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Visit to a Small Planet was released 64 years ago today.

"Jerry Lewis is Kreton, a childish alien who, against his teacher's will leaves his planet to visit the Earth and lands in the backyard of a famous television journalist who doesn't believe in U.F.O's and aliens."

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tests are showing fun levels at 53%

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#Fnordistan #Fnordku #DiscordianFart #SubGenius I present - copy left , all rights blown to the winds , the #DreiEcken Stickers - one per post so youse can copii

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@cstross

So it's really Apple Vision Pro™ then...

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It’s another blow to the #Met police and #Tory party that their attempts to criminalise Greta #Thunberg and other climate protestors has failed because of the sloppiness of police communications.

But what’s also striking is the judge drew attention to the fact this was peaceful, non-violent protest that impeded no one…so why the rush to prosecute?

theguardian.com/environment/20

@ninokadic

I can't imagine what a scientific explanation would look like, or how we would know that it was correct, but I also have no reason (other than that) to think we won't someday have one.

Everything we know about the physical world is derived from the contents of consciousness; completing the loop and explaining consciousness in terms of the physical world would be cool. :) But I can't sketch out how it would work.

(Where by "consciousness" I mean subjective experience, not easy stuff that can be straightforwardly measured objectively.)

@philosophy @philosophyofmind

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What's your position regarding consciousness? Broad physicalism (we'll have a scientific explanation one day) or broad anti-physicalism (science can't give a complete account)? Or something else?

Please repost after voting, I'm genuinely curious! 🤔

@philosophy @philosophyofmind #consciousness #cognition #philosophy

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“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5b

#stoic #philosophy #stoicism

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Congratulations to the IRS, USDS, and 18F teams that worked on this for so long! A quiet launch day is always the dream, and they did it. directfile.irs.gov/

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The memory of the tech industry for how people abuse their power is so short lived.

Watch who you follow. The #privacy and #SocialEngineering crowd is small.

So is #infosec overall.

When someone causes harm, there is collateral damage.

Watching some of them claim to be about privacy and protecting users when they've done active and public harm is nauseating.

Be mindful. Ask questions. Pay attention to patterns.

And support the communities and collectives you trust. Verify.

#harassment #ToxicPeople #Toxic WomenInTech #OSINT

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Allow me to point out something that is painfully obvious to anyone with a middle school education: If powerful women like Taylor Swift trigger you, you definitely couldn’t handle a civil war.

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what I love is that this government will condemn Palestinians to death because of maybe 10 employees but is unwilling to discuss police reform because *checks notes* it's just a few bad apples.

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Tell you what, being vocal about Health & Safety has been a very useful filter.

It's the same way being vocal about Codes of Conduct was 10 years ago.

Turns out, if somebody has an allergic reaction to proactive measures to keep a community healthy and safe, then they're probably not safe to have around in the first place.

#HealthAndSafety #Community #OpenSource #FOSS

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The person who leaked information about Trump’s tax returns got more time than Trump did for fraud

He got more time than almost all insurrectionists received

He got more time than Roger Stone, Paul Manafort, and Charles Kushner for tax evasion and for funneling Russian money to politicians

…Tell me how the system isn’t set up to protect the rich and powerful again?

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Friend: "Why hasn't Nikki Haley dropped out?"

Me: "Why do you even care what that nazi loser does?"

Friend: "Pageantry, I s'ppose."

Me: "Fine; just this once tho. Nikki Haley hasn't dropped out because if by some miracle fascist courts say the fascist leader CANNOT run again, she'll be in position to pick up the hail mary the party throws and everyone who dropped out won't be."

Friend: "Huh. Why don't they have people like you on the news?"

Me: "Dawg, this is Amerikkka..."

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"A historic new study out of Scotland shows the real-world impact of vaccines against the human papillomavirus: The country has detected no cases of cervical cancer in women born between 1988-1996 who were fully vaccinated against HPV between the ages of 12 and 13."

Vaccines work!

statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv-va

#cancer #cervicalcancer #primarycare #prevention #vaccine #immunizations #vaccineswork

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