BougieBirdie

I present male and I wear skirts to work. The boss said the dress code was black trousers and I said I don’t wear pants. Never been an issue

That said, it’s totally nerve-wracking to make that stand. If an employer refuses on anything other than a safety concern then it’s just bigotry, straight up.

Don’t work for bigots - which can be a difficult stance to take when you don’t know how you’re going to make rent. People don’t deserve to be put in this position, but as you say it’s the world we live in

I’m reading the series right now! I’m sure I read Redwall and maybe Mossflower as a kid, but I think my introduction to them was probably the cartoon. They certainly hit different as an adult.

I’m reading in publication order, and I’m on the third book now - Mattimeo. There’s this bit I enjoy where we’re told several times that Martin’s sword is just a sword. While it might be a symbol, it isn’t magic - and although it can be used for good it could just as easily be used for evil. Matthias is taught this when he recovers the sword during Cluny’s siege, and Martin is told this when the blade is originally forged.

Anyway, early in Mattimeo one of Slagar’s gang floats the idea of stealing the sword. Slagar says they better not - it’s almost certainly a magic sword, and if someone who wasn’t a mouse tried to use it they’d surely be cursed.

I find it interesting, because apart from the fact that these are woodland creatures, Redwall is fairly low-fantasy. There is sometimes a supernatural element with visions of ancestors and prophecies and such, but it’s not the fantasy fare I’m used to of wizards slinging fireballs at skeletons. But it does make me wonder: could the sword be magic after all? Martin certainly has a touch of the divine to him, and his spirit does come to the aid of Redwall several times.

Maybe the magic comes from having a good heart and living your life to protect your friends. These days I feel we could all use a little more magic in our lives.

I put garlic in just about everything. Probably not really a secret ingredient, but it does go with just about everything

For soup I like to add turmeric for the colour. Also kinda tasty

Yeah, I think this post suffers from being vague. The default reading would be to take the curators at face value and follow their opinion.

A more charitable reading, and one that I hope OP had intended, is to buy the games that these curators recommend against, because if they think they’re bad for being woke that probably means they’re good.

To OP: I’m of a divided opinion. On one hand this is probably a decent method of discovery, and I absolutely want to make those curators feel as unwelcome and foolish as their hateful rhetoric. On the other hand, I don’t want to surround myself with hatred or live for spite. Plus I think calling them out would count as feeding the troll, and the Streisand effect suggests that would actually help them by creating engagement.

It’s a typo in the post title. The body refers to anti-woke curators, which incidentally makes your description accurate

They’ve been doing this for a while now, I think it’s neat

Sometimes you already own a game in the bundle so you get the game cheaper because you buy the bundle. Not only is it cool that’s even an option, but Steam will tell you about it to save you money

It’s even cooler when you own part of a bundle and steam alerts you that not only can you get the game cheaper by buying the bundle, but you’ll get bonus games too

Big wins for the consumer all around

Disney just announced yesterday that they were investing a billion dollars into OpenAI. I have a hard time believing any AI company is respecting copyright because infringement is their business model. This sort of reads like “the competition’s product is worse than ours.”

It’s hard to know who to root for in a battle between giant AI firms and equally giant entertainment companies.

You’re allowed to root for nobody. Sometimes everyone sucks.

This tool wouldn’t work very well either. Ignoring the problems of collecting and verifying the validity of the data (and those are pretty big, serious problems), 2,900 images isn’t really enough to train an accurate image classifier. Especially not one that I would be comfortable using in a medical context.

Using the tool would probably result in a ton of false positives, and I’d bet the model would be overfitted to its data. Of course, I don’t think that would prevent people from using something like that nefariously.