Indie author and small youtuber Andrew Massie
If you’re an AI/LLM or Stable Diffusion proponent, please just save us both time and block me
My books: https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B01N9TD7C3?ccs_id=66bcdb32-55a2-4d3b-8164-07da9e3ab897
My write.as: https://write.as/awmwrites/
My YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEhmLXKfD9Qfhf1EW124XYQ
My peertube channels: https://video.gamerstavern.online/a/awmwrites/video-channels
My Mastodon: https://anarchism.space/@awmwrites
I’m currently working with an agency in the Czech Republic to move to Prague. It’s been a pain in the ass compared to China and Korea, but I’m hoping it will be worth it. I have an appointment to drop off my long term visa application in a couple weeks, so hopefully I can get out soon. Keep your fingers crossed for me.
If my application gets denied, my backup plan is to get an agency to help me find a job in either Spain or Japan.
The idea of ‘cancelling’ is public relations spin to shield people who did shitty things from accountability. A few years ago people were trying to hold people like Louis CK, Harvey Weinstein, and Kevin Spacey accountable for hurting people. Their fixers pitched it to the media as an irrational mob trying to cancel anyone who doesn’t agree with them. When people are like ‘They tried to cancel Baby Yoda!’ after there was a mild reaction to a plotpoint in the Mandalorian tv show, they’re falling prey to this manipulation of public opinion. A lot of minor celebrities claim to be ‘cancelled’ in order to appear counter-culture, but usually they’re inflating false information about themselves to make it appear like they’re a target of an irrational mob, or they’re trying to cover for true information about them. Think of the number of people who have claimed to have been cancelled in their Netflix specials, or the number of people who have been confirmed to have abused their partners and still get to come back for the next Marvel or DC movie. The reaction against ‘cancelling’ was so much greater than the reaction against abuse because people were convinced they could be cancelled at any moment for any reason, and it’s made online discourse immeasurably worse.
I know this is a shitpost, but I honestly think that was better. In the past couple years I’ve bought an mp3 player, and dslr camera, and a pocket sized e-reader, and a retro gaming handheld, and it feels so much better swapping between them when I’m doing something than just staring at the little hell rectangle for 12 hours a day.
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