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Marcher, confronter, composer, démanteler
« Alors que nos vies hors-sols, à travers un agenda dicté par d’autres, continuent de suivre le programme du ravage, en déléguant leurs subsistances à d’autres, en puisant sans relâche dans divers milieux proches ou lointains que nous ne connaissons pas, quels chemins praticables pouvons-nous suivre ? Depuis 3 ans une dynamique de reprises de savoirs est née en parallèle d’un mouvement de défense des terres. Des chantiers sont lancés pour se retrouver autour de savoir-faire pratiques des subsistances, et ce sans lâcher nos questionnements et propensions à penser ensemble. Il s’agirait alors de prolonger cette école hors les murs par des expériences d’arpentage collectives des territoires de nos vies. Quelles formes politiques ? Quelles formes pratiques ? »
Conférence de Tibo Labat artiste/activiste installé dans le bocage nantais, diplômé de l’École d’architecture de Paris La Villette en résidence de recherche et création à l’Ensad Limoges du 1er octobre au 20 décembre 2024, à l’atelier édition. A cette occasion aborde le thème : Marcher, confronter, composer, démanteler assisté par les étudiantes Anaëlle Charme, Sasha Hernandez, Julie Matlosz, Ingrid Montier et Jade Tailhandier.
Voir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZv6CrOlD8
Plus : https://www.reprisesdesavoirs.org/marches%c2%b7compo/#RepriseDesSavoirs #MarchesCompo #territoires #arpentage #EnsadLimoges
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Marcher, confronter, composer, démanteler
« Alors que nos vies hors-sols, à travers un agenda dicté par d’autres, continuent de suivre le programme du ravage, en déléguant leurs subsistances à d’autres, en puisant sans relâche dans divers milieux proches ou lointains que nous ne connaissons pas, quels chemins praticables pouvons-nous suivre ? Depuis 3 ans une dynamique de reprises de savoirs est née en parallèle d’un mouvement de défense des terres. Des chantiers sont lancés pour se retrouver autour de savoir-faire pratiques des subsistances, et ce sans lâcher nos questionnements et propensions à penser ensemble. Il s’agirait alors de prolonger cette école hors les murs par des expériences d’arpentage collectives des territoires de nos vies. Quelles formes politiques ? Quelles formes pratiques ? »
Conférence de Tibo Labat artiste/activiste installé dans le bocage nantais, diplômé de l’École d’architecture de Paris La Villette en résidence de recherche et création à l’Ensad Limoges du 1er octobre au 20 décembre 2024, à l’atelier édition. A cette occasion aborde le thème : Marcher, confronter, composer, démanteler assisté par les étudiantes Anaëlle Charme, Sasha Hernandez, Julie Matlosz, Ingrid Montier et Jade Tailhandier.
Voir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZv6CrOlD8
Plus : https://www.reprisesdesavoirs.org/marches%c2%b7compo/#RepriseDesSavoirs #MarchesCompo #territoires #arpentage #EnsadLimoges
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Marcher, confronter, composer, démanteler
« Alors que nos vies hors-sols, à travers un agenda dicté par d’autres, continuent de suivre le programme du ravage, en déléguant leurs subsistances à d’autres, en puisant sans relâche dans divers milieux proches ou lointains que nous ne connaissons pas, quels chemins praticables pouvons-nous suivre ? Depuis 3 ans une dynamique de reprises de savoirs est née en parallèle d’un mouvement de défense des terres. Des chantiers sont lancés pour se retrouver autour de savoir-faire pratiques des subsistances, et ce sans lâcher nos questionnements et propensions à penser ensemble. Il s’agirait alors de prolonger cette école hors les murs par des expériences d’arpentage collectives des territoires de nos vies. Quelles formes politiques ? Quelles formes pratiques ? »
Conférence de Tibo Labat artiste/activiste installé dans le bocage nantais, diplômé de l’École d’architecture de Paris La Villette en résidence de recherche et création à l’Ensad Limoges du 1er octobre au 20 décembre 2024, à l’atelier édition. A cette occasion aborde le thème : Marcher, confronter, composer, démanteler assisté par les étudiantes Anaëlle Charme, Sasha Hernandez, Julie Matlosz, Ingrid Montier et Jade Tailhandier.
Voir : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lZv6CrOlD8
Plus : https://www.reprisesdesavoirs.org/marches%c2%b7compo/#RepriseDesSavoirs #MarchesCompo #territoires #arpentage #EnsadLimoges
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Seems like high DHA might be the issue with Afib. I'll do some searching on LCpharmD's posts - hope she moves to mastodon.
" The time course of PIEZO1 inactivation is prolonged by docosahexaenoic acid but reduced by eicosapentaenoic acid. Thus, the net effect will be determined in part by the docosahexaenoic acid:eicosapentaenoic acid ratio. A docosahexaenoic acid–predominant effect would result in PIEZO1 gain-of-function and increased influx of calcium and other cations (Figure [B]). Collectively, these changes would (1) prolong the action potential duration and increase the propensity for delayed after-depolarizations to trigger AF and (2) promote calcium-dependent signaling."
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.121.058596
FWIW I have found that I can take more fish oil w/o excessive bleed time if I take 100 mcg of K1 daily. The K1 also helps with palpitations whereas K2 seemed to worsen them.
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Discrimination against #trans #Olympians has roots in #NaziGermany
The forgotten #Olympic history of trans athletes.
by Alex Abad-Santos
Aug 1, 2024"[In Michael Waters’s book, "The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports"] Waters’s traces the emergence of #ZdeněkKoubek, a track and field star representing the country formerly known as Czechoslovakia who, at 21, won two medals — a gold in the 800m and a bronze in the long jump — at the 1934 Women’s World Games. (The Women’s World Games was the precursor to women competing at the Olympics). In 1935, Koubek announced that he would be living life as a man and swiftly became an international celebrity.
"Waters also pinpoints where and when that changed, specifically at the 1936 Olympics in #NaziGermany. Armed with a propensity for #eugenics, #GenderAnxiety, and a startling lack of scientific evidence, a small set of Nazi officials influenced the International Olympic Committee into #GenderSurveillance and #TransPanic — stuff that eerily mirrors the #transphobic attacks that athletes, cis and trans alike, face today."
Read more:
https://www.vox.com/culture/364032/trans-athletes-olympics-2024?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us -
La variole a été éradiquée dans les années septante. Les campagnes de vaccination ont alors cessé. Donc, les moins de cinquante ans ne sont pas immunisé·es contre le #mpox.
Des moyens rapides de traitement permettent de passer de 10% à 1% de létalité (propension à faire mourir, probabilité de mourir à l'échelle de la population).L'extraction minière pour la transition électrique est particulièrement propice à la création et à l'exportation de nouvelles maladies. Une #syndémie peut être définie comme un environnement social et écologique optimal pour générer et propulser des épidémies.
Dr Camille Besombes : "Il y a une épidémie d'épidémies. On est rentré dans une nouvelle ère : il y a une multiplication des émergences infectieuses. […] Il y a eu une émergence d'Ebola dans ce même contexte économique et social, qu'est le Kivu."
#transition #extraction #guerreCivile #milices #VSS #prostitution #famine #cuivre #lithium #mines #bois #épidémies #épidémie #pandémie #criseSanitaire #variole #varioleDuSinge #conseilPodcast #FranceCulture #Kivu #Congo #RDC #CentreAfrique #RCA #RépubliqueCentrafricaine #Nigeria #Ebola #VIH #SIDA #COVID19 #virus #maladies #servicesPublics #santé #écologie #médecine #internes #vaccins #MST #mondialisation #mobilité #exportations #libreÉchange #anal #génital #buccal #vue #rongeurs #moustiques
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‘You’re Such a #Moron!’: #ElonMusk #Destroyed on #SocialMedia for #Posting #Fake #Article That #Compares #DonaldTrump to #AdolfHitler, Violating #X’s #Community #Rules.
Protector of #freespeech, or #purveyor of #disinformation? #ElonMusk likes to cast himself as the former, but as his #fervor for #DonaldTrump has grown, so has his #propensity for spreading #disinformation.
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A risk taking society
In my previous Dutch postings I talked about our society taking certain risks.
Not only teenagers get an information overload and seem to be hard-wired to take risks. Today’s teens are “stressed out” but also a lot of adults get bombarded with a lot of decision-making factors though frequently underestimate the value of privacy and its attendant risks, and it’s taking a toll. Over the last five years, more people got into conflicts, there’s been a steady increase in the number of anti-depressants prescribed and we could notice a lot more self-killings.For a lot of things which come over us the last few years several individuals and groups gave early warnings. As there were te concerned nature lovers who gave notices about potential nuclear dangers and anthropologists who gave scientific proof of expecting difficulties in groups of people or economists who warned about the exchange market propensity for risk-taking without liability which were both dismissed as paranoid anticipation of low-probability events.
Some existential risks
Effective risk management is central to economic efficiency. Yet major players in the last crises have insisted that they should not be held accountable for risks they underestimated.
Extreme weather disasters, especially floods, are on the rise (see Two seminal Nature papers join growing body of evidence that human emissions fuel extreme weather, flooding). For certain religious people it is a normal sign of the End-times, but it does not mean for them we do have to ignore neither the risks nor the ways to avoid certain risks. Climate change will compound existing weather-related risks, but the consumers do have to be aware how they can influence the weather and environmental situations.
Dirk Geldof, writer of:” not more but better” writes in his blog that it is normal to a community to produce more risks than they actual can keep under control. Being able or not to control creates already taking in the risks. Not wanting to see the possibility of danger or to neglect the chance on damage is the vanity of man that puts himself above possible incidents or plots. We cannot see next to climate change or global warming, globalization and imminent dualisation, increasing freedom and far-reaching individualization, growing time pressure and the explosion of diversity in our cosmopolitan cities.
<img class="thumbimage " style="border: 0 none;" src="http://www.eoearth.org/files/122301_122400/122398/200px-Ulrich_Beck.jpg" alt="The sociologist Ulrich Beck. Photo: Munich University” width=”200″ height=”164″ border=”0″ />The sociologist Ulrich Beck
We now are confronted with our world as a global risk society. The notion ‘risk society‘ is such metaphor because it prompts us to look in an other way to our world and our society, with a focus on the risks that we – unless we not otherwise can – would preferably not like to see. Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck brought up this element of the risk society which could be “a society increasingly preoccupied with the future (and also with safety), which generates the notion of risk,” or that community which in a systematic way shall try to deal with hazards and insecurities induced and introduced by modernisation itself. Beck sees a dynamic that is driven by an increase in risks and in the ability of science to detect increasingly minute risks, leading to a fundamental re-ordering of social positions in society, and to a transformation in the cultural meanings of risk. These authors argue that whilst humans have always been subjected to a level of risk – such as natural disasters – these have usually been perceived as produced by non-human forces. But we should be aware that after creation man got the change to take care of mother earth. It was given to him on loan. Man had to give name to plants and animals but had also to respect them. And that is were it all went wrong. Man thought he could do anything and it would not be so important which impact it had on nature. The last decennia the materialistic man became so greedy and so ruthless that he thought he could concur anything in this world. Giddens and Beck argue that it is possible for societies to assess the level of risk that is being produced, or that is about to be produced, but hey looked over the fact that most people are not interested into the damage done for future generations.
The aim to get a better life and the aspiration to enjoy life more has brought an attitude of trying to fins as many as possible way to enlighten and to make this life as easy as possible. But then we do have to ask at what cost. The way how we use the raw material and how we handle the feedstock are things we can not put aside. We should be fully aware how we handle the products of nature. End 60ies we came already on the streets to utter our voice, but then everybody laughed with our naïvety. The dangers we pointed at for the nuclear waste, the disgraceful use of nature, the danger of trying to modify natural products, the creation of so many by-products … everything was washed away as not important or something ridiculous small.
In certain sense, we would not have to complain for objectively seen we never before in the history had such a realm and have been so good insured . In the Netherlands, Belgium and in the European countries the last 25 years is the wealth, the purchasing power and the consumption doubled!
Traditional institutions and structures have shaped people’s lives for ages and gave them the symbols that provided meaning, place and purpose in society, giving order to their lives and forming tight social communities. In the name of individual freedom and autonomy structures of these traditional societies became challenged in the 17th century when the individual began to emerge as the center of life. The common, traditional comprehension of life as lived within a we within traditional institutions was replaced by a new focus, the I. The children from the 60ies boom were even more focused on that own self, and their children became the battlefield and the buying out product of the divorced couples. Early modernity championed the rights and freedoms of the individual; as this new understanding entered the imagination of modern societies it began to effect and then replace these traditional structures and institutions with new ones that shaped people
in very different ways. in the new industrial societies the extended family all but disappeared to be replaced by the small, nuclear family. Work and family were separated and most of the relationships were now in the form of more impersonal, work-related and contract-type relationships. Previously the family as a group of people, and the community as a parish, or the community of the village became not any more interested in the others of the community. The personal contacts diminished and the ‘we’ was displaced by the social contracting ‘I’ who now was going to give loyalty to professional organizations, church groups, work places and other social institutions, but from the 21st century also grow further away from those organisations. The churches became more empty and lots of people left God and His business. But by not being interested any more in His Laws and values they thought they had gained a new liberty and permission to do all those things that they wanted to do which could give them fun. Entertainment has become the main factor, and today we can notice that some people change partner as they change underpants. Values, good morals and ethics were lost and most of the people were most concerned about themselves. We now can find loyalty to institutions
and structures to one in which meaning and identity are grounded in the self as the primary agent of meaning; a shift to the I primary agent of meaning.
For companies the worker has become an economical object without any further value then the economical statistics. The human part of the worker has become of no value at all. If we are not careful this economical asset is to conquer every bodies life.On socio-economic terms we have the luxury that already more than 60 years we did not have to encounter war in our own environment. The wars we saw on television were far from our bed and having no share in it made us not divide and gave us no reason to complain. Many do not to be hungry but many live in obfuscate poverty in Belgium and the Netherlands, but also in the surrounding countries, by which it so luxurious country Germany certainly can not escape. We have private-insurances systems for our houses, our car, our holiday, our right assistance, a possible unemployment, our pension and our savings, funeral insurance and name but on.
With all this scientific and electronic gadgets is it still not that the distribution is directly tied to social class, with those at the top getting more and those at the bottom getting less. And are those who give those false micro-credits not misusing their high standards of economical higher position to create a mist of a possible intangible future? Should we not be more concerned with the distribution of “bads” instead with the distribution of “goods” —namely, the realization of untoward risks? Because many risks (e.g., mudslides, nuclear fallout, economic crises) do not respect class boundaries, everyone is, therefore, equally at risk. This dissolving of social class means that social actors are “individualized,” thrown on their own without the collective identity of social class.
I am aware that by engaging in its traditional role of generating new discoveries and new technologies, science inevitably creates and adds to existing risks but at the same time, science is the principal institution for detecting and analysing risks, especially those that are subtle. This misalignment of science’s roles is recognized by the, now, “individualised,” free-floating social actor who undertakes actions, such as in a social movement, to continuously pressure and reinvent scientific and social institutions.
Nowhere can we see the shift of the social fight and the failing from the existing institutions as clear as by the climate change. The industrialised countries should also be aware what they bring over the third world countries and the desserts and flood lands they create. People should be aware what consequences their traffic and consumerism has on the effects of our climate.
To live nicely or to lead a good life that would not damage the life of others shall confront us with the conscious choices we must make. The ‘must’ choose became an essential risk factor in our society. With the continuing risk making a wrong choice and the returning question how to handle that risk. The problem is that we with our very selfish capitalist society sit saddled with a group by which everybody had to see only for his own nest.We have a common interest, but at the same time we sit with the unequal distribution of wealth and risks and thus per definition with conflicts. Therefore also a question of ecological justice is the whole methodology of the ecological foot print per definition. It goes over interests conflicts. That makes the discussion over the posts-Kyoto-agreements also so difficult. The bigger danger is, that the fight over the question who is responsible and who must do the most efforts would lead to the fact that we are much too late and do much too little efforts.
As Freudenburg added, specialization has increased so much since the invention of the streetcar that perhaps the most salient risks of contemporary life are those associated with what he has called “recreancy,” or institutional failure—“the failure of institutional actors to carry out their responsibilities with the degree of vigour necessary to merit the societal trust they enjoy.” Citizens of an increasingly interdependent world, accordingly, need to be able to ‘count’ on not just the physical machinery they use, but also whole armies of specialists, most of whom they will never meet and who are expected to have forms of expertise that ordinary citizens may not be competent to judge, let alone have the ability to control.We have the freedom to think and to act, but we do have to use this freedom wisely and always have to be aware of the consequentions of our acts. We should be careful of the social impacts of energy dependence and of the global ecological footprint for the things we do and which we need. We should always have to weigh up. And we should not loose tract that man proposes but God disposes.
The recent nuclear disasters should be the trigger to get people think more about the risks the previous generation has taken and the risks we our willing to take in consideration of those who shall have to continue living after us. This will mean that we have to consider threats from physical, chemical, and biological agents and from a variety of human activities as well as natural events. We shall not have to accept new technologies just like that because they seem to make live easier or would bring a cheaper solution. We should be aware of the dangers of gene technology, nuclear power, mobile communication, voltaic cells, climate change issues, invasive species, and food hazards. We cannot be blind for the financial crisis, environmental pollution, terrorism, and health and social policy. More and more we should analyse risks of concern to individuals, to public and private sector organizations, and to society at various geographic scales. We have to take up our responsibility!
Like Yacov Haimes, University of Virginia said: “The challenge is that for many of the public, risk engulfs lots of mystery and misunderstanding and misperception. In particular we need to address the element of modeling; we have to see how to model the system,
how to understand it better. Only then can we really do proper risk assessment,
management, and communication. So the question is, How do we answer the question what are the impacts of current decisions on the jobs given that life is dynamic, all systems are changing, they are all under risk and uncertainty, and our decision must be adaptive and must be incremental at the time?”I always say “Freedom is respecting the freedom of others”. We now do have to look for the risks we may take and we may encounter by continuing our way and by trying to come to a better way of living, not only for ourselves but for the whole world.
The law sets boundaries and the boundaries define what you must do … but those same boundaries are supposed to define and affirmatively defend the dry ground of freedom, which we have to cherish, where people can go forward focusing on their goals, including taking reasonable risks all day long, and be accountable not by law but by those who deal with them about whether they’re good at their jobs and whether they want to deal with them. That idea has been lost. Most people have also put aside the Laws of God, the Helper and Deliverer, and by doing that they have taken away a sure guideline to make the best out of life.Previously:
Japan’s nuclear disaster reason to think twiceand about this subject of taking risks, in Dutch:
- Nemen van Risico door de maatschappij
- Energie met vergiftigd geschenk
Also read:
Risks, Radiation and Regulation+++
Related articles
- Writing about “Agnotology, Ignorance and Uncertainty” (ignoranceanduncertainty.wordpress.com)
In philosophy and mathematics the dominant formal framework for dealing with unknowns has been one or another theory of probability. However, Max Black’s ground-breaking 1937 paper proposed that vagueness and ambiguity are distinguishable from each other, from probability, and also from what he called “generality.” The 1960’s and 70’s saw a proliferation of mathematical and philosophical frameworks purporting to encompass non-probabilistic unknowns, such as fuzzy set theory, rough sets, fuzzy logic, belief functions, and imprecise probabilities.
Ellsberg’s classic 1961 experiments demonstrated that people’s choices can be influenced by how imprecisely probabilities are known (i.e., “ambiguity”), and his results have been replicated and extended by numerous studies.
Several studies have suggested that Knightian uncertainty (ambiguity) and risk differentially activate the ventral systems that evaluate potential rewards (the so-called “reward center”) and the prefrontal and parietal regions, with the latter two becoming more active under ambiguity. Other kinds of unknowns have yet to be widely studied in this fashion but research on them is emerging. Nevertheless, the evidence thus far suggests that the human brain treats unknowns as if there are different kinds. - Risky Business: Why Teens Need Risk to Thrive and Grow (psychologytoday.com)
According to a recent study by University College London, risk-taking behavior peeks during adolescence, suggesting that teens are “programmed” to take risks more often than other age groups. The same study also found that teens took risks because they liked the thrill of risk-taking as opposed to not being able to understand the consequences of their behavior.Risk-taking and rule-breaking is linked to developmental changes in the brain that serve to help teens become healthy, analytical adults. Thus, a certain amount of positive risk-taking is necessary for adolescents to fulfill their universal need for independence, developing a separate identity, and testing authority.
- How far do we want to go, take risks for ourselves and for others? We should know that climate change has “possible security implications”. Heat, Drought, Famine All Part of Coming ‘Exponential’ Increase Of Climate-Related Disasters (treehugger.com)
The collective global response, taking the lead of nations on the Security Council no doubt, has been obviously been inadequate, even as donor nations themselves are not in the middle of their own climate-induced crises (the current US heatwave notwithstanding). - Flood victims ‘fear climate change’ (confused.com)
People are more likely to think they are vulnerable to the effects of climate change if they have had floods in their neighbourhood, such as those in summer 2007 which led to a large number of claims on home insurance policies. They are also more likely to believe that global warming is a problem.
Psychologist Dr Alexa Spence, at the University of Nottingham, said: “We know that many people tend to see climate change as distant, affecting other people and places.“However, experience of extreme weather events like flooding have the potential to change the way people view climate change, by making it more real and tangible and ultimately resulting in greater intentions to act in sustainable ways.
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The Unintended Effects of Ethical Decision Aids in Organizations https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5136031.pdf?abstractid=5136031&mirid=1
"Organizations frequently utilize Contemplation Questions in an attempt to foster ethical #decisionMaking and encourage employees to reflect on their actions. Presumably, they particularly target ’bad apples’—those (unknown) employees with a higher propensity for unethical behavior. However, our results indicate that CQs may inadvertently cause ’boomerang’ effects for this group. Individuals with lower #moral identities tend to use their interaction with CQs to justify their unethical preferences, increasing the likelihood of them acting unethically. While some CQs have positive effects on individuals with high moral identities, overall, the unintended consequences seem to be more significant. This aligns with the concept of motivated moral reasoning, where individuals rationalize their initial moral choices."
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A good example of public transport comms and marketing.
This is a poster advertising the recent introduction of Sunday services on the route 612 bus on the concourse at Camberwell Station. It's a good location to advertise this improvement because it is directly in front of an audience with a potentially high propensity to use it (rail passengers).
We need to see more intermodal promotion of services like this.
#PublicTransport #Transit #Melbourne #MelbourneBuses #MelbourneTrains
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Sunday Morning Reading
The rapid decay of all things continues. I’m not even sure if “decay” is the right word. “Collapse” might be a better choice. Regardless, there’s no “decay” or “collapse” in my sharing articles and writing every week in Sunday Morning Reading. Enjoy.
Russell Shorto tells us that the fracture we’re facing shouldn’t surprise in America’s Fatal Division Is Nothing New: It Was Baked In From The Beginning. He’s right and that’s also nothing new. We just have a propensity for ignoring what we shouldn’t.
Marc Elias says We Can’t Give In To Fear. He’s right. But with those we mistakenly counted on having already done so, it makes it tougher for the rest of us.
Brian Barrett of Wired (which continues to do excellent reporting) gives us a rundown on The United States of Elon Musk. Good piece with good context. I don’t disagree with his premise that it’s unsustainable. The larger concern is what’s left in its wake.
NatashaMH opens up a personal tale of exploring justice, relationships, and personal power in The Price of Guns And Butter.
Things aren’t just decaying on political and social fronts, technology is marching right alongside, if not leading the charge. John Gruber lays out a mea culpa of sorts in discussing Apple’s less than intelligent move into Artificial Intelligence in Something Is Rotten In The State of Cupertino. I’ll have more to say on this later this week. I wrote a bit about it last week also.
Will Knight, (again in Wired) tells us that Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told To Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models. Tell me. Who didn’t see this kind of thing happening?
Cory Doctorow in Pluralistic lays out how Amazon Annihilates Alexa Privacy Settings, Turns On Continuous Nonconsensual Audio Uploading. One way user agreements flow only one way. Again, who didn’t see this coming?
In times of uncertain futures it’s always somewhat uncomfortably comforting to reminisce about simpler times. When it comes to technology there was perhaps no simpler or more innocent time than during the age of the Commodore 64, which was my first home computer. We’ve come a long way. Gareth Edwards takes a look at Jack Tramiel’s success in How Commodore Invented The Mass Market Computer.
(Image from Ashni on Unsplash)
If you’re interested in just what the heck Sunday Morning Reading is all about you can read more about the origins of Sunday Morning Reading here. You can also find more of my writings on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome.
#Amazon #Apple #AppleIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #Commodore64 #CoryDoctorow #elonMusk #History #JackTramiel #JohnGruber #MarcElias #philosophy #Poetry #Politics #religion #SundayMorningReading #Tech #Wired #Writing
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New paper from my old group:
Long-read genome assemblies of 33 species of eucalypt (gum tree) from across Australia, encompassing ~70My of evolution. Key finding: macrosynteny is preserved, but microsynteny rampantly disrupted. Cool result given the propensity for inter-specific hybridization and gene flow.
Preprint here: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.04.19.537464v1
Feel free to reach out with any Q's!#preprint #genome #trees #eucalyptus #genomics #genomeassembly #biorxiv #botany #synteny #structuralvariation
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246) Trying to keep this in mind ⬇️ for the next 22 days.
Most important thing is to vote and to persuade others to vote #KamalaHarris and to #VoteBlue
If you’re in a #SwingState or nearby volunteer to help get out the vote. The election will be more likely won by those who get out more low propensity voters sympathetic to their cause
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@bhahne @jensorensen Thanks for sharing, I’ve never heard it named before. We see the same phenomenon from irresponsible right-wing parties in Europe as well. Being able to refer to it by the name “Murc’s Law” is helpful!
Taken to the extreme, this propensity to blame the other side for your own bad behaviour is like the following amazing comic by Matt Bors: “Fault Right”.
https://thenib.com/fault-right/
#Fault #Right #MattBors #TheNib #Nazi #Nazism #MurcsLaw #Politics
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#annonce #spectacle #prixlibre
Ce soir on est sur #Paris avec le Poulet !
De passage après une tournée bretonne, on se pose à la capitale, mais on a pas de lieu pour jouer. Si vous connaissez un lieu cool, on est chauds. Sinon go #apéro !
Si vous ne connaissez pas le #Poulet :
C'est un cours inaugural comico-rap, dans lequel le Prof Hassanbal (c'est pas chère) tentera de répondre à la question :"Que faire d'un poulet lorsqu'il présente une forte propension a l'agressivité envers ses congénères?" -
People focus on Hitler and Nazi leaders and the atrocious lethal lies they told to justify the mass murder of Jews.
But they should focus also on the willingness of very many people to believe those lies, to cheer and assist as their Jewish neighbors were rounded up and sent to their deaths.
The problem is never just the Hitlers, the Nazis. The problem is us, many of us — our propensity to stigmatize and hate.
#Trump #Republicans #Hitler #Nazis #immigrants #BloodLibel #PoliticsofHate
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Usually I have the office to myself on Fridays but yesterday my boss was there when I walked in. I was already in a foul mood and almost immediately snapped at him in a most inappropriate way.
I don't know which is worse: the guilt I feel at having a boss who is so understanding of my propensity to lob unprofessional and hurtful things at him, or the fact that I'm just an asshole.
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Sure. I got through it. I achieved 100% viability of Kadara, but I feel no sense of accomplishment whatsoever. I hate the whole planet so much I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to play this game again after this playthrough. I’m talking sick-to-the-pit-of-my-stomach and periodic-bouts-of-PTSD-rage hate. The kind of hate that ruins a game forever.
It’s not just the disgusting and vile bottom-feeding characters that dominate the landscape. It’s not just the sloppy level design and buggy missions, some of which are impossible to complete because of outstanding bugs. It’s not even the propensity of the game to cheat when the player is performing too well on #InsanityMode…
It’s the complete lack of linearity to progression and difficulty scaling—you go nowhere nowhere nowhere for the whole of Kadara, not earning any AVP or XP worth mentioning the entire time, trapped on this plateau of tedium without reward or purpose until you’ve finally suffered through the whole goddamn miserable waste of a planet, and chosen a side between either a traitor or a backstabber. It’s not even a morally ambigupus choice. The only moral choice isn’t available to the player.
In any case, I’m so glad it’s over because I never want to step foot on that stinking filth-pit ever again.
Aw shit I still have Drack’s goddamn loyalty mission to deal with. Fuck!
#MassEffectAndromeda #MassEffect #InsanityMode #SciFi #Gaming #XboxSeriesX #Xbox
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Il linguaggio della guerra
Un ottimo articolo di Annamaria Manzoni su un importante argomento già trattato in passato su Veganzetta e purtroppo ancora attualissimo al giorno d’oggi: la degradazione del nemico umano per “ridurlo” a semplice Animale (ultimo gradino della nostra scala gerarchica dei senzienti) e in quanto tale poterlo perseguitare, colpire, sterminare senza remore morali. Ancora una volta la discriminazione specista degli Animali ci mostra il suo volto violento e funzionale alla nostra enorme propensione alla devastazione e al dominio, a partire proprio dallo stesso concetto distorto di Animale usato anche nei conflitti umani per insultare o degradare il nemico.
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World at risk of collapse under the weight of increasingly enormous vehicles
"Parking spaces in Australia may soon become bigger as a response to the nation’s love affair with SUVs and large cars, but planners fear parking lots are at risk of collapse under the weight of increasingly enormous vehicles."
"Larger vehicles made pedestrians, cyclists and drivers of small cars less safe, as well as simply taking up more room on the road....Studies have found that children involved in a fatal crash are eight times more likely to have been struck by an SUV than a standard car...Our propensity to buy these vehicles is driving road safety backwards."
"More than 50% of new vehicles sold in the country last year were SUVs, a share that has almost doubled over the past decade."
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/15/australia-may-increase-standard-car-parking-spaces-as-huge-vehicles-dominate-the-streets
#Australia #consumers #choice #BigAnything #cars #FossilFuel #SUVs #carbon #emissions #safety #failure #ClimateCrisis -
Jeff "never puts away anything, especially oven mitts" Cliff, Bringer of Nightmares 🦝🐙 🇱🇧🧯 🇨🇦 @[email protected] ·Finally got around to reading Tarrant's #greatreplacement manifesto that has been so heavily censored
"I want you in my sights. I want your neck under my boot."-Brenton Tarrant
Perhaps he wasn't referring to me, specifically
- maybe I'm the wrong kind of marxist. But given his propensity to win at any cost, the lines will be blurry even in that case. So the feeling is mutual tbh.
Brenton Tarrant wants to increase birthrates at all costs. I cannot abide by his being willing to sacrifice me for that purpose, among other things. I will choose to sacrifice myself for my own cause, kthx
Tarrant tried very hard to reduce everything to support this - and to his credit he's willing to give up the little bit of political baggage that *is* going to cause problems for him (taxes as theft - non-white empires who are willing to levy taxes are going to *steamroll* any ethnostate following him to the letter even in the absence of nuclear weapons which thankfully he didn't think worthy of mention). But that's a political point of disagreement and evidence in practice could swing thing either way. Maybe a no-tax ethnostate would work fantastically. Colour me skeptical. Even #dalwaalislamyya, supported by expats though it was, had some taxes.
There's basically 4 gaping holes in his manifesto
1) The australian aborigines / new zealand equivalent and, generally, anti-colonialist forces elsewhere.
2) Nuclear weapons. I don't think he has any concept of how easily and quickly his cherished 760-980 million could be exterminated and how precarious the situation is right now
3)
> the egalitarian nation [sic] is a myth
and yet
He rages against it in principle. Even if it did exist, he would destroy it. Even if there was a working marketplace of ideas, he would tear it down. Even if there were a free library, a testament even to his white culture...he would burn it and everything within it. It's pretty clear he has lost sight of the possibility of
a egalitarian solution and this suggests the kind of mistake you make when you have a static view of the world with only one rate available to you - birthrates. When change is difficult to understand so changes themselves become salient features of the world. There is a way out that doesn't involve everyone just fucking killing and raping eachother and most of us are living it. It's counterintuitive but once you see it you can't unsee it. Sadly he doesn't seem to.
See: #betterangelsofournature
louder for the followers in the back:
SPARE THE GODDAMN LIBRARIES YOU BARBARIAN CUCK
4)
> at all costs
This is by far the most dangerous part of the whole manifesto.
It's self-defeating - once you embrace this type of thinking you start doing things like 'kill the child in order to save her'. And sure, there's some situations where that's justified.
But there are costs which should not be paid.
There are horrors that shouldn't exist, period, and which we should strive to prevent no matter who we are. And he is willing to summon them.
He thinks we won't remember who he is. And maybe he's right. For him, personally he's right. But we *will* remember those who win using his words. And we will remember what terrible things they did, like we who remember the muslim rape gangs, what happened to the zimbabwe economy when the printers went brrr, and the holocaust.
I think though that the one thing I take away from this manifesto more than anything is that - moderates are always the first up against the wall, and the close enemy is always the most hated[1]. I am starting to see this sort of thing as the close enemy to those who have reacted most strongly against it - ie the censors, the liberals, the major media, the corpolitical. They aren't as different as they might portray themselves, to the monsters this man is trying to unleash on the world.
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Eighty percent of patients with #autoimmunediseases are female. These diseases are one of the top 10 leading causes of death for women under 65, and cases are increasing annually worldwide. There is evidence suggesting that it's females’ double complement of X #chromosomes that puts them at such heightened risk for autoimmune diseases. Female cells have two X chromosomes, whereas males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (at least in mammals). https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/female-propensity-for-autoimmune-diseases-tied-to-x-chromosome-inactivation/
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Adapt or become #fodder for
AI's algorithms, before we become extinct & too lazy tocare.AI will turn us all into robots,
if "X" has its way, inserting chips into our brain.Perhaps AI will finally bring world peace, destroying man's propensity for grandiosity, religiosity,
squelching evil & barbarity#vss365 #smallpoems #prompt #writer #writingcommunity #writing
#writingprompts #art #fediart #mastoarṭ #mastoartist -
Adapt or become #fodder for
AI's algorithms, before we become extinct & too lazy tocare.AI will turn us all into robots,
if "X" has its way, inserting chips into our brain.Perhaps AI will finally bring world peace, destroying man's propensity for grandiosity, religiosity,
squelching evil & barbarity#vss365 #smallpoems #prompt #writer #writingcommunity #writing
#writingprompts #art #fediart #mastoarṭ #mastoartist -
Adapt or become #fodder for
AI's algorithms, before we become extinct & too lazy tocare.AI will turn us all into robots,
if "X" has its way, inserting chips into our brain.Perhaps AI will finally bring world peace, destroying man's propensity for grandiosity, religiosity,
squelching evil & barbarity#vss365 #smallpoems #prompt #writer #writingcommunity #writing
#writingprompts #art #fediart #mastoarṭ #mastoartist -
Adapt or become #fodder for
AI's algorithms, before we become extinct & too lazy tocare.AI will turn us all into robots,
if "X" has its way, inserting chips into our brain.Perhaps AI will finally bring world peace, destroying man's propensity for grandiosity, religiosity,
squelching evil & barbarity#vss365 #smallpoems #prompt #writer #writingcommunity #writing
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New paper explains why females are prone to #autoimmune diseases
80% of #patients with autoimmune diseases are #female. There is evidence suggesting that it's females’ double complement of #Xchromosome that puts them at such heightened risk for autoimmune diseases. Female cells have two X #chromosomes, whereas males have one X chromosome and one #Ychromosome (at least in mammals).
A system that shuts down one of two X chromosomes is targeted by auto-antibodies. https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/female-propensity-for-autoimmune-diseases-tied-to-x-chromosome-inactivation/ -
The threat of absorption into the Zuckerberg surveillance entity is a menace, but also an opportunity. However, the prospect itself needs to be reviewed. Opinions are being voiced that Meta will not, in fact, federate at all.
Some of these claims are good-faith efforts to critically regard the well-established propensity of the corporation to lie through its teeth at every opportunity. While true, there are clear and ongoing indications that Meta has both the intention and the motive to proceed.
First, Meta has planted an engineer in the W3C ActivityPub working group. This may be a precursor to custom additions to the spec which could facilitate advertising and behavioral surveillance protocols.
https://thenewstack.io/threads-adopting-activitypub-makes-sense-but-wont-be-easy/ (pro-Meta propaganda)
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#FreeFediverse #FediPact #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #Prefiguration #DualPower #Fedifam #Communalism #FacebookFediverse
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Last week was all game design for Emergence: biomes, species and tech trees :) I'm quite excited to see some of the bizarre organisms and ecologies come alive.
Today's work was implementing the first of those: tide weed. Tide weed is a simple plant found in the coastal biome. It requires huge amounts of water, but produces large volumes of raw materials and can be walked on.
It hugs the tide as it goes in and out, due to its rapid vegetative spread but extremely shallow roots (and propensity to getting washed away).
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How an anti-hero of the #ImmuneSystem protects from malaria https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bugbitten/2024/07/07/how-an-anti-hero-of-the-immune-system-protects-from-malaria/
#Autoantibodies inhibit #Plasmodium falciparum growth and are associated with protection from clinical #malaria https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1074761324002784
"Malarial #disease and #autoimmune disease share a strange relationship. Both are best avoided, however when one is infected with the Plasmodium parasite it may be beneficial to have a propensity for autoimmunity."