(5 years late, covered in sweat) GUYS.... I JUST PLAYED OUTER WILDS
a good example of a “social construct” is national borders. bc like:
arbitrary and made up
but strongly enforced
often unfair & unreasonably defined
used as a tool of oppression
can be changed at any time but only by the powerful (and so are usually only changed to benefit the powerful)
individuals spend their lives accommodating them at great cost
so when we say “social construct” we don’t mean “not real.” we mean “hey we control the way this thing works, and the way it exists now is hurting a lot of people. so we should probably design it better & make it less rigid. which we can do, bc we built it.”
its important to have a game on your wishlist that keeps going on sale every couple of months and you still never buy it
It's always corporate infrastructure Over the structure of your face
me lately
are we not feeling very pious today, brother lionel
oh boy i sure do love having tons of trinkets
the nefarious dust particle:
Omg I'm so excited, this seems like it's going to be very adventury and I can't wait
The Intrepid Heroes return for a new season of Dimension 20, arriving on Dropout starting June 4th!
Prepare to go upward, skyward - nay, Cloudward Ho! ☁️
Hayao Miyazaki on AI
EDIT: I took this from Bluesky without checking the full context (didn’t really think I needed to because it seemed like something Miyazaki would say. Still I should have) since then it has come to my attention that he was specifically talking about ableism here and not directly about AI.
I’m attaching the whole excerpt here: