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Post about fandom! Or whatever! Whether it's a rave about some obscure series, or an essay dissecting every last reason why some internet-famous author should rethink their career, someone will probably read it at some point! We also just chat about life.
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Interesting Things
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Date: 2022-06-20 10:29 pm (UTC)This article's about a year old, but it's an interesting - and incredibly surreal - read. There's something very Gatsbyian about it all. English professor investigates the strange world of the young and internet-famous, is briefly swept up by the allure of hedonism and stardom, then is brought back to reality by the ugly truths of capitalism. So we beat on, boats against what's current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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Date: 2022-06-25 08:51 pm (UTC)https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1471-0528.15675
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Date: 2022-07-31 04:08 am (UTC)Interesting book excerpt on perfumes and its history, written by the former lead perfumer at Hermes. I wish I had the sense of smell to appreciate them.
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Date: 2022-08-06 12:32 am (UTC)https://helenlewis.substack.com/
Skip the unusually depressing intro. Scroll down to the pictures of the man with the birds, then read from there.
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Date: 2022-08-06 12:58 am (UTC)oh my
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Date: 2022-08-06 06:09 pm (UTC)and
https://www.dawn.com/news/1695392
It's interesting that where this is shared without the video, Dr Quratul is assumed to be a helper and her husband the doctor, but this was also amazing as a rescue.
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Date: 2022-08-19 07:02 pm (UTC)Interesting response from historians. Now if someone said it louder for the TRAs at the back...
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Date: 2022-08-21 01:35 am (UTC)https://www.yosemitehikes.com/wildflowers/yosemite-wildflowers-guide.htm
Found this interesting wildflower guide while, surprisingly, browsing the New Zealand fruit orchard thread on a certain TIM-infested ranch. Not all the entries are this eloquent, but here are a few sample lines from the flower descriptions.
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Date: 2022-08-21 07:58 am (UTC)I had some surprisingly good finds on the farms when I was reading the Manhunt thread. At this rate it'll be a board for normies by 2030.
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Date: 2022-09-02 11:14 am (UTC)[Digital Piracy] The Rise of EMPRESS
This is an interesting preddit article chronicling the saga of EMPRESS, a well-known female game cracker who stirred up controversy recently by accepting donations for cracks. (Which is reasonable, but moids threw a fit anyway)
Article here (https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/comments/rowk83/digital_piracy_the_rise_of_empress_how_one_woman/)
Note: regarding Empress and FitGirl, before the bad blood I found some comments from before the spat, love the mention of girl power: https://fitgirl-repacks.site/red-dead-redemption-2/
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Date: 2022-09-02 02:59 pm (UTC)> "this is a disgrace. shame on you"
qq moar, DIY then.
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Date: 2022-09-02 05:27 pm (UTC)I scanlate and we have a lot of issues with for-profit scanlation groups stealing other groups' work for ad revenue, rushing bad translations to intimidate other groups off popular (profitable) series, and generally starting ridiculous amounts of drama within the community. Big groups making hundreds or thousands a month off donations also attracted copyright holders who were previously more willing to let us fly under the radar, and now small non-profit groups have to deal with being DCMA'd or having our services terminated. On top of that, the people who do actual work in scanlation (i.e. translators, letterers) aren't getting a cent of the donations. It all goes to the group owner for 'costs' (read: lining their own pocket).
Doesn't entirely apply in this situation since the cracking scene is fairly different from the scanlation scene, but it's not just a man thing to have issues with accepting donations.
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Date: 2022-09-05 11:19 pm (UTC)Can't read this without hearing the Westworld theme! :P
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Date: 2022-09-07 10:06 pm (UTC)https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2016/08/13/mimesis-violence-and-facebook-peter-thiels-french-connection-full-essay/
The bit I found interesting was this idea:
According to Girard’s mimetic theory, humans choose objects of desire through contagious imitation: we desire things because others desire them, and we model our desires on others’ desires. As a result, desires converge on the same objects, and selves become rivals and doubles, struggling for the same sense of full being, which each subject suspects the other of possessing. The resulting conflicts cascade across societies because the mimetic structure of behavior also means that violence replicates itself rapidly. The entire community becomes mired in reciprocal aggression.
(No idea if that website is a good one or not, literally just the first one I clicked)
[1] this oddball: https://www.inc.com/jeff-bercovici/peter-thiel-young-blood.html
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Date: 2022-09-09 02:07 pm (UTC)"Participants especially underestimated how liberal the past was, which may have happened for several reasons."
Tumblr. Tumblr happened.
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