Fumiko Kaneko sits on her knees wearing a striped kimono with her hands clasped in front of her, staring intently ahead. c. 1925, author unknown [Wikipedia]
Fumiko Kaneko, born on this day in 1903, was a Japanese anarchist, nihilist, and opponent to Japanese imperialism in Korea. Fumiko is perhaps best remembered for her “The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman”, written while imprisoned after being convicted of high treason against the Japanese government.
Together, Fumiko and her Korean partner Pak Yol published two magazines which highlighted the problems Koreans faced under Japanese imperialism and showed influences of their radical politics. Sometime between 1922 and 1923, they also established a group called “F"utei-sha (Society of Malcontents)”, which Fumiko identified as a group for direct action against the government.
These activities soon brought Pak and Fumiko under government scrutiny. In September 1923, the Japanese government therefore made a number of arrests, mostly Koreans, on limited evidence, and among those arrested were Pak and Fumiko.
After lengthy judicial proceedings, Fumiko and Pak were convicted of high treason for attempting to obtain bombs with the intention of killing the emperor or his son. They were both sentenced to life in prison, however Fumiko allegedly committed suicide in her cell in 1926.
Here is a short excerpt from one of Fumiko’s interrogations while imprisoned (text by Max Res from theanarchistlibrary.org):
Q: Your class?
A: A divine commoner.
Q: How are you employed?
A: My job is tearing down everything that currently exists.
The Prison Memoirs Of A Japanese Woman
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i just found out that one of the artists i like is a gramsci-quoting karl marx-reading red to the bone communist, which is really nice to see
but they exclusively draw erotica (they are really good at it) so i can’t really share a link to their profile with anyone
I know we throw around the sentiment a lot but I can’t adequately put into words how much I fucking detest this vile, demonic, shithole country. (I had to interact with the healthcare industry today)
Canada and Mexico should just join BRICS, EU too. Just like isolate the US.
Apply to job
Hear nothing back
One week later, Send in reminder email to remind them to view my application
Sorry, we went with someone else
Job still on their website
???
Did these idiots really think they’re too good for me when they can’t even remember to remove a job opening for a role that’s already been filled?
(serious) Learned that my great grandfather got beat up by teamsters for crossing a picket line once. He ended up joining them not long after 😂
Feel like this irl in real life right now at the moment
dad fell and hit his face on the coffee table because he’s too stubborn to use a walker or even the cane we just got him. really dont know how to deal with this tbh
Do any pathetic losers wanna come cuddle another pathtethtc loser?
weh
I think Trump should try the Canada anschluss if only for the fact that it might be the only thing that could meaningfully turn the entire world against us
I had a deeply terrible realization after talking with the composer for my previous game today, which is that I now cannot be fully confident that anyone I commission to work on a game with me going forward isn’t using AI to at least partially generate something like music, for example.
But learning to compose music that sounds as good as I’d like myself would take many, many months, if not longer, which is why it was the only thing I commissioned last time…
I know a lot of people here are trying to make a case for “AI” as a tool, and there are some uses for it that I think are probably acceptable (though I despise it in general regardless as yet another source of grand misconception among humans, not understanding what it really is or how it works), but I do not want it to have any part in any art which I create.
Why haven’t we normalised taps in bedrooms. Imagine being able to get a glass of water from your bedside table
21st century people: “Yo fuck Columbus. This guy the worst”
That guy: “Well we can’t judge him by the standards of his day. His actions were considered acceptable in the 16th century”
16th century people: “Yo fuck Columbus. This guy is the worst”
Watching a totally unrelated video, I saw in the related a thumbnail of yesterday’s SNL cold open, which was titled “Founding Fathers” and has Lin-Manuel Miranda in some colonial getup. Libs are so predictable lmao
I finally remembered to check the price of Luigi’s Mansion for GameCube and the price of a complete in box NTSC-U copy has spiked nearly 30% since The Adjuster came on the scene
Playing Skyrim with the “official” Survival mode, as in the version of the mod they made a creation and bundled for free with the upgrade. Having fast travel disabled confirms pretty much what a lot of people (myself included) have said that Skyrim is a more immersive game when you travel from city to city, bundling up your quests and goals.
The fast travel that is present is boats and wagons. I like that while they are safe and convenient, they’re kind of like a long haul flight, you arrive at the destination exhausted and hungry. So you have to immediately seek out an inn or a warm bed.
I think the game would have benefited from a few more diegetic fast travel options. One option could be court mages teleporting you between Jarl’s Keep, the cost could be 10x that of a wagon or boat (so 200-500 gold) but instantaneous so you don’t get tired or hungry. Another limitation would be until the civil war is resolved you could only teleport between imperial or stormcloak aligned cities, with Whiterun being a neutral change over hub.
I also think scrolls of divine intervention that take you back to the nearest shrine in a city/town, as long as you are outside would be neat too.
(Yeah there’s definitely mods for all this stuff, but I’m talking about how the straight out of the box game could have been better and more like Morrowind)
