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5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...

Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.

Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".

Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".

Me, "All Reality" (docs.google.com/document/d/1KH)

Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"

I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".

Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?

"Principia Discordia" of course.

Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.

And lots more!!

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An :
Bachelor's degree in from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.

(for the US) , in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.

Master's in from Pace, 1985ish; professional for like 40 years, mostly for and now for (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the side. and anything else really, they're just languages. :)

Greatly enjoy , and I've done a number of novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with .

I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!

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:welp:

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Public service announcement (many people know this, but many don't):

Mexico used to be about twice as big and took up a HUGE portion of what is now the American south-west, including all of California, Arizona, and Texas. Many many many Mexican people never "immigrated" to the US. The land changed underneath them. Mexican culture has been a central part of the US since the 1820s.

Now you know.

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The Gävle Goat has made it to 2025! It's now after midnight in Gävle. Lots of fireworks going off, so fingers crossed it makes it through until dawn without catching a spark!
#GavleGoat #gavlebocken #Goatwatch2024

youtube.com/live/vDFPpkp9krY

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Scientist's 'Ruthlessly Imaginative' 1925 Predictions For the Future

#TechnologyEvolution #ArchibaldMontgomeryLow #CentennialForecasts #PropheciesComeTrue #FuturePredictions

science.slashdot.org/story/24/

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Evan Urquhart

One thing that might help cis people (and many trans people as well, tbh) is just to understand that there is a LOT of variety among trans people and their experiences. A GUT of gender would have to account for all of them. (I am not personally in possession of such a theory.)

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The legacy of journalism in 2024 is that the public went into a fateful presidential election grossly, systematically ill-informed. It is so telling that not a single journalist even *mentioned* that basic fact.

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Woo look at this!

wwv.mcodes.org/

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shout outs to everyone refactoring their blog engines in advance of the increased blogging throughput anticipated in 2025
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Karl Auerbach

This remains one of my favorite holiday cards. It's from Wondermark ( wondermark.com/ ). I don't know if it is still available.

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Molly White

apparently preventing fraud is “anti-crypto”.

according to this Fortune headline, the SEC going after fraud and deceptive business practices after a company publicly announced they were going to breach a previous agreement with the agency is an “anti-crypto campaign”

#crypto #cryptocurrency

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backsliding into fascism just 80 years after WWII is like failing an open-book test in a room where the answers are written on the board and also being constantly read out loud over a loudspeaker

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"…point of the 'gig economy' is to use the 'did it with an app' trick to avoid labor laws, so that bosses can shift risks onto workers, because capitalists hate capitalism. These apps were first used to immiserate taxi-drivers, & this was so successful that it spawned a whole universe of 'Uber for __________' apps that took away labor rights from other kinds of workers…"

doctorow.medium.com/https-plur

#apps #work #labor #labour #WorkersRights #unions #UnionStrong #unionize #GigEconomy #capitalism

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Please consider donating to the Internet Archive this year.

Good news is people are looking for reliable sources to learn from. Lets help them find them!
@internetarchive

archive.org/donate

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𝐿𝒶𝓃𝒶 "not a nice girl"

Treating the murder of the United Healthcare CEO the same way society treats violence against trans people:

- He was shot just walking into work? I mean what did he expect with his risky lifestyle choices.

- You know CEOs have a really high rate of suicide. If he just had a normal job he would probably still be alive today.

- Extra security? I just don't think we should pander to the whims of a group that's less than 1% of the population.

- I don't hate CEOs I just hate how the right keeps pushing their agenda down my throat.

- OMG stop talking about CEOs, what am I going to tell my children?

- The shooter probably just panicked when he found out he was really a CEO in disguise. It's his fault he was murdered really.

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Developers if you know, you know

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You embarked on an unexpected journey.
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You encounter a 🦁 Giant Poisonous Snake
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Oliphantom Menace

So why so much focus on blocking servers?

Because a TERF's opinion isn't something that even mastodon.social will allow.

You might create a throwaway account there and throw out a few slurs, but your time is limited. That is not a haven for you.

There are servers that will be a haven for you, however. Servers that explicitly say "Manage your own blocks, we're not moderating shit" and that's fine, and they can make that decision.

But those servers will collect a certain kind of individual, and thusly will soon be blocked.

The self-organizing nature of instances means that it's often very effective to block an entire instance, especially when you've read their rules page and it's clear you want something different out of social media.

And look, I can't stop nazis from starting up fedi servers. But they have effectively created their own network, simply by being banned from ours.

Like oil and water, they don't mix. You can have them both separately, but you can't have both together.

Once you do, you're like Everyplace Else in social media land.

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Oliphantom Menace

What the fedi taught me is that when people are given the choice and can control their networks, they really don't want to hear from Elon Musk supporters, tradwife fetishists, and fascist TERFs nearly as much as their algorithms seem to suggest.

In fact, the "nice" thing about this place is that you don't have to listen to that shit. This place is like an antidote to that.

Though as a tech-focused space, it has its own culture and its own issues, and I'm not trying to elide those.

I'm really just trying to point out that Bluesky will not save us, in the end. In the end, they'll do what every other startup does:

They'll monetize, and they'll not want to alienate customers by telling them that their speech is unwanted.

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BONG BONG BONG BONG BONG

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