#426 - Utopian Garbage Solutions, Feminist Camgirls, and 'Wordcels'
I attempted to play the narrative game Fiasco with some friends this week, and I wish I could recommend it, as the idea of a collaborative storytelling game is great!
In actuality though, the dice mechanics and rules hindered more than helped the resulting narrative. :(
Surely there must be some DnD light version of this out there that helps a group of people tell a fun story better than the 'add a sentence to the story' game of youth....
Tech
Who Will Collect the Garbage? — charleseisenstein.org
Eisenstein is a name that comes up often in progressive techie circles, and this is the first I've read of his primary sources - he's really good! Looking forward to more.
I enjoyed this piece talking about our utopian desired future having less trash because we'll all recognize our interconnectedness and use less waste, along with us taking pride in doing chores for loved ones only rather than having to do it for income.
Other powerful pieces of his include this one on why Bali's fire festivals aren't culturally appropriated (locals still do them seriously away from tourists) and this one about the need for restorative justice even for offenders, rather than cancel culture.
Lifehacks
Making $1.5M/month on OnlyFans and Twitch: Amouranth | My Life Online — www.youtube.com
Amouranth is one of the most-watched Twitch streamers, who rakes in 1.5 Million Dollars a month. Her streams verge on softcore porn, with her playing games in bikinis in hot tubs and the like.
Listening to her talk away from the camera is fascinating, though. She's hyper aware of weaponizing the male gaze for her benefit, and is consciously grinding in a marathon to earn as much as possible while she's still young and hot, in order to afford her dream life of the future.
I'm.....happy for her? Tough dystopian gig of ten hour days every day though!
"Society is fine with men profiting off of virtual female bodies, but when a real woman profits off of her own body virtually, it has a problem."
The conservative advantage in mental health keeps replicating — kirkegaard.substack.com
Many social studies show that the American right is happier, overall, than the American left.
This author gives some potential reasons why - personally I imagine it's because their greater focus on faith and family gives them more of a modernist foundation to live on, while the left's postmodern bent makes that harder.
Fun
Wordcel / Shape Rotator / Mathcel | Know Your Meme — knowyourmeme.com
The culture wars have new epithets for each other. 🙄At least they're silly.
Wordcel is a slang term derived from incel used to define someone who has high verbal intelligence and is "good with words" but feels inadequately compensated for their skill, the "cel" suffix denoting frustration over being denied something they feel they deserve.
The related term Shape Rotator, sometimes known as a Mathcel or Numbercel is used to define someone with high command in math or another technical STEM field but feels they deserve more respect for it.
Wordcels and numbercels are often portrayed as rivals and sometimes boiled down with political connotations, Wordcels representing the woke who more often go after liberal arts degrees and Numbercels representing those who go into more perceptively practical STEM fields.
Market trend - Wikipedia — en.wikipedia.org
Ever wonder about bull and bear market names?
"bear-skin jobbers" sold a bear's skin (the shares) before catch, while traders who bought on credit were called "bulls", by analogy to bear-baiting and bull-baiting. Or folklore supposes that bears claw downward and bulls buck upward."