Molly Miller

Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴 @knilirabaj.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 02, 2024 at 00:03 UTC

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 01, 2024 at 22:26 UTC

This is too much for anyone. I’m sorry you had to experience so much loss, so quickly.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 05:18 UTC

I’m still mad that they got rid of tan M&Ms. They objectively tasted better.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 30, 2024 at 04:21 UTC

Apparently! I’ve been wondering.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:13 UTC

It isn’t one at all!

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:12 UTC

No. I would have preferred a faithful translation that did a better job conveying Heidegger’s intent using the closest available words rather than the easiest ones.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:11 UTC

There are hundreds of other choices already though? I know because I’ve used them homeschooling my son with an undiagnosed disorder of the muscles of his inner eye that make math, reading, finding objects and other tasks so difficult that public school gave up on him.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:08 UTC

As someone who struggled through senior seminar with a bad translation of Heidegger… yes it absolutely can do that. We had a throw down when our professor told us we didn’t read the chapter because our text said -the literal opposite- of what his did. Only a *good* translation increases access.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 22:01 UTC

There are literally hundreds of ways to make, say, Shakespeare accessible to people with learning and reading disabilities that don’t involve putting his prose into a blender and squeezing it out of a tube. That’s why I say this particular example expresses contempt for disabled people.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:39 UTC

No. Usually the docent or guide does that for people, by giving historical and cultural background. I’d love to go on a tour where they have to recreate each work with recycled crayons and crate paper instead of using context.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:38 UTC

I usually took advanced language arts but had a schedule conflict that year. The teacher seemed to think I was trolling her in everything I did, from typing papers to reading ahead. She didn’t ever assign us to finish so I don’t think most of them read the end. We watched the movie. I cried alone.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:35 UTC

Right, generally to deepen their own understanding of the work or improve their skills in representation because copying a two dimensional work is simpler than copying from life. Someone else made all the choices for you. Or, historically, you might copy art you saw while traveling to look at later.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:28 UTC

Okay, but repainting Mona Lisa with finger paint might preserve the image in the roughest sense, while destroying the artist’s intention and expression and the viewer’s experience of that art. In books, the words are the medium. They aren’t platters for carrying plot, but brushstrokes.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:24 UTC

Forgive my assumption. If it’s just abridged, it’s one of the ugliest and most graceless abridged versions I’ve ever seen and I charitably assumed a human couldn’t have done this.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:20 UTC

I think abridged books, summaries, audiobooks, comic/graphic novel adaptations, movies, television, special fonts, text-to-speech, literature reviews and probably a few other things fill that gap already and it’s marketed like this is somehow not that but a new and different thing. I assumed AI.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:17 UTC

If it’s just abridged versions, why are they trying to sell it like a new idea? Is it genuinely that the target market doesn’t know what an abridged version is?

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 21:15 UTC

They seemed to think it was just interesting and that it would be neat to be smarter for a while. Me: but then you would return to not being smarter? And you would ache for what you lost but be unable to articulate it?

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 18:50 UTC

If I repainted oil paintings in watercolor, it wouldn’t make them “more accessible” than oil. In a world without photos or telecommunications, a cheaper faster copy *could* be accessibility for people. But we have photos, and telecommunications, and art goes on tour, and we have gallery voiceovers.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 18:48 UTC

It’s also evidence of the contempt AI pushers have for both human creatives and disabled people. You can make things accessible without making them unrecognizable and inferior. But that takes a human at this point. It’s an act of creativity to translate and interpret.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:53 UTC

Just had a friend I shared this with jump down my throat about how it’s accessibility. If you chew up a fancy meal and spit it into my mouth, you haven’t given me accessibility to haute cuisine. You’ve betrayed that you don’t understand art and that you hold me in contempt.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:38 UTC

I thought that book was a horror story and was completely shocked that the sentiment wasn’t universal in my 8th grade class.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:16 UTC

True, actually I’m in a group chat for local homeless advocates and I will check with them.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:10 UTC

Why?

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 17:08 UTC

If I figure out how to a) ship baked goods so they arrive in one piece and b) make things that taste good after over 48 hours at room temperature… sure. My only resistance to mailing baked goods is food palatability and safety.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 04:56 UTC

Whelp about to finally meet my neighbors I guess

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 04:26 UTC

So it looks like I may dip into stress baking between now and next January. Any tips or tricks for not eating it all?

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 01:17 UTC

Never mind. I see it is the NYT making this call, which explains why I hadn’t heard anything about it. I discounted them as a reliable news source several years ago, and I avoid their opinions because it’s hard enough to manage my blood pressure and acid reflux already.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 00:55 UTC

Where? I can accept that I’m in an information/opinion bubble but I haven’t seen anyone say one but not the other.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 21:42 UTC

That has to be a very tiny sliver of the Venn diagram. No one who cares who the democrats run has shut up about trump being unfit since 2016.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 17:38 UTC

Gross. Someone I love was homeless once, and their solution isn’t available to most people. Being poor isn’t a moral issue, period, but people who want it to be one will settle for criminalizing it.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:09 UTC

Unfortunately my husband and our son also really need this medication and I can’t even get them diagnosed. The hospital wanted my son’s medical history hand written from birth including *every* developmental milestone before they will consider scheduling an assessment. I don’t remember!

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 16:07 UTC

Surprisingly, the Veterans Administration has been super about this? I have to get a new script monthly but I can request it via a phone message or via their (admittedly clunky) online portal. Meds are shipped out as soon as the new script goes in. If I’m low, i can get a few days worth locally.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 15:03 UTC

Away from their backyards. Oh, sorry, just getting word in they hope homeless people die quietly too.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 03:28 UTC

Thank fuck

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 03:16 UTC

Please say psych am I right??

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:53 UTC

We know now that shingles can cause a chicken pox infection in a vulnerable person. Shingles is long-chickenpox flaring up. And shingles is just irritating, mainly. Long-Covid can wreck your life and shorten your time on earth. Why would I *ever* risk getting or giving that?

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:50 UTC

I was literally scarred *for life* because of an avoidable infection from a preventable disease. My chickenpox vaccine had worn off and by pure chance, a relative had a sleep over with someone who didn’t know they had shingles. Everything was washed except *one* pillowcase before I slept in the bed.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:47 UTC

I have a scar under the corner of one eyebrow, and another just above and to the left of my left knee. The rest have faded with time but one dirty pillowcase took me out during finals week, all winter break, and I was still recovering through the first few weeks of class.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:45 UTC

When I was 16, like literally a week after I turned 16, I caught chicken pox from an unwashed pillowcase. It was my junior year of college and I didn’t fully recover until early spring semester. I spent winter break in a haze, bathing in oatmeal daily and choosing one pock mark per limb to scratch.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:42 UTC

I lost 6 non-consecutive weeks of work in December 2019 and January 2020 due to upper respiratory infections. I thought I was literally dying. But in 1992 I lost my voice because I tried to sing through a deep chest infection for a choir competition. My singing voice never recovered.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:29 UTC

People ask me when I’m going to stop masking all of the time. First, it’s not all of the time. It’s only when I’m around people I don’t live with. Second, never. If I could go back in time I would give 11 year old me masks and prevent so much medical trauma it’s unreal.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 28, 2024 at 00:27 UTC

And also to justify mortgaging your future to college loans for a piece of paper “proving” you are smart/dedicated/a good middle class person who will fit in here.

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Molly Miller @arghlita.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 27, 2024 at 21:48 UTC

I hope Thomas and Alito come back as female elephants in a breeding program.

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