Conservatives have been trying to kill #humanities #education for decades--billionaires and other power-hungry people want a world filled with skilled technical workers who are unable to meaningfully assess, change, or even imagine realistic alternatives to the system that keeps the rich and powerful rich and powerful.
It has occurred to me that #philosophy, often a punching bag for right-wing influencers, is a key area: Right-wing populism (e.g., Trump) relies on fucking up epistemology for hundreds of millions of people. The last thing Musk, Bezos, Zuck, Trump, Putin, Erdogan, et al. want is for their supporters to actually learn how to evaluate sources of knowledge.
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CA says goodbye to pursuing federal help on high speed rail
βThis action reflects the Stateβs assessment that the federal government is not a reliable, constructive, or trustworthy partner in advancing high-speed rail in Californiaβ
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In case you missed it, the Guppe discussion group system has permanently closed down.
However, there is a replacement discussion system run by Fedigroups.social. I've tried to list the active public FediGroups at:
β‘οΈ fedi.directory/tag/fediverse-gβ¦
- To follow a listed group, copy-paste its Fediverse address into the search box in Mastodon, then click "Follow".
- To post to a group, mention its account in your post.
More info about using groups at:
β‘οΈ fedi.tips/how-to-use-groups-onβ¦
Fediverse Discussion Groups | Fedi.Directory β Interesting accounts on Mastodon & the Fediverse
Interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.directory
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Thanks for reminding! π
I have a question:
I still see some toots tagged to a.gup.pe group accounts. Is it simply a waste of characters and time, or are there any imaginable unexpected consequences and theyβd better stop tagging? π€
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I get that in the scheme of things, this stuff is minor and stupid, but what in the hell is wrong with Republicans?!?
GOP Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chris Garten of Indiana posted AI photos of himself beating Santa Claus on Christmas Day, and then attacked those who criticized him as βsnowflakes.β
How do these people get any votes, and how deluded must you be to think the GOP are the good guys?
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Marijuana rescheduling: A guide to whatβs changing β and when : NPR
Interesting to see what this takes to do and how it'll effect things
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A message for my Fediverse friends from today's calendar page π
Art by @thelatestkate
PS. Check out #JoinIn if you want to chat with someone on here
#Kindness #Togetherness #Friends #Yule #Cats
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Someone unloaded a _lot_ of Dell Latitude 3340 laptops on Goodwill. Most seem to have 4GB of RAM and no charger, but they seem to be working.
They're $25 each with 1 cent shipping. 5 years ago I would have been jumping on this, but my needs are currently met for these specs.
I don't have any stake in these listings, but this sounds like something that some of you might find interest in so I'm sharing it.
shopgoodwill.com/categories/onβ¦
Shopgoodwill
Find incredible deals at Home | ShopGoodwill.com , the go-to online thrift store for gently used clothing, electronics, vintage jewelry and more. Save big today!shopgoodwill.com
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RE: mastodon.online/@spocko/115783β¦
I know I say this a lot, but this is truly what I do best π
#CouchPotato #Couch #AllYearRound #Vacation #Progress
#NewYear #Christmas
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#introduction --
Hi, I'm Marla! I have never been particularly invested in posting anywhere in my multiple decades on the internet, but when I do it's badly drawn furry smut or video games.
I occasionally draw, or 3d model, or play music, or write, or paint miniatures, or program, or any number of other things; It turns out ADHD's got hands, and I've become exceedingly mediocre at more things than I can count. Tell me about your favorite TRPGs and fighting games, why you're a marmot, and which contributor to Webcage you think has the most interesting solo album.
Also, I really like blue.
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From one of the model railway forums but bang on and a good day to remember this
"People don't stop playing because they grow old. They grow old because they stop playing. "
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Or this one, by Bogota artist Jean Zapata, that I posted the other day (link to original post below) (2/2)
Jean Zapata on Instagram: "AdoraciΓ³n by @_jean.zapata #2025 #gallery #educacion #expresionismo #fiebreafro pesebre"
La tΓ©cnica fragmentaria es una herramienta poderosa para la creatividad y la expresiΓ³n. En este video, exploramos cΓ³mo la fragmentaciΓ³n puede ser utilizada para crear obras de arte innovadoras y conectar con el pΓΊblico.Instagram
β² @part_of_you@diaspora.psyco.fr:π¨Don't use Anna's Archive β it's pirate website with 61M+ books and 95M+ research papers freely available.
We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.
https://x.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2003447835887587556
#science
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Some of us need to hear this around this time of the year, so, a little cheetah PSA:
You are not a burden.
You deserve to exist.
You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.
... Also, short days mess with your mood, so don't internalize that nasty feeling. The problem isn't you, it's the earth's tilt.
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βWe need to get better at treating this like a business,β ICE Acting Director Todd M. Lyons said at a border security conference in April, according to the Arizona Mirror.
The administrationβs goal, he said, was to deport immigrants as efficiently as Amazon moves packages:
βLike Prime, but with human beings.β
Commercial real estate experts say concentrating detainees in warehouses would create its own logistical problems. Such structures are designed for storage and shipping, not human habitation.
They tend to be poorly ventilated and lack precise temperature controls β and, because they are typically located far from residential areas, they may not have access to the plumbing and sanitation systems needed to support thousands of full-time residents.
βItβs dehumanizing,β said Tania Wolf, an advocate with the National Immigration Project who is based in New Orleans β about one hour south from the site of a planned warehouse in Hammond, La.
βYouβre treating people, for lack of a better term, like cattle.β
Source: washingtonpost.com/business/20β¦
See also: encyclopedia.ushmm.org/contentβ¦
Nazi Germanyβs Reichsbahn treated humans as "cargo," optimizing logistics via transit "warehouses" and standardized "bulk shipments."
By integrating cattle-car transports into national rail schedules, they achieved terrifying efficiency, managing millions like a routine industrial supply chain.
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β² @strangerthanfiction@diaspora.glasswings.com:Think Tank Called βThe Himmler Instituteβ Assures Nation This All Legal - The Onion
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10 (Not So) Hidden Dangers of Age Verification
Itβs nearly the end of 2025, andΒ half of the USΒ andΒ the UKΒ now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch βsexual content.β AΒ handful of statesΒ andΒ β¦Techdirt
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Re- #introduction post
Hai fedi friends π©·
If we already know each other, hello again! It's me, my old server no longer exists & beige.party is very kindly hosting my new accounts (plz pardon my dust while I rebuild) π§
If this is our first meeting, hello there! I'm Irene, here's some stuff about me:
* im kind not nice
* i fake wellness not illness
* the trauma specialist literally said "therapy offers you nothing, heres a bag of chips, you have to go now"
* i made up a "how to tell if someone is a safe person" test, and the forensic psychiatrist i showed it to literally said "they wont be able to lie to you if you ask them that"
* i take absolutely everything seriously
* my life partner says im "tragically beautiful" and i know theyre correct
* im extremely bad at being governable
* i will probably make you uncomfortable and im fine with that, save us both & block me quickly βοΈ
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This is the second time I've seen this. By this point, I presume it's legit.
And it's disgusting. Get off corporate social media, people! They're fucking nazis. Like, literal, actual nazis.
Lately I have noticed that when you purchase a ticket you donβt get a static PDF/PNG anymore.
Increasingly often, you get a .pkpass file, which is supposed to be opened in wallet apps (like Google Wallet or any 3rd-party wallet app).
Since I donβt like to share information about the events I attend with strangers on the Internet, I have decided to take a closer look at these .pkpass files.
They are just zip files that contain a background image, an icon and a pass.json with the actual information about the ticket. Nothing that canβt be handled by a script rather than a 3rd-party 100 MB mobile app.
I have thus put together a simple #shell script that does exactly that.
Dependencies:
jqzintmagickunzipcurlorwget
gist.manganiello.tech/fabio/pkβ¦
Usage:
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β² @obnkajwzew@societas.online:US blocks all offshore wind construction, says reason is classified
arstechnica.com/science/2025/1β¦On Monday, the US Department of the Interior announced that it was pausing the leases on all five offshore wind sites currently under construction in the US. The move comes despite the fact that these projects already have installed significant hardware in the water and on land; one of them is nearly complete. In what appears to be an attempt to avoid legal scrutiny, the Interior is blaming the decisions on a classified report from the Department of Defense.
#energy #electricity #electric-power #electric-power-generation #wind #solar #offshore-wind #trump #maga #stupid
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in reply to Gentleman of Leisure • • •and theyβre actually right. The Federal government is playing partisan politics with grant money.
Canβt play with those rules.