SecondJon @SecondJon@social.cleverlibre.org
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
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Left and Right in politics are both regional and relative. We use the terms outside if context and don't even agree what spectrum we're talking about. Without clarity, we can't have any kind of decent communication.
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"I Think I Can Beat Her": Lindsey Graham Taking DNA Test To Challenge Elizabeth Warren
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LOL, I dont like agreeing with Trump on things, but seems he was right about her after all.
It's folly to think that everyone who disagrees with you is not only wrong, but evil. Let's agree where we can agree. Sometimes we need to get past the triggers and keywords to get deeper to what we agree with.
Uspol, Warren, dna
The report states that Warren could be just 1/1024th Native American. That's less native American than the average European American.
The Cherokee Nation issued a statement ending with "Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
Trump's real ability is somehow getting his opponents to do the dumbest things. They should be smarter than this.
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wow,,,never thought of it like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e35Vf-9n8E
NPR could only find companies in the American political left capitalizing on messaging political polarization, yet titles the article : "Blue And Red Companies: How CEO Activism Is Reshaping Workforce Politics" and writes about how both sides will do this. But both sides aren't. CW for length
From the article :
As more activist CEOs speak out, she says companies are competing for attention. "They come to us asking for language that is more provocative, almost controversial; they want these messages to travel farther," she says.
31% of employees surveyed feel more loyal to their leftists oligarchs, 23% feel less so after the leadership capitalizes on leftist political polarization and demonization of any who disagree.
Uspol, hate
Hate on left. Letter sent to female republican Vermont candidate.
"... My comrades will kill you and the Constitution. First we will rape you for days. You will scream and know that agonizing horror. No equal rights for Republicans. Socialism is here. Open season for Republican death..."
https://www.toddstarnes.com/show/letter-threatens-rape-murder-of-republican-female-candidate/
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RT @RobertJSchuster@twitter.com: I would like it if games came with a report of how they treated their developers on the box. “We let them see their families” is just as important to me as “not tested on animals”.
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Guess it's time to get on the #introductions band wagon.
I'm here on Mastodon to support the vision of federated, open social networks. I enjoy:
#hiking
#tabletopgames
#robots
#science
#beer
#cooking
#technology
#scifi
I prefer thoughtful discussions or blog posts over videos. Looking forward to seeing what this corner of the Internet looks like.
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Educators may recognize the cumulative stressors that they face, but they don't always realize that their symptoms are a common reaction to working with traumatized children — and that these symptoms have a name, @KQED reports.
https://bit.ly/2A00xeD
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"A number of police forces... have warned that thieves are targeting owners of high-end bikes through social media to identify where they are kept."
Cyclist or not, we support @roadcc's advice such as not sharing high-end purchases or location publicly. https://road.cc/content/news/248798-cyclist-who-had-five-bikes-stolen-says-thieves-are-looking-quick-times-strava
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1051469424090329088
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1984: We can't talk here, they might have bugs to wiretap us.
2018: Bug, order me some pizza!
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"Smart fridge are we out of milk?"
"I don't know, as a truly smart fridge I only know it was a terrible idea to allow me into your home. I'm not only an attack surface for hacking, i'm also designed to leak information about you to my parent company, while offering scant utility in the process and delaying the eventual progression into commodity scale pricing and the attendant low profit margin that they are afraid of"
"Ok well remind me to buy milk"
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Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer
Sounds like a great movie. I believe I am going to watch it.
http://gosnellmovie.com
http://www.gosnellmovie.com/theaters
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3722234
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Gosnell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosnell:_The_Trial_of_America%27s_Biggest_Serial_Killer
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#Breaking: President Trump will meet with pastor Andrew Brunson today at the White House. After two years of detention in Turkey on charges of spying and aiding terrorists, Brunson was freed yesterday by a Turkish court citing time served.
Wow! Great Atlantic article about a study showing the social media view of the clean cut political divide in the US is inaccurate. The majority have so much to agree on. CW for length of a few quotes from the article.
From the article :
On social media, the country seems to divide into two neat camps...Reality is nothing like this. As scholars Stephen Hawkins, Daniel Yudkin, Miriam Juan-Torres, and Tim Dixon argue... most Americans don’t fit into either of these camps. They also share more common ground than the daily fights on social media might suggest.
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In a democracy, it is difficult to win fellow citizens over to your own side, or to build public support to remedy injustices that remain all too real, when you fundamentally misunderstand how they see the world.
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While Clinton is declaring people must never be civil with those in another political party and Obama's AG is saying that democrats must kick people when they're down, Waters is asking that citizens that disagree with her be made to have no peace at gas stations and restaurants, several Republicans have grown a spine.
One side stands up for the votes they were elected to cast, the other calls for violence until their political opponents are conquered.
This feels different. I suppose both sides are experimenting to see what approach is best at serving their own political power interests.
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From birdsite
No way.
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RT @bennyjohnson@twitter.com
Protester demands that GOP Senator @BillCassidy "apologize to my children for ruining their futures.”
Cassidy looks at the kids: “Guess what? Your parents are using you as tools. In the future if somebody makes an allegation against you & there’s no proof for it, you'll be OK."
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1050794829482008576
- Current Life Chapter Title
- Something Smells Terrible
- More Seriously
- Fighting the long defeat
I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives.
I'm a #Dad of several from toddler to teen, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems and helping millions escape extreme poverty as a #Salesforce #Architect at an amazing nonprofit.
Joined Aug 2018
