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, to random

Noot Noot, edge-humans... 😾

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

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KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, edge-humans... 😾

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

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

KashifShah, (edited ) to humanrights

“The 75th anniversary of the UDHR provides an opportunity to reflect on, and reinvigorate and recommit to these founding principles. The anniversary should not only be an occasion for a celebration of these principles but also be an opportunity for concrete action to address the many outstanding challenges that remain in fully realizing the values that underpin the UDHR.”

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ior40/6585/2023/en/

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

KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, neophobes... 😾

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

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

KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, neophobes... 😾

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

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

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, (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

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, to ai

Open Letter to

Dear ,

Could you please begin a trend of migrating anti-AI / AI-phobic / AI-critical comments to the hashtags or ?

Perhaps try to keep only the absolutely most salient of that content as a cross-post to ?

Please and thank you!

P.S., open thread for conversation

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo

KashifShah, (edited ) to ai

““And then the ‘aha’ moment came,” Chattarji says: When either type of neuron grew with fragile X astrocytes, it fired atypically with shorter, more frequent bursts.

In other words, the astrocytes — not the neurons — determined the firing pattern. “I had no idea that astrocytes would become such a centerpiece of the story,” says Chattarji, …”

https://www.spectrumnews.org/news/astrocytes-fuel-erratic-firing-in-fragile-x-neurons/

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, (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, (edited ) to humanrights

Pop Will Eat Itself - Wise Up! Sucker

“I'm freakin' and you couldn't care less,
I got the deep down crazies;
Trying to get my head round this mess.
At the sound of the bell
An act you know so well,
You give me sixteen different flavours of hell”

https://youtu.be/wxycYzogeys

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/18292015

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Economic,_Social_and_Cultural_Rights

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

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, (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, 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 politics

KashifShah, to random

“Are the mass media on the side of the power in the manipulation of the masses, or are they on the side of the masses in the liquidation of meaning, in the violence perpetrated on meaning, and in fascination? Is it the media that induce fascination in the masses, or is it the masses who direct the media into the spectacle?”

Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation

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, to random

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

KashifShah, to random

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

Fonts can be downloaded, excellent basic feature set.

Nice work!

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