"𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚊 𝚝𝚛𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚌 𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚖𝚊𝚕. 𝙽𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚕𝚗𝚎𝚜𝚜, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚍. 𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚑𝚊𝚜 𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚜𝚙𝚒𝚛𝚒𝚝𝚞𝚊𝚕 𝚍𝚎𝚖𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚌𝚊𝚗𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚏𝚞𝚕𝚏𝚒𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚎𝚡𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚊 𝚓𝚞𝚜𝚝 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍. 𝙼𝚊𝚗 𝚛𝚎𝚚𝚞𝚒𝚛𝚎𝚜 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚊 𝚖𝚎𝚊𝚗𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚕𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚕𝚍."
─ 𝘗𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘭 𝘡𝘢𝘱𝘧𝘧𝘦
To think
that everyone wants to be like that
NO that's not what everyone wants!!!
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To take
what you want to take
To have
what nobody has
To possess
what is unique
To enslave
So that one can rule
To dehumanize
To gaze at the faceless
To rise above everything
to be able to look down on everyone
Who does that remind you of?
A list is also welcome
What is beauty?
____ ____
To see what only I can see
To feel what only I can feel
To lift what only I can lift
To see you
To feel you
To lift for you
what you cannot lift yourself
To see
To feel
To love
to fight
To never give up
As only I can do for you
For all who love
No matter who
For lovers
For friends
For people
For the beauty
that lies hidden in everything
for all of you
Tech pioneer #JaronLanier argues for a different way to think about #ai One thing I worry about is AI accelerating a trend that digital tech in general — and #socialmedia in particular — has already started, which is to pull us away from the physical world and encourage us to constantly perform versions of ourselves in the virtual world (#avatars). We need a business model for #civilization that isn’t self-destructive.
#future #vr #humanity #reality #bigtech
https://www.vox.com/the-gray-area/407154/jaron-lanier-ai-religion-progress-criticism
AN AUTISTIC URBAN HERMIT
(you may not understand if you are not autistic)
For many years, I've been a very curious person. I've learned many things and done many things that I found interesting: science, art, computer science. Like a voracious animal, my mind has consumed all kinds of information, eager to understand everything around me and everything I experienced. Soldier, doctor, monk, musician, hacker, etc. Until one day, staring at the ceiling in the bed of a psychiatric hospital where I was hospitalized, I asked myself: "How did I get here, to this?" And that night, 17 years ago, another part of my life began. I began to die and be reborn, to discover how and why I had gotten to that situation. I discovered that I have high abilities, that I am bipolar and autistic. But for every limitation I discovered, I also discovered the limitations of the world and the human society in which I live.
Today I know that nothing has meaning and that life doesn't need to have it; that what many see as progress and evolution, I see as barbarism and brutality, and that humanity is the stupidest species on the planet, not the best. I don't have goals anymore, I don't need them. But I do have a compass, a kind of direction without needing to get anywhere. To live as peacefully as possible and need very little, being aware and critical of everything. A peaceful dwelling isn't just my house tucked away in the middle of the city, but also a peaceful inner life, without the noise and clamor of the lives of "normal people," without socializing more than the bare minimum necessary for survival. And this isn't because of autism; it's because of a kind of purge, a psycho-spiritual hygiene. The forced social being I often was is dying. Until a few years ago, there wasn't so much exposure and socialization; it wasn't mandatory or essential to living and working in this world. With all the technology and supposed progress, there is increasing misery, hunger, war, and violence everywhere, which makes me think that it's more of a trigger than a solution.
Being overly intelligent and being autistic is a fatal combination that guarantees the death of the social being and the development of the inner hermit that every gifted autistic person potentially is. I'm slowly retreating from the world to my quiet inner abode, where a very narrow door filters who enters and who doesn't. Just my small family group and a minimum of kindness toward a few people is more than enough.
I thought a lot about sharing what I'd learned, about helping, but I realized that idealism and the romanticization of compassion are useless when the sufferer doesn't understand the root of their problems and isn't willing to do their part. Human nature is to be a soulless son of a bitch, held back only by fear of punishment, whether from human law itself or some imagined deity. It's better to live in full awareness of the suchness of things. I myself can be a compassionate genius and in the next moment break your head for being rude and treating me badly.
We live in the worst of all possible worlds, and with that, we are warned that the worst can always happen. Knowing that, any good thing that comes or appears is a gift, a bonus track.
I don't give unsolicited advice, but if you want some, it's this: "Step away from the world as it is and watch it burn from a distance."
(An autistic person becoming an urban hermit.)
Small Things Like These. By Claire Keegan.
You are an Irish man, as a kid you and your mom were seriously helped by a stranger, and you now have daughters of your own; it’s an ordinary life, but you happen on a teen girl who needs serious help, and your decision about what to do feels momentous.
4 of 5 library cats
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@bookstodon #bookstodon #books #reading #ireland #ethics #catholicism #humanity
The actual proprietor of my neighbourhood confectionery shop, overseeing his business behind the counter. All the humans working there are merely his lowly subordinates, nothing more.
#photography #blackandwhite #bwphotography #bwphotos #blackandwhitephotography
#bnwphoto #monochrome #noiretblancphotographie #streetphotography #fotografie #cityscape #photographie #humanity #caturday #cats #shoplocal #EverydayMoments #pixelfed #abstractphotography
https://re-engaging.eu/news/how-serbian-students-are-redefining-protest-and-participation/
I support the #SerbianProtest ! Your movement is reigniting international #social #libertarian energy. In an era of polycrisis, where our #Generation sees few positive prospects for the future, you are leading the way.
#Europe #EuropeanUnion #EuropeanCommission should stand with Serbian citizens, if we are still true to our values.
The next Renaissance won't be Italian; it will be born in #serbia !
#Israel bombs #Gaza City hospital; orders people in Nuseirat to flee
Israeli forces bomb Al Ali #Hospital in northern Gaza City as #doctors scramble to evacuate the sick and wounded.
#Palestine #Genocide #EthnicCleansing #Humanity #Nuseirat #KhanYounis
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Amid NOAA Cuts, Scientists Warn of Weather and Climate Risks
Trump Is Leading an ‘All-Out Assault’ on the Climate
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-climate-weather-epa-noaa-1235292543/
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava A Running List of Countries Issuing U.S. Travel Advisories
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/list-of-countries-issuing-u-s-travel-advisories
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava A Running List of Countries Issuing U.S. Travel Advisories
https://www.fodors.com/news/news/list-of-countries-issuing-u-s-travel-advisories
Australian with working visa detained and deported on returning to US from sister’s memorial
I was not born to kneel before any government.
I was not born to appease any politician.
I was not born to uphold the sickass status quo.
I was born to challenge all of the above.
I come from a long line of resistance warriors & will fight for justice for the oppressed humans & non-human living beings, as long as I'm alive to do so.
This is a lifetime personal commitment.
I take it very seriously.
How to fight the dehumanization tactics used by Trump and authoritarians everywhere.
https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/how-not-to-look-away
#uspol #humanity
Happy International Day of Human Space Flight, 12 April, 2025. This year marks 64 years since the first human space flight 12 April, 1961 by Yuri Gagarin. May human space flight continue forever until humanity reaches the stars, our dream, humanity's biggest dream
Cuadro Físico Meteoro y Geológico de la Tierra y Reloj Cosmográfico. (Physical, Meteorological, and Geological [1879] Chart of the Earth and Cosmographic Clock.)
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https://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~366459~90133720:Cuadro-Fisico-Meteoro-y-Geologico <-- shared David Rumsey Map Collection holding, and download the high resolution digital copy of the map…
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[the level of detail - with the ballon and other cartographic affectations…]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #cartography #maps #oldmaps #global #world #geography #geology #flora #fauna #terrestrial #FridayFeeling #gischat #Spain #rivers #mountains #humanity #globe #earth
@DavidRumseyMapCenter
#Project2025 #TechBros #CorpMedia #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity #FeelTheBern
#JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Trump admin live updates: SCOTUS upholds order to return deported Maryland man
Pam Bondi melts down over questions about deportation of innocent men
Man detained in Sweden on suspicion of spying on Uygurs for China https://www.byteseu.com/908748/ #ArbitraryAndDiscriminatoryDetention #Beijing #ChineseEmbassy #ChineseIntelligenceService #EthnicMinority #humanity #MatsLjungqvist #RightsGroups #Sweden #SwedishCapital #SwedishCourt #UnitedNations #UygurEnvironment #Uygurs #Xinjiang