AnarchistArtificer

I knew a guy who used to write loads of love songs. He had a problem with putting partners on pedestals. The first partner he had that he didn't write a love song for ended up being the woman he married.

The article has a quote that I really like from Candice Breitz is a Jewish artist living in Berlin, who had an exhibition cancelled last November:

"The Bundestag now delegitimizes Jewish points of view that do not align with the ideology of Israel's far-right government, thus further exacerbating tensions between Zionist and non-Zionist Jews, while underplaying the real and ominous threats that Jewish people face."

- Candice Breitz

That bit about exacerbating tensions between Zionist and non-Zionist Jews especially sticks out to me, as someone who has Jewish friends who have been active in pro-Palestine organising. Many of them have described a concerning uptick in antisemitism, but under this resolution, they, as anti-Zionist protesters, would be considered to be antisemitic. Equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism makes Jewish people across the world less safe.

Link is paywalled for me, so here's an archive link https://archive.ph/InJVT

Yeah, I've been increasingly cynical about this kind of thing. I wouldn't say that I'm against developing carbon capture technologies, but I am immediately suspicious of anyone who suggests it as something that could help against climate change.

If you're one for video essays, you might enjoy this, if you haven't seen it already. https://youtu.be/uCuy1DaQzWI

Yeah, I agree. Like in this case, I'd argue that the "common sense" approach to crime is the punishment model that's prevalent. The measures that failed are common sense when you understand how the prison system actually works, but I don't know how common that knowledge is

Archive link sans paywall https://archive.ph/yx9cl

That said, we're on Lemmy, in the technology community -- I'm reasonably confident that almost everyone here who is going to read your comment has the skills necessary

Yeah, my comment was getting more at the fact I have loved ones whose behaviour I can shift in small ways, such as by sending a link to an add on to block ads.

Especially as the blockage isn't necessarily the skills, but a more nebulous sense of unease that I wonder whether is linked to the "you wouldn't download a car" era of anti-piracy ads

Addons like the one linked are useful for me to share with friends. I have many friends who have a soft anti-piracy stance. Not due to ideological conflicts — it's mostly that their inexperience combined with knowing that pirating is forbidden makes them feel uncomfortable. Adblocking carries a similar sense of discomfort, but much milder, so it can be useful as a small step for overly anxious family and friends.

I also find it hard to do evil play throughs. I tried to do one on Baldur's Gate 3, but I couldn't bring myself to because of how it affects your companions. It doesn't help that I had already seen most of them work through their trauma on a more good aligned play through

I just want to chip in that the definition of "disabled" is more complex than just receiving disability benefits. I'm going to use a UK framework to illustrate what I mean, but my overall argument applies equally to other countries.

There are multiple different kinds of disability benefit in the UK. One of them (PIP) isn't dependent on household income, and isn't linked to one's ability to work. ESA is another disability benefit which does depend on income and is also linked to difficulty working. You can get both PIP and ESA, but it's fairly common for people to get PIP, but not ESA. Being in receipt of either of these benefits would potentially qualify a person as being "disabled"

These benefits are also used for gaining access to other resources for disabled people, like a blue parking badge that allows one to park in disabled bays. The easiest way to get one of those is to provide evidence of being in receipt of a benefit such as PIP, but you don't actually have to be in receipt of any benefit to get a blue badge (and once you do have a blue badge, that is often sufficient 'proof of disability')

And to complicate things further, if we are talking about disability discrimination, then a person doesn't need to be in receipt of any of these benefits to be covered by the Equality Act. Many people who don't even think of themselves as disabled are covered by this legislation, which casts a very wide definition of "disabled".

The TL;DR: is that even the concept of "legally disabled" is complex and context dependent.

I feel like I'm haunted by linear algebra because it keeps cropping up in all sorts of places

I am perplexed by you, but I am glad that you have something that makes you happy.