@cdarwin@c.imAfter Missouri residents voted to repeal their state’s near-total abortion ban
and enshrine abortion rights into their state constitution,
Conservative advocates quickly got to work.
In a lawsuit filed the day after the 2024 election,
abortion providers challenged not only the constitutionality of the state’s ban,
⚠️but also a slew of other restrictions that, they said,
made their jobs so arduous as to be impossible.
More than a year later, they are…
@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub Dec
6. How has your past writing shaped your present writing?
7. What future writing goals are you working towards with your present work?
8. How does your work compare to the earliest work in your genre?
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6. Typically, the more you write, the better you write. 10k hours and all that.
Beyond that, hard to say.
7. Reaching audience to s…
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioRE: https://techhub.social/@shantini/115957020152303871
Being a marketer shaped my progressive politics more than I expected precisely because of this.
Once you see how much effort is being spent on marketing certain worldviews to you and how much of that can be studied, analyzed, and replicated - you can’t unsee it.
And you see the power that’s available for all of us to tap into to push back. The same kinds of marketing and communication tactics used against us can be used to amplify science, art, pro-social values, and progressive policy.
The right has been waging a coordinated campaign of swaying public opinion since at least the birth of the Federalist Society and backlash to Roe.
Their legal influence required creating an information and media apparatus that influenced first elite professional networks, then the public at large.
(For a recent example, just look at how much LLMS and AI have been relying on constant marketing and media attention for anyone to believe that these tools are “inevitable” or even “useful”. Their marketing and PR departments work very hard and are very well funded. For a reason.)
@compfu@mograph.socialRight below this post there‘s another one in my timeline about how Germany‘s electricity will get more expensive because we intend to build LNG power plants. The minister responsible for it used to work for the industry that will reap the profits. It’s all so sad how Germany‘s racism makes us vote against our interests again and again. This year two states will probably go full hard right in their elections.
@Kingu@sakurajima.moeI often see stuff like this.
"I need to present my game at an event next week but it keep being reject by your stupid AI machine. I worked hard to make that 3D logo"
If you are a gamedev, please take notes:
We don't give a fuck about the event you plan to participate to.
We work on a "Last-in First-out" type of list. This wont change No matter how many email you send us or how insulting they are.
You can't review g…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialFeb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139568/feb-5-kurtis-schaeffer-how-live-hard-times-examples-buddhist-lives
@crell@phpc.socialI really feel sorry for @…, and how hard they have to work to be more ridiculous than reality.
https://heartlandsignal.com/2025/12/01
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@brichapman@mastodon.socialYour muscles grow through resistance. Your life does too.
We treat all discomfort like failure. But avoiding everything hard isn't protecting your peace. It's shrinking your life.
Some discomfort strengthens you:
• Being awkward but showing up
• Creating bad work before good
• Staying present to hard truths
• Not knowing who you're becoming
Peace isn't avoiding life. It's choosing where to put the load.
What kind of life are you…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialFeb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139568/feb-5-kurtis-schaeffer-how-live-hard-times-examples-buddhist-lives
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoI decided to support something for which the only support mechanism is "buymeacoffee" with a monthly donation — so I created a login at buymeacoffee, and now it won't let me go any further without creating a page with my photo, name, link, and a short essay to "Explain how contributions can make a difference in your work" and just no! All I want to do is set up a small monthly donation and be able to manage that in the future!
This isn't hard on liberapay or patreon or…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialFeb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20139568/feb-5-kurtis-schaeffer-how-live-hard-times-examples-buddhist-lives
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeThis interview with Philipp Ball hones in on the most interesting point of his book How Life Works.
Biological beings are not a kind of machine. Cells would not work if they were made out of tightly coupled cogs like in a mechanical living robot thing. Life on the molecular level is extremely fuzzy and things have multiple purposes all at once. I find that super hard to understand and yet infinitely interesting.
Beings are neither code nor machine but its own thing.
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@stargazer@woof.tech#WritersCoffeeClub Nov
18. Do you include real-world quotations in your work?
19. What's something (even if fantastical!) which could improve your process?
20. How did you find your writerly voice?
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18. I did once. Now my settings are mostly fictional so real-world quotes are immersion-breaking and rarely appropriate.
It's not so hard to reforge them.…
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