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When creating a story with minority protagonists, is it better not to create white male characters?
  • <sigh> stop with the "right-wing ideological white men" thing. It's not political at this point.

    A lot of "racially aware" writers seem to have ended up in a headspace where they can't write white without making them a punching bag. It's obvious. It's childish. It's racist. People of all races will be angry when their only representation in a piece of work is a lazy stereotype. You don't need to be right-wing for that.

    You can say "well now they know how it feels", but that just means you've also sunk to the lowest level.

    Unless race is critical to the plot, there's no need to lean into it. Emphasising division breeds division. Just write a good story.

  • Toxic smog engulfs northern India, Pakistan
  • Not sure spraying water is going to help. More water means higher humidity air which will drive the smog. No?

    ...and I love the juxtaposition of public health with obscuring views of tourist attractions. No messed up priorities here.

  • The UK steps up with an 81% emissions cut target at COP29 following Trump win
  • Finally, some reporting of what the current level is Vs 1990 levels.

    UK greenhouse gas emissions have fallen by almost half from 1990 levels, mainly due to the phaseout of coal from electricity generation.

    So another ⅓ to go, in ten years. For that to happen we need to see announcements of plans very soon. The easy changes have already been made / are in progress for the grid. Manufacturing and industrial transport are the next big targets by my reckoning. Electrification of goods transportation would be a huge win.

  • Trump thinks Putin is his friend. The Russians just issued a humiliating statement to the contrary.
  • So much comes down to "is trump malicious or just an idiot?" His last term was largely idiocy, and if that repeats itself then I think things will be ok. My concern is that his rhetoric has turned more toxic, so I think he may have done so as well.

  • Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X
  • I really wish running your own mastodon was as accepted as running your own email server. There'll be no "blue check mark" problem if your company runs the server and only provides accounts to employees.