Lit Ignorance is Bias: The Diversity Manifesto

I've always maintained that "Twitter is for twits". Maybe it's close-minded, but I genuinely cannot see anything constructive being done with that small a character limit.

 

I've made lots of friends via Twitter. That's good enough for me.

And it's really good at teaching you how to edit.

 

Twitter is like any social media. It can be used responsibly and make for a great means of interaction between people that isn't blocked by distance or any sort of funds limitation, but as with mediums like Facebook, it lends itself to abuse and misuse because of that same ease of access. And it's an odd paradigm: on one hand its a window into someone's inner thoughts beyond what the media might report, but it's also inherently limited (in its basic form) and as such, means that things can be taken out of context or even completely misrepresented. I've seen celebrities and people in the public eye get in trouble with the wider media both ways: because they posted something they were better off not posting, and because something they did post, harmless in itself, was taken out of context and turned back around on them.

I use it as a pseudo-news feed, since I trust the blogs and writers I follow more than the mainstream media outlets. But I don't generally follow "important" people directly. It's a sort of pyramid, I follow the people who follow the "important" people, so if they say anything actually important (or funny), it'll get re-tweeted and I see it.

 

Oh, okay, makes sense. Incidentally, I always pictured Dalien like this:



So I guess I was wrong.

(I guess that's closer to Darth Caedus, ironically, considering people saying DOTJ:ITV was what LOTF should've been.)

 

And that's what we call White Until Proven Otherwise.

 

NEAR-HUMAN LIKE ME, the Galactic Bestseller 240 Imperial Standard Weeks on the Corsucanti Times Bestseller list!

 

Who is that?

Well, he is tan and I have see people here referee to tan people as white

 

He was the villain in the movie Zoom: Academy for Superheroes. A pretty cheesy movie but I saw it when I was younger and his villainous appearance kind of stuck with me, I guess. Plus the yellow (or red, in that picture anyways) eyes. Very dark side-y.

 

It's actually more active with Japanese users because one character = one word so one tweet is a paragraph. Same for other languages that don't use the Roman alphabet.

 

"Still"? I've been uninterested in any of the "new" EU, but if Hickman gets a SW comic - and especially if it's about the Senate and trade routes and such - I'd buy it in a heartbeat. That's not an April Fools, that's just a mark on how awesome Hickman is.

 

Yeah, I really don't like Manhattan Projects because it just seems needlessly nasty, but the latest work he's been doing in the AVENGERS line as well as some of his other work has been excellent. Although I still feel at times he's in such a rush to get his story told the result is that it feels like I'm missing pages. His Secret Warriors run was a perfect example of that. He'd introduce characters and feed them to the meat grinder and I never knew if or why I was supposed to care.

Even with that said, he's the perfect choice for a big action, big blockbuster feeling SW experience.

 

The trick to reading Manhattan Projects is to accept from the start you're reading about a bunch of total, mad bastards and none of them will be anywhere near heroic about anything. Once you do that, it becomes gonzo fun.

 

Anyone still think there's no sexism in Star Wars? Check out the Wook today.

 

Look at today's date...

 

I hate Wookieepedia's brand of April Fool's nonsense too.

 

The introduction to the article, basically everything that appears when an article is featured, is the only thing that was changed, as reflected in the article's history. The article's history also shows that there was an edit war over this, which frequently happens to existing articles involved with Wookieepedia's April Fool's jokes.

 

It's a really crass joke and not funny at all. Just hurr, boobs!

For curiosity I looked for a penis article. Shockingly, one didn't exist.

 

Given the history of the real article, my gut reaction to it being FAed was actually very positive--shoving it in the face of people who couldn't handle the nudity. But the revisions are definitely quite lacking, and kind of ruin the joke.

 

They do know kids used the site right ?