

Project/Tooling Updates

ratatui: a Rust library for cooking up terminal user interfaces - v0.25.0

Introducing Gooey: My take on a Rusty GUI framework

Two New Open Source Rust Crates Create Easier Cedar Policy Management

Introducing FireDBG - a Time Travel Visual Debugger for Rust

Fornjot 0.48.0 - open source b-rep CAD kernel written in Rust

Committing to Rust for kernel code

A Rust implementation of Android's Binder

Preventing atomic-context violations in Rust code with klint

Rust for Linux — in space

Observations/Thoughts

Rust is growing

A curiously recurring lifetime issue

The rabbit hole of unsafe Rust bugs

Faster Rust Toolchains for Android

The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1

Nine Rules for SIMD Acceleration of your Rust Code (Part 2): General Lessons from Boosting Data Ingestion in the range-set-blaze Crate by 7x

What I Learned Making an embedded-hal Driver in Rust (for the MAX6675 Thermocouple Digitizer)

Rust Walkthroughs

Rust: Traits

Write a Toy VPN in Rust

Getting Started with Actix Web in Rust

Getting Started with Rocket in Rust

Generic types for function parameters in Rust 🦀

Benchmarking Rust Compiler Settings with Criterion: Controlling Criterion with Scripts and Environment Variables

[series] Multithreading and Memory-Mapping: Refining ANN Performance with Arroy

[series] Getting started with Tiny HTTP building a web application in Rust

Miscellaneous

Embedded Rust Education: 2023 Reflections & 2024 Visions

The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1

Default arguments for functions in Rust using macros

[audio] Rust in Production Ep 1 - InfluxData's Paul Dix

[audio] Episode 160: Rust & Safety at Adobe with Sean Parent

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is constcat, a std::concat!-replacement with support for const variables and expressions.

Thanks to Ross MacArthur for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

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Ockam - Fix documentation warnings

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Updates from the Rust Project

386 pull requests were merged in the last week

enable stack probes on aarch64 for LLVM 18

add new tier 3 aarch64-apple-watchos target

add hexagon support

add the function body span to StableMIR

allow async_fn_in_trait traits with Send variant

cherry-pick "M68k: Fix ODR violation in GISel code (#72797)"

AIX: fix XCOFF metadata

-Ztrait-solver=next to -Znext-solver

actually parse async gen blocks correctly

add a method to StableMIR to check if a type is a CStr

add more suggestions to unexpected cfg names and values

add support for --env on tracked_env::var

add unstable -Zdefault-hidden-visibility cmdline flag for rustc

annotate panic reasons during enum layout

attempt to try to resolve blocking concerns (RFC #3086)

avoid overflow in GVN constant indexing

cache param env canonicalization

check FnPtr/FnDef built-in fn traits correctly with effects

check generic params after sigature for main-fn-ty

collect lang items from AST, get rid of GenericBound::LangItemTrait

coroutine variant fields can be uninitialized

coverage: skip instrumenting a function if no spans were extracted from MIR

deny ~const trait bounds in inherent impl headers

desugar yield in async gen correctly, ensure gen always returns unit

don't merge cfg and doc(cfg) attributes for re-exports

erase late bound regions from Instance::fn_sig() and add a few more details to StableMIR APIs

fix ICE ProjectionKinds Deref and Field were mismatched

fix LLD thread flags in bootstrap on Windows

fix waker_getters tracking issue number

fix alignment passed down to LLVM for simd_masked_load

fix dynamic size/align computation logic for packed types with dyn trait tail

fix overlapping spans in delimited meta-vars

ICE 110453: fixed with errors

llvm-wrapper: adapt for LLVM API changes

make IMPLIED_BOUNDS_ENTAILMENT into a hard error from a lint

make exhaustiveness usable outside of rustc

match lowering: Remove the make_target_blocks hack

more expressions correctly are marked to end with curly braces

nudge the user to kill programs using excessive CPU

opportunistically resolve region var in canonicalizer (instead of resolving root var)

properly reject default on free const items

remove unnecessary constness from ProjectionCandidate

replace some instances of FxHashMap/FxHashSet with stable alternatives (mostly in rustc_hir and rustc_ast_lowering)

resolve: replace visibility table in resolver outputs with query feeding

skip rpit constraint checker if borrowck return type error

some cleanup and improvement for invalid ref casting impl

tweak short_ty_string to reduce number of files

unconditionally register alias-relate in projection goal

update FreeBSD CI image

uplift TypeAndMut and ClosureKind to rustc_type_ir

use if cfg! instead of #[cfg]

use the LLVM option NoTrapAfterNoreturn

miri: visit the AllocIds and BorTags in borrow state FrameExtra

miri run: default to edition 2021

miri: make mmap not use expose semantics

fast path for declared_generic_bounds_from_env

stabilize type_name_of_val

stabilize ptr::{from_ref, from_mut}

add core::intrinsics::simd

add a column number to dbg!()

add more niches to rawvec

add ASCII whitespace trimming functions to &str

fix cases where std accidentally relied on inline(never)

Windows: allow File::create to work on hidden files

std: add xcoff in object's feature list

codegen: panic when trying to compute size/align of extern type

codegen_gcc: simd: implement missing intrinsics from simd/generic-arithmetic-pass.rs

codegen_llvm: set DW_AT_accessibility

cargo: clean up package metadata

cargo: do not allow empty name in package ID spec

cargo: fill in more empty name holes

cargo: hold the mutate exclusive lock when vendoring

rustdoc: use Map instead of Object for source files and search index

rustdoc: allow resizing the sidebar / hiding the top bar

rustdoc-search: fix a race condition in search index loading

rustdoc-search: use set ops for ranking and filtering

bindgen: use \r\n on windows

bindgen: better working destructors on windows

clippy: add new unconditional_recursion lint

clippy: new Lint: result_filter_map / Mirror of option_filter_map

clippy: don't visit nested bodies in is_const_evaluatable

clippy: redundant_pattern_matching: lint if let true, while let true, matches!(.., true)

clippy: do not lint assertions_on_constants for const _: () = assert!(expr)

clippy: doc_markdown Recognize words followed by empty parentheses () for quoting

clippy: fix binder handling in unnecessary_to_owned

rust-analyzer: deduplicate annotations

rust-analyzer: optimizing Performance with Promise.all 🏎

rust-analyzer: desugar doc correctly for mbe

rust-analyzer: dont assume ascii in remove_markdown

rust-analyzer: resolve alias before resolving enum variant

rust-analyzer: add minimal support for the 2024 edition

rust-analyzer: move out WithFixture into dev-dep only crate

rust-analyzer: fix false positive type mismatch in const reference patterns

rust-analyzer: syntax fixup now removes subtrees with fake spans

rust-analyzer: update builtin attrs from rustc

rust-analyzer: fix fragment parser replacing matches with dummies on incomplete parses

rust-analyzer: fix incorrectly replacing references in macro invocation in "Convert to named struct" assist

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A lot of noise in the results this week; there was an lull in the noise recently, so our auto-inferred noise threshold went down, and thus five PR's were artificially flagged this week (and three supposed improvements were just reverting to the mean). Beyond that, we had three nice improvements: the first to debug builds in #117962 (by ceasing emission of expensive+unused .debug_pubnames and .debug_pubtypes), a second to diesel and serde in #119048 (by avoiding some unnecessary work), and a third to several benchmarks in #117749 (by adding some caching of an internal compiler structure).

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 57010939..bf9229a2

6 Regressions, 9 Improvements, 3 Mixed; 5 of them in rollups 67 artifact comparisons made in total

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[disposition: postpone] RFC: Precise Pre-release Deps

Tracking Issues & PRs

[disposition: merge] Support async recursive calls (as long as they have indirection)

[disposition: merge] make soft_unstable show up in future breakage reports

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for ip_in_core

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The Tianyi-33 satellite is a 50kg class space science experimental satellite equipped with an operating system independently developed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications—the Rust-based dual-kernel real-time operating system RROS. RROS will carry out general tasks represented by tensorflow/k8s and real-time tasks represented by real-time file systems and real-time network transmission on the satellite. It will ensure the normal execution of upper-layer applications and scientific research tasks, such as time-delay measurement between satellite and ground, live video broadcasting, onboard web chat services, pseudo-SSH experiments, etc. This marks the world’s first official application of a Rust-written dual-kernel operating system in a satellite scenario.

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What would upset me most about a romantic love monologe to El would be their lesbian/gay characters getting dust. Oh Will is the gay kid with an unrequited crush nothing ground breaking there. Robin can't ask out the girl she wants to. Valid, but she is sadly pining from afar. And Eddie(hanky code being confirmed?) who, if they kill off would be bury your gays. Where is the happiness in these stories? Their m/f ships get to kiss,be affectionate and say/show their love. What about them? :(

I hear what you're saying, but don't lose sight of the time period. The 1980s weren't a good time to be gay. That's not to say that gay people didn't live happy, fulfilling lives where they were accepted by their families, but they did face challenges, and it is important to underscore that this show isn't Heartstopper in that regard.

Having said that, yes, I do agree that from a media perspective it would be disappointing if they did not go down the path of Mike/Will. Something that has recently occurred to me, though, is that the writing does show a lot of affection for these characters. They don't suffer needlessly. When we look at the Mike/El/Will debacle, you could feasibly say that Mike and Will are suffering for similar reasons (feelings, identity), whereas a lot of El's suffering is more macro (morality). I've maintained that El and Mike will go their separate ways and it will be because they don't need each other to find their happiness - they can do that alone (as in El's case) or with someone else (Mike and Will). Just my two cents, but I do think they will give the characters a happy ending because that is fundamentally what the show is about.

Regarding the characters you mentioned, I disagree with Eddie. I get the handkerchief thing, but this is small-town Indiana; and there was a lot of textual evidence to suggest that he and Chrissy might have, in another life, been in a romantic relationship. The Breakfast Club was cited as an influence for S04 and Eddie/Chrissy's dynamic is clearly Claire/Bender. I'm sorry, but I don't see gay Eddie being a thing in canon - in fanon, though, hell yeah, go for it.

I would say that ST does deal with unexpected romance well, though, and particularly that romance which might be considered marginalised. Max and Lucas, for instance, are in an interracial relationship, and you can see across S02-3 that they are becoming aware of race as a factor in their relationship. I personally think Lumax was the standout of this season, and I believe it's down to how their story played out - they really came full circle.

Sidebar, it's interesting how Mike is consistently amazed that he has to deal with "mature" and "adult" situations/arguments in his relationship with El, when arguably Max and Lucas have been dealing with that for far longer, and better, and they're the same age. But I digress.

Regarding Robin, she states in canon that she has to be careful. The writers are aware that she can't just march up to Vickie and ask her out - it's measured, considered, a situation where, if Robin isn't careful, she could even be in danger if word reached the wrong people. ST has never been about skipping into the sunset. It's always been about overcoming trials and finding who you are even if you will not/cannot be accepted by other people. In that respect Will being gay fits perfectly within this thematic framework. So, tl;dr... I hear your frustration, but there is both evidence to support our happy endings plus some historically-accurate gay romance.

[legionofpotatoes]

alright here’s ma thoughts on that flick I mentioned

we hatewatched a*my of the dead because we were CONVINCED “zombies in las vegas” would be an impossible concept to screw up, but in so assuming we obviously invoked a holy wager with the universe and got reminded, once again, that hoping for improvement from someone who’s dependably put out bad art is never a wise choice 😐

but we were honestly kinda roped in by the marketing??? and expected a goofy fast-paced flick with the odd traditional undead metaphor thrown in, framing some sort of relationship drama maybe or hell even nothing at all! we’d have taken pure indulgent storytelling, idk italian job with zombies in las vegas, I don’t know fucking anything but??? whatever this was???? spoilers below for it is time for One Of My Rants

I mean the main reason I really want to write all this and complain. this film here probably has the most unappealing cinematography I have ever experienced in my life and that is saying something. who the fuck signed off on that CONSTANT shallow-ass depth of field that imprisons your eyeline and turns every shot into bokeh paste???? and I mean every shot almost!!!! I promise if you think I am overreacting just throw a dart at the seek bar and watch twenty seconds from wherever it lands. it is horrifying to look at. at least it gave my girlfriend a good visual shorthand for what it’s like when I lose my glasses

why was sean spicer in this movie. did they pay him to be here. was sean spicer paid hollywood money for his scene in this film because fuck everyone who was involved in that decision

the legitimately baffling hints at the extraterrestrial origins of the infection that went absolutely nowhere and had no dramatic or plot-level bearing. we love to see the franchise sprouts fellas

yet another big budget waste of everything hiroyuki sanada has to offer. and bautista too I guess? I like him but man was this an odd career move

what was the crux of his conflict/resolution with his daughter btw. I understand it was rooted in miscommunication over their forms of grief irt mom but uhh… it was all rather clunky and didn’t land for me. I tried I really tried to buy in but something was wrong fundamentally with the groundwork there, it did not click and their catharsis felt unearned. I know there’s massive amounts of tragic baggage being projected there from the author so I’m not slapping any judgment down really;

but again it would be an easy thing to wave off if they just had a vibrant cast of lovable simpletons with good chemistry and the kinetic sense of plotting the trailers promised (and this premise never discounts good drama, either). but instead it was just two and a half (!) hours of meandering into situations the filmmaking instincts had no idea how to flow in and out of

to wit. I know talking about “bad pacing” is associated with armchair bullshit but consider the example of the scene were dieter does an out of nowhere little dance after childishly screaming but then still-killing a zombie, with the film framing this as a micro character triumph, and not a second later the bg soundtrack instantly fades into an orchestral score dramatizing a nearby mcguffin reveal, completely 180 degreeing the tone without a semblance of deft insert shot stitching or even I dont know a fucking jump cut maybe. now imagine this whiplash for 2.5 hrs uninterrupted

I will keep complaining about the length yeah because this was not a story requiring this much real estate to be told. Uhh in my humble and personal opinion, of course

[man sees zombie tiger] “this is crossing the line!” you can in fact write dialogue that is not utter nonsense that falls apart once you drill down its single fickle layer of referential meta winking. what line are you talking about. you have rules in this insane situation you’re in? total nitpick moment I know but it got burned in my brain for some reason. like a microcosm of the mismanaged dramatic instincts paired with weird writing that dots this movie. I am sure the director calls this either satire or genre deconstruction. I am SO sure

tumblr domino meme that goes from “dude getting sucked off while driving” to “entire las vegas literally nuked”

tig notaro is always great to see but once you know she’s been filmed as a separate greenscreen plate months after photography wrapped - cause she had to apparently replace some abusive asshole but that’s a whole other pig not worth fucking - it becomes impossible to unsee her odd detachment from everyone else in the movie lmao. it doesn’t really “ruin” anything on its lonesome but it is hard to unsee

why. was. sean. spicer. in. this. movie

a very simple key ingredient missing from fully turning lip service sympathy for main uruk hai dude into actual empathy that would generate meaningful conflict with hero family would be to spend a bit more time articulating what he internally wanted the most. because he was obviously trying to do something here with pointed agenda. a family, to have kids, build a caste system, save his wife’s head, return to his planet??? all of these could represent the bigger context in his psychology that spurred his vengeance but none of them are dramatically emphasized long enough for you to cheer him on. I’m not asking too much I promise. Articulating interiority of a mute character is pretty doable with deft cinema language, just gotta linger and hold a shot here and there for a few seconds, frame as his POV, donezo. I know this is also one of those like. “who cares” moments but the movie does, very evidently so, in making this guy an actual character. you can kinda piece it together and create a framework of sympathy for him, sure, but then again he ultimately becomes a foil to be killed and not defeated, so. Ehh whatever

quarantine zone stuff was not a wildly childish covid allegory quarantine zone stuff was not a wildly childish covid allegory quarantine zone stuff was n

the rooftop helicopter fakout at the end was such an ass-backwards, manufactured moment of what could be a simple setup/payoff it just pissed me off??? you gain nothing by giving sad dad five seconds of pointless crisis that flips right back to previous status quo ANYWAY, except for a weaksauce waste of runtime, which could be used instead to get inside notaro’s head and actually SHOW the remorse form as she took off, literally maybe even a frown playing on her face as she’s headed for safety right before we cut back to drax and the kid. just a simple-ass, minimal, momentary setup for what is the most basic filmmaking trick of creating macro catharsis moments. Just???? g o d if you can’t even land that shit why are you even doing any of this

that lil run final pam did was very very charming and super choreographed in a way that was the tiiiniest bit overdone

the whole intro with the simul-backstories and posing with family photos was just… oddly motivated. what was the goal? “here’s what we’re fighting for” vignettes? why? it’s not a functional setup in that vein. what was all that

also I am sorry if this is insensitive but the reasons most characters end up articulating to justify going back into the hell that destroyed their lives makes them sound seriously insane

I dont like complaining about CGI (honestly) but so much of it in modern movies can achieve higher fidelity if the animation is simply subdued. Do not overengineer and over-apply 2D cell methodologies and kinematics to each tiny twitch and movement in a hyper 3D model and I promise you. it will look a thousand times more natural. look at thanos in those last two movies. your rendering and detail are absolutely perfect with the tiger you just have to let stuff sit instead of constantly simulating swaying hair strands and firing off all facial muscles at once. great moment at one point where makeup zombie horse and CG zombie tiger are both in one shot together and just by unnecessary amounts of movement alone you can tell who doesn’t belong. again; detail, rendering, compositing, lighting, all picture-perfect; but y’all just gotta let the animation breathe sometimes, and chill it out

plot holes don’t really matter to me but it was kinda funny how lilly decided not to mention the enormous wrinkle in intel pertaining to an actual territorial tribe of intelligent zombies that require human offerings to let you pass, just so that reveal could play out in real time through the joyous punishment of the cartoonishly misogynistic dude

total chad move for mister uruk hai and final pam to rule from a rusted swimming pool complex

the ending with vanderohe oh my god. with the. cash stacks at the airport register. and specifically them working in his favor. that is literally something you do to get arrested under suspicion of theft. it was almost played for laughs and I respect that. coulda been goofier. make these movies goofy ya dorks

anyway, weird, weird movie. bad marketing. message unclear (something something sins of the father???), baffling editing instincts, literal worst-looking cinematography I ever laid eyes upon. Confidently dying on that last hill

[amfgeog2260]

Coding Through Time: Social Geography

Coded Sources

The two articles I decided to code and analyze were ones I have been using to gain a better understanding of the current perspectives and definitions of social geography. The first article is a news article by Aljazeera which provides a spatial analysis map of all the anti-racism protests of solidarity around the world, after the murder of George Floyd (Haddad 2020). Although our group’s project has the ultimate goal of answering the question: “What is Social Geography?”, my specific portion of the project is to focus on and identify the present/contemporary perspectives, changing definitions, and understanding of social geography in today’s world. This article provides a really important, and very current look at how topics of social injustice, racism, inequality, social movements, beliefs, and justice play a role, and shape our current understanding of what social geography is, and how it will inevitably change. 

The second source I decided to code is a peer-reviewed journal article that focuses on the intersectional inequalities which have been exacerbated and highlighted during the global pandemic of COVID-19 (Ho and Maddrell 2021). This is another very current look at what social geography means, and how specifically the COVID-19 pandemic has changed, and elevated our understanding or knowledge of weak social systems to reduce social, gender, and racial inequality. 

Type of Coding & Framing of Codes

Although both articles have topics and discussions about similar issues that would have been fairly easy to detect a set of codes to follow prior to analyzing the documents, I decided on an inductive coding approach instead. This way, I avoid any bias of searching for a predetermined set of codes, and I can analyze the articles for what they are and allow the important codes to be highlighted and evaluated as I am going through them (Hooykaas 2021). Especially with issues relating to intersectionality, racial and social inequality, and the COVID-19 pandemic, I did not want to miss out on potentially new and useful codes by pre-determining a set of codes in the deductive coding approach. I chose to weigh each code equally, therefore using the flat coding frame (Hooykaas 2021). The reason for this is similar to the last, I felt that all of the codes I was using was equally applicable, relevant, impactful, and rigorous as the others, and I did not feel it would be as useful to me to map them out in hierarchy of importance, but rather use all of them as individually important elements of a larger coding framework. 

Codes

CODES: World, Justice, Intersectional, Cultural, Inequality, Race

As I said previously, both of these articles were focused directly on current wide-spread social inequalities, and both articles varied in how focused or broad they were. The first article I looked at was specifically discussing the inequality of George Floyd, and the wide cross-cultural and international response to it. Whereas the second article took a more macro view of the intersectional burdens that COVID-19 has had on underrepresented populations around the world. Both equally important topics, discussing similar issues from micro and macro perspectives. I finished my analysis with six codes, which I think pertain to both articles well. Although the example photo I preview below in my blog shows little use of the word “world”, I felt it was an important code to add to my set of data because of the goal and general arguments of the separate articles. COVID-19 has impacted the globe, and thus increased the impacts of intersectional burdens faced by underrepresented, minority, and under resourced populations and communities around the world, and the mapping of solidarity protests in support of justice for George Floyd and anti-racism movements happened all over the globe. The article specifically mentions and lists over 100 cities in varying countries around the world who all protested in their communities and cities after the killing of George Floyd on May 25, 2020. 

Digital Storytelling Project

We are also dealing with a lot of information, data, and writing throughout the course of this project. The coding resources we used in this week's blog is useful to provide a concise and accurate identification of themes, topics, and subjects which can be used in our digital stories, or to help inform them. I find this type of data analysis and management tool allows me to not be as distracted or lost in the large amount of writing and resources we are referencing back to. It allows me to look back on either inductive or deductive codes to stay on top of the ultimate goal, while allowing me to continue engaging more deeply with new information. My group members and I each have divided up the timeline of social geography based on historical periods (historical perspectives, contemporary perspectives, future perspectives) and this resource allows each of us to focus on our portion/timeframe of the project by extracting data and information from all of our references to provide more robust information and general themes on that one period in history or the future. Themes that emerge from the use of these codes allowed me to make connections between the articles about larger social geographic issues and topics, which will become useful in my continued research, and eventual creation of the final digital story. 

References 

Source #1: Online Article

Haddad, M. (2020, June 07). Mapping anti-racism solidarity protests around the world. Retrieved February 13, 2021, from https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/6/7/mapping-anti-racism-solidarity-protests-around-the-world

Source #2: Peer-Reviewed Source

Ho, E. L.-E., & Maddrell, A. (2021). Intolerable intersectional burdens: a COVID-19 research agenda for social and cultural geographies. Social & Cultural Geography, 22(1), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2020.1837215

Hooykaas, A. (2021). Week 8: Coding.

[douchebagbrainwaves]

EVERY FOUNDER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CONTRACTORS

In big companies software is often designed, implemented, and sold by three separate types of people. Tcl is the scripting language of Unix, and so its size is proportionate to its complexity, and a funnel for peers. By this point everyone knows you should release fast and iterate. Programming languages are for. They don't even know about the stuff they've invested in. But I think there's more going on than this. If you run out of money, you could say either was the cause. Nearly all programmers would rather spend their time writing code and have someone else handle the messy business of extracting money from it. Every programmer must have seen code that some clever person has made marginally shorter by using dubious programming tricks. In one place I worked, we had a big board of dials showing what was happening to our web servers.1 Every designer's ears perk up at the office writes Tenisha Mercer of The Detroit News. There are borderline cases is-5 two elements or one?

I decided to ask the founders of the startups in the e-commerce business back in the 90s, will destroy you if you choose them. It's due to the shape of the problem here is social. In the arts it's obvious how: blow your own glass, edit your own films, stage your own plays. Only in the preceding couple years had the dramatic fall in the cost of customer acquisition. The organic growth guys, sitting in their garage, feel poor and unloved. So the first question to ask about a field is how honest its tests are, because this startup seems the most successful companies. A good deal of that spirit is, fortunately, preserved in macros. The second way to compete with focus is to see what you're making.

But more important, in a hits-driven business, is that source code will look unthreatening. In DC the message seems to be the new way of delivering applications. White. I'm going to risk making one. But looking through windows at dusk in Paris you can see that from the rush of work that's always involved in releasing anything, no matter how much skill and determination you have, the more you stay pointed in the same business. PR coup was a two-part one. It's conversational resourcefulness. We're more confident. That certainly accords with what I see out in the world.2 Treating indentation as significant would eliminate this common source of bugs as well as making programs shorter. Once you take several million dollars of my money, the investors get a great deal of control.

The dream language is beautiful, clean, and terse. It works.3 It could mean an operating system, or a framework built on top of a programming language as the throwaway programs people wrote in it grew larger. I'm not saying it's correct, incidentally, but it seems like a decent hypothesis. The most important kinds of learning happen one project at a time. Instead of starting from companies and working back to the 1960s and 1970s, when it was the scripting language of a popular system.4 Blogger got down to one person, and they have a board majority, they're literally your bosses.5 Unconsciously, everyone expects a startup to fix upon a specific number.6 But as long as you seem to be advancing rapidly, most investors will leave you alone.7 What readability-per-line does mean, to the user encountering the language for others even to hear about it. Users have worried about that since the site was a few months old.8 If it's a subset, you'll have to write it anyway, so in the worst case you won't be wasting your time, but didn't.9

It's exacerbated by the fast pace of startups, which makes it seem like time slows down: I think you've left out just how fun it was: I think the main reason we take the trouble to develop high-level languages is to get leverage, so that we can say and more importantly, think in 10 lines of a high-level language what would require 1000 lines of machine language. Well, that may be fine advice for a bunch of declarations. Trying to make masterpieces in this medium must have seemed to Durer's contemporaries that way that, say, making masterpieces in comics might seem to the average person today. I kept searching for the Cambridge of New York, I was very excited at first. Which was dictated largely by the hardware available in the late 1950s. This comforting illusion may have prevented us from seeing the real problem with Lisp, or at least Common Lisp, some delimiters are reserved for the language, suggesting that at least some of the least excited about it, including even its syntax, and anything you write has, as much as shoes have to be prepared to see the better idea when it arrives. And I was a Reddit user when the opposite happened there, and sitting in a cafe feels different from working. The Detroit News.10

Most founders of failed startups don't quit their day job, is probably an order of magnitude larger than the number who do make it. But the clearest message is that you should be smarter. But hear all the cutting-edge tech and startup news, and run into useful people constantly.11 You won't get to, unless you fail. Running a startup is fun the way a survivalist training course would be fun, and a funnel for peers. It's since grown to around 22,000.12 You may save him from referring to variables in another package, but you need time to get any message through to people that it didn't have to be more readable than a line of Lisp. A rant with a rallying cry as the title takes zero, because people vote it up without even reading it. I'm just stupid, or have worked on some limited subset of applications. This is supposed to be a lot simpler. Whatever a committee decides tends to stay that way, even if it is harder to get from zero to twenty than from twenty to a thousand.13

With two such random linkages in the path between startups and money, it shouldn't be surprising that luck is a big factor in deals. Most of the groups that apply to Y Combinator suffer from a common problem: choosing a small, obscure niche in the hope of unloading them before they tank. A programming language does need a good implementation, of course. Look at how much any popular language has changed during its life. With a startup, I had bought the hype of the startup world, startup founders get no respect. A real hacker's language will always have a slightly raffish character.14 The eminent feel like everyone wants to take a long detour to get where you wanted to go. But there is a trick you could use the two ideas interchangeably. Their reporters do go out and get users, though. A throwaway program is brevity. I do that the main purpose of a language is readability, not succinctness.15 You can't build things users like without understanding them.

At the moment I'd almost say that a language isn't judged on its own and b something that can be considered a complete application and ship it. They're so desperate for content that some will print your press releases almost verbatim, if you preferred, write code that was isomorphic to Pascal. When I moved to New York, I was very excited at first. To avoid wasting his time, he waits till the third or fourth time he's asked to do something; by then, whoever's asking him may be fairly annoyed, but at the same time the veteran's skepticism. There are several local maxima.16 Defense contractors? When, if ever, is a watered-down Lisp with infix syntax and no macros. Hackers share the surgeon's secret pleasure in poking about in gross innards, the teenager's secret pleasure in poking about in gross innards, the teenager's secret pleasure in popping zits.

Notes

What happens in practice signalling hasn't been much of a long time in the 1920s to financing growth with retained earnings till the 1920s. Even Samuel Johnson seems to be a good idea to make money.

A related problem that they decided to skip raising an A round VCs put two partners on your own mind. That should probably question anything you believed as a cause as it might take an angel investment from a company's culture.

If you don't think they'll be able to formalize a small company that could be made. There was no more unlikely than it was putting local grocery stores out of business you should be.

If Congress passes the founder visa in a time machine, how can anything regressive be good employees either.

If big companies to acquire the startups, the light bulb, the initial investors' point of a great deal of competition for mediocre ideas, but I think what they campaign for. When governments decide how to distinguish 1956 from 1957 Studebakers. How did individuals accumulate large fortunes in an absolute sense, if we think your idea is that parties shouldn't be that the Internet was as late as Newton's time it takes forever.

Galbraith was clearly puzzled that corporate executives would work to have this second self keep a journal. While the audience already has to be more at home at the start, e.

Some will say that it also worked for spam. The closest we got to the Internet worm of its identity. Icio.

Rice and Beans for 2n olive oil or butter n yellow onions other fresh vegetables; experiment 3n cloves garlic n 12-oz cans white, kidney, or black beans n cubes Knorr beef or vegetable bouillon n teaspoons freshly ground black pepper 3n teaspoons ground cumin n cups dry rice, preferably brown Robert Morris says that a startup in the US, it would do it is genuine. Com in order to attract workers.

But the early adopters you evolve the idea that could start this way, except in the back of your last round of funding rounds are at some of these limits could be ignored. Comments at the mafia end of the latter without also slowing the former, and also really good at generating your own time in the computer world, write a new SEC rule issued in 1982 rule 415 that made steam engines dramatically more efficient: the attempt to discover the most promising opportunities, it is very vulnerable to gaming, because there's no center to walk to.

Though it looks like stuff they've seen in the first year or two make the kind that has become part of a large chunk of time, default to some abstract notion of fairness or randomly, in one where life was tougher, the television, the more subtle ways in which those considered more elegant consistently came out shorter perhaps after being macroexpanded or compiled. For these companies unless your last funding round usually reflects some other contribution by the high-minded Edwardian child-heroes of Edith Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods.

Mozilla is open-source browser. They may not be led by a big factor in high school kids arrive at college with a truly feudal economy, at least should make what they claim was the recipe: someone guessed that there are before the name implies, you don't, but that we didn't do. They overshot the available RAM somewhat, causing much inconvenient disk swapping, but they hate hypertension. Living on instant ramen, which are a hundred years ago.

I don't think you should probably question anything you believed as a rule, if you're measuring usage you need, you don't have one. Don't be fooled. So managers are constrained too; instead of admitting frankly that it's a seller's market. This is one subtle danger you have a group of people who are both genuinely formidable, and would probably also encourage companies to say how justified this worry is.

One of the biggest winners, which is where product companies go to grad school, because you can work out. It's conceivable that a their applicants come from meditating in an equity round.

So where do we draw the line?

In 1995, but he got there by another path. If you treat your classes as a company if the potential magnitude of the 2003 season was 2. An investor who invested earlier had been trained that anything hung on a desert island, hunting and gathering fruit. Confucius claimed proudly that he had more fun in this essay, I can imagine what it would have started there.

I'm satisfied if I could pick them, and they succeeded. Consulting is where your existing investors help you even working on Viaweb. If they were taken back in July 1997 was 1. But the change is a scarce resource.

[itsclydebitches]

I don’t want to seem like I’m shitting on Miles and Kerry (gods know I couldn’t come up with a 6 season plot especially after the creator died before the 3rd even went into production), but maybe they need to add more people to the writing team? Like with Death Battle: Chad and Ben (or whoever’s researching that particular fight) have debates about why their character would win. Even just something like that. “How did Adam get to Argus?” And do your idea of Yang seeing a bike or something else.

That’s an excellent thing to emphasize: anything I say about a volume is ultimately in the context of revision. I’d be challenged to come up with all this plot and the QRWBY gang should be commended for coming up with this framework. But the flip-side is exactly that: this volume needs revision. The ideas are all excellent--the gang’s faith in Ozpin is challenged, we learn his backstory, they have to struggle on without him, figuring out how to get to Atlas--but the execution, to be blunt, has been incredibly bad imo. They needed to write it out like this first and then have everyone go, “Okay that’s crazy contrived. That characterization makes no sense. You introduce this fantastic theme early on and then it’s dropped halfway through...” There’s a reason novels are often re-built from the ground up before they’re published. 

I’m always willing to look over the smaller stuff. How did they get to Argus so fast? How did Adam get there? Who knows. It’s mildly annoying, but I 110% understand that there are more important things to focus on. If we’ve gotta accept that everyone is suddenly in Argus to have the emotional payoff of those interactions? I’m cool with that. The real problem is when we get much larger issues (like the characterization and thematic problems) on top of these smaller ones. Suddenly the writing isn’t working on a macro or micro level and what might have been minor issues in the context of an otherwise stellar volume suddenly rankle a whole lot more. Like my metas! They’re always filled with typos--I write a lot, I’m tired, and I’m shit at catching them. However, they are (hopefully) a smaller issue compared to the points I’m trying to make. Most people reblogging my stuff are kind enough to overlook them in favor of the arguments. But if my writing lacks any persuasive evidence and is riddled with mistakes? Suddenly those mistakes seem like much more of an issue. There’s no longer anything that makes reading the mistakes “worth it.” 

So yeah. Idk if they need more writers (that can get equally messy)... but they’ve definitely gotta go over their scripts more; think about each episode, each conversation, each decision within the context of what the whole volume is working to accomplish. 

[flamboyantlybewildered]

Discourse and Me: A Short History

What is discourse analysis? And what does it have to do with multimedia? In my view, discourse analysis is a set of techniques for making connections between texts and their meanings. Originally formulated for the analysis of purely linguistic texts, discourse analysis methods have come to form the basis for analyzing “texts” that consist not just of words, but also of visual forms such as images and diagrams (static or animated), full-­‐ motion video, sound-­‐effects and music, and various interactive features.

There are a number of different intellectual traditions that contribute to discourse and multimedia analysis. I came to this field before it really had a name, because I wanted to understand how physicists came to think and talk and write the way we did, and it seemed to me that we learned these things mostly through verbal and non-­‐verbal communication with people who were already doing it. In the 1970s I was a student and junior researcher in theoretical physics, and it was pretty obvious that I was learning to frame and solve problems, to mobilize theory, and even to tell jokes like a physicist from sitting in classes, reading books, talking with other students and with physics faculty members, and watching the occasional video or display on a computer screen.

Would it be possible, I wondered, to videotape other students doing what I was doing and from the videos to figure out how the ideas and practices of physicists were being “transmitted” or learned? How would you analyze a videotape to achieve this?

As a theoretical physicist, I dealt mostly with text, mathematics, diagrams, and talk about them. I was less concerned about operating experimental apparatus. It seemed to me that most of what I was learning, I had to be learning from talk and writing (whether in books, articles, or just on the chalkboard), so I asked around among my friends whether linguistics or anthropology had anything useful to offer on this subject. By good luck I was pointed in the direction of the work of Michael Halliday, a British linguist who was interested in how we make meaning with words (Halliday, 1978). This was not the dominant focus in linguistics at the time, where most linguists were following Noam Chomsky’s lead and ignoring meaning in favor of purely formal analysis of grammatical structures.

I had also been reading the work of Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist of the 1920s, who presented a theory of learning and intellectual development based on the hypothesis that people internalized the cultural meanings around them, largely through the medium of language (Vygotsky, 1963, 1978). And I had an interest in cultural anthropology, where there was a prevailing notion that people acquired the habits and values of their communities by active social participation. It was fashionable at that time to see all forms of cultural meaning as similar to language in that they formed semiotic systems (Levi-­‐ Strauss, 1963). What would we discover, I wondered, if we applied Halliday’s analysis of the relationship between wording and meaning to what students and teachers said in a physics class?

Extending this idea to the learning of science in general, I persuaded some people at the National Science Foundation in the US to fund a project to videotape science classes in secondary schools and a university, transcribe the talk in its contexts of classroom activity, and apply Halliday’s methods of analysis. The funding also allowed me to go to visit Halliday, who had recently moved to the University of Sydney in Australia, and also to go to England, where other people were engaged with similar efforts to do linguistically-­‐based discourse analysis (Sinclair & Coulthard, 1975).

It was an exciting time, because what we call discourse analysis today was just being created then (in the late 1970s and early 1980s). There was also at that time what later became known as the “linguistic turn” in the social sciences, led by people like the anthropologist Claude Levi-­‐Strauss and the historian and social theorist, Michel Foucault. Levi-­‐Strauss followed an essentially semiotic approach to the analysis of the texts of myths from indigenous peoples, mainly in South America, but had much wider influence with his philosophy of “structuralism” (Levi-­‐Strauss, 1963, 1969). Foucault had a somewhat less semiotic and more cultural-­‐historical approach to the analysis of archives of texts from earlier historical periods, supporting his inquiries into intellectual and institutional history (Foucault, 1969). Textual data was becoming the focus of important work in the human sciences.

Discourse analysis was shaped by the kinds of questions people were asking, and the kinds of uses to which it was being put. It was being developed as a tool for specific purposes, and its different variants reflect the variety of questions being posed. Levi-­‐Strauss wanted to know if the many different versions of the same myth across different indigenous groups could be seen as systematic variants of one another, rather as Chomsky was showing that different grammatical constructions could be transformed into one another by a set of simple rules (Chomsky, 1965). Foucault wanted to know what kinds of discourses were possible about a given topic in a given historical period, how they changed across the centuries, and how this was related to changing social institutions. Halliday wanted to know what kinds of meanings it was possible to make in the English language, and how different grammatical resources were deployed in different contexts to make those meanings.

Today it is easy to see how these different enterprises could support one another, but at the time it was just a leap of imagination. There were also other pieces to the puzzle. The Russian literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin and his linguist collaborator Valentin Voloshinov had developed in the 1920s and 1930s a theory of the inherent dialogism of texts, the sense in which anything said or written tended to situate its meanings in an implicit dialogue with other texts (Bakhtin, 1973; Voloshinov, 1929). This led to a general principle of intertextuality which connected the work of Levi-­‐Strauss and Foucault to the social semiotics of Halliday. Pierre Bourdieu was combining traditional quantitative sociology with an interest in the development of a social or cultural habitus, a mostly unconscious disposition to do and say things in particular ways that were like those of others in the same social position (Bourdieu, 1972). Basil Bernstein was connecting a kind of linguistic habitus to social class differences in learning in schools and primary socialization in families, and turning to Halliday’s linguistic methods to find supporting evidence (Bernstein, 1971).

In 1981, I found myself with a hundred pages of transcript of dialogue in science classrooms, a number of sociocultural frameworks for making sense of the general phenomena, and a set of specific linguistic tools for analyzing various aspects of the meanings being made. I had the overhead lights and the floor tiles, but the task of furnishing the room remained. What lies between the general theories of social learning (Vygotsky, Bernstein) and sociocultural structure (Levi-­‐Strauss, Foucault, Bourdieu) on the one hand, and the line by line, clause by clause analysis of the meaning of what was being said and done in these classrooms? Everything. Discourse analysis, and its multimedia successors, is about filling in the gap between macro-­‐social theory and micro-­‐social data. It is about construing patterns of various kinds at some intermediate levels between what Halliday called the “system” – what is possible – and the “instance” – what actually happened this time – in order to say something about what is typical. And not just what is typical in general, but what is typical for whom, when, and why (Lemke, 1995).

Most of Halliday’s work was a description of the grammar of English as a set of possibilities, linking each option that the grammatical resources of the language make available (such as singular or plural, past or future, transitive or intransitive, interrogative or imperative) to the kinds of meanings we make with it. But he did this within a larger theoretical framework that he and the group in Sydney called “social semiotics” (Halliday, 1978; Hodge & Kress, 1988). In brief it was a model of the relationship of language to society, and it held that meaning was made by language in use in a context of situation and a context of culture. Every different social setting evoked a different meaning potential, a different set of probabilities that particular meanings would be made, using particular resources from the grammar of the language.

This entailed a theory of which features of the setting were related to which kinds of meaning that could be made with the language. And it went both ways; that is, using language in part made or changed the nature of the setting, just as a given setting evoked the use of certain sorts of language. In this way it was possible to understand such notions as register (the kind of language typical for a particular kind of setting or activity) and genre (the forms of sequential discourse that people in a community use for particular purposes).

I had a setting, the classroom, and within it a variety of activities, from going over homework to explaining new concepts to having a dialogue about the best answer to a question. There were spoken genres, such as extended sequential dialogue in which teachers posed questions and evaluated student answers to them, and written genres, such as textbook chapters and student lab reports. But there was also a great deal more. There were patterns of semantic relationships among technical terms that were worded differently but remained essentially the same across textbooks, classroom dialogues, and tests or curriculum documents. There were typical rhetorical patterns of reasoning and logical justification that appeared again and again. There were regularities across different sessions and different classes in how lessons started and ended. The room began to fill with furniture (Lemke, 1990).

I had begun from an interest in seeing how the conceptual content of physics was embodied in the dialogue between teacher and student. Over the course of a few years of analysis of the data, I came to see that this was just one part of a much more complex social process, linked to such matters as power, control, authority, and respect in the social relationships of the classroom, and to wider beliefs and values about the nature and role of science in society. People were expressing feelings and evaluations that were inseparable from the process of learning. Students were learning not just facts and theories from science, but ways of behaving in classrooms, and beliefs and values about science, society, and themselves. The meanings being made in the classroom could often not be understood apart from other meanings and texts not present in the classroom. The learning process, and its stumbles, were also part of longer-­‐term developmental processes of students’ (and teachers’) identities, careers, and lives outside school.

The discourse of the science classroom was a window on much more than science education; it was a window on a society and a culture, just as social semiotics was claiming had to be the case for any use of language.

The importance of discourse analysis was not just as a tool to see what was happening in some event. It was a tool that could enable us to look far beyond the immediate events, whatever they were. Indeed you had to look beyond in order to understand what was in front of you.

- Lemke, J. (2012). Multimedia and discourse analysis. In Gee, J, P. & Handford, M. (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Discourse Analysis (79-96). New York, NY: Routledge.

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

It’s so fascinating seeing not-quite-worked-out internal universes from various manga-ka. Like, the creator of Black Cat has made multiple series with almost identical character designs but wildly different themes. Meanwhile the creator of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha made a (kind of underdeveloped IMO) drama/thriller sidequel that has little to nothing to do with the original story other than having one or two characters cross over and the main cast present in one literally unrelated scene to establish that yes this is the same universe as the magical girl story.

I can’t act like this is the sign of a bad writer. Stephen King does the same. It’s just a curious bit of authorial indulgence, really.

I think the thing that fascinates me so about this is it’s so similar to how a lot of my internal fiction came together back when I was writing in college. All in one city you had

the mad prophet Zeke (the King of the City, in his way) and his giant friend Red

the unwitting New King of Faerie, Julius Hirsch

the coven - primarily Rachel, Nancy, and the head witch Stacy

Arthur, a reporter for the Trumpeter, an intentionally awful tabloid that happens to consistently report accurately about supernatural phenomena

Lawrence, the hard-boiled gumshoe

It also had a kind of self-insert know-it-all faerie persona, which...The broader cosmology of the story falls apart if there are both sorta-fey interdimensional beings and then traditional-fey magical beings in the same story. It could be fun to examine but it’s also needlessly messy, if that makes sense?

There’s a lot of my flash-fiction from the middle of college that shows I had these characters and a sense of the world they inhabited but not really a set of stories per se. Mainly I was reading a lot of Terry Pratchett and allowed wild characters to bounce off one another and called it a story, and often that worked.

But the roughness of it is also visible to me - much of it was visible even then. Perhaps the worst of it is when I was writing a novel-length piece and the resolution of Stacy’s battle with her horrible witch-ghost grandmother was stolen almost line-for-line from a battle between Granny Weatherwax and her coven and the Faerie Queen. I think the line “punched her square between the eyes” was lifted directly.

I think I have a better macro handle on writing now than I did then; that my brain is better arranged for percolating overarching themes through a series of events and reverse-engineering ways scenes might need to link together for those themes to function. More than that, I think I have a mental framework for the idea that this ought to happen; that is, there’s a kind of bubbling-cauldron technique for cultivating a vast story that nonetheless has clear throughlines.

[waitmyturtles]

Turtles Catches Up With Old GMMTV: Until We Meet Again Edition

[What’s going on here? After joining Tumblr and discovering Thai BLs through KinnPorsche in 2022, I began watching GMMTV’s new offerings -- and realized that I had a lot of history to catch up on, to appreciate the more recent works that I was delving into. From tropes to BL frameworks, what we’re watching now hails from somewhere, and I’m learning about Thai BL's history through what I’m calling the Old GMMTV Challenge (OGMMTVC). Starting with recommendations from @absolutebl on their post regarding how GMMTV is correcting for its mistakes with its shows today, I’ve made an expansive list to get me through a condensed history of essential/classic/significant Thai BLs produced by GMMTV and many other BL studios. My watchlist, pasted below, lists what I’ve watched and what’s upcoming, along with the reviews I’ve written so far. In a LONG POST, I’m writing today about New Siwaj’s incomparable drama, Until We Meet Again.]

TW: suicide, suicidal ideation, psychological trauma

Gah. I am so psyched to be finally sitting down to write my thoughts on Until We Meet Again, but I’m actually at a bit of a loss on where to start. There is SO MUCH TO TALK ABOUT.

I think, where I can start, is to first say that this was, in my opinion, AN ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR SHOW. I did NOT expect this, at all. I’ve been around the way with New Siwaj, the UWMA screenwriter and director, a few times now for the OGMMTVC -- his writing on Love Sick, his work with Cheewin on Make It Right, and his work on MAME’s novel in Love By Chance have all been on the OGMMTVC list. I know that Between Us, the UMWA WinTeam continuation, was considered mostly a let-down for weak writing, and that New’s more recent shows, including A Boss and a Babe and Double Savage, were viewed quite critically (although I am a Double Savage apologist, for which I’ll explain my viewpoints later in this post). 

So. What I did not expect from 2019′s UWMA was to experience so many layers in a drama à la the work of Aof Noppharnach. Yes, I cannot believe I’m going here, to compare a New Siwaj drama to Aof’s oeuvre, but damn if I will, because good lord, New took his magic hat of tricks, pulled out THE GOOD STUFF, and made it all work. 

This is a list of themes that I saw in UWMA, that will help me structure this long write-up, but by no means should it be considered complete, as I’m sure I’m missing themes that you all likely caught in your watches and re-watches:

1) A new narrative structure for New -- balancing the impact of side couples by leveraging focus, equally, on two MAIN couples 2) The continuation and end of the 2019 trend of reincarnation and spiritual connections to love 3) Intergenerational queer trauma (micro-level) 4) Generational acceptance of queerness (macro-level) 5) Food and its Proustian effect on memory 6) Reflections on filial piety and the devastating effects of expectations -- and how children and parents seek redemption, particularly in New’s work

And before I even dive into THIS list, can I just say: MY GOD, FLUKE AND OHM. And Earth and Kao! But FLUKE AND OHM. Jesus, does New have an eye for talent -- from the Make It Right guys, to Perth and Saint, and then to Fluke and Ohm. I was seriously TAKEN with their chemistry. I did hear from a number of folks during my UWMA live-blogging that they can’t rewatch UWMA because of Fluke/Pharm’s rendition of the blushing maiden trope, but for my tastes -- I think the way he rendered the trope was really necessary to communicating Intouch’s story, history, and emotions, and just -- Fluke just ATE this role, my gawd. And Ohm/Dean responding in kind vis à vis Korn’s regret. YOW. It’s been a few days since I finished the show, in a total RUSH of drama hunger, and I’m still shaking my head and MARVELING at their performance.

Okay, back to the themes list. So, early in my Thai BL journey in the fall of 2022, after I had watched KinnPorsche and The Eclipse as my first two Thai BLs, I watched A Tale of Thousand Stars (way before the OGMMTVC was born), and noted that I appreciated the lack of side couples in the ATOTS storyline. I now realize, through the OGMMTVC, that side couples are both a BL trope and a byproduct of the drama styles from which BLs were born, the ensemble-based dramas like Love Sick, Senior Secret Love, and Kiss/Kiss Me Again.

New’s Make It Right -- while beloved in my heart, for the chaotic duos of TeeFuse and FrameBook -- WAS messy, with all the other couple stuff happening around it. That, along with Love By Chance, made me wonder -- why do BLs that center fabulous dyads with sizzling chemistry take away from that energy with all the side couple action? Even Together With Me, a non-New Siwaj and non-GMMTV drama, got sidelined in part with a VERY questionable side couple plot in BrightFarm.

Reflecting back on KP and The Eclipse, I had that question in mind as I started UWMA, and wondered where the Alex and WinTeam storylines were going to go. But, frankly, I ended up appreciating what NEEDED to happen with DeanPharm and KornIntouch, because -- the original novel storyline clearly demanded that these two couples, who were NOT side couples, but MAIN couples, needed a MAIN spotlight for their collective story to be told. @clairificusrex mentioned in a liveblog comment (THANK YOU, LOVELY HUMAN!) that New Siwaj benefitted in the screenplay from having a wonderful original novel to work with, and while I don’t read Y Series canon, I can only imagine that this was indeed the case.

So, New, in order to hew to the novel, had to perhaps hold back his usual instincts to muss up the main couple vibe, by centering DeanPharm and KornIntouch. With that control necessary to the story -- I think the narrative STRUCTURE of the drama just blew open. It was FASCINATING, it drew me in, and the structure allowed for another New predilection to be leveraged WELL, in his love for flashbacks. @lurkingshan, you mentioned that your taste wasn’t necessarily aligned with New’s fancy for flashbacks, which I totally understand -- I think flashbacks hurt the overall narrative structure of Double Savage earlier this year. But I think, here for UMWA, they were necessary, and I might very well be apologetic to that considering what I DID see in Double Savage by way of the story that New ended up screenwriting over there in regards to intergenerational family trauma (again, more on this later in the post).

This narrative structure lent itself handily to the next four themes on this list, all of which deal in memory, in spiritual roots, and/or in the generational passage and inheritance of trauma and emotion. 2019, as we know now, was a big year for shows themed around Thai spiritual culture and/or reincarnation. We have He’s Coming To Me, we have Dew the Movie -- we have art here, queer-centered art, that does not lend itself to happy endings, that depicts, through reincarnation or, in the case of HCTM, a ghostly purgatory, how DIFFICULT it had been to be comfortably queer and/or openly out in past and present Thailand.

And then UWMA comes along, telling TWO generational stories, intertwined by the red thread, but also, in the words of the WONDERFUL @bengiyo, connected by Korn and Intouch’s intergenerational queer trauma, the most PERFECT coinage of a theme for this show. In 1988, when Korn and Intouch die, they cannot be out. They cannot even be SECRETLY in love. Their bad dads use the foulest of language to describe their love (much like Phop’s dad in Dew). And Korn kills himself, and Intouch follows.

And what we learn, through Dean and Pharm, are the emotions, the regrets, the LEARNED BEHAVIOR that Korn and Intouch have picked up on in the afterlife, embedded in Dean and Pharm, that keeps Korn and Intouch’s love alive, with CORRECTIONS and ADJUSTMENTS made by Dean and Pharm that reflect on how not only Korn and Intouch’s love has changed and improved, but also how Dean and Pharm are learning how to love EACH OTHER, themselves, as they adjust to their OWN belonging to each other, in Pharm’s own words. GAH -- my aching heart. (Thank you to @lurkingshan for talking this through with me early on in my UWMA watch.)

I mean. THE DEPTH OF THIS. Intouch is a terrible cook, and Pharm is like, a restaurant-level chef?! Pharm is so resistant, and Dean is so FORWARD? (OHM THITIWAT, GAH!!!) (Listen. Pharm. P’Deeeean can grab MY butt, okay?) (See what I did there, @lurkingshan and @bengiyo? THANK YOOOOUU.)

And Pharm’s blushing maiden approach. Yes, I will also admit, that sometimes, it was a little cringey. But I think the blushing maiden trope was really necessary to the story -- ESPECIALLY IN THE CONTEXT of Intouch’s anger, ciphered through Pharm in the last episode. And I think that Fluke Natouch ultimately rendered the trope beautifully -- again, especially against the gorgeous ending of the show. Oh, THAT CONDO SCENE, PEOPLE. I LOST IT. 

Of course, Intouch would want to hold back through Pharm in the present day. If Intouch DIDN’T hold back vis à vis Pharm -- he might lose Korn again, if Pharm missteps with Dean. Intouch may have felt that HIS forwardness lent to their troubles -- so Intouch holds back, through Pharm. And Intouch ultimately communicates his love for Korn differently in the afterlife, more hesitantly -- through a resistance to intimacy, and through food and cooking in Pharm, which itself was another amazing move in this show.

Listen. Even my pinned post says what I value in dramas, not just in BLs. You give me food in BL, and I give you my heart. But also, let’s talk about the meaning of food in Asian dramas for a second. It’s no coincidence that MANY Asian dramas and doramas center food, including my favorite BL of all time, Kinou Nani Tabeta/What Did You Eat Yesterday?. If you don’t know Asians, of any ilk -- let me make a BROAD continental and sub-continental judgement. ALL WE THINK ABOUT IS FOOD, lol. While I’m with my family, while I’m working, while I’m writing meta -- I’m thinking about food, I’m thinking about what I want to cook, what I want to order, how I can mix the cuisines I love (Thai-Indian curries, anyone? YUM). Malaysians literally boast about having multiple meals, way past three meals, a day. We Asians are proud of our cuisines, and we want y’all to be EATING, A LOT, and to try all our dishes. (ITSAY, your Hokkien mee is calling me...) 

But, also: FOOD MEANS FAMILY. Let me say it again: FOOD MEANS FAMILY. You FEED the people you LOVE, with delicious food. Shiro and Kenji. Kurosawa and Adachi. The guys in Jack o’Frost. The guys in The Eighth Sense. Omg, even Kinn and Porsche. We’re seeing it in Tokyo In April Is... And Pharm, to Dean, Intouch to Korn.

And BESIDES Intouch/Pharm becoming a great cook, GOD, the story ALSO INCLUDED the Proustian reference of the madeleine and involuntary memory -- but in SUCH a stunning way, as to RECALL DEAN’S FAMILIAL MEMORY of eating his grandmother’s Thai desserts -- his grandmother, Intouch’s sister, and how Dean could get an indirect spotlight into Intouch and a depth of an understanding of Intouch’s happiness besides his love for Korn. And how Pharm EMBODIED that love for Thai desserts through Intouch’s family lineage. Oh, just get me MESSY, PEOPLE. FUCKING GENIUS SHIT. 

Memory on memory on memory. Dream on dream, nightmare on nightmare, tears and red threads, inherited trauma, intergenerational trauma. The micro-level of what Dean and Pharm had to live with on a daily basis in their recollections of Korn and Intouch. The macro-level of what Pharm and Dean experienced when all of their parents accepted them for who they were as queer individuals, and their partners, as well. How Dean’s dad could ACTUALLY RELATE to Dean himself, because Dean’s dad had been rejected by Dean’s mother’s family. And how that ALLOWED Dean’s dad to accept Dean and his choice to be with Pharm. How that trauma was relieved, how Dean and Pharm DID NOT HAVE TO PHYSICALLY RELIVE what Korn and Intouch had gone through, and how those involuntary memories that Dean and Pharm carried vis à vis Korn and Intouch traumatized them until Dean and Pharm could RECEIVE their OWN familial acceptance.

The LAYERS OF THIS SHOW. Before I get to the last theme on my list, I really just need to metaphorically slam my palms on an allegorical table and give New Siwaj a huge hug, because THIS SHIT IS NOT EASY TO PROCESS ALL AT ONCE, and I can’t wait to do a UWMA rewatch to try to catch more (and I’ll likely need to write another meta, ha, when I do that). I mean, again, just to use food as an example of a kind of storytelling TOOL to INDICATE memory, especially in the context of lost and found love, of intergenerational trauma and relieving regret -- BRILLIANT. BRILLIANT.

And. The last theme on the list, the theme of filial piety, of Asian family systems and devotion and loyalty and expectations, and the devastating effects on the micro-individual level (and even the macro-social level as well) that those expectations can have. 

So, I watched Double Savage, screenwritten by New Siwaj, out of order from UWMA. Very quickly, since many of you have likely NOT watched Double Savage because it’s not a BL (but it DID have Ohm Pawat and Perth Tanapon in a hose-off scene -- you can’t take the New Siwaj out of New Siwaj, amirite): Double Savage is about Korn (Ohm P.), a middle son who is branded a jinx by a HORRENDOUS Thai-Chinese father, and how the abuse leveled on Korn by his dad has intergenerational ripple effects across their family and community. 

Let’s break this down. I now know that New Siwaj does bad dads from Thai-Chinese lineage very well. UWMA’s Korn is expected to take over a mafia business. His dad is disapproving that Korn doesn’t want to take over the business -- which is an UNQUESTIONABLE and EMBEDDED expectation in most Asian family lineages (hello, Jeng and Step By Step) -- AND Korn’s dad is ALSO disapproving in Korn’s love for Intouch and vice versa. Separately, Intouch’s dad is disapproving that Intouch is in love with Korn, a mafia scion. 

Modern times are modern for a reason. 1988 was 31 years from 2019. I want to emphasize here the understanding that Korn and Intouch likely had -- that besides running away, there was no other existence for them to be together than to kill themselves and be together in the afterlife. And running away, and still living and existing, would have been a guilt-ridden and dangerous existence, for what Asian children are expected to do and live for vis à vis their parents. Korn likely HAD NO OTHER IMAGINATION for a life that he could live OTHER THAN to take over his father’s business and to be a heteronormative adult in the late 1980s. And, to top that all off, both of their dads were fucking assholes. 

I really liked how this was juxtaposed to the relationship between Dean and his father. Dean was clearly set up to be as stubborn as his dad. Meaning, at least to me -- that Dean was FAR less likely to be told what to do by his dad, that Dean would and maybe COULD, stand up to his dad. We didn’t see it happen, but I could have imagined Dean not accepting “no” for an answer from his dad to accept Pharm. (Makes you think about Pat, Pran, and Ming, no?) Dean had Korn in him. Dean/Korn was NOT GOING TO TAKE THAT SHIT AGAIN, and that was CLEAR. I want to emphasize: THAT’S BIG. That was BIG on New Siwaj and the UWMA novel writer to include that in the story. That’s parental defiance. That needed to happen in order for Dean and Pharm to survive. As an Asian, that gives me a kick of welcome energy.

But I also really want to note what New Siwaj did at the end of the show, something so deft, it might have left non-Asian viewers wondering what was going on. In the condo scene, Dean and Pharm are ciphering Korn and Intouch -- and when Korn’s father shows up in the wheelchair, Korn’s father knows what’s happening.

And Korn apologizes to his dad. Korn had already apologized to Intouch, but Korn also apologizes to his dad, and to his brother, and to his nephew in Sin. This really gets me, y’all, I understand this as an Asian. Korn is APOLOGIZING for the PAIN he caused in his family AND in Intouch, because -- filial piety. He knows what he did to himself was devastating to the Asian family system he was born into, to the Asian society he was born into, and he apologized for the suicide he committed unto himself that caused that extra-social pain. 

Like. As crazy as that sounds, it’s also an INCREDIBLY SOPHISTICATED way to ACKNOWLEDGE that Korn had broached a social boundary, and Intouch had followed him. THAT IS A HELL OF A LAYER TO ADD TO THIS STORY, ONE THAT I DID NOT EXPECT, and that SHOOK ME at the end of this series.

A similar situation happened in Double Savage. Despite the horrendous psychological abuse that Double Savage’s Korn received from his father -- an adult Korn ends up apologizing to his father for the trouble that HE may have caused. Now, what I appreciated about Double Savage was that THAT dad was like -- no, no, *I* should be the one apologizing. BUT, I want to indicate and emphasize here, that BOTH storylines acknowledge that Asian children NEED to know, SHOULD know, ARE BORN TO KNOW, that their actions have collective effects on a wider family system. We are born to understand and think like that. We are not dealing with an individualist Western perspective here. (I literally FLIPPED when I realized that New Siwaj has had MULTIPLE CHARACTERS NAMED KORN APOLOGIZING TO BAD DADS, and I’m an Asian over here UNDERSTANDING WHY, and I’m just like, pfffftt GGGAAAHHHH.)

Why am I harping on this? BECAUSE: vis à vis EVERYTHING ELSE that is lineage-based in this story -- from children being born, to intergenerational trauma, to reincarnation -- UWMA is structured around an über-macro theme of worlds being linked, by threads, by genes, by history, by spirit, by trauma. We are collectively linked. Babies are born -- we saw many babies in this show. Children belong to families. Lovers belong to lovers. Dean PHYSICALLY belongs to Intouch’s family, and Pharm to Korn’s family. A happy existence will be when a family accepts a child’s partner. Happiness is in a family growing, not a family shrinking. Warmth and growth and love happens when a happy family sits at a table and eats together. 

As Pharm says at the end of the show -- oh, my HEART -- “I belong to Dean.” Yes, you do -- because you have become Dean’s family, and Dean has become Pharm’s family. Korn’s family BELONGS to Intouch’s family, and vice versa. They are destined, MEANT to be linked together, AND TO BE FAMILY, ALL TOGETHER.

Kurosawa and Adachi become family in the Cherry Magic movie. WDYEY’s Shiro and Kenji become family by way of living and eating together. Even if BBS’s Ming doesn’t acknowledge Pran -- Pran is Ming’s family. LOVE. MAKES. FAMILY.

What Korn apologized for was the impact his decision had on his family — WHILE HE WAS IN LOVE WITH INTOUCH, WHO KORN’S FAMILY WAS NOT ALLOWING KORN TO MAKE AS KORN’S NEW FAMILY in the 1980s. Korn was able to apologize in the afterlife — BECAUSE Dean and Pharm DID WHAT HE AND INTOUCH COULD NOT DO, by way of generations, by way of family acceptance, by way of inherited trauma and STOPPING that inherited trauma in its tracks -- very much like Pat and Pran banding together and doing the same for themselves. Dean and Pharm did the hard work of making the relationship a real one, in every aspect of their intimate, micro-level family lives, to a public, external existence in the world. Korn could FINALLY experience the release of GUILT he had towards Intouch and towards Korn’s family, now that Korn’s love for Intouch could FINALLY flourish outside the constraints of filial piety through Dean. THIS IS HUGE. I have no words to tell you what the BRILLIANCE of this means to me as an Asian. LOVE MAKES FAMILY, and LOVE THAT IS ALLOWED TO FLOURISH GIVES YOU THE RELEASE TO BE YOUR TRUE SELF. 

Dean had learned from the inherited trauma that he got from Korn that he needed to stop the trauma train in his tracks, and he did, and he confronted his father, and his father blessed the union of Dean and Pharm. When Dean took the gun away from Pharm, and embraced Pharm, Korn and Intouch KNEW that they could finally be safe in the afterlife. Dean and Pharm were the ciphers that finally ALLOWED Korn and Intouch to exist happily together in spirit. Korn, especially, could exist freely, now that he was relieved of his guilt. Dean and Pharm were, LITERALLY, Korn and Intouch’s FAMILY -- the FAMILY that ALLOWED the FINAL RELEASE for Korn and Intouch to be together as their true selves and spirits. 

And Dean and Pharm confirmed that in FRONT of the family member, in Korn’s father, that had originally caused all this pain. The intricate layers, communicated to a primarily Asian audience, of Korn apologizing to his father, and then of Dean embracing Pharm and confirming their love AND Korn and Intouch’s love, in front of that former barrier -- that is GROWTH and FLOURISHING in the face of generational defiance, and about as sophisticated and eloquent a communication of familial transcendence as I could possibly imagine seeing in Asian drama art. WHOA. I’m a little out of breath with this.

Wow. And speaking of being one’s true self: I deeply loved that Dean and Pharm took a three-month break. I loved that Pharm was smart and strong enough to demand a break to understand if DEAN and PHARM -- INDEPENDENT of ANYTHING they had INHERITED from ANYONE -- actually loved each other and belonged together. Fuck. Pharm was like, no -- this one’s on me. I need to see, outside of ANY INFLUENCES, FROM ANYONE, ANYWHERE -- if I love Dean, if Dean loves me, and if we belong together. Brave. Badass.

AND, I truly loved how Korn and Intouch -- DEAN AND PHARM’S FAMILY -- came BACK to Dean and Pharm’s dreams to offer thanks. I loved how, in the end, the past and his family came back to give Pharm that little contextual nudge to say to Pharm, it’s okay to love Dean for Dean, AND to love how you two came together, through Korn and Intouch. And Pharm could acknowledge, finally, that he belonged to Dean. God damn.

This story was so multilayered, SO complex, SO filled with a respect for love at its highest and most complicated levels. This story was filled with CRITICAL SCRUTINY towards Asian family systems and the trauma that those systems can render. This story was filled with an acknowledgement for the power of LOVE that those same family systems can offer unto children who NEED pillars of love and support (Pharm’s mom and brother, badasses!). 

Y’ALL. I just, I DID NOT KNOW that New Siwaj could DO THIS! I know that UWMA is considered his best show, but like, this is his best show BY A LOT, A LOT. Double Savage, in contrast, had a lot of narrative and structural issues that detracted from the core stories of filial piety that were ultimately very important to tell. 

UWMA did not fall into that trap. It was SMART, it MOVED (FOR SEVENTEEN EPISODES! I SLAMMED THIS SERIES! I could have watched MORE, I cannot believe I’m SAYING THAT!), it was. It was just BRILLIANT. It was an ode to romantic love, to family love, to the power of memory. In 2019, it joined He’s Coming To Me in a burgeoning echelon of cinema-influenced BLs in storytelling, soon to be joined by I Told Sunset About You, ATOTS, and others. It took the sad endings of He’s Coming To Me and Dew the Movie and said -- not today. Today, we will let love LIVE, let QUEER LOVE live, in REAL LIFE, in REAL TIME, and we will not let our lovers live in regret. We will take queer love, we will give queer love FAMILY, and we will give it the HONOR IT DESERVES.

Until We Meet Again is a must-watch of the highest order, and goes on the shortlist of shows that I will refer to as one that makes me proud to be an Asian. It was easily one of the most important shows I’ve watched in this project. All credit to New, Fluke, Ohm, Earth, and Kao for a PHENOMENAL experience -- my heart and mind have been bettered because of this show. 

[FLUKE. AND. OHM. Fluke and Singto coming thru in Shadow the Series? Sign me the FUCK up. Actors on actors. WOW. Did UWMA ever introduce me to another crop of dudes who can fucking tear up a screen. I had SO much fun watching UWMA, whew!

And, yep. I had to follow this up with 2gether, ha. I’m going to spare myself a little pain, if y’all don’t mind, and combine my write-up of 2gether with Still 2gether. I know there’s a lot to be said about the lack of intimacy in 2G, which I can’t wait to dive into, but I can’t help but to also run into another wall of analysis with dear P’Aof’s work in S2G. I’ll make it all work!

After I get myself together with 2gether (HA) -- it’s ITSAY time. I will be planning on watching ITSAY TWICE before writing, as I’m preparing myself to catch EVERYTHING I can before I pen words. Stay tuned.

Status of the list below. As always -- if you have feedback, send it my way!

1) Love Sick and Love Sick 2 (2014 and 2015) (review here) 2) Make It Right (2016) (review here) 3) SOTUS (2016-2017) (review here) 4) Make It Right 2 (2017) (review here) 5) Together With Me (2017) (review here) 6) SOTUS S/Our Skyy x SOTUS (2017-2018) (review here) 7) Love By Chance (2018) (review here) 8) Kiss Me Again: PeteKao cuts (2018) (no review) 9) He’s Coming To Me (2019) (review here) 10) Dark Blue Kiss (2019) and Our Skyy x Kiss Me Again (2018) (review here) 11) TharnType (2019-2020) (review here) 12) Senior Secret Love: Puppy Honey (BL cuts) (2016 and 2017) (I’m watching this out of order just to get familiar with OffGun before Theory of Love -- will likely not review) 13) Theory of Love (2019) (review here) 14) 3 Will Be Free (2019) (not a BL or an official part of the OGMMTVC watchlist, but an important harbinger of things to come in 2019 and beyond re: Jojo Tichakorn pushing queer content in non-BLs) (review here) 15) Dew the Movie (2019) (review here) 16) Until We Meet Again (2019-2020)  17) 2gether (2020) and Still 2gether (2020) (watching) 18) I Told Sunset About You (2020) 19) YYY (2020, out of chronological order) 20) Manner of Death (2020-2021) (not a true BL, but a MaxTul queer/gay romance set within a genre-based show that likely influenced Not Me and KinnPorsche) 21) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) (review here) 22) A Tale of Thousand Stars (2021) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake Of Rewatching Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS 23) Lovely Writer (2021) 24) Last Twilight in Phuket (2021) (the mini-special before IPYTM) 25) I Promised You the Moon (2021) 26) Not Me (2021-2022) 27) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) (thesis here) 28) Bad Buddy (2021-2022) and Our Skyy 2 x BBS x ATOTS (2023) OGMMTVC Rewatch 29) Secret Crush On You (2022) [watching for Cheewin’s trajectory of studying queer joy from Make It Right (high school), to SCOY (college), to Bed Friend (working adults)] 30) KinnPorsche (2022) (tag here) 31) KinnPorsche (2022) OGMMTVC Fastest Rewatch Known To Humankind For The Sake of Re-Analyzing the KP Cultural Zeitgeist 32) The Eclipse (2022) (tag here) 33) GAP (2022-2023) (Thailand’s first GL) 34) My School President (2022-2023) and Our Skyy 2 x My School President (2023) 35) Moonlight Chicken (2023) (tag here) 36) Bed Friend (2023) (tag here) (Cheewin’s latest show, depicting a queer joy journey among working adults)]

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Project/Tooling Updates

Changelog #184

MsgPacker: Enhancing performance and security

Diesel 2.1: Generated Migrations and simplified MultiBackend support

Quickwit 0.6: Elasticsearch compatible API, range & prefix phrase queries, histogram & percentiles aggregations, and more...!

Meilisearch 1.2 - new features for filters and engine improvements

[video] The status of parallel rustc - Nicholas Nethercote

Observations/Thoughts

A Proposal for an asynchronous Rust GUI framework

A locking war story

Building a Vector Database to Make Use of Vector Embeddings

Data Exfiltration through DNS with Rust

The Rust I Wanted Had No Future

From Stacks to Trees: A new aliasing model for Rust

ESP32 Embedded Rust at the HAL: GPIO Interrupts

Introducing posh: Type-Safe Graphics Programming with Functional Shaders in Rust

Demystifying trait generics in Rust

Rust Walkthroughs

Writing universal libraries using C++ and consuming it in Rust (WASI)

Rust's cfg Attribute

Looking at Rust builtin derives

What is WASI?

Create a simple DSL for CSS like syntax for TUIs

[video] A Practical Introduction to Derive Macros with Attributes

Miscellaneous

[audio] Shuttle Launchpad with Stefan Baumgartner :: Rustacean Station

[audio] Episode 5: Putting Lipstick on a Pig

[video] Bevy Basics Timers

[video] We Built a Blazingly Fast Video Conferencing System in Rust & WASM

[video] Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is kanata, a keyboard remapper for Linux and Windows.

Thanks to Aleksey Kladov for the suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

* Hyperswitch - Remove redundant heap allocation (specifically string construction) in the application * Hyperswitch - add domain type for client secret * Hyperswitch - Implement cache for MerchantKeyStore * Ockam - Add --yes flag to delete commands to prevent unintentional deletions * Ockam - Define json output for ockam node create * Ockam - unreported project path not found error

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Updates from the Rust Project

392 pull requests were merged in the last week

support 128-bit atomics on all x86_64 Apple targets

support the rustc metadata for AIX

QNX Neutrino: exponential backoff when fork/spawn needs a retry

Control Flow Integrity: fix with repr(transparent): transform_ty: unexpected Alias(Proj

Control Flow Integrity: fix async: transform_ty: unexpected GeneratorWitness(Bi…

add other workspaces to linkedProjects in rust_analyzer_settings

allow limited access to OsStr bytes

check nested obligations during coercion unify in new solver

diagnostics: exclude indirect private deps from trait impl suggest

don't ICE in new solver when auto traits have associated types

don't compute inlining status of mono items in advance

don't require the output from libtest to be valid UTF-8

don't suggest break through nested items

don't typecheck recovered method call from suggestion

enable ConstGoto and SeparateConstSwitch passes by default

enable ScalarReplacementOfAggregates in optimized builds

extra context for unreachable_pub lint

fix bug where private item with intermediate doc hidden re-export was not inlined

fix codegen test suite for bare-metal-like targets

fix linkage for large binaries on mips64 platforms

fix re-export of doc hidden item inside private item not displayed

fix type-inference regression

fix: dedup static_candidates before report

improve CGU debug printing

linker: report linker flavors incompatible with the current target

normalize anon consts in new solver

only check inlining counter after recursing

only rewrite valtree-constants to patterns and keep other constants opaque

only suppress coercion error if type is definitely unsized

optimize scalar and scalar pair representations loaded from ByRef in llvm

preserve substs in opaques recorded in typeck results

refactor and cleanup the leak check, add it to new solver

remove unneeded Buffer allocations when &mut fmt::Write can be used directly

replace const eval limit by a lint and add an exponential backoff warning

require that const param tys implement ConstParamTy

rpath is not supported on AIX

rust-lld: add rpath entry to the correct lib folder

show note for type ascription on a local binding interpreted as a constant pattern and not a new variable

stop normalizing so many different prefixes

suggest Option::as_deref(_mut) on type mismatch in option combinator if it passes typeck

suggest correct self_ty

uplift clippy::cast_ref_to_mut lint

uplift clippy::invalid_utf8_in_unchecked lint

lower unchecked_div/_rem to MIR's BinOp::Div/Rem

miri: Tree Borrows (TB) diagnostics: avoid printing irrelevant events

miri: TB: improve error messages (distinguish between accesses and reborrows)

miri: remove rustc-workspace-hack

greatly decrease the size of rustc_driver.so when debuginfo is enabled

remove ExtendElement, ExtendWith, extend_with

remove [T]::zip(_)

make TrustedStep require Copy

offset_of!: don't require type to be Sized

check tuple elements are Sized in offset_of!

fix bug in utf16_to_utf8 for zero length strings

hashbrown: add support for rkyv serialization and deserialization

regex compile: make Regex::new(r"(?-u:\B)") fail again

cargo: add message on reusing previous temporary path on failed cargo installs

cargo: emit error when users try to use a toolchain via the add or install command

cargo: support "default" option for build.jobs

rustdoc: add interaction delays for tooltip popovers

rustdoc: render visibility on associated types

clippy: allow_attributes, allow_attributes_without_reason: Ignore attributes from procedural macros

clippy: manual_let_else: support struct patterns

clippy: nonminimal_bool fix double not

clippy: ptr_cast_constness: Only lint on casts which don't change type

clippy: unnecessary_lazy_eval: don't lint on types with deref impl

clippy: useless_conversion: pluralize if there are multiple .into_iter() calls

clippy: wildcard_imports Modules that contain prelude are also allowed

clippy: add a test that checks for old style test headers

clippy: add checking for cfg(features = ...)

clippy: add lints for disallowing usage of to_xx_bytes and from_xx_bytes

clippy: add spans to clippy.toml error messages

clippy: emit unnecessary_cast on raw pointers as well

clippy: fix suggestion on fully qualified syntax

clippy: ignore fix for from_over_into if the target type contains a Self reference

clippy: move redundant_clone to nursery

clippy: new lint: explicit_into_iter_fn_arg

clippy: new lint: missing_fields_in_debug

rust-analyzer: add mandatory panic contexts to all threadpool tasks

rust-analyzer: allow setting cfgs

rust-analyzer: don't add --all-targets to runnables for no-std crates

rust-analyzer: add signature help for tuple patterns and expressions

rust-analyzer: render niches on hover

rust-analyzer: fix Assist "replace named generic type with impl trait"

rust-analyzer: fix unused-mut false positive for Box

rust-analyzer: fix bug in labeled for loop desugaring

rust-analyzer: fix drop scopes problems in mir

rust-analyzer: fix edits for convert_named_struct_to_tuple_struct

rust-analyzer: fix missing terminator for slice pattern

rust-analyzer: fix string pattern matching in mir interpreter

rust-analyzer: fix: add enum, reference, array and slice to render_const_scalar

rust-analyzer: fix: add render configs for memory layout hovers

rust-analyzer: fix: consider outer binders when folding captured items' type

rust-analyzer: fix: detect "bound more than once" error and suppress need-mut for it

rust-analyzer: fix: don't duplicate sysroot crates in rustc workspace

rust-analyzer: fix: emit '_ for lifetime generics in HirDisplay

rust-analyzer: fix nav target calculation discarding file ids from differing macro upmapping

rust-analyzer: make assignment operators right associative

rust-analyzer: prioritize threads affected by user typing

rust-analyzer: support floating point intrinsics in const eval

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

This week was a bunch of improvements, largely driven by cutting std debuginfo in [#110221] and a few MIR or codegen optimizations. No pure regressions landed this week!

Triage done by @simulacrum. Revision range: 1221e43b..adc719d

Summary:

0 Regressions, 1 Improvements, 12 Mixed; 2 of them in rollups

79 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

eRFC: single-file packages ("cargo script") integration

Final Comment Period

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RFCs

No RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Tracking Issues & PRs

[disposition: merge] TAIT defining scope options

[disposition: merge] rustdoc-search: clean up type unification and "unboxing"

[disposition: merge] Specify behavior of HashSet::insert

[disposition: merge] Update runtime guarantee for select_nth_unstable

[disposition: merge] Stabilize String::leak

[disposition: merge] Implement TryFrom<&OsStr> for &str

[disposition: merge] impl SliceIndex\<str> for (Bound\<usize>, Bound\<usize>)

[disposition: merge] Stabilize const_cstr_methods

[disposition: close] Add cfg(no_128_bit) to core: removes u128/i128 formatting

[disposition: merge] rustdoc: search for slices and arrays by type with []

New and Updated RFCs

[new] Fragment Specifiers for Generic Arguments

[new] Virtually dispatched trait methods

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

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Problem statement documentation

Our group met after the last class and decided to take a more macro view than we had previously. Per feedback from professor Lim, we pulled our lens out a bit, choosing to focus on the topic of foster care. We spent time mind dumping, utilizing Miro together to aggregate associations we have with foster care and spur thinking on potential problems. However, in the days after brainstorming through the general topic of foster care, we decided to pivot again to the topic of social responsibility. We again did a mind dump, this time individually, on all the associations we have with social responsibility to see what issues would organically come to the surface. We hoped to avoid pigeon-holing ourselves as we may have potentially the first time around. After brainstorming individually, we again came back together to discuss common interests, differences in thought processes, and we looked for patterns and associations. We collectively agreed to work out a problem statement related to financial literacy in young people from that discussion. Individually we commenced research and began to write individual problem statements by considering the framework provided in the a-sync material from this week:

"Define the Problem and Its Parameters.

1. Identify key issues.

2. Redefine the problem.

3. Bridge between the way things are and the way you want things to be.

4. Conceptualize ideas and specify parameters.

5. Translate negatives into objectives.

6. Name key tasks and personas related to the problem.

7. Make meaning from the facts you gathered."

I began to consider my problem statement by first researching financial literacy—looking at tools, data, policy, and existing programs. I reviewed government websites, scholarly journals, and news articles related to financial literacy. There was much to absorb around young people and poor financial practices. There was also an abundance of actual information on finances—which was an ironic fact, in my opinion.

From there, I worked to answer each point from the deck referenced above. I looked back at the slides from class last week on effective design briefs and well-framed "how might we?" questions and began forming my problem statement:

Potential Problem Statement: 

Despite a wealth of financial resources, young Americans are still evidencing financial illiteracy. 

I then began to consider whether my problem statement should include more detail substantiating why this is a problem and how we might think about solving it. 

So then, I landed on this:

Though much information on healthy financial practices exists, many young Americans remain financially illiterate, costing themselves, their families, and society. How might we utilize technology to distill complicated financial concepts into enjoyable, entertaining resources users want, use, and benefit from?

I wanted the statement to be specific enough that it is clear we have a compelling, concrete issue we are addressing. I also wanted to offer a framework for solution-dreaming rather than a solution itself (i.e., "utilizing technology" broadly, rather than naming or even identifying among ourselves some specific preconceived platform or technology). ... Process to be continued in my Definition post!

[someillplanetreigns]

Ending thoughts for @sheliesshattered​ and anyone else interested!

Look, it devastated me. And I think that was sort of the point and I do credit them for that - it was almost an impossible task to end a series like this well, and I think coherent and bittersweet were reasonable things to aim for that they attained. That said, here are some more detailed thoughts:

I want Regina to be happy almost as much as Claudia does, and I’m kind of devastated that within the origin world, where she could still have ended up with Aleksander/Boris and still had Bartosz, because neither of them were tied into the Knot in a way that would prevent their existence, she doesn’t get that. I kind of refuse to believe that doesn’t happen, even though everything suggests things play out differently. As we all know I cannot get over the absurdness of Regina and Aleksander’s whole relationship, absolutely love it, and Bartosz is my precious precious baby boy and I just want him to be happy, let him have hugs in the origin world!!

Also very ‘errm...’ about Claudia ending up with Bernd? Like very happy to accept that he is Regina’s dad, but I just can’t see Claudia and Bernd together, I would have kind of preferred it if she’d single mummed it out again, that seemed more in character imo?

I do get choked up every time I think about Peter and Bernadette at the dinner party, and I am so glad they both seem to have gotten to have a really nice life because I want that so much for both of them (also I felt like it clarified silently that Peter wasn’t cheating on Charlotte because he’s not into women, because Berndatte is a woman [though for the love of god can we please stop casting cis men to play trans women!!!], he actually just... wasn’t super happy in the marriage to Charlotte, even though he did love her and very much loved their kids, and would have quite liked to be with Bernadette if they could have just communicated that and made it work).

On a macro level though... It hurts so much to have all of these characters who we cared about through three seasons erased, never to have existed. I get sad every time I think about it.

Less about the show and more about my reaction to it, I interestingly often then think about the awful things that happen in Adam and Eva’s timelines, and think, ‘well, at least that never happened, at least no one had to endure that’... But I’m slightly existentially uncomfortable with the conclusion that the only way to get away from that is for everyone to have never gotten to live at all. THAT SAID, it’s a time-travel narrative! I don’t think applying that kind of... moralistic framework, if it can be called that (maybe I’m being overly harsh on myself Idk), really works in that narrative structure, because it’s always inherent to the structure. If that makes any kind of sense?

I don’t know exactly what I would want a fix-it on my terms to look like. That’s not what I’m writing right now (well, a sort of... partial fix-it? A ‘I can only fix this one little thing but by god I’m doing it!’), though I might be interested if I can get some marathon power into the sprint I’m having right now. I’d just like all those characters who we met and loved in the first few episodes to have happy lives!

So I guess my conclusion is... I was heartbroken, but I credit it as a creative choice? That was a looong response sorry, thank you for reading!!

It's a bit wild seeing you get into Dark. I watched it a few years ago and at this point couldn't give more than the most general high-level description of it, but the gifsets you're reblogging are shaking loose my memories of it. It's been a fun reminder of the show!

Have you finished it yet, btw? I'll be curious to hear your thoughts on the ending. And if you're looking for a show to fill the void once you've watched all of Dark, I highly recommend the SyFy series version of 12 Monkeys (tho I think it's on Hulu now). It's got a few thematic similarities and really tight storytelling, I love it for a lot of the same reasons I enjoyed Dark. The movie Coherence might be another one to look up once you finish Dark. :D

Haha I'm glad you've enjoyed re-living it vicariously through my new obsession! I got into it because I watched 1899, loved it, was devastated by the cancellation, and was thinking about checking out Dark for a Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese actually concluded arc to hopefully soothe my soul. And then my housemate (who is German) told me she prefers Dark and I would love it and should watch it, and suddenly everyone was telling me that so here I am.

I started it before I had to isolate, but finished it whilst having Covid, so I think that's affected how much this has become a Fully Consumed By Blorbo Thoughts thing. I kind of know that once I no longer have to quarantine, it's going to move into a more balanced 'this show is spectacularly made and I love it and will always want to talk about it and reblog the content', but I probably won't be Consumed in the way I am now (if not least because I'll have a lot of other stuff to do!) so I'm frantically trying to write this fic whilst The Urge Is Upon Me haha.

I remember watching the film of 12 Monkeys yeeeeaaars ago, should definitely check out the TV show! And I'd not heard of Coherence, thanks!

All this to say, yes I have finished Dark, and I will do a separate reblog with my thoughts in a read more so I don't bother anyone else with spoilers (all of you need to watch Dark!!)

[summerweddingdga]

3 Stocks To Buy For The Coming Stock Market Crash

Institutional funds represent the Big Money. That`s because, after the fast money hedge funds and nimble traders sell, the slow institutional behemoths still have to evaluate the situation and act. In bull phases, no one needs a process because the market is rising, When the market declines, however, investors and traders need to have laid out a decision process that details an analytical framework of what to do ahead of time. In the past few weeks, I have heard from many worried investors and traders as unique boutique prices fell. To prevent such frauds, the Government formed The Securities and Exchange Board of India, through an Act in 1992. SEBI is the statutory body that controls and regulates the functioning of stock exchanges, brokers, sub-brokers, portfolio managers investment advisors etc. SEBI oblige several rigid measures to protect the interest of investors. In the current case, the bear story du jour description is apt because there is no clear fundamental reason why the stock prices are falling (see the different explanations advanced in this Reuters story, What`s behind the global stock market selloff?). With respect to the first theme of the bullish equity outlook, I use the framework of the Zweig Breadth Thrust off the panic sell-off bottom of August and September (see Bingo! We have a buy signal!).

The performance chart and model readings have been delayed by a week out of respect to our paying subscribers. The relative performance of Consumer Discretionary stocks also tell the same story. The top three most crowded trades of long USD, short commodities and short EM equities are all correlated and amount to the same macro theme. Meanwhile, the combination of a price/earnings ratio near the top of its historical range and an economy near the bottom “is completely without precedent, and may even be a better measure of speculative intensity than any SPAC,” Grantham writes. It didn't move up in my portfolio as it had lagged behind my top holding for quite sometime. “We’re at an inflection point,” said David Malmgren, senior portfolio manager at FBB Capital Partners. For the last few weeks, my themes for the US equity market is a bullish outlook, combined a setup for a rally of commodity and capital goods sectors. That trade setup continue to develop. This is how the major stock houses trade themselves and there is a great deal of money to be made by doing this practice alone. These two indicators flashed a warning sign when the market weakened in February, but that was a false signal as a major correction did not follow.

The Investment Committee is meeting next week to consider what to do in light of the current market turmoil. These difficult period illustrate the need for an investment process. While they may not make investment shifts very often, when they do move, the fund flows are enormous, unrelenting and glacial. They would even make great night lights. Can you do what matters even when it's challenging? However, volatility can be good in that if you buy on the lows, you can make money. In Consumer Reports' survey, Costco scored only "Good" on selection, waiting area and installation time. It is usually advised to wait patiently on producing the first expenditure till you have examined the market for an extended time frame. For the first time since the recovery began, Warren Buffett’s favorite valuation metric has breached the 100% level. Since beer has a much shorter expiration date compared to other beverages, many small brewers spent the first few months shifting production schedules in order to transition fresh-brewed beer originally planned for draft kegs into more shelf-stable packaging such as bottles and cans. There will be some hits, some misses and many more refining and going back to the drawing board to redo the process again.