Notices by Coach Pāṇini ® (paninid@mastodon.world)

@RickiTarr @dougiec3

The Woody Guthrie song should have been a clue from decades ago…

@dougiec3 @RickiTarr

I mean, yes, but also:

https://on.soundcloud.com/vEKyqj1vHidw8MFRZo

MARS DOESN’T HAVE AN ATMOSPHERE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE
https://mastodon.social/@tofugolem/115287791735071331

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@HistoPol @Theblueone @GhostOnTheHalfShell

“politicians should read”

LMAO

@Em0nM4stodon

@rye @steter

Hey look!

https://inaniludibrio.com/2025/09/17/whisteblowers/

@selzero

“Kimmel’s refusal to capitulate stands out because so many other well-situated people—those with the resources, platform, and #power to stand up to the president, including, initially, the leaders of ABC—have surrendered, withdrawn, or become Trump sycophants themselves.”

#AdamSerwer in @TheAtlantic is on🔥 as usual

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/freedom-trump-threats-kimmel/684358/?gift=-Fv9R4P6cEEN68vsamhTNMpnYhyfKJT4yBW8dn6Adgo&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

In Classical Athens, ostracism was a unique democratic safeguard designed to prevent any one citizen from gaining excessive power. Once a year, the assembly could vote to hold an ostracism.

If approved, citizens would inscribe a name on a shard of pottery called an ostrakon.

The person with the most votes, if they exceeded a minimum threshold was exiled for ten years, though they retained property and could return afterward.

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This process wasn’t used frequently, but it was politically potent.

It allowed the public to remove influential figures without trial or formal charges, acting as a pressure valve for civic tensions.

Ostracism was not necessarily a punishment for wrong doing,it was a preemptive measure to protect the fragile balance of power in the young democracy.

One famous example is Themistocles, a celebrated general who helped defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis.

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I’m Spartacus.

#RobertRedford

Kash Patel—the Director of the FBI—testified in front of Congress today that he had no idea who Dylann Roof was.

To clarify: in June 2015, Roof, a white supremacist and Neo-Nazi, entered a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and gunned down nine Black people *after they invited him to take part in their Bible study group.*

You’re now more informed than the director of the FBI.

Remembering is an act of rebellion.

#history

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#advertising #marketing

Charlie Kirk supporters in my Facebook feed have been lurking and are now outing themselves, doing us both a favor.

Always block early and often.

#science #capital #Enlightenment

Asking #questions is a form of #labor: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/life/technology/what-problem-does-chatgpt-solve

“to the extent that we are invited to outsource the effort of #sensemaking, our intellectual and #creative abilities will atrophy and our #relationships will suffer.”

“Technologies that relieve frustrating #struggle can make our efforts more productive and can increase our ability to do good work, whereas technologies that eliminate #productive struggle diminish our capacities and prevent us from becoming the kind of people able to exercise our #freedom responsibly and redemptively.”

“Yet it is the countless hours of disciplined, effortful #struggle that make possible the wondrous #freedom, the seemingly effortless performance, of a skilled human body.”