Olives @olives@qoto.org

There are times when something is branded as "news" but is really a blog.

AI. Artificial Idiot.

Notice that Alice: Madness Returns was released over a decade ago and it has abruptly been banned.

Sometimes, it's better to just post something than to spend a lot of time fiddling with it.

Kamala isn't what I'd call good but the other guy (and the people around him) are worse.

This isn't the main point of the post though, so I don't comment on that specifically. I think it's kind of common sense though.

Obviously, anti stigma doesn't mean that someone doesn't have a responsibility to not behave in an abusive manner.

I'll see what other longer form content I could write (although, my time is finite).

If it's just anime, just pay for Crunchyroll or something, why pay for Netflix.

I saw someone asking for a "federated Discord". That is basically Matrix.

For potentially relevant context as to why Vice World News might have run that particular article that particular way though, in the U.K. in the 90s, there was a mass shooting where dozens of kids were massacred, and the shooter blamed being hounded by the media.

We also have to ask whether part of the media's fascination with this strange guy played a role in the rise of QAnon like ideologies (a form of far right extremism) in the U.K. The guy himself has always been an irrelevant figure but the media's reporting on him might inflate his perceived relevance.

Also, whether it's Savile or this weirdo, it felt like outlets like Vice World News would try to make these sorts of things the world's problems, despite really being British matters.

It really doesn't surprise me that there would have been people saying crazy things, however, I wouldn't even know who the guy was, if not for parts of the British media going on and on about him (even after around fifty years). And honestly, I doubt anyone else would either.

I never really liked Vice World News. One article tried to argue that the leader of some old NAMBLA like group was a "victim of society" which drove him to do that.

The bigger question is why anyone even cares about (or remembers) some fringe and irrelevant NAMBLA like figure from fifty years ago (who frankly was irrelevant even back then).

It feels like there are parts of the British media which have a morbid fascination with these things.

The editor-in-chief of Vice World News was from the U.K. which kind of explains the weirdly framed child abuse takes. Someone was curious about that before.

I generally don't engage with Brits.

There is a *bubble* there and I don't want to think about how to debunk some asinine point some fringe figure made five years ago because they had a grudge with one particular weirdo in the same manner that someone might have a grudge with Zuckerberg, and they just so happened to tar people with a broad brush to "get even" with that one person.

It feels like Australia still hasn't learned, that despite having ranked voting, it isn't that useful, if there are only candidates from two parties (practically) running.

For instance, someone could maybe pitch something more about leaving people alone (i.e. no anti abortion policies) as well as more business friendly positions.

https://www.refused-classification.com/censorship-timelines/game-iarc/
More games banned by Australia.

https://www.appbrain.com/app/mountains-of-madness/com.atomichorde.coi2
Mountains of Madness. You play as a private investigator in the Lovecraftian horror universe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/19680/Alice_Madness_Returns/
Alice: Madness Returns. A popular game inspired by Alice in Wonderland but with a dark psychological twist.
#auspol #FreeSpeech

Since someone asked, I would not recommend Netflix. It's either things you've watched, things that are boring, or a couple of items which are okay.

Chances are that anything you'd be interested in watching is not even there.