Pay What You Want sketch commissions are still available until I get my replacement stylus delivered to me!
It's the 1st of the month tomorrow, so all of my money will disappear to the rent void :< Help a goblin out by getting a silly little sketch for yourself or a friend! It can be WHATEVER YOU WANT (basically)!!!
🍩 $5+ sketches! Gettem!!! 🍩
http://ko-fi.com/goblinhellion
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A T-shirt for lovers of the three core web technologies. https://webbed-briefs.teemill.com/product/not-you-tee/
Dark Magic Girl keycaps + matching deskmats are live for pre-order! Would appreciate any shares + boosts if you know a friend who would like this pastel goth purple look. #mechanicalkeyboards #shopsmall #magicgirl #lavender
pre-order here: https://mintlodica.com/collections/dark-magic-girl
Oppose The Indian Hindu Nationalist Rhetoric Of “Hinduphobia” by Harsha Walia, Vasanthi Venkatesh, Anita Lal, Fahad Ahmad, M. V. Ramana, and Srinivas Murthy
https://www.baaznews.org/p/hinduphobia-hindu-nationalist-rhetoric
"'Hinduphobia' is a reverse-racism-type narrative, deployed to delegitimise the fight against casteism and the oppression of persecuted communities in/by the Indian state by falsely framing India and Hindutva as the victims. This serves to vilify human rights advocates, while creating confusion amongst the broader public about being labeled as 'Hinduphobic' if they speak out for human rights. This dog-whistle campaign does not serve racial justice, it actually weakens it by maintaining Hindu Nationalism and caste supremacy.
... Indian nationalists, as well as caste and Hindu supremacists, falsely portray themselves as victims of 'Hinduphobia' to distract attention from and outcry about the horrific atrocities against Dalits and caste-oppressed people, Adivasis, Muslims, Kashmiris, Sikhs, and Christians"
Things that "everybody knows" that are wrong (has references to crimes)
Let's do a round-up of a couple!
THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
The burning down of this library is often seen as one of the biggest losses of culture in history. In reality, it seems that the library mostly stored copies of works, and while big, it stored very few *unique* things - therefore, not much was actually lost.
THE BYSTANDER EFFECT
The claim is that when there are many bystanders of an incident, none will take responsibility. This is based on the murder of Kitty Genovese, where it was claimed that there were many witnesses, but none of them did anything.
That's false - in fact, the amount of witnesses was limited due to the location, and multiple people alerted the police, but the police failed to respond in a timely manner. More recently, research into the bystander effect suggests that the entire theory is wrong - people *do* consistently come to the aid of others.
THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT
Claimed to 'prove' that given power, people will turn malicious and start abusing others. In reality, the experiment was fraudulent, and proved no such thing - the guard in the experiment were actively *encouraged* by the researcher to be abusive.
THE BROKEN WINDOW THEORY
This is often seen as some sort of 'scientifically proven fact' about human behaviour; if you leave vandalism or other "anti-social" behaviour untreated, it will invite more of it.
In reality, this was just made up by a cop in New York, never proven, and used as a justification for violent and oppressive policing tactics. There's no evidence that this is true, or ever was.
THE TRAGEDY OF THE COMMONS
This theory claims that when a group of individuals are given access to a common shared resource, they will each act selfishly and collectively exhaust the resource, whereas it would've been fine if one party controlled access. Usually reference over-grazing.
In reality, this concept (in its current form) comes from a thought experiment where it was just *assumed* to be true, rather than from actual research; and instead there is a long history of shared resources being effectively collectively managed without giving any one party total control over access or distribution.
This doesn't stop authoritarians from using the tragedy of the commons as a justification for their accumulation of power; claiming that otherwise, the resources would be exhausted.
STOCKHOLM SYNDROME
This theory claims that victims of crime and/or abuse will develop an irrational attachment to the perpetrator, implying that they can no longer be trusted to have agency in determining how to deal with the situation.
In reality, rather than being based in rigorous research, this concept was coined by a criminologist based on a single bank robbery in (as the name implies) Stockholm.
Crucially, the victims were quite clear about the reason for their trust towards the robbers; the police were acting irresponsibly in this incident, endangering people unnecessarily, and therefore the robbers were the more rational and less dangerous party in the conflict. Not quite the 'irrational attachment' that's so often claimed...
Just found out that Discord's new avatar decorations are $10 US for ONE
for half that price you can help an indie dev make a game and also get a game
https://cyansorcery.itch.io/cosmogelica
I fell into #robotgf tumblr and i am so happy here all of these are soooo cuteee
wahh i wanttt so baddd
Written and submitted in 1998, WARGAMES 2000 is a never-produced film script for a later-in-life David Lightman-centered hacker film, a direct sequel to Wargames (1983).
since bandcamp's future is uncertain i'm bringing back blamscamp (by @suricrasia ). it lets you make an in-browser player for your album that you can put on itch.io! it's pretty easy and straightforward to use and works just fine. you can sell music on itch BTW
I'm Elfi! I'm a fair folk, magical moth, greyace girl, greenhorn gamedev, part-time dream dragon, in my thirties and , and ADHD+ASD+EDS. Disclosure: white
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