Jacek @jacek@mastodon.technology

Context is:

- there is a child sexual abuse problem in Poland in context of Catholic Church;
- we don't know the scale cause nobody cares to count abuse instances (well some people do care but government does not*)
- getting damages money is super hard; cause priests have no property and church does not acknowledge responsibility;
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* arguably current party is just hostile to church child abuse survivors. But previous didn't care either.
#Poland #CatholicChurch

Nationalists (or facists) would say that #Poland was attacked in World War 2 by (choose from the list below):

* Atheists
* Communists (of course S in NSDAP stands for Socialism)
* German nation & Russian Nation

What they omit is that we were rather attacked by two nationalistic regimes (N stands for National). Soviet Russia was somwhat cosmopolitan, but in practice being a Russian in Poland was somewhat a priveledged position too.

Right now we have very big "Black Protest" marches, as ruling party decided to enforce (already very strict) abortion restrictions in Poland.

Basically woman would be forced to birth with severe defects (even ones that will die in first day of life).

They also started using terms like: "unborn human", "unborn patient".

This is all to appease to Catholic Church (after bishops publicly urged the government to hasten this legislation)

#poland #politics

I bought Detroit[1] game.

I like it very much, it is a visual narrative with some QTE (which you might botch and it will move the story forward).

Story is about a bunch of Androids that (I guess) gain/prove their consciousness.

Graphics is very good, I love textures of faces (best I saw in games so far).

CW: So far generally abuse (including child harm), also death. However no pointless violence and/or gore.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit:_Become_Human

#IAmPlaying

Netflix bought all Ghibli movies. But somehow they didn't release yet two best ones: Mononoke and Nausicaa.

Watching Nausicaa, and the reading the comics was a transformative experience for me.

I'm reading two books in parallel one is "Parable of Sower" by Octavia E. Butler the other is "Fall" by Neal Stephenson.

I can't shake the feeling that they are telling story of the same* Armageddon, but one from the perspective of 1% of tech bros (tech persons?) other one from the perspective of 99%.

In the Fall they even ride through "Ameristan" rural, "crazy", part of the USA.

* obviously causes od the armagedon are different somewhat but its still similar enough.

#SFFBookClub

#SffBookClub this book is so good at predicting the future/now it is scary.

- Right wing fanatic wins elections. Check.
- Smart people / middle class not voting due to "disgust in politics". Check*.
- Social stratification. Check**.

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* Actually voter demobilisation was one of the more effective strategies employed by the Cambridge Analitica.
** This is only hinted, but since new VR gear is researched and produced, somebody can afford it.

Game rises interesting points on the "sense of suffering", privacy, legality of surveillance capitalism and so forth.

I bought "Eliza" a visual novel by Zachtronics. Very good story about living in it burnout, crunch, AI, therapy.

Protagonist started work as Eliza proxy (person interact with costumer undergoing a therapy session led by AI bot Eliza).

So far the story is great 10/10.

#Games #IAmReading

Oh damn brexit is tommorow.

Q: How many C++ programmers it takes to change the lightbulb?
A: It can't be done it's an ABI breaking change!

4. I do believe that some pre-war Polish political parties and organisations would start racial extermination policies if given the chance. (pre war Poland did discriminate Jews and possibly other "races")
5. I believe that currently in Poland are such forces/parties (however since Poland is racially homogeneous mostly they would hurt LGBT persons).
6. I believe that current Polish government is on a way to become such a force itself.

Maybe to extend this:

1. Obviously Poland as a country did not take part in racial extermination during the II world war. Cause Poland was occupied.
2. Some Poles killed the Jews (and Ukrainians and Romani people... and others I don't know about). Other Poles did rescue them from organized extermination. But it was the same with Germans and all other nations.
3. Nation IMO is not something that exists outside of human mind, so using to seriously think about stuff is flawed.

What's the main message from Polish Government on the anniversary of freeing of Auschwitz: "Hey! Poles weren't the bad guys here!".

One of the most unsettling books I read depicted hell as a scientific conference about: "motif of the final judgement in art". But the coffe was stale, food was bad, speakers presentations were mostly nonsense, and mandatory.

I did read it during a scientific conference of course. Also author is a biophicisist, so it check out.

// I was alphabetizing my book collection so maybe I will share some weird stuff.

So we have these: "LGBT free zones" that were voted by some town councils. This is scary and sad.

However they don't know what they vote, as they sometimes vote "opposition to declaration of LGDP", or major bishop is fighting with "LGTB".

So they have no idea what they are fighting with.

(And yes Catholic Church leads this "fight against disease of ender and LGBT")

So this is #Poland in 2020 :/

I've been reading a webcomic: "Always Human", it's a romance story set future. I liked the art, character arcs, world. Whole story is very warm.

I usually dislike romance stories, but here characters are actually are behaving like adult persons so no angst inducing moments for me there.

So here is the link: https://m.webtoons.com/en/romance/always-human/list?title_no=557.

It also will be released as book (and I intend to buy it).

#iamreading #comic

I'm finishing "The Killing Moon" by N. K. Jemisin. So far I like it, not as much as "The Broke Earth Trilogy" but still good. #sffbookclub

Long time ago my mother was very insistent that I return to Polish Academia and Do My PhD.

One time I answered: "What will this get me? PhD is would be pointless, some people thing that their dicks grow longer when they graduate, but I guess it's not the case".

She was stunned, and never mentioned the topic again.

I dunno if this is a worthy achievement, last year I did submit two articles the WTF daily and they both got published. (Both wtfs were in the third party code bur still).

Całe oprogramowanie trzyma się na ślinę i gumę do żucia.

Trafiłęm właśnie na buga w #ansible który powoduje że zmienne JSON tj:

> VAR: '{"foo": []}'

konwertowane są do niepoprawnego JSON tak:

> {'foo': []}

kiedy np. trafiają do szablonów.

Legitne rozwiązanie (poza upgrade ansible i grzebaniem po globalnej konfiguracji dla projektu) to zmienić zmienną na:

> VAR: ' {"foo": []}'

Wtedy ansible/Jinja2 nie wykrywa że to JSON więc go nie psuje.

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This is a reference to two things:

1. Bioshock I and II games, that take place on underwater city Rapture, where small won't contrain the weak (it doesn't end well);

2. Musk tweets (real!) where he suggests people sent to Mars will work off their loans for transit fare.

Here is the direct link https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1217991853615677440 .

Building Rapture on Mars is not impossible, it is impossible to build Rapture anywhere else.