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.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

The Neo-KKK wants you to die.

KashifShah,

@msquebanh

Fair enough, you said that you would call them after I said that I would call them, so I took that as implying that you didn’t want me to call.

Indeed, by definition, one must seek in-nation refugee assistance before one can seek YN assistance and furthermore, a nation must have enabled the optional protocols in order for an external body like the UN to have any actual authority.

Hence, one needs to muster a large enough voting bloc to enable the optional protocols.

@JoBlakely

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

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

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

“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 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

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

“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, to politics

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, (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

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/stop-using-phony-science-to-justify-transphobia/

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 humanrights

“…
Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,
…”

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

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 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, to random

it’s nice to know that I wasn’t alone in the idea of being a .

here is a discourse that I found after independently arriving at this politik:

https://areomagazine.com/2021/06/14/why-i-am-a-radical-moderate/

“Hyper-polarisation is now the norm, and it creates pressure for people to come down squarely on one side or the other. A more nuanced position works against this and helps support free speech, democratic dialogue and civil disagreement: pluralistic values fundamental to our multiracial democratic experiment.”

KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, neophobes... 😾

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

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

KashifShah, to random

Noot Noot, edge-humans... 😾

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

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

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 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

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.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • osvaldo12
  • InstantRegret
  • thenastyranch
  • magazineikmin
  • everett
  • rosin
  • Youngstown
  • slotface
  • cubers
  • cisconetworking
  • kavyap
  • GTA5RPClips
  • DreamBathrooms
  • megavids
  • tacticalgear
  • khanakhh
  • mdbf
  • Durango
  • ngwrru68w68
  • tester
  • normalnudes
  • ethstaker
  • provamag3
  • modclub
  • Leos
  • anitta
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •