It bugs me when people say “the thing is is that” (if you listen for it, you’ll start hearing it… or maybe that’s something that people only do in my area.) (“What the thing is is that…” is fine. But “the thing is is that…” bugs me.)...
Usually. But when it comes to free online content, you're often the subject or intended spreader of somebody's propaganda. Some rich asshole is willing to pay to ensure a story that serves their agenda is able to go viral, rather than good faith research/reporting that takes teams of people lots of time and work to figure out. Why doesn't #Reason magazine struggle with fundraising etc like other journalistic enterprises?
any good #DAW recs on #linux? i know #reason isn't available on linux and #flstudio is ok i guess. #lmms is cool but very limited and hard to work with. i like to click and write midi notes mostly. #musicproduction
Reality is a bitter pill when you’ve been fed a steady diet of religious fantasy. While life always was random, I felt safer when I could explain it as “God’s will” or “Satan’s handiwork.” I felt extremely exposed & vulnerable without my Cosmic Big Brother watching over me. Step by step, I learned to own my life. Divorcing religion is painful - but it’s also liberating. I love my life ♥️ #independence#criticalthinking#identity#reality#science#equality#reason#SecularHumanism#atheist#joy
compilation of short music loops I made with the very fine #Caustic music app (somehow similar to #Reason) during the last days, mainly inspired by the tragic life work of astro scientists
All around me, everyone is getting less and less COVID-cautious. When they see me in my two layers of masks while I’m out and about, they say, with a certain incredulous undertone, “Still wearing a mask?!”
I think most of my friends and acquaintances now believe that I am exaggerating, completely overdoing it. Very, very few still share my concerns. Hence I am glad that there remain some voices of reason. Like, for example, the brilliant writer Jessica Wildfire (@jessicawildfire) who has a Substack blog called “OK Doomer” and a Ko-fi page.
I will recommend some recent texts to read and consider.
Edgar Morin about Reason / Rationality / Rationalization.
Reason: "Reason corresponds to a desire to have a coherent vision of phenomena, things and the universe. The reason has an indisputably logical aspect."
Rationality: "Rationality, in a way, never claims to exhaust the totality of the real in a logical system, but it has the will to dialogue with what resists it."
What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
It bugs me when people say “the thing is is that” (if you listen for it, you’ll start hearing it… or maybe that’s something that people only do in my area.) (“What the thing is is that…” is fine. But “the thing is is that…” bugs me.)...
A website to found out who in the Fediverse blocks who for what reason. (fba.ryona.agency)
If you enter a domain, you will find which instances block this domain....