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Today.
I go downstairs
into the basement
to whisper to the weapons,
the sleeping weapons,
not today,
not today.

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It’s systemic, but not a system. Not a system, a syndrome. You are not deranged, it is.

#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

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@lnxw37j1 @simsa03 The surgeon I talked to was the head of the dept. (head mechanic) for belly surgery. I had surgery for the same kind of hernia 4 years ago, on the right side of my groin, the new one is on the left. The repair on the right hasn't failed. I will have the same surgeon doing the procedure as did the right side. That surgery went smoothly, and I had a quick recovery. The new hernia is the twin of the first. I like her, and the way she goes about her business.

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The full moon is for everybody.
The full moon is just for you.

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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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@clacke Most US-ians don't know that corporations have been "persons" since that court case in the 1800s. They think the more recent case (which was based on the earlier decision -- stare decisis) is when corps gained the rights of people.

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@agiletortoise The year 1880?

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Fellas will do this instead of going to """""therapy"""""

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RE: https://netzsphaere.xyz/objects/cfc75b25-0393-436a-907e-09ade404cf8d

Xi isn't the only one who doesn't know this. When Bitcoiners brag about planned deflation, I see a big "hasn't ever read about the Great Depression" banner over their heads.

(In the US, non-farm unemployment hit 24% and mostly stayed there for a decade. None of Hoover's or Roosevelt's make-work programs changed that. It was only World War II that ended it.)

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Also, this was at a time when most people had an uncle who had a farm. If the farm wasn't being repossessed by the banks, then they could go "work" for their uncle and at least be assured they'd have food and a roof over their heads. Today, we're generations away from that.

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Very hard to let all these uninformed speculations go past about what is happening in California and why it is happening.

No, I'm not there. It is no longer home (but it will always be "back home"). But is it really that hard to STFU about places and situations you don't understand?

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Subatomic particles are... nonbinary.

#nonbinary #physics #subatomicparticle

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicist-decoding-the-nonbinary-nature-of-the-subatomic-world-20250110/

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The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World

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#son1 has bought his first vinyl LP and #son2 is turning into a foodie, so maybe it's not all bad after all.

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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 My sincere thanks. May you and those close to you also get through this year with less stress & damage.

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What are you doing on New Year's Eve? We plan on sheltering in place. We don't have any fresh lamb's blood to smear on the door lintels, so we're using the syrup from a jar of Amarena cherries we put in our Manhattans. And if the Angel of Death comes for the firstborn, we'll offer him a stiff one. Louisville pour.

#NYE #NewYearsEve

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Patrianihilism. It’s a thing. #talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

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Everything AI touches dies.

https://johnhawks.net/weblog/a-sad-end-for-the-journal-of-human-evolution/?ref=john-hawks-newsletter

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A sad end for the Journal of Human Evolution

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@lain The guy that in front of me at the supermarket.

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@olmitch Ok chef

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Over on Bluesky...

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@benni Der CDU-Arbeitnehmerflügel hat Klaus Weselski hervorgebracht, ist glaube ich nicht der richtige Konter. Ich bleibe dabei, die BSW sind Teil der Linken, was keine Auszeichnung ist. Die sind genau der Teil der Linken, aus der sich die SED-PDS, die PDL, die DKP und andere Autoritäre Fraktionen jahrzehntelang speiste.
@andrej

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@benni Dann war also das ganze konservative Gewäsch Pro-Putin, Pro-Venezuela, und Akzeptanz von Autokraten, Anti-Amerikanismus und Ablehnung Liberaler Ordnung zwar Links, dann aber nicht mehr?

@andrej

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@andrej Die sind schon links. Aber eben links-autoritär jenseits des links-liberalen Spektrums. Und sehr konservativ in der Gesellschaftspolitik. Aber das überschneidet sich mit der DDR-Apologetik.

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My grandson and I at Churchill Downs on Thanksgiving Day. Photo taken by my daughter. Yes, the fam and I spent Thanksgiving at the racetrack. Whoopah is tired of doing all the holiday cooking.

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Reading Donne in bed. I’ve been reading one or two poems a day since I bought the two volume Oxford University edition of 1912 at my favorite bookstore in Denver last October.

#johndonne #poetry

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Here's something I found on my drive. Not sure when I wrote it, or whether or not I've posted any of it. Thread: Many of the things we usually consider and treat reflexively as real and concrete, are, in fact, abstract fictions. Things like god, corporations, money, nations, human rights, and justice have no existence outside of human imagination.

#talkingtomyselflettingyoulisten

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That we build institutions and infrastructure, churches and stadiums, roads and walls, weapons and armies to express collective fictions that exist by mutual agreement does not make our abstractions real. Micheangelo's Last Judgement in the Sistine Chapel does not make the abstraction of Catholic eschatology real, either.

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We tend to be unaware--blind--to our cognitive limits; human culture, though capable of rapid change not directly tied to biological limits and not behaving in accord with biological limits--in effect blind to those limits--is nevertheless bounded in form and action in the sorts of recurrent changes dictated by biological and physical limits. The arc of the amoral universe is long, but it bends toward entropy.

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When we become "masters of creation" we become the destroyers, not of creation, but of infrastructures of narrative in which we believe we thrive and count on to survive.

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Dense imagery, cascades of imagery, is a corrective, an antidote, to the dominance of narrative, the inherent flaws of narrative thinking. Perhaps this is what Werner Herzog is getting at when he bemoans the lack, and the danger of the lack, of "adequate imagery."

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Human fiction is vital to large scale externalizations of real costs in the biosphere (such as pumping wastes and poisons into the atmosphere and oceans).
Human reason is specialized form of story-telling, and thus suspect, like all human fiction. Telling stories is easy, the natural form of information processing and storage in human language.  Making a story an effective myth that people believe, or believe in believing as compulsory fiction, is more difficult.

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Language, sapien language, is a tool like any other animal language; the fictive capacity of sapien language may have been a tool of war, a weapon, that enabled human groups to commit not only organized murder but genocide against other human species. Human myths, collective fictions, have a strong tendency to, or perhaps inevitably, become weaponized.

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Long ago I proposed a probably silly the theory that Neanderthals may have died out and Homo sapiens lived on as a species because the Neanderthals were realists and Homo sapiens--humans--were and are superior fabulists. Sapien language allowed our ancestors to create a fictive environment which affected increasingly massive changes in the real physical environment. But human imagination trumps the real only to a certain extent, because it is a subset, an epiphenomenon of the real, ding an sich.

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@JessTheUnstill They were also smokers, and would sit on their balcony, flicking their cigarette butts into the shared courtyard. One day I picked up up about fifty of the butts, and superglued them to their door. They moved out not too long after that.

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@JessTheUnstill I had neighbors once with whom I shared a wall. They played loud, obnoxious music, and yelled at each other a lot. I took my boombox (remember boomboxes?), slapped a cassette tape into it, turned the volume all the way up, put the box on the kitchen shelf where the partition was the thinnest, speakers to the wall, and blasted them with opera. Maria Callas. They turned the music down. Every time they played their music loud, they got opera, louder. Soon they were trained….

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@simsa03 I am anti-understanding when it comes to poetry. If you understand a poem clearly and completely, the poem and the poet have failed. And don't ask a poet what a poem means. First of all it's an insult. Second, they don't what it means. If they explain the poem, they're either lying, bullshitting, or deluded.

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My fingers are on the keys, my hand is on the mouse, my brain is not awake. Look out now.

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@evan If the robot was not sentient--can we tell?--at least it would give all the incel-bros and other failed humans a machine to abuse rather than living human beings. Should come with a fully equipped man cave bunker so they will stay inside and not bother real people. Lock them in to make sure. Deliver Doritos and pizza through a slot. Beer and soft drink spigots.

Whether that is ethical or not I'm sure.

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Hope is a fly with one wing pulled off. BzzzBzzzBzzz

#hope