ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

stop using discord as a wiki
stop using discord as a forum
stop using discord as a file host
stop using discord as a storefront

discord is an instant messenger
it is a centrally hosted cloud service
it will eventually shut down
it has no archival functionality

moving away from IRC was a mistake
anti-discord action

Love is hard goddamn work.

The alternative is far, far worse.

Just now: 🎵Music fans were outside 🐦TheGarden, passing out flyers about the venue’s #FacialRecognition #Surveillance, & calling on artists like 🐦JohnMayer (performing tonight) to boycott venues that use this discriminatory and dangerous tech. http://banfacialrecognition.com/venues 🧵

#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP

@ewdocparris
🥊 The statuesque warrior, Derek, tells others it’s a lifelike tattoo. But glowing gears and pistons wind and retract in response to movements below the skin surface on his right side. It’s why he has been undefeated.

For this 37th conflict, a crowd waves wads of cash within a dimly lit gymnasium. When Derek steps into the ring, he catches sight of a familiar glow from both shoulders of his opponent. Has Derek finally met his match?
#WritingPrompt
#writingcommunity

Time for the #VisualWritingPrompt for 03/15/23!

Write a 480-ish character #SciFi story about this AI generated image.

#WritingCommunity #Midjourney #WritingPrompt #SecretSciFiNetwork

@eniko@peoplemaking.games “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

"Woke" is now every third word out of Republican faces. But when pressed on what "woke" means, they stammer and dodge.

This isn't by accident. "Woke" is an empty word that means whatever a Republican needs it to mean. In this article, I dig into why. https://www.salon.com/2023/03/16/why-the-is-obsessed-with-woke--but-cant-define-it/

I can't even "indoctrinate" students to number the pages on their papers.

This #cat loves a sock on her head

Today is Setting Orange, the 2nd day of Discord in the YOLD 3189.

#twentythree

New from us at @ProPublica:

We combed through millions of records in a never-before-seen trove of personal stock trading data within our "Secret IRS Files." What did we find? Wealthy CEOs and other executives are trading the stock of competitors and partners – sometimes with remarkable timing.

https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-irs-files-trading-competitors-stock

My plea to journalists, bloggers, commentators – in fact, to everyone – is that we stop treating #AI (or really “AI”) as inevitable. *Nothing* is inevitable, but it sure as hell becomes more likely when we preemptively surrender our agency, and treat the thing like a fait accompli. It is not. We can still choose other futures.

NGC 1566: The Spanish Dancer Spiral Galaxy
Credits: #NASA, ESA, Hubble, Leo Shatz
#nature #space #astrophotography

I'm doing some writing on Plato. And for the line...

"the philosopher, by associating with what is orderly and divine, becomes as divine and orderly as a human being can" (𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐, 500d)

.... I looked up the word "orderly" and saw that the Greek is 𝑘𝑜𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑜𝑠, with which are related both "cosmos" and "cosmetics" ... connoting an order and a goodness and a beauty.

🙂 🙏