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@HeerJeet @Verklempt4 And it's probably not even horse-like, since the conceit of the books is that they're "translated" into English so the translator/author just used the most appropriate word at hand to sort-of describe the function of the animal, if not how it looks.

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Everything people have been saying about Persepolis is actually true about Arab of Future, mid-career Guy Delisle and a bunch of slop that doesn't even bother to dress the tourist lense through autobio, like Goodbye Ceaușescu!

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@sipo6061 @die_rizzen Not Satrapi's fault and not quite what Persepolis is, but it did mark a turn in non-fiction graphic novels from introspective, formally challenging works about representation that give no easy answers towards easily digestible visual guides against US's official enemies.

[Oksana @fadednailpaint]

It's not a bad read. It's equal parts heartbreaking and heartwarming. But it's limited in its scope and that's alright because that's how personal accounts work anyway. Half of it isn't even set in Iran anyway and documents the author's coming of age in Europe.

[Oksana @fadednailpaint]

Yeah so I re-read both parts after almost a decade and tbh it's neither CIA propaganda nor the most dependable historical source on Iran (it doesn't claim to be so anyway). It's just one extremely privileged woman's personal memoir and should be treated as such.

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@n_hold @the_autonomia On the other hand, I don't know how much this has to do with the "decay" of capitalism. The 8-hour work day was a reformist demand, yet it galvanized revolutionary movements all around the world.

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@n_hold @the_autonomia They're onto something, but I think Trotksy put it better in the Transitional Program. In the sense that even reformist demands became a site of struggle around which the whole working class can be organized. Less to do with the thermodynamics of capitalism.

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Like, The Book of the New Sun is not Viriconium. The act of magic Wolfe performs is how he wrings out of a story that goes through all the motions of pulp something that ends being a meditation on the relation between knowledge and identity and the burden of history.

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In fact, I think these covers represent very well the kind of story Severin thinks he's in for most of the books and play into the act of misderection that's the engine of the series.

[A.V. Marraccini @saintsoftness]

This book opens with a perceptive selection of lines from Osip Mandelstam about death and is as much about the fragmented nature of personal-historical knowledge and what constitutes technology as anything else, but the cover does it dirty. Spec Fic needs better covers.

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@sipo6061 @die_rizzen Not Satrapi's fault and not quite what Persepolis is, but it did mark a turn in non-fiction graphic novels from introspective, formally challenging works about representation that give no easy answers towards easily digestible visual guides against US's official enemies.

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Backrooms: to be a man is needing permission from a woman to kill yourself.

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Why do people act as if the problem with the Obsession thing is that a $750k movie made 200-300 millions and not that the movie absolutely couldn't have been for $750k without massively overworking people, underpaying them, paying them in kind or not at all.

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@JasonAreGonnuts @Polygon Especially since he loved to method act other villains I'm sure he'd be up to it as well!

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Like, do with this what you will, but Chapo have more or less the same amount of sauce they always had.

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The complaining from yesterday about how Chapo don't have the sauce anymore was 100% prompted by Felix reiterating that Platner is a candidate for the stupids while not really caring about the discourse surrounding him.

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Their skills frontmatter format is much more robust, with affordance for agent handoff, they've been pushing skill analyzers, observability and telemetry tools. A focus o prompt optimisation and model specific optimization.

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It's interesting that while everyone dismisses them, MS seems to be pushing Copilot in VS Code and Copilot Studio in the direction where agentic engineering needs to go.

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@KrasnayaAleks @die_rizzen And it's an issue to this day, with some of the most reactionary and Atlanticist defenses of The West coming from this region.

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@KrasnayaAleks @die_rizzen Yeah. And how the peripheries of industrial European capital reacted played a non-trivial part in defining the shape the West and what it means to be Western. The continued unification of the Romanian principalities under a Hohenzollern wasn't only a matter of "geopolitics".

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@KrasnayaAleks @die_rizzen Mostly by the fact I was talking out of my ass about a question I don't think is tractable by the presented options.

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@die_rizzen Of course. The search for a pure origin is a very *sigh* undialectical understanding of history.