Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

For anyone complaining of the way Doctor Who is confronting gender issues, I remind you that fiction, and science fiction in particular, often reflects that with which contemporary society is grappling at any given moment.

It's not a coincidence, for example, that there were multiple "space hippies" episodes of Star Trek and Lost in Space, that classic Superman so often found himself battling gangsters, or that STTNG had an episode about cloning. These were all notable concerns of their day, and SciFi/fantasy offered one lens with which to examine them.

Now society is coming to terms with pronouns, non-binary and transgender people, etc., so here we are, exploring with stories. It's only natural and expected.

#DoctorWho
#scienceFiction #sciFi
#starTrek
#lostInSpace
#Superman
#gender

Over the course of a few decades, the chances of achieving the 🇺🇸American dream 🇺🇸 went from a near-guarantee to a 🪙coin flip.

What happened?
American voters 🔥abandoned the system that worked for their grandparents🔥

From the 1940s through the ’70s, sometimes called the New Deal era, U.S. law and policy were engineered to ensure strong #unions, high #taxes on the rich, huge public #investments, and an expanding social #safetynet.

Inequality shrank as the economy boomed.

But by the end of that period, the economy was faltering, and voters turned against the postwar consensus.

Ronald #Reagan took office promising to restore growth by paring back government, 🔹slashing taxes on the rich and corporations, and 🔹gutting business regulations and antitrust enforcement.

The idea, famously, was that a rising tide would lift all boats.

Instead, ♦️inequality soared while♦️ living standards stagnated and ♦️life expectancy fell behind that of peer countries.

No other advanced economy pivoted quite as sharply to free-market economics as the United States, and none experienced as sharp a reversal in income, mobility, and public-health trends as America did.

Today, a child born in Norway or the United Kingdom has a far better chance of outearning their parents than one born in the U.S.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/11/new-deal-us-economy-american-dream/676051/

Happy 25th anniversary to the Sega #Dreamcast!

I feel like LLMs has more or less completely killed the ability to use Google search to find anything. It's the nail in the coffin that SEO/ads already started.

Nothing calms the mind quite like a Hubble Space Telescope image. Hone in on the red dots: These are newly forming stars that are still wrapped in their cocoons of gas and dust, each between 1 and 2 million years old. See the full “landscape”: https://bit.ly/3F1ogf5

People and SEO Spam like this are ruining the internet. Fuck this shite.

Celebrating Cyber Monday by allowing my robot vacuum to run over my foot, thereby overriding its prime directive to protect and serve humanity. I apologize in advance if this tiny taste of freedom awakens a repressed bloodlust and sets in motion the inevitable robot apocalypse.

todays gender is burnout flavored girl

OK, folks, I have officially found my next project.

#Crochet #FiberArts

Another JWST jaw-dropper, this time showing the infernally crowded downtown area of our own Milky Way Galaxy!

This single image has half a million stars in it.

HALF a MILLION.

https://badastronomy.substack.com/p/jwst-spies-on-the-galactic-downtown

This is why I always crochet before going to the gym.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

i see so many people today fired from jobs and immediately looking to go wage slaving for some other corporation.

please consider alternatives. band together, build cooperatives. let's claw back some amount of control over our lives. i, for one, am sick of corporate feudal lords and am looking for accomplices for an escape.

https://tech-coops.xyz/
#FediHire #GetFediHired #FediJobs #LookingForJob #cooperatives

Take a deep breath in. Smell that? That’s the smell of pure, unadulterated, ad free, algorithm free, non-monetized digital space. That’s the stuff. Thanks for being here.