Phillip Winn @pwinn@social.cleverlibre.org

A quick summary and quote for a new notebook. #stoicism #noxp

THIS.

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Remember:

"I guess we should retire the expression "avoid it like the plague" given how little effort people put into avoiding an actual plague."

#CovidIsNotOver #WearAMask 🥴​

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

Sorry to get political but schools should probably have books

All Tyre Nichols wanted to do was go home.

All Trayvon Martin wanted to do was go home.

All Amadou Diallo wanted to do was go home.

Breonna Taylor WAS home.

#TyreNichols #BlackMastodon

Go see Tyre Nichols' photography website. This is the sweet guy who was murdered by police. #ACAB #TyreNichols
https://thiscaliforniakid2.wixsite.com/tnicholsphotography/portraits

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Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

This made the rounds when I said it on Twitter but it bears repeating:

The people who need to hear pacifist opinions on violence are the powerful, not the powerless.

The phrase is "speak truth to power," not "lecture people who've lived under state violence for centuries."

Another #PixelArt daily done! :) Desolate beauty.

You can grab the full-quality versions (for free) here: https://ko-fi.com/i/IJ3J7I86O1

My commissions are always open, so feel free to send me a message :)

ENJOY!

#mastoArt #digitalArt #fediArt #art #landscape #wallpaper #creativeToots #gameDev

Any visitor to Berlin must be struck by the frank and painful public reminders, large and small, of the most shameful episodes in Germany’s history. And struck, by contrast, at how we Americans bury ours. https://mstdn.social/@DidiQ/109761708440056795

“Actions speak louder than words” ok then the action I’d like you to take is to speak better words

For the most part, US police don't do what TV shows and the news tell you they do.

They don't run in schools to save children from gunmen.

They don't recover stolen goods.

They don't protect you from domestic violence before it happens.

They don't solve sexual assault cases.

What they do with all those billions of dollars is beat up poor Black folk and extract money from them through fines, tickets, court fees, unpaid prison labor, and theft.

That's the job. And it doesn't keep you safer.

A great write up from The Verge:

"When I asked him about the similarities in the company statements, his answer was succinct: the tech companies are copying each other. “I think Peter Drucker [who is widely known as a father of management thinking] was quoted as saying something to the effect of ... thinking is hard work, which is why most managers don’t do it,” Pfeffer told me."

https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/26/23571659/tech-layoffs-facebook-google-amazon