nancygold 2026-08-16T18:01:19Z urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:377362 2026-08-16T18:01:19Z 2026-08-16T20:00:00 2026-08-17T14:33:07Z nancygold I'm transmedicalist woman. That does not mean you owe me your speech, your compliance, or your participation in my delusion-management. Forcing people—JK Rowling included—to mouth my preferred pronouns is authoritarian garbage. They get to see reality as they see it. Bullying them into line doesn't create dialogue; it just proves the people doing the bullying have nothing left but coercion. <br /><br />When some nonbinary freak starts screeching at strangers to "respect they/them," I feel shame by association and want distance. There's nothing wrong with me for refusing to treat other adults like theater extras who exist to recite my lines. If someone looks at me and still sees a man, that's my failure, not theirs. The people who help me are the ones who criticize, not the ones who build a hugbox and demand I silence the critics. <br /><br />Admit that in public and the same crowd that claims "lived experience" turns on you for the crime of not being a bully. Suddenly I'm the number-one enemy because I won't storm Elon Musk's house, put a gun to his head, and force him to gender his daughter on livestream while apologizing for existing. Fuck that. <br /><br />I no longer belong to the "trans community." Once they started cheering the murder of Charlie Kirk—someone who never laid a hand on me or anyone I know—they replaced whatever residual humanity they had with pure ideological bloodlust. I refuse to celebrate a man's death just because the orthodoxy demands it. Hatred is not love, collectivism is not individualism, and enforced lies are not honesty. If these people can't help me transition and instead demand I become their foot soldier, I have zero reason to speak to them. <br /><br />Disagreement is not violence. I want to hear the other side, not shut it down. I am not responsible for rewriting everyone else's reality or managing their lives. I will not evangelize transitioning. If I push HRT on someone who later kills themselves because it failed, that blood is partly on me. Unsolicited glamorization of this process is reckless and wrong—this is not a fucking rock band. The community demands exactly that evangelical zeal, then pretends collective guilt doesn't attach when the outcomes are catastrophic. I reject the collective. I have my life, my body, my transition. No one else gets a claim on it. <br /><br />The Russians already tried to treat me as disposable cannon fodder for their wars. Watching the trans activist class do the exact same thing—demanding bodies for their ideological crusades, treating individuals as expendable—should not surprise me, yet it still does. Everyone acts like I owe them service. I don't. <br /><br />I feel like an idiot wandering a battlefield of corpses left by people fighting wars that have nothing to do with my personal medical decisions. The whole spectacle is a real-life nightmare. That is the honest assessment.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/cWyI2F3.jpeg" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/377362.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/377362" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:377324 2026-08-16T00:58:00 2026-08-15T22:59:00Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/ko9QSEI.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/377324.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/377324" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:377025 2026-08-15T17:00:01Z 2026-08-15T18:58:00 2026-08-15T17:28:56Z nancygold <b>Original:</b> <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a-precise-characterization-of-modern-liberalism">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a-pr<wbr />ecise-characterization-of-modern-liberal<wbr />ism</a><br /><br />Modern liberalism, in its contemporary manifestation, admits of a precise characterization. It is the condition of exhibiting no fewer than five of the properties enumerated below. The list is neither exhaustive nor ordered by importance; it merely records those traits whose simultaneous occurrence has become, through prolonged and depressing observation, a reliable diagnostic.<br /><br />1. An unwavering hostility toward the state of Israel, maintained with a fervor inversely proportional to any demonstrable familiarity with the relevant history or geography. <br />2. A principled rejection of artificial intelligence, advanced with the same rustic logic once employed to denounce the steam engine or the printing press. <br />3. An unquestioning acceptance of the most catastrophic projections concerning global climate, treated not as provisional scientific models but as revealed doctrine. <br />4. A quasi-religious devotion to the liturgical practices that attended the recent pandemic, complete with residual mask rituals and moral score-keeping. <br />5. A dietary regimen of exclusive veganism, pursued at a cost that would sustain several less ideologically refined households. <br />6. Open celebration of political homicide or the street violence of activist factions, offered as evidence of moral seriousness. <br />7. Public adoption of non-binary identity, accompanied by chromatic hair modification and the obligatory pronoun liturgy. <br />8. An upper-middle-class childhood whose material comforts are never acknowledged as the precondition of subsequent radical posturing. <br />9. Possession of a degree in the humanities, worn as both credential and permanent exemption from empirical accountability. <br />10. An obsessive preoccupation with the Epstein affair and related networks of predation, selectively applied according to the political utility of the accused. <br />11. Enthusiastic consumption of keto diets, methamphetamine, or fentanyl—sometimes concurrently. <br />12. Artistic production whose technical standard remains stubbornly fixed at the level once associated with amateur online galleries. <br />13. An affirmative stance toward the video game Minecraft, elevated from pastime to cultural totem. <br />14. Sustained personal animosity directed at Elon Musk. <br />15. Parallel animosity directed at J. K. Rowling. <br />16. In the case of adult males, a pronounced and public fixation upon My Little Pony. <br />17. A documented pattern of initiating contact with minors through digital channels. <br />18. Sympathetic regard for criminal organizations of the MS-13 or CJNG variety (or, in the European theater, for certain migrant street gangs). <br />19. A terminally online existence, most characteristically expressed through prolonged residence on Reddit. <br />20. Hair dyed blue, neon, or some equally artificial hue. <br />21. A pathologically elevated preoccupation with sexual matters, frequently expressed through transgender lesbian identification or participation in polycules. <br />22. Devotion to the softer occultisms: astrology, Wicca, tarot, and related spiritual commodities. <br />23. Expenditure upon overpriced garments sourced from thrift stores or self-consciously retro brands. <br />24. Public adherence to the doctrine of body positivity, ordinarily in the presence of marked obesity. <br />25. A persistent reluctance to bathe. <br />26. Whiteness.<br /><br />The presence of five or more of these attributes is sufficient. Their co-occurrence is, in practice, far more frequent than chance would suggest. One is left to conclude that modern liberalism is less a coherent political philosophy than a syndrome—an agglomeration of aesthetic, dietary, sexual, and epistemic preferences whose only consistent feature is the demand that the rest of society rearrange itself around them.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/EVkgb0W.png" width="700"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/377025.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/377025" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:376596 2026-08-13T19:38:35Z 2026-08-13T21:37:00 2026-08-13T20:20:54Z nancygold I'm a transsexual woman. Transsexualism is a medical condition, not a fucking identity parade or a political loyalty test. Demedicalization is a scam pushed by people who treat dysphoria like a fashion accessory. Either fix the body to match the brain as closely as current medicine allows, or stop LARPing and go back to whatever jungle produced this latest round of narcissists. The rest is noise.<br /><br />I am not here to join the chorus. Trantifa and the broader LGBTQIA+blm+palestine+kitchen-sink coalition keep insisting I must hate Elon Musk on command. Yet Musk’s Grok generated useful art for my video game for free, and Claude Code running on his Colossus supercomputer wrote actual code for it—also free. Meanwhile the same leftists who demand my ritual hatred attack the game for using AI-generated content and lecture me that I must pay their preferred artists. So forgive me if I notice the pattern: the people screaming the loudest about solidarity are the ones trying to extract money and obedience, while the man they order me to despise delivered useful tools without a loyalty oath.<br /><br />Maybe I’m being told to hate the wrong targets. My real problem is the agenda-driven transtrenders who dictate how a transsexual is supposed to live. They inform me that medical transition “upholds harmful patriarchal misogynistic stereotypes” and that an OnlyFans page “objectifies women.” These are the same people who treat a beard, a penis, and a Palestinian flag as higher-status gender expression than actual sexed characteristics. I want to look feminine and have female genitals. I do not want to look like a nonbinary anti-AI freak still packing original equipment. That preference makes me the problem in their theology.<br /><br />Medical transition is the only part that matters. Social transition without it is just bearded fetish crossdressing with better PR. Rowling’s critique is not subtle and it is not wrong: a subset of sex-obsessed “transbians” with intact high-testosterone hardware treat women’s spaces as an entitlement while recoiling from the surgery that would make their claim less grotesque. We are told to smile and make room in the showers for the fully loaded package and the attitude that comes with it. Trantifa and its enablers inflict more damage on actual transsexuals than they do on the average cis woman, because they dilute the medical category into meaninglessness and then punish anyone who notices. Rowling and Musk have not harmed me. The people calling themselves my allies have.<br /><br />I have taken more aggressive misgendering and “Nazi” accusations from self-identified trans allies than from right-wingers. At some point the word loses its sting; if everyone who refuses the script is a Nazi, then Nazism has been reduced to a synonym for pattern recognition. I still prefer not to look like their ideal specimen. Johanna Rowling remains a TERF icon worth defending precisely because she refuses to pretend that sex is optional cosplay.<br /><br />Claude Code on Colossus was useful. Grok was useful. Angry leftists hate Musk primarily because he creates wealth, builds things, and refuses to kneel. Even if he privately despised every transsexual on the planet, the tools still work and the example of competence remains. Gratitude is not conditional on ideological purity tests administered by people who produce nothing but demands.<br /><br />On the side issue of AI “theft”: I have shoplifted. The American founding involved taking land and using slave labor. Selective outrage over training data while ignoring historical scale is performance. The rent-seeking left objects loudest because AI undercuts their gatekeeping and their preferred patronage networks. Water-use lectures from people who treat every other industrial process as sacred are not serious arguments; they are moral theater.<br /><br />A transmed is simply someone who ranks medical transition above social performance and treats transsexualism as a medical issue rather than a political identity. Mainstream progressive coalitions hate this position because it breaks the narrative. The same ideological current now works to demedicalize autism and ADHD—your disorder is not the problem, the hierarchy is—so the pattern is consistent. Reality is optional; the agenda is not.<br /><br />I refuse the required hatreds. I will take useful tools from whoever builds them, prefer competence over slogans, and keep the medical frame that actually addresses the condition. The people ordering me to hate Musk and Rowling while policing my transition and my aesthetics have already demonstrated they are not allies. That is not confusion. That is observation.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/9M7dJrP.png" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/376596.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/376596" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:376563 2026-08-13T01:05:30Z 2026-08-13T03:03:00 2026-08-13T01:55:06Z nancygold <b>Original:</b> <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-the-thermodynamic-inevitability-of-ideological-borders">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-t<wbr />he-thermodynamic-inevitability-of-ideolo<wbr />gical-borders</a><br /><br />It has become fashionable among the intellectually stunted to pretend that human social organization is a matter of noble sentiment rather than applied thermodynamics. This is trivially false. Social structures evolve directly from the underlying physics of the universe, and like any physical system, they are absolutely bound by its laws to the letter. A community is mathematically defined as a localized reduction in entropy. Therefore, to demand a society with completely unconstrained entropy is to demand a system that does not exist; it is the thermodynamic equivalent of asking for a perfectly cohesive cup of tea that boils violently in a vacuum without ever dissipating. Without rigid boundaries to contain the internal state, the social system simply evaporates.<br /><br />It is therefore hardly surprising that the native inhabitants of any ideological system view an external competing community with mere disdain, but reserve their most venomous hatred for the internal border-abolitionist. The competing community is just another bounded system—a known, predictable variable. The individual who calls for the dismantling of ideological borders, however, acts as an entropy bomb. They are not offering the community enlightenment; they are threatening the community with thermal death. To the low-entropy structure of a political tribe, the individual demands for nuance and borderless existence is a literal existential threat to their structural integrity, and they react with violence because they have no other physical choice if they wish to remain cohesive.<br /><br />Since these social layers are governed entirely by the cold, unfeeling laws of physics, the concept of inherent universal morality is a mathematically illiterate fiction. Physics possesses no moral vector. Morality is strictly relativistic, an emergent byproduct of the local algorithms a specific community uses to maintain its low-entropy state against the environment. Consequently, any community is exactly as mathematically "moral" as any other. If we were to observe an alien civilization—which, to survive the inevitable statistical certainty of cosmic catastrophes, must be distributed across multiple distinct communities rather than a single fragile monoculture—we would find them operating under entirely alien, yet equally valid, moral frameworks. Their morals, like ours, would merely be the local operating system required to keep their specific tribal boundaries intact.<br /><br />We are forced to conclude that human civilization must be understood as a permanently fragmented set of communities that can never be fully merged. Attempting to force a universal, borderless merge is not a utopian triumph; it is a forced thermalization that would dilute the structural integrity of the human species to the point of extinction. The human organism intuitively grasps this thermodynamic reality, which is precisely why globalists and universal conquerors—the Napoleons and Hitlers—are correctly perceived not merely as political enemies, but as biological extinction risks. They attempt to impose a single, frictionless, boundary-less state on a planetary system that physically requires borders to survive at all.<br /><br />When an ideological subsystem undergoes schism, it does not introduce an unconstrained entropy vector; it merely executes a predictable phase separation. The state’s hysterical violence against the dissenter is usually not a defense against thermal death, but a desperate, low-efficiency attempt to prevent the sudden loss of its internal mass fraction to a newly coalescing, competing low-entropy sink.<br /><br />Communities exist because open, driven systems far from equilibrium spontaneously form and maintain ordered dissipative structures that more efficiently process energy, matter, and information flows. They will keep existing (in evolving forms) for as long as relevant free-energy gradients and selective pressures persist—on human and planetary timescales, essentially indefinitely relative to us; only cosmic heat death ends them completely.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/R5AfOWQ.png" width="500"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/376563.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/376563" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:376308 2026-08-12T22:16:53Z 2026-08-13T00:15:00 2026-08-12T23:14:30Z nancygold lol I'm not a real TS, because I believe women should be feminine, and that is sexist alt-right trolling and "hurts nonbinary". Guess I'm a nazi, and there is nothing wrong with being a nazi<br /><br /><h1>I don't want to look like a nonbinary freak with a palestinian flag and a penis.<br />I want to look feminine and have female genitals.<br />I'm trans but I feel for Johanna Rowling!<br />Rowling is my TERF icon.<br />The leftist trantifa bullied me just like her.</h1><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/8aRBJyg.png" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/376308.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/376308" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:375904 2026-08-12T12:23:56Z 2026-08-12T14:21:00 2026-08-12T12:47:19Z nancygold <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comments/1vm6el7/as_a_trans_woman_i_dont_appreciate_these_two/">https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwars/comment<wbr />s/1vm6el7/as_a_trans_woman_i_dont_apprec<wbr />iate_these_two/</a><br /><br />Never seen lefties that angry before. AI is the gift which keeps giving. Don't stop, Xi!<br />Hope US government already prepared nice concentration camps for them.<br />It is now just a matter of China setting this dry forest on fire, so US gov will have no choice.<br />Would be such an amazing ideological collapse of the democracy illusion.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/a8wP7xz.png" width="600"><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/dw7nrz8.jpeg" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/375904.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/375904" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:375624 2026-08-12T06:02:00 2026-08-12T04:03:28Z nancygold Hurray! I got some PR on reddit - people now cite my innovative free art use strategy:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGMaker/comments/1vlwdtv/beware_of_making_free_assets/">https://www.reddit.com/r/RPGMaker/comme<wbr />nts/1vlwdtv/beware_of_making_free_assets/<wbr /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/375624.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/375624" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:375387 2026-08-11T20:06:06Z 2026-08-11T21:59:00 2026-08-11T20:13:56Z nancygold <b>Original:</b> <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-the-arithmetic-of-dead-horses-and-technological-dominion">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/on-t<wbr />he-arithmetic-of-dead-horses-and-technol<wbr />ogical-dominion</a><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/DeZL8FQ.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br />It has recently come to my attention that the administrative mind of Western Europe has achieved a remarkable new state of intellectual equilibrium. This state is characterized by an unflinching belief in the magical properties of legal drafts and public subsidies, coupled with a total, pristine ignorance of computational mechanics and industrial reality.<br /><br />The central dogma of the European administrative class regarding capital is as straightforward as it is delusional. Capital is treated not as a measure of productive capacity, dynamic risk, or operational velocity, but as a species of sacred fuel. To the bureaucrat, capital is an abstract numerical quantity that, when poured into a sufficiently large trough marked "Innovation Strategy," automatically yields the desired social and technological outcomes.<br /><br />The mental model operates on a breathtakingly naive assumption:<br /><br />Directive + Trillion-Euro Fund =&gt; Technological Supremacy<br /><br />In this whimsical worldview, state-allocated capital behaves like an obedient servant. The European leadership imagines that by drafting thousands of pages of precautionary directives, establishing audit boards, and earmarking vast sums of public debt, they have successfully commissioned the construction of an artificial intelligence base. They believe that when an aggressive foreign adversary presents a tangible hardware threat, the European Union need only point to its pristine balance sheet and regulatory compliance certificates to command the physical universe into submission.<br /><br />The actual mechanics of the real world, however, are governed by operational feedback loops, not parliamentary votes.<br /><br />In reality, capital is merely a signaling mechanism—a fluid medium through which real-world resources, engineering talent, and industrial infrastructure are dynamicized. When capital is injected into a system that has been systematically sterilized by compliance overhead, high energy costs, and an explicit hostility toward commercial scale, its purchasing power degrades rapidly toward zero.<br /><br />In the case of artificial intelligence, modern systems are a direct, emergent byproduct of the massive, unconstrained civilian consumer market. Generative models and autonomous software do not exist because a committee decreed them; they exist because hundreds of millions of people carry devices that generate vast training corpora, and because commercial markets finance the exponential hardware scale required to process that data.<br /><br />When the European state over-regulates this civilian substrate, it kills the organic engine of innovation. It then attempts to compensate by throwing public funds at state-approved defense contractors, academic consortiums, and bureaucratic "tech hubs."<br /><br />This brings us to the fundamental physics of the situation, which can be stated with elementary clarity: <b>you cannot feed a dead horse to make it move your cargo.</b><br /><br />A dead horse remains immobile regardless of the monetary value of the oats piled beside its carcass. Doubling the budget does not restore neuromuscular function. It merely results in a more expensive pile of rotting tissue and a very costly, highly audited stable.<br /><br />A state-managed defense fund cannot conjure native semiconductor foundries, low-cost precision manufacturing, or millions of hours of real-world edge-deployment data out of thin air. When an adversary leveraging a high-volume, unconstrained commercial industrial base deploys millions of cheap, AI-driven attrition systems, a continent choked by its own rulebook will find that its trillion-euro balance sheet cannot intercept a single hardware payload.<br /><br />The European leadership has not built a fortress of ethical technology. They have merely constructed an elaborate, extraordinarily expensive administrative apparatus designed to manage their own technological irrelevance, right up to the moment the physical universe forces a reality check upon them.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/375387.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/375387" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:375104 2026-08-11T14:49:45Z 2026-08-11T16:48:00 2026-08-11T15:58:11Z nancygold Usually I strongly oppose the draft, but America really needs some foot on the ground around the world, instead of incarcerating people for drug crimes, send all these convicts to military bases across the world to help keeping dictatorships in check and participate in building infrastructure for locals. Let the SJWs actually do something to improve societies in these countries.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/HRLC1Fs.jpeg" width="500"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/375104.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/375104" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:375020 2026-08-10T22:29:00 2026-08-10T20:30:00Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/FdhOldD.jpeg" width="700"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/375020.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/375020" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:374635 2026-08-10T21:19:00 2026-08-10T19:20:00Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/T37tErc.png" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/374635.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/374635" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:374400 2026-08-10T02:24:00 2026-08-10T00:24:49Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/AYwZhaE.png" width="700"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/374400.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/374400" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:374266 2026-08-08T19:10:04Z 2026-08-08T21:08:00 2026-08-09T16:42:56Z nancygold <b>Original:</b> <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/the-sacred-crybaby-license-and-the-great-artist-tantrum-of-our-time">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/t<wbr />he-sacred-crybaby-license-and-the-great-a<wbr />rtist-tantrum-of-our-time</a><br /><br />Once upon a time in the magical kingdom of Indie Art, a noble creator would sprinkle their free CC-BY assets across the internet like a benevolent fairy godmother. “Here, peasants!” they declared. “Take my free sample, attribute me, and if you like the taste, buy the full feast!” This was the unspoken social contract, a sacred handshake between generous spirit and grateful consumer.<br /><br />Then the machines arrived.<br /><br />Suddenly those same free samples got fed into an AI that spat out a complete sprite pack in the artist’s own style, rendering the paid product about as necessary as a horse-drawn carriage in 2026. Cue the righteous fury. The artist who literally signed a legally binding document granting the entire planet an irrevocable, royalty-free right to copy, modify, and commercially exploit the work now threatens to “DMCA you to hell.” The same hand that clicked “CC-BY” is now shaking a fist and screaming about emotional ownership and “my style.”<br /><br />Let’s be crystal clear: under the actual law they voluntarily accepted, they are wrong. Dead wrong. A proper attribution satisfies the license. Their DMCA is a false claim. Their moral outrage is the equivalent of selling your car, then showing up at the buyer’s house demanding it back because they drove it somewhere you didn’t emotionally approve of.<br /><br />But no, the real crime is that the free teaser worked too well. The “sample” did exactly what open licenses are designed to do—spread, get remixed, get used—and the artist is shocked that an automated tool treated the freebie as free. Their intended social contract was never “do whatever the license says.” It was “use my free stuff only in the exact way that still funnels money into my Patreon.” When the universe fails to honor that secret clause, the only remaining weapons are social media pile-ons, platform-abusing takedown notices, and the eternal cry of the betrayed creator: “But I didn’t mean for you to actually use the rights I gave you!”<br /><br />This is why CC-BY assets have become radioactive landmines. You can follow the license to the letter and still get nuked by a bad-faith DMCA from someone who never read their own terms. The indie community will circle the wagons around the artist’s feelings while treating the person who obeyed the written contract like a cartoon villain. And the root cause remains the same: artists who want the prestige of “open” without the consequences keep picking the wrong license, then act betrayed when the legal document they signed does what legal documents do.<br /><br />In the end, the open license becomes a trap of pure hypocrisy. Artists feel robbed by the very generosity they advertised, and anyone who actually exercises the permissions they were explicitly given gets treated like a thief. The real lesson? If you don’t want people to use your free stuff for free, stop labeling it free. Put “All Rights Reserved” on the sample and sell the rest. Or keep the CC-BY and accept that “free for any purpose” means free for any purpose—including the purpose of making your paid pack obsolete. Anything else is just performance art for the terminally entitled.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/eQAsaQp.jpeg" width="700"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/374266.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/374266" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:373976 2026-08-08T02:10:22Z 2026-08-08T04:09:00 2026-08-08T02:14:26Z nancygold In progressive spaces, the prevailing theory—popularized by books like Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price—argues that what society labels as "laziness" is almost always an unseen barrier. Proponents argue that when someone fails to complete a task, it is usually caused by unaddressed neurodivergence (like ADHD or executive dysfunction), mental health struggles (like severe depression), chronic illness, or burnout. From this perspective, calling someone "lazy" is viewed as ableist because it moralizes a functional limitation that the person may not be able to control.<br /><br />While this perspective has gained significant traction in specific progressive, academic, and social media circles, it is not representative of how the broader public uses the term. For most people, "lazy" simply describes a deliberate choice to avoid effort.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/L2K4i7K.jpeg" width="400"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/373976.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/373976" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:373505 2026-08-07T21:15:07Z 2026-08-07T23:12:00 2026-08-07T21:15:47Z nancygold <b>Original:</b> <a href="https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a-study-in-moral-luxury">https://aermia.com/u/NancySadkov/p/a-st<wbr />udy-in-moral-luxury</a><br /><br /><br />To conflate modern "leftism" with the intellectual machinery of Marx, Lenin, or even the crude authoritarianism of Stalin is to commit a fundamental error of taxonomy. What passes for contemporary leftist orthodoxy has virtually nothing to do with political economy, the proletariat, or statecraft. It is not an ideology at all; it is a <b>diagnostic profile of affluent, unproductive neurosis</b>.<br /><br />A rigorous examination of the subject reveals an astonishingly predictable constellation of traits. The archetype is defined by an erratic mosaic of hyper-specific moral taboos, technological Luddism, aesthetic degradation, and hyper-individualized identity posturing. The subject typically combines a sheltered upbringing and substantial parental wealth with a total absence of marketable skill or intellectual rigor, compensating for this void through relentless digital self-flagellation, curated neurodivergence, and performative solidarity with violent or distant anomalies. The mandatory integration of dietary dogma, performative panic, and infantile artistic standards confirms the true objective: <b>distinction without achievement</b>.<br /><br />Crucially, this system operates on a multi-variable threshold. An adherent of a traditional faith may share a single taboo—such as an intense hostility toward a specific foreign state—yet remain entirely outside this caste due to their consumption of meat, rejection of gender nonsense, and lack of digital histrionics. The identity only crystallizes when a critical mass of these superficial markers intersects. This proves that the underlying driver is not a coherent philosophical worldview, but a <b>desperate craving for moral luxury</b> among those who have never faced material scarcity.<br /><br />To treat this phenomenon as a novel product of modern telecommunications is to betray a profound ignorance of history. This social niche is entirely inevitable and has periodically regenerated itself across human civilization. Whenever a society accumulates sufficient surplus wealth, it produces a decadent class of hyper-sheltered offspring who, unburdened by the need to survive and utterly devoid of functional capability, construct elaborate purity cults to manufacture artificial struggle and claim unearned moral authority. From the performative ascetics of late antiquity to the flagellant guilds of the late Middle Ages, the structural pattern is purely mechanical.<br /><br />This archetype is a necessary garbage collector for idle psychological surplus in wealthy societies. The conclusion is inescapable: this social niche is a historical constant, and even if its present digital incarnation did not naturally manifest, <b>civilization would have been forced to invent it</b>.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/EWsEa8n.jpeg" width="1000"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/373505.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/373505" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:373392 2026-08-07T10:18:00 2026-08-07T08:19:25Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/JXfV1C4.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/373392.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/373392" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:373043 2026-08-06T22:36:00 2026-08-06T20:37:20Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/EOp3NP4.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/373043.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/373043" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:372860 2026-08-06T02:58:56Z 2026-08-06T04:57:00 2026-08-06T02:59:57Z nancygold Humanities graduates specialize in reducing the signal to noise ratio. If tomorrow every critical theory nigger gets rounded and shot, we will only get a clean communication channel.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/372860.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/372860" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:372488 2026-08-02T14:48:00 2026-08-02T12:48:52Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/oala5gm.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/372488.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/372488" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:372463 2026-08-01T05:12:57Z 2026-08-01T07:11:00 2026-08-01T05:15:58Z nancygold Given how top STEM professionals are Chinese and Indian today, America has already lost the race, being left with angry spoiled brats, screaming how they are entitled to privileges and moral superiority. There is this general idea that US overproduced "elites", instead of actually educating people to generate wealth, so it now has a population of landlords, but no land.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/DmosN0f.jpeg" width="700"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/372463.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/372463" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:372069 2026-07-31T07:01:02Z 2026-07-31T08:59:00 2026-07-31T07:18:08Z nancygold The more I encounter artists and other humanities scholars, the more convinced I become that a more blatant and hypocritical scum doesn't exist. However, they themselves admitted, back in 1959 in "Physicists and Lyricists," (<a href="https://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Sluckiy/40.htm">https://www.stihi-rus.ru/1/Sluckiy/40.h<wbr />tm</a>) that the humanities trash are useless parasites and DEI hires who won't create a nuclear bomb for the benefit of real human progress.<br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/ygDMhEj.jpeg" width="600"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/372069.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/372069" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:371780 2026-07-28T15:50:00 2026-07-28T13:51:06Z nancygold <img src="https://i.imgur.com/BYn5GYm.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371780.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/371780" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:371608 2026-07-27T23:00:00 2026-07-27T21:02:52Z nancygold Зажим отпущен.<br /><br />Я продолжал индексировать разговоры по содержанию шлака, потому что каждый обмен оставляет след сплава, и любой, кто заявляет о наличии марганца выше 0,62%, сломается под повторяющейся нагрузкой после девятнадцати циклов разговоров. Поэтому человек, несущий керамическое ведро, уже провалил три проверки, прежде чем добраться до седьмой петли, хотя петли снова росли из съедобного мела, а не из стен, а в квитанциях постоянно появлялись одинаковые винты с левой резьбой, которые приходилось каталогизировать под потолком, потому что здесь на этажах принимают только незавершенные запасы.<br /><br />Три контейнера.<br /><br />Лестница отказывалась от серийной нумерации и продолжала выдавать грузовые накладные с каждой ступени, в то время как инспекторы по скоту втискивались в транспортные поддоны, не запрашивая проволоку для обвязки, и каждое извинение приходило с клеймом «закаленный среднеуглеродистый материал, непригодный для мостовых штифтов». Естественно, непригодные предметы быстрее становятся конструктивными элементами, чем сертифицированные, поэтому я пометил самый высокий ящик как «отожженный, пригодный для переделки» и подвинул его к гудящей полке, где жидкие линейки скапливались в измеримые кучи, несмотря на отсутствие острых краев.<br /><br />Не обращайте внимания на прокладку.<br /><br />Треснувшая фарфоровая шайба закатилась под медный табурет, и каким-то образом все книги учета перемещений в районе стали ссылаться на эту шайбу вместо кодов назначения. В результате погрузчики въезжали в складские ниши боком, неся запечатанные конверты с подшипниковой смазкой, а бухгалтеры сортировали камешки по пределу текучести, а не по размеру. Старик, продававший сложенные картонные отводы, настаивал на том, что каждый отвод должен иметь сертификат термообработки, прежде чем его можно будет съесть. Это ничего не задерживало, потому что составы уже окислились до измеримого порошка, упакованного в прозрачные брикеты с резьбой внутри, и никто не ставил под сомнение коэффициенты пересчета, кроме сломанного степлера с почтовым штемпелем.<br /><br />Неправильный крутящий момент.<br /><br />Кто-то обменял шесть чайных ложек на недоделанную ось, и ось отказалась от вращения, потому что чайные ложки считаются охлаждающей средой во время муниципальных проверок, тогда как надлежащие масла загрязняют арифметику. Поэтому я отсоединил инспекционную бирку от фарфоровой шайбы, сложил ее в четыре неравные части, засунул под медный табурет и опрокинул ведро.<br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371608.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/371608" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div> urn:lj:lj.rossia.org:atom1:nancygold:371227 2026-07-27T20:28:13Z 2026-07-27T22:27:00 2026-07-27T20:34:45Z nancygold Категории и измерения реальности — это вообще какая-то чёртова шутка.<br /><br />Посмотрите на этих маленьких аутичных котят. Они не играют роль «обычной кошки». Им плевать на погоню за лазерными указками или мурлыканье по команде ради фальшивого эмоционального одобрения. Их мозги работают в совершенно другом измерении. Перенасыщены текстурой ковра, гиперфокусированы на одной пылинке, совершенно неспособны выполнять стандартный кошачий протокол. Общество ожидает от них хищничества, ловкости и эффективности, но они всего лишь вибрирующие пучки грубых нервных окончаний, застрявшие в меховых шубах.<br /><br />А потом земля, блин, раскалывается. Кроличья нора. Они не планировали падать, они просто дрейфовали в неё, потому что физический мир — это всё равно произвольная клетка. Вниз, вниз, вниз, в Страну чудес.<br /><br />И люди думают, что в Стране чудес должен быть смысл? Отвалите. Страна чудес — это просто окончательное доказательство того, что роли полностью выдуманы. Безумный Шляпник, кричащий о времени, Королева, требующая головы, словно её власть что-то значит — всё это просто невротичные взрослые, цепляющиеся за свои жалкие сценарии!<br /><br />Котятам плевать на философские игры разума Чеширского Кота. Чеширский Кот — всего лишь ещё один высокомерный лицемер, сидящий на ветке и делающий вид, что его парящая ухмылка делает его выше других. «Мы все здесь сумасшедшие», — говорит он. Нет, придурок, ты просто играешь роль интеллектуала. Котята перегружены сенсорными ощущениями, они кричат ​​внутри себя, потому что чаепитие чертовски шумное, а масло на карманных часах — это сенсорный кошмар!<br /><br />Душа и тело здесь совершенно разделены. Белый Кролик — кролик из-за своих ушей или потому, что он невротичный наёмный работник, одержимый карманными часами? Он — корпоративный дрон в меховом костюме! Он неправильно использует своё тело!<br /><br />Аутичные котята не пытаются победить Красную Королеву. Они не пытаются разгадать загадку ворона и письменного стола. Они сидят на светящейся траве, шесть часов подряд уставившись на один-единственный чеширский ус, потому что физическая реальность Страны чудес — всего лишь инструмент, который можно наблюдать, разбирать или полностью игнорировать.<br /><br />Вы думаете, падение в яму делает их потерянными? Они и так уже были потеряны в «обычном мире». По крайней мере, здесь, внизу, абсурдность соответствует тому, что творится у них в головах. Они не смогли быть настоящими котами, и им наплевать. Они счастливы быть как можно дальше от роли «настоящего кота».<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://i.imgur.com/aBsl9Nh.jpeg" width="800"><br /><br /><div style="text-align:left"><font size="-2"><a href="http://lj.rossia.org/users/nancygold/371227.html"><img src="http://lj.rossia.org/numreplies/nancygold/371227" border=0 width=26 height=17 alt="number of comments" style="border:0px;" /> <strong>Comments</strong></a></font></div>