cool links VII: psychological sovereignty, printer tracking dots, fascism
What I recently read or watched worth sharing:
- The Right To Psychological Sovereignty by Cortrinkau. The latter half especially; about seeking out content on your own, opting into it, no microtargeting. Feeling like you have more control of what your brain engages with.
- Hatsune Miku network stresser tool for anyone who might need it ;D
- This Pokemon Playtest Card Scam getting exposed by analyzing printer tracking dots. I didn’t know those existed.
- Building an offline archive: A guide by Natalie. Links and resources for exactly that!
- Speaking of that, here’s a video on DIY HRT you should back up and keep in a safe place.
- You Can’t Post Your Way Out Of Fascism (archive) by Janus Rose. Chef kiss! I love so much about this one, I have a hard time choosing a quote. “In the days since the inauguration, I’ve watched people on Bluesky and Instagram fall into these same old traps. My timeline is full of reactive hot takes and gotchas by people who still seem to think they can quote-dunk their way out of fascism—or who know they can’t, but simply can’t resist taking the bait. The media is more than willing to work up their appetites. Legacy news outlets cynically chase clicks (and ad dollars) by disseminating whatever sensational nonsense those in power are spewing. This in turn fuels yet another round of online outrage, edgy takes, and screenshots exposing the “hypocrisy” of people who never cared about being seen as hypocrites, because that’s not the point.”
- The Bad Guys Won And We Are Still Queer by Cliff. This piece was important for me to read and share because the focus on the bad and doomscrolling news or timelines can make you forget that inbetween it all, there are moments of just living. Relief. Fun, even. And that's important and okay, you shouldn't feel guilty for that. Quote: "And more important than hope for the future, what I want to give you today is hope for the now. Because while being queer in the 90s sucked, on a day to day basis it often didn’t. On that small scale I had queer friends and we cuddled and flirted and watched anime together on a horrible brown couch in my friend’s basement. We played with the cats and we wrote extremely bad fanfiction about boys kissing and we got in a big stupid fight about Final Fantasy VII and we… we lived our lives, you know? Without permission from society, without even fully understanding ourselves, there was still so much in our lives that was good." Please also read the quote of the grandfather :)
- Selfishness in AI by Rodrigo Ghedin. A good piece going more in-depth as to why the recent AI ads, particularly by Apple, feel absolutely horrible. "Who will be the dad and daughters, made fools of by someone unsuspecting, who (in theory) wants the best for us?"
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