ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

When we work as groups, sometimes we are much smarter than if we work individually. However, if you've been paying attention to politics lately, you'll know that other times, when we work in group, we are much more stupid.

Sabine Hossenfelder discusses this conundrum and what we can do to avoid collective stupidity.

#CollectiveStupidity #SabineHossenfelder #Science #Psychology #Sociology #Stupidity

https://youtu.be/25kqobiv4ng

This is an amazing chart from the International Monetary Fund. If we stopped subsidizing fossil fuels, we would come very close to meeting our international climate targets. You can support capitalism or the fossil industry, but not both.

It's not just the recent massive drop in life expectancy from the Trump/GOP disastrous anti-vaxx, failed Covid19 response.
It's also how badly the US has been lagging for decades because of guns, poor maternal and child health care, cars, and more guns.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/25/1164819944/live-free-and-die-the-sad-state-of-u-s-life-expectancy?s=09

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In this weekend's WSJ Review section: Money-changers in old Florence worked from benchlike counters, and an insolvent one would end up with a broken bench, or "banca rotta" in Italian — the source of our word "bankrupt." https://on.wsj.com/40wRU4K

Regret #midjourney #AIArt (I kinda love this one.)

Today is my friend Celty’s 53rd birthday and she’s waking up in her car where she’s been living. As a #disabled #trans woman with limited mobility this situation is not safe for her. If you are able to help her fund nights in a motel, rather than on the street, she has an ongoing GFM. Additionally if you have any leads on #housing in greater #Seattle please send them my way to pass along to her. Thank you. https://www.gofundme.com/f/celtyislove #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Classic Car Show #midjourney #AIArt

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New Supreme Court Tell-All Reveals Shady Tidbits About the Conservative Justices - Jezebel https://apple.news/AOGMVCKznTtClcI4WX21m7A

NEW: Andrew Everete Stutts (51) of Colorado Springs is a member of the white supremacist organization Asatru Folk Assembly and works as a teacher at North Middle School.

Stutts also teaches Judo at Iron Forged Martial Arts.

Check the site for the full report, action items, and a printable flyer:

https://cospringsantifa.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/23/andrew-stutts-asatru-colorado-springs/

#ColoradoSprings #ColoradoAntifa #Colorado #AsatruFolkAssembly #Antifa #Folkish

So many times it will be drab and cloudy here all day in #Syracuse then right before sunset the sun will come out to 'neener neener' at us.

"This looks like engaging in tactics that get material results, providing accurate and accessible information to community members, and having a public means for community members to contact you. Our goal has always been community defense, and we cannot lose sight of it."

Analysis of five years of antifascist activity via @CVAntifa.

https://itsgoingdown.org/corvallis-against-fascism-five-years-of-nazi-tears/

🦊#FoxiMax #211 6/8
https://foximax.com/

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In the morning this house had 3 Mbps download at most. We replaced previous provider's terminal with a pretty similar one, raised it just by 2 metres, and now they have 25 Mbps – more than they need. #RuralBroadband is not easy, but we do what we can.

#RuralBroadband installation assistant. She was a very good assistant. 30 Mbps in an area where rows of old trees tend to block the signal. 11/10.

#DogsOfMastodon

Mastondon is a life raft scaling up to be a fleet.

Twitter is Cambridge Analytica, twitter is a manipulated platform that dumps far right tweets onto your timeline when it wants, and hides tweets silently.

Twitter is using familiarity like facebook did to funnel people to the far right. Or depress readers into inaction.

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

#Zen #Buddhist #Pantheist #atheist

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

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

Greatly enjoy #writing, and I've done a number of #nanowrimo novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with #gpt3.

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

new cryptid: exhausted woman at starbucks