@themotleycow @krishnadeltoso @eyssette @philosophy
I asked Jay Garfield about this and he was rather dubious!
Worth mentioning too: Pyrrho, the skeptic. Went to India with Alexander, met with yogis. His skeptical school got revived by folks like Cornelius Agrippa, to form the foundation of the scientific revolution. So that is Buddhism as a deep root of science.
On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @CrimethInc Twitter account.
Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter had nothing to do with “free speech”—it was a partisan move to silence opposition, paving the way for fascist violence.
Please help us circulate our full statement:
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBan
Please follow us on Telegram and Mastodon.
@Davidtoddmccarty @VickiKyriakakis
So "politically" about 34% of Americans didn't vote. Now, are those 34% non-voter "culturally" wanting Trump? Not sure. Seems to me, though, that if you were culturally for Trump you would have been very motivated to vote. You have to be pretty motivated to like Trump.
@Davidtoddmccarty @VickiKyriakakis
Is there any hope in the fact Trump lost?
birdsite, fascism
@eevee
I kind of agree. These keyboard Nazi's live to own the libs and the libs sort of feed into them. Let them have "free speech" at Twitter. You can either sift through the trolls and believe you will change their minds or you find quieter spaces elsewhere. Don't allow them to control the (your) narrative. Resist.
It occurs to me that everything old is new again.
@adamdavidson I just read this from Der Spiegel and it convinced me to leave. It's not a social network anymore it's a social experiment and we are the test subjects. I think they nailed it. Here is the link: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/apps/elon-musk-entsperrt-donald-trump-twitter-hat-keine-nutzer-mehr-sondern-nur-noch-benutzte-a-ddc72793-1c1b-47b2-89e7-fa179760a3f5
We need to convince our representatives to move from Twitter to Mastodon. Leave Twitter to Trump and friends.
@BGrueskin
I guess one "good drag queen in stilettoes" is better than a bunch of "good guys with guns".
I'm a 59 year old African American woman. I've desegregated a town, a school system and many other spaces. When I discuss racism in this nation, I'm not going to ameliorate my speech for the comfort of anyone. I don't exist to comfort others about the reality of what I was born into - what we all live in together. If that's a problem for you, I suggest you embark on some self-reflection to determine what your actual role is within this system.
#racism #politics #blackmastodon
Have you ever seen an oak tree dance?
Britain is full of 'lost' rainforests, predominantly in the southwest and northwest of England, west Wales and the west coast of Scotland. There are other areas where the conditions are perfect too, like this one in the Peak District National Park.
When the rain starts and the cloud base drops into the rainforest, the trees come alive. Everywhere you look, there is magic and mystery.
@juddlegum
Social media can be dangerous for democracy. I dumped Facebook in 2016 because I watched it, in real time, turn perfectly reasonable "friends" in to angry old cranks. Twitter is a great platform but it's fallen into the creepy hands of a grown man that acts like a trust fund teenager that just read Ayn Rand.
I'm personally finding I'm able to reconstruct in Mastedon a decent level of content curation that is as good as Twitter. And it's actually nice to start over now that I better understand what this medium is used for. I'm doing my part to fight fascism by voting with my feet. For the sake of democracy and lack of need, I am now Facebook and Twitter free. Invite everyone you know to use their free will.
"What I’m finding most satisfying about Mastodon, and I’m seeing a lot of other journalists feel this, is that it actually forces you to ask and confront some of these questions and to make active choices. Even if Mastodon were to remain Twitter’s very tiny stepbrother, I would still like to be part of a Mastodon journalist community because I think we got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide...'
@rbreich
Unless you're fundraising.
@rbreich
I've always said that the best hand to use, when picking someone's pocket, is the invisible one that "drives the market".
Jiu-jitsu liberal. Couldn't drink well enough to be a writer or a lawyer. Became a stoned philosopher instead. Sometimes pay the bills.