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zillion

@zillion@freeradical.zone

Jewish. Atheist. Buddhist. Anti-Zionist. Stop the genocide in Gaza.

Luddite.

End capitalism.

Retired philosopher of mathematics, logician, privacy maximalist, Gnu-Linux user, swimmer, shaver of yaks, perendinator.

Avatar: Guy Fawkes mask
Header: Albino raven

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StillIRise1963, to random
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Black hero. Thank you.

zillion,
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@SeriousMoonlight @obeto @StillIRise1963 @thepoliticalcat @Okanogen
For Stormy Daniels.

bkm, to random
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Do I have time to make a jury verdict cocktail?

zillion,
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@bkm This occasion deserves a special cocktail of its own, with a good name. Anyone got any ideas?

zillion,
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@bkm My contribution: A Stormy Daniels. Add a shot of dark rum to a light Mexican beer and garnish with a lime. Build a wall of tajin around the edge of the glass. I'm not sure if that's a border wall or a prison wall. I'll let you know after I've had a couple.

GottaLaff, to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

Breaking:

just refused to commit to accepting the results of Wisconsin's presidential election in November if he doesn't win and again lied that he won the state in 2020.

Trump also repeated similar language to what he said on Jan. 6: "If everything's honest, I'd gladly accept the results. If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country."

zillion,
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@GottaLaff This says it all: "you have to fight for the right of the country." Not the rights. The right.

Saltssaltgirl, to random
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I have an interview today. Send good juju.

zillion,
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@Saltssaltgirl Good luck!

mrcompletely, to random
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MC5 were much, much more important in the revolutionary sixties/early seventies scene than I think is widely realized. Not the cultural psychedelic dropout revolution of San Francisco but the wild, threatening, often physically aggressive, no fucks given, desolate, desperate radical street freak revolution, the people who fought cops and were beaten and killed for it, the part of "the sixties" that modern radicals would actually respect & has therefore been minimized and sidelined in history

zillion,
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@mrcompletely The MC5 played my Junior High School Dance. My job was to get the teachers (chaperones) out of the room when they played Kick Out the Jams Motherfuckers, so I didn't get to hear it. 'Worth it though. (I made up some bullshit about money being missing from the cover-charge receipts.)

Marrekoo, to phdlife Dutch
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For the @phdlife public: does anyone know what you call it when you ask people to prioritise stuff pairwise two ways (A over B vs. B over A), and there is a difference in the gap? So A is, say .4 more important than B, but B is only .1 less important than A? Are there any papers on that asymmetry phenomenon?

zillion,
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@Marrekoo @phdlife Preference reversal.

theceoofanarchism, to acab

Don’t Stop: Continuing the Fight against Cop City

"Fall of 2023 was the first time since the beginning of the movement to stop Cop City that large numbers of protesters mobilized around any issue in the United States. The movement in Atlanta emerged after the 2020 George Floyd rebellion, during the period of social peace and political disorganization that typically follows large protest movements. If the echoes of the 2020 uprising were never entirely suppressed, we owe that to the initiative of the movement in Atlanta and those who acted in solidarity with it elsewhere, as well as the persistence of young Black and Brown people who continue to resist state terror in places like Philadelphia.

To overcome the obstacles confronting the movement in Atlanta will require long-term, large-scale mobilization. The actions of individuals and small dedicated groups have created a context in which a mass outbreak of revolt could have the most radical content currently imaginable, possibly paving the way for a more serious movement against carceral infrastructure all over the country. But such an outcome is by no means guaranteed. The movement has already experienced several flashpoints, including the murder of Tortuguita; these have given it greater visibility without mobilizing massive numbers of new participants.

Nonetheless, the story is not over, and the stakes are high. Now is not the time for backing down."

https://crimethinc.com/2023/12/12/dont-stop-continuing-the-fight-against-cop-city-six-more-months-in-the-movement-to-defend-the-forest

zillion,
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@theceoofanarchism It's wonderful that while Cop City was intended as a venue for cops to practice methods of oppression, what is actually happening is that has become a testing ground for methods of opposing oppression.
When given lemons….

GottaLaff, to random
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OFFS.

I just read a headline in my LA Times about how anti-vaxxers also don’t want to immunize their pets against rabies.

The stupidity, cruelty, and recklessness of that mindset is beyond jaw dropping.

Both humans and animals need protection. , you total deluded idiots who believe otherwise.

zillion,
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@GottaLaff My wife wondered what they were worried about—autistic puppies?

julieofthespirits, to random Spanish

"The world’s solution to safety and security, for Jews and for others, continues to be inextricably linked to the nation-state and its sovereignty — to militarized borders and an obsession with demography. As modern history has shown, such an idea always has the potential for exclusionary politics and mass violence. Perhaps most damaging of all is how such a solution propagates a diminished understanding of safety: It is the state that needs defending, not people. It is the state that holds sovereignty, not people. This logically leads to policies that label certain elements of society acceptable losses in times of conflict — sacrifices in the name of the state. And it facilitates an essentialist view of the world that cannot include the history of human migration and leaves no room for the fluidity of identity."

https://newlinesmag.com/first-person/memory-voids-and-role-reversals/

zillion,
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@KevinCarson1
This is apparently controversial, and I'm not equipped to form an opinion, but:
"Sand argues that it is likely that the ancestry of most contemporary Jews stems mainly from outside the Land of Israel and that a "nation-race" of Jews with a common origin never existed, and that just as most Christians and Muslims are the progeny of converted people, not of the first Christians and Muslims, Jews are also descended from converts…"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invention_of_the_Jewish_People

jeffowski, to random
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The classics make understanding the Bible easier and understand that all the loopholes and plot holes are indicative of the bad writing style of the times.

zillion,
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@jeffowski
millihelen
noun
Unit of measurement: the amount of beauty required to launch one ship.

thomasfuchs, to random
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I occasionally check if Google has cured itself from AI-brain rot, alas this is a screenshot from just now

zillion,
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@thomasfuchs Omfg, you'd think they'd have fixed that by now.

b9AcE, to random
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Among things of employees that are none of an employer's business, I would guess most people would probably rank at the top "their relationships — sexual, romantic or [...] platonic".
Yet now the U.K. broadcaster "ITV has drawn up new rules [...] saying staff will have to declare their relationships — sexual, romantic or, in some cases, even platonic — or risk losing their job", according to The Times.

The rest of the article is hard-paywalled, so I won't link to it.

zillion,
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@b9AcE Here it is without the paywall:
https://archive.ph/sCKWS .

zillion, to random
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Found in NYC.

Alice, to random
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I was thinking about children's songs and how weird some of them are, such as Ring Around the Rosie, and it reminded me of this song my mom used to sing to me when I was little that was a totally NORMAL thing for me to hear at the time and then I later thought about the lyrics and was like WHAT?

Did anyone else have the "hiney" song in regular rotation when they were a kid?

https://soundcloud.com/asciialice/hiney?in=asciialice/sets/asciialice&si=88037ae0d92f4585b2fc1e56104deeea&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

zillion,
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@Alice I never heard that one, but Ring Around the Rosie is about the plague, Hot Cross Buns is about a serial child killer, and my mother used to sing

Blinken, Blinken, I've been thinkin',
What's that awful stuff you're drinkin'?
Looks like water,
Tastes like wine,
Oh my God, it's turpentine

Sheril, to news
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I understand that newspapers need support through subscriptions, but I often worry about about how this makes reliable information a luxury for those with the means to afford it.

Meanwhile misinformation & disinformation are widely accessible & free. #news #journalism

zillion,
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@Sheril They need support through money. I happily donate, but subscribe so they can track me and hide information from others? No thanks. I really wish there was a way to donate, say, 20¢ per article. As things are I only donate to the sources I read and/or agree with the most.

futurebird, to random
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I get kind of worked up about attempts to rob young people of the few interesting things that we really know about nature and the universe. This anti-evolution content is designed as a kind of inoculation against gaining further knowledge on the topic.

It contains neat little counter arguments that prompt kids to stop listening before they hear anything really interesting.

It's so sinister.

zillion,
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@futurebird @ordinoides I had a Darwin fish bumper sticker on my car when I lived in Tucson. I had to get my car towed. The tow-truck driver saw the bumper sticker and said, "Darwin. Isn't he that guy who didn't believe in God?"
I info dumped on him about evolution, and he actually seemed to listen.

baldur, to random
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“Ugly Numbers from Microsoft and ChatGPT Reveal that AI Demand is Already Shrinking”

"A huge amount has been invested into AI but consumers aren’t taking the bait. They’re treating it like those American Online startup disks in the mail." https://www.honest-broker.com/p/ugly-numbers-from-microsoft-and-chatgpt

zillion,
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@baldur At least those were collectible!

grammargirl, (edited ) to random
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Do you interpret the smiley emoticon and the smily emoji the same way when you see them at the end of a sentence in an email message?

Example:

See you soon. :)
See you soon. 🙂

I'd love to hear your thoughts!

zillion,
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@grammargirl Same, but I wince a bit because I see the first one as ungrammatical: :-) .

dnc, to spicy
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Just picked this one up https://www.diningandcooking.com/865129/just-picked-this-one-up/

zillion,
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@dnc Ordered!

zillion,
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@dnc I think you mean 🌶️🌶️🌶️!

grammargirl, (edited ) to random
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I'm editing a piece that mentions the "valley girl stereotype," and I'm debating how to style it.

I'm tempted to capitalize it since it comes, in part, from both a movie and song with that title. But you could also argue that it's genericized now. But I've also seen it written as "Valley girl," since we capitalize the nicknames of well-known places.

None of my favorite style guides address the topic.

What would you do?

zillion,
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@grammargirl 'valley girl' unless it specifically refers to a girl from the San Fernando valley. Then 'Valley girl.'

zillion, to random
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This is absolutely terrifying:
https://councilestatemedia.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-most-dystopian-news
That has been posted here before. I'm reposting to make sure as many as possible see it. If someone sends me a link to the original, I'll add it.

Radical_EgoCom, to random

Rich kid profiting off humiliating the unemployed

zillion,
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@Radical_EgoCom So many levels of awful in that. Brrrr!

thenewoil, to random
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The Taliban Government Runs on WhatsApp. There’s Just One Problem.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/17/world/asia/taliban-whatsapp-afghanistan.html?unlocked_article_code=sJiw0vI6CroRN5UsfNeTwuLOzAIQyREhOG1gt__3HB04JMPbTgTIHMcyYMBEW0VXNx0jW8MZaKWWaUKswdDw-ljFzTmS6sTlglXSONtggLE98-JDylz11PGmFxT46A69ELSDiJ25mAxLB0urAElCumgNqiNCJmL3hDylug2FdYjehjA1PiId4nYIRb2emasz2cwsaVzp4FLqYMDZthy6BT8wDe0W05GHFqgz0LDA5Q0W2td_US4LRdRghlwUrjAuNIbe0x767_4bOLpjDJg5Z2uBl0ex7Y5XIBqlTBnV385TTHM1y7vRvnEhKMCdH0uo3m6icNDAPQ9nXnEOt3tZNwqPVe585g5SqQ

zillion,
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@thenewoil The article is interesting. This surprised me:
"4G networks have improved across Afghanistan with the end of the U.S.-led war."

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