@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.)
@arXiv_csAI_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-15 09:43:41
GOAT: A Training Framework for Goal-Oriented Agent with Tools
Hyunji Min, Sangwon Jung, Junyoung Sung, Dosung Lee, Leekyeung Han, Paul Hongsuck Seo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12218
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 08:41:46
TPSQLi: Test Prioritization for SQL Injection Vulnerability Detection in Web Applications
Guan-Yan Yang, Farn Wang, You-Zong Gu, Ya-Wen Teng, Kuo-Hui Yeh, Ping-Hsueh Ho, Wei-Ling Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10920
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-16 10:06:17
"I thought it was my mistake, but it's really the design'': A Critical Examination of the Accessibility of User-Enacted Moderation Tools on Facebook and X
Sudhamshu Hosamane, Alyvia Walters, Yao Lyu, Shagun Jhaver
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10789
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-15 20:50:35
I keep coming back to the mirror dualities of the oppressed and oppressor under authoritarianism.
The oppressed is portrayed as both weak and godlike. The stereotypes are always some variation on sloth and incompetence, but yet somehow also a menace capable of destroying the "pure" society. To use the most relevant current example, Antifa being both little femme soy boys who would always get beat up by "real men" while also being an international terrorist organization on the brink of overthrowing the US government, the unarmed presence of whom makes the heavily armed agents of ICE flee for their lives. Antifa is both having absolutely no impact on ICE, and also having such an impact on ICE that the military needs to come in to protect them. The contradiction is obvious but never seems to occur to those who hold both to be true at the same time.
But few talk about the duality of the oppressor. The sovereign throughout history has always been both a ruler above the law, sometimes even the representative or incarnation of a divine force. Yet, this same superhuman/god-man is also a baby who needs constant care. This is absolutely a through line from the very earliest records of sovereign cults to modern cult leaders, CEOs, and Trump today. Power, for these people, is expressed both as the ability to force others to enact their will and in the ability to compel others to care for them. Can any of these "men" cook? Can they fix anything themselves? They are driven everywhere, cooked for all the time, constantly protected from danger. Kings are still dressed, at least for rituals. I could dissect masculinity here, but that's a whole thing.
It is as though the drive to care for our children, who must be taught to behave within acceptable norms, is hijacked by "leaders" who demand our care and attention... even at the expense of our literal children. And recently we've seen some of those very CEOs, with LLMs and return to office demands, show that their judgment is also little better than children, making decisions while pretending to understand a subject.
The oppressed are portrayed as both god-like and impotent and are, in fact, neither. Meanwhile the rulers portray themselves only as invulnerable and are, in fact, childish in their ability to survive without constant support. Their greatest fear from the collapse of society is figuring out how to make sure people keep taking care of them.
It just keeps rattling around in my head.
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@wwwgem@social.linux.pizza2025-11-13 14:45:30
Talking about #neomutt today. Hopefully, it'll be easier to read than it was to write :)
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/cli_neomutt
@arXiv_csCL_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-12 09:30:39
LITcoder: A General-Purpose Library for Building and Comparing Encoding Models
Taha Binhuraib, Ruimin Gao, Anna A. Ivanova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09152 https://
@arXiv_csSE_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 10:33:58
How Students Use Generative AI for Software Testing: An Observational Study
Baris Ardic, Quentin Le Dilavrec, Andy Zaidman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10551 https://
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-14 11:29:38
Beyond touch-based HMI: Control your machines in natural language by utilizing large language models and OPC UA
Bernd Hofmann, Sven Kreitlein, Joerg Franke, Patrick Bruendl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11300
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-11-07 18:16:55
