ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
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pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
There is no way to "keep politics out of it" when one party has made it into a political issue. Any attempt to appeal to the common good is met instantly with hyper-political attacks.
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An image and caption from a 1912 article in *Popular Mechanics* that lays out the basics of climate change. They were a bit off on the timing, but we've known about this for a long time.
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This makes me very angry.
These are anti-homeless benches designed to look pleasing. It’s called hostile architecture. They’re meant to be uncomfortable to discourage sleeping on.
The people who designed these are assholes. They’re decorators, not designers.
A designer makes things to improve the world for everyone. A decorator takes otherwise unpalatable injustices and disguises them with aesthetics in an attempt to make them inoffensive or even desirable.
Be a designer, not a decorator.
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Discovery: People also migrated FROM North America TO Siberia thousands of years ago. https://www.iflscience.com/previously-unknown-group-of-people-in-prehistoric-siberia-found-by-dna-67060
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Too many moderates, centrists, and liberals have bought into the idea that conservatives are just – and at least somewhat justifiably – pushing back against certain “excesses” of “woke” leftism, and that they will stop once those excesses are kept in check. That’s nonsense. 11/
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Conservatives are pursuing a deeply anti-democratic, anti-liberal, anti-pluralistic vision for American society, and the Right has a clear strategy for how to impose it on the country against majority will. They are fully committed to this reactionary political project. 6/
Many pieces of valuable information on the Web aren't served by a "webhost" that gives out certs for free. Many interesting interactions on the web take place where one or both ends are pieces of software that don't use (and have no reason whatever to use) anything more complex than text strings over an ordinary socket. Many interesting pieces of information on the web don't have anyone maintaining them who can be bothered to convert to https (and would gain nothing whatever from that conversion). All of which and more were pretty well covered in the article!
@JGibbard @ScaleOvenStove @davew @Deus @jeffjarvis @EvilKiru
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My comments re the announcement from @jeffjarvis of the CUNY scholarship to do Masto-Journalism..
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Here’s a shot of Tika and Mijo when they were just babies.
This was from their foster home before they came to live with me. They were found abandoned near a water tank, so their names were Agua and Tanque (this was in Mexico where I lived at the time).
Every day I am deeply #grateful for these two!
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Here's a fun animal for you!
This is the patagonian mara. This weird, rabbit-like creature is the 12th largest rodent to ever live, and they're still alive today. They live in Argentina. They make warrens with several monogamous couples living inside. This species is near-threatened, with habitat loss, climate change, and poaching putting their numbers at risk.
They're very lanky and have long limbs with nearly hoof-like paws (four toes on each paw in front, three in back).
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Sometimes, it takes a furniture guy.
Ben Bacon, a furniture conservator in London, has cracked the meaning behind 20,000-year-old cave drawing symbols. He realized the little dots and lines drawn around animals indicated lunar cycles. The symbols communicated when different animals reproduced. He and a group of experts published these findings in Cambridge University Press.
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Point Of Rocks Bridge in infrared.
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I used my "good"watercolor paper to paint a tree for my sister!
#watercolorpainting #watercolor #artistsofmastodon
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Transverse Ladybirds (Coccinella transversalis) enjoying cooler morning temps in the alpine grasslands of the Brindabella Ranges behind Canberra, ACT. Billy Buttons and the rare/endangered Kelton's Leek Orchid (Prasophyllum keltonii ) providing the mid-summer flowering.
#Beetles #Insects #Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Summer
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It was raining heavily and there wasn't much light, but I do like this motion blur of a Tasmanian devil #wildlife #WildlifePhotography #photography #Tasmania #Australia #TasmanianDevil #MotionBlur #marsupial
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#murderplot
A pavement chalk artist who's great at body outlines is found cut into 2 inch cubes with a Lord of the Rings replica axe. Suspicion falls on Midsomer Wyvern’s middle-aged philosopher, confused that the sale of dogs online might threaten to reveal the name of Dr Who.
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
