ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

Museum of the Unnerving!

We venture into darkness to find the light, but sometimes the light has been swallowed by things that prefer to stay in the dark.

And so we mark that down, turn away, and run for our lives!

#AI #Museum

Batman but he finally gets therapy to deal with his parent's loss and realizes dressing up in a suit to beat up petty criminals is a trauma response and begins to invest billions into healthcare, police abolishment, fair housing, and drug treatment which drastically reduces crime to the point capitalists plot to eliminate him and when the succeed, this prompts the Justice Leauge to go after the industrialists responsible for his death, which give the general populace a chance to seize the means of production and the military is afraid to act because Superman has promised to destroy one military base for every civilian life they take.

That would be a pretty cool story.

Dear ones, if you have #depression or #anxiety rooted in the state of the world, don’t think there’s something wrong w you. You’re not alone. Your feelings are valid.
Here’s an idea:
Give what you can to the people fighting for us, like the investigative journalists exposing companies whose behaviors/choices contribute to decline (despite what they say!)My favs: (@juddlegum & @emorwee )

#DoYourPart & #rest. Be in
#nature. #breathe. Soothe your soul. Live #love 💙

The U.S. Postal Service says it will memorialize the late Rep. John Lewis with a new stamp next year. @MSNBC

I was going to clean the house, but then I realized this book isn't going to read itself.

Great news!

In a landmark judgement, the Barbados High Court has issued a ruling that decriminalized consensual same-sex relations.

Barbados becomes the 3rd Eastern Caribbean country in 2022 to strike down discriminatory legal provisions and decriminalize gay sex, after Antigua and Barbuda and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/12/13/barbados-high-court-decriminalizes-gay-sex

The remains of the abandoned Shawnee Resort
Gallery/info: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/shawnee-lancaster-resort

#abandoned #art #photography

This quiz is a repeat. If you’ve answered this before, please skip it this time around.

The first known speculative bubble (asset bubble causing a financial crash) involved ____________.

If you don’t know take your best guess.

Please boost to get more responses.

So far I'm not seeing much conversation on Mastadon, so a prompt for #EnergyTwitter and #ClimateTwitter refusniks:

What's the best #energy or #climate-related #book you've read this year and why? My pick: Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town by Colin Jerolmack

He explores the human impacts of fracking and why small town Americans may welcome something that harms the community in the long run. What #books do you recommend?

https://amzn.to/3UWLaty

DHS is rotten to the core.

"Exclusive: An intel analyst tried to prevent the Jan. 6 attack — but DHS failed to act"

https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-an-intel-analyst-tried-to-prevent-the-jan-6-attack-but-dhs-failed-to-act-190922453.html

Yesterday:

"Hundreds Of Oath Keepers Have Worked for various DHS agencies, including the Secret Service and Border Patrol"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oath-keepers-worked-department-homeland-security-1234646005/

Kurt Vonnegut on buying envelopes:

My first byline at WIRED: A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-hate-speech-lawsuit-ethiopia/

We need to build a space depot in orbit, capture space debris and transport it to the space depot, disassemble and "melt" into material for 3d printing, then 3d print parts to be used in space for maintenance or in building items needed for moon activities, long range space exploration, life sciences or science, or space colonization efforts.

This is a kickstart for our space ecosystem and logistics capabilities needed to build O'Neill cylinders so we can offload industry from our planet into these cylinders which in turn can help save our planet and extend living and working environments into space for a growing population.
♲ universeodon.com/@JenLucPiquan…

Control for surrender – Henry Miller's stunning letter to Anaïs Nin about the value of despair and the antidote to it https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/31/henry-miller-control-surrender-despair/

Fascinating new article on estimating the ideology of journalists using those who move between outlets - "results suggest journalist effects are nearly as important as consumer demand in explaining the variation in observed slant at the outlet level" https://jacob-conway.com/pdfs/journalist_ideology.pdf

How you do Fediverse vets feel about Discord? For all the negatives I hear about it, it keeps growing like a weed. What exactly is the attraction?

If you want to perform different operations on different line patterns, you can use multiple matching/operation statements in awk. Just put them one after the other. So for lines starting with --, print from character 42 to the end of the line and for lines starting with |, print the second column.
awk '/^--/{print substr($0,42)} /^| /{print $2}' data.txt