@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-16 08:24:42
Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-09-18 03:14:14
To state the obvious: this is bland stuff, clearly protected by the 1A and so very far within the bounds of what a non-authoritarian FCC would allow that it’s just comical. Kimmel is about as controversial as a goldfish here. They aren’t serious about it being a problem; the whole •point• is that it’s obviously •not• a problem.
They are using something extremely benign to test the waters of government repression of speech, to see just how much they can get away with — and ABC caved like 3rd-grade toothpick bridge.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-18 05:40:17
Trump sought to pin any worries about high inflation on his predecessor, Joe Biden.
“Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess,
and I’m fixing it,” Trump said.
“We’re poised for an economic boom, the likes of which the world has never seen.”
His holiday wishes came at a crucial time as he tries to rebuild his steadily eroding popularity.
Public polling shows most U.S. adults are frustrated with his handling of the economy as
inflation picked up after his tari…
@rasterweb@mastodon.social2025-09-18 01:47:15
I have leveled up once again. I used to be really interested in geo/mapping stuff and this whole biking thing has rekindled that, and now that I need to figure out how to bike to places, I am mapping like mad!
I found a route from work to the shops to home avoiding busy streets, which I *never* thought I would be able to do, but I'm doing it now!
#biking
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-09-18 09:11:43
Series B, Episode 11 - Gambit
SERVALAN: He'll soon come round. Travis is very strong. [She goes to inspect Travis.]
JARRIERE: Oh, he once worked for you?
SERVALAN: Yes.
JARRIERE: And now he's an outlaw? Uh, what happened?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/211/202 B7B2…
@johnleonard@mastodon.social2025-12-18 11:08:44
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2025-11-15 23:16:11
Phanpy doesn't support quoots yet, so I'm using Mastodon's stock web interface and.. it's bad. Compare how busy it looks with unnecessary stuff (do I really need a "post" input form on screen at all times? Do I need a link to "favorites" visible at all times?), but also - the fonts are bad. Bad, bad, bad. Just so much harder to read. And the timeline toots just kind of run together, rather than being clearly delineated by whitespace in phanpy.
![Mastodon's official UI home screen. There are three columns taking up the whole screen. Left column has half taken up with an input form for posting a new toot. Then there's some wasted space, and at the bottom a bunch of text links: "social.ridetrans.it: [About] [Profiles directory] [privacy policy]", etc.
The middle column has all the toots from my timeline. There is only a single thin grey line separating the toots, and the text is small and somewhat difficult to read.
The right column…](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/115/556/258/266/351/584/original/9b54ad3448805067.png)
@arXiv_qbioNC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-18 08:20:41
Why all roads don't lead to Rome: Representation geometry varies across the human visual cortical hierarchy
Arna Ghosh, Zahraa Chorghay, Shahab Bakhtiari, Blake A. Richards
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13459
@cdarwin@c.im2025-09-18 17:31:20
Yesterday, Trump’s government showed us exactly how far it will go to silence opposition.
After FCC Chairman Brendan Carr went on MAGA influencer Benny Johnson’s podcast and suggested that Jimmy Kimmel should be taken off the air, ABC suspended his show indefinitely.
𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗺𝗲’𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗲𝗰𝗵.
The government used its influence to punish someone who spoke out — and a company with one of the strongest legal divisions in the world, a company that …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-16 18:14:57
Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…
