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GhostOnTheHalfShell

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opinionated lurker of the intarwebs.

Used to write code, still do. c/c++, java, php, js, c#, gdscript, gnawed on sql, sparql, unix/windows etc etc billions of years ago.

tech, graphics, anything STEM
anything anthropology, history, linguistics
anything blender, gimp (although i scream using it), audacity
prefers not to be run over by cars

I drink Philz.

I do a (non-monetized) video or so a week on yt.

Tyranny and poverty are everywhere a mainstream economics phenomenon.

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textfiles, to random
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A DDOS against the Internet Archive has commenced again, timed for maximum pain for the California staff to deal with. (I don't sleep, but I also can't do anything on the infrastructure here.)

So, we're down until people wake up to deal with the constant DOOS against us because... reasons

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@textfiles

yay 😑

alexanderhay, to technology
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[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the .

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

" later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@metaphase @alexanderhay

I know. Companies are hegemons and she is being racially profiled.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@alexanderhay

No due process and full fascism.

pvonhellermannn, to random
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This is something I am deeply worried about too; throughout but again this morning, with Israel’s horrendous bombing of a refugee camp just days after ICC put out a warrant against Netanyahu, and again, so far, NOTHING from Biden and co:

that the liberal world order so obviously means nothing, is a sham; that “Might is Right” - always but now so completely clearly so. As Nesrine Malik says, this will have wider repercussions.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@pvonhellermannn European colonialism closing ranks.

kdnyhan, to random
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Wow. A microbiology lab at Texas A&M accepted purchased raw milk samples from NPR for H5N1 testing, then contacted the milk producers to seek permission. When the producers said, "don't test our milk," the lab not only declined to carry out the tests but also refused to send the samples on to another lab.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@kdnyhan So the labs have stolen NPR’s property.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@kdnyhan

I like how A&M warm over farm “families’” survival when people are being killed. What cult of human sacrifice do they worship in?

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited ) to history
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8 min

Human history in a nutshell.

If the Italians appear sanguine about history, it's because they've been there, and done that.

Nothing new, certainly since Cicero and well before.

https://youtu.be/ijcuXh-Lk9E

PillarOfGarbage, to random
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New video premieres in 10 mins!

Across The Grifterverse
https://youtu.be/SnGpoFq9y5c

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@PillarOfGarbage

I’ve finally settled down to watch your piece. Ah another generation excavating the culture only to find it’s still the late 1700s..

ps there’s band potential there being sung in the ending credits.

stux, (edited ) to Netherlands
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A single picture taken in the


Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal by hoeijmakers.net

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@stux

mooi!

Julie, to ukteachers
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“I have been teaching in small liberal arts colleges for over 15 years now, and in the past five years, it’s as though someone flipped a switch. For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation… Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real understanding.“

https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/literacy-crisis-reading-comprehension-college.html?via=rss_socialflow_facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2el5hj2IJIZV8F8Hi-62KtCwuu2XTcElhuvuwa4yIXvglej21ZZbmbKVE_aem_ATF4R36NfLOkaspzyk_eDxbfTt9K0lpCFfs9yMgxC4L71c81MTUTb6tXPZD9XkEHLHvpabg17mjWVDTzLw-K1paj#lvwqz456tzz7ahrlip9

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@Julie @jeffsussna

Readers are a lifesaver for some sites. They have pages of ads with information as an afterthought.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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Is there any way to filter following list to find someone?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@wendinoakland

I am in it right now, and don't see a search or filter widget. I use the site. I prefer to avoid apps.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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May 26

https://youtu.be/ErGHrlM56Xs

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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In the battle for the youth vote we now seem to have some clear blue water between the parties;

Labour is (at least at the moment) offering to lower the voting age to 16 - perhaps hoping that 18 year olds will see this as a positive move for their younger siblings?

Meanwhile the Tories are offering mandatory 'national service' at 18 to build character & experience....

Hmmm... while actually, I'm not sure the Tories idea is nuts, I can't see many 18 year olds going for it.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @richardknott

I’ve found appeal to the concept on a number of grounds.

An universal (no exception and not necessarily military) national service that mixed people from all walks of life for a period would have a subtle effect on general attitudes.

On a population:
people know what other walks of like are like from direct experience
It’s a practical experience of working together
useful things are done

Military service

all walks are confronted they may be called to war

🧵

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @richardknott

on the snarkier side, compulsory service as a back door to universal health, pension and job guarantee.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to Economics
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@economics@a.gup.pe


Deficits DO matter, just not the way textbook economics says.

Because federal debt, the credit it has created, is the money in our bank accounts.

Deficits and debt does matter.

Please disabuse conservatives that MMT doesn't care about deficits.

scott, to Christianity
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🧵

I was just thinking a bit about taxes and fair shares and one of Jesus' parables popped into my head. See, the church has a flat tax system, or at least, the evangelical church does. Each member of the church is supposed to voluntarily give 10% of their income, which the church is very adamant that God will return to you with interest. I remember hearing stories from clearly well-off Sunday-school teachers telling of how they "used to struggle a lot financially" but would still find ways to make it fit in their budget, and now they were comfortable. This was a story told to children, mind you, and with adult retrospect I can think of some additional context I'd like to ask for in that story.

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@scott

In as much as the material world, and certainly money, was seen as transitory, the nature of the interest returned definitely needs clarification.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, (edited )
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@scott

I am familiar but not well read of the Bible. Jesus advocated for radical compassion. One could suggest that he built from the notion of welcoming the stranger, a custom endemic to the ME. The Greeks embodied it as well. Travelers were welcomed, fed and sheltered, and only then asked their business. Ultimately humanity’s super power is in reciprocity. All of the above examples of its expression.

JC also said its not our job to cull weeds from wheat but care for all.

🧵

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@scott There’s a pastor on YT, Rev Ed Trevors, an Anglican priest who is useful to sample. He’s a version of Christianity I like to remind myself of, because the other kind has been given a megaphone.

You might listen a bit to some of his posts because he definitely works the compassion angle. Some posts are specifically religious in ways I care little about, but most of them talk about behavior towards others.

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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Me: minding my own business doing absolutely nothing

Skinny cat: leaps onto my chest, yells at me, butt-swipes my face and then begins punching my boobs while purring loudly

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites cats presume much of the milk of human kindness.

they usually get away with it.

GhostOnTheHalfShell, to random
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There’s an Italian(?) animated short involving mosquitoes living off a sleeping human, as an allegory for modern dependence on oil.

I don’t remember the name. Anyone?

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@bornach

omg Thank you!
:ablobmeltsoblove: . :ablobcatheart:

AnarchoNinaWrites, to random
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Only in a mainstream media devoted to covering up for fascists, could we still be reprinting Alito's bullshit excuse for why "his wife" was flying an upside down flag in solidarity with the Jan 6th 2021 attempted fascist coup, AFTER its been publicly revealed that Alito also flew an explicitly Christian Nationalist flag at his vacation home, ALSO associated with the coup

Dawg, it's your job to report AND analyze the news; reprinting fascist lies when you KNOW THEY ARE LIES is not journalism

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@AnarchoNinaWrites

I don’t know if I even have to read articles like this anymore. Wildcard the date, search and replace Alito/Kavanaugh/Thomas and add rightwing bullshit flava of the day.

Kavanaugh hasn’t been in the news for multiple cycles, I guess he’s due. Him or Barrett or did they send her to the kitchen to cook yet, because, you know, that’s how this shit works.

VeroniqueB99, to random
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GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@VeroniqueB99 how do i get this gig.

motoridersd, to random
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Feeling like watching In from the Side (2022) again for some reason

GhostOnTheHalfShell,
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@motoridersd that looks like it. LOL

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