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You know the curb cutters effect, where an infrastructural change designed to help disabled people helps other demographics too?
I feel like we should talk about the evil inverse of that, when a change designed to hurt a marginalized group ends up hosing everyone else too, if only to push against it.
The biggest example of this would be, of course, hostile architecture...
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Being seen in an AI social world
This post came to my attention today.
It’s difficult to put my feelings (and thoughts) into words right now. I know consent has been a difficult topic in the technology world for a while, and it’s no surprise the whole AI thing became so pervasive so quickly given the absurd investment these companies made in making it the trending topic of the decade and a toy accessible to anyone.
I have many questions, regarding the computational power dedicated to a tool that’s geared towards destroying creative work, a tool that fails so fundamentally in understanding the process of creating art yet claims to surpass it. I have questions regarding the energy and water costs of keeping the massive servers they certainly need, when scarcity is an ever present threat in a world that heats up more every year. I question all the dedication and investment when we have far more pressing issues of illness, hunger, inequality, and the list could go on.
I question why are we living in a world that’s incapable to control the greed and maliciousness of companies who exploit their users at every new development.
I don’t usually talk about myself a lot here, but I’m also a UX/UI designer, so I’m familiar with the process of Design Thinking, of creating a product based on the user needs…and features that hide themselves subtly to make the users fall into a trap is just hostile design. This is the world of hostile design. I don’t get respect as a user, as a creator, as a worker, as a citizen. If I did, my representatives would have the balls to stop all these policies and decisions from companies that want to leech me.
They want to chew my art, spit me out of the market and confine me to this horrible online experience.
I’m not sure what I should do at the moment. Maybe I’ll take all my art posts down from tumblr, maybe I’ll create a telegram channel later to post my art and talk to people. I have no idea which is the best route at the moment. I felt pressure to “put me out there and be seen” my whole life.
Interact with viewers.
create a fan base.
But it feels like no platform respects me enough right now, and I’m not willing to give up all of me. Opt-out is not enough.
Sorry for the long post.
#ai scraping#data scraping#digital art#fuck ai all my homies hate ai#opt-out#hostile design#social media#artists on tumblr#brazilian artists
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I've been using the tumblr app a bit to link a friend posts in-text, and I just want to say that having the Log Out button RIGHT BENEATH THE DELETE ACCOUNT BUTTON is the most fucked up example of deliberately, vindictively user-unfriendly design I can think of. No WONDER ppl are constantly deleting their accounts on accident!
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Fuck maybe later, fuck not now, if I wanted you turn on your shitty service that exists only to extract more value from me I’d seek it out
I'm fed up with "maybe later".
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The single most infuriating thing that appeared in the last few years was the trend of setting grocery stores up in a way that makes it pretty much impossible to leave them without
a) buying something
or
b) inconveniencing the already overworked and understaffed employees
They try to frame it as a natural consequence of self checkouts but you definitely could do one without the other. Some stores do and they are doing just fine
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Fuck hostile architecture, I want unhostile architecture. I want benches to be designed to be as easy as possible to sleep on. I want little places for pigeons to nest to be purposefully put on buildings. I want people designing public spaces to think about what they'd be like to skateboard on. I want "Please loiter" signs. I want people to be kind. I want...
#my thougts#196#words#hostile#hostile architecture#anti homeless architecture#architecture#desgin#homeless#leftist#leftism#praxis#urbanism#city design#socialism
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so i dont love you !
#gempearl#shinyduo#wild life smp#hostile and divorce arc i am so ready for you#pearl wont even know what hit her actually#my art#trafficblr#super messy designs but idrc im not a character designer im just some guy#i said i wasnt a char designer but i wanted gem to have like a racer . farmer kind of outfit to match joel's car thing#pearl#gem#its 2 am thinking about them#mcyt
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Playing one of those Backrooms-inspired liminal horror games and my first sign that I've passed into some unnatural realm is that there's way too much accessible public seating.
#gaming#video games#backrooms#liminal horror#game design#accessibility#hostile architecture#ableism mention
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Yeah yeah linux having problems is a big joke but honestly have you considered that linux wouldn't run like shit if it didn't have to reverse engineer byzantine proprietary drivers and hardware architecture and deliberately hostile BIOS firmware and one thousand other things that exist solely to force everything that isn't a corporate OS to suffer miserably on every computer ever
#it's easy to get mad at linux for having all these arcane issues but have you considered that this is the fault of corporations#Computers are literally explicitly designed to be hostile to linux because that's not friendly to advertisers and corporate interests#I'm sick of getting shit for running linux. I hate all the problems i'm having too. Obvioisly. Fucking clearly#But it's not a stupid prize for stupid games. It's a punishment for having the audacity to want my computer to be fucking mine#I'm sick of using billboard OS. I'm sick of having to hump spyware to talk to my friends. I just want to have a computer#And that's fucking difficult because computers are literally built from the absolute bedrock up to be hostile to the way out#This isn't my fucking fault. I'm not fucking stupid. It's corporate bullshit. fucking again. I'm a victim of spite#not of choosing the problems OS#problemnyatic rants#problemnyatic vents#problemnyatic thoughts#linux
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My contributions to the @haunting-heroes-creative-games banner!
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dan phantom#dark danny#tim drake#red robin#dc#batman#danny phantom#art#belfry draws#yes i modified both their costumes don't @ me--#okay also preemptive disclaimer i KNOW there r elements from different eras/designs on tims costume it was on PURPOSE i draw what i want#and i want a neat silhouette with a bird cape so BITE ME/lh#i can't give him the baldcap cowl okay i can't#why doesn't it at least have some ridging....... detailing...... ANYTHING#the feather cape fucks severely and if u disagree. ur wrong--#don't look at the batarang too closely btw#sorry idk why i'm so hostile <- had a full shift today <- customer service employee#anywho i'll shut up now sorry--
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Splashtail pattern progression 👍
#anyways I've seen him like this for a long while but lately I've been thinking on rapidsplash getting it too#so as she gets closer to Splashtail's age she ends up looking more like him#but eventually it'll progress to the point she surpasses him#splashtail#splashstar#wc#warrior cats#waca#warriors#art#asc#i think one could go even farther with it and make a super cool full body splash. i like to think of such things but#animator unfriendliness my deepest fear. animator hostility if you will#this design is already pushing the complexity limits#ignoring the tail entirely. i need to remedy the animation friendship of the tail
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this was a good panel and I'm glad I watched it specifically because Taliesin deservedly has a reputation for coming up with fairly philosophical concepts behind his D&D characters, but also on another level he is just like "what if there were just wretched guy with so many things wrong with them. fucked up, right?" and it nearly always slaps
#taliesin like ashton is not designed as a person who will be happy and we should all go to therapy#critical role#people in panels like taliesin...will your character be happy 🥺 and he's like bold of you to assume they're capable#when i think of the line creators should be more hostile to their audiences? i do think of taliesin#like be a kind and generous person (from everything i've seen) but also don't give the people what they want
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Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.
Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.
Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.
When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?
Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?
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I went to NYC over Christmas break and the one thing I felt horrible about was the fact that there was nowhere for my mother, who has bad knees, to sit. Nowhere. Not a single bench. She was able to sit in the restaurant, in the theater, and on the train. Those were the only fucking seats in the whole fucking city.
I hate anti-homeless efforts. I hate the elimination of public spaces. There were millions of people walking around NYC that week and not a single one of them was able to sit.
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I can't stop thinking about the post from a few days ago about how Critical Role has been great at doing personal faith but didn't put the necessary work in to discuss the religious/god angle of c3 in-depth. Like the fact that Cardinal Respa was linked to both the Dawnfather and the Chained Oblivion is, on a personal level, very interesting (fallen/corrupted priest goes hard) but like does that mean that there's a Papacy somewhere in Exandria dedicated to the Dawnfather? If so, are there more cardinals who ordain the bishops of the Dawnfather? Are there Conclave-level intrigues going on in the Dawnfather's Sistine Chapel? Why is the Dawnfather so Christianity-coded in vibes alone if there's no actual outline of his religious organisations? With Downfall the Dawnchild/Dawnfather thing makes the allusions to Christ as Son of God co-existing with the Father textual - was there a Dawnfather Schism around whether the Dawnchild was a separate mortal? Was there a Reformation about how the Dawnfather's Pope kept selling indulgences? Is that why the priest of the Dawnfather Grog & Pike offer a drink to doesn't partake because of a cultural shift between Protestant-Temperance-League-coded and Catholic-coded Dawnfather congregations? Why do I have so many questions about the religious organisation of one of the most important Prime Deities in Exandria and to Critical Role's 3 campaigns? How on earth were the cast (and us as the viewers!) meant to care about the gods if all they had were "really tall kings" instead of interrogating how religious organisations provide both a place of healing and community to a wide range of people and also a place of horrific harm and abuse for a wide range of people?
#cr meta#cr discourse#critical role#it's just. maddening#i mean a college of cardinals who can all shoot god a quick dm and ask who's the best for pope is an absolutely hilarious image#makes for a great comedic setpiece tbh#but like seriously matt if your whole multi-campaign story needs people to have strong feelings about the gods beyond how they personally#affected them (keyleth vex and ashton come to mind as people who were negatively affected by certain gods due to personal reasons)#it might be a good idea to develop the religious organisations of these gods! let people see how these things work out instead of letting a#vibes-based approach to christianity rule the whole discussion! kord's whole deal about strong people is fascinating! are his priests all#body builders? do they have a central hierarchy based on strength? we don't know!#are the wildmother's clergy pro- or anti-alcohol? does she even have a clergy?#or are all the religious temples we have seen just set dressing because religious buildings in the real world just have cool designs?#is it because in fantasy the trope is that most protagonists don't care about religion and their temples are literally there for vibes?#i'm aware i'm getting way too close to stan-parasociality on that last point but if we have a cardinal “do we have a pope” is a logical#follow-up question. i'm aware there's not that much info in the campaign guides so that gms can do their own thing but in the#“the gods deserve to be eaten because they were mean to me” campaign surely a more interesting line would be “do the gods deserve us if#their organisations cause systemic harm as was done to bor'dor and........"#can you tell i don't want to do any actual work today. i sure can't#and yes i'm main-tagging this if people are hostile to me on the internet for this buddy there's a phenomenal button i'd like you to meet
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