KashifShah

@KashifShah@mastodon.sdf.org

Retired .NET enterprise software developer and computing nerd.
Bachelor of Arts dual-degrees in Mathematics and Psychology.
Neurodivergent and “medically frail”.
Pakistani-Irish-American, Radical Moderate, and (illiterate) Muslim.
Occasional enjoyer of kayaking and sport touring by car or motorcycle.
Connoisseur of science fiction and national-chain pizza.
Looking for ways to give back to the community.

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KashifShah, (edited ) to random

The Neo-KKK wants you to die.

KashifShah,

@msquebanh

I’m not sure that you’ve fully internalized the UNUDHR, because one could paraphrase the whole document as simply stating that “basic comfort is an inalienable, universal right of all humans”

The entirety of the document, from the legal theory in the Preamble to the 30 Articles of rights, is in support of the concept that all humans should be free from fear and free from want

I’d appreciate it if you stopped delegitimizing the UN with your words. Build a voting bloc

@JoBlakely

KashifShah,

@msquebanh

I do not have the means to make a 6 hour round trip to get to the capitol of my state for every AI meeting.

Besides, doing so would defeat the purpose and intent for having local chapters. Indiana is a large state and the concerns of Central Indiana are quite different from those of Southern Indiana.

@JoBlakely

KashifShah,

@msquebanh

It’s becoming clear that BC is analogous to the Red States in America where the locals tend to support police authoritarianism over human rights.

If non-violence is your style, then the only thing to be done is to win the hearts and minds of the locals and build a large enough voting bloc to make a legislative difference.

“Comfort” is a universal human right, vis a vis the right to a standard of living, shelter, food, healthcare, etc, and NOT a privilege.

@JoBlakely

KashifShah,

@msquebanh

“The Blessed One said: "Now what, monks, is noble right concentration with its supports and requisite conditions? Any singleness of mind equipped with these seven factors – right view, right resolve, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, and right mindfulness – is called noble right concentration with its supports and requisite conditions.”
— Maha-cattarisaka Sutta

I take the Buddhist perspective that Right Speech just as noble as Right Action.

@JoBlakely

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

Cameo - Word Up!

“When you hear the call you've got to get it underway
Word up it's the code word
No matter where you say it you know that you'll be heard”

https://youtu.be/MZjAantupsA

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/1831347/Cameo/Word+Up%21

edit: credit to @msquebanh for turning me onto the music video for the first time lol “do your dance…”

KashifShah, (edited ) to photography

a bright and sunshiny day

KashifShah, to fediverse

New magazine available on kbin.social

"Dedicated to the concept of Human Rights, proper, based on the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Simple rules: Read it, learn it, live it, teach it."

https://kbin.social/m/humanrights

KashifShah, to random

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/30/plants-emit-ultrasonic-sounds-in-rapid-bursts-when-stressed-scientists-say

KashifShah, to random

“We have indeed made whatever is on earth as an adornment for it, in order to test which of them is best in deeds.
…
Then they said to one another, “These people of ours have taken gods besides Him. Why do they not produce a clear proof of them? Who then does more wrong than those who fabricate lies against Allah?
…
Whoever Allah guides is truly guided. But whoever He leaves to stray, you will never find for them a guiding mentor”
https://quran.com/18

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

"And how long shall we have to wait before the rest of mankind become pacifists too? There is no telling. ... By what paths or by what side-tracks this will come about we cannot guess. But one thing we can say: whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."

Sigmund Freud, Why War?

https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights

Response to Albert Einstein's letter asking Why War?

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@KashifShah/110333402742910438

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

()

If I had to assign myself a sub-cultural identity, it would have to be cyberpunk. mirrorshades 🕶️

Then I became a tentative street-preacher, then a tentative academic, and then a conscientious corpo slave, and now, cyberpunk-evolved: cyberpunk muslim.

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@KashifShah/110341961553472006

@msquebanh this is now my introduction, thanks for the conversation that elucidated it ✌️ 🖖

KashifShah, to random

@NaturaArtisMagistra just saying hi and appreciation for your profile quote! ☯️

As Sun Tzu said, “The supreme art of war is subduing your opponent without fighting”

No opponent, no fight.

KashifShah, to random

> “We can’t vote until we’re a certain age, we can’t smoke, drink or whatever, but we can change our bodies’ anatomy and how it works?” she said. “It just doesn’t seem like that’s okay to me.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/05/trans-poll-gop-politics-laws/

> “By an odd and unfortunate twist of fate, infants and children are becoming therapeutic orphans.” 1960s

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6179566/

KashifShah, to random

a blast from the past

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

“I am a terrorist and nihilist in theory as the others are with their weapons. Theoretical violence, not truth, is the only resource left us.”
― Jean Baudrillard

jacobrogers256, to random

Here is my last toot about my thoughts on the Dems and Fr I should pin this:

They are the lesser of 2 evils. You should vote for them until Ranked choice voting comes along or the fascist threat ceases to exist.

I am definitely not talking about the voters, I mean the politicians. Always. The voters aren't the party.

They were partially responsible for getting us into this mess with fascism. The degree to which they did and how they did so is debatable. Contact me or read more of my posts for details.

They are not a good option in terms of policy. They are often Reaganomics lite when it comes to the economy.

The Democratic Party consists of a center left wing and a centrist/center right wing. Think Bernie/Warren vs Manchin/Biden.

The progressive wing should actually be a separate party. They are entirely different from the rest of the party and anywhere else in the world this would be the case already.

If you disagree and this offends your political sensibilities, feel free to unfollow me.

KashifShah,

@jacobrogers256 the party members are the party, technically, so some of the non-politician voters are technically also the party, to be autistic about it 🖖

i won’t vote for evil, period, not any more.

KashifShah, to random

"Is it possible to control man’s mental evolution so as to make him proof against the psychoses of hate and destructiveness? Here I am thinking by no means only of the so-called uncultured masses. Experience proves that it is rather the so-called ‘Intelligentzia’ that is most apt to yield to these disastrous collective suggestions, since the intellectual has no direct contact with life in the raw, but encounters it in its easiest synthetic form—upon the printed page."

-Albert Einstein, Why War?

KashifShah, to random

Public Service Announcement: Remember to regularly check your trees for dead branches. This hoss fell about 10 ft from where my octogenarian dad was working on his garden, while he was working.

KashifShah, (edited ) to humanrights

Pop Will Eat Itself - Ich Bin Ein Auslander (I am an outsider)

“Welcome to a state where the politics of hate
Shout loud in the crowd "Watch them beat us all down"
There's a rising tide in the rivers of blood
But if the answer isn't violence, neither is your silence”

https://youtu.be/76wSk1j02_4

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric-lf/154784/Pop+Will+Eat+Itself/Ich+Bin+Ein+Auslander

https://www.ohchr.org/en/get-involved/campaign/udhr-75

KashifShah, to random

Lagrange Gemini/Gopher client in TestFlight for iOS looks pretty sharp!

Fonts can be downloaded, excellent basic feature set.

Nice work!

KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, edge-humans... 😾

https://dads.cool/@InternetEh/110340229040209397

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/terrified-noot-noot

KashifShah, to random

“The Republican plan to sneakily cut Medicaid, explained: Medicaid work requirements are really just spending cuts in disguise.

The Republican proposal to require people to work in order to receive Medicaid benefits poses an existential question about the very nature of government assistance: Do you need to do something to earn it?”

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/5/12/23712447/medicaid-work-requirements-us-debt-ceiling

KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, edge-humans... 😾

https://dads.cool/@InternetEh/110340229040209397

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/terrified-noot-noot

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