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Discussing on ethical aspects of technological innovations, introducing the Free Software Movement by Dr. Richard Stallman and giving few real life analogies.

https://deep-pandya.codeberg.page/free-libre-software-intro.html

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-04-27 · 22:24 UTC

A quotation from John Adams

We must come to the Principles of Jesus. But, when will all Men and all Nations do as they would be done by? Forgive all Injuries and love their Enemies as themselves? I leave those profound Phylosophers whose Sagacity perceives the Perfectibility of Humane Nature, and those illuminated Theologians who expect the Apocalyptic Reign, to enjoy their transporting hopes; provided always that they will not engage us in Crusades and French Revolutions, nor burn us for doubting.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-john/83698/

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WIST Quotations @[email protected] · 2026-02-23 · 20:31 UTC

A quotation from Wendell Berry

People who live at the lower ends of watersheds cannot be isolationists — or not for long. Pretty soon they will notice that water flows, and that will set them to thinking about the people upstream who either do or do not send down their silt and pollutants and garbage. Thinking about the people upstream out to cause further thinking about the people downstream. Such pondering on the facts of gravity and the fluidity of water shows us that the golden rule speaks to a condition of absolute interdependency and obligation. People who live on rivers — or, in fact, anywhere in a watershed — might rephrase the rule in this way: Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Essay (1997), “Watershed and Commonwealth,” Citizenship Papers (2003)

More about this quote: wist.info/berry-wendell/82269/

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Awet Tesfaiesus, MdB @[email protected] · 2026-01-23 · 11:25 UTC

@Schafstelze #DGAF über Anschlussfähigkeit. Ich muss niemandem mehr etwas beweisen.

Ich sage aber: Wut düngt eine giftige Pflanze, die in allerlei Richtungen wächst. Ich finde, diese Pflanze muss man nicht düngen; schon gar nicht, wenn es @BlumeEvolution und @rpolenz betrifft.

Ich stelle mir vor, ich wäre in meiner Partei quasi allein, kämpfte aber gut Kämpfe um ehrbare Positionen. Wie würde ich mich bei solchen Kommentaren wohl fühlen? #GoldenRule

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Shoesmith Life Cycle LLC @[email protected] · 2026-01-16 · 14:11 UTC

RE: https://flipboard.com/@theverge/entertainment-ihpriaf7z/-/a-4Fb_bI75T3KBFlyHmzE7dw%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0

Where Learning and shaping minds should be open and free for all to be the best they can be.
Sesame Street is a must
https://www.theverge.com/news/862648/sesame-street-classics-youtube-streaming?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Shoesmith Life Cycle LLC @[email protected] · 2025-12-31 · 22:31 UTC

As 2025 wraps up here with 6 and half hours left. I want to remind everyone that with “#GoldenRule” and little “#commonsense” each new day will feel little better than before.

Hope 2026 turns out great and wonderful for everyone 🎉

#mastodon #happynewyear #newyeareve #happynewyear2026 #bettertommorow

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-12-02 · 21:11 UTC

A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, lecturer, poet
Essay (1841), “Prudence,” Essays: First Series, No. 7

More about this quote: wist.info/emerson-ralph-waldo/…

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Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한 🦣 @[email protected] · 2025-09-12 · 15:09 UTC

One of the /facepalm moments you see in online communities is when a person or group attacks or insult a different culture or people, and when they fight back, they get offended and reports them (and calls the gang to mass report and exchange more words).

This is common in online games but also in the #SocialWeb. All you can do is 🤦🏽 or 🤷🏽 or both.

Moral lesson: If you think you're entitled to attack, bully, harass, or defame another person, people/Nation, culture, language, or country, then you shouldn't complain if they return the favor.

As the #GoldenRule goes:

> Treat others as one would like others to treat them

> Do not treat others in ways that one would not like to be treated

> What one wishes upon others, they wish upon themselves

Or, religious or philosophical:

> Ma'at: Do to the doer to make him do.

> Ma'at: That which you hate to be done to you, do not do to another.

> Thales: Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

> Isocrates: Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you.

> Leviticus (book): You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your kinsfolk. Love your neighbor as yourself

> Matthew (book): In everything do to others as you would have them do to you

> Hinduism: If the entire Dharma can be said in a few words, then it is—that which is unfavorable to us, do not do that to others.

> Confucious: What you do not wish for yourself, do not do to others.

> Yoruba: One who is going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on himself to feel how it hurts.

Or, as we Filipinos say:

> Karma!

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule

#socialweb #goldenrule

WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-09-08 · 16:50 UTC

A quotation from Joseph Addison

Temperance and abstinence, faith and devotion, are in themselves perhaps as laudable as any other virtues; but those which make a man popular and beloved are justice, charity, munificence, and, in short, all the good qualities which render us beneficial to each other.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243

More info about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/78835…

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your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 @[email protected] · 2025-09-04 · 14:04 UTC

had not read the whole Caroline Kennedy letter rebuking her cousin as a sadist who got off on putting LIVE baby chickens on a blender to feed his pet birds of prey, which he kept in his drug den.

knew of Robert Kennedy Jr being a drug dealer but had never heard of the depths of his depravity.

#animalCruelty is a HUGE red-flag for domestic #abuse, #rape, mass #murder

indifference to suffering is a rejection of the #GoldenRule and all social contracts. it’s corruption that ends in #fascism.

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-25 · 15:59 UTC

A quotation from Judith Martin

Q. What is etiquette? And why is it so important?

A. It’s important because we can’t stand the way that other people treat us. Although we want the right to be able to behave in any way we want. Somehow a compromise is in order, if you want to live in communities. If you live on a mountaintop by yourself, it’s not necessary.

Judith Martin (b. 1938) American author, journalist, etiquette expert [a.k.a. Miss Manners]
Interview (2011-08), “Q and A with Miss Manners,” by Arcynta Ali Childs, Smithsonian magazine

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/martin-judith/78578/

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WIST Quotations Has Moved! @[email protected] · 2025-08-12 · 15:33 UTC

A quotation from The Bible

Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets.

[Πάντα οὖν ὅσα ἐὰν θέλητε ἵνα ποιῶσιν ὑμῖν οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οὕτως καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιεῖτε αὐτοῖς· οὗτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ νόμος καὶ οἱ προφῆται.]

The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
Matthew 7: 12, “The Golden Rule” (Jesus) [KJV (1611)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/bible-nt/12104/

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Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️ @[email protected] · 2025-07-23 · 14:23 UTC

My #Internet #GoldenRule

Never trust anything you find online that does not refer you to the actual source of the information so you can judge the reliability of the information by the reliability of it's source.

#Chatbots and #LLMs are NOT sources of information.

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