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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.)

from my link log —
That fractal that's been up on my wall for 12 years.
https://chriskw.xyz/2025/05/21/Fractal/
saved 2025-05-23 htt…

Check in yesterday on Southwest. C14/17 or so. Spend a couple upgraded boarding credits. A02/09 or so. Stand by for an earlier flight. Get confirmed an hour before the flight with C44/45. Gate check bags because there's no way they'll make it into the overhead that late. C14/17. Get on the plane and there's a windows-middle pair in row 8, which isn't much worse than we would've gotten with the upgraded boarding. Fair enough.

Even something as simple as ordering a pride flag from an LGBTQIA shop is a meaningful way to show support for the LGBTQIA community.
#LGBTQIA

Fire from The Atlantic.
#USPol #Tariffs

Design, development and commissioning of a new towing tank at the University of Southampton: A decade of endeavour
B Malas (LHEEA)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09057

Design, development and commissioning of a new towing tank at the University of Southampton: A decade of endeavour
The University of Southampton in the United Kingdom is worldly renowned in the naval architecture domain. For several decades, the researchers in hydrodynamics have been discussing the need of a middle-sized towing tank to accommodate the teaching, research and commercial experiments that previously had to be outsourced. In the early 2010s, the renovation of the Boldrewood campus was decided and opened the way for the construction of this 138 m long, 6 m wide and 3.5 m deep facility. Commission…

Happy , today I deployed a #Forgejo instance to manage my private code projects. I won't be using #Github anymore for my stuff, only to contribute to 3rd party projects.
I still have some pending work to configure the CI workers, but I'll leave that for next week.
Along the way I've learnt some stuff about #OpenTofu and networking. Enough to know that I still prefer to be on the dev side of the "devops" .

Firefighters march in Ithaca Festival Parade today
#ithaca #photo #photography #ithacafestival