look the Spotify CEO is an evil sociopath like 99% of CEOs but… Spotify Wrapped just releases the last week of November, specifically on Wednesday
That’s why it was on the 1st in 2021 and it was the 30th last year and the 29th this year
it is not a massive anti-Palestine conspiracy (I don’t think, anyway)
in this one instance, it’s a coincidence that the CEO is a specific kind of evil sociopath and Wrapped, which I guarantee he had nothing to do with because massive projects like Wrapped are worked on by teams of people many levels lower than CEO, released today
[image description: screenshot of tags that say “Why Wednesday? Too many cool things happening on Thursday?”]
God, there’s actually an answer to this and I’m so sorry — historically and generally speaking, social media platforms are most active on Wednesdays. Spotify wants folks to share their Wrapped, might as well launch on the day statistically more people are around! From a tech perspective it also means they’re not launching the very first day of the week and can QA a bit more before launch, and they’re not immediately signing off for the weekend, have to work for the weekend, or have to hand off the project to the weekend crew. Community management during a major launch is all 8 hours of your day.
Also lack of competition; movies release Thursday/Friday as do video games, albums and books tend to release Tuesdays now.
The fact that the post that claims Spotify Wrapped’s release was an anti-Palestine conspiracy has like 50k notes makes me want to cast myself into the sea. It’s so, so easy to check this shit, y'all. Just google “spotify wrapped [year]” and you can see that it releases on the Wednesday of the last week of November; there’s always a ton of media coverage, so even if Google doesn’t spell it out for you, we can put our thinking caps on and surmise from Teen Vogue publishing “Spotify Wrapped 2020 is here!” on December 2 2020 or whatever means that’s when it came out.
Spotify has almost ten thousand employees. Do you know how little contact the CEO at a company that large has with the team working on Wrapped? The only thing he knows about Wrapped is that it’s happening, I guarantee it.
There are real painfully evil things happening in the world. There’s a new one every day with this horrible conflict. Reactionary spreading of disinformation like this is very bad whether it’s conservative talking points or progressive ones. Don’t get sucked in.
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So much translation discourse just boils down to monolinguals not understanding that “coolness” doesn’t translate across languages, and you need to re-add it manually on the other end.
Spanish and French understand the anglicism so just say “eso es muy cool” or “c'est très cool” if the context is not particularly formal
No no, not literally the word “cool” I mean the [concept of coolness]. Things that sound cool, poetic, funny, dramatic, etc in one language will completely fail to land if you simply go 1-to-1 word equivalents.
In the Japanese version of Fullmetal Alchemist, the antagonists are named after the seven deadly sins, in English. As in, rather than the Japanese word, “Greed” is still Greed in the original.
Because loan words from English are often pretty “cool”, as with your Spanish and French example.
But this presents a problem, because, to give them a bit of flair, the antagonists are sometimes given a proper Japanese adjective along with their name, to make a sort of title of sorts.
“GreedyGreed”
The italicized part would be a Japanese adjective, and the bolded part is an English loanword. This is fine in Japanese, but would be totally nonsense in an English translation.
After all, it’s common sense to keep the names the same, duh, and obviously the whole point of what you’re doing is to translate the Japanese.
Greedy Greed. You cannot call him that.
You can’t go 1-to-1. To keep the [concept of coolness], you have to identify what made the original cool, and then recreate it in the new language.
And here, we have a foreign word, and a native word, both meaning the same thing, paired together to give an antagonist a cool sounding title. So how do we do that in English.
Well, the seven deadly sins, being Christian and Catholic and all, have fancy names in Latin. Or well, they just sound fancy in English, because Latin was the language of intellectuals for a long long time.
And in fact, while we also have the word “greed”, English has a fancier sounding word that means the same thing, but whose etymology comes from the fancy Latin. That might give a similar cool-loanword feeling, right?
There were so many flatback millipedes out after dark this evening (like, hard to avoid stepping on them) and I’m slowly getting better at shooting fluorescent creatures 🖤🩵
if you go to someones blog and get a “oops nothing here” but know for certain they’re still posting replies/making content, or if you try reblogging something of theirs and keep getting error messages.
obviously you arent TOLD when someone blocks you, but sometimes you can stumble across it and figure it out for yourself
Comic strip artists from the 40’s draw their characters while blindfolded
You are one of the top Problem Sleuths in the city. Solicitations for your service are numerous in quantity. Compensation, adequate. It is a balmy summer evening. You are feeling particularly hard boiled tonight.
I can’t pick a favorite
Some of these take on an impressionist quality. Eyes are important.
[video: gianni matragrano, cosplaying as columbo, walks up to a kitchen counter and says: “hi there. uh,” (loud fumbling for his wallet, opening it to show an id) “lieutenant columbo, LAPD, homicide department.”
he puts his wallet back. someone uses twitch points to overlay someone throwing a pipebomb onto the screen. gianni says, trying to contain a laugh, “pipebomb.” the pipebomb explodes. cheering erupts. end alt text.]
i think its really funny when people say they don’t like political media and just want something ‘cozy’ and 'discourse free’ then the media theyre talking about is like. miyazaki movies. or the moomins
tove jansson and hayao miyazaki were probably the farthest from being apolitical you can be in children’s animated media it’s just that you saw cute artwork and a pleasant setting/aesthetic and decided to put no further thought into the story you were engaging with
youre right but i think people are going to kill us for you sayng it
hey why does nobody ever talk about how the rot seems to be like. the only other possible method of leaving the cycle. yeah yeah yeah it eats you and you respawn in-game but I believe that’s just Game Mechanic and not Lore Mechanic
the rot seems to consume literally anything it can reach. metal, dirt, brick, water, meat, plant, whatever. and then it becomes part of the rot. it can never revert back (good example is hunter becoming a longlegs + the way pebbles’ structure can’t fix itself anymore when iterator structures are usually able to for normal damage). it becomes one with the rot until the rot dies like we eventually see in silent construct and then whatever was consumed dies alongside it. or inside it?
and the X markings on each lump that makes up a mass of rot, which just so happens to be spherical/circular, feels almost very intentional of resembling the karma 10 symbol??
maybe I am just seeing correlations where there are none but it SEEMS like the options for leaving the cycle are: get horrifically and slowly consumed by the revolting, squelching mobile embodiment of death OR crawl deep beneath the earth, give up all worldly desires and possessions, and get your body & your essence itself horrifically and slowly scrubbed away with an acid so strong it removes you from reincarnation entirely to exist fuck-knows-where. and are either of those really worth it?
So Google’s delisted NewPipe from their search results…
If you’re looking for a privacy-conscious way to watch Youtube videos (or just don’t wanna see ads lol), don’t fall for any of the scam versions of NewPipe on the playstore that slap a bunch of their own ads into the app!!
You can still find the official version on F-droid!!
You can also find my preferred fork of the project, PipePipe!!
Or you can just use Invidious or Piped in your browser!! You can even install them as web apps!!
Don’t let Youtube nickel and dime you to appease shareholders!! Fuck that shit!!
Spotify is owned by a fascist, surprise 2 nobody. Love newpipe bc u can download anything u want
jokes aside i think it’s amazing and heartwarming to see like 4chan incel bros perform the miracle of crawling out of that hole and becoming real human beings and chronicling their journey to realizing that they can be well adjusted happy normal dudes
Where’s the post about the guy who turned his life around bc of his shrimp? Bc that’s very relevant here
I will never forget the day I finished watching Mobile Suit Gundam and thought “wow, that was so good. I have to digest this” and sat there stunned for a few minutes. then tabbed over to twitter and saw Henry Kissinger died
something so funny when people point out art ive made is sacrilegious. you think i don’t know? you think i could deface something i wasnt once ripped apart by? without loving it a little?
Who even goes around on the internet calling art sacrilegious?
i drew lucifer as a furry with stigmata and top surgery scars it doesnt take much
you forgot furry lucifer? my lucifer fursona? so sad
The stage that they’re at is animal testing but it sounds like it’s been successful in mouse and primate models.
My understanding: The way autoimmune diseases usually seem to work* is the immune system is “flagging” the wrong thing as harmful/not needed and destroying it. The typical treatments for autoimmune diseases are just tamping the entire immune system down so it can’t destroy anything, which leaves a person vulnerable to infection.
The newer method is basically “tricking” the body using a method that… the human body already came up with. Cells flagging the wrong thing apparently happens all the time, so there are multiple defenses against immune disease, and one of them is in the liver. So scientists figured out a way to tell the body “hey, you flagged this wrong” and sent it to the liver and the liver/body recognized this signal.
There is still a lot of work to be done and it sounds like this isn’t foolproof (ie: what if the liver is whats broken? unsure, and what if the immune system flags things wrong again?) but this is literally so amazing. i was tearing up reading it, and i hope that everything goes well in clinical trials.
*theres like a lot medical science doesnt know about the immune system
Thank you for this explanation/synthesis of the article! It’s important for us to understand that they’re still in early development and testing of these methods, but also that they’ve seen it work in mice and primates (rather than just petri dishes of human cells). I hope this goes well.
Hi! I’m a microbiologist and I’ve done work in academia, pharma, and clinical trials.
So the most exciting thing about this article is the last paragraph tbh (working on getting the actual paper, it’s not up on sci-hub yet).
The company mentioned, Anokion, has four registered clinical trials for both Celiac and MS patients. The trial for Celiac just submitted data from their phase 1 trial (meaning there’s good data it is safe) and are recruiting for a Phase ½ trial (meaning they are now testing efficacy). After that, the big hurdle is phase 3, which looks at whether or not it is better than a current treatment. The projected completion date is spring 2025. They are also preparing for a Phase 2 trial but are not yet recruiting.
The phase 1 MS trial is currently active, estimated completion in summer 2024.
I checked the company website and it looks like they are in the process of submitting an investigational new drug (IND) application for Type 1 diabetes. This is the first step to starting clinical safety and efficacy trials.
Now clinical trials can get delayed for a variety of reasons, but this is a really good sign! It’s way further along than I initially thought when seeing the news. If the treatment does well, we could see new drugs on the market for Celiacs as early at 2030ish and MS as early as 2035.
I literally just burst into tears and woke up my partners.
Holy shit. The idea of not having celiac disease anymore is so completely overwhelming.
Update: I have registered for the trial and if you also have celiac and want to register the link is here.
wait would this also be able to reverse allergies like peanut allergies?
Allergies can work differently than autoimmune disorders, so a safe bet would be probably not. But that doesn’t mean this research won’t serve as a launch point for allergy elimination in the future.
Plus there are remedies for allergies already, but I’m not sure if peanut is covered.
I had quite a few Patrons knocked off the roll this time around. If you got declined or a fraud warning or something, please be patient and try to stay on top of it.
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