thefunkycomitatus [comrade/them, they/them]

Yeah but steel is heavier than feathers.

Removed by mod

Do you think we’re being soft on him because of his social status?

Birds stay winning over the semantically barren great apes.

Don’t get me started on Illustrator. I’m used to Photoshop after a decade but I tried to start using Illustrator for better vector work and for a laser cutter. Every useful thing is hidden. Everything you’ll never use is up front in the menus. Esoteric keyboard shortcuts for tools you don’t need. Basic features have no button or UI element associated with them. Bounding boxes and snapping works differently than Photoshop.

Then when it comes to Photoshop and pros using it for painting, there are now so many more cooler paint-emulating software out there. It makes PS feel extremely outdated with its brush control and having to figure out the right blend mode combination and that stupid triangle-line brush facsimile in the interface.

They used Space X as the filming location for Hammer Industries in Iron Man 2. Which is it’s own nugget because Musk is more of a Justin Hammer than Stark, depending on how much credit you want to give Stark as a character.

I looked up her agent because I was curious. Her agent just left one talent management company for another. Like a few days ago. Sidney is keeping her agent so technically she is under a new agency. I’m curious if this is part of a new PR package the new place created for her.

Marketplace of ideas

Why are we going from “weekly relitigation of the already discussed shortcomings of the socdem mayor” to now doing it twice daily?

It’s an interesting illustration of how news travels around the internet and a single story gets covered multiple times, making it seem bigger than it is. It’s not new and it’s how social media amplifies certain narratives and how people become trapped in propaganda loops. I’m not saying this specific story is propaganda, I’m talking about how news travels around the internet in general.

It travels between sites in a loop. Twitter to reddit, reddit to hexbear. Or directly from twitter to hexbear. It’s cyclical in time. A story gets posted, people digest and move on. It comes back around after traveling the loop, now the story is fresh again and seems like a new instance of the same event. News also gets digested and regurgitated. An initial story happens, gets posted and discussed. Then a news outlet in need of content writes a story about the reaction to the story. This makes the event seem like it’s happening again or constantly.

All this adds up to people thinking one event happens multiple times and often. This is why crime reporting is so effective in detaching people from understanding real risk. Even if we understand all this, we’re not immune to it. For all of our criticism and media awareness, we still fall into these traps.