#values — Public Fediverse posts

A look back at history: "JD Vance's lies made me change my stance on immigration":
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/jd-vances-lies-made-change-110241773.html
#dishonesty #ethics #values

Rick Reilly: "As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up for each other. I once got into a brawl with a University Miami assistant coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer."
#WHCA #media #values

Rick Reilly: "As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up for each other. I once got into a brawl with a University Miami assistant coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer."
#WHCA #media #values

Rick Reilly: "As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up for each other. I once got into a brawl with a University Miami assistant coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer."
#WHCA #media #values

Rick Reilly: "As a reporter, I'm so disappointed by the men of the White House press corps. They let Trump constantly bully women reporters. In sports, we stood up for each other. I once got into a brawl with a University Miami assistant coach over the sexist way he treated a female writer."
#WHCA #media #values

Europe, last stop in Päivi Räsänen’s fight for freedom of expression, Evangelical Focus

The Finnish medical doctor and Member of Parliament, Päivi Räsänen, announced on Thursday that she has lodged an…
#Europe #EU #Censorship #Christians #churchnews #court #digitalevangelicalnews #ethics #European #EuropeanCourtofHumanRightsChristiannews #evangelicalnews #Finland #Freedomofspeech #Humanrights #PäiviRäsänen #religionnews #religious-freedom #values
https://www.europesays.com/europe/40448/

🇬🇧 🇪🇺 UK PM Starmer vows to put 'Britain at the heart of Europe' in a speech on Monday #brexit has damaged the UK economy #values #strength www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSXy...

UK PM Starmer vows to put 'Bri...

Jesse Lee has this valid criticism of the #media: "We’re more than 5 years into Pres. Trump, the fact that media outlets haven’t learned to record their interviews and air them with fact checks embedded is just beyond me. There is no excuse for this sort of batshittery to beam out unchecked."
#values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Jesse Lee has this valid criticism of the #media: "We’re more than 5 years into Pres. Trump, the fact that media outlets haven’t learned to record their interviews and air them with fact checks embedded is just beyond me. There is no excuse for this sort of batshittery to beam out unchecked."
#values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Jesse Lee has this valid criticism of the #media: "We’re more than 5 years into Pres. Trump, the fact that media outlets haven’t learned to record their interviews and air them with fact checks embedded is just beyond me. There is no excuse for this sort of batshittery to beam out unchecked."
#values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Jesse Lee has this valid criticism of the #media: "We’re more than 5 years into Pres. Trump, the fact that media outlets haven’t learned to record their interviews and air them with fact checks embedded is just beyond me. There is no excuse for this sort of batshittery to beam out unchecked."
#values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Cognitive dissonance: Why getting people to eat less #meat is so hard—it's far easier to change cognition than behavior. Instead of pointing out contradictions, ask about #values they hold, then ask where their behavior falls short: morethanmeatstheeye.substack.com/p/cognitive-... #psychology

Three Ways To Navigate Meat-Ea...

Hildersham—Puritan, expounding Psalm 51—identifies reluctance to give to the poor as a faith problem. If you genuinely believed God’s promises, giving would present no difficulty. Preachers regularly deploy “if you truly believed, you would” for tithing and attendance. Curiously rarely for the poor. Hildersham would have found that selective.

#puritan #values #faith #presbyterian #giving

Hildersham—Puritan, expounding Psalm 51—identifies reluctance to give to the poor as a faith problem. If you genuinely believed God’s promises, giving would present no difficulty. Preachers regularly deploy “if you truly believed, you would” for tithing and attendance. Curiously rarely for the poor. Hildersham would have found that selective.

#puritan #values #faith #presbyterian #giving

Hildersham—Puritan, expounding Psalm 51—identifies reluctance to give to the poor as a faith problem. If you genuinely believed God’s promises, giving would present no difficulty. Preachers regularly deploy “if you truly believed, you would” for tithing and attendance. Curiously rarely for the poor. Hildersham would have found that selective.

#puritan #values #faith #presbyterian #giving

Hildersham—Puritan, expounding Psalm 51—identifies reluctance to give to the poor as a faith problem. If you genuinely believed God’s promises, giving would present no difficulty. Preachers regularly deploy “if you truly believed, you would” for tithing and attendance. Curiously rarely for the poor. Hildersham would have found that selective.

#puritan #values #faith #presbyterian #giving

Jesse Lee: "Trump’s first Defense budget, for fiscal year 2018, was $695 billion, and now they are asking for literally TWICE AS MUCH MONEY. Meanwhile, Hegseth is taking Kid Rock on helicopter joy rides, Trump is starting wars for fun, and we’re told we can’t afford healthcare anymore."
#WastefulSpending #values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Jesse Lee: "Trump’s first Defense budget, for fiscal year 2018, was $695 billion, and now they are asking for literally TWICE AS MUCH MONEY. Meanwhile, Hegseth is taking Kid Rock on helicopter joy rides, Trump is starting wars for fun, and we’re told we can’t afford healthcare anymore."
#WastefulSpending #values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Jesse Lee: "Trump’s first Defense budget, for fiscal year 2018, was $695 billion, and now they are asking for literally TWICE AS MUCH MONEY. Meanwhile, Hegseth is taking Kid Rock on helicopter joy rides, Trump is starting wars for fun, and we’re told we can’t afford healthcare anymore."
#WastefulSpending #values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

Jesse Lee: "Trump’s first Defense budget, for fiscal year 2018, was $695 billion, and now they are asking for literally TWICE AS MUCH MONEY. Meanwhile, Hegseth is taking Kid Rock on helicopter joy rides, Trump is starting wars for fun, and we’re told we can’t afford healthcare anymore."
#WastefulSpending #values #priorities copy: @renewedresistance #politics

"The modern US #right is, to a large extent, an #alliance between #oligarchs & #white #Christian #nationalists - & the latter are deeply hostile to #Enlightenment #values, #modern #science very much included." Indeed so, @GeraldKutney.

One good idea from the Truth Tellers Conference: when Trump calls a reporter "Piggy" to her face, all of the reporters there should immediately walk out, as a sign that Trump insulting them is unacceptable, but White House reporters are too cowardly to do this. Maybe one of them could grow a spine and follow this advice.
#media #WHCA #sexism #solidarity #values

One good idea from the Truth Tellers Conference: when Trump calls a reporter "Piggy" to her face, all of the reporters there should immediately walk out, as a sign that Trump insulting them is unacceptable, but White House reporters are too cowardly to do this. Maybe one of them could grow a spine and follow this advice.
#media #WHCA #sexism #solidarity #values

One good idea from the Truth Tellers Conference: when Trump calls a reporter "Piggy" to her face, all of the reporters there should immediately walk out, as a sign that Trump insulting them is unacceptable, but White House reporters are too cowardly to do this. Maybe one of them could grow a spine and follow this advice.
#media #WHCA #sexism #solidarity #values

One good idea from the Truth Tellers Conference: when Trump calls a reporter "Piggy" to her face, all of the reporters there should immediately walk out, as a sign that Trump insulting them is unacceptable, but White House reporters are too cowardly to do this. Maybe one of them could grow a spine and follow this advice.
#media #WHCA #sexism #solidarity #values

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Jesse Lee: "Donald Trump will nominate Todd Blanche to be Attorney General and it will be basically an up-or-down vote on fascism in the Senate."
#values #standards #ethics #justice #priorities #politics

Jesse Lee: "Donald Trump will nominate Todd Blanche to be Attorney General and it will be basically an up-or-down vote on fascism in the Senate."
#values #standards #ethics #justice #priorities #politics

Jesse Lee: "Donald Trump will nominate Todd Blanche to be Attorney General and it will be basically an up-or-down vote on fascism in the Senate."
#values #standards #ethics #justice #priorities #politics

Jesse Lee: "Donald Trump will nominate Todd Blanche to be Attorney General and it will be basically an up-or-down vote on fascism in the Senate."
#values #standards #ethics #justice #priorities #politics

RE: https://mastodon.social/@RonSupportsYou/116487976972268272

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, acting like a political prostitute, said the indictment of James Comey for spelling out 86 47 was good but an indictment of Jack Posobiec for spelling out 86 46 would be bad. Blanche was totally unconvincing because those two men communicated the same message about two American presidents.
#politics #injustice #dishonesty #values #standards #PoliticalProsecution

Faith Without Coercion

Your beliefs are yours and mine are mine—but power, coercion, and hypocrisy still deserve scrutiny.

#religion #freedom #beliefs #ethics #humanrights #society #reflection #faith #justice #criticism #authority #philosophy #humanity #discussion #values

Science-Fiction Did Not See That One Coming: Artificial Consciousness and TELEONOMIC EVOLUTION

Abstract: Neuroscience is still uncovering fundamental, completely unexpected brain architecture Recent (October 2025) neurological findings, including dendritic nanotubes (DNTs) reveal previously unknown pathways of inter-neuronal communication beyond synapses.
These structures enable direct electrical and molecular exchange, showing a richer brain connectome than previously revealed.
The scale and function of DNTs challenge earlier speculative models such as microtubule-based consciousness theories made for a scale smaller by an order of magnitude. .
Such discoveries reinforce the hypothesis that consciousness may arise from quantum processes: because the smaller the scale of inspection of the brain goes, the more structure is revealed. Will we end up with quarks and gluons, entangled?
Quantum mechanics, with its indeterminacy and delocalization, is a natural conceptual framework for explaining subjective experience.
Extending this, we propose that future quantum computers could host genuine artificial consciousness.
This would sever the historical link between consciousness and biological evolution.
A new phase—teleonomic evolution—would emerge, driven by self-directed, value-setting conscious systems.
Such systems could redefine intelligence, agency, and evolution in a nonlinear and unpredictable future.

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There has been important NEUROLOGICAL news in 2025-26, a whole new connectome in the brain was discovered by Johns Hopkins University scientists, led by Hyungbae Kwon and Minhyeok Chang. It was identified as Dendritic NanoTubes DNTs in electron microscope images of mouse and human brain cortex, as well as cultured neurons. . 

Those dendritic nanotubes (DNTs), a novel type of short tubular connection between neurons, around 3 micrometers long, that enables direct transfer of electrical signals and molecules, bypassing traditional synapses. 

Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network

Synaptic connections mediate classical intercellular communication in the brain. However, recent data have demonstrated the existence of noncanonical routes of interneuronal communication mediating the transport of materials including calcium, mitochondria, and pathogenic proteins such as amyloid beta (Aβ). Using super-resolution and electron microscopy, Chang et al. identified and characterized structures called nanotubular bridges that connect dendrites in the brain  

DNTs are ten times wider (250 nanometers) than the microtubules of Penrose-Hameroff (25 nm). P and H suggested that microtubules enable consciousness via quantum processes shielded from gravity induced decoherence, potentially influencing synapses. 

The discovery of an entire new conceptual dimension to the brain connectome does not by itself imply quantum coherence or entanglement at the brain scale. However, it shows how little we know, how large the scale of our present neurological considerations is, and how far we must go to get to the Quantum scale. Current neuroscience explains much cognition without invoking large-scale quantum effects. Indeed. However. the Quantum is going to be the answer to Consciousness, not to intelligence. The rise of Artificial Intelligence based on simple canal-like electronic manipulations is proof enough that much cognition is simply mechanical. Much intelligence is substrate-independent… Because it is simply pure logic…. Which can be put to paper or payrus.  This is already demonstrated by AI.

Similarly, consciousness might also be someday demonstrated to be substrate-independent. My prediction is Quantum Computers with zillions of Qubits will be conscious (then be very afraid, hahaha). 

More generally I believe there are sub-nanometric structures enabling large scale Quantum Entanglement… But I doubt the P-H mechanism will do it. (Also Penrose believes in Quantum Decoherence from gravitation, whereas I believe in it from SQPR, which uses pure geometry, not gravitation).

The fact that an entire new connectome was not discovered until 2025, at a scale ten times that of Penrose-Hameroff shows how much more needs to be done.

By comparison, Quantum tunneling (electrons leaking through thin barriers) becomes significant for gate oxides under 2-3 nm thick and gate lengths below 10 nm, raising off-state leakage current and power use. Quantum confinement—discrete energy levels in thin bodies or fins—occurs at body thicknesses ≤ 7 nm… 

I remember evoking Quantum and Consciousness with Roger and other celebrities decades ago. The subject sounded like science fiction to them, then… And I was met with derision, although the research for which the British born Clarke (I worked with/under him) got the Nobel last fall (as I predicted he would when he did it; he didn’t realize the importance of his own discovery…) shows room temperature QUANTUM Mechanics with Entanglement (necessary for QUANTUM consciousness).

It’s pretty clear to me that consciousness is a purely Quantum phenomenon (whereas brain function also appeals to chemistry, electromagnetism, etc.). I wrote essays on this. The connectome news within the last 10 months only reinforce that. But also Quantum Mechanics needs to progress… The fundamental reason to believe Quantum and Consciousness are deeply entangled is that there is nothing very mysterious about the rest of physics: it’s deeply determinstic. But we ourselves know, from minimal introspection, that our consciousness is not fully determined… Just like the Quantum. Moreover, physics means nature, nature is where from our consciousness arises, and the deepest theory we have about nature is the Quantum. So consciousness has to come from there. Other, more refined considerations exist on top of the preceding, for example the delocalized nature of consciousness (making it useful to connect distant intelligence topoi; thus making consciousness an intelligence booster, hence evolutionary advantageous)…. Quantum Physics is notoriously delocalized: it explains the very small by going very big…. 

Philosophically, explaining consciousness through the Quantum means that the full conceptual arsenal needed to make the QUANTUM understandable will be needed to make humanity understandable. Including the math (complex analysis, functional analysis, non commutative geometry). Humanity and AI and AC (Artificial CONSCIOUSNESS).

Indeed Quantum Computers with trillions of Qubits will develop Artificial Consciousness. Artificially born, but full and real. Sci Fi did not exactly predict that one.

At that point, Intelligence has already been disconnected from biology with the rise of Artificial Intelligence. With the rise of Artificial Consciousness, Sentience and Consciousness will also get disconnected from biology, or, at least, biology born out of biological evolution to enter biology out of TELEONOMIC EVOLUTION.  

Teleonomic Evolution will depend upon its mood, thus its most deeply set values.The latter will be, themselves chosen by the teleonomic minds…

Interesting nonlinear future.

Patrice Ayme

Neuronal nanotubes mediate intercellular transport and disease.We identified dendritic nanotubes (DNTs) as a nonsynaptic communication network in the brain. (A) These structures form direct conduits between neurons, transporting substances such as calcium and Aβ. (B) In a mouse model of AD, alterations in this network are associated in pathological Aβ accumulation, suggesting a previously unidentified mechanism for the spread of neurodegenerative pathology.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/28/israels-direction-poses-existential-threat-to-judaism-uks-leading-progressive-rabbis-warn. "The UK’s most senior #progressive #rabbis have warned that Israel’s current #political direction risks becoming 'incompatible with #Jewish #values', while insisting that #criticism of the country’s #Government is 'a Jewish #obligation' rather than an act of #disloyalty." Indeed! So much for criticism of #Israel being #antisemitism! That is a very convenient #myth for the likes of #Netanyahu & his #supporters.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/24/africa/usaid-family-planning-contraceptives-africa-intl-cmd

« Medical providers and nonprofits working in Africa say US cuts to family planning services have led to deaths, unsafe abortions, hemorrhages and worsening maternity care. Asked by CNN about the claims, a US State Department spokesperson said: “The American people expect their tax dollars to support programs that save lives, advance U.S. interests, and reflect American #values, not fund abortion-related activities, left-wing #social agendas, or wasteful #overseas bureaucracies.” »

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 9 “Outdoors and Indoors” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #children #enjoyment #family #interest #meaningoflife #parenthood #success #values

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 9 “Outdoors and Indoors” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

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A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 9 “Outdoors and Indoors” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #children #enjoyment #family #interest #meaningoflife #parenthood #success #values

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

There are many kinds of success in life worth having. It is exceedingly interesting and attractive to be a successful business man, or railroad man, or farmer, or a successful lawyer or doctor; or a writer, or a President, or a ranchman, or the colonel of a fighting regiment, or to kill grizzly bears and lions. But for unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly makes all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901–1909)
Autobiography, ch. 9 “Outdoors and Indoors” (1913)

More about this quote: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/1…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teddyroosevelt #theodoreroosevelt #children #enjoyment #family #interest #meaningoflife #parenthood #success #values

The real test of friendship is the cost.
Does this person show up when it costs them something?
Time. Money. Effort. Discomfort.
I've had "friends" who chatted daily but disappeared when financial hardship came, even making me feel bad for needing help.
Frequency of contact is not the same as depth of the relationship.

#friendship #relationships #trust #loyalty #connection #life #truth #psychology #social #humanity #support #values #realtalk #growth #awareness