(There is a clear parallel to the Luddites here, who were skilled technicians and clothmakers who weren’t worried about technology surpassing them, but the way factory owners used it to make cheaper, lower-quality goods that drove down prices.)

I think we need to start putting this on billboards.

Seems like a good fit for processing maybe?

https://processing.org/examples/arm.html

KEVIN Birmingham’s new book about the long censorship fight over James Joyce’s Ulysses braids eight or nine good stories into one mighty strand.

It’s about women’s rights and heroic female editors, the First World War, anarchism and modernism, tenderness and syphilis, moral panic and about the Lost Generation and the tent it pitched at Sylvia Beach’s Paris bookstore. It isolates a great love story, that of Joyce and Nora Barnacle, one that comes with a finger-burning side order of some of the most cheerfully filthy correspondence in literary history.

https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/the-battle-to-publish-james-joyces-ulysses-1531186

And what a quest it was. “Ulysses” was illegal to own in most of the English-speaking world for more than a decade. It was banned, burned, debated, smuggled, and finally legalized following a 1933 court ruling. In Birmingham’s highly readable and erudite book, he infuses this story with drama, reminding us that the right to express oneself can never be taken for granted.

Readers will quickly realize the immense scope of “The Most Dangerous Book.” Modernism, obscenity, the power once held by postal authorities, vice squads, 19th century English law, Joyce’s sex life and health problems, The Lost Generation, early literary magazines, Wall Street lawyers, the suffrage movement, anarchy in America, and even the Enlightenment are all seamlessly woven into this most fascinating tapestry.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2014/06/13/kevin-birmingham-ulysses

It takes emotional labor to separate people from the situations/context you interact with them in. Part of work culture should be making sure that people aren’t too stressed and tired to do this labor by unrealistic work demands and inhumane treatment.

From what I understand about nursing, at least in my country, this is systematically an issue of pushing people too hard so I would say give yourself slack for not being perfectly aloof.

A Genocide NOT a war.

I’m curious—how do you see AI shaping the future of healthcare?

Exactly the way United Healthcare uses AI, as a way to obscure culpability in mass murder through rejection and divestment from essential healthcare systems so that human experts can be replaced with bullshit that constantly fails, hurts and eventually kills vulnerable people.

The AI functions solely as a tool to rationalize the dehumanization and devaluing of human life for profit.

Yeah and like that is cool, all the smartest most hardworking people involved with ActivityPub can laugh in my face saying these are nonsense concerns and I will continue to be realistic about human beings, greed and money.

Of course the ActivityPub developers see it as a friendly relationship, this is what they are experts about why would corporations burn that bridge before they consolidate control?

There does not have to be a “winning” protocol.

Actually, from the perspective of investors looking to make a profit off of Bluesky there does?

The ActivityPub people are naive as heck if they think this is an innocent situation, a LOT of money is at stake. Words about this just being a positive relationship are meaningless in reassurance.

Lol I love how people assume they won’t load the AI up with even more ads than the traditional search results.

Disgusting, also a complete waste of an M113 and it really shows the IDF is a machine of mass civilian murder and can hardly be called an actual military at all.

Unfortunately not understanding or being sufficiently motivated by the threat of corporate social media is still prevalent among a good amount of lefties I know, but I find even when they are uninterested in leaving corporate social media they can at least understand the logic behind it in a way a lot of techy type people start to just get combatitive when you try to explain.

Most often when I have a conversation about this with someone who is very technically well versed with computers and the types of systems that are relevant to federated social media their response is to answer every one of my broader ethical questions by changing the topic to a conversation about technical details and they either utterly miss the point or outright refuse to have a discussion about it because they think I am being too cynical.

Ultimately these people only have one real argument which is to just repeat the mantra “stop being so negative, lets just wait and see before we jump to conclusions” endlessly about the same cycle of bullshit repeating over and over again.

Intelligence and expertise is worth pursuing for the benefit that comes from learning for the sake of learning, but it is true that there is a danger to knowing more and more about a very narrow subject in that it becomes more and more seductive to believe that the thing you are an expert in is a key to understanding everything else and that this gives you a righteous vantage to look down upon the genius of others and judge from afar.

Some of the smartest people there has ever been or likely will ever be throughout history have time and time again completely undermined their potential by falling prey to this delusional drug of a belief.

Because silicon valley thinks it can define reality however it wants and keep telling us not to believe our lying eyes.

Weirdly this seems to work better on techy people who don’t like thinking about politics but understand the technical details of this extremely well than it does on normie progressives because progressives just see the obvious predatory reality and don’t get distracted in minutiae connected to very obviously empty promises.

The tech press does not ever talk to progressives though…

Thank you for that wonderful image!

Stephen Miller is a nazi, he doesn’t give a shit about health except as a narrative device to create permission for more authoritarian violence.

Thanks for checking it out!

Evidence is great, everything they do is like broad stones on the shore you can overturn and peer closer at to watch little scurrying creatures burrow away into hidden places.

I love the subtle but very chaotic choice at ~2:22 to mix a wah-wah’d guitar wide right and an acoustic guitar wide left mic’d up to accentuate the pick noises and give a really acoustic feel. It works beautifully but it is kind of amusing how on paper that mix sounds kind of jarring.

I mean, you can do something illegal and still be a hero.

This man’s name is Brad Smith, he is directly complicit in profiting off of the Genocide Of Palestinians.

Brad Smith is a mass murderer but more pathetic than the typical one because he just wants to profit off the genocide without having to witness the actual violence of it firsthand.

I propose a toast to Brad Smith living a long and painful end of life with a debilitating disease that destroys his quality of life or some other form of small justice befalling him!

I raise my glass

During a press conference on Wednesday, Smith said Microsoft has launched a formal investigation into Israel’s reported use of Azure. “We are committed to ensuring that our human rights principles and our contractual terms of service are upheld in the Middle East,” he said.

BULLSHIT

If we continue to let men like this rule society with no meaningful consequences for them we will be utterly subsumed into violence, it is only a matter of time.

I just think “community knowledge” is a much more nebulous concept it quickly extends into subjective topics that a mod curated wiki/sidebar might not fit. The sidebar more naturally represents undebatable axioms/foundations to the community such as a link directly to what a community is about or its rules.

Yes ok that is pretty much it or close, very cool!