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  1. On Pathologising Structural Criticism

    Pathologising structural criticism as anger lets power avoid accountability. This polemical personal-political essay argues for dignity, boundaries, and solidarity without self-abandonment, rejecting respectability politics that demand dispossessed people make harm sound polite before they are recognised as human within every collective struggle.

    wrzky.com/pathologising-struct

  2. On Pathologising Structural Criticism

    Pathologising structural criticism as anger lets power avoid accountability. This polemical personal-political essay argues for dignity, boundaries, and solidarity without self-abandonment, rejecting respectability politics that demand dispossessed people make harm sound polite before they are recognised as human within every collective struggle.

    wrzky.com/pathologising-struct

  3. 🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
    christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/e #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated

  4. 🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
    christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/e #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated

  5. 🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
    christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/e #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated

  6. 🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
    christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/e #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated

  7. 🎩🤖 "Ah, the old 'Software is the New Bridge Building' shtick! Because nothing screams innovation like comparing cutting-edge AI to... 18th-century steel beams. 🙄 Maybe next time, they'll tell us how debugging is just like bricklaying. 🧱🔧"
    christophermeiklejohn.com/ai/e #SoftwareInnovation #AIComparisons #TechHumor #DebuggingMetaphors #BridgeBuilding #HackerNews #ngated

  8. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built just down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the slow progress of modern day bridge building.
    On this particular day I was on my way into work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. I couldn't help stopping to capture the amazing light.

    pixels.com/featured/bridge-bui

    #BridgeBuilding #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BeniciaBridge #SacramentoRiver #GoldenGlow

  9. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built just down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the slow progress of modern day bridge building.
    On this particular day I was on my way into work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. I couldn't help stopping to capture the amazing light.

    pixels.com/featured/bridge-bui

    #BridgeBuilding #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BeniciaBridge #SacramentoRiver #GoldenGlow

  10. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built just down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the slow progress of modern day bridge building.
    On this particular day I was on my way into work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. I couldn't help stopping to capture the amazing light.

    pixels.com/featured/bridge-bui

    #BridgeBuilding #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BeniciaBridge #SacramentoRiver #GoldenGlow

  11. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built just down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the slow progress of modern day bridge building.
    On this particular day I was on my way into work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. I couldn't help stopping to capture the amazing light.

    pixels.com/featured/bridge-bui

    #BridgeBuilding #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BeniciaBridge #SacramentoRiver #GoldenGlow

  12. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built just down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the slow progress of modern day bridge building.
    On this particular day I was on my way into work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. I couldn't help stopping to capture the amazing light.

    pixels.com/featured/bridge-bui

    #BridgeBuilding #BillGallagherPhotography #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #BeniciaBridge #SacramentoRiver #GoldenGlow

  13. CW: longish post about politics and language

    Are we able to bridge the gap between what the average person believes about the world, and what the world is really like?

    In this question, I am including a theory whereby a person is able to understand a language that is adjacent to their own, with a little help, but will reject language that is more than one step removed.

    So, let's say your mom is a centrist.
    She has certain viewpoints that have been core centrist fare for decades, like, "it's important for the US to support Israel's right to exist".

    Under this theory, she won't accept language that directly reverses this, such as "It is important for the international community to recognize the right of palestinians to defend themselves from Israel".

    Instead, intermediary languages would need to be used.

    Similarly, your uncle is a center-conservative. He has viewpoints that have been center-conservative mainstays for a century, like "Competition is important to prevent decline", and won't accept language like "Competition is usually a sign of a mismanaged system with artificial scarcity, it is a harmful state of affairs that will engender needless social strife and waste".

    I think, on some amphibian-brain level, the far right understands this mechanic rather well. The whole Youtube doom-slide to nazism is a case in point: The frog is gently being introduced to more and more poison, until it's no longer able to exist in a non-toxic environment.

    But on the "left", i.e. among sane people, there tends to be a demand for maximally precise language.
    This is sometimes called out as "sectarianism" or "tribalism".

    Yet maximally precise language is going to doom the sane people to a steady decline, on a floating island, far out at sea, that no-one can reach.
    (Especially when They attack the independence of universities)

    What is really needed is an ecosystem of gently increasing precision.

    In a word: Accessibility.

    Accessibility is Solidarity.

    #solidarity #politics #WaysAhead #bridgeBuilding

  14. CW: longish post about politics and language

    Are we able to bridge the gap between what the average person believes about the world, and what the world is really like?

    In this question, I am including a theory whereby a person is able to understand a language that is adjacent to their own, with a little help, but will reject language that is more than one step removed.

    So, let's say your mom is a centrist.
    She has certain viewpoints that have been core centrist fare for decades, like, "it's important for the US to support Israel's right to exist".

    Under this theory, she won't accept language that directly reverses this, such as "It is important for the international community to recognize the right of palestinians to defend themselves from Israel".

    Instead, intermediary languages would need to be used.

    Similarly, your uncle is a center-conservative. He has viewpoints that have been center-conservative mainstays for a century, like "Competition is important to prevent decline", and won't accept language like "Competition is usually a sign of a mismanaged system with artificial scarcity, it is a harmful state of affairs that will engender needless social strife and waste".

    I think, on some amphibian-brain level, the far right understands this mechanic rather well. The whole Youtube doom-slide to nazism is a case in point: The frog is gently being introduced to more and more poison, until it's no longer able to exist in a non-toxic environment.

    But on the "left", i.e. among sane people, there tends to be a demand for maximally precise language.
    This is sometimes called out as "sectarianism" or "tribalism".

    Yet maximally precise language is going to doom the sane people to a steady decline, on a floating island, far out at sea, that no-one can reach.
    (Especially when the right wingers in power attack the independence of universities, cutting off one rather elitist bridge)

    What is really needed is an ecosystem of gently increasing precision.

    In a word: Accessibility.

    Accessibility is Solidarity.

    #solidarity #politics #WaysAhead #bridgeBuilding

  15. CW: longish post about politics and language

    Are we able to bridge the gap between what the average person believes about the world, and what the world is really like?

    In this question, I am including a theory whereby a person is able to understand a language that is adjacent to their own, with a little help, but will reject language that is more than one step removed.

    So, let's say your mom is a centrist.
    She has certain viewpoints that have been core centrist fare for decades, like, "it's important for the US to support Israel's right to exist".

    Under this theory, she won't accept language that directly reverses this, such as "It is important for the international community to recognize the right of palestinians to defend themselves from Israel".

    Instead, intermediary languages would need to be used.

    Similarly, your uncle is a center-conservative. He has viewpoints that have been center-conservative mainstays for a century, like "Competition is important to prevent decline", and won't accept language like "Competition is usually a sign of a mismanaged system with artificial scarcity, it is a harmful state of affairs that will engender needless social strife and waste".

    I think, on some amphibian-brain level, the far right understands this mechanic rather well. The whole Youtube doom-slide to nazism is a case in point: The frog is gently being introduced to more and more poison, until it's no longer able to exist in a non-toxic environment.

    But on the "left", i.e. among sane people, there tends to be a demand for maximally precise language.
    This is sometimes called out as "sectarianism" or "tribalism".

    Yet maximally precise language is going to doom the sane people to a steady decline, on a floating island, far out at sea, that no-one can reach.
    (Especially when the right wingers in power attack the independence of universities, cutting off one rather elitist bridge)

    What is really needed is an ecosystem of gently increasing precision.

    In a word: Accessibility.

    Accessibility is Solidarity.

    #solidarity #politics #WaysAhead #bridgeBuilding

  16. CW: longish post about politics and language

    Are we able to bridge the gap between what the average person believes about the world, and what the world is really like?

    In this question, I am including a theory whereby a person is able to understand a language that is adjacent to their own, with a little help, but will reject language that is more than one step removed.

    So, let's say your mom is a centrist.
    She has certain viewpoints that have been core centrist fare for decades, like, "it's important for the US to support Israel's right to exist".

    Under this theory, she won't accept language that directly reverses this, such as "It is important for the international community to recognize the right of palestinians to defend themselves from Israel".

    Instead, intermediary languages would need to be used.

    Similarly, your uncle is a center-conservative. He has viewpoints that have been center-conservative mainstays for a century, like "Competition is important to prevent decline", and won't accept language like "Competition is usually a sign of a mismanaged system with artificial scarcity, it is a harmful state of affairs that will engender needless social strife and waste".

    I think, on some amphibian-brain level, the far right understands this mechanic rather well. The whole Youtube doom-slide to nazism is a case in point: The frog is gently being introduced to more and more poison, until it's no longer able to exist in a non-toxic environment.

    But on the "left", i.e. among sane people, there tends to be a demand for maximally precise language.
    This is sometimes called out as "sectarianism" or "tribalism".

    Yet maximally precise language is going to doom the sane people to a steady decline, on a floating island, far out at sea, that no-one can reach.
    (Especially when the right wingers in power attack the independence of universities, cutting off one rather elitist bridge)

    What is really needed is an ecosystem of gently increasing precision.

    In a word: Accessibility.

    Accessibility is Solidarity.

    #solidarity #politics #WaysAhead #bridgeBuilding

  17. The project to build the new bridge over the Waikato was co-governed with mana whenua. Resulting in a novel design that respected the mauri of the awa, requiring no piles in the riverbed. The majority of the design and fabrication work was done onshore.

    newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand

    A fitting tribute to the legacy of Kiingi Tūheitia.

    #bridge #BridgeBuilding #CoGovernance

  18. The project to build the new bridge over the Waikato was co-governed with mana whenua. Resulting in a novel design that respected the mauri of the awa, requiring no piles in the riverbed. The majority of the design and fabrication work was done onshore.

    newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand

    A fitting tribute to the legacy of Kiingi Tūheitia.

    #bridge #BridgeBuilding #CoGovernance

  19. The project to build the new bridge over the Waikato was co-governed with mana whenua. Resulting in a novel design that respected the mauri of the awa, requiring no piles in the riverbed. The majority of the design and fabrication work was done onshore.

    newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand

    A fitting tribute to the legacy of Kiingi Tūheitia.

    #bridge #BridgeBuilding #CoGovernance

  20. The project to build the new bridge over the Waikato was co-governed with mana whenua. Resulting in a novel design that respected the mauri of the awa, requiring no piles in the riverbed. The majority of the design and fabrication work was done onshore.

    newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand

    A fitting tribute to the legacy of Kiingi Tūheitia.

    #bridge #BridgeBuilding #CoGovernance

  21. If you love to learn, yet seek a practical application for your research, the M.A. in Peace & Justice at the jfi.ssu.ca/ma is a very challenging, yet very doable and amazing opportunity!!

    The Jim Forest Institute is an academic and contemplative community that provides a ‘remote’, yet interactive, graduate-level venue for aspiring activists and everyday peacemakers of diverse faith(s) to excel. Students learn to help create interpersonal environments that are transformative to local and global conflicts. The professors are world-class academic scholars who take an interest in individual students’ passions. Your ideas matter!! Apply today!!
    #bridgebuilding
    #inquiry

  22. If you love to learn, yet seek a practical application for your research, the M.A. in Peace & Justice at the jfi.ssu.ca/ma is a very challenging, yet very doable and amazing opportunity!!

    The Jim Forest Institute is an academic and contemplative community that provides a ‘remote’, yet interactive, graduate-level venue for aspiring activists and everyday peacemakers of diverse faith(s) to excel. Students learn to help create interpersonal environments that are transformative to local and global conflicts. The professors are world-class academic scholars who take an interest in individual students’ passions. Your ideas matter!! Apply today!!
    #bridgebuilding
    #inquiry

  23. If you love to learn, yet seek a practical application for your research, the M.A. in Peace & Justice at the jfi.ssu.ca/ma is a very challenging, yet very doable and amazing opportunity!!

    The Jim Forest Institute is an academic and contemplative community that provides a ‘remote’, yet interactive, graduate-level venue for aspiring activists and everyday peacemakers of diverse faith(s) to excel. Students learn to help create interpersonal environments that are transformative to local and global conflicts. The professors are world-class academic scholars who take an interest in individual students’ passions. Your ideas matter!! Apply today!!
    #bridgebuilding
    #inquiry

  24. Breaking down barriers one connection at a time!

    FMPO brings people together, fostering friendships and relationships that transcend borders, boundaries, and biases. Join us and be part of the movement.

    We are available on App Store:
    apple.co/3ltKdwL
    And on Google Play:
    bit.ly/3ItjtFW

    🌐linktr.ee/findmyplusone 🚀

    #fmpo #breakingbarriers #bridgebuilding #connectioniskey

  25. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the progress of modern day bridge building.
    Between all of the government regulations and oversight it took years before they even started construction.
    On this day I was on my way to work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. See the full image here: fineartamerica.com/featured/br #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #BridgeBuilding

  26. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the progress of modern day bridge building.
    Between all of the government regulations and oversight it took years before they even started construction.
    On this day I was on my way to work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. See the full image here: fineartamerica.com/featured/br #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #BridgeBuilding

  27. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the progress of modern day bridge building.
    Between all of the government regulations and oversight it took years before they even started construction.
    On this day I was on my way to work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. See the full image here: fineartamerica.com/featured/br #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #BridgeBuilding

  28. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the progress of modern day bridge building.
    Between all of the government regulations and oversight it took years before they even started construction.
    On this day I was on my way to work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. See the full image here: fineartamerica.com/featured/br #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #BridgeBuilding

  29. Bridge Building

    This is an image of the new Benicia Bridge. This bridge was built down the street of my place of employment. So I was able to witness the progress of modern day bridge building.
    Between all of the government regulations and oversight it took years before they even started construction.
    On this day I was on my way to work and noticed the incredible lighting on the bridge. See the full image here: fineartamerica.com/featured/br #AYearForArt #BillGallagherPhotography #BridgeBuilding

  30. Arrived and ready for the negotiation on the #DSA today! We may take a big step today for a safe and accountable online environment: What is illegal offline, should also be seen and treated as illegal online! #bridgebuilding

    🐦🔗: nitter.eu/vestager/status/1517

  31. RT @vestager: Arrived and ready for the negotiation on the #DSA today! We may take a big step today for a safe and accountable online environment: What is illegal offline, should also be seen and treated as illegal online! #bridgebuilding

    🐦🔗: nitter.eu/jb_bax/status/151748

  32. RT @vestager: Arrived and ready for the negotiation on the #DSA today! We may take a big step today for a safe and accountable online environment: What is illegal offline, should also be seen and treated as illegal online! #bridgebuilding

    🐦🔗: nitter.eu/EEAthina/status/1517

  33. RT @vestager: Arrived and ready for the negotiation on the #DSA today! We may take a big step today for a safe and accountable online environment: What is illegal offline, should also be seen and treated as illegal online! #bridgebuilding

    🐦🔗: nitter.eu/DigitalEU/status/151