TEOTWAWKI

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“Ghost In the Shell” is an amazing anime series. They would play episodes on AdultSwim’s animation block, Toonami.

Ghost in the Shell (攻殻機動隊 Kōkaku Kidōtai, literally “Mobile Armored Riot Police”) is a Japanese media franchise originally published as a seinen manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Masamune Shirow. The manga, first serialized in 1989 under the subtitle of The Ghost in the Shell, and later published as its own tankōbon volumes by Kodansha, told the story of the fictional counter-cyberterrorist organization Public Security Section 9, led by protagonist Major Motoko Kusanagi, in the mid 21st century of Japan.

In the series/movies, Major Kusanagi has a body that failed when she was a child. Through science and technology, she was put into a cyborg body, or “shell.” And in a society where shells are recognized as people and cybernetics are somewhat normalized, there is always the danger of hackers, terrorists, and everyday criminals abusing the technology or those that use it.

It is a great series and everyone should watch it.

But the upcoming movie…

I’m boycotting the movie.

I will not watch it in theaters. I will not buy the movie. If I see it, it will be on TV or Netflix/Amazon/Hulu, which may give the producers a tiny bit of money, but definitely not as much as they want.

Hollywood needs to understand that whitewashing their movies has results. Mostly that people of conscience will not watch them in the way they want.

And if, instead of the $8 they expect to receive per viewer, they only receive $0.30 — I hope they’ll get the message that what they’re doing is unacceptable.

Whitewashing is a casting practice in the Cinema of the United States film industry of the United States in

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As things fall apart around us, and the systems we depend on cease to work in the manner they’re supposed to, it would be easy to fall into despair.

It would be easy to turn to anger and resentment. To throw your hands up in the air and declare “We should just fuck everything up. That’ll show them.”

When really, more than ever, we need to hold each other up, lean on each other, and help each other out. As the government and our fellow citizens begin to fail as human beings, the rest of us need to build a backup infrastructure and backup resources on which to draw on and use.

What does that mean?

Well, companies that turn to the hatred of Trump as the answer don’t deserve our money. They don’t deserve our shares on social media. They don’t deserve anything at all.

So what if a business produces a product or service that I want right now. So what if their model is neat, and their idea is interesting. If they support hatred, than they’re not getting any money from me or my family.

Because when it all comes down to it, the service or app might be great, but if I wait 2 months someone else will come up with the same concept and model without all the crap.

So go ahead, businesses, don’t pay your employees proper wages. Don’t give them benefits because their family-unit doesn’t conform to your ultra-rigid ideas of what’s proper.

It sucks that your employees will have to get other jobs when your business tanks, but that’s not my fault. I’m not required to do business with any company I don’t believe in.

I might not be powerful or important.

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I make wishes on the stars all the time. It doesn't seem like a waste to me. Because in the forming of a wish--an idea--a concept of what can be is created. And until a wish is formulated, it's nothing but stardust and fantasy.