Notices by bs2 (bsmall2@mstdn.jp)

@clacke
I'm a prancer not a cancer(!?!?!?!)
(like "I'm a lover not a fighter"....)

Brass Balls using the phrase "Free Trade" to force people into using GMO corn in ways they'd rather avoid... Where does your carbon, your body's carbon come from?
https://www.kingcorn.net/

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> ... a video clip of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (who is among the list of Democrats being vetted as a potential Harris 2024 vice presidential pick) telling MSNBC on Tuesday, “These are weird people on the other side,” and they “want to take books away, they want to be in your exam room, that’s what it comes down to … These are weird ideas.”
#MinnesotaGov #TimWalz
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> Regular decent people, meanwhile, have noticed that demanding an exclusive license on normalcy is some real weirdo shit to demand, and sneering about the existence of diversity to secure that license and use weirdness as an excuse to punish people is some real weirdo shit to do, which is probably why Walz's framing has taken hold.
https://www.the-reframe.com/the-normal-ones/
#WeirdDiscourse
/HT @JuliusGoat
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🧵 WMD and Iraq, you think the bar can't be lowered any more:

> Following Trump’s short and dire speech, Bush departed the scene and never offered public comment on the ceremony.
> But, according to three people who were present, Bush gave a brief assessment of Trump’s inaugural after leaving the dais: “That was some weird shit.” All three heard him say it.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/what-george-w-bush-really-thought-of-trumps-inauguration.html
#GWBush #WeirdShit

> The federal government must revise its outdated view of what constitutes a disaster now that the planet is about 2.5 degrees hotter than preindustrial times and the 10 hottest years ever recorded have been in the last decade....
> federal disaster relief funding could pay for life-saving infrastructure such as cooling centers with air filtration systems, and community solar and storage systems to help vulnerable communities stay cool and safe when the power grid is strained...

1980 the year of Stevie Wonder's _Hotter then July_

> No U.S. president has ever issued an emergency or major disaster declaration for extreme heat. President Carter rejected a request from Missouri in 1980 after nearly 400 people died in a heat wave, and President Clinton rejected a declaration for the heat wave that killed more than 700 people in Chicago in 1995.

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2024-07-09/editorial-this-record-breaking-heat-is-an-emergency-its-time-to-treat-it-like-one
#HeatWaves #HeatDisasters

@h_okumura 英語になるけど、 @timnitGebru , @emilymbender をフォローしたらいろいろ出てくると思います。

TLDR  for now..

> The beginnings of permaculture’s landscape design was beginning to form. David describes trying to tie agroecology, organics, and landscape design into one narrative,

https://poorprolesalmanac.substack.com/p/a-history-of-permaculture

#Permaculture #PoorProlesAlmanac #PermacultureHistory
#BillMollison #DavidHolmgren

@noellabo
やっぱりKeeepassの使い方を習ったほうがいいかな?

@karabaic @cstross
An Italian guy on FB just wrote that Salami means "dickhead." This makes the use of Salami delicious with ambiguity. Seeing the headline "Why Bill Gates is Bullish on Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Energy" I think "Does Salami deserve Nukes?" and it covers the Billionaire along with the Energy- and Water-intensive Automated Plagiarism.. Artificially Enhanced Stupidity (AES), Natural Stupidity Automated (NSA), and parrot-tech. LLM terms are many.

On the back of a hoodie...
> There is a reason for everything
> Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow. He who would search for pearls, must dive below.

The brutes and demons seemed Francis Bacon but a search shows that it's from #AldousHuxley: #AdonisAndTheAlphabet

https://www.britannica.com/quotes/Aldous-Huxley

#TShirtSpotting #TShirtEnglish

> Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For more than half a century now, psychologists, linguists, neuroscientists and other experts on human behaviour have been asserting that the human brain works like a computer.

I.A.Richards recommended using a metaphor for as long as its useful then moving on, the correspondence only for a certain time and area I guess...

#ComputerBrain #MetaphorControl

> By the 1700s, discoveries about electricity and chemistry led to new theories of human intelligence – again, largely metaphorical in nature. In the mid-1800s, inspired by recent advances in communications, the German physicist Hermann von Helmholtz compared the brain to a telegraph.

#ElectricBrain #ChemicalBrain #TelegraphBrain

> By the 1500s, automata powered by springs and gears had been devised, eventually inspiring leading thinkers such as René Descartes to assert that humans are complex machines. In the 1600s, the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes suggested that thinking arose from small mechanical motions in the brain.

#MechanicalBrain #MachineBrain #InRecentTechImage #AutomataBrain

> In Our Own Image (2015), the artificial intelligence expert #GeorgeZarkadakis describes six different metaphors people have employed over the past 2,000 years to try to explain human intelligence.

https://aeon.co/essays/your-brain-does-not-process-information-and-it-is-not-a-computer
/HT @emilygorcenski #IntelligenceMetaphors #HumanIntelligence
#InOurOwnImage #InRecentTechImage

> The invention of hydraulic engineering in the 3rd century BCE led to the popularity of a hydraulic model of human intelligence, the idea that the flow of different fluids in the body – the ‘humours’ – accounted for both our physical and mental functioning. The hydraulic metaphor persisted for more than 1,600 years, handicapping medical practice all the while.

#HydraulicBrain #StalledMedicalPractice #MedicalMetaphors

> Humanity... We need to reject false promises of security and convenience in exchange for a loss of privacy. Something as simple as investing in more streetlights can reduce so-called quality-of-life crimes like package theft and car break-ins without aggravating racial profiling or supercharging oppressive surveillance. Real community safety comes from helping one another, not spying on one another.  
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/amazons-ring-doorbell-videos-make-america-less-safe-crime-rcna55143

#AmazonRing #SurveillanceCapitalism
/HT @team via
@clacke

> ..research at Kirikongo has revealed a dynamic socio-political sequence, with the development of #InstitutionalizedInequalities over the course of the 1st millennium CE, followed by an egalitarian revolution in the early 2nd millennium CE. The consequent social formation, despite being structurally egalitarian was actually more complex than the vertically oriented system that preceded it, and calls into question common assumptions of directionality in socio-political evolution. #StephenDueppen

> Cities from Miami to Melbourne are expanding access to air-conditioned public places known as cooling centers, while also adding more shading and planting more trees...
#Miami #Melbourne