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Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/bambu-lab-abusing-open-source-social-contract/

#HackerNews #BambuLab #OpenSource #Abuse #SocialContract #TechEthics

#Berlin News Digest: The closure of the TU main building isn't just an "infrastructure hiccup"—it's a symptom. 🏛️📉 When the halls of technology and engineering can't pass a fire inspection, the austerity logic has reached its breaking point. From schools to bridges, the "backlog" is becoming our primary landscape. #BND #Austerity #TUBerlin #SocialContract

#Berlin News Digest: The closure of the TU main building isn't just an "infrastructure hiccup"—it's a symptom. 🏛️📉 When the halls of technology and engineering can't pass a fire inspection, the austerity logic has reached its breaking point. From schools to bridges, the "backlog" is becoming our primary landscape. #BND #Austerity #TUBerlin #SocialContract

#Berlin News Digest: The closure of the TU main building isn't just an "infrastructure hiccup"—it's a symptom. 🏛️📉 When the halls of technology and engineering can't pass a fire inspection, the austerity logic has reached its breaking point. From schools to bridges, the "backlog" is becoming our primary landscape. #BND #Austerity #TUBerlin #SocialContract

#Berlin News Digest: The closure of the TU main building isn't just an "infrastructure hiccup"—it's a symptom. 🏛️📉 When the halls of technology and engineering can't pass a fire inspection, the austerity logic has reached its breaking point. From schools to bridges, the "backlog" is becoming our primary landscape. #BND #Austerity #TUBerlin #SocialContract

#Berlin News Digest: The closure of the TU main building isn't just an "infrastructure hiccup"—it's a symptom. 🏛️📉 When the halls of technology and engineering can't pass a fire inspection, the austerity logic has reached its breaking point. From schools to bridges, the "backlog" is becoming our primary landscape. #BND #Austerity #TUBerlin #SocialContract

[P] It IS a pathology.

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #climatechange #socialcontract #age

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[P] This is why I see neurotypicality as pathological vs. the moral mind. If the greed, eelfishness, and immorality hit such a degree of depravity that their own children are being sociopathy room'd? Then it's about time we faced the reality of the neurotypical pathology—the sociopathy room. I do recognise the privilege of having been born into moral autism here, I know it isn't their fault, but that said... ?

#psychology #actuallyautistic #neurotypicals #climatechange #socialcontract #age

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"It’s not so much that there’s 50-something percent of the country that is committed to Trumpism. But there’s just a huge amount of the country that is not doing well—and I mean that in an emotional way, I mean that in a political way, civically."

#Trump #MAGA #SocialContract #individualism #CommonGood #solidarity
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"If we don’t take seriously some of these more underlying problems—that we are a deeply isolated and lonely and distrustful country that is focused on material wellbeing and status and is more dislocated and civically apathetic than maybe we’ve ever been—we’re going to get more Trumps, because that’s just fertile breeding ground for people like him."

~ Alan Elrod

#Trump #MAGA #SocialContract #individualism #CommonGood #solidarity
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https://newrepublic.com/article/208976/transcript-trump-america-deeply-unwell-it-time-say

Knowledge is power. Feel free to help yourself to some:
https://youtu.be/bbbgfnpJN9w?si=9MD_0d5zXb6ouDsx
#uschamberofcommerce #lewispowell #powellmemo #useconomics #consumer #labor #environmental #socialcontract #workers #shareholder #politicalcombat #uspol #jointorganizing #jointfundingn #tradeorganization #bigbusiness #businesscrusade #corporatepolitics #lobbyists #ftc #federaltradecommission #consumeradvocate #congress #advertising #reaganadministration #corporatemisbehavior #corporateamerica #scotus #citizensunited

Knowledge is power. Feel free to help yourself to some:
https://youtu.be/bbbgfnpJN9w?si=9MD_0d5zXb6ouDsx
#uschamberofcommerce #lewispowell #powellmemo #useconomics #consumer #labor #environmental #socialcontract #workers #shareholder #politicalcombat #uspol #jointorganizing #jointfundingn #tradeorganization #bigbusiness #businesscrusade #corporatepolitics #lobbyists #ftc #federaltradecommission #consumeradvocate #congress #advertising #reaganadministration #corporatemisbehavior #corporateamerica #scotus #citizensunited

There Is Reason For Hope. Here's The Proof - Barry's Economics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66wen6C4UNw

#NeuroScience #Apathy #Change #SystemicOppression #Default #Community #Resistance #SocialContract #HumanRights #Empathy #Hope

A quotation from Shakespeare

Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding tooth ports and costs for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got? I’ll tell you. You had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an aged man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Sir Thomas More, Act 2, sc. 4, l. 55ff (c. 1592)

More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shakespeare #williamshakespeare #anarchy #breakingthelaw #conflict #foreigners #immigration #insecurity #lawbreaking #lawlessness #mob #mobrule #mobviolence #riot #socialcontract #violence #xenophobia

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 203 (1955)

More about this quote: wist.info/hoffer-eric/81117/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #erichoffer #acceptability #acquiescence #cowardice #cowardliness #fashion #fear #respectability #socialcontract #socialill #timidity #weakness

Suwayda stands at a crossroads, one year after Assad’s fall https://www.byteseu.com/1642001/ #Bedouins #Conflicts #Druze #HamoudAlHanawi #HikmatAlHijri #integration #Israel #MenOfDignityMovement #SheikhsOfReason #SocialContract #Suwayda #SuwaydaNationalGuard #Syria #YousefJerboa

A somewhat disappointing article from the BBC about the increasing losses to sickness in the UK. They quote a heavyweight from retail and the article manages to paint a bleak picture that is totally without balance. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7v80n7mz2jo

Thread - 1/?

#SickPay #SocialContract #CorporateHandWringing #Exploitation

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

• In terms inherited from Marxism, what is the value of a description of the bourgeois class without an analysis of capitalism?

• In terms inherited from materialist feminism, what is the value of a description of masculinity without an analysis of patriarchy?

• Charles W. Mills asserts that white supremacy shapes the objective interests of the white group, uniting it. In particular, white supremacy counterbalances the class antagonisms that run through the white group.

#modernity #whiteDomination #whiteSupremacy #whitePrivilege #decolonial #racism #systemicRacism #structuralRacism #sociology #politicalPhilosophy #whiteness #prejudice #whitePrivilege #historyOfIdeas #intersectionality #Mills #socialContract #Enlightenment

A quotation from Robert Herrick

’Twixt kings and tyrants there’s this difference known:
Kings seek their subjects’ good; tyrants their own.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“Kings and Tyrants,” Hesperides, # 861 (1648)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/herrick-robert/78445…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertherrick #despot #dictator #king #leader #leadership #ruler #selfaggrandizement #selfinterest #socialcontract #tyranny #tyrant

Why AI Is Scarier Than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChX_ms5Nhm0

#AI #Capitalism #Exploitation #ClimateImpact #ClimateCrisis #DataCenters #SocialContract #AITriage #AIEthics #Biases #CorporateDictatorship #TechBros #EchoSocialism #DeepLearningSystems #Pattern #Analysis #Utopia v #Dystopia

Why AI Is Scarier Than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChX_ms5Nhm0

#AI #Capitalism #Exploitation #ClimateImpact #ClimateCrisis #DataCenters #SocialContract #AITriage #AIEthics #Biases #CorporateDictatorship #TechBros #EchoSocialism #DeepLearningSystems #Pattern #Analysis #Utopia v #Dystopia

Why AI Is Scarier Than You Think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChX_ms5Nhm0

#AI #Capitalism #Exploitation #ClimateImpact #ClimateCrisis #DataCenters #SocialContract #AITriage #AIEthics #Biases #CorporateDictatorship #TechBros #EchoSocialism #DeepLearningSystems #Pattern #Analysis #Utopia v #Dystopia

I just published a blog essay, Games Billionaires Play, responding to Howard Lutnick's recent callous mulling about stopping Social Security payments to see who makes noise.

I make some counter-proposals about other games we could play.

https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2025/03/games-billionaires-play.html

#SocialSecurity #SS #oligarchy #politics #USPolitics #OutOfTouch #poverty #Inequality #society #retirement #disability #SocialContract

https://www.verywellmind.com/integrity-versus-despair-2795738
Did You Know? People tend to feel happier and more contentment when they could have their needs met throughout their life!

Stunning revelation. If only we could redistribute excess hoards of wealth back to most people!
We could start giving to people in abject poverty or 'absolute poverty'.
Then we could keep adding to people in abject poverty and people in asset poverty. (Asset poverty means someone could not sell enough assets to cover 3 months of expenses.)
Then we could keep adding to people in abject, asset, and relative poverty. And so on.

https://endpovertynowinc.org/blog/6-different-types-of-poverty/

#inequality #unequal #inequity #fair #fairness #billionaire #BillionaireCritique #Billionaires #NoBillionaires #WealthHoarding #SocialContract #GenerationalWealth #Assets #psychology #development #EgoIntegrity #despair #opportunities #poverty #autonomy #DecisionMaking

A fast comment I made on here about evolving public manners reminded me of a 2008 ErosBlog post that dove into how the rules have changed (in less than a human lifetime) on how much violence between strangers is socially acceptable, and for what reasons. Context: an old fart gives a swift kick to a squatting porn model making non-consensual public urination videos:

https://www.erosblog.com/2008/02/09/enforcing-the-social-contract/?refresh

#SocialContract #Violence #Kicking #Public #Boxing #FistFights #PublicUrination #Pissing #Pee #Piss #Porn

This right here, y'all.

If it's right and good and normal and expected for any public restroom to be stocked with toilet paper, soap, and paper towels (and sometimes condoms),
then it is also right and good and should be normal and expected for every public restroom to be stocked with pads and tampons.

https://mastodon.social/@Paxil/112938520012544443

#PublicBathrooms
#PublicToilets
#SocialNorms
#SocialContract
#toiletiquette

And btw #WashYourHands

@Nonilex

#Ethics are a joke perpetrated by the #RulingClass to help suppress and gaslight the rest of us.

The #oligarchy has no rules beyond what Hobbes described as the "war of all against all".

No #Ethics
No #moralCompass
No #Soul
No #SocialContract
No #Rules except as a means of manipulating others.

#ExpandTheCourt

Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with severe external and internal social pressures and halt society’s steady rush toward inequality, stratification, vi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/23/enhancing-diverse-democracy-ne-syrias-new-social-contract/
#DemocraticConfederalism #NorthEastSyria #Rojava #SocialContract #SocialEcology

Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with severe external and internal social pressures and halt society’s steady rush toward inequality, stratification, vi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/23/enhancing-diverse-democracy-ne-syrias-new-social-contract/
#DemocraticConfederalism #NorthEastSyria #Rojava #SocialContract #SocialEcology

Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with severe external and internal social pressures and halt society’s steady rush toward inequality, stratification, vi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/23/enhancing-diverse-democracy-ne-syrias-new-social-contract/
#DemocraticConfederalism #NorthEastSyria #Rojava #SocialContract #SocialEcology

Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with severe external and internal social pressures and halt society’s steady rush toward inequality, stratification, vi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/23/enhancing-diverse-democracy-ne-syrias-new-social-contract/
#DemocraticConfederalism #NorthEastSyria #Rojava #SocialContract #SocialEcology

Enhancing diverse democracy: NE Syria’s new Social Contract
Like Rousseau’s theoretical proposal, the real-world ‘social contract’ based on Öcalan’s ideas is, in many ways, an attempt to reckon with severe external and internal social pressures and halt society’s steady rush toward inequality, stratification, vi
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2023/12/23/enhancing-diverse-democracy-ne-syrias-new-social-contract/
#DemocraticConfederalism #NorthEastSyria #Rojava #SocialContract #SocialEcology