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I am contemplaying moving to poland for my career. It is still very theoretical at this point, but if I chose to live there, what are some things to keep in mind? If it helps, I am German. Do I need to learn Polish or can I communicate with many people there in English?

What are some cultural things to maybe brace yourself for, as a vegan, woman or queer person?

Today’s game is Minecraft Legacy Console edition. All this Pokemon and Assassin’s creed I’ve been playing lately has left me wanting to play something a little calmer. I remembered the PC decomp of Xbox 360 Edition and booted it up with a world and just took it easy.

I found a horse and accidentally locked myself into the tutorial. I know it’s mundane but there’s this calm, almost amused sigh that comes from locking myself into for a few seconds. For anyone not familiar, when you see something new the console editions will give you a pop up saying “Hey. Here’s a new thing. Press A to hear more and Press B if you already know about it”. It does this for every world. I used to be running and jumping around so much that I’d press A. The issue is it locks the A button so no more jumping. That whole experience to me is just nostalgic in a way. Like if you ever visit an old game console and remember a flaw it had that you have to deal with again? Same feeling.

I ended up finding this island where I built a shack. Night settled and I hunkered down. Zombies break doors on normal in this one so I locked myself in and rushed to finish the roof to stop spiders. When day came I found a few bones and tamed a dog I found from skeletons who burned up.

Finally after all that I built a bed and lit up my little house. The cobblestone in the floor is from when I dig a stair case down to mine stone. I didn’t light it up so a creeper spawned down there. I panicked and just barricaded it up to protect myself. After all that I felt like I had accomplished quite a bit and decided to get back to Pokemon Platinum. While waiting on friends to catch up to me I was farming the Pokédex so that break was well needed

I don't know much but I know that house has a pot of gold 😁

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Before y’all get all riled up and such, this is not me about to defend something the world over said ‘no’ to, but neither is this me about to join in and condemn it, either. It is not a slight at the fans, and it is not a slight at the producers of the show. Instead, this is a short discussion on some thoughts I had on how both Russell T Davies (RTD) and the fans, collectively may be entirely missing the point here.

First, context, for those who don’t know:

In Doctor Who lore, Davros is a character who was introduced in 1975 as the creator of iconic villains the Daleks (about 12 years after the debut of the Daleks themselves). According to the story, Davros became a deformed, chair-using maniac after some sort of explosion (I’m not 100% up on this, but the point is that Davros was depicted as always using this Dalek-style wheelchair-like device).

In 2023, RTD wrote a mini-episode sketch titled “Destintion: Skaro”. The minisode, which is considered ‘canon’ to the main show, ‘retcons’ Davros into a non-deformed (or non ‘disabled’ person, as per RTD). RTD gave his reasoning and was quoted as saying:

We had long conversations about bringing Davros back because he's a fantastic character. Time and society and culture and taste has moved on, and there's a problem with the Davros of old in that he's a wheelchair user who's evil. And I had problems with that, and a lot of us on the production team had problems with that, of associating disability with evil, and trust me, there's a very long tradition of this. I'm not blaming people in the past at all, but the world changes, and when the world changes Doctor Who has to change as well. So we made the choice to bring back Davros without the facial scarring and without the wheelchair or his support unit, which functions as a wheelchair. I say this is how we see Davros now. This is what he looks like. This is 2023, this is our lens, this is our eye. Things used to be black and white, they're not black and white anymore. And Davros used to look like that and he looks like this now, and that we are absolutely standing by.

As you can imagine, this led to backlash, and strong feelings on both sides. Fans lashed out at what they perceived as over-sensitive, while RTD went as far as to mock fans who appeared to only be trying to engage in meaningful conversation. (I don’t like making jibes, but could the man who gave us ‘Midnight’ really not come up with anything better than ‘oh poor baby’ there???)

However, in the storm of media barbs, I’m looking at this whole debate. And I’m thinking something: are both sides missing the point here?

What if (and yes, this is arguably more controversial, but it’s a point that needs be made) the question we should be asking is not ‘how should Daveos be brought back’, but rather: should Davros be a character who is even brought back in the first place?

Hear me out: If there’s one thing that this whole debate brings to light, it’s that Davros is, or at least has become a decisive character. This particular debate between the fans and RTD did not start with them — there has been debate over whether Davros represents disabled users (consider this: both Little Britain and Phoenix Nights, shows which are 20+ years old now, both referred to a character in a wheelchair as ‘Davros’, so the comparison (and therefore likely the question) has existed long before this). Knowing this, it’s almost baffling that RTD simply didn’t think to let past grievances lie, rather than let himself be perceived as some sort of wokeish Mary Whitehouse-type showrunner.

Furthermore, all that aside, does bringing Davros back even make sense simply from a narrative perspective? Sure, they say anything can go on a sci-fi time-travelling show, but what more does Davros have to offer from a narrative perspective, able-bodied or not? In fact, looking back on Davros’ character history, all he ever seems to have really done is sat around and get dominated by the Daleks (and maybe act as their scientist or whatever). The appeal of Davros, therefore, doesn’t seem to be his narrative as much as his cool design. And if there needs to be debate over his design, then maybe it would be logical for the creators to say ‘ok, he had some cool episodes. Let them episodes stand, and let’s move on with some fresh, new villains’ (interestingly enough, RTD is on record as saying that he wanted to bring fresh new villains [that said, he then proceeded to bring back Sutekh, the Rani, and Omega, amongst others]).

To be clear, this is not necessarily my personal opinion, just some interesting thoughts I had as I observed the whole debate. What’s your thoughts?

A/I stands for Autistici/Inventati.

A/I (Autistici/Inventati, pronounced [au’tistiʧi]-[iŋ’vɛntati], or [iŋvɛn’tati]) was born in 2001 from an encounter of individuals and collectives of the autonomous anticapitalist movement interested in technology and active in the digital rights struggle. We believe that this world is far from being the best world possible. We react by providing a platform and tools for digital self-defense addressing the need of free communication for activists and other individuals.

The day we discovered we had been designated a global terrorist organization, we promised that we would try to resist as long as this was possible, that we would not back down as long as we could see options to stand our ground.

We cannot engage in a fight or expose ourselves to manipulations that threaten the lives of these people and their loved ones, leaving them at the mercy of autocrats, fascists and agencies that take extra-legal courses of action.

What happened? First their main domain, autistici.org, was blocked globally by the US entity that provides the ".org" TLD. More recently their bank shut down their funds because of caving in to pressure that ultimately comes from the same source.

Full context/statement about the domain shutdown:
https://www.inventati.org/campaign/press

I also made some posts about this earlier. You can probably guess that I've been relying on their services, for a long time. And not even for particularly political reasons - they give email accounts to people who care for privacy and anonymity. Or used to.

They announce this new site:
https://keepitfree.ai/announcements/announcing-https/keepitfree.ai/

Personally I'm just shocked how US policy reaches and impacts my normal peaceful European life.

Fuck the US government. Being AntiFa is not terrorism. Being against AntiFa means you're Fa.

PS: Sorry for posting this to several world news communities. I feel this topic should shake the Fediverse.
Remember:
This can happen to any ".org" domain, and possibly many other TLDs that are controled by entities that are prone to give into US bullying. Or your bank will cave to US pressure.

An investigation by Gamers Nexus found LG smart TVs sweep local networks to map phones and nearby devices. Tests also showed the sets can capture microphone audio with the screen off — they then upload data once reconnected to the internet.

My windowsill.

I dont expect it to go anywhere, but I got a laugh from it. Could be fun if other people do it too

He was all profit

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1385133/grapheneos-will-overhaul-default-apps-and-implement-a-secure-clipboard