Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

@cdonat @lenzgr love it! It's long overdue, but for a while now I haven't got to the point of starting it myself. Thank you for doing it!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/02/malcolm-rifkind-urges-israeli-president-to-stop-attacks-by-jewish-extremists-on-palestinians

So apparently #telegram 's security is so unique, it was enough for the Russian state to block a step in its handshake protocol to block it entirely.
https://mastodon.social/@OfShad0ws/116333561644254976

Research proceeds on alternatives of polygraphs, but is true lie detection possible?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/polygraphs-have-major-flaws-are-there-better-options/

@impactology something more, when we practice a lot, our mind learns certain mental schemas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology) that help us free cognitive load (mental capacity) to combine with further considerations.

So once we get used to fusion, the interplay between these dimensions begins to feel more like one dimension, so that we could use it to accumulatively expand the process with other new dimensions.

@impactology Teaching is a complex process that could be seen to start with awareness development and to evolve towards exercise to grow mastery. One surely can use the method to develop illustrative examples, which are crucial to awareness development. Also playing around with fusion is undoubtedly a central part of exercise. What I've seen in my practice is that often there's the temptation to skip some of the initial stages, because they appear trivial.

It appears pointless to play with scaling the triangle from your example without changing anything else. It will start making some sense only when you start looking at its surface too. You see, even this example raises questions.

@impactology that's an illustration of an amazing method, to my knowledge first conceived in this article:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220041842_On_some_necessary_conditions_of_learning
and then refined (and simplified) in this book:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315816876/necessary-conditions-learning-ference-marton

I personally have been very inspired by this work and have been trying to replicate it beyond children learning (it is in fact suggested in the above book that science works similarly to learning). Here's an example:
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3558/paper774.pdf

I bet situations like this one don't happen anymore in Palestine/Israel. And it's the consequence of a long-standing policy of radicalization. There are no winners from ethno-nationalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/24/man-who-talked-down-hospital-bomber-says-would-be-attacker-asked-for-a-cuddle

“Vertical morality teaches that authority, power and a moral code of right and wrong, or acceptable and unacceptable, come from ‘above’ ― an external superior who designates rules, systems and tenets that must be obeyed by those beneath,” said Tia Levings, a former Christian fundamentalist and author of “A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy.”

In the context of religion, the superior is God. In politics, it might be an authoritarian dictator. In a cult, it would be the controlling leader. Whatever the circumstances, the idea is that behaviors are only right or wrong based on what the figure in power says.

“Vertical morality in Christianity is the idea that our ethics and behaviors have a duty to please God alone. We get our morals from God and we must obey him, furthering the will of God no matter the cost,” said April Ajoy, author of “Star-Spangled Jesus: Leaving Christian Nationalism and Finding A True Faith.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vertical-morality-might-describe-why-maga-christians-seem-so-unchristian-goog_l_69bc09f1e4b0bb6debb7954b

@mapto@feddit.it This is the reason why up until Trump the world preferred US payment providers, and not Italian ones. It's just that now these are just as unreliable.
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