ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

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

“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

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. https://directfile.irs.gov/

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

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.

Can’t stop progress.

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.

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

A Beautiful Tiny Desk Concert by Polish Composer Hania Rani https://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/53368_A_Beautiful_Tiny_Desk_Concert_by_Polish_Composer_Hania_Rani

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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"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!

https://www.statnews.com/2024/01/25/hpv-vaccine-prevent-cervical-cancer-cervarix-gardasil-study/

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

#reading #books #quote #CradletoCradle #Recycling #love

#stem #Science #biology #microbes #spiffy

4001: A Gut Odyssey

https://www.sciencealert.com/obelisks-entirely-new-class-of-life-has-been-found-in-the-human-digestive-system?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines arriving.

#RegnantWomen #HawaiianHistory #WomenInHistory #History #Histodons

Patrons can play a new build of my marble game!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-marble-game-97421612

View from my camp site at Baker Lake, Washington, USA a few years back.

#SilentSunday #Washington #PNW #PacificNorthwest #Photography #Rainbow #Camping

The Taylor Swift harassment campaign on X is a warning. These same tools are already being used to harass average people across lots of platforms, and the response from tech companies and lawmakers hasn't been nearly good enough https://www.platformer.news/taylor-swift-deepfake-nudes-x/