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hackersquirrel

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Metamodern Stoic
Most influential books:
Metamodernism, Bildung and Libertism by Lene Rachel Anderson
The Listening Society and Nordic Ideology by Hanzi Freinacht
The Dispossessed by Ursula LeGuin
The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
How To Think Like A Roman Emperor by Donald Robertson
Books for fun:
Fool, The Serpent of Venice and Shakespeare For Squirrels by Christopher Moore.

#metamodernism #knitting #stoic #stoicism #democraticSocialism #linux #capitalismIsFeudalism #MMT

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RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?

hackersquirrel,
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@RickiTarr
I get the same feelings when I read the translations of the early Stoics, Epictitus, Seneca etc. You hear certain cultural biases that are no longer accepted and it can distract you from the valuable elements that remain relevant now.

rysiek, to fediverse
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Happy seventh anniversary of "Six reasons Mastodon won't survive" to all who celebrate:
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

hackersquirrel,
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@rysiek This article was from 2017. We have over 14 million users and it grows in a steady manner.
I think that they had fun trying to be a snarky doom sayer but the article fails more that Mastodon.

RickiTarr, to random
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Tell me a silly/funny childhood story!

I'll start:

One time in Sunday School, the teacher was talking about the difference between humans and animals, and mentioned that Animals had Tails and humans didn't. I let her know this was not true, because my Dad had a tail, just in the front, instead of the back. The teacher was silent for several seconds, and tried to correct me in a church appropriate way, but I doubled down, and insisted that my little brothers also had front tails too. This got so heated that the teacher had to go get my parents to take me out of Sunday School.

hackersquirrel,
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@superball @RickiTarr
In second grade my teacher was chastising me in the hallway for my inability to sit still, and I replied in tears that I couldn't help it because I was "hyperdermic".

TonyStark, to Michigan
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This is great news out of Michigan and a good example of what you can get when you elect a solid Democratic trifecta. #ElectDemocrats

#Michigan Repeals Right-To-Work - TPM – Talking Points Memo:
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/michigan-repeals-right-to-work

hackersquirrel,
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@TonyStark I can't wait till 2028 when I can vote for for president.

jwildeboer, to random
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Going back to 3D printing later today when my Ender Pro 2 arrives. It's cheap, seems to produce surprisingly good prints and it's firmware is bog standard Marlin so I can tweak and modify to my hearts desire.

hackersquirrel,
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@jwildeboer
I remember my Reprap days when I had raid hardware stores and cobble together Arduinos and stepper drivers and then find a place to print the other parts I needed. Things have come a long way, I'm spoiled now by my Ender 3 pro.

mekkaokereke, to random
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There's lots of noise in SF about homeless people "refusing shelter" and "They want to live in tents!" And that we should force them to accept the shelter against their own will, "for their own good!" Many SF folks rationalize their desire to not see homeless people, by convincing ourselves that refusing shelter is an irrational behaviour, and that we know better.

We don't consider the fact that people might be refusing shelter when that shelter is worse than a tent.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2023/sf-sro-empty/

hackersquirrel,
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@mekkaokereke
It would be nice if we could see less blame and more solutions from our politicians.

ElleGray, to random
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my friends: why do we have to go to the movies AGAIN

me:

hackersquirrel,
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@ElleGray
It always works on me.🤪
@ahermitforhire

Mer__edith, to random
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I did not sign this statement, tho I agree “open” AI is not the enemy of “safe” AI

I can't endorse its premise that “openness” alone will “mitigate current+future harms from AI,” nor that it’s an antidote to concentrated power in the AI industry 1/

https://open.mozilla.org/letter/

hackersquirrel,
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@Mer__edith
I'm most concerned about AI being incorporated into surveillance capitalism. IMHO That's where regulation has to be applied the hardest.

Mer__edith, to random
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Must-read from @heidykhlaaf, an actual safety engineer!

While AI CEOs analogize AI to nuclear energy, in a bid to market the power of the systems they profit from, they oddly reject the kind of rigorous safety measures applied to nuclear power.

https://time.com/6327635/ai-needs-to-be-regulated-like-nuclear-weapons/

hackersquirrel,
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@Mer__edith
What they really want is to thwart free open source AI. It's not safety they're after, but monopoly.
@heidykhlaaf

sundogplanets, (edited ) to random
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I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.

And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of Starlink internet access to parts of the world whenever he wants to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.

hackersquirrel,
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@sundogplanets I think next plan is to put them in a geosynchronous orbit that resemble his dogecoin mascot.

stux, to Starfield
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Huh. With all the bad reviews about I thought aah i'll be okay

But guess what..

It sucks soooooo very hard.. :amaze:

The UI is crap, gameplay sucks terrible, space is just a map without ground, it's all cut scenes, and the game is just dead and empty overall

It's not that it has a lot of bugs or is un-playable, the game in general sucks just very much :sadlinux:

Would have expected a lot more from

hackersquirrel,
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@stux I'm a big fan of Bethesda and it pains me to have to hate this beta. No mapping, no ability to set place markers, and the New Atlantis is like a badly designed mall, I had to find out by accident through an elevator in a back ally how to get to'the well' and never found the MedLab. It's like Micro$oft put a gun to Bethesdas head and said 'Release this beta or else'

tilvids, to twitter
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At this point, if you're still using the platform, that's on you. It's not going to get better.

Kudos for @arstechnica to continue bringing attention to this.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/x-user-super-pissed-that-musk-ordered-takeover-of-his-music-account/

hackersquirrel,
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@tilvids
Seems to be a demonstration that suckers never learn.

@arstechnica

evacide, to random
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Of all the communities I had on Twitter, Infosec Twitter is the group that moved to Mastodon and never looked back.

hackersquirrel,
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@evacide
I think, if you look back at you turn into a pillar of salt.
That's just hearsay, of course, but why take the chance?😁

wjmaggos, to fediverse
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"Life is about the journey, not the destination."

This is how we should approach the imo. And decentralization in general. We are all in this battle together, forever. We are trying to move public consumption of media from being top-down and corporate to a democratic and direct support model. We are all helping to build it, whether directly or by providing money or getting others to join us or improving the culture. And this change in how we understand the world, will improve it.

hackersquirrel,
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@wjmaggos
This is how the internet was made great in the beginning.

rolle, to fediverse
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The big contradiction of the is that people want e. g. to be more popular and accepted than e. g. or but yet they are ANTI EVERYTHING; No companies, no this and that, no federation, "I will fucking block you all" for even looking at the mainstream popular culture.

How is that going to work?
Why so hostile?

hackersquirrel,
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@JustDalek_ @rolle
It seems that the underlying fear is having forced on us.

davidallengreen, to random
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I can see the value in proprietary apps and platforms that make it easy for users. I can also see the value in a well-kept turnpike or toll bridge.

But.

There is even greater value in open source, non-proprietary networks and protocols, just there is greater value in the public highway being open to all.

But law and policy, like politics, is the art of the possible.

Rather than building another bridge or road, removing the toll-booths on the current ones may be a good approach.

hackersquirrel,
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@happyborg
This is, by far, the best way to avoid happening to our community.
@davidallengreen

jwildeboer, to random
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    hackersquirrel,
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    @jwildeboer
    It's even worse when you're one letter away and can make ten acceptable choices.

    rolle, to mastodon
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    I was looking for a reply in a post earlier this year but then found it's gone. This is kinda a downside, I wish old replies could be re-fetched, never thought it's "impossible to undo".

    It could work in a way it would backfill the replies once the post is accessed, but tech-wise I understand if it's not possible.

    Question for admins: Are you doing something to circumvent this?

    hackersquirrel,
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    @rolle
    I found the same thing. When someone asks to follow me I like to see there own postings first. It would be good to have a longer window, maybe a years worth of posts could be the cutoff.

    thor, to random
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    me in a country with only 5 million people:
    i have an environmental impact! :nkouwu:

    meanwhile, in China:

    hackersquirrel,
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    @thor
    Thus confirming that if everyone in China has a car, no one in China will be able to drive.

    williamgunn, to random
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    I'm just going to throw out some stuff I've learned over the years in various domains, in case it's useful.
    Nutrition: Essentially everything you read is false. Just eat real food. Putting onions, garlic, potatoes, pork shoulder, and broth in a pot and cooking at 300F until it falls apart is way cheaper, healthier, tastier than making some shit out of a box, plus it'll last for days. The salad formula: greens, veggies, cheese, crunchy, oil & vinegar.

    hackersquirrel,
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    @williamgunn
    I've recently started participating with Unitarian Universalists. It's given me a kind community that doesn't try to push a diety in my face.
    @jwildeboer

    pluralistic, to random
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    Spotted in a toilet stall in JFK terminal 8, for your tablet-viewing-whilst-shitting needs

    hackersquirrel,
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    @pluralistic My bathroom rule is that it shouldn't take you more than 10 minutes to do your business.
    Any longer and you must conclude there is nothing there, or it's never coming out.

    SrRochardBunson, to random

    If you ever have to covertly penetrate a right wing space, I have learned some lessons from behind the front.

    I will post them here.

    Intro:
    You only get one first impression.

    Complain. It's like a mating call for MAGA-s or something.

    If you don't know what the current outrage du jour is it's best to keep it generic.

    "You just can't joke about anything anymore!" & "Have you seen what they are letting kids read in school?!?" are apparently evergreen conversation starters.

    Shaking my head violently.

    hackersquirrel,
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    @mcv @SrRochardBunson
    I've heard it said before: you can't reason a person out of a belief that they didn't reason themself into.

    hackersquirrel,
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    @SrRochardBunson
    Are we talking voltage or current?
    @mcv

    unclepj, to random
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    My body is not a temple. It’s a Federation starship, with critical hull damage, shields at 1% and about to eject the warp core.

    hackersquirrel,
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    @ScribblerRVA @unclepj @SrRochardBunson Nothing that can't be fixed by a tachyon pulse.

    aral, to random
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    Money is a legal fiction.

    hackersquirrel,
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    @aral
    Every social construct is fiction. It's our participation in social fictions that allow us to get along.
    This includes believing that money has value. It's not real, but it is useful.

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