tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
> _“Is locally better for the environment? Not necessarily. It always depends on how you measure it. And what factors you include in your equation.”_
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Great graphic: one line of CSS, many results (all due to color space)
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NEW: The US government is amassing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on its own citizens, according to a newly declassified report from the ODNI. @dell reports: "https://www.wired.com/story/odni-commercially-available-information-report/
And the full document is here: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23843212-odni-declassified-report-on-cai-january2022
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@tripu Actually misleading. It represents things linearly when this should be a tree: Neither Australopithecus nor the Neandertal man are our ancestors, they are our cousins.
As for Choanoflagellates, these are a group of living organisms that is sister to animals. Agnatha is the sister group of jawed vertebrates. What is meant is that the morphology of our ancestor was similar, but I find it misleading.
In my professional circles (I'm a software engineer) I have met plenty of people who were either extremely shy, misanthropes, or on the (autistic) spectrum.
Often I assumed those types were churls, selfish, arrogant, and/or ill-mannered — and as such I tended feel looked down on, and to keep interaction to a minimum.
More recently I have understood that sometimes (often?) it's a condition, something they _suffer_, and not a conscious decision about how to be in the world. And so I grew more sympathetic and patient with some of them.
And yet, I feel it frustrating that genuine boors and arrogant people often can be mistaken with autistic people, and it's difficult to tell. I don't want to be kind to someone who assumes I'm dumb, or who despises chatting with me. But I want to support autistic people.
sex, genitals, gender dysphoria
> _“It is a myth that men have high libidos and women have low libidos”_
> _“Tucking is for anyone who wants to do it”_
> _“Binding is for anyone who wants to bind”_
> _“You are #trans enough”_
> _“The valid, real and wonderful #gender you know yourself to be”_
> _“You are the expert about yourself and your gender”_
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Turns out the #KidsTheseDays effect is (scientifically) an illusion — also in the realm of #morality. So don't despair!
“Glorifying #nostalgia and people putting media they used to enjoy on a pedestal.” https://twitter.com/OneWingedKaiju/status/14939606446258462...
Glad to read that @ourmaninjapan seems to agree with me :)
https://blog.daniemon.com/2023/06/08/regulating-ai-generated-content/
Introducing the #AItiquette: https://blog.tripu.info/ai-tiquette/
#Lockdowns had “negligible impact” on #Covid mortality and were “a global policy failure of gigantic proportions”.
“The science of lockdowns is clear; the data are in: the deaths saved were a drop in the bucket compared to the staggering collateral costs imposed.”
“Lockdowns were a failed promise. They had negligible health effects but disastrous economic, social and political costs to society. Most likely lockdowns represent the biggest policy mistake in modern times.”
> _“The transition from a culture of the written word to a culture of images hinders what experts refer to as ‘deep literacy’. Digital leisure spares us from **the slow, introspective solitude of #reading #TheGreatestBooks**. […] **Only #books of considerable substance imbue us with a detailed understanding of various subjects while enabling a dialogue with the past**. […] **That's precisely what the great books offer. And ‘great books’ often happens to coincide with, well, ‘hefty books’**. In return, they demand solitude, immobility, and no company other than combinations of letters arranged in horizontal lines, carefully stacked into paragraphs. Are we still capable of the level of concentration required for deep reading? […] We exaggerate the artistic merits of television series to mask a shameful and growing ineptitude for engaging with substantial literary works.”_
https://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2023/05/23/646b7e2efc6c835a5d8b45ae.html
(Translation from the original by #ChatGPT)
> _«El paso de una cultura de la palabra a una cultura de la imagen impide lo que los expertos llaman “alfabetización profunda”. El ocio digital nos dispensa del **tiempo lento de la #lectura rumiosa y solitaria de las grandes obras**. […] **Solo los libros de cierto espesor imbuyen un conocimiento detallado de las materias, a la vez que permiten entablar un diálogo con el pasado**. […] Todo eso ofrecen **los #GrandesLibros, que a menudo son lo mismo, qué le vamos a hacer, que los libros gordos**. A cambio exigen estar a solas, inmóvil, sin otra compañía que combinaciones de letras dispuestas en líneas horizontales, cuidadosamente apiladas en párrafos. ¿Somos aún capaces del grado de concentración que comporta la lectura profunda? […] Tasamos al alza los atributos artísticos de las series de televisión para encubrir una vergonzante y creciente ineptitud para enfrascarnos en lectura de grandes #libros.»_
https://www.elmundo.es/opinion/2023/05/23/646b7e2efc6c835a5d8b45ae.html
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
