At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
Every situation has the potential to cause harm. The work is always about minimizing it. That starts with being honest about what you're actually doing and why.
I'll be documenting this whole process in the newsletter. Not the staged version. The actual one.
March 15. https://lifebeyondthesupremacymyth.com/
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #MythOfWhiteSupremacy #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
Good Lord, who would ever want to replicate the shit hole people are fleeing from?
I agree with you on this much as I would desire to get the hell out myself it may be one day. I will do that.
The last thing I could even think of would be to transplant myself into the same thing
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
@KimCrayton1 my wife and I emigrated in 2001 - but we cheated a little; we left via sailboat. So we had some insulation from the culture shock for a while. After a year or so, we worked a while in Venezuela - still in a sort of "bubble", as they often call the expat enclaves - but ever more internationalized. We eventually wound up on a rural farm in the Dominican Republic - no bubble there! You are in for wonderful (and dismaying) adventures!! GO!
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
@KimCrayton1 Is there any place that isnât infected?
Thatâs not a rhetorical question. I keep finding myself thinking âIâd like to get away from this garbage and move to [place that seems better]â and then I think of something deeply problematic about that place too. Maybe (definitely) not as bad as where I am, but still toxic.
Have you found a place that is acceptably consistent with your values?
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
@KimCrayton1 oh, huh, very interesting to hear that distinction! I've mostly been hearing that "expat" was a sort of a vague euphemism that USians and brits use to not call themselves immigrants, not that it was specifically about "replicating the same experience" o.0
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Every situation has the potential to cause harm. The work is always about minimizing it. That starts with being honest about what you're actually doing and why.
I'll be documenting this whole process in the newsletter. Not the staged version. The actual one.
March 15. https://lifebeyondthesupremacymyth.com/
#LifeBeyondTheSupremacyMyth #MythOfWhiteSupremacy #ProfitWithoutOppression #KimCrayton
@KimCrayton1 YES! I hate the label expat (despite my colonizer heritage).
I'm really happy to follow your journey on this. I have not found many IRL people where I moved who feel the same about the expat label as I do.
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At the start of this year I decided to relocate.
Not as an expat. As an immigrant.
That distinction matters. Most resources for people leaving the U.S. are built around one goal: replicating the American experience somewhere cheaper or sunnier. That's not what I'm trying to do. And finding support for life beyond the supremacy myth has already revealed how few structures exist for someone leaving the U.S. who isn't trying to take the U.S. with them.
@KimCrayton1 I was an expat for 11 years, our family lived in Lebanon, my Dad was a professor at the American University of Beirut. I think the defining characteristic is that we, and all of Lebanon's tens of thousands of other expats, knew that one day we'd pull up stakes and head home. We were not really members of Lebanese society.
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@KimCrayton1 I was an expat for 11 years, our family lived in Lebanon, my Dad was a professor at the American University of Beirut. I think the defining characteristic is that we, and all of Lebanon's tens of thousands of other expats, knew that one day we'd pull up stakes and head home. We were not really members of Lebanese society.
@KimCrayton1 Anyhow, good luck!
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@KimCrayton1 I was an expat for 11 years, our family lived in Lebanon, my Dad was a professor at the American University of Beirut. I think the defining characteristic is that we, and all of Lebanon's tens of thousands of other expats, knew that one day we'd pull up stakes and head home. We were not really members of Lebanese society.
@timbray @KimCrayton1 I did not know this!
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@timbray @KimCrayton1 I did not know this!
@evan @KimCrayton1 It was *so* expat. There was even the Beirut Softball League, teams included the AUB faculty, AUB students, local American High School, US Marines at the embassy, Japanese community, and "The Pilgrims", all the missionaries and other official Christians.
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Fino a qui, tutto bene...
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@simonett_a ma bravisssimissima! đ
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@toxi there is a belief among some LLM users that if you tell the LLM it is an expert, it will behave like one. There is some evidence to support this belief, which is both funny and annoying, but it leads to some weird superstitions about how much impact it can have and how many times you have to repeat yourself to get it to believe it is an expert.
So, the optimistic read of this is not that it's about deceiving the viewer, but rather deceiving the model into behaving more like an expert.
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@toxi an implementation of what @baldur calls the LLM-Mentalist effect https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llmentalist/
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@robertoranon @toxi man, the boosters just kramer in with cut'n'paste excuses on cue
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@evan Yes, but the pie should be eaten at 1:59:26. PM, 'cause I ain't getting up that early.
