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toastyglow · 2 years
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okay so you know how icarus flew to close to the sun, and also there’s that myth about helios letting his son drive his chariot and that going terribly wrong.  I think icarus and helios’ son should crash into each other halfway, somehow survive, and then kiss probably
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rigelmejo · 1 year
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i’m listening to a random audiobook i found called 我是凶手 (I tell you what it SOUNDS cute, it sure does Not sound like its about ‘i’m a murderer’ so far lmao). and they keep playing this slow harmonica sounding music clip that is screaming to me ‘final fantasy vii soft warm emotional moment’ and it’s absolutely giving me whiplash lol. I’m like ‘oh yeah okay so gay possibly enemies? wait WHY is cloud crying in the countryside in my mind rn’ 
I think.... this is what the novel is? https://www.jjwxc.net/onebook.php?novelid=5301119  我是凶手作者:千若 but... i don’t think that’s right, what i’m listening to has 180 chapters as far as i can tell... not just the 5 I’m seeing on jjwxc... this is what i’m listening to, except i’m listening on bilibili. https://www.ximalaya.com/sound/615931684 what novel am i even listening to...? i just clicked whatever bilibili’s been recommending me since it regularly gives me danmei audiobook recommendations and this looked ‘crime’ genre and i do love that.
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The REAL AI automation threat to workers
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I'm Kickstarting the audiobook for The Bezzle, the sequel to Red Team Blues, narrated by @wilwheaton! You can pre-order the audiobook and ebook, DRM free, as well as the hardcover, signed or unsigned. There's also bundles with Red Team Blues in ebook, audio or paperback.
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Long before the current wave of AI hype, we were being groomed for automation panics with misleading stories. Remember this one? "'Truck driver' is the most common job in America. Self-driving trucks are just around the corner. How can we prevent America's army of truckers from turning into a howling mob when the robots steal their jobs?"
https://futurism.com/millions-of-jobs-are-at-risk-but-their-loss-could-be-for-the-greater-good
It was absolute nonsense. First of all, "truck driver" isn't a particularly common job in America! The BLS lumps together all cargo vehicle drivers under a single classification. The category error here was thinking that every delivery van driver, furniture mover, and courier is behind the wheel of a big rig, cracking wise on a CB radio as they tear up the interstate.
But what about automation threats? It's possible that if we redesigned the interstates to give 16 wheelers their own separated lanes, and then set them to following one another, that they could traverse long distances in that way. Congratulations, you've just invented a shitty, failure-prone train.
"Shitty train AI" does not threaten the job of the vast number of people the BLS classifies as "truck drivers." For one thing, "shitty train AI" isn't going to pilot a UPS van around the streets of a busy city with other road users. Sure, a few robotaxi companies have bamboozled city governments into conscripting the city's residents into an uncontrolled murderbot experiment. These are not going well:
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/9-key-leaders-depart-gms-cruise-amid-ongoing-investigation-into-san-francisco-incident/
More than $100b has been set on fire chasing the robotaxi dream, and the result is most charitably described as a technological curiosity, requiring 1.5 high-waged remote technicians to replace each low-waged driver:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money
But even if we could perfect this technology, robots still wouldn't replace all those "truckers" who drive delivery vans (to say nothing of moving vans!). The hard part of driving a UPS van isn't just getting it from place to place – it's getting the parcel into the place. The robo-van would still need at least one person to get the parcel from the back of the van and into the reception desk, porch, or other delivery zone. It's not going to fire those parcels at your door with a catapult. It's also not going to deliver them by drones. Drone delivery is another one of those historical curiosities, capable of delivering a very narrow range of parcels, under even narrower circumstances:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/05/comprehensive-sex-ed/#droned
If all UPS delivered was lightweight, non-fragile rectangular parcels ordered by people with large, unobstructed back yards, then sure. Congrats, you've just created the world's least-useful parcel delivery service!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/06/amazon-drone-delivery-service-seeks-faa-approval-to-launch-in-2022/
All that said, the big rig drivers probably don't need to worry about robots stealing their jobs. It's not even clear that "shitty train" is within our technological grasp, but even if it is, there's yet another problem with the AI automation trucker jobpocalypse: "trucker" is already one of the worst jobs in America:
https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interactives/news/rigged-forced-into-debt-worked-past-exhaustion-left-with-nothing/
It's hard to overstate just how fucking terrible it is to be a trucker. Truckers are trapped in abusive debt holes by their employers – who misclassify their workforce as "contractors" in a bid to sidestep labor law. Shriven of any labor rights, truckers are forced into the most ghastly, body-destroying, family-wrcking, financially precarious existence imaginable.
You can drive a truck for years, give almost all of the money you earn back to your employer (who denies that you're their employee) to pay back the usurious loan for your truck. Then, your employer can underschedule for shifts so that you miss a loan payment, and they can repo your truck and keep the six-figure repayment you've already made to them, leaving you destitute.
They can force you to work for hours – days! – without pay while you wait for loading and dispatch. They can make you drive long past the point of safety, then, if (when) you get into a wreck, they can fine you for not taking the mandated rest breaks.
Now, these drivers aren't about to be replaced by AI – but that doesn't mean that AI won't affect their jobs. Commercial drivers are among the most heavily surveilled workers in the country. Amazon's drivers (whom Amazon misclassifies as subcontractors) have their eyeballs monitored by AI;
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/
AIs monitor the voices of the (primarily Black, primarily female) workforce at Arise – homeworkers who field customer service calls for blue-chip companies like Carnival Cruises and Disney. They're listening for unruly children or pets in the background, and workers who fail to muffle these dependents lose the contracts they have to pay to train for:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/22/paperback-writer/#toothless
And AI monitors the conduct of workers on temp-work apps. If a worker is dispatched to a struck workplace and refuses to cross the picket-line, the AI boss fires you and blacklists you from future jobs for refusing to robo-scab:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/30/computer-says-scab/#instawork
Writing in The Guardian, Steven Greenhouse describes the AI-enabled workplace, where precarious, often misclassified workers are monitored, judged, and fined by algorithms:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/07/artificial-intelligence-surveillance-workers
Whether it's the robot that gets you disciplined for sending an email with the word "union" in it or the robot that takes money out of your paycheck if you take a bathroom break, AI has come for the workplace with a vengeance.
Here's a supreme irony: nearly all of the beneficial applications for AI require that AI be used to help workers, not replace them, which is absolutely not how AI is used in the workplace. An AI that helps radiologists by giving them a second opinion might help them find tumors on x-rays, but that's a tool that reduces the number of scans a radiologist processes in a shift, by making them go back and reconsider the scans they've already processed:
https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/
But AI's sales pitch is not "Buy an AI tool and increase your costs while increasing your accuracy." The pitch for AI is "buy and AI and save money by firing workers." Given how bad AIs are at replacing humans, this is a bad deal all around, both for the worker who loses their job and the customer who gets the substandard product the AI makes.
There is a very limited slice of applications where an AI could make a lot of money for a company that deploys it, without costing that company anything when the AI screws up. For example, AI is a really good tool for fraud! Rather than paying people to churn out millions of variations on a phishing email, you can get an AI to do it. If the AI writes a bad phishing email, it's OK, since nearly all recipients of even good phishing emails delete them. What's more, no one will fine you or publish an op-ed demanding that your board of directors fire you if you buy an incompetent AI to commit fraud. Fraud is a high-value, low-consequence environment for using AI.
Another one of those applications is managing precarious workers who don't have labor rights. If the AI unfairly docks your worker's wages, or forces them to work until they injure themselves or others, or decides that their eyeball movements justify firing them, those workers have no recourse. That's the whole point of pretending that your employees are contractors: so you can violate labor law with impunity!
But that's not the ironic part. The ironic part is that "being a shitty boss" is the one AI application that companies are willing to increase their net spending on. No one buys an eyeball-monitoring AI so they can fire a manager. This is the one place where AI is there to augment, rather than replace, an employee.
This makes AI-based bossware subtly different from other forms of Taylorism, the "scientific management" fad of the early 20th century that saw management consultants choreographing the postures and movements of workers to satisfy the aesthetic fetishes of their employers:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb-rumsfeld-monsters/#bossware
The pseudoscientific cod-ergonomics of the 1900s was demeaning and even dangerous, but it wasn't automated, and if it increased worker output, this was incidental to the real purpose of making workers move like the machine-cogs their bosses reassured themselves they were:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/21/great-taylors-ghost/#solidarity-or-bust
Every AI panic is a way of deflecting attention from the real, grimy, here-and-now ways that AI is destroying our lives by demanding that we entertain nonsensical science fiction claims about large, shiny existential risks that AI might present in the future.
The "X-risk" of the spicy autocomplete chatbot waking up and using its newfound sentience to turn us all into paperclips is nonsense. Adding words to the plausible sentence generator doesn't turn it into a superintelligence for the same reason that selectively breeding faster horses doesn't lead to locomotives:
https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/
But there is a way that AI could destroy the human race! The carbon footprint and water consumption associated with training and operating large-scale models are significant contributors to the climate emergency, which threatens the habitability of the only planet in the known universe capable of sustaining human life:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2023/04/14/ais-unsustainable-water-use-how-tech-giants-contribute-to-global-water-shortages/
Likewise, AI isn't going to replace you at work. But it's already augmenting your shitty boss's ability to rip you off, torment you, maim you and even kill you in order to eke out a few more basis points for the next shareholder report.
Science fiction is a fun and useful way to tell parables about our current technologies. But it's not a roadmap for the future. The fact that sf writers like me found AIs as useful measures to describe Earth's dominant artificial life form – the limited liability corporation – doesn't mean that superhuman AIs should – or can – be created.
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Back the Kickstarter for the DRM-free audiobook of The Bezzle, read by Tumblr's own @wilwheaton!
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no
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gunsatthaphan · 2 months
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~ Monthly BL Breakdown: January 2024 ~ 
✨ Happy February!!! 🎭
Disclaimer: ALL shows can be streamed here or here, as well as on Youtube and other platforms. For more info on where to watch what, check out this post! 
New breakdowns are coming at the end of every month - feel free to add stuff! -> previous breakdowns
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What came out this month? (green = seen/currently watching)
🌟 BL Drama no Shuen ni Narimashita: Crank In Hen - January 2nd (Japan) 
🌟 Ossan's Love Returns - January 5th (Japan) 
🌟 Refund Love - January 7th (Thailand) 
🌟 Time The Series - January 9th (Thailand) 
🌟 Intern in My Heart (BL side couple) - January 10th (Thailand) 
🌟 Sukiyanen Kedo Do Yaro ka (Although I Love You, and You) - January 11th (Japan) 
🌟 Beside You (mini series) - January 11th (Thailand) 
🌟 I Wish You Love - January 21st (Thailand) 
🌟 Happy Ending - January 23rd (South Korea)
🌟 Love for Love's Sake - January 24th (South Korea)
Monthly likes/dislikes
👎🏻 I've been catching up on some KBLs from last year this month and sadly most of them were very disappointing. I put a few on my watchlist that generally had good reviews but yeah let's just say I'm glad I didn't miss anything in the last 2 years lol. The only one I liked was Love Mate, the rest was pretty much pointless. Hopefully the upcoming ones will be better 🤞🏻
New series & movie announcements
🎥 Beating Again (dance-themed, starring Kaownah K., Earth K. and others) - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Unknown - Date TBA (Taiwan)
🎥 The Book Store - Date TBA (South Korea)
🎥 Term Begins - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Mafia Prince and the Bookworm - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Black Forest - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Go Alone With Me - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 Can I Love You? - Date TBA (Thailand)
🎥 The Shining Star - Date TBA (Vietnam)
🎥 At My Fingertips (Unintentional Love Story spinoff) - Coming May 2024 (South Korea)
🎥 Connecting To You - Date TBA (Taiwan)
🎥 The Star (movie) - Coming March 2024 (Thailand)
🎥 What's the Nong? - Date TBA (Thailand)
Other news from the BL world
❗️ Actors Mike Chinnarat, Fluke Pusit, White Nawat, Pluem Purim and Lee Thanat have left GMMTV.
❗️ After Korean actor Choo Youngwoo won an award for "Best Rookie Actor" at the recent KBS Drama Awards, he came under fire for not mentioning his participation in the BL You Make Me Dance which launched his career and earned him the award.
❗️ Actors Jin Hoeun (All Of Us are Dead), Kwon Hyuk (The New Employee), Byun Junseo (Perfect Marriage Revenge) and Nam Yoonsu (Extracurricular) have been confirmed to star in the upcoming BL Love In The Big City, which portrays the life and love of an HIV-positive gay writer.
❗️ ZeeNunew and GeminiFourth won an award respectively for "Best Thai Artists" at this year's Seoul Music Awards.
❗️ The Chinese BL Stay with Me is getting an audiobook. The series furthermore recently confirmed its second season, further details are unknown.
❗️ Over a year after its initial premiere, the Thai BL To Sir, With Love won "Popular Foreign Drama” at this years's Vietnam Face Of The Year Awards.
❗️ The Thai BL Playboyy will no longer air on youtube after the suspension of the channel due to explicit sexual content. The show will continue to exclusively air on Gagaoolala, as well as RakutenTV.
❗️ Actors EarthMix had a cameo appearance in Ossan's Love Returns; they will star in the Thai adaption of the same name later this year. Details about the production are still unknown.
❗️ MileApo (KinnPorsche) were announced to star in the upcoming series Shine. The show is an extension/spinoff of Man Suang and focuses on Khem and Chatra's story in more detail.
Upcoming series & movies for February
👉🏻 Anti Reset - February 2nd (Taiwan)
👉🏻 Perfect Proposal - February 2nd (Japan)
👉🏻 City of Stars - February 2nd (Thailand)
👉🏻 Love Syndrome: The Beginning - February 8th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Baka Pwede pa? - February 9th (Philippines)
👉🏻 1000 Years Old - February 14th (Thailand)
👉🏻 My Strawberry Film - February 16th (Japan)
👉🏻 A Secret Love - February 17th (Thailand)
👉🏻 Unknown - February 24th (Taiwan)
👉🏻 Wedding Impossible - February 26th (South Korea)
👉🏻 Kiseki Chapter 1 & Chapter 2 - February TBA (Thailand)
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whitnerd · 2 months
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Thanks @boozles for the tag! 💜
last song: According to Spotify, Myth by Beach House was the last thing I listened to on my way home from work Friday.
last film: Saltburn a couple weeks ago I think?
currently reading: Not really reading anything unless Sarah's translation of The Eclipse novel counts. 😗 I am listening to Marlon James' Black Leopard, Red Wolf on audiobook though.
currently watching: Watching my cats snoozing on the couch beside me. They're getting charged up to raise hell when it's time for me to go to bed.
But as for shows, I'm following the 3 currently airing GMM BL shows and The Sign. I also just have a few episodes left of The Shipper which I'm honestly enjoying. 😅
currently consuming: Nothing food-wise. Other-media-wise, I did start a durge playthrough of BG3, but haven't gotten very far yet.
currently craving: I have a sore throat and keep thinking a hot, soothing beverage would be nice. I think I'll just go to bed though. Cross your fingers I'm not coming down with something.
tagging: If you want to do it, say I tagged you. I'm off to bed. 👋🏻
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sorry-bonebag · 6 months
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Rules: List 10 of your comfort shows, then tag 10 people
Eons ago, I was tagged by @kattahj — thank you!
I got stuck because thinking of 10 shows was weirdly hard, so a couple of these are books actually. There’s not a lot of BL on this list because I’m pretty new to the genre and I define a comfort show as something I’ve returned to for rewatches that’s stood the test of time. There’s a few shows that I suspect will make the cut, but they haven’t yet been tested, so I didn’t include them (Laws of Attraction, What Did You Eat Yesterday?, and Old Fashion Cupcake are all in that category).
Taskmaster: This show is made of joy, it’s very funny, it’s extremely low stakes, and I can easily watch it while thinking about or doing something else (this also makes it great to watch with friends because it’s ok if u miss something while chatting). It’s the perfect comfort show.
Semantic Error: This show is amazing for when 1-2 days are going awry because it’s only 3 hours long so I can cronch it right down and then move on as soon as the vibes improve. Watching Sangwoo go on a journey from rejecting all change to his routine to recognizing that sometimes change can be good and fighting to keep Jaeyoung in his life is v healing.  
Love between Fairy and Devil: This cdrama does something similar to Semantic Error for me emotionally (I can’t explain this; the shows have nothing in common), but it’s many hours long, so it’s good for when the troubles are ongoing for days or weeks. Sometimes I just need to cry about these fools and how not chill they are about each other and their people.
History 3: Trapped: This was one of my first BLs and the satisfaction of seeing the main couple’s early fights and knowing they were going to kiss later was transformative.  
Schitt’s Creek: David and Patrick are among my favorite fictional couples, Stevie and David’s friendship is everything to me, I can’t shut up about Alexis’s growth…I’ve watched this show many times with many sets of friends and it is always so so good.
The Good Place: I wish they had let this show be queerer, but it is so funny and full of heart and shade for capitalism and it's great to rewatch when things get weird.
Hilda: This is a kids’ show but the art is so beautiful and Hilda’s adventurous spirit is so good and I love the mythology and some of the characters are very gender. It’s another show I’ve watched with multiple long-distance friends and it’s a fun way to connect.
Gravity Falls: Another kids’ show featuring a bunch of magical creatures and a lot of heart.
Howl’s Moving Castle (book): I reread this all the time. I’m obsessed with Sophie and how she appears less weird than Howl but absolutely isn’t and also how she found being a young woman so terrible and stifling but being old freed her and she got to carry that freedom forward in the end by having made a life that was big enough for her and what that says about what escaping social convention can do for you…I could go on.
The Scorpio Races (book): Maggie Stiefvater is my favorite author, and I love a good standalone because it’s not a huge time commitment to reread. I read this book every fall (and I also make November cakes, a baked good she came up with for the story) and the vibes are impeccable. I have physical, ebook, and audiobook copies of this, as well as Howl’s Moving Castle, so I’m never truly without them.
Tagging @lurkingshan @wen-kexing-apologist @rocketturtle4 @promisemel @dummerjan @twig-tea @shouldiusemyname @troubled-mind @tobeblunt-forthehourislate and @visualtaehyun
no pressure--I'm still new around here so I have no sense of who has already done what and/or who enjoys ask games
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weebsinstash · 8 months
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LOOK UP FATED TO MY FORBIDDEN ALPHA ON YOUTUBE I A M BE GG ING Y OU U BL EAS E YOU NEED T TO S EE THAT
THEY ARE MAKIN G MOVIES !! OM E GAVERSE WEREWOLF MOVIES A FSLASDKJF LSAKJ KAKJ W AH A HT
BRUH I'VE BEEN GETTING ADS FOR THESE ON TUMBLR FNCNCJFJ
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I hadn't checked it out yet but uh
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Bruh episode 49???
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BRUH AN HOUR OF THESE? Fncjcnfk oh god i have GOT to come back to these, I've been getting advertised for them constantly and the acting looks. Hilarious lol
At first I thought they were ads for audiobooks and then I realized "wait holy shit these are like SKITS???" I can only imagine what these people are getting paid 😂
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mary-aries · 5 months
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Tag 9 people to get to know better
I was tagged by @johaerys-writes!
3 ships:
Patrochilles (TSOA) infected my brain almost a decade ago and I just never got over it.
VegasPete (KinnPorsche) -- it's toxic and awful, but it's my guilty pleasure.
I can see myself writing something for Kawi and Pisaeng from 'Be My Favorite', but I'm also really loving SandRay from 'Only Friends'
I'm going through a real Thai BL phase 😳
First ever ship: Merthur (Merlin/Arthur from 'Merlin'). Stand by it.
Last Song: Cleopatra - Mon Rovla
Last Movie: Either 'Barbie' or the 'My Beautiful Man (Eternal)' film.
Currently reading: I also read multiple books at a time! Currently --
Misery (Stephen King) - Audiobook
Night Shift (Stephen King) - Book
Mostly Guilty (Michael Challinger) - Kindle
Currently watching: 'Heels', 'Only Friends' and 'Kiseki'.
Currently consuming: Nothing, sadly.
Currently craving: Tea as well, of a sort. My best friend is into brewing really fancy teas, and I want to be that elite.
I'm too much of a lurker to know people on Tumblr, but thanks for the tag <3
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9 People You’d Like to Know More
tagged by @wen-kexing-apologist and @thewayofsubtext  <3
Tumblr keeps eating every draft of this post that I write, argh! 
Last Song I Listened To
When I started writing this, I was being lazy and letting the YouTube algorithm pick songs for me and I was listening to this song, Unfucktheworld by Angel Olsen. I've been exchanging song recommendations with a friend for a while now and I guess she has gotten to know me pretty well because this is way up my alley.
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But then another song came on--We Ride by Brave Girls (a.k.a. BB Girls)--and that became the new last song I listened to. It's another song that a friend recommended to me. This time it was a friend I've been emailing with back and forth about East Asian pop music. He's a big fan of City Pop, a genre that came out of Japan in the 80s, and he sent me a list of some recent kpop songs that are influenced by/reminiscent of City Pop, including this one. I took to it right away, and it was a big hit with my daughter. 
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Currently Watching
I Told Sunset About You - I’m just one episode in to this one and I can already tell it’s going to hit me where it hurts. I took a break due to family visits and related stuff but I’m fixing to dive back in. 
Moonlight Chicken - I got stalled out on this one just as it was getting good, thanks to some life stuff. I need to pick it back up!
Star Trek: Discovery - I’m a big Star Trek fan and recently rewatched everything from TNG through Voyager, but I hadn’t kept up with any of the newest series in years. I’m so glad I decided to start Discovery because it is shaping up to be one of my favorite Star Trek series. There are a lot of reasons for this. Really great LGBT+ representation is a factor. This is also is the first Star Trek series that has inspired more actor crushes in me than DS9. Michelle Yeoh in a corset! Tig Notaro as a cranky engineer! I’m dying over here. 
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Minato's Laundromat season 2 - I was looking forward to this as soon as it was announced, but with the usual anxiety that comes with a second season of a BL. I wasn’t 100% sure about the direction of the season at first, but now it’s settling in with some really interesting themes. 
Reservation Dogs - I wasn’t entirely sure about this show when I first started watching during the first season. But not only did it grow on me, it has also been getting better and better. The latest episode, which focused in part on an abusive government-sponsored boarding school (of the sort designed to rob Indigenous kids of their culture), was one of the best of the series so far. 
Edited to add: I forgot about Kamen Rider Geats! My family has been catching up on it and we're almost caught up just in time for the finale. I'm liking it a lot more than I thought I would when I watched the first few episodes, but not as much as my partner (who said he thinks it's one of his favorite Kamen Rider series he's seen). I'm really impressed with the cast, though. I'd especially like to see the actors who play Keiwa and Buffa in more things in the future.
Currently Reading
I’ve been listening to the audiobook version of The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act by Isaac Butler for a while now, but I’m having an annoying situation where it keeps getting returned to the library even though I’ve renewed it. I could just start another book, but I don’t want to! This one is really interesting. 
The vast majority of people spend a significant amount of their time watching (non-documentary) movies and TV series, which involves watching actors engage in this specific art form. And we have opinions about what constitutes good or bad acting. Yet most of us know so little about how acting is done, what kinds of theories underpin acting practice, how actors prepare for roles and scenes. I wanted to not only find out more about that, but also dig a little deeper into the differences between approaches and how they’ve branched off and clashed and so forth. 
So far I’ve gotten a lot of good background and plenty to think about, even though I’m just getting to the point where the Method/System/whateveryoucallit is starting to take on in the US. I’m guessing it’s going to get even more relevant from there.
Current Obsession
I’m always obsessing about lots of things so I’m probably never going to be able to identify just one. Some currents ones are:
waiting for Utsukushii Kare: Eternal to be available with English subtitles somewhere, somehow
foraging blackberries, making jelly out of them, and baking biscuits to go with the jelly
waiting for it to be fall already because I hate sweating and I love wearing layers
finding my Animal Crossing character some decent glasses
thinking about possible BL/Jane Austen parallels for tumblr posts
finishing a post about psychological aspects of Utsukushii Kare that I’ve been writing off and on for months and that has gotten so long it will probably have to be split up into 3-4 posts
Serge Lutens Jeux de Peau perfume (my beloved)
I didn't tag anyone. It makes me anxious and I think pretty much everyone I know on here has been tagged! Except @porridgefeast, who's welcome to do it if she feels like it but (of course) no pressure.
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chelle-68 · 8 months
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Desert Island Discs
New tag game! I say new: it must have been done before, but I haven’t seen it yet, so here goes.
You’re stranded on a desert island, but you can pick eight recordings, a book and a luxury item to have with you. You get the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible/other appropriate religious or philosophical book as a ‘freebie’. The luxury item must be inanimate and of no use in escaping the island or allowing communication from outside. What do you take? Say as much or as little as you like about why you made those picks.
Thank you for the tag @a-noble-dragon - this was a fun thing to ponder about.
First of all, yes and thank you - give me all the Shakespeare. That’s such a fantastic “freebie”. And for a religious or philosophical book, I will take “Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius.
Now the things I really had to think about.
Luxury item: I will need a toothbrush. When pondering all of the things I need to function in any given day, I can’t go without this simple thing. I can figure out how to live without coffee and my weighted blanket, etc. but I need to brush my teeth.
The one book. Ugh. Impossible to choose. Ok, so my stepson bought me a book a while ago that I just haven’t had the time to read and I think that’s my choice. All The Songs, The Story Behind Every Beatles Release.
8 recordings:
1. I have a bootleg cd of the U2 concert at Madison Square Garden that I went to about a month and a half after 9/11. It was unlike any concert I had ever been to. It felt spiritual, defiant, and meaningful and I felt like we were all collectively grieving yet grateful to be able to share this experience of coming together and sharing in the healing power of music. At least for a few hours, it felt good to be doing something “normal” and to sing and dance and, yeah, cry.
2. A video (I’m assuming recording can include video) of my son performing/singing.
3. The complete Schitt’s Creek set, because, obviously.
4. I’m stealing from @mostlyinthemorning and saying the Adjustments live video. Noah must release it! This way I will have the music of two of my favorite artists. U2 and Noah.
5. I’m going to cheat and pretend that Boyfriend Material and Husband Material are combined in one audio book (and if I have to choose, then just Boyfriend Material). I absolutely love these books and the narrator is fantastic. I laugh, I cry, I swoon. I love Luc and Oliver and Luc’s mother and Judy and his coworkers and his friends…they just bring me such joy.
6. Can I say the complete set of Harry Potter audiobooks? I’m so pissed at JK but I will always love Harry Potter.
7. A digital photo album filled with all my favorite photos of my son, family and friends.
8. Broadway cast recording of Into The Woods. I need some Broadway in my life everyday and I love Sondheim. Sweeney Todd is my favorite but if I’m stranded on a deserted island, I need something a little more hopeful and magical. Also, it would give me time to memorize all the parts of “Your Fault”.
This was fun to think about! I’m not sure who’s been tagged or done this yet since it took me a minute to do. I will tag @bl-anche73 @legalgal421 @beaiola @carolrain @tyfinn @obsessedwithdavrick @wearpersistencewell
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olderthannetfic · 1 year
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What things are you liking lately? Any potential recommendations for shows, movies, etc. I've been following for a bit and I've seen some of your posts and thought 'I should check that out' but when I come back it's often buried, so I thought I could just ask instead.
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Sure!
I don't watch a lot. It tends to make me feel overwhelmed and like all my time evaporated. Sitting down with a show or even a film is a commitment and takes concentration. It's not something I do to relax or veg. So at any given point in time, I probably don't have a new show I just watched.
The last two things I've consumed are a documentary on Korean shamanism on youtube and a book on the same. I wish it were an audiobook. That would have been more convenient.
I'm still obsessed with Beyond Evil. I need to start my Viki rewatch to see if the subtitles are different. Seriously, it's like they made a show for me. The tension! The ice prince who's actually bubbling over with emotions! The creepy old guy with big serial killer energy! It's a show full of Big Emotions and stakes that feel incredibly high, but it also didn't kill off most of the characters I thought it would and feels way more in tune with my innate optimism than most shows about dark subjects. That ending! *chef's kiss*
Other stuff I've been talking about lately has been revisiting old loves. I had a Trapeze phase after @adnirod pimped it tirelessly for years on LJ/DW. Well, and after I saw spoilers that it didn't end how I expected. (Look, when you say you want a "fixit" for a trapeze movie, I'm going to assume some things. Haha.)
I'm looking forward to the Netflix live action YuYu Hakusho. If it's terrible, it's popcorn time, and if it's good, I'll probably write some Kuwabara/Yusuke. But that's not for another year.
Also next year, Onmyouji is getting an anime adaptation for Netflix, so I guess I'll be back on the anime (as opposed to manga) train. I'm a fan of that franchise in general and thought the two recent Chinese entries, The Yin Yang Master and The Yin Yang Master: Dream of Eternity, were both interesting. DoE is a lot gayer, though nothing in this franchise is actually BL, just subtexty bromance. The old Japanese films are camp classics and were my big fandom in like 2006.
I finished watching Kei x Yaku because I requested it for Yuletide. It was super cute. I thought the show was flawed in various ways, but it had some great material. Ironically, the sister is probably my favorite part despite it being BL. I also loved how plotty it was even if not all of that was executed well.
I remain a fan of Ancient Detective, which I also requested for Yuletide. That show is fucking absurd, and I'm devastated we probably won't get a second season to resolve the cliffhanger/sequelbait. I wanted to see the muahaha villainy!
I'm in the middle of fertility treatments and finishing a novel, so that's mostly where my head's at. I've also been getting back into knitting and language study. I'm not really in a fandom acquisition phase.
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rigelmejo · 2 years
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Well. Beyond upset that bilibili seems to have removed a ton of priest related videos such as modu and youfei. Ximalaya also removed modu and youfei. I've got modu backed up and I'm so glad I did since I can't find it anywhere online now.
In happier news, found a nice guy who us making audiobooks with chinese subs on youtube. Specifically a lot of danmei; https://youtu.be/QaEqGYxMZe8
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laurenkmyers · 1 year
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biblebuild friends, do we think that the novel euthanasia/spare me your mercy by the author sammon is actually going to be the next biblebuild bl series????
because i’m currently listening to the audiobook on youtube and it is perfect for them
it’s got serial killer for bui
it’s got captain/detective for bible
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Going to Defcon this weekend? I'm giving a keynote, "An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification and Throw it Into Reverse," tomorrow (Aug 12) at 12:30pm, followed by a book signing at the No Starch Press booth at 2:30pm!
https://info.defcon.org/event/?id=50826
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#20yrsago Ultima’s economic indicators http://www.juliandibbell.com/playmoney/2003_08_01_playmoney_archive.html#106022990884580908
#15yrsago Traffic cams bring in $250,000/month in a town with a $4.6 million budget https://web.archive.org/web/20080813150522/https://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/47592.html
#15yrsago Wal-Mart: you can’t scan century-old photos of your ancestors because copyright lasts forever https://www.flickr.com/groups/100_years_old/discuss/72157594167106526/
#15yrsago Janes in Love: graphic novel is a call-to-art for young people https://memex.craphound.com/2008/08/12/janes-in-love-graphic-novel-is-a-call-to-art-for-young-people/
#10yrsago NYPD stop-and-frisk procedure ruled unconstitutional https://www.nythttps://web.archive.org/web/20180812142041/https://www.bitcoinstacks.com/wbb/index.php?thread/15081-exclusive-interview-with-a-twitter-eth-giveaway-scam-ringleader-making-50k-100k/imes.com/2013/08/13/nyregion/stop-and-frisk-practice-violated-rights-judge-rules.html
#10yrsago Podcast of “Metadata – a wartime drama” https://ia600704.us.archive.org/28/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_255/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_255_Metadata_A_Wartime_Drama.mp3
#10yrsago Jimmy Wales: Wikipedia won’t surveil users for China https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-DGB-28426
#5yrsago The eminently hackable police bodycam https://www.wired.com/story/police-body-camera-vulnerabilities/
#5yrsago Interview with a cryptocurrency scammer https://web.archive.org/web/20180812142041/https://www.bitcoinstacks.com/wbb/index.php?thread/15081-exclusive-interview-with-a-twitter-eth-giveaway-scam-ringleader-making-50k-100k/
#1yrago The FTC takes aim at commercial surveillance https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/12/regulatory-uncapture/#conscious-uncoupling
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I'm kickstarting the audiobook for "The Internet Con: How To Seize rhe Means of Computation," a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and bring back the old, good internet. It's a DRM-free book, which means Audible won't carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now to get the audio, Verso hardcover and ebook:
http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org
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mejomonster · 1 year
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I gotta say bilibili is exceptional at recommending me bl content I actually wanna check out. I checked the app today and a horror danmei animated manhua (those vids with manhua with voice over and sound effects and music) came right up, some pingxie ultimate note reactions, a fan made sha po lang episode edit I'm probably just going to watch cause who knows when actual spl is coming out (and the talent of edits that big is impressive), Dage audiobook, a japanese musical with chinese subs, and some bl show. Amazing
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