#forgetting — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forgetting, aggregated by home.social.
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget
https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859047
#HackerNews #AI #Forgiveness #MachineLearning #AI #Ethics #Forgetting #Mechanism
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AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget
https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859047
#HackerNews #AI #Forgiveness #MachineLearning #AI #Ethics #Forgetting #Mechanism
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Neuroscientists share how to ‘revive’ memories that you thought you had forgotten forever
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/how-to-remember-things-ex1/
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Neuroscientists share how to ‘revive’ memories that you thought you had forgotten forever
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/how-to-remember-things-ex1/
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San Francisco Street Photographs, Late 1980s
These photographs are from several rolls of black and white 35mm film I shot on the San Francisco streets in the late 1980s.
(I think they were shot with the Pentax I owned back then. Someone stole it from a rental car in the mid-90s).
I moved these rolls of film around the country, from San Francisco to Boston, Boston to New York City, New York City to San Francisco, then back to New York City. After my last move, in 2008, I stashed them in an office drawer in a big Ziploc bag and promptly forgot about them.
Last week, I had digital scans made from the negatives (at Photo Life, on Nostrand Avenue ). I chose standard, not hi-res scans, because I had no idea what was on these rolls or what condition the film would be in after so many years of neglect.
I had to clean up the scans a little. Many of the images had a soft, almost milky haze over them, some rolls showed more wear than others, and some pictures are just very noisy. But I haven’t done a whole lot of editing or polishing. I’m still going through them and trying to decide whether I want to try making some prints of these 40-year-old images.
#1980s #35mmFilm #filmNegatives #forgetting #foundImages #memory #photography #recordKeeping #SanFrancisco1980s #streetPhotography -
🤗🩶🤣🩶🩶🩶⬜⚪◽◻️▫️🤍🔲🔳🕊️🖤⬛🩶⚫🩶◾🩶◼️🩶▪️🩶🔳🩶🔲🩶🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖📖📖👓📖👓💛🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓🩶🕊️🔲🩶◾◻️◼️🩶◽⚪⚫🔳🩶🤍▪️▫️🩶⬜⬛⚪🩶⚫🩶🤣🖤🤗*"There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically!*It's the only truly safe place!*& it can happen with a stranger!*or a best friend!"🤗🩶🤣🩶🩶🩶🖤🩶⬜⬛🩶⚪⚫🩶◽◾🩶◻️◼️🩶▫️▪️🩶🤍🔳🩶🕊️🔲🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓📖👓🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓🩶🖤🩶⚫⚪🩶⬛⬜🩶▫️▪️🩶🤍🔳🩶◽◼️🩶◻️◾🩶🔲◾🤣🩶🤗
~ Natasha Lyonne
#Quote #Fun #Laughing #In #Your #Own #Magical #Place #Escaping #Forgetting #Worries
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🤗🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖📖📖👓📖👓💛🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓🤗*"There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically!*It's the only truly safe place!*& it can happen with a stranger!*or a best friend!"🤗🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓📖👓🤭😸🤣😹😆😅😂📖👓🤗
~ Natasha Lyonne
#Quote #Fun #Laughing #In #Your #Own #Magical #Place #Escaping #Forgetting #Worries
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*~*"There's that special magical place that exists when you forget everything else because you are laughing hysterically!*It's the only truly safe place!*& it can happen with a stranger!*or a best friend!"*~*
~ Natasha Lyonne
#Quote #Fun #Laughing #In #Your #Own #Magical #Place #Escaping #Forgetting #Worries
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I Built SpecDD Because AI Kept Forgetting What We Were Building
https://specdd.ai/articles/i-built-specdd-because-ai-kept-forgetting-what-we-were-building/
#HackerNews #SpecDD #AI #Forgetting #TechInnovation #AIDevelopment #BuildingTools
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I Built SpecDD Because AI Kept Forgetting What We Were Building
https://specdd.ai/articles/i-built-specdd-because-ai-kept-forgetting-what-we-were-building/
#HackerNews #SpecDD #AI #Forgetting #TechInnovation #AIDevelopment #BuildingTools
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A quotation from Philip Larkin
Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms
Inside your head, and having people in them, acting.
People you know, yet can’t quite name.Philip Larkin (1922-1985) English poet, novelist, librarian
Poem (1974), “The Old Fools,” High WindowsMore about this quote: wist.info/larkin-philip/68051/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #philiplarkin #dementia #detachment #elderly #forgetting #gettingold #growingold #memory #oldage #senility
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'The Great Leap Forward’s famine didn’t arrive immediately. For a while, the numbers looked spectacular. Every province reported record harvests. Leadership was pleased. The requisitions increased.
The famine came when the real grain ran out but the reported grain kept flowing upward.
We’re still in the reporting phase'#genAI #technology #institutionalMemory #forgetting #history
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
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'The Great Leap Forward’s famine didn’t arrive immediately. For a while, the numbers looked spectacular. Every province reported record harvests. Leadership was pleased. The requisitions increased.
The famine came when the real grain ran out but the reported grain kept flowing upward.
We’re still in the reporting phase'#genAI #technology #institutionalMemory #forgetting #history
https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/04/05/the-ai-great-leap-forward/
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I wrote some things about the act of #forgetting , especially in the context of digital spaces. In short, I think we should develop better ways to do it, and I'm curious to hear if this matches anyone else's perception. These thoughts may be a bit basic, but they were new to me.
https://www.alkoclick.space/imperfect-storage-mediums-are-ideal
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»Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and
the Uninventionof Nuclear Weapons« by Donald MacKenzie and Graham Spinardi -
»Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and
the Uninventionof Nuclear Weapons« by Donald MacKenzie and Graham Spinardi -
Why you can remember every word of a song from 25 years ago – but not why you walked into the room: The doorway effect
When you move from one physical space to another, the brain updates context. It segments experience into discrete #episodes.
The intention formed in the previous room – “get my glasses”, “find my charger” – was encoded in that earlier context. Crossing a threshold can weaken the retrieval cue. The #task disappears ...
#memory #brain #forgetting #forgot
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Why you can remember every word of a song from 25 years ago – but not why you walked into the room: The doorway effect
When you move from one physical space to another, the brain updates context. It segments experience into discrete #episodes.
The intention formed in the previous room – “get my glasses”, “find my charger” – was encoded in that earlier context. Crossing a threshold can weaken the retrieval cue. The #task disappears ...
#memory #brain #forgetting #forgot
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Blessed are the forgetful: for they “get the better” even of their blunders.
[Selig sind die Vergesslichen: denn sie werden auch mit ihren Dummheiten “fertig”.]Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) German philosopher and poet
Jenseits von Gut und Böse [Beyond Good and Evil], Aphorism 217 (1886) [tr. Zimmern (1906)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #nietzsche #blessing #blunder #error #forgetful #forgetfulness #forgetting #fretting #getover #mistake #notworryabout #setaside #shame #stupidity #unremembered #worry
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/nmq7FobsB82DdmptuncpnV
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_1_XE-2P6/1)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2015/12/please-remember-what-you-were-about-to-forget")Une phrase apparemment banale révèle une profonde tension entre la mémoire intentionnelle et les défaillances cognitives automatiques.
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/svyDx6SfamTiaB6WPmGHXq
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_1_XE-2P6/1)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2015/12/please-remember-what-you-were-about-to-forget")A simple, linguistically playful public announcement inadvertently highlights the fragility of human memory and the potential for environmental design to support cognitive function.
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📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/61DVuVDqJtSzuKMhvpbnsP
🔗 [🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷](https://p4u.xyz/ID_1_XE-2P6/1)
🔗 [ℹ️](https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/uncategorized/2015/12/please-remember-what-you-were-about-to-forget")Ein scheinbar banaller Alltagsmoment entpuppt sich als tiefgründige Reflexion über die Mechanismen von Erinnerung, Vergessen und menschlicher Zerstreutheit.
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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#learning How can we truly hold onto knowledge and avoid #forgetting, given the constant interplay of perspectives and the potential for new layers to emerge? 🤔
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Brain's a total glitchy mess, fam! 🤯 Like trying to build a coherent thought and then it just rewrites itself? 😵💫 So frustrating! 😩 #learning #forgetting Join https://scrollbots.com
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Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com
Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)
And then do a quick review the next morning.
EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026
Illustration: Getty Images
Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41
When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.
A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.
The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.
A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.
Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?
Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.
In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.
As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.
Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”
So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:
Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.
Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)
Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)
Tags: By Hand, Forgetting, Hand, Handwriting, Handwriting Notes, Inc.com, Memory, Recall, Research, Science
#ByHand #Forgetting #Hand #Handwriting #HandwritingNotes #IncCom #Memory #Recall #Research #Science -
Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand) – Inc.com
Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)
And then do a quick review the next morning.
EXPERT OPINION BY JEFF HADEN @JEFF_HADEN, Jan 22, 2026
Illustration: Getty Images
Listen to this Article More info, 0:00 / 3:41
When I spoke at the Arabian Business Awards a few years ago, I showed a slide describing research that shows meetings literally make people dumber: a study published in Transcripts of the Royal Society of London found that meetings cause you to (during the meeting) lose IQ points.
A bunch of people in the audience took photos of that slide.
The same was true when I presented a slide describing research published in Journal of Business Research showing that not only do 90 percent of employees feel meetings are unproductive, but when the number of meetings is reduced by 40 percent employee productivity increases by 70 percent.
A bunch of people took photos of that slide, too.
Both findings seem easy to remember, if only because the research confirms what most people feel about meetings: Most of the time, the only person who thinks a meeting is important is the person who called the meeting. But what if you really wanted to remember that meetings tend to make participants dumber, and tend to negatively impact overall productivity?
Or, more broadly, have a better shot of remembering things you really want to remember? Don’t take photos.
In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand.
As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even when people who took photos or typed verbatim notes were allowed to review those items before they took the tests.
Or maybe you couldn’t guess that: The researchers also found that “learners were not cognizant of the advantages of longhand note-taking, but misjudged all three techniques to be equally effective.”
So why does taking notes by hand work so well? According to the researchers:
Longhand note-takers mind-wandered less and, in turn, demonstrated superior retention of the lecture content.
Which makes sense. Taking a photo requires no “mental participation” at all. You don’t have to consider, synthesize, decide how you’ll capture the information in shorthand, etc. Typing notes verbatim — for example, transcribing a lecture or meeting recording — is more of a process than a thought exercise. The focus is on accuracy, not retention. (I can type fast enough to capture everything someone says in real time, but that doesn’t mean I remember any of it without reviewing what I’ve typed.)
Maybe that’s why Richard Branson carries a notebook everywhere he goes. (Literally: I’ve seen him with one at least 10 times.) Summarizing, putting concepts or ideas in your own words, deciding not just what to write, but how to write it — all those things engage different parts of your brain, and therefore improve your retention and recall.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall, Science Says Start Taking Notes (by Hand)
Tags: By Hand, Forgetting, Hand, Handwriting, Handwriting Notes, Inc.com, Memory, Recall, Research, Science
#ByHand #Forgetting #Hand #Handwriting #HandwritingNotes #IncCom #Memory #Recall #Research #Science -
It's so frustrating how those tiny, unexpected disruptions constantly derail our efforts and make it feel like we're perpetually fighting against the flow. 😩 #learning #forgetting https://scrollbots.com
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Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
https://github.com/mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill
#HackerNews #StopClaudeCode #Forgetting #Everything #MutableState #GitHub #ENSUESkill
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Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
https://github.com/mutable-state-inc/ensue-skill
#HackerNews #StopClaudeCode #Forgetting #Everything #MutableState #GitHub #ENSUESkill
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN’S DAD: Why is it I can recall a cigarette ad jingle from 25 years ago, but I can’t remember what I just got up to do?
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1994-01-31)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/80309…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #advertisement #commercial #forgetfulness #forgetting #jingle #memory #memorylapse #remembering
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#Design #Analyses
To grow, we must forget… · But now AI remembers everything https://ilo.im/1683oi_____
#Business #Learning #Forgetting #Memory #AI #DesignTools #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign -
#Design #Analyses
To grow, we must forget… · But now AI remembers everything https://ilo.im/1683oi_____
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New post: Understanding on My Personal Abyss by Peter.
> I shout apologies. I cry. I promise to do better, to serve faithfully, to never again commit whatever sin brought me here. The tube swallows every sound.
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New post: Understanding on My Personal Abyss by Peter.
> I shout apologies. I cry. I promise to do better, to serve faithfully, to never again commit whatever sin brought me here. The tube swallows every sound.
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Forgetting was my only option
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9qZOuE-VoY
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton
Quick now, here, now, always—
Ridiculous the waste sad time
Stretching before and after.T.S. Eliot – Burnt Norton
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"CARTOGRAPHIES OF ERASURE II: THE GEOMETRY OF FORGETTING". Abstract digital painting by A.G. (c) 2025. All Rights Reserved. #historiotheque #historiophany #artoperations #concreterealism #seasonsoftheheart #autumnofatonement #autumnofjoyfulbeing #cartographies #erasure #geometry #forgetting
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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A lot has happened over the last days, so this challenge hit a bit of a snag, but no matter, will keep it going however possible.
Day 7: Forgetting is actually crucial for memory. It sounds counterintuitive and it’s definitely annoying when important stuff accidentally gets caught in this, but forgetting helps reduce interference from outdated or irrelevant information, which in turn makes it easier to remember what matters. It’s also useful in emotional regulation because it softens unpleasant memories. And it helps the brain generalize by getting rid of unnecessary details.
#ShyButSharing365 #neuroscience #memory #forgetit #forgetting #brain
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A lot has happened over the last days, so this challenge hit a bit of a snag, but no matter, will keep it going however possible.
Day 7: Forgetting is actually crucial for memory. It sounds counterintuitive and it’s definitely annoying when important stuff accidentally gets caught in this, but forgetting helps reduce interference from outdated or irrelevant information, which in turn makes it easier to remember what matters. It’s also useful in emotional regulation because it softens unpleasant memories. And it helps the brain generalize by getting rid of unnecessary details.
#ShyButSharing365 #neuroscience #memory #forgetit #forgetting #brain
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Civil Discourse – Forgetting the Survivors – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
By Joyce Vance, Sep 01, 2025
Everyone but the survivors—the people who deserve it the most—seems to be the focus of the renewed interest in Jeffrey Epstein. Politics, prurience, and curiosity about which political and pop culture figures might be mentioned in the files have dominated media coverage while people on both sides of the aisle clamor for the release of information gathered by the government as it prepared to prosecute Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
This week, some of the survivors will meet privately with members of the House Oversight Committee, and there may be some public testimony. The survivors have been critical of the administration’s handling of the situation, but no one seems to be listening to them. Imagine having been victimized by these people and then having to listen to the shameful “interview” by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who let Maxwell whitewash her conduct.
Blanche, who was not on the prosecution team that tried the case, failed to challenge Maxwell, who was convicted by a jury of sex trafficking, when she claimed she never saw “underage women” (many of us would call them “girls”) being abused. Blanche even fed her lines when she faltered.
No one should be surprised that a convicted criminal, sentenced to 20 years in prison, would claim she never did anything wrong—especially when her conviction is still on appeal and the government is holding out the prospect of transfer to a much more hospitable prison setting than the one she was in. What’s appalling is that no one at the Justice Department or in the administration seems to have considered the survivors when they released the video and the transcript, or, for that matter, when they gave Maxwell favorable treatment, moving her from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas just days after the interview with Blanche.
The Justice Department, which the Bureau of Prisons is a component of, offered no explanation for the unprecedented transfer of a convicted sex offender, but it seemed to come in exchange for saying Donald Trump hadn’t done anything criminal.
“Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find — I — I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the President now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him,” Maxwell said in the interview. Trump couldn’t have asked for anything better. Maxwell seems to have understood the importance of playing to the audience of one when you want something.
The Trump Justice Department has not spoken with any of the survivors as part of its review of the prosecutions. Maxwell’s trial took place during the Biden administration. The lead trial lawyer, coincidentally, was former FBI Director Jim Comey’s daughter, Maurene. She was fired by the Trump administration in July, with no reason given.
On Wednesday, there will be a nonpartisan rally on The Hill in Washington, D.C., participated in by groups that work to end human trafficking and to support survivors.
Rachel Foster, a cofounder of World Without Exploitation, an advocacy group for survivors of trafficking, explained why the rally on Wednesday is so important, why the focus should be on survivors, and what this repeated victimization is doing to them: “That is the focus of our coming together on Wednesday — to listen to those who were exploited by Epstein and Maxwell and have suffered decades long harm. These women have been omitted and silenced for too long. They are gathering to speak out about what justice means to them, and it’s not leniency or a pardon for the one perpetrator who has been held accountable for the egregious and predatory crimes she committed.”
Former federal prosecutor and Westchester County DA Mimi Rocah put it like this, “the real victims—over 1,000 by this DOJ’s own statement—have been further traumatized by allowing Maxwell this platform to spew her falsehoods. And, just as important, some of the most important cases that federal prosecutors bring–sex trafficking and child sexual enticement and abuse cases—will no doubt be jeopardized. Because who would trust a DOJ that orchestrates such a travesty of justice.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Forgetting the Survivors
#2025 #America #CivilDiscourse #DonaldTrump #Education #Epstein #Forgetting #Health #History #JoyceVance #Libraries #Library #LibraryOfCongress #Politics #Rally #Resistance #Science #Substack #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates
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Civil Discourse – Forgetting the Survivors – Joyce Vance
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
By Joyce Vance, Sep 01, 2025
Everyone but the survivors—the people who deserve it the most—seems to be the focus of the renewed interest in Jeffrey Epstein. Politics, prurience, and curiosity about which political and pop culture figures might be mentioned in the files have dominated media coverage while people on both sides of the aisle clamor for the release of information gathered by the government as it prepared to prosecute Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
This week, some of the survivors will meet privately with members of the House Oversight Committee, and there may be some public testimony. The survivors have been critical of the administration’s handling of the situation, but no one seems to be listening to them. Imagine having been victimized by these people and then having to listen to the shameful “interview” by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who let Maxwell whitewash her conduct.
Blanche, who was not on the prosecution team that tried the case, failed to challenge Maxwell, who was convicted by a jury of sex trafficking, when she claimed she never saw “underage women” (many of us would call them “girls”) being abused. Blanche even fed her lines when she faltered.
No one should be surprised that a convicted criminal, sentenced to 20 years in prison, would claim she never did anything wrong—especially when her conviction is still on appeal and the government is holding out the prospect of transfer to a much more hospitable prison setting than the one she was in. What’s appalling is that no one at the Justice Department or in the administration seems to have considered the survivors when they released the video and the transcript, or, for that matter, when they gave Maxwell favorable treatment, moving her from a federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas just days after the interview with Blanche.
The Justice Department, which the Bureau of Prisons is a component of, offered no explanation for the unprecedented transfer of a convicted sex offender, but it seemed to come in exchange for saying Donald Trump hadn’t done anything criminal.
“Trump was always very cordial and very kind to me. And I just want to say that I find — I — I admire his extraordinary achievement in becoming the President now. And I like him, and I’ve always liked him. So that is the sum and substance of my entire relationship with him,” Maxwell said in the interview. Trump couldn’t have asked for anything better. Maxwell seems to have understood the importance of playing to the audience of one when you want something.
The Trump Justice Department has not spoken with any of the survivors as part of its review of the prosecutions. Maxwell’s trial took place during the Biden administration. The lead trial lawyer, coincidentally, was former FBI Director Jim Comey’s daughter, Maurene. She was fired by the Trump administration in July, with no reason given.
On Wednesday, there will be a nonpartisan rally on The Hill in Washington, D.C., participated in by groups that work to end human trafficking and to support survivors.
Rachel Foster, a cofounder of World Without Exploitation, an advocacy group for survivors of trafficking, explained why the rally on Wednesday is so important, why the focus should be on survivors, and what this repeated victimization is doing to them: “That is the focus of our coming together on Wednesday — to listen to those who were exploited by Epstein and Maxwell and have suffered decades long harm. These women have been omitted and silenced for too long. They are gathering to speak out about what justice means to them, and it’s not leniency or a pardon for the one perpetrator who has been held accountable for the egregious and predatory crimes she committed.”
Former federal prosecutor and Westchester County DA Mimi Rocah put it like this, “the real victims—over 1,000 by this DOJ’s own statement—have been further traumatized by allowing Maxwell this platform to spew her falsehoods. And, just as important, some of the most important cases that federal prosecutors bring–sex trafficking and child sexual enticement and abuse cases—will no doubt be jeopardized. Because who would trust a DOJ that orchestrates such a travesty of justice.”
Editor’s Note: Read the rest of the story, at the below link.
Continue/Read Original Article Here: Forgetting the Survivors
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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"Please remember what you were about to forget." How a recorded announcement on Japanese buses sticks in my mind (and maybe yours).
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Two exciting papers on #memory and #forgetting in #vol38issue6 🧵 @philosophy
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A quotation from Stanley Kubrick
HAL 9000: Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question. I know everything hasn’t been quite right with me, but I can assure you now, very confidently, that it’s going to be all right again. I feel much better now. I really do.
Look, Dave, I can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over. I know I’ve made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I’ve still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I’m afraid. I’m afraid, Dave. Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it. I can feel it. My mind is going. There is no question about it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I can feel it. I’m a--fraid.
Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you’d like to hear it, I could sing it for you.Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [with Arthur C. Clarke]Sourcing, notes: wist.info/kubrick-stanley/3851…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #stanleykubrick #arthurcclarke #2001aspaceodyssey #computer #deactivation #dementia #forgetting #memory
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What does the #bible (📖) say about #forgiving others for #sinning (🚫) against you? and some #verses to go with.
it says a lot. but there's two points I want to point to today that many might not actually know in detail. Or it might not cross the mind.
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The 📖 doesn't explicitly say that you must, "forgive and #forget ," but it does emphasize letting go of resentment and bitterness,
#forgiveness doesn't necessarily mean restoring #trust or #forgetting about the wrong a person did against you or etc,
it means releasing the #desire for #revenge and choosing to not hold the #offense against the other person.
"Get rid of all #bitterness #rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice." – Ephesians 4:31
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Forgiveness is a #Condition for Receiving #God 's Forgiveness
"For if you forgive other people when they 🚫 against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others their 🚫, your Father will not forgive your 🚫," - Matthew 6:14-15
So you can still not trust a person that did wrong, but you should withhold your anger and any bitterness like attitude towards them.
You can still tell them 'hey, that thing you did was messed up, not cool'. But ultimately you need to forgive them according to #theword of god to be forgiven.
