SpinozasHeresy @SpinozasHeresy@qoto.org

Elon Musk only bans Black nazis. The rest are fine with him.

Legit question: When is it finally time to walk away, no matter what it says about "ceding ground." Because if the Daily Stormer aint it what is? If you're still there (I am) whats the line? Asking for real. https://www.mediaite.com/online/elon-musk-allows-editor-of-neo-nazi-site-the-daily-stormer-back-on-twitter/?fbclid=IwAR1wsfbaEzn5Ls_2erko8bzee0sGJlRG4pHAJt8XgslCjrSZm0hWYhzoGH4

I love it in here. There's currently a hashtag named #thicktrunktuesday that is basically pics of massive, beautiful trees.
I humbly submit El Tule, an incredible ahuehuete from the state I was born, Oaxaca. It's over 2000 years old. "Tule" means "Tree of Enlightment" #Oaxaca #Mexico #ElTule It has the thickest trunk in the world.

Mark Twain, born on this day in 1835, on racism, how religion is used to justify injustice, and what his mom taught him about compassion https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/24/mark-twain-on-slavery-empathy-compassion/

As right-wing extremists are re-platformed everywhere from Twitter to Mar-a-Lago, it’s more important than ever that we hold our journalists, researchers, & others to high standards of accountability when it comes to reporting on extremism and extremists. We need journalists who will tell us the truth, not stake out a position in the middle of two unequal sides. I keep coming back to this quote about reporting on the weather, but it was missing something — so I modified it to make it complete.

In the spirit of wanting more irreverent content on this platform, and speaking of predatory journals, today I was invited to contribute to a volume on new applications of aspirin.

My invitation came on the strength of a letter I wrote with Brian Wasik and Rich Lenski in Brit. J. Clin. Pharma. in which we noted that Scorsese had been misidentified as Kissinger in a previous report about misidentifications.

Anyway, the letter and my reponse.

Having now been on #Mastodon for 1 month, a few observations:

- Mastodon makes me realize how much the #Twitter algorithm maximized user outrage to boost engagement for profit. Gross. Here, my feed is interesting & supportive.

- There's a culture of kindness - at least so far. It's extremely appealing & should be normalized on & offline.

- Beyond reactions to toots, people share songs, poetry & ask great questions. I can't remember the last time I found social media to be fun.

@themotleycow @krishnadeltoso @eyssette @philosophy

check out: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-david-hume-helped-me-solve-my-midlife-crisis/403195/

I asked Jay Garfield about this and he was rather dubious!

Worth mentioning too: Pyrrho, the skeptic. Went to India with Alexander, met with yogis. His skeptical school got revived by folks like Cornelius Agrippa, to form the foundation of the scientific revolution. So that is Buddhism as a deep root of science.