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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
(Please forgive the anachronistic use of "man" when meaning human beings in general.)
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
"A human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It was no longer work that was the means to an end, a means for life or indeed a food for life -- rather it was a man and his life, his vital energy, his "man power," that became this means to an end."
-- Viktor Frankl 1946
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UncivilServant@med-mastodon.com ("Noah Cook") wrote:
If you are a college administrator, and you cannot handle student protests during the last few weeks of classes before summer break, it's time to find a new job.
Seriously, that's not a failure, it's a damned moral collapse, a complete abdication of all responsibility to your students.
It's especially sad to see it happen at Columbia, which used to have a good journalism school. It won't after this, that's what happens when you choose the governor over your students.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
He is rather angry with protesters.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/credentialed-leftist-at-work/
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
I had a chance to give "Small Pieces Loosely Joined - A Unified Theory of the Web" by @dweinberger a read this morning, a mere 22 years after it was first published.
It holds up very well, in my opinion, despite the myriad ways in which the web has changed in the interim. Throughout the day I'll be calling out ideas and themes David presents in the book in a thread below this toot, tagged #SPLJ2024 in case you'd prefer to mute my ramblings on the topic.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Revolutions are had by people, not protocols.
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
I know lots of horrible things are going down, but I would like to take a moment and say, "Thank you, Acie Holland."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/high-school-student-wisconsin-bus-driver
I hope I have the same presence of mind and fortitude if the situation arises.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Did you know that we can win? - by Margaret Killjoy https://margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/did-you-know-that-we-can-win :
> Because there is one thing I can promise every single person who reads this: one day, you too are going to die. You don’t win at life by living forever. Only the billionaires, who are spiritually lost, spend their time trying to “beat” death. You win at life by living lives of meaning.
Happy #MayDay.
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
ever since I learned the term "thought-terminating cliche" I realized that it perfectly fits so many situations
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mikolaj@chaos.social ("Mikolaj :autism:") wrote:
https://cemsim.com/ is a really cool real-time 2D electromagnetic field simulator.
It's open-source and implemented with GLSL shaders. The simulation kernel is right here: https://github.com/RobinKa/maxwell-simulation/blob/master/src/em/kernels/simulation.ts
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ErikJonker ("Erik Jonker") wrote:
Crucial battle for Chasiv Yar in Ukraine. The picture says it all.... 😬
#Ukraine #Russia #ChasivYar
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
good grief, how did I get to the point of having that many browser windows and that many tabs open all at once... jeeeeeeeeze, dude
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on his shoulder and bullets in his pocket, there is no power on earth that can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship."
Frederick Douglass
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: Confederacy Authorizes Enslavement or Execution of Black Union Troops
never believe propaganda about passive & contented Black slaves.
"By the end of the Civil War, roughly 179,000 black men (10% of the Union Army) served as soldiers in the U.S. Army and another 19,000 served in the Navy. Nearly 40,000 black soldiers died over the course of the war " - https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
A father worries when a daughter has to work in this environment. (I'm not worried about the protesters at all, I'm worried about the cops.)
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/the-scene-at-uw-madison/
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emilymbender@dair-community.social ("Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)") wrote:
Bender & Shah 2024 is now officially published *as open access* at TWeb.
For everyone who is using or promoting LLM driven chatbots as information access systems: this one is for you
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
:: The story of a child housekeeper who works for ‘Mnimal’ a cleaning tech company that claims their robots systems can bring your home to a state of “elevated minimalist cleanliness” via “smart targeted cleantech interventions” neither robots nor software can deliver any of this effectively, so an army of young workers must either laboriously attempt to clean via remote control or simply sneak in to the house on guise of ‘a routine service call’ and do it by hand. 1/
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GrantMeStrength@hachyderm.io ("John Kennedy") wrote:
BASIC is 60 years old today!
Happy Birthday to a programming language that introduced millions to software development. 🎉
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Truth be told, spiders are mostly lazy.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/the-truth-about-spiders/
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Boys with a time machine: change the first release of Stardew Valley to let you save whenever
Girls with a time machine: convince Nintendo of America to keep Akira Toriyama's original box art for Dragon Quest
Mastodon Feednadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
Hah, Mullvad ad spotted near Times Square!
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
More dots. We need more dots on this map!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/protests-everywhere/
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firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:
24 billion km and still going. I would too. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/apr/24/last-year-voyager-1-started-sending-gibberish-code-it-was-broken-in-space
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firstdogonthemoon@aus.social ("Firstdog Onthemoon") wrote:
Extinct kangaroo boffins! I love them and you should too. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/01/all-the-extinct-kangaroo-boffins-are-losing-their-minds-at-the-latest-kangaroo-news
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beckett@triangletoot.party ("Old Tom") wrote:
“To be clear: I, a member of the UNC faculty, was nearly caught in a line of pepper spray being fired at UNC students, by UNC police, working under direct orders of UNC administration, as I left class on the last day of the semester.
“These cops were in a blind rage, with zero care for bystanders. They were out of control, pepper spraying the people they were hired to protect.”
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edistro@social.edist.ro wrote:
do not put milk in your eyes
ANYONE SUGGESTING USING MILK FOR PEPPER SPRAY SHOULD BE SLAPPED ON SIGHT. DO NOT PUT MILK IN YOUR EYES.
it is 2024 and we have been through this again and again and again.
Rinse with water; then saline.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.
Do not put milk in your eyes.please for the love of christ:
do not put milk in your eyes
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#BBC [World] Watch: Violent clashes break out at UCLA https://w.st/5BCpR
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
"Mr. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to enforce a norm — that in the United States, public officials do not engage in tit-for-tat political prosecutions — that he has for years threatened to shatter. In promising to sic his Justice Department on Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump has laid the grounds for the very conditions that he was asking the justices to guard against by granting him immunity." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/politics/trump-biden-president-immunity.html
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
International Workers' Day! Rejoice & resist!
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/05/01/happy-international-workers-day/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
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