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   You Will (Not) Escape ☸️ (ubernigga@wizard.casa)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 02:26:51 JST You Will (Not) Escape ☸️

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   @sun @theorytoe That's a nice idea but it's not really true in the iterations that have actually existed for two thousand years.

   In the early Church, there were a dozen esoteric cults where different types of secret knowledge are required, all fighting each other, then these get written out of the history in the 5th Century or so.

   In the medieval church, the lineage that survives breaks into its own schools, all with secret teachings you have to accept, and if you deviate, we have to gather every bishop in the damn empire so we can figure out who to kick out of the club.

   The esotericism at this point is in the monasteries, where orthodoxy is often entirely forgotten. and you has people positing things like a 4th God (and example from the remote hesychasts.) In Ethiopia, they're still in this phase. Externally, they teach monophysite Christianity, but each monastery has its own esoteric insight separate from the public teaching. (This also roughly mirrors how Buddhism worked before the modern period.)

   Then you get to the Reformation and the rise of (Classical) Humanism, people try to justify a homogenous public doctrine from the oldest sources, which they do relatively well, although now everyone is bound to an unholy bloated bookcel canon that none but a few remarkable autists can possibly disentangle, but this new Christendom is dry, boring, and useless for the average man. No one really believes it except academics and low level priests, and even the academics wind up getting bored and deconstructing the whole thing.

   Meanwhile the Renaissance and the Enlightenment happen, we have access to older wisdom from Greece and Egypt again, and yet another esoteric current is born underneath the "basic" Christianity at the same time, based on a mix of authentic and fake writings from Plato, Hermes, and other philosopher mystics, which becomes the occult/left hand path: Rosicrucianism, Masonry, Golden Dawn, Perennialism, and you get another mini-Enlightenment later on with Europe's discovery of Germanic and Indian religion, and those all syncretize with the 20th century esoteric Christian movements to create things like Spiritism, New Age, Thelema, Satanism etc.

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   powersoffour (powersoffour@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-May-2024 10:08:38 JST powersoffour

   Yeah so.

   In the car on the way home from school, 9yo informs me that she showed a friend my YouTube channel. (95% coding livestreams archived from twitch.)

   Evidently he then asked her, "can we watch this one?" 9yo said to me, "but it was 35 minutes and I didn't want to waste my battery on that!"

   My thought was, come on kid, you had to know whatever your friend chose was going to be a battery waster. Then I realized: did my 9yo just set me up to zing me???? I think she did.

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   Lauren Weinstein (lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2024 09:50:16 JST Lauren Weinstein

   During the middle to late 1960s, TV writers were already imagining the applications of small drones, most of which would not be possible for another half century or so.

   In an episode of "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." a small drone is launched at the U.N.C.L.E. headquarters building in NYC. When their defensive systems detect it slowly approaching, a general alarm goes up, for fear of small but very powerful warheads. They try to laser it down -- but the laser system fails (why it fails is an important aspect of the plot). The drone slams into the HQ roof area harmlessly, and a surprising note is found when the wreckage is inspected. This particular drone scene pretty much could have been real at the time -- it was a small single-prop fixed-wing model plane with a gasoline engine and radio control equipment appropriate for the era.

   In an episode of "Mission Impossible", a small drone is navigated -- using a completely reasonable two joystick remote -- through an air conditioning duct to make a crucial delivery. It didn't have a camera, but its position was tracked on a map of the duct system visible to operator Barney. It was actually a bit more like a hovercraft, with four props on the bottom, but a great idea.

   "The Green Hornet" had his own drone that would pop out of the back of his "Black Beauty" vehicle and fly into the air. This was used in multiple episodes. It spun like a top and featured a camera that sent an image back to a monitor on his dashboard. After it had provided the aerial view necessary, it returned to the car and popped back into the trunk area.

   Pretty clever those writers, eh?

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   Charles Gaba (charlesgaba@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 04:57:37 JST Charles Gaba

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   Next up: State legislative races. VIRGINIA already had theirs in November, but they also have SPECIAL ELECTIONS for 2 GOP-held seats coming up in a week or so.

   In an exception to my "no long shot" rule, I'm including them here; donate today:

   https://secure.actblue.com/donate/vablue23?refcode=gabamasto

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   Tom Cooper (coopernetes@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 00:21:49 JST Tom Cooper

   Open source is fundamentally about people. It's an important value to me to pay that forward and throw a few dollars when I can to these champions of our industry. I appreciate GitHub sponsorship & Open Collective for making it really easy to do so.

   In the corporate world, it's my belief that organizations have a duty as well to harness their vast resources and pay these same maintainers their dues since they benefit the most off that labour.

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   AnthonyJK-Admin (anthonyjk@mastodon.redgarterclub.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 13:02:29 JST AnthonyJK-Admin

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   @strypey

   So, basically this boils down to the Left accepting "difference" and making nice with even reactionary fascists in order to expand beyond it's "bubble" & let in even the most retrograde fundamentalists for the greater goal of "class solidarity".

   Sorry, but I don't think so.

   In fact, doing this at a time when almost every liberal to socdem political tendency is bent on throwing marginalized people under their buses to jump on the fascist bandwagon, is political suicide for the Left.