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"haha this is unenforceable what are they going to do, introduce genital inspectors!?"
they don't have to. they just need a sufficiently harsh punishment mechanism that is only applied when a trans person is discovered trying to live their life
governments rely on punishment from partial detection and retroactive audits all the time. that's how speed limits are enforced, it's how tax laws are enforced. it works reasonably well as a deterrent. it's just that in this case the thing they're trying to deter is "trans people existing in public"
@georgia this sounds totally weird and makes no sense. where does the blood go if you put a bunch of salt on it? right into the pan. it doesn't make the blood disappear. unless you're covering the meat in salt then throwing away the salt. this would make a steak really dry and tough.
also i doubt the size of salt grains makes much difference regarding how much moisture it draws out of the meat. if anything it would draw out less moisture
i ended up doing some welding outside today with the flux core arc welder instead of tig, since there's still some galvanizing left on these tubes. breathing zinc fumes isn't that healthy
Nobody say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine.” Saying “Fuck #Israel, Free #Palestine” is very offensive to people who think #genocide is good.
When you say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine,” you are hurting the feelings of the people who believe it’s fine to bomb every hospital in Gaza. So you must never, ever say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine.” Who do you think you are, saying “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine”? Don’t you know that by saying “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine” you are causing the people who applaud the deliberate starvation of an entire civilian population to become emotionally upset?
Instead of saying “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine,” you should try putting yourself in the shoes of the tender-hearted individuals who support the complete ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. They’re just minding their own business, merrily celebrating the carpet bombing of a giant concentration camp full of children, and then you come along and ruin their day by saying “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine”? What a cruel and hateful thing that would be.
I mean, all they are doing is cheerleading the mutilation, evisceration and incineration of children, and the assassination of journalists and medical workers, and the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure, and the complete flattening of an entire region whose population they are methodically exterminating via bullets, bombs, starvation and disease. It’s not like they’re doing anything nasty or disgusting like saying offensive words. Offensive words like “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine.”
So don’t say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine.” Under no circumstances should anyone ever say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine.” And they must certainly never say “Fuck Israel, Free Palestine” as many times as they possibly can, every single day until Palestine is free, and get everyone else to say it constantly as well. Again, the phrase you must avoid saying at all cost is Fuck Israel, Free Palestine. Fuck Israel, Free Palestine.
@ninapaleyThe third one rounds off the story, but it isn't anywhere near as good as the others. Having seen it, whenever I watch the other two, I just think about the end of the third one and that will do. That's my take on it.
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All The Worst Evils Are Happening Right Out In The Open C. #Johnstone
Trump is committing #genocide for #Israel after publicly admitting to being bought and owned by the #Adelsons.
All the worst shit happens right out in the open. You don’t need to come up with any elaborate conspiracy theories to see it. It’s right there, completely unhidden.
It’s not hidden, it’s just spun. Disguised by the propaganda of the mass media who frame this holocaust as a war of defense in response to a terrorist attack while constantly diverting our attention to other far less significant issues.
It says so much about the power of the imperial propaganda machine that #Trump could openly admit to having been fully controlled by #Adelson cash on the campaign trail, get elected, and then facilitate a blatant extermination campaign in #Gaza while aggressively stomping out free speech that is critical of Israel throughout the United States — and somehow not have this be the main thing that everyone talks about all the time. It is only because our minds are being forcefully manipulated by the powerful at mass scale that this has been the case.
The narrative spin is greatly aided by the fact that Trump isn’t doing much different from the previous president here. A public which has been indoctrinated from childhood into seeing everything in Democrat-vs-Republican binaries is conditioned to focus far more on the differences between the two parties than the similarities. But you can learn a whole lot more about real power and what’s actually going on in the world by paying less attention to how US presidents differ from each other, and more attention to the ways in which they are the same.
The mass-scale psychological manipulation is so pervasive and ubiquitous that only a small minority are reacting to history’s first live-streamed genocide with an appropriate level of horror. If Americans could see what their government is doing in their name with fresh eyes and uncallused hearts, the nation’s capitol would be burnt to the ground within days. But because their vision is clouded by propaganda indoctrination they can’t see it, so they overlook what’s right in front of them while awaiting a gigantic Epstein bombshell or UFO disclosure or some other Big Reveal that never comes.
Consider the possibility that the Big Reveal has already happened. That it’s been right here staring you in the face this entire time, but you haven’t noticed its significance because it has been constantly normalized for you throughout your life since you were small. That the truth behind all your most sparkly conspiracy theories could be published online tomorrow, and it still wouldn’t tell you as much about what your rulers are doing and how evil they are as what’s already happening in plain sight.
This is the dystopia we were warned about. It’s not some ominous threat looming on the horizon. It’s here. We are being psychologically manipulated at mass scale into consenting to the most nightmarish atrocities imaginable. Children’s bodies are being shredded to bits right in front of us. And when you turn on the TV you see famous people laughing and making jokes with fake plastic grins, babbling about vapid nonsense. This is the dystopia. It isn’t on its way. It’s here.
We don’t need a Big Reveal. If the Big Reveal happened next week, the public would be indoctrinated into overlooking and dismissing it by the imperial spin machine by the weekend. We don’t need new information, we need people to truly see the information that’s already here. To see it with eyes that are free from the cataracts of propaganda conditioning, with hearts that are free from the calluses of desensitization. Waking the public up is less about whistleblowers, FOIA requests and investigative journalism at this point than it is about finding creative and artistic ways to get people noticing the information that’s already public.
And the good news is that we can all help do this. We can all help our fellow members of the public to see what’s really happening with fresh eyes. Using our creativity, our humor, our insight and our compassion, we can find new ways every day to open a new pair of eyelids to the truth of our present circumstances.
Our rulers do not have creativity. They do not have humor, insight or compassion. These are not tools that they have in their toolbox, and they have no weapons to counter them. All they have is manipulation, and manipulation only works if you don’t know it’s happening to you. Our task is to keep finding new and creative ways to help more people see and understand the ways in which they have been manipulated.
İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti, tehcir ve imhayı gerçekleştirirken, Kürt, Türk, Çerkes, Gürcü, Ermeni, Alevi, Sünni, Hıristiyan, Ezidi toplumları arasındaki gerilimleri ustaca kullandı.
24 Nisan 1915’te bir grup Ermeni entelektüelinin Çankırı ve Ayaş’a sürgünü ile sembolik olarak, 27 Mayıs 1915 tarihli ‘Savaş Zamanında Hükümet Uygulamalarına Karşı Gelenler İçin Asker Tarafından Uygulanacak Önlemler Hakkında Geçici Kanun’la resmen başlayan 1915 Ermeni soykırımı (niye böyle adlandırdığımı bir başka yazıda anlatacağım), esas olarak İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti’nde (İTC) örgütlenmiş olan Türk milliyetçiliğinin, dağılmakta olan Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun yerine Türk ulus devletini kurmanın ilk adımı olarak ülkeyi gayrimüslim unsurlardan temizleme ve sermayenin Müslümanlaştırılması/Türkleştirilmesi harekâtıydı.
Nitelikli suç ortaklığı
Böylesi büyük bir suçun işlenmesi elbette imparatorluk tebaasının önemli bir kesiminin işbirliği ile mümkün oldu. İTC, tehcir ve imhayı gerçekleştirirken, gerek Kürt, Türk, Çerkes, Gürcü, Ermeni toplumları arasındaki, gerek Alevi, Sünni, Hıristiyan, Ezidi toplumları arasındaki gerekse bölgeler, şehirler, köyler, aşiretler ve hatta kişiler arasındaki gerilimleri ustaca kullandı.
Böylece Ermenilere (ve elbette Rumlara, Süryanilere) yönelik kaçırtma ve imha hareketlerinde İTC’nin yeraltı örgütü Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa’ya ve ordu birliklerine destek veren, birçok yerde bu işleri bizzat örgütleyen ve yürüten Türk, Kürt, Çerkes, Çeçen, Gürcü gibi değişik etnisitelerden Müslüman gruplar arasında ‘nitelikli’ suç ortaklığı oluşturuldu. Geride kalan Ermeni mallarını talan eden, Ermenilerin çocuklarını besleme veya evlatlık alan, kızlarını haremlerine katan yerel eşraf ya da halk kesimleri, Ermenilerin el konulan zenginliklerini kendine sermaye yapan ticaret burjuvazisi, Ermenilerin boşalttığı alanlarda kendine iş alanı yaratan zanaatkârlar da bu büyük suçun açık ya da zımni ortakları oldular.
Kötüler
Tehcirin eylemci ekibinde, 3. Ordu Komutanı General Mahmud Kâmil Paşa, Genelkurmay İstihbarat Dairesi’nden Albay Seyfi, Harbiye Nazırı Enver Paşa’nın amcası Halil Paşa ve üvey kardeşi Nuri (Kıllıgil) Paşa, Musul’daki 6. Ordu Komutanı Ali İhsan Sabis Paşa, teşkilatın tetikçisi Yakup Cemil ve ‘Deli’ Halit (Karsıalan) gibi Harbiye mezunları, İTC Merkez Komitesi üyeleri Bahaeddin Şakir, Nazım ya da Diyarbakır Valisi Mehmet Reşit gibi doktorlar, ‘Sopalı Mutasarrıf‘ lakaplı Trabzon Valisi Cemal Azmi, önce Erzincan Bölge Valisi, daha sonra Bitlis, Bağdat ve Musul vilayetlerinin genel valisi olan Mehmet Memduh, Maarif Nazırı Ahmet Şükrü, Emniyet Müdürü İsmail Canbolat gibi yüksek bürokratlar, Giresunlu Topal Osman Ağa ve Trabzonlu Yahya Kahya gibi eşraftan olanlar, Malatya Müftüsü Sagirzade gibi din adamları vardı.
Elbette, en korkunç suçları işleyenler tehcir konvoylarına, Osmanlı tarihinde o güne dek eşine rastlanmadık bir barbarlık içinde saldıran, konvoyları yağmalayan değişik toplumlardan gelen çete reisleri ve çete üyeleriydi. Bu barbarlığın temel nedeni, bu çeteleri oluşturan kadroların büyük bir bölümünün İTC Merkez Komitesi üyeleri Dr. Bahaeddin Şakir ve Dr. Nazım tarafından kana susamış caniler arasından özenle seçilmiş olmalarıydı. Bunlar, sözü edilen korkunç görevleri yerine getirmeleri kaydıyla, özel emirlerle hapishanelerden salıverilmişlerdi.
İyiler
Buna karşılık Ermenilerin öldürülmesine karşı çıktığı için öldürülen, Ermenileri evlerinde saklayan, Ermenileri korumak için hayatını tehlikeye atan yöneticiler ve halk kesimleri de vardı. Örneğin 1914’ten itibaren sırasıyla Halep ve Konya Valiliğinde bulunan Celal Bey, vilayetindeki Ermenilerin tehcirine izin vermemişti. Kendisine bu kanlı yolculuğun ‘milli mefkûre’ olduğunu söyleyen İTC Merkez Komitesi’nin adamına “Hangi milli mefkûre? Türkler ve Müslümanlar, bu cinayetlerden dolayı kan ağlıyor, fakat engellemek için çare bulamıyorlardı. Böyle zulümlere milli mefkûre demek, millet için en büyük iftira ve hakarettir” diye cevap vermişti ve 1915 Ekiminde görevden alınıncaya kadar çevre illerden de pek çok kişinin de Der Zor’a gönderilmesini engellemişti. Ankara Valisi Mazhar Bey, vilayetindeki Ermenilerin gönderilmesine karşı çıktığı için 1915 Ağustosunda görevinden alınmıştı. Mazhar Bey tehcire neden karşı çıktığını şöyle açıklamıştı: “Ben valiyim, eşkıya değilim.”
Kütahya Mutasarrıfı Faik Ali (Ozansoy), sadece kendi bölgesindeki Ermenileri sürgüne göndermeyi reddetmekle kalmadı, Balıkesir, Afyon, İzmit ve Adapazarı gibi çevre şehirlerden Kütahya'ya gelen Ermenilere de her türlü yardımı yaptı. Kütahya'ya yığılmayı önlemek için, gelenleri meslek ve sanatlarına göre çevre ilçelere ve köylere gönderdi. Himaye ettiği Ermenilerin Türk Kızılay'ına verilmek üzere aralarında topladığı 500 altını da diğer illerden Kütahya'ya sığınan Ermeni yoksullara dağıttı ve göçmenler için aşevi kurdu. Ermeni çocuklarının eğitimden yoksun kalmaması için bir okul açtırdı ve başına bir Ermeni'yi müdür olarak atadı.
Kastamonu Valisi Reşat Bey, Yozgat Mutasarrıfı Cemal Bey ve Erzurum Valisi Tahsin Bey de imha emirlerini uygulamadılar. Malatya Belediye Başkanı Azizoğlu Mustafa Ağa tehciri engelleyecek yetkiye sahip değildi ama bir çok kişiyi evinde sakladı. Bir İTC üyesinin oğlu tarafından “gavurları koruduğu” için öldürüldü.
Tehcir emirlerini uygulamayı reddeden Lice Kaymakamı Hüseyin Nesimi Bey, Beşiri Kaymakam Muavini Sabit Bey, Basra Valisi Ferit Bey, Müntefek Mutasarrıfı Bedii Nuri Bey ve gazeteci İsmail Mestan, İTC’nin ileri gelenlerinden Diyarbakır Valisi Dr. Reşit Bey’in emirleriyle öldürüldüler. Mardin Mutasarrıfı Hilmi Bey ise, son anda ölümden kurtuldu.
Eski Diyarbakır ve Dersaadet Posta ve Telgraf Müdürü Vehbi Efendi Dominiken misyonerlerinden 200 kadar kişiyi evinde sakladı. Midyat Kaymakamı Nuri Bey, Çermikli Muhammed Hamdi Bey, Savurlu Mehmed Ali Bey, Silvanlı İbrahim Hakkı Bey Ermeni ve Süryanilere iyilikleri olan kişilerdi. Urfa’da Binbaşı Sıtkı Bey Süryani cemaatinin ve Ermeni Katoliklerinin liderlerini ölümden kurtarmıştı. Urfalı Hacı Halil, aynı aileden yedi kişiyi katliamdan kurtarmak için evinin tavan arasında saklamıştı.
Ayrıca Trabzon bölgesinin ve Kastamonu’nun bir kısım Sünni Türk halkı, Konyalı Mevleviler, Mardinli Süryaniler, Sincarlı Yezidiler ve Dersimli Kızılbaş aşiretlerinin büyük çoğunluğu Ermenileri korumuştu. Dersim’in dış çeperlerini oluşturan Arapkir, Eğin, Gürün, Kemah, Erzincan, Tercan, Kiğı ve Palu’da ise Ermenilere yönelik talan saldırıları yanında ciddi katliamlar olmuştu. Aynı şekilde Suriye’deki Zor’da pek çok Arap aşireti sürgünlere yemek ve barınak sağlarken, bazı Bedevi aşiretleri yağma ve katliamlara katılmışlardı. Res’ul-Ayn’da bazı Çeçenler Ermenilere saldırırken bazı Çeçenler de Ermenileri korumuştu.
Konya Valisi Celal Bey’in anıları
Yazımızı ‘iyi Türkler’den Konya Valisi Celal Bey’in 1919’da Vakit gazetesinde yayımlanan “Ermeni Vakayi’i, Esbâb ve Tesiratı” (Ermeni Olayı, Sebepleri ve Etkileri) başlıklı anılarından bir bölüm ile bitirelim:
“Evet, birtakım Ermeniler düşmana yardım ettiler. Ve bazı Ermeni mebusları da çeteciliği mebusluğa tercih ederek birçok cinayetlerde bulundular. Hükümetin vazifesi, failleri yakalamak ve sadece onları cezalandırmak ve eğer bu mümkün değilse, o yöredeki Ermenileri, düşmanca değil, dostça ve geçici olarak başka yerlerde iskân etmek idi. Bir çeteci her şeyi yapabilir. Çünkü çetecidir. Hükümet ise sadece kabahat sahibi olanları takip eder. Fakat teessüf olunur ki, o zamanın hükümet büyükleri komitacılık ruhunu asla kaybetmemiş olduklarından, bu tehciri en cüretkâr ve hunhar çetecilerin de yapamayacağı bir tarzda tatbik ettiler. O zamanki hükümet, Rusların Sakarya vadisine saldıracaklarını ve Ermenilerin kendilerine yardım edeceklerini düşündüklerinden, tedbir olarak, tehciri Ankara, Konya ve Eskişehir’e kadar yaydıklarını söylüyorlardı. O zamanlarda Rusların yeni dretnotları henüz ikmal edilmiş olduğundan, Yavuz ve Midilli ile Karadeniz’e hâkimdik ve Rusların Sakarya havzasına asker çıkarmaları mümkün değildi. Haydi, bu ihtimali de kabul edelim... Acaba Bursa ve Edirne’de ve Tekfurdağı’ndaki (Tekirdağ) Ermeniler niçin çıkarıldı? Buralar da Sakarya havzasına mı dahildi? Halep’te vilayetin genel nüfusunun yirmide biri derecesinde bile olmayan Ermenilerden ne istendi? Doğru yanlış, vatanın selameti için Ermenilerin bulundukları yerlerden çıkarılmaları lazım addedilmişse, işbu tarzda mı tatbik edilir? Ermenileri Zor’a sevk edin diye emir veren hükümet, bu bîçarelerin oralarda Arap göçebe kabileleri arasında meskensiz, gıdasız nasıl barınabileceklerini düşündü mü? Düşündü ise soruyorum: Oralara ne kadar gıda maddesi gönderdi ve göçmenlerin iskânı için kaç hane yaptırdı? Ve Ermeniler gibi asırlardan beri yerleşmiş bir hayat süren bir kavmi, ağaçtan, sudan ve her türlü inşaat malzemesinden mahrum olan Zor çöllerine sevk etmekte maksat neydi? Maalesef, meseleyi inkâr ve çarpıtmaya imkân yok. Maksat imhaydı ve imha edildiler. Yine gizleme ve saklaması mümkün değildir ki, bu kararı İttihat ve Terakki umumi merkezinin bazı önde gelen mensupları aldı ve o umumi merkezin tabii azası olan hükümet tatbik etti.
İTC Merkez-i Umumisi, Balkan Harbi’nden evvel Makedonya meselesinin de kolayca halline girişti. Azalarından birinin fikrince, Makedonya meselesi bir nüfus meselesi imiş. Eğer İslam nüfus çoğalırsa mesele kendiliğinden halledilirmiş. (…) İki rakam arasındaki nispeti tayin için ya rakamlardan birini büyütmek veya diğerini küçültmek lazım gelir!.. Rumeli’deki nüfus arasındaki farkı değiştirmek için Bulgarları, Rumları, Sırpları mahva imkân yoktu. Onun için Basra’dan İslam muhacirleri getirmeye teşebbüs ettiler.
Anadolu’da ise bu külfete olsun lüzum görmediler. Ermenilerin mahvını tanzim ettiler. Bunu sırf Merkez-i Umumi değil, o zamanki hükümet de tatbik etti. Böyle olmasaydı, katliama iştirak etmeyen kaymakamlar öldürüldüğü, mutasarrıflar ve valiler azledildiği halde, iştirak edenler terfi etmezdi. Ve tehcir işleri, İttihat ve Terakki mensuplarının denetimi altında cereyan etmezdi.
İmdi, bence meselenin en mühim noktasına geliyorum. Bu hercümercden, şu katliamlar ve cinayetlerden, Müslümanlar ve bilhassa Türkler de mesul müdürler, yoksa bundan âri midirler?
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Tahminime göre, en aşağı üç-dört yüz bin Ermeni öldü. Bu kadar kan akıtan bir milletin feryad ve şikâyete hakkı vardır. Bu hakka kimse itiraz edemez. Fakat yalnız Ermeni ölmedi. İki milyondan ziyade Türk ve Arap da telef oldu. Türkler ve Araplar da Ermeniler kadar mağdur ve bîçaredirler. Onların da şikâyet ve feryada hakları vardır. Ben Osmanlı memleketinin bugünkü halini Erzurum vilayetinin yukarıda tasvir ettiğim haline benzetiyorum. Yani bütün memlekette iki sınıf halk var. Biri hukuka tecavüzle menfaat elde eden zorbalar, diğeri, bu zorbaların tecavüzüyle ezilmiş olan Türkler, Araplar, Ermeniler...
Hepimiz için felaketin doğuş sebepleri bir!.. Vatanından ayrılarak yollarda ölen veya öldürülen Ermenilerle, Cezire ve Suriye çöllerinde, Erzurum dağlarında açlıktan, hastalıktan, sıcaktan telef olan veya telef edilen Türkler ve Suriye’de açlıktan sokaklarda inleye inleye ölen Arapların ve Cemal Paşa’nın kanunuyla ipe çekilen ve sürgün yerlerinde sefalet içinde kalan uğursuz kuvvet aynı kuvvettir. Binaenaleyh, Türkler de, Araplar da, Ermeniler gibi davacıyız. Biz de adalet istiyoruz! Birbirimizi suçlamaktansa, el ele verip medeni dünyadan adalet dilemek ve asırlardan beri kardeşçe yaşamış olan Arapları, Türkleri ve Ermenileri bu hale getirenlerin cezasını istemek ve henüz vakit geçmemiş ise, bundan böyle yine kardeşçe yaşamaya çalışmak pek uygun olur.”
Özet Kaynakça: Taner Akçam, İnsan Hakları ve Ermeni Sorunu, İmge Kitabevi, 1999, Burçin Gerçek, ‘Celal Bey ve diğerleri’, Radikal, 26 Şubat 2006, Tuncay Opçin, ‘Tehcirde Kol Kanat Geren Türkler”, Yeni Aktüel, 29 Haziran 2008, Racho Donef, “1915: Righteous Muslims during the Genocide of 1915”, atour.com/history/1900/2010110… Koptaş, “Türkler ve Müslümanlar, bu cinayetlerden dolayı kan ağlıyor”, Agos, 30 Temmuz 2010 (Celal Bey’in hatıratını Agos için günümüz Türkçesine çeviren: Ari Ekeryan), Sarkis Seropyan “Vicdanlı bir Türk Valisi: Faik Ali Ozansoy”, İmparatorluğun Çöküş Döneminde Osmanlı Ermenileri, Bilimsel Sorumluluk ve Demokrasi Sorunları, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Yayınları, 2011.
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La mission Dakar-Djibouti (1931-1933), considérée comme fondatrice de l'ethnologie française, était détentrice d'un “permis de capture scientifique”, longtemps interprété comme un permis de voler des objets.
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Les PFAS, ces substances chimiques persistantes, infiltrent désormais notre alimentation quotidienne. Une étude britannique récente révèle la présence alarmante de ces « polluants éternels » dans nos fruits et légumes préférés.
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ich finde die kurzversion meiner these so am verständlichsten:
llms sind keine modelle eines "gehirns/geistes/minds/weltmodell" sondern ein _modell unserer erwartungen_.
A recent DEA raid on a clandestine nightclub in Colorado led to the arrest of over 100 individuals, shedding light on the troubling intersection of illegal immigration and drug trafficking linked to organized crime.
Have You Heard of Project Freeze? A secret government program to create isolated societies on private islands, trapped in different time periods. Officially, it doesn’t exist, but rumors suggest these islands serve as eerie time capsules, hidden from the rest of the world. minds.com/newsfeed/17632745949…
With an estimated $330 billion, #Elon is more than three times as rich as the richest fictional person from #Duckburg. So the #reality of #capitalism is already far beyond what #fiction could have imagined.
Overheard cashier (owner?) talking to other customer about how the constitution should be a living document.
Customer thought that because the founding fathers didn't know about dinosaurs, they couldn't predict what constitution would be needed 250 years later.
Good we have a president that likes America for 2026, for the 250 year anniversary!
My wife and I run OpenBenches - a crowd-sourced database of nearly 40,000 memorial benches. Every bench is geo-tagged with a latitude and longitude. But how do you go from a string of digits to something human readable?
How do I turn -33.755780,150.603769 into "42 Wallaby Way, Sydney, Australia"?
Luckily, that's a (somewhat) solved problem. Services like OpenCage, StadiaMaps, OpenStreetMap, and Geocode.Earth all provide APIs which transform co-ordinates into addresses. Done! Let's go home.
Except… Not everywhere has an address. Some benches are in parks. They typically don't have a street number, but might have an interesting feature nearby to help with location. For example a statue or prominent landmark.
And… Not every address is relevant. Some benches are on streets. But we probably don't want to imply that the bench is inside or belongs to a specific nearby house.
Let's step back a bit. Why do we want to display a human-readable address?
We have two use-cases.
"As a visitor to the site, I want to:"
Read a (rough) textual representation of where the bench is.
Click on a component of the address to see all benches within that area.
The first is easy to explain:
The second is harder. Suppose a bench is in Wellington, New Zealand. We want to create a URl like openbenches.org/location/New Zealand/Wellington/. That way, users can click on the word "Wellington" and find all the benches nearby. A user can also manually edit that URl to increase or decrease precision.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Sandycombe Road, Kew, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, London, Greater London, England, TW9 2EN, United Kingdom
That is too much address!
Yes, it is technically accurate. But it contains far too much detail for humans, the postcode is irrelevant, and the weird-subdivisions are nothing that a local person would use.
Except… Not every country has states. And not all states are used when giving addresses. Not every location is in a city. Some places have villages, prefectures, municipalities, and hamlets.
New York, New York is a valid address, but Berlin, Berlin is not!
There's an address formatter by OpenCage which is pretty sensible about stripping off irrelevant details. But, to go back to my first point, not every map location on OpenBenches is a street address and - even if it is on a street - it probably shouldn't have a house number.
Well, there's kind of a solution to that! Most mapping provider have a POI function - we can find nearby things of interest and use them as a location.
Here's a bench in Cook County, Illinois, USA. The POI address is: JSON{… "name": "Central Park", "coarse_location": "Des Plaines, IL, USA",…} I assume there's only one Central Park in Des Plaines. Do people know that "Il" is Illinois? Would "Cook County" be useful?
On the subject of localisation, not everywhere speaks English. Do I want to display addresses like "原爆の子の像, 広島, 日本"? How about "原爆の子の像, Hiroshima, Japan"?
We're an international site, but most benches are in Anglophone countries.
Of course, just because something is physically near a POI, that doesn't mean it is logically close to it.
The nearest POI is "Gay's Creamery" - across the river. Is that what you'd expect? Is there any way to easily say "if a point is inside an amenity* then use that as the address?
I don't want the users of our site to have to select from a list of POIs or addresses, this should be as automated as possible.
One of the perverse things about geodata is that you can have too much of a good thing. And this seems to unfortunately often be the case with open geodata, ...
I don't entirely understand what alternative is to be used instead of carbon/coal, but I know that wind turbine energy is killing a lot of birds that crash with the turbine wings and II have also read that solar panels are also killing birds and other animals too. Apparently there are other energy systems that are much better for the environment, but they are not being made public at the moment, so I can't share the information. One is related to splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen and both sea water and other sources of water could be used. There are other methods that were mentioned by Nikola Tesla but have been censored for a very long time, because they don't cost any money and that is the only thing that is of interest to most people!!
HPG: One Soldier Killed, Two Others Injured as Turkish Attacks Against Guerrilla Areas Continue
The Press Office of the People’s Defense Forces (HPG) reported that the Turkish army carried out 691 attacks on the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) between April 21 and 23. Legitimate self-defense by the guerrillas left one soldier dead and two others injured.
According to the HPG statement on Thursday, details of the latest attacks by the Turkish army and interventions by the guerrillas are as follows:
Attacks by warplanes
On April 22, Turkish warplanes bombed the Girgaşê and Girê Kun areas in Garê region three times, the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region once and the Sipîndarê area in Garê region twice.
On April 23, warplanes bombed the Sipîndarê and Girgaşê areas in Garê region four times, and the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region once.
Attacks with heavy weapons, artillery and howitzers
On April 21, 22, 23 and 24, the Turkish army carried out 680 attacks with heavy weapons, artillery and howitzers, targeting the areas of Şehîd Kawa and Berê Zînê in Xakurkê region three times; the areas of Mijê, Dêreşê, Sipîndarê, Girgaşê and Girê Kun in Garê region 102 times; the areas of Şêlazê and Bêşîlî in Metîna region 160 times; the areas of Girê Amediyê and Girê Bahar in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region 415 times.
Interventions by our forces
On April 19, guerrillas struck a container belonging to the invaders who were in an attack position in Girê Bahar Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Batı Zap region.
On April 22, a surveillance camera system used by the invading Turkish army to spy on our war tunnels in Girê Amediyê Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region was hit and destroyed by our YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) forces.
On April 22, the positions of the invaders who were in an attack position in the Girê Çarçel area in Metîna region were struck by our Şehîd Axîn Mûş Unit with a kamikaze drone. One soldier was confirmed killed and two others injured.
On April 22, a position of the invaders in the Girê Bahar Resistance Area in Şehîd Delîl Western Zap region was hit and damaged by our forces.
Warning to the people
HPG said they received information that money was being demanded in the name of their organization in the regions of Botan, Batman, and Çiyayêmazî and Derik in Mardin, particularly from businesspeople and some community circles. HPG made it clear that none of their units was tasked with such a mission, saying: “Collecting money from the people in this way is prohibited by our movement. Those who demand money in these places are likely to be rent-seeking gangs or agents organized by the enemy. Our people and patriotic-democratic organizations should pay attention to this matter and be sensitive to such agents-gangs and should not give money under the name of aid.”
Kenyan runner Abel Mutai was a few meters from the finish line, but got confused by the signals and stopped, thinking he had finished the race.
The Spanish runner, Ivan Fernandez, was right behind him and, realizing what was happening in front of him, began shouting for the Kenyan to keep running.
Motai did not know Spanish and did not understand.
Fernandez pushed Mutai to victory. One reporter asked Evan, "Why did you do this?" Evan replied, "My dream is that one day we can have the kind of community life that pushes ourselves and others to win as well." "But why did you let the Kenyan win?" the reporter insisted. Evan replied, "I didn't let him win, he would win. It was his race."
The reporter insisted and asked again: "But you could have won!"
Evan looked at him and replied, "But what is the merit of my victory? What is the honor of this medal? What will my mother think?"
Values are passed on from generation to generation.
What values do we teach our children and to what extent do they inspire others to earn them?
Most of us take advantage of people's weaknesses rather than helping to strengthen them.
The process of transforming wood into charcoal is a highly complex thermochemical procedure known as pyrolysis. One of the most critical factors influencing the efficiency and quality of this process is the moisture content of the wood being used. Wood moisture not only affects the energy consumption of the pyrolysis reaction but also has a direct impact on the properties of the resulting charcoal. Understanding how varying moisture levels influence the conversion process can help optimize the production of high-quality charcoal while minimizing energy waste.
Role of Moisture in the Pyrolysis Process
Wood naturally contains moisture, which varies depending on the type of wood, its age, and environmental factors. This moisture must be evaporated before the actual pyrolysis can begin. In the pyrolysis process, as heat is applied to the wood, the moisture inside the wood needs to be expelled as water vapor. This phase consumes significant energy, which delays the onset of pyrolysis.
The presence of moisture essentially reduces the available heat for the wood charcoal machine, as a considerable portion of the energy goes into evaporating the water. As a result, the temperature inside the reactor may take longer to reach the required levels for effective carbonization. This can lead to extended processing times and lower yields of charcoal.
Impact on Energy Efficiency
The moisture content of wood has a direct bearing on the energy efficiency of the pyrolysis process. Higher moisture content means that more energy is spent on evaporating water, which decreases the efficiency of the conversion. For every unit of moisture present, energy that could have been used for pyrolysis is instead consumed in the water vaporization process. This is particularly relevant when using a wood charcoal machine that operates continuously, as the wood feedstock must be adequately dried before entering the reactor to avoid energy inefficiencies.
Low moisture content, on the other hand, improves energy efficiency. When wood with low moisture is used, the heat applied during pyrolysis is directed more effectively toward breaking down the wood’s cellulose and lignin components rather than evaporating water. This results in a quicker onset of pyrolysis and a more efficient conversion of wood into charcoal, reducing the overall energy consumption in the process.
Effect on Charcoal Yield and Quality
The moisture level in wood directly influences both the yield and the quality of the charcoal produced. When wood with a high moisture content is pyrolyzed, the overall charcoal yield is often lower. This is because a significant portion of the wood's mass is lost as water vapor before the process of carbonization can occur. Moreover, the resulting charcoal tends to have lower carbon content and higher ash content due to the incomplete breakdown of the wood structure.
In contrast, wood with lower moisture content undergoes more efficient carbonization. The result is a higher yield of charcoal that has a better structure and composition. Additionally, the charcoal produced from low-moisture wood typically has better combustion properties, such as higher energy density and a slower burn rate. This makes it more suitable for applications like grilling or industrial heating, where high-quality and long-lasting fuel is required.
Wood Moisture and Charcoal Properties
The moisture content not only affects the quantity of the charcoal but also influences its chemical composition. Wood with a high moisture content tends to release more volatile gases during pyrolysis, which can affect the stability and consistency of the final charcoal product. The presence of moisture also leads to an increase in the amount of organic compounds remaining in the charcoal, which can cause it to burn less efficiently. Furthermore, the increased volatility can result in higher emissions during pyrolysis, which may require additional filtration or purification measures.
By ensuring that the wood is sufficiently dried before the pyrolysis process, producers can mitigate these issues and ensure the production of a more stable, efficient fuel. Wood with optimal moisture content results in a well-structured, high-carbon charcoal that is both more effective in its energy release and more durable in use.
Drying Techniques for Optimal Wood Moisture
To achieve the desired moisture content in the feedstock, proper drying techniques are essential. Air drying and kiln drying are common methods used to reduce the moisture content of wood before it is processed in a wood charcoal machine. Air drying is the more natural method, relying on ambient environmental conditions to slowly reduce moisture over time. While this method is cost-effective, it is also time-consuming and subject to weather variability.
Kiln drying, on the other hand, involves controlled heating to accelerate the drying process, making it more efficient but also more energy-intensive. Kiln drying can produce wood with a precise moisture content, ensuring a more consistent pyrolysis process. However, this comes at the cost of additional equipment and energy expenses.
Moisture Content and the Choice of Wood Charcoal Machine
Different wood charcoal machines may be designed with varying capacities and efficiencies, depending on the moisture content of the feedstock. Some machines are equipped with advanced heating systems capable of dealing with higher moisture wood, while others are optimized for low-moisture materials. Therefore, selecting the appropriate machine for the wood type being processed is crucial for ensuring optimal performance.
Machines that are specifically designed to handle higher moisture levels typically feature longer drying phases, which can affect the overall processing time. In contrast, machines optimized for dry wood can achieve faster processing times and higher charcoal yields. Manufacturers of wood charcoal machines often provide specifications on the acceptable moisture range for different types of wood, which should be carefully considered when preparing the feedstock.
Charcoal making machine is an excellent solution for sustainable charcoal production. At present, waste biomass has caused a lot of resource waste due to
L’aide active à mourir : le stade ultime du libéralisme culturel ?
par Nicolas Maxime
Depuis une quinzaine d’années, plusieurs situations, de Chantal Sébire à Charles Biétry, ont bouleversé l’opinion publique. Leurs témoignages poignants ont mis en lumière des situations profondément humaines, marquées par la douleur, la perte d’autonomie, et parfois un sentiment d’abandon. Par-delà l’émotion légitime que suscitent ces récits, il convient de prendre du recul sur les transformations philosophiques et politiques qu’engage le débat sur la fin de vie. “L’aide active à mourir”, souvent présentée comme un progrès, révèle en réalité une mutation profonde de nos sociétés, où le libéralisme culturel achève de dissoudre les repères anthropologiques au profit d’une société du choix absolu, y compris face à la mort.
L’euthanasie et le suicide assisté s’invitent aujourd’hui dans le débat public, en France, sous couvert de compassion et de respect des choix individuels. Pourtant, leur portée déborde largement le cadre médical : c’est toute notre vision de la vie, de la souffrance et de la liberté qui est en jeu, et avec elle, l’idée même de ce qu’une société doit fournir à ses membres en matière de soin, de solidarité et d’accompagnement.
Il s’agit désormais de revendiquer le droit de mourir à sa guise dans les conditions que l’on aura soi-même choisies. Mais derrière cette revendication en apparence progressiste se profile une conception radicalement individualiste de l’existence, où la mort elle-même devient unacte de consommation, un « choix » parmi d’autres dans un marché des possibles, au nom de lasouveraineté absolue de l’individu.
Dany-Robert Dufour a bien montré que le néolibéralisme, loin de produire des individus libres, engendre des egos soumis à un divin marché qui détruit le symbolique, le commun, le sens [1].Le progressisme contemporain, qui prétend libérer l’homme de toutes ses limites, finit par le déshumaniser.
Le “droit à la mort” comme aboutissement d’un individualisme radical
D’après Jean-Marie Brugeron, ancien haut responsable hospitalier et actuel président du Secours catholique de l’Hérault, l’instauration d’un cadre légal pour l’euthanasie ne serait rien d’autre que le prolongement naturel d’un individualisme radical façonné par l’idéologie libérale [2]. Une telle dynamique, selon lui, ne fait qu’achever le démantèlement des liens sociaux en érigeant le “droit à la mort” en nouvelle norme sociale, vidée de toute référence à la solidarité collective.
Raymond Debord analyse l’évolution des revendications contemporaines en matière de droits, en particulier celles qui relèvent d’un individualisme hédoniste et narcissique. En effet, il observe que nombre de droits revendiqués aujourd’hui ne sont plus des droits-créances comme le droit à l’éducation, à la santé, au travail — fondés sur la solidarité et la justice sociale, mais des droits particuliers et subjectifs, centrés sur l’expression de soi, la reconnaissance identitaire ou le désir personnel (ex : euthanasie, PMA, GPA, changement de sexe, etc.). Il parle même d’une inflation de revendications aux droits particuliers.
Concernant l’aide active à mourir, il illustre cela par le ’droit à la mort’ : on demande non seulement la liberté de se suicider, mais aussi l’aide de l’État pour y parvenir (via le personnelmédical, l’hôpital public). Ainsi, l’aide active à mourir, comme d’autres revendications contemporaines, illustre cette dérive où l’on en vient à demander à la société d’organiser la mort comme un service que l’on pourrait commander, mobilisant pour cela les moyens des services publics eux-mêmes.
Comme l’a démontré Jean-Claude Michéa, le libéralisme économique et le libéralisme culturel, loin d’être opposés, sont complémentaires [3]. Lorsque le premier fondel’économie de marché sur la liberté illimitée de produire et de consommer, le second construit la société autour d’un individu souverain, affranchi de toute limite physique, de toute contrainte morale, et détaché de toute tradition et de tout lien social et communautaire. En cela,la légalisation de l’euthanasie et du suicide assisté constitue le stade ultime du libéralisme culturel. Il ne s’agit plus seulement d’accompagner la mort, mais de revendiquer le “droit à la mort comme ultime expression de sa volonté individuelle.
L’aide active à mourir : un choix budgétaire ?
Depuis 2005, la loi Leonetti interdit l’acharnement thérapeutiqueet reconnaît le droit au ’laisser mourir’, en rendant possible une sédation profonde pour les patients en fin de vie, dans le cadre d’une démarche palliative. Cette loi, révisée en 2016, constituait un équilibre subtil entre refus de l’obstination déraisonnable et accompagnement humain de la souffrance en proposant une prise en charge médicale et éthique pour respecter la dignité du mourant.
Le projet législatif relatif à la fin de vie introduit une possibilité d’une aide active à mourir, strictement encadrée, et destinée aux personnes majeures confrontées à une maladie incurable à un stade avancé, endurant des souffrances considérées comme insupportables, et pleinement aptes à formuler un consentement libre et éclairé. D’un autre côté, l’exécutif affiche son intention de renforcer les dispositifs de soins palliatifs, notamment à travers l’ouverture de nouvelles unités dédiées en diversifiant l’offre territoriale aujourd’hui répartie de manière inégale, dans l’objectif d’offrir un accompagnement plus humain et attentif aux personnes en fin de vie.
Cependant, les soins palliatifs restent sous-dotés et leur accès très inégal, alors qu’ils soulagent efficacement la fin de vie. Et malgré les intentions affichées,les annonces de 40 milliards d’euros d’économies dans les dépenses publiques [4] interrogent sur la sincérité de l’engagement. Car les soins palliatifs sont coûteux, exigeant du personnel qualifié et du temps humain.
Dans ce contexte, l’aide active à mourir apparaît comme une option qui permettrait de rationaliser les dépenses de santé. Elle devient alors une forme de démission collective, un abandon médical et social travesti en droit nouveau. Au lieu de combattre la solitude et la souffrance des personnes en fin de vie, la société pourrait bientôt les encourager subtilement à fairele “choix’ de mourir. Une pression sociale implicite pourrait s’exercer sur les personnes âgées ou dépendantes. On peut craindre que survienne une « sélection sociale », où ceux qui coûtent deviendraient ceux qu’il serait rationnel — ou socialement acceptable — de faire disparaître.
De l’euthanasie au transhumanisme : vers un marché de la mort
Les pays ayant légalisé l’euthanasie et le suicide assisté n’ont cessé d’élargir leurs critères. Initialement limitée aux malades incurables en phase terminale, la pratique s’étend progressivement à des personnes en souffrance psychique, à des adolescents, voire à des personnes ayant tout simplement manifesté leur volonté d’en finir avec la vie. En Belgique, des mineurs ont été euthanasiés [5]. Aux Pays-Bas, un projet de loi vise à autoriser le suicide assisté à partir de 75 ans ’sans condition médicale’ [6]. Au Canada, on envisage d’y inclure les personnes souffrant de troubles mentaux [7]. On imagine sans mal les dérives totales que cela pourrait engendrer si l’aide active à mourir s’étendait à d’autres catégories de personnes. Qu’une société puisse envisager d’autoriser l’euthanasie ou le suicide assisté pour des personnes dépressives ou souffrant de stress post-traumatique, au prétexte qu’elles seraient irréversiblement atteintes,plutôt que de tout mettre en œuvre pour les accompagner vers la guérison, en dit long sur la faillite morale de notre époque.
Mais derrière la généralisation de cette nouvelle liberté, se profile l’avènement d’un véritable marché de la mort. Au Canada, l’euthanasie est déjà proposée sous forme de forfait dans des funérariums, illustrant une marchandisation croissante de l’existence humaine dans le cadre d’une société néolibérale La mort elle-même devient un nouveau champ d’accumulation capitaliste. On imagine déjà des agences spécialisées, des forfaits « fin de vie », des services personnalisés de mise à mort avec accompagnement sur-mesure.
Dans le film dystopique Soleil Vert sorti en 1973 qui montre un futur postapocalyptique où les humains ont épuisé l’essentiel des ressources naturelles, le personnage joué par Edward G. Robinson décide de mettre fin à ses jours. On le voit choisir une mort programmée dans une pièce épurée, où défilent des images de la nature disparue [8]. Cette scène est à la fois glaçante et touchante car on comprend que dans cette fiction, la mort est devenue une simple prestation marchande parmi d’autres mais aussi une échappatoire permettant aux hommes de s’extraire des horreurs de ce monde déshumanisé et sans espoir.
Ainsi, si l’on se préoccupe de l’avenir, c’est sans doute dans l’idéologie transhumanisteque cette volonté de transcender la mort atteint son paroxysme. Les défenseurs de l’humanité augmentée comme Laurent Alexandre ne veulent plus vieillir, plus souffrir, et surtout plus mourir. Ils rêvent d’immortalité, de transfert de conscience sur des serveurs haute capacité, de sauvegarde de l’âme dans le cloud – avec, pourquoi pas, tant qu’on y est, un abonnement Premium à l’éternité. C’est l’obsession des milliardaires de la Silicon Valley : contourner le vieillissement du corps, numériser le vivant, devenir des dieux…
Le philosophe Denis Collin décrit cette volonté de vivre ’au-delà’ comme un délire techno-mégalomane qui pousse à transformer le cerveau humain en machine [9]. Il évoque la start-up Nectome, fondée par deux ingénieurs du MIT, dont le projet est de récupérer les souvenirs de cerveaux décédés pour préserver l’esprit. Une petite cryogénie neuronale de confort, en somme ! Sauf que, comme le rappelle Denis Collin avec un brin de lucidité,’le silicium ne voit rien, n’entend rien et ne pourrait pas être étonné par le monde futur’. En clair : vos souvenirs sur disque dur n’auront pas d’états d’âme, ni même d’état tout court.
Ce rêve d’immortalité numérique est une impasse anthropologique. D’abord parce qu’on ne sait toujours pas très bien ce que cela signifie ’stocker les données du cerveau’, ensuite parce qu’on fait mine de croire qu’on peut contourner la mort comme on contourne une mise à jour logicielle. Le transhumanisme repose au fond sur un immense malentendu : nier ce qui nous rend humains – notre finitude, notre vulnérabilité, notre besoin des autres – au nom d’un fantasme de toute-puissance algorithmique. Une humanité débarrassée de la mort ? Peut-être. Mais aussi, et surtout, débarrassée de la condition humaine pour mieux célébrer l’avènement de l’homme machine.
Même si le texte présenté à l’Assemblée nationale peut sembler, à première vue, relativement équilibré — posant d’un côté des garde-fous éthiques, de l’autre répondant aux situations des personnes en fin de vie par l’annonce d’un renforcement des soins palliatifs — il illustre une fois de plus le fameux “en même temps” macroniste : affirmer une chose et préparer son contraire. Le gouvernement projette de réaliser des économies sur la santé, allant jusqu’à envisager un remboursement des soins selon les revenus, remettant ainsi en cause l’universalité de la Sécurité sociale. Dès lors, le prétendu renforcement des soins palliatifs relève davantage de l’incantation que de la volonté politique. Quant à l’aide active à mourir, même limitée à certains cas dans un premier temps, elle pourrait bien ouvrir une brèche en laissant à d’autres la possibilité de pousser plus loin le curseur demain.
En prétendant libérer l’individu de la souffrance, on risque de l’isoler encore davantage et de transformer la mort en une prestation marchande. Cette liberté nouvelle risque de se retourner contre les plus fragiles, ceux qui ont besoin d’assistance. Ce dont l’humanité a besoin, ce n’est pas de légaliser “le droit à la mort” mais de renforcer l’accompagnement à la fin de vie et de défendre “le choix” d’une société solidaire. Car une société qui commence par choisir la mort rejette la vie.
Erased was such fucking dog shit. I can't believe people praised it. Shitty characters and a contrived story they took itself way too seriously for how retarded it was. 2/10. You're a genuine faggot if you liked it.
Don’t think of The Terminator, she said. ❝What we need to fear most is not what artificial intelligence will do to us on its own, but how the people in power will use artificial intelligence to control us and to manipulate us in novel, sometimes hidden, subtle and unexpected ways.❞
❝These [machine learning systems] only work if there’s an enormous amount of data, so they also encourage deep surveillance on all of us so that the machine learning algorithms can work. That's why Facebook wants to collect all the data it can about you.❞
This is deeply pernicious. Her example: researchers found that social media posts can predict when a bipolar person is entering a manic phase. Casinos have always aimed generic ads at such people — but now they can individually pinpoint them, at their moment of maximum vulnerability.
❝Here's the tragedy: we're building this infrastructure of surveillance authoritarianism merely to get people to click on ads. And this won't be Orwell's authoritarianism. This isn't “1984.” Now, if authoritarianism is using overt fear to terrorize us, we’ll all be scared, but we’ll know it, we’ll hate it and we’ll resist it.❞
“Ha!” you cry, “that moment has arrived, and half the country isn’t resisting — they •like• it!”
❝But if the people in power are using these algorithms to quietly watch us, to judge us and to nudge us, to predict and identify the troublemakers and the rebels, to deploy persuasion architectures at scale and to manipulate individuals one by one using their personal, individual weaknesses and vulnerabilities, and if they're doing it at scale through our private screens so that we don't even know what our fellow citizens and neighbors are seeing, that authoritarianism will envelop us like a spider's web and we may not even know we're in it.❞
All you political strategists should have been listening to Tufekci instead the Schumers and the Slotkins. While you were out there trying follow people’s worst insintics around like a sad dog, the oligarchs were out there building a brain-altering surveillance apparatus that as of now is a surveillance state.
"Could do?". Have already done. Even during Brexit and the 2016 election it was clear that A/B tested propaganda as a service was being deployed at scale. The 2024 election was just the (literal) nail in the coffin of informed democracy.
AI will make the problem infinitely worse. It's primary optimization function is to sound convincing about anything, and it will rapidly displace relying on primary sources. Once that happens, it will be easier and easier to insert individually-tailored "alternative facts" into any narrative. The owners of this technology will be able to distort reality as they please.
Sürünün en çok nefret ettiği şey, farklı düşünen insandır. Sürü aslında onun görüşünden nefret etmez, ancak bu kişinin kendi başına farklı düşünme cesaretine sahip olmasını sevmez. Bu, sürünün tam olarak anlayamadığı bir şeydir.
Your #timeline in Recall is broken up into segments, which are the blocks of time that #snapshots of your screen are taken while you were using your #PC.
Two years ago, prompt #engineering was one of the buzziest jobs in tech, fetching salaries of up to $200,000 on the promise of becoming any #company’s “AI Whisperer.”
Now, the role is basically obsolete thanks to the breakneck speed of AI #development and companies’ own maturity in terms of understanding how to use the #technology.
Ce qui est plus efficace qu'une monospace ou un SUV pour transporter 2 gosses à Paris, c'est un vélo cargo, voire des vélos en fonction de la taille des gosses. Faux problème. D'autant que ça demande moins de ressources, moins d'énergie, moins de place. Encore moins qu'une mini-voiture. Tout en avançant sans-doute plus vite dans les bouchons. Ceci dit, si l'enseignement était suffisamment financé, personne ne serait tenté de traverser Paris pour amener les gosses à l'école, ils feraient comme moi quand j'étais gosse, ils iraient à pied dans un enseignement de qualité et de proximité.
@Boris-Frédéric Vian-Dard (le vice-lard) les vélos c'est très bien mais tout le monde ne peut pas en faire. ma copine Josiane a une jambe en moins par exemple.
OK, mais elle a les moyens de se payer un SUV ? Puis justement, je me suis payé un vélo cargo dans l'optique de faire les courses pour des gens comme ta copine.
@Boris-Frédéric Vian-Dard (le vice-lard) elle a une voiture oui, une Toyota Yaris cross. Elle peste contre toute restriction à l'utilisation de la bagnole en plus...
Mouais, rien n'empêche d'être con. Je faisais les courses pour une dame âgée sans mobilité. Elle payait 550 €/mois à ma copine pour ça. La dernière fois que j'ai fait ses courses, elle m'a payé 50 € pour 50 € de courses, puis quand elle m'a demandé combien elle me devait pour le taxi, je lui ai dit que je l'avais fait à vélo. Elle m'a filé 20 € de plus. Par boutade, je lui ai dit qu'alors je le ferais toujours à vélo. Elle l'a mal pris. Moi je ne demandais rien, ma copine était largement payée pour ses services (courses, banque, administration), mais cette fois-là elle était absente. Pour ma santé, je préférais le vélo au taxi et en plus ça me prenait moins de temps. Faut admettre que 70 balles pour un heure que je passais avoir plaisir en dehors de lui tailler la bavette, c'est dingue. Et ça m'aurait pris une heure de plus en (attente de ) taxi. Maintenant, je comprends que les automobilistes puissent en avoir marre. Ils sont pressés comme des citrons, ça n'avance pas, ça rend agressif et on leur fait des aménagements débiles (comme aux vélos et piétons d'ailleurs).
@Boris-Frédéric Vian-Dard (le vice-lard) le problème c'est que la politique sur la bagnole est simplement orientée pour favoriser les marges des constructeurs établis dans le contexte d'une concurrence mondialisée qui va nécessairement tourner à notre détriment.
Un véhicule comme la Kilow Bagnole, fabriquée en France, bricolable, modifiable, réparable, légère, efficace devrait être favorisée mais au lieu de ça on leur a retiré tout bonus écologique....
Oui mais bon, j'ai un vélo cargo, c'est plus lent mais ça me suffit. C'est plus « sportif » surtout. Si j'avais une bagnole, je risquerais de ne plus faire beaucoup de vélo. Or c'est con, j'en ai 5.
@Boris-Frédéric Vian-Dard (le vice-lard) moi j'en ai que 3. On peut charger une palette sur la Bagnole, avec. un vélo cargo ça me paraît quand même compliqué 😁
Il y a des possibilités. Un collègue maraîcher utilisait ça. Un autre a celle-ci qui en plus sert de manière autonome, comme un transpalette électrique. OK, ce n'est pas fait pour la route, c'est pour la ville. Moi-même, j'ai deux batteries et quand je vais loin, je roule à faible ou sans assistance, surtout dans les descentes. Mais je ne peux porter que 80 Kg.
blah-blah-blah sitrep... #geeksitrep #geekings (*shrug*, gotta tag with something).
been a fair heft of geekings here in past couple days.
restored my wmrotate setup, allowing me to kill my window-manager, moves to the next window-manager in the list (currently using a long list of everything interested in, interspersed with several openbox, for old faithful to fall back upon throughout), without losing my session, all apps remain running, unperturbed. (got notions of tweaking it to run it all within xfce~ but that's a mixed bag of advantages, and disadvantages (which sap will to follow through with those notions).
started a dk and sxhkd config. much enthused for dk. shall return. left it half done, when needed to just get on with things. dk's not poor out of the box, but i seek to implement my prefered sort of keybinds (e.g. esdf movement keys), and that was taking a little while, while other pressing matters were afoot. (see printer)
rediscovered my "tabular boonad" xmonad.hs still works (even though needs cleaning up the code to recompile with newer haskell). using it currently. 😀 such a joy. ... not that herbstluftwm isnt... but there are times when the advanced features become an incumberance more than a boon.
toyed with various cli/tui tools,
tvision pain to install and use... ugly stuff... i may yet rummage through the forks to see if there's a cleaner one, or, keep looking for the alternative similar thing that i've forgotten... fairly sure more than 1 linux youtuber covered it months back...
diskonaut fun utility, neglected for a while, glad to have such a thing back. okay, it's just an interactive tui disk usage analyser, so not a lot of fun, but puts a smile on my face.
various fish function tweaks (should likely commit to my dotfiles), which also includes a 24 hour set of shuffled playlists, so i get good sleep therapy, and a dose of uptempo in the mid-morning. ... could mibi do with slipping in a 3 rounds of wim hod method's guided breathing technique.
many other cli tools listed out to be poked at later.
much fiddling with my gentoo strata
tinytoot shaping up as a sort of main stratum, put it at top priority, and it's strictly minimal (without getting silly and hampering functionality, or taking much effort)
gentoo23 weirdly didnt like my st savedconfig/patches, which were identical as worked with tinytoot (... still some avenues to explore to sort that, though just decided to --deselect st from that stratum for now).
i started using /etc/portage/savedconfig and /etc/portage/patches. 😀 about time. only been a gentoo user for about 17 years (if including the 3 first years with just sabayon and toorox), and only been a suckless/st user forrrrr.... idk, a decade or so. Big smiles for starting to do that.
nousetoo because it's fun to try keep everything at as minimal useflaggery possible. great education for what the system needs for what, when adding each useflag individually. ... yeah, really should be that hardcore, and leave make.conf's USE="-*" only. but, have added half a dozen universal useflags already, chickenshit. n_n ample work to fiddle with still, as is... especially since i have several other gentoo strata too.
twentooyet i gotta sort this stratum. not sure what it was, where i left it... if it was a copy of decibel's world file and /etc/portage, or if it was left just as an empty test of upgrading to profile 23.0... but it, decibel, and gentoo23, methinks due to get replaced with just 1... maybe. yet to decide. 6 gentoos is overkill in this muddled arrangement. each those three stepping on each others toes.
decibel the first stratum i added to this bedrocklinux install at the start of the year (upon abrupt os reinstall on jan 1st). serves well. but, have yet to get it upgraded to profile 23.0, but surely can just skip the official upgrade process with i distrust my ability to do without janking, even though i did the upgrade, testing in safe fresh gentoo23 stratum... or was that twentooyet i did that on... noh, iirc, twentooyet was the test fetch...
other strata and final planned strata list alpine artix bedrock ceres -decibel devuan funtoo -gentoo23 nousetoo tinytoot -twentooyet void and will add what will be called just gentoo, to replace decibel, gentoo23, and twentooyet. keeping tinytoot and nousetoo. tinytoot stratum handy for regular daily upgrades (for the core essentials of my usecase) without disruption. the bigger fully-(over)loaded gentoo stratum, likely upgraded nearer fortnightly.
printer
i got a printer! ... buuuuut, yet to get it printing. dbus sees it. got various things installed for it... but print dialogues still, only at best, show lp and boduku (or whatever the print scheduler thing is called)... cups daemon running, hplip stuff installed... idk... the world wont likely explode if i fail to get these registration papers printed out, filled in and sent. i hope. I probably shouldnt have -cups useflagged my gentoos, heh, hindsight. but nah, will get this working yet.
and managed to keep up the physiotherapy amidst all this geeking. 😀
and managed to keep up various theological/philosophical/sociological/anthropological conversations/debates too, and even managed to offer a couple tidbits of technical help, rather than just philosophical motivation. n_n
and more too, i'm failing to recall before i jump to post this.
oh i forgot about dk. ... still on the back burner... a little dry by now, so maybe this comment will help splash a little more water on the idea... keep it good for when i get around to it again.
living it up in xmonad utterly satisfied (... oh, well, maybe one quirk i could still iron out to a better workflow... always is... heh).
... actually, i think i hastily re-wrote my xmonad config from scratch, a few weeks/months back. ... which is something i didnt know i could do. ... the haskell, as much as it enthuses, also still daunts... but perhaps there's less daunt due than perceptions hold on to.
(especially these days with little leg-ups from llm to remind of things expediently... is good as advanced websearch sort of way)
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