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fifilamoura

@fifilamoura@eldritch.cafe

I write and think about culture (for fun and to pay my rent). My obsessive interest is people and how we work, individually and collectively, which makes me interested in most things, with a particularly keen interest in cogsci and psychology (I grew up around medical science). I studied painting and drawing at uni and I used to play in bands and work in the music industry. Maybe I'll switch to using my real name here eventually.

Photo description: White woman with black hair and saxophone

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fifilamoura, to random
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I wonder what the crossover is between "Democrats will force us to eat bugs" and people who loved the all you can eat shrimp at Red Lobster? Sea bugs are still bugs people!!!

fifilamoura, to random
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A fantastic piece prompt by man vs bear...

"Patriarchy has everything to do with men, but at the same time, nothing at all. In a male-centered society where maleness is associated with power, what’s really being centered is power itself. What’s suppressed is mutual relationality. Patriarchy is intertwined with colonialism, racism, and other oppressive social structures based on hierarchy. It is a fundamental fracturing of our human wholeness."

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

fifilamoura, to random
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In the latest round of Legault handing out favors to rich people and jobs they're the least qualified to do....bet she pitched him on private hotel hospitals or some bullshit. Things really are not okay in Quebec.

"A hotel magnate has been appointed as chairperson of the board of directors of Santé Québec, one of several pro-business appointments to the agency that will manage the province’s beleaguered health system."

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/hotel-magnate-christiane-germain-appointed-head-of-sante-quebec-board

msquebanh, to random
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I had a few rest days & felt much better today. Cooked up a storm - so expect some new food photos to be posted soon 😊

fifilamoura,
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@msquebanh That all looks and sounds incredibly delicious!

fifilamoura, to random
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Just to be clear, it's extremely hard for a nation to reverse and heal the damage conservative governments do, particularly when the next government is neoliberal and not actually leftist or worker-oriented in any real way. Canada still hasn't recovered from having Harper in power, this is because it takes a lot of conviction and steadfastness for a politician to actually stand up to the rich and international corporations (and the integrity to be able to pass up oodles of rewards for fucking over workers after leaving office, like cushy positions on the boards of corporations that destroy nature and workers lives...). AND it's because it's much, much easier to tear things down and sell them off than it is to build institutions and social service networks.

fifilamoura, to random
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How are the Greens doing in England, any chance of them as an option? (Starmer is not going to do anything other than continue to pander to the rich and racist. So sad Labour was subverted from wtihin...again!)

fifilamoura, to random
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So Biden's government threatening the ICF for doing it's job is just something else. The US has always refused to be responsible to the rest of the world but now Biden is trying to take down the ICF and UN....just like Trump wants and threatens to do. This won't make Trump voters switch to him but it will certainly make it clear that the US is out of control and make it much harder for a lot of America's allies who are already uncomfortable with the moves the US is making.

Adam_Cadmon1, to random
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So no, I don't fucking like cops and I don't trust them as far as I can throw them. I know what they say about us (Black Men and Black people) when they think no one is listening.

Black cops especially grind my gears. Your easily influenced ass is not going to "change the system" from within. The system is going to change you, chew you up and spit you out.

Fuck you.

fifilamoura,
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@Adam_Cadmon1 See also female cops who just double down on the sexism and abusiveness to impress the white men.

evan, to random
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When the best thing your defenders can say about your warrant for crimes against humanity is that it was announced alongside the wrong people and should have been done separately, well, that's not really a ringing endorsement.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-government-reacts-icc-arrest-warrants-1.7210073

fifilamoura,
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@evan Yeah, this is such a weird attempt to pretend Israel's war crimes are somehow special and different. If anything, it seems to me that a well established state has MORE responsibility to behave withing the law. Anyway, both Palestine and Israel signed onto treaties that mean these warrants are valid and need to be sought out of respect for those treaties.

clive, (edited ) to random
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People of Mastodon!

I'm researching the growth of ebikes ...

... in cities around the US

I've talked to many people who love them!

But also want to include the perspective of folks who have concerns ...

... i.e. about the speed and weight of ebikes in accidents with pedestrians or other cyclists, and the like

If anyone has thoughts they wanna share, ping me! I'm all ears: clive@clivethompson.net

Pass this along if you know anyone else with perspective they want to share

fifilamoura,
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@clive Are you interested in Canadian takes?

alanferrier, to random
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Fixed that for you, New Statesman.

Fun fact: England is the only country in the world to have fully privatised its water and sewerage systems.

Via the Financial Times: "Scotland—which has its own state-owned water company—massively outperformed its neighbours with water standards similar to much of Scandinavia."

fifilamoura,
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@alanferrier The English are literally wallowing in their own shit at this point.

caseynewton, to random
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The past week of news out of OpenAI illustrates how a company that once prized moving with caution is now dead set on winning at all costs, whatever Scarlett Johansson or anyone else thinks about it https://www.platformer.news/open-ai-scarlett-johansson-her-voice-sam-altman/

fifilamoura,
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@caseynewton I wouldn't buy that "moving with caution" propaganda either, much like their pretense at being "open" and a non-profit was merely a way to avoid regulation and to pretend their aims weren't nefarious.

Jaden3, to random
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Looking after yall mind is more important than Looking after yall bodies.
If you are suffering from depression and anxiety it don't matter how fit you are. If you ain't happy it don't mean fck.
Love yall stay calm ,stay happy and fck all dat meaningless shit it ain't worth it .
Imma go retrain my brain now to focus on NOW fck yesterday fck tomorrow 😤
I love yall 💗 stay happy
Love Jaden ❤️

fifilamoura,
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@Jaden3 It's often kind of the same thing, though people can certainly work on their bodies but not their thinking or their emotional intelligence! The brain is part of the body and exercise helps keep it healthy too, we just need to also exercise our brain/mind (via thought, learning new things that are hard and using our minds in focused ways). Learning how to more fully focus on the "now" is important but so is developing skills like our ability to think into the future (chess and strategy games are fantastic for this). Stay healthy and happy!

msquebanh, to Canada
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If you're wondering why still supports to this day, you may want to learn about the factors.

Learning helps folks to understand current issues better, when horrible history repeats itself.

Canada was one of many nations that refused to admit trying to flee the that would culminate in the .

https://humanrights.ca/story/canada-antisemitism-and-holocaust

fifilamoura,
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@msquebanh I highly suspect it's less guilt and more about electoral politics and the power of the Israel lobby, and being beholden to the US (Canada has even less independence than Australia does but our war machines were built together and financial warmongers and exploitative industries in all our nations).

Daojoan, to random
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Trouble brewing. https://mastodon.social/@theindex/112469925900411283

fifilamoura,
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@Daojoan "....as country prays." Um, yeah, prays that he's dead seems like the sentiment of many inside Iran...

fifilamoura,
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@evan Do you mean a civil war or regional war? There's already war (on the Kurds and on women inside Iran, and also some retaliation against Israel while trying to avoid war with Israel). What there is right now are more unknowns... Will Iran declare this an accident or try to claim it's an attack? Who in the hierarchy will replace the two key members of government? Where does this leave other players in the region, both those allied with Iran and those not? Will Iranians try to use this as an opportunity for revolution? How deadly will the repression inside Iran be? @Daojoan

fifilamoura, to random
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It's somewhat delightful to have the rest of the world start to realize what a dangerous monster Gina Rinehart is. Art is having a good week in the portraiture division between the blood soaked portrait of King Charles and Vincent Namatjira's not even that unflattering portrait (considering Rinehart's actual face).

eclectech, to NoStupidQuestions
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Having established that dandelion seed heads are definitely NOT known as DANDELION CLOCKS by everyone I have a follow on question...

What DO you know them as?

Chatting to people already I have had FLUFFS (Lithuania) and WINDY PUFFS (Canada) both of which are SUPERB.

Are there any others? Will there be enough to make a World Map of Dandelion Names?! 😃

Places, names & any other trivia welcome!

Earlier thread here: https://things.uk/@eclectech/112458271354372250

fifilamoura,
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@NatureMC @DigitalDruid @eclectech It's a diuretic so it makes you pee (or more likely to pee). The leaves are also a tasty bitter green.

DoubleTreble, to crochet
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@crochet

For those of you who remember the Persian Tiles Afghan I made in February this year,
I am working on a different colour way of the design!
Ms DT has nabbed the original!
She just went daft when she saw it!!
'its pink and purple! ' 🥰🥰🥰
Was how she won me over

Six Persian Tiles for a Crochet Afghan in browns & orange

fifilamoura,
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@DoubleTreble Wow, these are gorgeous. What a fantastic design aesthetic to apply to crochet, it makes total sense (because geometry)! @crochet

fifilamoura,
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@DoubleTreble You're doing math and geometry, it's just hidden in the craft! Also, I highly suspect that this is why so many female scientists knit and crochet (apart from it being soothing rhythmic handwork). @crochet

fifilamoura,
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@DoubleTreble Yep. @crochet

fifilamoura, to random
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One of my favorite songs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm7BfuOEk9o

fifilamoura,
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@NatureMC Glad you enjoyed it. He's got new work out too (after an extremely long hiatus!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biD-AmPI-Y4&feature=youtu.be

_L1vY_, to OpenAI
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Via Sigal Samuel (Vox):
12:41 PM · May 17, 2024

"Thank you to the company insiders who bravely spoke to me. According to my sources, the answer to "What did Ilya see?" is actually very simple...
People speculated that Ilya saw AGI...as if was hiding some conscious, shackled AI in the basement.

But reporting this out, I thought: This is not a horror story about AI. This is a horror story about humans.
Like in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the issue wasn't HAL lying."

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2024/5/17/24158403/openai-resignations-ai-safety-ilya-sutskever-jan-leike-artificial-intelligence

fifilamoura,
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@_L1vY_ Our problem is the humans whose default behavior is killing humans. And what those humans are using AI for currently, which is constant surveillance and targeting of humans. AI is already killing people with OpenAI's blessings if we're going to be honest about it. @jachiam0

StillIRise1963, to random
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Netanyahu hasn’t spoken to any Israeli journalist since the beginning of the war because authoritarians don’t answer to the people.

fifilamoura,
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@StillIRise1963 Not only that he keeps trying to shut down any Israeli newspaper that isn't right wing.

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