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items: simsa03: The new essay collection by George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia", came with the mail. Lovely.
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items: simsa03: New blog post : "The Omertà That Is Family" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/the-omerta-that-is-family/
items: simsa03: ♪ Elai Botner and the Children of Abroad, "נעים עכשיו" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB88Y_A9ns Very much like the upbeat tempo. !listening
items: gnu2: @penguin@eveningzoo.club don't do that it's ridiculously expensive
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items: rrraksamam: Hello
items: gnu2: We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us #Trump is a #Maoist | The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20687
items: gnu2: @fesshole@mastodon.social what is the birdie song?
items: simsa03: "I don’t really believe in truth—not even in the truth of the imagination—just in the sound of a voice.” — Harold Bloom
items: simsa03: Drones have targets. I wish "online selfs" with all their muttering and screeching and tik-toking had some such.
items: simsa03: Congratulations! May your business live long and prosper... :-)
items: simsa03: Being hawkish doesn't mean being conservative or on the right. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
items: simsa03: Evil is not insanity. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
items: simsa03: Of course not :-)
items: simsa03: "As unpredictable as ever."
items: simsa03: ♪ Ehud Banai, סרט רץ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N9DGJh8JE Lovely echo of Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams". !listening
items: simsa03: "I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards." — Fran Lebowitz
items: simsa03: "A book is the closed thing there is to a human being." — Fran Lebowitz
items: gnu2: @Nonilex Tartifs are antithetical to libertarianism. Nothing good had ever come from them
items: gnu2: @AnungIkwe amen
items: simsa03: Barney Frank has passed away! R.I.P. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-dies-lgbtq-wall-street-regulation .
items: simsa03: ♪ Otis Gibbs, "It Was A Train" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sghcb7YfJGQ With obvious reminiscence to Townes Van Zandt. But his singing floats more freely. !listening
items: simsa03: ♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjInbqxqrbQ Lovely. !listening
items: simsa03: simsa03 (https://gnusocial.jp/simsa03) started following ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (https://gnusocial.jp/gnusocialjp).
items: simsa03: ♪ Can, "Vitamin C" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkUiCugQDE !listening
items: simsa03: ♪ Can, "Moonshake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4B69x8X7s !listening

simsa03: The new essay collection by George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia", came with the mail. Lovely.
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description: simsa03's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 10:24:49 JST
encoded: The new essay collection by George Scialabba, "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia", came with the mail. Lovely.
date: 2026-06-10T10:24:49+09:00
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title: simsa03: Adam Kredo, "US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists" https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/exclusive-us-probe-finds-101-more-staffers-for-unrwa-gaza-relief-organization-are-hamas-soldiers-from-october-7-schoolteachers-principals-exposed-as-terrorists/ I'd love to see more respectable sources on this. But beside that: Defund UNRWA!
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description: simsa03's status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 00:44:57 JST
encoded: Adam Kredo, "US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists" https://freebeacon.com/trump-administration/exclusive-us-probe-finds-101-more-staffers-for-unrwa-gaza-relief-organization-are-hamas-soldiers-from-october-7-schoolteachers-principals-exposed-as-terrorists/ I'd love to see more respectable sources on this. But beside that: Defund UNRWA!
date: 2026-06-10T00:44:57+09:00
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enclosure: Exclusive: US Probe Finds 101 More Staffers for UNRWA ‘Gaza Relief Organization’ Are Hamas Soldiers From October 7: Schoolteachers, Principals Exposed as Terrorists
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simsa03: New blog post : "The Omertà That Is Family" https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2026/06/09/the-omerta-that-is-family/
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The Omertà That Is Family
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simsa03: ♪ Elai Botner and the Children of Abroad, "נעים עכשיו" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB88Y_A9ns Very much like the upbeat tempo. !listening
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description: simsa03's status on Tuesday, 09-Jun-2026 08:51:49 JST
encoded: ♪ Elai Botner and the Children of Abroad, "נעים עכשיו" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaB88Y_A9ns Very much like the upbeat tempo. !listening
date: 2026-06-09T08:51:49+09:00
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enclosure: עילי בוטנר וילדי החוץ - נעים עכשיו
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עילי בוטנר וילדי החוץ - נעים עכשיו
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title: gnu2: RT @thomasfuchs RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116700754648719001I got a lot of “but it’s business people making programmers do this”, implying that software engineers want to be ethical but can’t.That’s the software engineers who just stole the term “engineer” from another profession that has very strict certification requirements including mandatory ethics classes.
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encoded: RT @thomasfuchs RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116700754648719001I got a lot of “but it’s business people making programmers do this”, implying that software engineers want to be ethical but can’t.That’s the software engineers who just stole the term “engineer” from another profession that has very strict certification requirements including mandatory ethics classes.
date: 2026-06-08T11:39:16+09:00
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gnu2: @penguin@eveningzoo.club don't do that it's ridiculously expensive
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encoded: @penguin don't do that it's ridiculously expensive
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rrraksamam: Hello
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gnu2: We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us #Trump is a #Maoist | The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20687
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enclosure: We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us Donald is a Red
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title: gnu2: https://archive.ph/Fu6dH "Fox News legally argued in court that their programming is not news, but rather entertainment and opinion. In a 2020 defamation case, their own lawyers claimed that no reasonable viewer would take Fox commentator Tucker Carlson’s statement as facts."
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gnu2: We Don’t Need AI to Tell Us #Trump is a #Maoist | The William Lloyd Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy Journalism https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20687
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gnu2: @fesshole@mastodon.social what is the birdie song?
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title: simsa03: "Totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible in the West. They think they can negotiate with a psychopath like Putin, like Hitler." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbUFEGX03Q A conversation between Andrea Chalupa and Jonathan Fink.
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encoded: "Totalitarianism is completely incomprehensible in the West. They think they can negotiate with a psychopath like Putin, like Hitler." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqbUFEGX03Q A conversation between Andrea Chalupa and Jonathan Fink.
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enclosure: Western Populations Lack the 'Dark Empathy' to Understand and Counter Russian Aggression!
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Western Populations Lack the 'Dark Empathy' to Understand and Counter Russian Aggression!
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simsa03: "I don’t really believe in truth—not even in the truth of the imagination—just in the sound of a voice.” — Harold Bloom
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title: simsa03: George Scialabba has a new book out : "The Sealed Envelope: Toward an Intelligent Utopia" (2026) A new collection of his essays (although some were already published in other collections of his). Still, it's great to see such an eminent voice talk about utopia. #sources
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simsa03: Drones have targets. I wish "online selfs" with all their muttering and screeching and tik-toking had some such.
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encoded: Drones have targets. I wish "online selfs" with all their muttering and screeching and tik-toking had some such.
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title: simsa03: German media freak out over Germany not getting a seat on the UN Secuity Council. Gee! Germany already got the presidency of the UN General Assembly. Why should anybody offer Germany *another* high profile position at the UN? Stop being greedy and lachrymose at the same time. It is just embarrassing to hold the membership card to German citizenship in these times.
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simsa03: Congratulations! May your business live long and prosper... :-)
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title: simsa03: As we have way too many texts by way too many writers and way too few receptive readers, the rise of #AI as automated reading utility may only on the surface sound alarming or ridiculous. Given an oeuvre that AI may parse according to specific prompts ("questions"), the public character of text may change or disappear, but not its intellectual value. We may continue to write, publish, engage, but no longer with the aim of reaching out, getting involved, or prosper economically. Rather, #AI may decisevly change our attitudes towards writing (and with that: to reading). AI can parse and make explicit tendencies and traits in our personal intellectual lifes we hitherto didn't sensed. That is: What once was "conversation" (cf. hermeneutics) and its community creating role (cf. Martin Buber) may now radically change its character. Talking to ourselves may lead us astray and to hallucinations, but also to a more concentrated way of individual worldmaking. Imagine a painter like Picasso. Could we really fathom him as creating his art "on feedback"? At most we can see him create his art depending on the atmospheres arising by the successions of solitude, conversations with muses and intellectuals. But the art itself? That happened in reclusion. Apply that to writing. Even the most public of public intellectuals and writers worked in solitude, relying only from time to time on a change in settings via change in atmospheres and conversational exchanges. The writing appeared in solitude. So how awful can it then be when all of us can now write and try out thoughts, ideas, edifices of words in our solitude, only to open up at times to the conversations we may have with #AI? No worry, you may still talk to your human friends. That's not the point. The point is that AI can give us a glimpse on our work, and thus a perspective on not yet seen options and possible developments, that we hitherto used to have only with our immediate and intimate friends. This linkage may dis…
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encoded: As we have way too many texts by way too many writers and way too few receptive readers, the rise of #AI as automated reading utility may only on the surface sound alarming or ridiculous. Given an oeuvre that AI may parse according to specific prompts ("questions"), the public character of text may change or disappear, but not its intellectual value. We may continue to write, publish, engage, but no longer with the aim of reaching out, getting involved, or prosper economically. Rather, #AI may decisevly change our attitudes towards writing (and with that: to reading). AI can parse and make explicit tendencies and traits in our personal intellectual lifes we hitherto didn't sensed. That is: What once was "conversation" (cf. hermeneutics) and its community creating role (cf. Martin Buber) may now radically change its character. Talking to ourselves may lead us astray and to hallucinations, but also to a more concentrated way of individual worldmaking. Imagine a painter like Picasso. Could we really fathom him as creating his art "on feedback"? At most we can see him create his art depending on the atmospheres arising by the successions of solitude, conversations with muses and intellectuals. But the art itself? That happened in reclusion. Apply that to writing. Even the most public of public intellectuals and writers worked in solitude, relying only from time to time on a change in settings via change in atmospheres and conversational exchanges. The writing appeared in solitude. So how awful can it then be when all of us can now write and try out thoughts, ideas, edifices of words in our solitude, only to open up at times to the conversations we may have with #AI? No worry, you may still talk to your human friends. That's not the point. The point is that AI can give us a glimpse on our work, and thus a perspective on not yet seen options and possible developments, that we hitherto used to have only with our immediate and intimate friends. This linkage may dissolve. We…
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title: simsa03: When times lose their ambiguities, their multiple layers of meaning and possibility, when they become literal, then these are times that not only invite but bring about war. What also happens in literal times is that when options fade, the sense of history, the memory of the long coming-to-be and passing-away — and the knowledge of how much this memory sits on top of mountains of not-knowing, not-remembering — fades as well. This seems to be a major function of this literalism. Not just the dissappearance of options, of possibilities, of the floating openness of a world (and worlds inside worlds) in favour of a war-like situation created by ubiquitous disambiguation. But that memory, remembrance, and with that the openness and ambiguity that is the past, disappears as well. The power of practical constraints not only impacts the present and the future but in a debilitating sense the past as well. And then, afterwards, everybody is astounded how it was even possible that we could have become what we are now, how we could act so terrifyingly, how we become the monsters we fearded all the time were lurking under our beds. How we could become that way. Amnesia. The first victory of a relentless literalism. Brought about by the horrors we faced and our emotional compulsion to act, somehow, anyhow, just to make it stop and to maintain our conscience, leading to a broad call to action throughout our collective spheres. Not knowing is one thing, being deceived another, not being capable of bearing emotional and cognitive distress even a third. But happily giving up remembrance for the ability to act, to happily give away memory in order to become monsters which we only later, if at all, flabbergastedly consider, that is an aspect that usually evades our awareness and our conscience. Although it lies plain in the open. And is something on which authoritarian rule (inside and outside) rests. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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encoded: When times lose their ambiguities, their multiple layers of meaning and possibility, when they become literal, then these are times that not only invite but bring about war. What also happens in literal times is that when options fade, the sense of history, the memory of the long coming-to-be and passing-away — and the knowledge of how much this memory sits on top of mountains of not-knowing, not-remembering — fades as well. This seems to be a major function of this literalism. Not just the dissappearance of options, of possibilities, of the floating openness of a world (and worlds inside worlds) in favour of a war-like situation created by ubiquitous disambiguation. But that memory, remembrance, and with that the openness and ambiguity that is the past, disappears as well. The power of practical constraints not only impacts the present and the future but in a debilitating sense the past as well. And then, afterwards, everybody is astounded how it was even possible that we could have become what we are now, how we could act so terrifyingly, how we become the monsters we fearded all the time were lurking under our beds. How we could become that way. Amnesia. The first victory of a relentless literalism. Brought about by the horrors we faced and our emotional compulsion to act, somehow, anyhow, just to make it stop and to maintain our conscience, leading to a broad call to action throughout our collective spheres. Not knowing is one thing, being deceived another, not being capable of bearing emotional and cognitive distress even a third. But happily giving up remembrance for the ability to act, to happily give away memory in order to become monsters which we only later, if at all, flabbergastedly consider, that is an aspect that usually evades our awareness and our conscience. Although it lies plain in the open. And is something on which authoritarian rule (inside and outside) rests. talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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title: simsa03: ♪ Rembetiko (1983, Greek, with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXSjtZ0P1I When I first saw the nmovie in 1984 or 1985, it hit me. I drowned in these songs. Rarely has pain been made so relatable, it seems. (The film is said to be loosely based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou.) !listening
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encoded: ♪ Rembetiko (1983, Greek, with English subtitles) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZXSjtZ0P1I When I first saw the nmovie in 1984 or 1985, it hit me. I drowned in these songs. Rarely has pain been made so relatable, it seems. (The film is said to be loosely based on the life of rebetiko singer Marika Ninou.) !listening
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enclosure: Rembetiko, 1983 film, english subtitles
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Rembetiko, 1983 film, english subtitles
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title: simsa03: Watching the sci-fi anime "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" (1987). It's not the story that impresses me but the detailedness of the alternate world depicted. Only "Le Garage hermétique" (1976-1979) by Moebius comes to mind as on a par in visual playfulness and richness.
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encoded: Watching the sci-fi anime "Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise" (1987). It's not the story that impresses me but the detailedness of the alternate world depicted. Only "Le Garage hermétique" (1976-1979) by Moebius comes to mind as on a par in visual playfulness and richness.
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simsa03: Being hawkish doesn't mean being conservative or on the right. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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encoded: Being hawkish doesn't mean being conservative or on the right. forgottendistinctions talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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simsa03: Evil is not insanity. #forgottendistinctions #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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encoded: Evil is not insanity. forgottendistinctions talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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simsa03: Of course not :-)
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encoded: Of course not :-)
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simsa03: "As unpredictable as ever."
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encoded: "As unpredictable as ever."
date: 2026-05-26T02:19:23+09:00
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simsa03: ♪ Ehud Banai, סרט רץ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N9DGJh8JE Lovely echo of Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams". !listening
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encoded: ♪ Ehud Banai, סרט רץ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7N9DGJh8JE Lovely echo of Bob Dylan's "Series of Dreams". !listening
date: 2026-05-25T07:26:46+09:00
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enclosure: אהוד בנאי - סרט רץ
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אהוד בנאי - סרט רץ
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title: simsa03: https://omny.fm/shows/kan-english-podcast/the-trump-netanyahu-tightrope This is a stellar interview with former Israel ambassador to the US, MichaelOren, and Israel public broadcaster Kan's host David Ze'ev. Insightful, to the point of the various complications that tie but also set apart the U.S. and Israel in the current war with Iran. Recommended. #sources
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enclosure: The Trump-Netanyahu tightrope
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The Trump-Netanyahu tightrope
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simsa03: "I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards." — Fran Lebowitz
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encoded: "I think that holding grudges is the kind of contemporary version of having standards." — Fran Lebowitz
date: 2026-05-23T05:06:05+09:00
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simsa03: "A book is the closed thing there is to a human being." — Fran Lebowitz
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encoded: "A book is the closed thing there is to a human being." — Fran Lebowitz
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gnu2: @Nonilex Tartifs are antithetical to libertarianism. Nothing good had ever come from them
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encoded: @Nonilex Tartifs are antithetical to libertarianism. Nothing good had ever come from them
date: 2026-05-22T14:28:47+09:00
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gnu2: @AnungIkwe amen
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encoded: @AnungIkwe amen
date: 2026-05-22T14:27:55+09:00
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title: simsa03: Sue Surkes, "New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces" https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-ptsd-friendly-scheme-aims-to-adapt-israels-public-spaces/ A great idea. With links to the initative's website (in Hebrew, most which can easily be translated). How to accommodate restaurants to the needs of trauma and PTSD sufferers.
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encoded: Sue Surkes, "New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces" https://www.timesofisrael.com/new-ptsd-friendly-scheme-aims-to-adapt-israels-public-spaces/ A great idea. With links to the initative's website (in Hebrew, most which can easily be translated). How to accommodate restaurants to the needs of trauma and PTSD sufferers.
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New ‘PTSD-friendly’ scheme aims to adapt Israel’s public spaces
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title: simsa03: Nan Ransohoff, "The third wave of American philanthropy" https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/b59ef871cd97531cce98d7ece67ff501d984004134832fe7ba36167a4ae49e8c/view
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encoded: Nan Ransohoff, "The third wave of American philanthropy" https://nanransohoff.substack.com/p/the-third-wave-of-american-philanthropy https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/b59ef871cd97531cce98d7ece67ff501d984004134832fe7ba36167a4ae49e8c/view
date: 2026-05-22T00:31:10+09:00
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title: simsa03: fitting: Sarah Perez, "Google Search as you know it is over" https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ "AI Overviews are now used by more than 2.5 billion monthly users; meanwhile, its conversational #search mode, launched last year, now tops 1 billion monthly users." Astounding numbers. "Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews. This has put some ad-dependent media operations out of business, and now things will likely get worse." #search
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encoded: fitting: Sarah Perez, "Google Search as you know it is over" https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/ "AI Overviews are now used by more than 2.5 billion monthly users; meanwhile, its conversational #search mode, launched last year, now tops 1 billion monthly users." Astounding numbers. "Combined, these changes will likely further decimate Google referrals to publishers, which have already been suffering from declining referrals due to AI Overviews. This has put some ad-dependent media operations out of business, and now things will likely get worse." search
date: 2026-05-21T14:41:03+09:00
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enclosure: Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
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Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch
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title: simsa03: Next in #search: • Wikipedia still organises information like a printed (!) tome, w/ lemma, article text, sources. • #AI provides texts according to prompts, sources become irrelevant to display but are still available. • AI search results demand cash to display sources and their URLs. This seems probable because its people who need URLs and hyperlinks in their browsers, not machines that can locate and combine their assets in databases by other means (ISBN, UUIDs, DOIs, magnet links). That is: Why still maintain an overhead for the purpose of convenient browser display when the search engines can directly access sources and only need to dsplay an individually created text to its individual prompt? And that means: • The next step in web based display of information is the complete disappearance of URL and hyperlink. Let me elaborate: In their overall form (and quality), information and text will become indistinguishable from audio and video streams, fluid instead of persistent, with features like "sourcing", momentary capture, and storage the next commodity ("product") for search engine companies to sell. This all the more as ads will no longer be a viable business model for the internet industries. Like health data that are among the most precious data because of their long-lasting and immutable quality, so are the hard (meta-) data of sources which make them assets most valuable to monetize. In short: In order for tech companies to monetize on the format data of sources, the URLs and hyperlinks of their corresponding webpages will vanish. For individual users to verify the credibility of information they receive, they will have to pay a fee. Or put differently: Not access but accuracy and verifiablity will be the next walled garden. Period of time until full implemenation: Only five years, as every new search query will prompt AI to access sources whose addresses it then can hide from the browser display. That can be at least a linear dynamic. #talkingtom…
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encoded: Next in #search: • Wikipedia still organises information like a printed (!) tome, w/ lemma, article text, sources. • #AI provides texts according to prompts, sources become irrelevant to display but are still available. • AI search results demand cash to display sources and their URLs. This seems probable because its people who need URLs and hyperlinks in their browsers, not machines that can locate and combine their assets in databases by other means (ISBN, UUIDs, DOIs, magnet links). That is: Why still maintain an overhead for the purpose of convenient browser display when the search engines can directly access sources and only need to dsplay an individually created text to its individual prompt? And that means: • The next step in web based display of information is the complete disappearance of URL and hyperlink. Let me elaborate: In their overall form (and quality), information and text will become indistinguishable from audio and video streams, fluid instead of persistent, with features like "sourcing", momentary capture, and storage the next commodity ("product") for search engine companies to sell. This all the more as ads will no longer be a viable business model for the internet industries. Like health data that are among the most precious data because of their long-lasting and immutable quality, so are the hard (meta-) data of sources which make them assets most valuable to monetize. In short: In order for tech companies to monetize on the format data of sources, the URLs and hyperlinks of their corresponding webpages will vanish. For individual users to verify the credibility of information they receive, they will have to pay a fee. Or put differently: Not access but accuracy and verifiablity will be the next walled garden. Period of time until full implemenation: Only five years, as every new search query will prompt AI to access sources whose addresses it then can hide from the browser display. That can be at least a linear dynamic. talkingtomyselfletti…
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simsa03: Barney Frank has passed away! R.I.P. https://www.axios.com/2026/05/20/barney-frank-dies-lgbtq-wall-street-regulation .
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simsa03: ♪ Otis Gibbs, "It Was A Train" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sghcb7YfJGQ With obvious reminiscence to Townes Van Zandt. But his singing floats more freely. !listening
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encoded: ♪ Otis Gibbs, "It Was A Train" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sghcb7YfJGQ With obvious reminiscence to Townes Van Zandt. But his singing floats more freely. !listening
date: 2026-05-21T08:06:23+09:00
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enclosure: Otis Gibbs "It Was A Train" Live at KDHX 8/20/14
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Otis Gibbs "It Was A Train" Live at KDHX 8/20/14
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title: simsa03: Thirteen years ago I wrote a piece on the impact of unemployment and the place of labour in our sense of personal identity and self-esteem: Who are we when we no longer define ourselves in terms of our work, our goals, even our call? https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/a-beginners-guide-to-happy-unemployment/ These questions prove more urgent today with the advent of #AI. Not in the banal sense that AI takes away "our" jobs and with that our prospects of earning a decent living. Far more, in the sense that AI systems will make the last resorts where humans are still deemed necessary, even essential – and that lie at the core of our self-image, e.g., artistry, research, innovation, creativity – irrelevant of human participation. If even in these areas humans are no longer necessary, then what's the point of being human? We may indulge in disciplines and topics all we want, may still learn crafts, still innovate, but why should that count as valuable? (And specifically not just in the sense of being marketable.) If (and when) it becomes pointless whether human beings do research, innovate, "create", what are we supposed to do then? With our time, with our lifes? What does it mean to be a human being when it's simply irrelevant whether we are rational or not, creative or not, curious or not? The advent of AI is not a profound technological change, it is the coming to an end of a civilisation and the beginning of something completely different. And no, I don't ring alarm bells because of some alleged reign of the machines. That reign may happen or not, to that degree or that. The advent of AI is not on a par with the invention of tools like tanks first introduced in the battlefields of Verdun, or ship containers first standardized by the U.S. Army for their needs to transport material to the theatres of Vietnam, or the nuclear bomb, or the PC, or the internet... This is a civilisational change as profound as St. Augustine's invention of the inner self in t…
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encoded: Thirteen years ago I wrote a piece on the impact of unemployment and the place of labour in our sense of personal identity and self-esteem: Who are we when we no longer define ourselves in terms of our work, our goals, even our call? https://simsa01.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/a-beginners-guide-to-happy-unemployment/ These questions prove more urgent today with the advent of #AI. Not in the banal sense that AI takes away "our" jobs and with that our prospects of earning a decent living. Far more, in the sense that AI systems will make the last resorts where humans are still deemed necessary, even essential – and that lie at the core of our self-image, e.g., artistry, research, innovation, creativity – irrelevant of human participation. If even in these areas humans are no longer necessary, then what's the point of being human? We may indulge in disciplines and topics all we want, may still learn crafts, still innovate, but why should that count as valuable? (And specifically not just in the sense of being marketable.) If (and when) it becomes pointless whether human beings do research, innovate, "create", what are we supposed to do then? With our time, with our lifes? What does it mean to be a human being when it's simply irrelevant whether we are rational or not, creative or not, curious or not? The advent of AI is not a profound technological change, it is the coming to an end of a civilisation and the beginning of something completely different. And no, I don't ring alarm bells because of some alleged reign of the machines. That reign may happen or not, to that degree or that. The advent of AI is not on a par with the invention of tools like tanks first introduced in the battlefields of Verdun, or ship containers first standardized by the U.S. Army for their needs to transport material to the theatres of Vietnam, or the nuclear bomb, or the PC, or the internet... This is a civilisational change as profound as St. Augustine's invention of the inner self in the 4th ce…
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enclosure: A Beginner’s Guide to Happy Unemployment
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A Beginner’s Guide to Happy Unemployment
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title: simsa03: The U.S. Department of Justice bars the IRS from conducting any investigation or probes into any past tax declaration of Trump, his family, or any of his companies, *for ever*. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl THAT'S how you run a country! https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/726ea1b382aefbd0121f0bd3f57eb014f6d4e120e30b1cb8ea4a6f5ce3d23cc1/view
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encoded: The U.S. Department of Justice bars the IRS from conducting any investigation or probes into any past tax declaration of Trump, his family, or any of his companies, for ever. https://www.justice.gov/opa/media/1441216/dl THAT'S how you run a country! https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/726ea1b382aefbd0121f0bd3f57eb014f6d4e120e30b1cb8ea4a6f5ce3d23cc1/view
date: 2026-05-20T09:42:09+09:00
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simsa03: ♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjInbqxqrbQ Lovely. !listening
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encoded: ♪ Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara, "Fool on the Hill" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjInbqxqrbQ Lovely. !listening
date: 2026-05-20T03:23:21+09:00
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enclosure: Fool on the Hill / Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara
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Fool on the Hill / Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara
date: 2026-05-20T03:23:24+09:00
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simsa03: simsa03 (https://gnusocial.jp/simsa03) started following ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人) (https://gnusocial.jp/gnusocialjp).
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description: simsa03's status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 10:49:11 JST
encoded: simsa03 started following ぐぬ管 (GNU social JP管理人).
date: 2026-05-19T10:49:11+09:00
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title: simsa03: i24news https://i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan https://kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10861/ are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.) #sources
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encoded: i24news https://i24news.tv/en and #Israel public broadcaster Kan https://kan.org.il/content/kan/kan-reka/p-10861/ are good English language sources on politics, security, military, culture in Israel. (i24news seems more hawkish to me than Kan.) sources
date: 2026-05-19T03:23:14+09:00
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enclosure: i24NEWS - Breaking news from the Middle East, Israel and around the world
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i24NEWS - Breaking news from the Middle East, Israel and around the world
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title: simsa03: Finally falling into CAN... How could I've overlooked them for so long? I mean, I knew their name, their fame in what so awfully has been called "Krautrock", their influence on Anglo-Saxon musicians and bands like David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees... And it is not that the avantgarde and progressive music scene in Germany between the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s eluded me, starting with Stockhausen and his pupils (Stockhausen, in a sense, being the godfather of Kraftwerk and Can). But I never really listened to the music of CAN. What strikes me with CAN is in part their technical abilities and prowess, notably Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards). These were/are sophisticated musisicans, and it shows (or rather: sounds). Listening to only a few records on YT, without having dived into their catalogue of records yet, I'm struck by the immediacy of their play. There is no distance between me as listener and them as musicians on the records. Liebezit's drum is on point, every beat direct, and directly into the ear. Listening to younger, more recent productions, with all the emphasis on soundscape, rhythm, basslines, the immediacy of CAN's music is still unreached. CAN's productions are so sophisticated that one can easily forget that their main records are 50 to 60 years old. Timeless. Have a listen.
link: https://gnusocial.jp/notice/12596117
description: simsa03's status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 08:29:59 JST
encoded: Finally falling into CAN... How could I've overlooked them for so long? I mean, I knew their name, their fame in what so awfully has been called "Krautrock", their influence on Anglo-Saxon musicians and bands like David Bowie, Brian Eno, Talking Heads, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees... And it is not that the avantgarde and progressive music scene in Germany between the mid 1960s to the mid 1970s eluded me, starting with Stockhausen and his pupils (Stockhausen, in a sense, being the godfather of Kraftwerk and Can). But I never really listened to the music of CAN. What strikes me with CAN is in part their technical abilities and prowess, notably Jaki Liebezeit (drums), Holger Czukay (bass), Irmin Schmidt (keyboards). These were/are sophisticated musisicans, and it shows (or rather: sounds). Listening to only a few records on YT, without having dived into their catalogue of records yet, I'm struck by the immediacy of their play. There is no distance between me as listener and them as musicians on the records. Liebezit's drum is on point, every beat direct, and directly into the ear. Listening to younger, more recent productions, with all the emphasis on soundscape, rhythm, basslines, the immediacy of CAN's music is still unreached. CAN's productions are so sophisticated that one can easily forget that their main records are 50 to 60 years old. Timeless. Have a listen.
date: 2026-05-14T08:29:59+09:00
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simsa03: ♪ Can, "Vitamin C" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrkUiCugQDE !listening
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date: 2026-05-13T08:30:00+09:00
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enclosure: Can - Vitamin C (Official Audio)
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Can - Vitamin C (Official Audio)
date: 2026-05-13T08:30:04+09:00
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simsa03: ♪ Can, "Moonshake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4B69x8X7s !listening
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description: simsa03's status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 08:26:22 JST
encoded: ♪ Can, "Moonshake" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL4B69x8X7s !listening
date: 2026-05-13T08:26:22+09:00
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enclosure: Can - Moonshake (Official Audio)
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Can - Moonshake (Official Audio)
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title: simsa03: Jeremy Sharon, "Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds" https://www.timesofisrael.com/sexual-violence-was-systematic-integral-to-october-7-terror-assault-study-finds/ The full 300 pages report: The Civil Commission on Oct 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, "SILENCED NO MORE: Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity" https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more . Related: Ariela Karmel & Jessica Steinberg, "Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators" https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-passes-law-establishing-military-tribunal-to-try-october-7-perpetrators/ After the bestiality of Hamas, after crossing that threshold, no Pali should be surprised that they will never have their own state.
link: https://gnusocial.jp/notice/12588359
description: simsa03's status on Wednesday, 13-May-2026 00:59:36 JST
encoded: Jeremy Sharon, "Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds" https://www.timesofisrael.com/sexual-violence-was-systematic-integral-to-october-7-terror-assault-study-finds/ The full 300 pages report: The Civil Commission on Oct 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, "SILENCED NO MORE: Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity" https://www.civilc.org/silenced-no-more . Related: Ariela Karmel & Jessica Steinberg, "Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators" https://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-passes-law-establishing-military-tribunal-to-try-october-7-perpetrators/ After the bestiality of Hamas, after crossing that threshold, no Pali should be surprised that they will never have their own state.
date: 2026-05-13T00:59:36+09:00
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maker: simsa03
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enclosure: Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds
links to: Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds
enclosure: The Civil Commission’s Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence - Silenced NO More
links to: The Civil Commission’s Report on Oct 7th Sexual Violence - Silenced NO More
enclosure: Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators
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Knesset passes law establishing military tribunal to try October 7 perpetrators
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