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Claudius Wasn’t Perfect (Really).
How did I miss this? [Commentary #1]
My Four Finest Essays
Tumblr, Tumblr Why Have You Forsaken… Well, Not Me. But A Lot Of Other People
Ah, Tumblr. That wonderful free website where people argue, post fake facts and, most importantly, create fan content. A ton of fan content.
Not anymore.
In case anybody’s missed it, Tumblr has finally decided to do something about the myriad pornbots infesting the site. And by ‘something,’ I mean the worst possible solution possible.
They’ve decided, in their infinite wisdom, to ban all porn.
Sounds great, right? No more porn means people are free to connect with each other like real human beings and share their content without being harassed by skeevy people on the ‘net, right?
Wrong.
First off, here’s some testimony from someone who will be directly affected by the changes: https://medium.com/@vexashley/porn-on-tumblr-a-eulogy-love-letter-6d45e70fefff
Secondly, a lot of fan content is, you know, rather explicit.
Third, and most importantly, the Tumblr staff are incompetent. Fat, drunk and stupid is a good way to describe them.
See, here’s the thing. They’ve ignored the pornbots, the Nazi and white supremacist blogs, and the general harassment endemic to their website for years and have done nothing about it. There are no moderators on Tumblr, hate speech gets ignored and everything related to content moderation is handled by bots.
Yes, bots. Not people, who can judge, analyze and discern, but algorithms. Algorithms that not only cannot discern between porn and art (which is a distinction to fine for humans, never mind a machine), but frequently mislabel and block stuff that has nothing to do with porn.
Stuff like the chronic pain tag, for instance.
So, I’m not sure what I’m going to do. For now, I’m still on Tumblr. I will, however, be spending more time on and updating this blog more frequently. This time I mean it.
I’m also on Twitter (@falconlord5) and now on World Anvil! Nothing’s up and ready yet, but I will keep you posted.
Stay tuned for next week, when I will reveal my plan for the New Year.
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Robots and Vampires (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NDLMDT4): Two hundred years in the future, a young cyborg stops the richest boy in town from killing a gynoid. Now he must flee from the only home he’s ever known to Fort City, base of the mysterious Standard Technologies, Inc. Can he trust them?
The Standard Tech Case Files-The Black Coats (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VTWMR7W): When there’s a corpse on the street, somebody has to answer for that. When the body in question is the squire of a prominent vampire, the call for blood only gets louder. Follow Joey Bianco and his squire Jen Ryan as they hunt down a killer and try to keep the peace between vampires and humans.
The Standard Tech Case Files-The Dead and The Damned (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MRSBC7I): Tensions between humanity and vampires are heating up. A vampire store has been ransacked. Protestors are being arrested without trial. Can Joey Bianco and Jen Ryan find a peaceful solution? Or will the streets of Fort City run red with blood?
Dulce et Decorum Est
It is the one hundredth anniversary of the end of the First World War, and the eightieth anniversary of Kristallnacht.
And here we are again. Antisemitism is on the rise; the shooting in Pittsburgh is only the most graphic example.
The militaries of the world’s great powers are staffed by people who range from the incompetent to merely being unable to understand the new technologies and how they change warfare.
Our politicians, particularly in the United States, are aggressive and power-hungry. They use the rhetoric of martial power and pride, but Donald Trump was a draft-dodger and Putin a KGB thug. These are not men who fought in the trenches or the jungles or any other such thing. Just men who think they can exploit those who have.
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. The old lie.
I don’t have an answer here, no pithy comment on how to defeat the forces of violence and cruelty this time.
But I know we must reject their lies. That we must reject cruelty and violence, that we must help one another.
Otherwise, we will have broken faith with those who died and rendered their sacrifice as meaningless and pointless as possible.
My Conflicting Thoughts On Titans (2018)
Greetings, peoples! I’m still chugging away on my own writing and hope to have a new chapter of Uncanny X-Men up soon. Today, though, I want to talk about something different. I want to talk about Titans (2018) and my conflicted thoughts on it.
Quick Robin! Under the bat-cut!
A Good Night’s Sleep
Which I didn’t actually get last night, but it was still the best sleep I had in over a month.
I’m still tired and exhausted and writing has been spotty because of that. But every day I’m feeling a little better and by Sunday? I should be back in full on ass-kicking mode.
I’ll keep you guys updated.
Been under the weather lately. Will update soon.
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