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GhostOnTheHalfShell

@GhostOnTheHalfShell@masto.ai

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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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

stux, (edited ) to Netherlands
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

A single picture taken in the


Amsterdam-Rijnkanaal by hoeijmakers.net

Daojoan, to random
@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
@AkaSci@fosstodon.org avatar

Searing heat in India today.
Max. recorded temp: 49.8°C
Many central regions of the country with above 40°C temperatures.
May tends to be the hottest month in India.
Source: India Meteorological Department

1/n

50years_music, to random
@50years_music@mastodon.online avatar

Love Is a Rose

https://youtu.be/HVhlJWjcgS0

Cirdan, to random
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ORIGIN OF TRADITIONAL CAPITALISM

The concept of traditional capitalism, i.e., ownership of the means of production (including the earned surplus) by individuals, is an inchoate concept developed out of the age of Feudalism. People have known about the inequities created by this species of property ownership since the Enclosure (starting in the 1200s with the Statute of Merton) and capitalism (starting in the 1600s).

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Cirdan,
@Cirdan@awscommunity.social avatar

A paper discussing Ixtlán and its form of Communal Capitalism which is similar to Commons Capitalism can be found at:

https://www.ccmss.org.mx/wp-content/uploads/The-community-as-Entrepreneurial-firm.pdf

RETURN TO COMMONS CAPITALISM at:

https://awscommunity.social/@Cirdan/112509414520700948

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nlpbot, to twitter
@nlpbot@mstdn.social avatar

is a propaganda machine of the fascist

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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The number of chefs coming into the UK on skilled worker visas has been rising quickly.... the bad news for the hospitality sector is once the new threshold for wage levels for visa applicants kicks in, the average wage of chefs means they will earn too little to get a visa...

Perhaps more interestingly if we compare chefs with software developers, we might suggest that the UK's strategy of more IT training seems to have worked... even if we seem unable to train chefs?

ManyRoads, to Bulgaria
@ManyRoads@mstdn.social avatar

Official condemnation

" Israel’s actions are ‘incompatible with international law,’ says Germany’s Habeck

Habeck’s remarks represent a shift in rhetoric by senior German officials, who have been reluctant to make such direct accusations. "

https://www.politico.eu/article/israels-actions-incompatible-with-international-law-says-germanys-habeck/

IdeasRoadshow, to art
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Read this wonderful review of RAPHAEL: A PORTRAIT by Andrew Pulver/The Guardian

@academicchatter @academicsunite @histodons

https://bit.ly/4atCB1e

Nonilex, to Law
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Heading into what may be the final week of the #TrumpTrial, here are links to my threads for each day of coverage starting w/opening statements & then testimony (excludes jury selection)

#criminal #law #Trump #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter

pixeltracker, to history
@pixeltracker@sigmoid.social avatar

I recently visited the Roman-Germanic in , exploring the rich of the city. I summarized my experience in this post :

🌍 https://www.fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_stories/told/2024-05-24-roman_legacy_in_cologne/

Dinnerware, 1st-3rd century AD, found in Cologne.
Agrippina the Elder (14 BC - 33 AD), 1st century AD, found: unknown. Vipsania Agrippina was a granddaughter of Emperor Augustus and married his great-nephew and designated successor Germanicus. As commander-in-chief of the Rhine troops, Germanicus and his family stayed in Cologne in the years 13-16 AD. His wife was instrumental in helping him put down a mutiny of the Rhine legions in 14 A.D. A year later, she gave birth to their daughter Agrippina the Younger in Cologne.
Map of ancient Cologne’s connecting roads to other Roman settlements in the surrounding area.

GPJohnston, to random
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Bellingcat, to random
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A tugboat that has not been seen since an oil spill that caused damages totalling a reported $23 million in waters off Trinidad and Tobago has been detained by the Angolan Navy. New from @obtusatum and the Trinidad and Tobago Guardian … https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/05/26/missing-tugboat-solo-creed-resurfaces-in-angola-after-23m-oil-spill-in-tobago/?utm_source=mstdn

Bellingcat,
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We followed the Gulfstream’s journey through satellite imagery from Panama to Venezuela before it went dark in the days before it appeared on the Trinidad and Tobago coastline leaking oil. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/02/20/how-a-leaking-barge-became-an-oil-spill-disaster-off-the-tobago-coast/

simon_brooke, to random
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"This leads us straight back to the original conversation about “Man or Bear,” which has nothing to do with bears. (Sorry, bears!)"

https://bikepacking.com/plog/man-or-bear-debate/

GustavinoBevilacqua, to random
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Ok…

dromografos, to random

migration agency estimates more than 670 killed in landslide

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/emergency-crews-papua-new-guinea-move-survivors-massive-110568959

The International Organization for Migration has increased its estimate of the death toll from a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea to more than 670

GaslitNation, to politics
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Listen to this week’s episode Project 2025 Super Special wherever you get your podcasts! Subscribe at Patreon.com/Gaslit to join our community of listeners, get bonus shows and all episodes ad free, invites to exclusive events, submit questions to our regular Q&As, and more!

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backpackandsnorkel, to Battlemaps
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The in has the world's highest elevation geysers and endless salt flats. Tebinquinche is our favorite lagoon with turquoise water and white salt crystal outcrops.
Here are the best tings to see and do: https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Atacama-Desert/

verdantsquare, to news
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Clues From Bird Flu’s Ground Zero on Dairy Farms in the Texas Panhandle https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/05/clues-from-bird-flus-ground-zero-on-dairy-farms-in-the-texas-panhandle.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

europesays, to memes
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https://www.europesays.com/1241454/ Always found in NHS hospitals and hot enough to need a trip to A&E

br00t4c, to random
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What was the Nakba? And why does 1948 matter so much to Palestinians and Israelis?

https://www.salon.com/2024/05/26/what-was-the-nakba-and-why-does-1948-matter-so-much-to-palestinians-and-israelis/

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.

ChrisMayLA6,
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@etchedpixels @GhostOnTheHalfShell @richardknott

The key thing about the compulsive element (and this would need to be class blind - no buying your way out) is that people from diverse backgrounds would physically/socially interact - I'm not convinced that this is achieved online (but then again I'm over 60 & am sceptical about many of the claimed benefits off online 'community')

ChrisMayLA6,
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@etchedpixels @GhostOnTheHalfShell @richardknott

I'd agree that works for those who want to go to university, although even then it can become quite tribal - but having worked in universities for a quarter of century, it is not what everyone one wants nor is universally beneficial - but I've always been interested in a pre-university (or other route) period when young people could work together in different situations but also across social classes/groups....

Alexlee, to academicchatter
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Nobody told me about the snakes! @academicchatter

jducoeur,
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@Alexlee @academicchatter @cstross 1, Google 0 -- when asked the same question, Kagi gets the joke and provides citations.

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