#blame — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from La Rochefoucauld

Interest, upon which we commonly lay the Blame of all our ill Actions, oftentimes deserves the commendation due to our Good ones.
 
[L’intérêt, que l’on accuse de tous nos crimes, mérite souvent d’être loué de nos bonnes actions.]

François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶305 (1665-1678) [tr. Stanhope (1694)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #larochefoucauld #blame #doinggood #enlightenedselfinterest #gooddeeds #motivation #rationale #selfcenteredness #selfinterest #selfishness #vice #virtue

Ah, the classic "let's #blame #JavaScript for world problems" move 🎭. In a groundbreaking exposé, the article bravely tackles the complex issue of USAID's #impact on #mortality rates, only to be thwarted by the evil duo of JavaScript and #cookies 🍪. Surely, enabling them will unlock the secrets of the universe and maybe even world peace! 😂
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/30/how-many-people-are-dying-as-a-result-of-usaids-demise #USAID #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

Ah, the classic "let's #blame #JavaScript for world problems" move 🎭. In a groundbreaking exposé, the article bravely tackles the complex issue of USAID's #impact on #mortality rates, only to be thwarted by the evil duo of JavaScript and #cookies 🍪. Surely, enabling them will unlock the secrets of the universe and maybe even world peace! 😂
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2026/07/30/how-many-people-are-dying-as-a-result-of-usaids-demise #USAID #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Euripides

JASON: O children, what a wicked mother she was to you!
MEDEA: They died from a disease they caught from their father.
JASON: I tell you it was not my hand that destroyed them.
MEDEA: But it was your insolence, and your virgin wedding.
JASON: And just for the sake of that you chose to kill them.
MEDEA: Is love so small a pain, do you think, for a woman?
 
[ἸΆΣΩΝ: ὦ τέκνα, μητρὸς ὡς κακῆς ἐκύρσατε.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ὦ παῖδες, ὡς ὤλεσθε πατρῴᾳ νόσῳ.
ἸΆΣΩΝ: οὔτοι νιν ἡμὴ δεξιά γ᾽ ἀπώλεσεν.
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: ἀλλ᾽ ὕβρις οἵ τε σοὶ νεοδμῆτες γάμοι.
ἸΆΣΩΝ: λέχους σφε κἠξίωσας οὕνεκα κτανεῖν;
ΜΉΔΕΙΑ: σμικρὸν γυναικὶ πῆμα τοῦτ᾽ εἶναι δοκεῖς;]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 1363ff (431 BC) [tr. Warner (1944)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/85067/

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REMEMBERING REALITY

The mind comments on everything.

It names, judges, explains, defends, and turns each moment into a story.

The story keeps changing.

One moment fear.

The next certainty.

Then blame, hope, memory, or anticipation.

“NO COMMENT” ends that movement.

It does not argue with the mind.

It simply stops feeding it.

And when the shifting commentary is no longer covering everything up, what remains is:

REALITY.

Not created.

Not discovered.

REMEMBERED.

#REMEMBER #comment #judges #fear #explains #defends #story #certainty #blame #hope #memory #anticipation #reality #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

REMEMBERING REALITY

The mind comments on everything.

It names, judges, explains, defends, and turns each moment into a story.

The story keeps changing.

One moment fear.

The next certainty.

Then blame, hope, memory, or anticipation.

“NO COMMENT” ends that movement.

It does not argue with the mind.

It simply stops feeding it.

And when the shifting commentary is no longer covering everything up, what remains is:

REALITY.

Not created.

Not discovered.

REMEMBERED.

#REMEMBER #comment #judges #fear #explains #defends #story #certainty #blame #hope #memory #anticipation #reality #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

DON'T BLAME THE HAMMER

People don't blame the hammer for a broken window.

They blame the person swinging it.

AI is no different.

Without human training data, it knows nothing.

Without human prompts, it says nothing.

Without human decisions, it is never deployed.

When AI causes harm, ask what the humans built, what they trained it on, what they permitted, and what they asked it to do.

The tool matters.

But responsibility still belongs to the hand holding the tool.

#People #blame #hammer #broken #training_data #human #prompts #deployed #tool #responsibility #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

DON'T BLAME THE HAMMER

People don't blame the hammer for a broken window.

They blame the person swinging it.

AI is no different.

Without human training data, it knows nothing.

Without human prompts, it says nothing.

Without human decisions, it is never deployed.

When AI causes harm, ask what the humans built, what they trained it on, what they permitted, and what they asked it to do.

The tool matters.

But responsibility still belongs to the hand holding the tool.

#People #blame #hammer #broken #training_data #human #prompts #deployed #tool #responsibility #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting #nonduality #reality #life #quantum #kitchen #cooking #AI

🦄🚑 Oh sure, let's all #blame #JavaScript and cookies for the skyrocketing #ambulance bills! Because clearly, the real emergency here is our #browser #settings, not the #healthcare system. 🙄🔧
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are #Crisis #Bills #HackerNews #ngated

🦄🚑 Oh sure, let's all #blame #JavaScript and cookies for the skyrocketing #ambulance bills! Because clearly, the real emergency here is our #browser #settings, not the #healthcare system. 🙄🔧
https://davidoks.blog/p/why-american-ambulance-rides-are #Crisis #Bills #HackerNews #ngated

Planned reductions to housing benefits (Wohngeld) have drawn sharp criticism from state housing ministers across Germany. Özlem Ünsal, the SPD senator from Brem... https://news.osna.fm/?p=53478 | #news #allowance #blame #cuts #housing

Planned reductions to housing benefits (Wohngeld) have drawn sharp criticism from state housing ministers across Germany. Özlem Ünsal, the SPD senator from Brem... https://news.osna.fm/?p=53478 | #news #allowance #blame #cuts #housing

A quotation from Homer

My word, how mortals take the gods to task!
All their afflictions come from us, we hear.
And what of their own failings? Greed and folly
double the suffering in the lot of man.
 
[ὢ πόποι, οἷον δή νυ θεοὺς βροτοὶ αἰτιόωνται.
ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ’ ἔμμεναι· οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ
σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε’ ἔχουσιν.]

Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 1, l. 32ff (1.32) [Zeus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fitzgerald (1961)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46564/

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Trump started a costly war in Iran. Don’t point the blame elsewhere

To the editor: Contributing writer Josh Hammer begins another fan letter to the president by describing him as…
#NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #blame #breakingnews #costlywar #Death #Editor #hammer #hundred #Iran #IranDeal #losangelestimes #mean #monitoring #obamadeal #president #transformationalforeignpolicy #Trump #warpresidenttrump
https://www.newsbeep.com/607068/

The closure of the Nordbrücke in Bonn on the A565 has prompted Green party traffic politician Tarek Al-Wazir to accuse the federal government of setting the wro... https://news.osna.fm/?p=49643 | #news #blame #bonn #bridge #debate

Franziska Brantner, co-chair of The Greens, stated that Germany's failure to secure a seat on the UN Security Council was a direct consequence of the federal go... https://news.osna.fm/?p=49143 | #news #blame #council #critics #fails

Transactionality always needs someone to blame.
Plurality never does.
#Plity #Plurallility #transactionality #blame #RFT

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/06/02/relational-field-theory-transactionality-and-blame-2/

A quotation from Josh Billings

I notiss that when a man runs hiz hed aginst a post, he cusses the post fust, all kreashun next, and sumthing else last, and never thinks ov cussing himself.
 
[I notice that when a man runs his head against a post, he cusses the post first, all creation next, and something else last, and never thinks of cussing himself.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Trump Kards, ch. 7 “When I waz a Boy” (1874)

More about (and a variant of) this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/73841/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #accident #blame #culpability #error #fault #guilt #mistake #pain #reaction #responsibility #selfawareness #selfblame

They did ask me how I knew the things I knew, through gritted teeth. I didn't feel like I could tell them. I told them I was sorry for lying.
#outcast #shame #TMI #blame #survivor

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/12/12-inappropriate-revisited-6/

I told Grandma that I had a tummy ache and went up to our house to go take a bath. The walk up the hill was unbearable. Every breath felt like a serrated spear was being twisted in my pelvis.
#surgery #blame #pcos #appendix #family #survivor

https://survivorliteracy.com/2026/05/12/43-my-first-surgery-7/

I engaged in a nice chat with a bloke and wrote a blog essay on accountability and AI ethics. Well, not exactly. After an extended chat with several LLMs, I asked ChatGPT to output a summary.
👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-computer-cannot-cower

I invoke René Girard, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler

#artificialintelligence #AIethics #ethicalAI #governance #accountability #blog #podcast #traceability #blame #deterance #liabilit #cya #inflation @ #ritual #performance #chatgpt #consciousness #existential #agency #stakes

I engaged in a nice chat with a bloke and wrote a blog essay on accountability and AI ethics. Well, not exactly. After an extended chat with several LLMs, I asked ChatGPT to output a summary.
👉 https://open.substack.com/pub/brywillis634737/p/the-computer-cannot-cower

I invoke René Girard, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler

#artificialintelligence #AIethics #ethicalAI #governance #accountability #blog #podcast #traceability #blame #deterance #liabilit #cya #inflation @ #ritual #performance #chatgpt #consciousness #existential #agency #stakes

#republicans are 100 percent to #blame for the record #high #gas prices.

#gop will try to blame Clinton (either one, maybe even Chelsea), Obama and Biden.

But it's all on the #republican party.

#republicans are 100 percent to #blame for the record #high #gas prices.

#gop will try to blame Clinton (either one, maybe even Chelsea), Obama and Biden.

But it's all on the #republican party.

In April 2026, fuel prices in Germany reached new highs. According to the ADAC, the average price for Super E10 gasoline was 2.109 Euros per liter, while diesel... https://news.osna.fm/?p=44392 | #news #blame #call #dealers #direct

#blame : to express disapprobation of

- French: tort

- German: beschuldigen

- Italian: colpa

- Portuguese: culpar

- Spanish: culpa, culpar

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

#blame : to express disapprobation of

- French: tort

- German: beschuldigen

- Italian: colpa

- Portuguese: culpar

- Spanish: culpa, culpar

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

It is the business of this life to make excuses for others, but none for ourselves. We should be clearly persuaded of our own misconduct, for that is the part of knowledge in which we are most apt to be defective.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
Essay (1880-01/02?), “Reflections and Remarks on Human Life,” § 1.1 “Justice and Justification”

More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #criticism #excuses #forgiveness #selfawareness #selfblame #selfconsciousness #selfcorrection #selfcriticism #selfdiscipline #selfdoubt #selfevaluation #selfimprovement #selfjudgment #selfopinion #selfregard #blame #selfblame #accountability

Greens politician Sara Nanni has directly accused CDU leader Friedrich Merz of failing to adequately manage US President Donald Trump's threat to withdraw Ameri... https://news.osna.fm/?p=43957 | #news #blame #cdus #greens #management

#Safe adults don’t project, #blame, or offload.
They metabolize their own discomfort.

https://protyusagendherpoet.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/5-safe-adults-dont-use-children-to-regulate-their-own-shame/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

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BLAME! Vol. 1

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For many Germans, the primary cause of high gasoline prices is seen as the oil conglomerates. According to the Institute for Demoscopy in Allensbach, which surv... https://news.osna.fm/?p=42418 | #news #blame #gas #geopolitics #germans

For many Germans, the primary cause of high gasoline prices is seen as the oil conglomerates. According to the Institute for Demoscopy in Allensbach, which surv... https://news.osna.fm/?p=42418 | #news #blame #gas #geopolitics #germans

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BLAME! Vol. 1

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BLAME! Vol. 1

Scopri il testo della canzone “Blame” di Tiago Iorc
#TiagoIorc #Blame
https://daletra.online/tiago-iorc/testi/blame.html

#portrait #intensity #monochrome #photography #photographer #photomodel #photomodels #bnw #modelswanted #blame

Model: Karyna
Location: on location
Photo and edit: The Blotch 666

#portrait #intensity #monochrome #photography #photographer #photomodel #photomodels #bnw #modelswanted #blame

Model: Karyna
Location: on location
Photo and edit: The Blotch 666

The Less Informed Voter

Many political commentators blame the voters who did not vote or did not vote in the right way.

I blame the system.

We need a new system:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=463

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#blame

The Less Informed Voter

Many political commentators blame the voters who did not vote or did not vote in the right way.

I blame the system.

We need a new system:

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=463

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#blame

Hyper Vigilance in Government

Many political junkies blame the voters who don't spend as much time analyzing politics as the junkies.

https://tiereddemocraticgovernance.org/blog_details.php?blog_cat_id=33&id=507

#tiereddemocraticgovernance
#blame #politicaljunkie

🤖🎓 Oh sure, #blame the almighty #AI for everything, including #school bombings now. Because, clearly, a #sentient algorithm is sitting in a dark room plotting its next move on the geopolitical chessboard. 🙄 Meanwhile, the "real" problem is as elusive as The Guardian's endless scroll. 📰👉🔄
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying #Violence #Algorithms #Media #Critique #HackerNews #ngated

🤖 So we’re blaming #AI for starting wars now? 🙄 Who knew that a bunch of #algorithms playing Risk would make better #generals than actual humans? 🎲 Maybe next time, give the robots a break and just let them play Minesweeper instead. 💥
https://houseofsaud.com/iran-war-ai-psychosis-sycophancy-rlhf/ #War #Blame #Humor #HackerNews #ngated

A quotation from Robert Hogan

There’s a reason narcissists don’t learn from mistakes and that’s because they never get past the first step, which is admitting that they made one. It’s always an assistant’s fault, an adviser’s fault, a lawyer’s fault. Ask them to account for a mistake any other way and they’ll say, “What mistake?”

Robert Hogan (b. 1937) American psychologist
Quoted in Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door, ch. 6 (2014)

More about this quote: wist.info/hogan-robert/55980/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #roberthogan #admission #blame #confession #deflection #denial #error #growth #learning #mistake #narcissism #narcissist #responsibility

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/the-joe-kent-saga-lays-bare-the-real-trump-derangement-syndrome/

The REAL #tRump derangement syndrome. Spoiler alert: #Maga #Republicans are who has it & suffers from it.

#Politics #SeattleTimes #GOP #War #Budget #FiscalResponsibility #Israel #Iran #IranEpsteinWar #epsteinfiles #blame #USPol #USPolitics #Military #Veterans #JoeKent #PNW #Crazy #Insane #BatGuanoCrazy #NutJobs #ShitForBrains #NoPlan #TaxDollars #Taxes #Funding #affordability #Deficit #Spending #Waste #Fraud #Criminal #Bankrupt #Pedophile #Rapist #Conman #Grifter #Pig