mcc

mcc

@dryad.technology

glitch girl — I do not trust this place and would prefer you follow me on Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@mcc — A mixtape for you: https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/feed/listening-to — Avatar by @urnash.com‬ — 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 — she/her

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Trouble System
@treat.kandicritter.sqky.one

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disagree; human dwellings are more like an eldritch structure. the equivilent to the backrooms is those perfect grids of trees made by reforestation efforts. something so close to being familiar, but just wrong enough to be unsettling.

mcc
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Incidentally if you didn't connect the dots: The guy who did this won his election two weeks later

mcc
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I was gonna stream something on streamplace but I couldn't get Linux to work with my second monitor so I… did nothing. Maybe tomorrow.

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Erin Reed
@erininthemorning.com

Hey everyone! I’m working on a huge election day guide and I want to ask all of you: what are your favorite races this year that are COMPETITIVE that a Democrat has not embraced anti-trans talking points? What are the races that you think are the most important in America or your state?

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Kathryn Tewson
@kathryntewson.bsky.social

for my friends in Western Washington, remember that the phone number for the Seattle chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild is 206-OK-TRY-ME

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social

Last year today was one of the scariest days of my life. We initially called a lawyer who wanted to work with feds to arrange a perp walk. Kat told that guy to fuck himself. Thank God for the National Lawyer's Guild, who Kat called right after. They were ready to fight the bullshit on zero notice.

mcc
@dryad.technology

Still not sure who this guy is. He's on Twitch? I got mad at Jeff Bezos and kinda stopped using Twitch

mcc
@dryad.technology

My mental model for who is the *most*, the very most, likely to go all-in on AI is someone who *used* to be very creative and capable, sometimes 20 or 30 or 40 years ago, but since has moved upward into a position where they pretty much just tell other creative people what to do

mcc
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If I'm right, the sympathetic view is "they want to recapture that feeling of being young and able to do a lot themselves and quickly". They're failing to accept getting old means slowing down. An unsympathetic view is "they're tired of their underlings talking back to them and AI doesn't talk back"

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union person@junlper.beer

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

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This is before we get into the thing where *every single one* of these conversations erases the existence of trans men/trans mascs completely

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Thread about political tactics in Lula's turnaround in the Brazilian election, link goes to middle, link 1 of 3

Bruno Dies@brunodias.dev

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

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Thread about political tactics in Lula's turnaround in the Brazilian election, link goes to middle, link 2 of 3

D.D.B.Torres@ddbtorres.bsky.social

we witnessed Brazilians traveling and coming back to save our democracy; we witnessed the elderly who didn't for decades trying to make a difference; we witnessed teenagers who don't legally need to vote but wanted to anyway. it was the biggest turnout in our democracy.

mcc
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Standalone post about Lula's turnaround in the Brazilian election, link 3 of 3.

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

mcc
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If you have an upcoming wedding or bar/bat mitzvah in the Los Angeles area and you are not reading this thread about Io's portable experimental composition / ambient drone setup you are missing *out*

👁️saac 👁️o@eyesack.bsky.social

Available for weddings and bar mitzvahs

mcc
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The kids these days all love Drone, they don't wanna hear about Britney Spears they're all like oh, William Basinski

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mcc
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Then there's that *actual* case of a boy in girls' sports, the trans boy in Texas who went on T at a normative time, grew up with a typical boys' body because that's what happens when you give trans kids actual transition care. Forced to compete in high school girls' wrestling. *No one* was happy.

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mcc
@dryad.technology

Replying to @aquma.bsky.social

I think it's more that all these conversations focus around "boys in girls sports" which seems to encode the assumptions of (1) female-identified trans are still men and (2) all trans are MAAB. Neither the Republicans nor Democrats pushing for sports bans acknowledge FAABs. But the bans apply anyway

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union person@junlper.beer

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

View full thread
mcc
@dryad.technology

You can't talk about it without reinforcing their frames, but if I were gonna try to refute it it's hilariously easy. They're all like "imagine a big strong boy playing sports with your daughter!" and I'm like dude, that kid's literally trying to get put on *puberty blockers* but you made it illegal

Aquma@aquma.bsky.social

not only that but they frame it as "men in girls sports" to make it harder to defend on their terms. It's the "when did you stop beating your wife" framing. How to even point out how absurd all this is without giving in to their stupid game?

mcc
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Do you have *any idea* how weak you feel when you don't have estrogen or testosterone in your body? I do. It's rough! "Postoperative" trans women actually have lower sustained T levels than typical cis women—ovaries produce testosterone. If you wanted "fairness" you'd give trans women T supplements!

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union person@junlper.beer

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

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union person
@junlper.beer

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

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Adam Gashlin
@hcs64.bsky.social

This reminded me of seeing Loud Objects at Blip Festival 2007, soldering on top of a projector in the midst of the crowd. Not especially similar, but the closest I've witnessed. youtu.be/HYU4-OF2ewQ

youtu.beLoud Objects Performance at Blip Festival 07YouTube video by Mateo Zlatar
mcc@dryad.technology

What I listened to today: "Nagra SN demo with Modern Sounds Pluto v3", troy mckaskle A musician records every meticulous step of making a short 40-second retro-synth motif, running a modern aleatoric unit into a 1970s vintage portable tape unit to saturate the waves www.youtube.com/watch?v=OX6a...

youtube.comNagra SN demo with Modern Sounds Pluto v3YouTube video by troy mckaskle