green except too damn hot @green@awoo.space

The fediverse has been expanding quickly, but it still feels nice and warm here.
Thank you all for just being decent to each other online. It's a low bar but it just means so much to see people behaving like humans to each other.

The Justice Department has decided NOT to pursue prosecution against Desiree Fairooz, the protester who laughed during Jeff Sessions's confirmation hearing. (She was convicted of a misdemeanor, but in July a judge voided the conviction and ordered a new trial.)

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/07/politics/sessions-protester-fairooz-case-dropped/index.html

I wonder if someone's doing Dovaahmber, where they play Skyrim all month.

It's called Hazy Snaps. Kids try it at parties, next thing they know they're at the post office gettin' paid to talk to anime body pillows.

@bea @Elizafox WOW GUESS WHAT IF YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE PEOPLE BLOCK YOU
HOW NEW
HOW NOVEL

https://twitter.com/scottjohnson/status/927899437447315456

<<It’s that time of year again. Best of luck to those participating in Nano Rhino in November.>>

https://mastodon.social/media/9CpgUM_dwVnBvPU5qao

So a brief summary of my reading: Adam isn't a monster, but a quasi-revolutionary figure, born of the Enlightenment dialectic, but possibly capable of destroying it.

The bloodshed that takes place in the novel can be read simply as class warfare, and the only people who should be terrified of Adam are the same people that withhold positive liberties from everyone else, who have every reason to take those things through force if necessary.

The specific freedom in question (the romance and love of two people born of similar circumstance) is one that the doctor attempts to enjoy, and is mirrored almost exactly. Adam wants a lover who is also in some respects, a sibling, just as the doctor is attempting to marry his adopted sister.

No one has lingering worries that Victor and Elizabeth's children could've been evil monsters that could destroy the world, even if they share that capacity with Adam

Adam here serves as a useful stand-in for contemporary fears of AI or robots or whatever, but I think Adam was intended as a metaphor for the average person that science empowers, and as a result, threatens the very power structures that created them.

Adam's conflict with Dr. Frankenstein is of the scientific subject, empowered by science, but not yet emancipated. Adam enacts violence on the world (particularly its upper class) for his own freedom.

It's after Halloween and so naturally I bump into critically misreadings of Frankenstein by incredible sums of people who frankly should know better.

Frankenstein's monster isn't ugly, he's -uncanny-. He was built to be beautiful, powerful, and man's equal if not his superior. As an allegory, the book describes that the central scientific fear is the creation of subjects more capable than their superiors. Those subjects aren't -necessarily- artificial.

Looking for folks living in Japan who are on hormone replacement therapy. Need advice.