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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 10:45:49 JST 
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♪ Bob Dylan, "My Back Pages" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbPa31KOZg0
One of his finest songs, in my opinion. And the line-up is marvellous: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, Neil Young, Roger McGuinn.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 17-Jan-2025 07:57:38 JST
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My latest doom scenario: On Inauguration Day, T declares that U.S. leaves NATO (or: that the U.S. no longer feels bound by Art. 5). Having paid for that moment with massive casualties, Putin then uses tactical nukes in Ukraine and the Baltic states. Unlikely that Britain and France respond in kind. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 10:36:41 JST
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I cross my fingers (and toes) and wish you a lightning-quick recovery. Get well soon, my friend. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 16-Jan-2025 08:54:15 JST
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Oh, that's awful to hear. I'm surprised that your surgery is postponed to February. Normally, having an inguinal hernia with pain is so dagerous that immediate surgery is advised. Particularly, your doctor's "advice" to "push it back in with your hand" sounds truly irresponsible.
The issue is that if one leaves an inguinal hernia untreated for too long, the hernia can get bigger and cause more and more intestine to leak out. And if a loop of intestine is clamped off, life is in immediate danger.
So please consult a second physican and check for rapid treatment. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Jan-2025 06:23:02 JST
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Very nicely put. Kudos. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jan-2025 14:47:25 JST
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Perhaps this too?
Rabih Abou Khalil, "Blue Camel" (2006) https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9VVIjatiSNY81WMepq5oL9DnvTnXRDRX -
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zeldman (zeldman@front-end.social)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 23:23:21 JST 
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Mastodon CEO transfers ownership to new nonprofit, ensuring platform stays free of individual control.
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/13/24342603/mastodon-non-profit-ownership-ceo-eugen-rochko #SocialMedia
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 13-Jan-2025 07:52:20 JST
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Awful. -
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チャガタイくん@喜多川海夢推し (moto_chagatai@varishangout.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 17:07:22 JST 
チャガタイくん@喜多川海夢推し
Fellas will do this instead of going to """""therapy""""" -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:12:26 JST
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Yes, was already proposed by John Brunner in "Shockwave Rider" as early as 1975. Didn't change shit. Anything, any original idea? I thought not.
Please, please block me so that your nonsense is no longer pushed into my TL. Thank you. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 12:08:27 JST
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Read this kind of crap that least 20 years, over and over again, all culminating in "voting doesn't fix it". Which is exactly why T won in 2016, why women's care in rural aeras was cut, and why you now have the Supreme Court you have. And I cannot prevent your shit from littering my TL because I have no way of blocking you. *That* is the nuisance of our time, not the nonsense you post. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 02:52:27 JST
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Edward Helmore, "‘White people shouldn’t mess with it’: Native American church laments psychedelic cactus shortage" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jan/11/white-people-shouldnt-mess-with-it-native-american-church-laments-psychedelic-cactus-shortage
« [A] growing number of western spiritual seekers dabbling in psychedelics are accused of causing a shortage of the plant that produces mescaline.
Experts warned last week of a shortage of peyote, a sacred cactus used by Native Americans in religious rituals, which produces the hallucinogenic drug and only grows in limited range across south-western US and northern Mexico. They blame a psychedelic renaissance taking off in wealthy western societies, as well as overharvesting and land development. »
Kicks my inner Eric Cartman into overdrive. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2025 00:48:08 JST
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She seens to conflate bias and neutrality, switiching between both at times, at others not.
Here she sees the distinction:
«I can acknowledge that my perspective is informed by my experiences and my reality while still maintaining rigorous standards for evidence and argumentation.»
And here not:
«When someone says you're biased against them because you object to their stated goal of removing you from society, they're not actually asking for fairness – they're demanding complicity.»
Of course one can be biased in one's attitude/opinions and at the same time ponder them and those of the opponent from a neutral point of view, that is, weighing the pros and cons. That's why juridcal procedures evolved and have their rules. That's why a "fact" is a "factum", somethig made, viz., information subsumed under certain rules to create a certain pattern which is at a struggle with some other proposals in which most often the same information is subsumed under slightly or grossly different rules to create rather different patterns, which is why there is always a judge necessary in the procedure to weigh the different proposals of subsumption and annoucne a decision.
(Often, the question which proposal supersedes (not: is true) is a matter of lobbying and pressuring the "judge". And let us not forget that that is most often one's own mind doing the pressure game, as we repeat and mimick both roles, that of proponent and opponent, and that of the judge. Which is why we ourselves stay in our mind bubbles, as all three roles merge in our daily practice of "rationality". Averting cognitive dissonance is thus more important to us than to be right or true to the facts. Every conspiracy theory will serve that purpose.)
So, indeed I think that in a sense she is making up a straw man, declaring an enabled assault on her life a matter of cognitive dissonance and rule of the more powerful. That does not negate her being part of a persecuted minority but it negates that there is room for argumentative combat. In fact, she demands the same right to be a jerk that her assailant are, enjoy, and insist to be. And why shouldn't she? -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:13:42 JST
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« No place stays empty. »
— Kseniya Tarasevich -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:11:36 JST
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« We learn to be free. We absorb the sense of freeedom from our parents, education and with the help of all people with whom we happen to live. »
— Boris Grebenshchikov -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 10-Jan-2025 05:09:05 JST
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Why Germany is a main culprit in Russia's war against Ukraine. https://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/ukraine-how-merkel-prevented-ukraine-s-nato-membership-a-der-spiegel-reconstruction-a-c7f03472-2a21-4e4e-b905-8e45f1fad542
It's just simple decency that Germany accepts its culpability and does everything it can to support #Ukraine and the Ukrainians. But Germany will hide from its guilt, as always. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 23:13:24 JST
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Regarding the moral freak-out over Zuckerberg's announcement that Meta will abolish fact-checking:
Read the whole thread. Human fact-checking will be abolished but not the technical filter system to prevent violations of U.S. laws.
Far more interesting than the termination of the human fact-checking is the future of human content monitoring on those platforms. It is well known that content moderators, ensuring that content doesn't violate "community" standards, are forced to examine horrific vides and other content as their daily work, with the consequence of psychological stress, PTSD, and drug abuse.
As Meta gives up on human fact checking, what happens to the human content examination? As the border between fact checking and content examination is rather fluid, will content examination by humans be abolished as well? Will it be replaced by automated filters and learning software? If the latter, I'd very much applaud that. Because I don't want humans to watch torture videos just to earn a living. -
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scribe (scribe@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 18:11:03 JST 
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Out in the fields the floods have frozen and the cracks at the edges are razor sharp against a world trying to pretend everything is normal. Good morning and #tzag.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 22:08:18 JST
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People freaking out over Meta and its 180° "moral turnaround" should remember: Meta, like Alphabet and others, is a profit-oriented company providing a good/service not to make "the world better" but to increase profits of its shareholders. Under T45 they do this, under Biden44 they did that. It's about preventing negative effects on business. Accordingly, turning to T45 may help Meta in various antitrust issues or the softening of restrictions in the acquisition of other companies. Remember that the Department of Justice has demanded Google for anti-trust reasons to sell its Chrome browser. They may fare far better under T45. If people don't like these services, they are "free" to switch to a different one or build it for themselves from scratch. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:19:21 JST
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2025/jan/07/hundreds-of-people-celebrate-death-of-le-pen-in-paris-video
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