i miss shreyan

sorry for bugging u all the time 😢 thanks for helping me a bunch 😢 i’ll never know what the non-silhouette version of you looks like (and that’s pretty metal honestly)

oh yea like reasonably, it’s unfair to expect. but part of the weird territory that politics is that it demands more than we’re capable of, and then you have to make tradeoffs and prioritization decisions. (for a recent example, see malala/palestine)

because of the above demands, it’s less that i think everyone has to read everything, moreso that i think everyone has a political theory (at least implicitly) and that those politics are open to critique of being mis/under-informed when they inevitably crop up.

the original impetus for the subskeet was seeing people celebrate the opposite anti-intellectualism: “labels/political theory are constraining! just believe what feels right!” so the weakest version of my claim is that one shouldn’t actively endorse ignorance

a stronger version is that one of the roadblocks to a better world is well-meaning people uncritically maintaining the same core political commitments with a progressive reformist coat of paint, and without self-reflection they’re basically sociological zombies mindlessly reproducing the status quo

srry 4 yap i’m clearly bad at this microblog thing

shall we? cheers my friends

i know you were but it’s okay, i forgive you ❤️

“i’m a data SCIENTIST not a data STRUCTURIST” i love her so much lol

the coast is clear chat, turns out she just got hash table mixed up with a hash set

leaves a solid 70% for whooziwhatsits

okay i completely understand now. kasey lied to me and led me into confusion grumble grumble

looks like nina turner won 😭

what about gizmos

hehe no worries it was mostly for the meme anyway, gl gl

wait so is your hash array a contiguous block in memory? what if it’s like hella big

that’s how you generate the hashed value right? but like when you actually go scrounging around for it in memory how do you look that up in O(1) and not just like looping over shit

how the FUCK does hashmap lookup work

@aviva.gay kasey said you would know and that she’s too stupid to explain pls help my family is dying

1 year bitches

we both know you cannot be bound by such limiting dichotomies

whether or not this is true or not in the general case, politics is certainly not one of those domains. ignorance is not neutral; inaction is partisan. if one group demands intervention, they won’t be comforted to hear their opponents are aware of their ignorance.

consider the example of climate change. climate refugees won’t be satisfied that the citizens of world superpowers can’t bring themselves to care enough to do anything. the argument is that they *should* care, familiarize themselves, and act.

if you take umbrage with laying the blame at the feet of “citizens” in the above example, this applies equally to small scale interpersonal relations as well. gender, race, disability, etc. ignorance isn’t neutral here either, because the default and inherited behavior and attitudes are abhorrent.

or at least, can be argued to be so, and therefore there is no uncontested space to appeal to, and the opposite evaluation is equally as political 😉

before i talked to you directly: 7 now: i will shitpost in your replies with reckless abandon

i pretty much believe in social contagion theory but i don’t really think much hinges on it

hegemonic cisheretopatriarchy is social contagion. countercultural social contagion is probably a thing too, but i don’t see why i should care. i probably dislike both

“your peers influence you, even in deeply personal ways like what identities you assert”

you all think she’s joking but it’s /gen my asexual queen hates that

every day when i get to work i have a ritual to turn my phone volume down all the way before i get in the elevator, lest i accidentally press play and my phone starts blasting things like: “yea i’m a pedophile, i love my girlfriend but she’s in the first grade”

well yea that’s the secret right? we read so that we can have better vibe checks 😉

goood morning bluesky ☀️ happy wednesday! i hope you pop off and lock in today 💙

this will continue until senpai mark notices me

nobody is “on their own”. their intuitions, values, beliefs, etc. are informed from the context they find themselves in. no one is free from labels, but many try to refuse that existing labels have influence on their thinking.

not going window shopping for an ideology and dogmatically sticking to it is obviously a good thing. but pretending like one can be free from labels, is just a recipe to unknowingly adopt positions while being unfamiliar with where they are situated historically and ideologically.

getting your politics based off vibes is not actually liberating, it just means you’re unconsciously endorsing a whole bunch of things you don’t understand

this obviously doesn’t mean you have to ascribe a label to yourself (one of my personal political-philosophical positions is to be anti-identity), but it does mean you should read, and read widely, to understand the categories and concepts you invoke

the tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living, etc etc

well-adjusted person reaction: 😊 me: noooo shreyan human rights and autonomy suck, ditch the kantian baggage 😢 www.researchgate.net/publication/...

ok but this was literally me before shreyan c̶a̶l̶l̶e̶d̶ helped me out (okay not oauth but it was close)

i am superior to everyone, just in ways that are not marketable or commodifiable (which is only further evidence of their value). additionally, the fact that no one recognizes i am superior to them is simply evidence that they are too stupid to recognize my greatness

this is like /hhhj (half half half joking)

willow’s value to kasey ranked lowest to highest: 5: lifelong lover 4: closest confidant 3: coworker 2: oomf 1: driver to auto shop

you and me both sister