ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
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Nurses went on strike.
Then graduate students.
Then school teachers.
Now it’s hotel employees, writers, and actors.
UPS drivers and auto workers may be next.
Many strikes, similar story:
Workers are sick and tired of billionaires and corporations hoarding wealth and power.
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4 year degree requirements are SPECIFICALLY a racist and classism filter to try and keep minorities out of their job pool.
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The Microsoft private encryption key stolen by Storm-0558 Chinese hackers provided them with access far beyond the Exchange Online and Outlook.com accounts that Redmond said were compromised, according to Wiz security researchers.
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@georgeeyong @oscarjiminy @mekkaokereke @carnage4life
As @mekkaokereke says, not new info. From 2017:
"On election night, Anthony was shocked to see Trump carry Wisconsin by nearly 23,000 votes. The state ... saw its lowest turnout since 2000. More than half the state’s decline in turnout occurred in Milwaukee ... where almost 41,000 fewer people voted in 2016 than in 2012. Turnout fell only slightly in white middle-class areas of the city but plunged in black ones."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
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It seems like trans people are to evangelicals what sunlight and garlic are to vampires
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"The telemedicine shield laws, enacted over the past year in #NewYork, #Massachusetts, #Washington, #Vermont and #Colorado, explicitly protect #abortion providers who mail pills to restricted states from inside their borders.
The result is a new pipeline of legally prescribed #AbortionPills flowing into states with abortion bans....
“Everything I’m doing is completely legal,”...
“Texas might say I’m breaking their laws, but I don’t live in Texas.”"
#GiftArticle
https://wapo.st/3K5gXpH
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'White Evangelicals, This is Why People Are Through With You’
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2018/01/24/white-evangelicals-people/
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A Gallery of 1,800 Gigapixel Images of Classic Paintings: See Vermeer’s "Girl with the Pearl Earring," Van Gogh’s "Starry Night" & Other Masterpieces in Close Detail
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Time for an #Introduction
I'm a lifelong learner, #liberal, #anti-racist, #recycler, small footprint living southern lady now in the rural #PNW. Happy native plant gardener. Developer, programmer, web designer, data analyst before retirement. I'm on Mastodon for conversation, news, and nature. Lover of good humor and silly dances. Friend and ally to all good hearts. And I follow back.
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For Black people in Manhattan that Monday, going to work meant entering a terrifying and perilous environment. They encountered attacks on their way home, at their workplaces, and even within their own homes. This marked a significant shift from draft protesting to targeted racial violence.
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#BlackMastodon #Histodons #History #NYC #BlackHistory #StillWeRise
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Can the fediverse help stop #BadInternetBills?
A post by yours truly on @wedistribute@mastodon.social , looking at the Bad Internet Bills Week of Action that @fight@fight@mastodon.fightforthefuture.org @eff@mastodon.social ACLU Woodhull and other organizations just kicked off -- along with thoughts about the fediverse as an activism platform more generally.
https://wedistribute.org/2023/07/can-the-fediverse-help-stop-bad-internet-bills/
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/wedistribute/statuses/110748345624266276
Social activism in the past has relied heavily on networks like Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit. With the fediverse growing as fast as it is, our wri...
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current spiciness levels are 95%
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'Borges kept his job as director of the National Library, and he became a professor of English at the University of Buenos Aires. But literature had become, for him, entirely oral.'
https://lithub.com/borges-dealt-with-his-anxiety-about-going-blind-by-learning-a-new-language
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Being #Barthes , he casually drops in the word #doxa as though it had some clear meaning. (This is still The Pleasure of the Text.)
I suppose he means it in the mild sense of "opinion", of something believed but falling short of knowledge, as he says
«le temps de la doxa, de l'opinion, et celui de la paradoxa, de la contestation. Un troisième terme manque, autre que le plaisir et sa censure».
and here he's being cute with "doxa" vs "paradoxa", comfortable opinion vs disturbing paradox, calm pleasure vs chaotic bliss.
But still one can't entirely ignore the way translators of the bible translated the Hebrew word kavod (כבוד) for God's Glory into the Greek doxa (δόξα) for reasons probably lost to time.
So in referring to the comforting pleasure of opinion, is he reminding us that even the Glory of God is from many angles (angels?) just another part of the Opiate of the Masses?
A consciousness somehow associated with matter.
Posting about culture, philosophy, politics, AI Art Tools, NaNoWriMo, Software Development occasionally, the relationship of consciousness to matter.
Degrees in Philosophy and Computer Science, once had a US TS/SCI(redacted) clearance, radical-for-the-US politics, ex-Libertarian, zen-buddhist-pantheist-atheist.
Google employee, but I do not speak for Google in any way.
If your profile tells me nothing about you, it's less likely I'll follow you (back).
Header: abstract smoky patterns
pfp: Adorable weird piglet / delirium cultist... thing. In a hoodie.
Joined Nov 2022
