Notices by simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp), page 2
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 26-Jul-2026 01:52:30 JST 
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Why is that so true? https://youtube.com/shorts/ODEEsEK5QOU?si=aBQBcDrSgrvCyG1q -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2026 03:54:27 JST
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The most awful neologism I encountered in the past years is "moral clarity".
(In morality, nothing is "clear" and everythig is complicated and messed up. To make things "clear" is to rabidly reduce complexity until all that is left is cheap sloganeering and aggressive othering.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jul-2026 11:16:22 JST
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In one's life there are only very few occasions (or moments) that provide sufficient reason (or opportunity) to live this life for. Missing them, or failing to recognize and pick them, leads to a life without purpose, one of dullness and pointlessness.
talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 20:34:23 JST
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Dekl Moskva https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/d8fa30324a1ea71ced90d1f90fdcd80c8d29d65259bdc9fd3fe03bc7cde59d88/view -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 12:10:29 JST
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I wish your wife a speedy recovery and your whole family a less anxious time. May this be more than a brief respite. -
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In conversation from activity permalinksimsa03 started following Marina Weisband.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 08:03:39 JST
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The Posen Library of Jewish Culture & Civilisation https://www.posenlibrary.com/
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 10:49:34 JST
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Had to order a new cpu which is annoying as the money was reserved for other things. When the new cpu is fitted, I'll be back. Until then, I won't write much on my spare laptop. See you. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 10:47:09 JST
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Tried to lift the cooling fan off the cpu to replace the old thermal paste. As the cpu was too strongly glued to the fan bottom and the old thermal paste more or less had baked both to each other, I accidentially ripped the cpu off the mainboard socket and damaged a few of its tiny pins. I managed to straighten them again but they seem to have lost functionality nonetheless. So the machine doesn't start and gives out a cpu error in the debugging lights. Had to order a new cpu which is really annoying as the money was reserved for other things. Now I write on my spare laptop and that is no fun, so it may take a few days until I'm back blaring full volume about politics again. Enjoy the quietitude. :-) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 08:19:25 JST
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Should people be mentally so unstable that they cannot take political posts without CWs, they perhaps should take a time-out from social media instead of asking everbody else to act as their nurse. And yes, cat pics get me to the point that I block their senders. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 08:14:22 JST
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Killed my CPU and will be online only sporadically. Enjoy. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Sunday, 19-Jul-2026 00:24:01 JST
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A brief reminder:
People are not the victims of their social media experience but their creators.
(CWs exist to enshrine the passivity, the consumer attitude, and the feeling of abuse of the users.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 23:51:02 JST
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What people seem to get wrong about the dismissal of defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov: They seem to capture the conflict as one between two concepts of leadership, represented by Fedorov and "the old Soviet" military, represented by General Oleksandr Syrskyi.
Leaving possible factors like corruption aside, the point is not about how to maintain hierarchy or that Fedorov's approach purportedly endangered that. It rather is about top-down- vs network-style leadership, which, in turn, is about procedure, not responsibility.
Even in a network-style decision-making and decision-transmission one can have hierarchy, that is: accountability and chain of command. It seems more "natural" when it comes paired with a top-down decision-making and decision-transmitting process. But one can have that in networks as well. And so I don't think the real dispute is about "hierarchy" but about top-down vs network procedures. For the latter, General Syrskyi may indeed be "too old" (or rather: too exhausted) to adapt to. As in times of AI-supported swarm attacks and gamified combat, a new generation, trained in online games, may find the network style easier to integrate in. But these are questions of procedure, not of hierarchy and accountability. (Although personal feelings may play into all.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Saturday, 18-Jul-2026 23:22:29 JST
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And I get "bombarded" with cat videos. Shall we have a CW for that too?
You don't argue in favor of CWs but in favor of people being entitled to be cuddled, and having that entitlement naturally without asking or overtly claiming. That is: You reframe in terms and as a problem of mental health something that is a topic of personal responsibility of what everyone on his own is willing to tolerate in one's own timeline.
As the standard user, foolish as he is, doesn't give shit about how his cat posts annoy me, I surely will not give shit about the annoyance he experiences when stumbling across my posts on politics. If people don't like them: block me, mute me, block keywords, etc. It's their choice. Don't make that responsibility for a healthy use of one's social feeds an issue of mine. Fricking kindergarten. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 07:15:36 JST
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♪ Richard Thompson, "Galway to Graceland" (Jazzchor der Uni Bonn) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lzfY1zqV4
What a tender version of this magnificent song. TY.
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Friday, 17-Jul-2026 00:40:38 JST
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German publishing house Steidl is said to be on the brink of insolvency. That's awful.
(Although Steidl is most famous for the publication of the works of Günter Grass, it's the German translation of the collected works of Halldór Laxness that endears that publisher to me.) -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 21:44:49 JST
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"UN finally forced to ‘admit reality’: Hamas called out for denying aid to Palestinians" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HySB9-KSx28
With U.N. spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric explicitly stating that "obstruction of humanitarian operations in Gaza by the de facto authorities" refers to Hamas, NOT Israel. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 21:16:23 JST
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The crime syndicate becomes the nation state, and vice versa. This development is more important than old-fashioned categories along the lines of (venerable) Hannah Arendt. "Authoritarianism" has moved on, became more sophisticated. Don't become a Bernie Sanders with a head stuck in the late 1950s. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 21:04:02 JST
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We are not witnessing the spread of "fascism" or authoritarianism, but the spread of the mafia state. Not in the old-fashioned sense that some mafia cartels encroach into state structures and the state fights back.
But in the sense that mafia organizations begin to pose as nation states, acquire their rights and means, for their own criminal ends. This amounts to nothing less than new forms of mafia organization as of national statehood.
Russia was only the first and most prominent example. Other states, other state actors, follow suit. But the important thing remains: Mafia organizations replace the nation state, become indistinguishable from them, assume their rights and means for their private gain. -
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simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Jul-2026 20:47:11 JST
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Forget the conspiracy theories of the right (Pizza Gate, Hunter Biden's laptop, the Great Replacement...) and in particular of the left (U.S. fascism, the Tech Bros...) It's not about that. All the dissolution of the state, of oversight, of regulations, is not about establishing authoritarianism but about to facilitate self-enrichment, about creating not that much a system but a style of corruption in which the difference between "public policy" and "private venality" becomes impossible to be made.
Recommended read: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/06/david-sacks-crypto-ai-venture-capital/686941/
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