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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 03:00:48 JST 
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You may stop viewing "the" "world" as a "systemic 'thing'" but thereby not cease to view it as a drama of antagonistic beings, on a stage, interacting, persuing archetypical themes and stories, involving beings seen and unseen... It is perhaps the desire to view "the" "world" as one systemic thing that is the more unhealthy view, esp. when it comes as materialistic holism à la Wiener, Weaver, Mead, Bateson, Prigogine, Lovelock, Meadows, Luhmann, and their followers. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Jul-2025 02:48:04 JST
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Mikhail Zygar, "The Next Generation: Russia’s future rulers" (July 2025) https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Russia-Tomorrow-The-next-generation.pdf
Overview of names to come and names to go—possibly, given Putin's suspiciousness of powerful rivals, his desire to balance people and influences, and the need to bring in a younger generation into office.
«It is hardly surprising that a significant portion of this new generation coming to power consists of the children of current top officials and Putin’s closest friends—or even his own relatives. In this sense, Russia increasingly resembles a feudal state, in which power is inherited at all levels. The children of the bureaucratic aristocracy are all, in one way or another, striving for government careers and positions of influence.
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The ongoing generational shift will, of course, change the face of Russia. The new officials, who were very young when the Soviet Union collapsed, differ from the previous generation in that they lack Soviet psychology and a Soviet background.
On one hand, many members of this next generation of Russian leaders tend to idealize the Soviet Union and dream of restoring imperial power. On the other hand, they are full-fledged capitalists, and most of them clearly do not want another Cold War or international isolation for Russia.
They are the children of a cynical generation, convinced that business can—and should—be done with everyone: China, Iran, Europe, the United States, and even Ukraine.
In many ways, Putin’s personnel policy resembles the dynamics in the final years of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro’s rule. Castro also tried to cultivate a new generation of Komsomol-style loyalists—and, in some ways, succeeded. The politicians he nurtured, young enough to be his grandchildren, turned out to be even more orthodox and staunchly conservative than the generation of officials who were old enough to be his sons.
But when the decisive moment came, Castro still chose to hand power to his own brother, Raúl.
Putin has no brother, and he trusts no one. That’s why he is focused on grooming a new, younger, and thoroughly indoctrinated generation—one that he is confident will carry on his legacy.»
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 11:31:27 JST
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♪ Dobet Gnahoré, "Palea" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCQDP2CGd3w
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 11-Jul-2025 09:34:50 JST
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♪ Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes, "All I Want Is Everything" (Live 1980) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVbgSLYh_ts
Incredible musicians, esp. in the horns section and on drums. Simply fun.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 09:07:32 JST
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Managed to save all my posts tagged # talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten so that in case GS.jp perishes, at least these are archived. -
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 01-Jan-2024 07:55:13 JST 
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Old and busted: The Attention Economy. The new hotness: The Anxiety Economy. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 03:59:21 JST
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The problem is not to be alone. The problem is to be alone with the wrong people. -
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 12:39:20 JST
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I kiss an angel with each breath I exhale,
a different angel
for each expelled breath.
I don't believe in angels,
but still
we kiss.Some of their number
I think long
to catch my last breaththe kiss of death
a precious sip
of Aqua Mortis,some content
to live out of time
in the eternal moment.But the queue stretches
from aleph to omega--
So many angels, an infinitudemore than all the breath
I have left.
All that air kissedand only one angel
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 07-Jul-2025 00:47:47 JST
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Yes, the database errors are annoying, thumbnails not loading, etc. Normal conversations with replies to and fro are pretty impossible right now. Admin said the server company had issues and he wanted to look into it. But yes, "teetering to collapse" sounds like the right description. Please keep me posted should you find another GS instance. -
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 09:05:06 JST
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We kiss an angel with each breath we exhale. It doesn't matter if you "believe" in angels (I don't).
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tinydoctor (tinydoctor@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 08:57:42 JST
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A friend: "Neither of us wanted to stand beyond good and evil, but we do."
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 10:18:09 JST
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♪ Bruce Liles, "Little Bitty Men" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPocine9sI
A lone man sings a harsh song.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 05-Jul-2025 10:06:24 JST
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To this 4th of July, sweltering in the hot sun of the "Big Beautiful Bill":
♪ Bruce Liles, "Do You Know What You've Done?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5abzLSeJ3Q
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 04-Jul-2025 09:24:49 JST
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Sam Francis, "Zarah Sultana says she is quitting Labour to start party with Corbyn" https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyel9kgdvdo
That could be very beneficial to Labour. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Thursday, 03-Jul-2025 03:51:05 JST
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Helpful analysis of the Haaretz English report of IDF soldiers killing Gazans approaching the aid distribution centres. Separating Haaretz English *agenda* (of catering to international progressive sentiments) from events on the grounds that *indeed* involve IDF soldiers.
https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2025/07/the-strategic-challenge-of-feeding-gazans/ -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 06:46:09 JST
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When people tell me that one should not degrade and objectify people. True. But you cannot objectify and degrade people who haven't objectified and degraded themselves in the first place. By equating combatants and civilians, e.g., like the Russians do, like Hamas, like Iran does. They already degraded themselves and made themselves a tool of their perverted sense of metaphysical grandeur and spiritual meaning. I cannot objectify and degrade such people as much as they already did to themselves. In fact, they are proud of being capable of that. So, no. I cannot objectify or degrade someone who hasn't already objectified and degraded himself first. Still, and that is equally true, there is the duty of not objectifying others, of not degrading them. But this connection between both acts, that usually slips people's attention. From here stems all the pain: What the enemy succeeded in turning you into.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 05:12:58 JST
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That assholes like Bob Vylan and their sympathizers like Grandson even dare to say "Death to IDF". You are Hamas, you pricks.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-forced-hostages-to-choose-fellow-captives-to-be-killed-ohad-ben-ami-says/ -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jul-2025 00:55:39 JST
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 18:40:59 JST
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Already did. :-) The mini-job has been upgraded to part-time, starting July 1st. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2025 08:54:06 JST
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The employment office had declined support for May 2025. At the start of June I appealed and received a letter today that my appeal has been upheld and the money for May transferred to my bank account. Nice! All the more as due to the lack of money I had to ration my meals in June.
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