To dig slightly deeper here, I think that there's a feedback loop between "fall in love/wait for your perfect match (and by the way girls the only career you should aspire to is the literally unattainable 'princess'" Disney stuff and this "my characters are complex I'm so sophisticated; they suffer but it's not intolerable and their lives are good enough despite the imperfections" crap that gets praised as so evocative of the human condition. In fact, I think it merely evokes the condition of its authors & fans who were poisoned by the Disney in their youth and who have remained bad as relationships ever since, though this is not exactly their fault. In any case, their white middle-aged wisdom-shaped-but-quite bitter and intricately-constructed-so-it's-hard-to-see-the-really-untrue-character-facets work ends up keeping their audience within the "romance is luck" cult by way of reassuring them that a middling romance with lots of doubt and complications is "just life" even though the author doesn't actually have any broader perspective on what life is than anyone else.
This has turned into a bit of a rant, but I think I'll just add that reading Mama by Nikkya Hargrove just before Dream State helped immensely to see how the distant & awkward parent-child relationships of the latter are not a product of human nature but instead of white western culture & capitalism.
(The defeatism about climate change is a whole nother dimension of wrong about Dream State, by that's a separate rant.)
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Das Gesundheitssystem wird immer digitaler - und damit wohl auch anfälliger. Die Zahl der IT-Entscheider aus der Branche, die Ausfälle beklagen, wächst.«
Ärtzt*innen sagten mir, dass schon von einer Software zur anderen in der Medizin schon komplex sei, da jeder SW Hersteller seine eigene Closed-Source Infrastruktur anbietet.
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EU:s största missiltillverkare, MDBA, tillverkar vingar till glidbomber som används ofta av Israel i attacker mot civila byggnader i Gaza. Många barn har dödats i attackerna. https://www.dn.se/varlden/glidbomber-mot-gaza-guidas-av-europeiska-vingar/
NFDI4DS is hosting its second Summer School on Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Graphs for Scholarly Data (AIKG-SD 2025) 🥳
This year's theme: “Research Towards Sustainable Societies”
🗣 Keynotes & Interactive Tutorials
☕ Networking
🏆 Poster Session & Best Poster Award
September 23/24, 2025
Leuphana University Lüneburg
Application deadline: June 27, 2025!
Coca-Cola dodges after Trump says soda will switch back to cane sugar (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna219225
http://www.memeorandum.com/250717/p72#a250717p72