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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msquebanh, to random
@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

@KashifShah You also owe me a yard update 😂✌

KashifShah,

@msquebanh Indeed, I haven’t forgotten lol 🖖✊

I’ve been keeping an eye on the light+glass, where it is right now, to see if I might be able to take a better picture ;)

Will send you more detailed update today, my friend :D

msquebanh, to random
@msquebanh@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

suggested this vid to me today:

Bodycam: Mormon 'Swinger' Arrested on Assault Charges After Going 'Ballistic' During Heated Argument.

YouTube has some really strange & not very relevant to my interests suggestions.
I didn't watch their suggested vid.

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @kierkegaank @smellsofbikes 🤙🖖✌️

A desert of the real (algorithmic influencers).

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @xenophora @kierkegaank Ah, that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while.

Maybe time to re-read parts of The Book, now :)

KashifShah, (edited ) to random

The Neo-KKK wants you to die.

KashifShah,

@eilonwy @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Yup, that’s part of the basis of the Einstein-Freud Theory of War; the rulers use their power to short-circuit the law and the ruled fight back for equal rights.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @eilonwy @soc_i_ety Everyone could benefit from the teachings of the Federation, i.e. UN and the Prime Directive, i.e., the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

KashifShah,

@neilasaurus @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Mental health is of real concern, in all communities, that is for sure. Not all Neo-KKK are child abusing murderers. Not all child abusing murderers are Neo-KKK, either.

KashifShah,

@neilasaurus @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Heh, in my opinion they love him because he is a terrific liar and knows what people want to hear.

He’s truly an aristocratic ochlocrat, not anything else.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @neilasaurus @soc_i_ety Heh, scientists do that all of the time, to great success.

Marie Curie, Pasteur, Galilleo, DaVinci, the list goes on and on.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @neilasaurus @soc_i_ety That is where bigotry begins - by not learning to understand what the other person is thinking.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Einstein-Freud Theory of War is very interesting, especially if you have the patience to read the two, full letters exchanged between them, as it is very succinct, but thorough.

The parallels to UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights are pragmatically undeniable.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Freud_and_Einstein_Why_War.pdf

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

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @soc_i_ety heh, there are all sorts of nuggets in there; read the whole thing, from Einstein asking the question, Why War?, to Freud’s answer, but if you are short on time, the final words are:

Whatever grows civilization, works at the same time against war.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Well, i can imagine a scenario in which it succeeds, as unlikely as it may be:

that people, as some believe, do actually prefer to live under a dictator and therefore do not stand up and fight for their equal rights, and thereby forevermore fall under the thumb of the aristocratic ochlochrats, etc.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @neilasaurus @soc_i_ety you mean corrupt political science, right? 😉

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety “But it may not be Utopian to hope that these two factors, the cultural attitude and the justified dread of the consequences of a future war, may result within a measurable time in putting an end to the waging of war. 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
KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Freud agrees:

“But, [for peace to exist], a certain psychological condition must first obtain. The union of the majority must be stable and enduring. If its sole raison d'être be the discomfiture of some overweening individual and, after his downfall, it be dissolved, it leads to nothing. Some other man, trusting to his superior power, will seek to reinstate the rule of violence and the cycle will repeat itself unendingly.”

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @neilasaurus @soc_i_ety Exactly.

That was one of Freud’s insights - not only that that happens, but that it happens because of an inequality of rights, and that as long as the ruled have less rights than the rulers, there will always, inevitably, be war.

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Since when were Einstein and Freud colonizers? They were literally the victims of German colonizers and got exiled just before WW2 for being pacifists and/or Jewish?

And, as a POC, myself, I see no reason not to stand on the shoulders of scientists, if their science is sound and their aims are pure.

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Einstein and Freud are both Jewish/Semitic, not white…

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety The words of arguably two of the most intelligent humans to have yet walked the face of the earth are much more well written and thoughtful than mine :)

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Heh, my personal thoughts and opinions are very much in alignment with theirs.

I am a bachelor of psychology and a bachelor of mathematics, so I share some basic fundamentals of thought with them.

See these tags for a sampling of my voice / presence.

Inject the real.

KashifShah,

@msquebanh @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety Ever read Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard?

I agree with him that the overproduction of thoughts and words is an analogue to the overproduction of capitalism - something destructive to meaning.

For me, quoting the thoughts of others is like sampling a beat in music or singing a cover song

But, still, if you can’t paraphrase or summarize theory, that does just make you a parrot of meaninglessness, as Baudrillard might say.

KashifShah,

@Judeet88 @PaulNickson @soc_i_ety In the context of Einstein-Freud Theory of War, “growth of culture” means progress towards equal rights for all.

Freud preferred the term civilization, to the term culture, however, he was really ultimately speaking about the rights of the ruled being grown to equality, not superiority, with the rights of the rulers.

KashifShah,

@PaulNickson @neilasaurus @soc_i_ety Yeah, those letters were written about 10 years before the bomb was dropped. Einstein knew what was coming, even if only in theory, not actuality, which is why he asked Freud Why War?on behalf of the League of Nations before WW2 started.

LadyT, to random

I don't get this trans hate thing, I don't care who is peeing in the cubicle next to me in public toilets or what anyone chooses to wear or not wear. I'm becoming convinced this is a patriarchal led campaign.

KashifShah,

@LadyT it’s not even about patriarchy cs matriarchy, it’s just pure and plain ignorance and fear.

Svetlana2, to random

Elon Musk Says He Has a New C.E.O. for Twitter https://nyti.ms/42O6K84

I'm sure she's a voraciously independent woman with impeccable morals. But I could be wrong.

KashifShah,

@Svetlana2 @GoatRoper quality => unquestionably accurate and within the confines of the human right to dignity for all

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