Notices by The Animal and the Machine (taatm@mathstodon.xyz)

@hannu_ikonen
To me it’s like saying people with brown eyes are optotypical and now we are looking in peoples eyes we are starting to diagnose people with blue eye disorders.

We have variation in every part of our body yet we only recognise a single neuro pattern. It’s Victorian. Evolution doesn’t work that way and the starting premise should be one of expectation of diversity, especially with a tribal existence that has been in place longer than we have been human.

#LanguageMatters and we need to start saying ‘identified’ not diagnosed. As a self-identified ADHDer I can tell you that my brain says this Victorian medicine is a pile of shit before it starts and I promise you, I am far from impaired.

This truce is Putin leveraging the USA against #Ukraine. The truce has the fiction of holding where it suits Russia to establish a bridge or lay mines. Where not they are assaulting.

Putin is responsible for this invasion and Trump is not helping Ukraine. He is helping Russia.

Trump has achieved the impossible!

Canada is pissed!

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@anderspuck
You’ll like this one from @KyivIndependent

https://youtu.be/aOi-Po5NO8k

TL;dr
• Russia needs a ceasefire but can’t say so
• Trump thinks Ukraine wants a ceasefire but they don’t* but must say they do
• *Ukraine doesn’t need a ceasefire as much as Russia does
• Allies don’t want a ceasefire but propose one believing it’s impossible… to flip Trump

You up to speed now?

MAMA?

https://youtu.be/IdygrcFcyyY

As per USAID, you can’t fully undo the Tariff damage by turning them off again. You’ve just created a political uncertainty spike with national relations, recognised as increased volatility.

Put simply, Mexico and Canada sure as shit don’t trust the US now and will continue to avoid trade.

@katieashborn @mekkaokereke
If there is one message I want to communicate to people this year it’s:

Joy is resistance.

This #Zelenskiy-Churchill V for Victory and the more modern V for ‘up yours Putin’ is my favourite #NAFO patch.
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#Ukraine

Watch the money. Always watch the money.

When we see economists and central bankers defect, we will know Russia is about to collapse. There will be a narrow window when they can get out with reduced fear of retribution because they expect the house to collapse on the FSB behind them.

#Ukraine

@mekkaokereke
I would guess it’s because the jocks actually talk to the girls.

Is amazing what actually getting to know people does for your ‘ism’s.

@mekkaokereke
With the greatest respect, I don’t think cost is the issue, I think it’s revenue.

The cost per user should be made public and those who both can and want to, can donate for it. No perks.

Alternatively, we could use the free market to create many special interests, from black communities to zoology. These host people for a standard fee and a code of conduct. The low fee allows for solid moderation and an account is used as an algo. Follow for boosts. We could do this today.

These are additive to the existing free ones, not replacing. If they scale to be only $1 a month, that is an affordable option for most.

I think this will happen when we get the right nerdy community leader ready to spend the effort to do it.

Dear Americans. Elon is switching his focus to Europe. This means he thinks he’s conquered America. I hope this pisses you off because it should.

Get loud and proud please.

For 2025, I am expecting a Russian cascade failure ending in a coup.

#Ukraine to take back all lands.

@DrGeraintLLannfrancheta
Yes I’m leaning optimistic but know that I always do.

Russia isn’t as strong as it would like to be so it aims to project strength above all else. Actual strength is therefore weakened by this, such as the meat waves. The result is that Russia really isn’t as strong as you might think.

Russia aims to be locally superior everywhere and as reserves haven’t flooded through #Ukraine’s holes, it shows Russia is thin. The only logical result is that Russia has a tipping point and if Ukraine can break them to that, a cascade failure will follow.

For anyone who thinks this can’t happen, I point to Syria and its Russian backed Assed. Russia has no reserves anywhere!

@dotproto @rowlandm @paul_ipv6 @mekkaokereke
I’ve been the grease.
The proof of being the grease is that:
• Senior management doesn’t value you while you work there. You even get asked what you do and the really bad ones ask you to justify your time.
• When you come back from holiday your team is in joyous tears and your manager values you for a quarter.
• Everyone externally comes directly to you.
• Senior management really values you after you have left, as costs have gone up considerably.

I used to have what I called ‘the Sargent’s network’. We all knew who was the grease in each department and we’d constantly talk and keep things from breaking.

@hanse_mina
I recognise that smile. It’s the smarmy smirk of the toxic boys club. It doesn’t matter what she says, he’s laughing at her for even talking, with such low social standing in his boys club. It’s an almost instinctive tribal response. He fears nothing from the UN and behind him are a bunch of excited moneys jumping and hollering.

It is a face for slapping and it needs slapping very hard.

@vladvexler
Is there a dictionary of misinformation terms somewhere and if not can we make them? We need to name things so we can dismantle them. For example, Toxic masculinity, now named, is something identifiable.

I’ve wanted to do this for a while. Things like:

Exaggeration
“Will destroy incentives…” when it will just slightly reduce them. (Elon Musk)

Over-Blown
“She’s a communist!” when she is just introducing social programs.

Work Demanding
“Climate crisis isn’t real. Prove to me it is”.

False Civility (Demanding calm words after violent action).
“If you want to debate this stop swearing and come with the facts.” after a car is driven into protesters or a house is demolished for a freeway.

Bad Neutral (Ignores actions as they are incumbent)
“If we can’t agree, we shouldn’t change anything.” As power stations still burn gas and oil.

Null as Zero
“There is zero evidence for this.” Covid testing was stopped.

False equivalence.
“On the left we have a 20 year PHD Professor on the subject and on the right is Beatle Juice who is being very loud and is popular as he’s racist.”

Failed Moderation
He had most of the argument because every time she spoke he talked over her and the host did nothing but suddenly wrap up at the end.

These are the ones just from the top of my head. I need labels. I need a dictionary.

Thanks

#TAATM

Dictionary of Right Wing tactics continued:

Shut Up, I’m talking.
“Stay in your lane.”, “Stick to football.”.
Some pathetic men (typically) would tell a singer to stick to singing as they don’t know politics. This normally follows a rebuke to a statement they made after talking about politics that they know nothing about.

There are endless variants to “shut up” and once you translate that in your mind, you can’t unhear it.

Correlation as Causation in Bait and Switch
“Migrants want to live in white countries!” Not true. Economic migrants do want to live in richer countries. These may not be white but the richest ones are. With the truth being about wealth we can ask why these countries are more wealthy and recognise theft and empire. The correlation switch implies white supremacy and hides theft by whites. A double racist whammy.

Forgotten Cost
“Russia and Ukraine should agree a peace settlement”. Which is as acceptable as agreeing to letting a drug dealer keep the front room and contents as owner after they smashed their way in through the front door and took over the front room and kitchen.

A Deranged Question
“But what if Putin suddenly decided to nuke Kursk.”
* Sounds reasonable on the face of it but isn’t .
• Low probability and false equivalence with a normal probability question
• Implies error of action directing to in action to preserve status quo
• Wastes your resource of time answering
Counter:
Flip reverse it. “Why hasn’t he already?”
Let them answer their own nonsense.

Mislabelling:
Using a word that sounds right but isn’t. Supports an agenda.

@randahl
FYI, it’s pretty clear now that #Kursk is a giant trap for Russian troops. Russia are repeatedly, and therefore predictably, throwing their best equipment and best troops in their biggest numbers, down the best and therefore predictable routes.

Russia also has the Soviet doctrine of charging on a rout.

It’s at the point that #Ukraine is retreating on purpose, drawing Russian troops over minefields before pushing forward again to mop up. Rinse and repeat.

It’s still a hard fight but Ukraine has created a Russian soldier eating machine it is in control of, with all the mine mess being on Russian land.