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The magic of Christmas

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When people believe that their feelings define reality, they’re incredibly easy to manipulate.

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Manipulating people who want to feel superior over any other people of difference is how this works. Lyndon Johnson said this about racism, clearly today it covers bigots, misogynists, xenophobes and anyone who does not agree.
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It’s not just TikTok or Meta though. It’s us.

We tell ourselves we’re above it, that we want “real content,” but our clicking and sharing habits tell a different story. The platforms might be dealing the cards, but we’re the ones choosing to play hand after hand, shoveling this shit down our own throats and asking for seconds.

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A very simmilar story in 1000 pages trom book- the origin of the most problems. The same ironic story about music industry - you can find at tromsite books - which are trade-free for everyone.
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The ice at Santa's workshop is thinning away... #NorthPole 🎁🧑‍🎄

Check out my blog from November 2022 for more on this graphic: zacklabe.com/blog-archive-2022…

#northpole

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Unfortunate yet completely expected. At some point the north pole narrative, created as a distraction to hide the true location, won't work any more...

No wait ignore what I just said!

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soon no the northwest passage shipping lane will be reality all year round and Russia will take advantage of it 😐 🚢🛢️
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⚪ Mehr... Lieblingsfotos?
🟤 More... Favorite photos?
📷 by Artist: #KarunchaiTreetrong 🇹🇭 in Loc.: #QuarryBay / Yick Fat Building, 1048-1056 King's Rd/ #Hongkong 🇭🇰 2024 - Title: untitled - #Art #Streetart #PhotoArt #Artist #Fotografie #Architecture #Travel #Photography ➡️ #APhotoLove
Photography. A color photo of an eighteen-story skyscraper with a red double-decker bus in Hong Kong. The photo shows the lower part of a huge skyscraper with countless windows, most of which have small metal boxes for air conditioning. In front of it is a red double-decker bus with advertising (for Toshiba) and next to it a train. The wooded mountain behind the building marks a straight green line in the photo, which makes the photo special. Both fill the entire picture. On the left is the ugly gray concrete wall with countless tiny windows that form a straight cut to the impressive green of the trees on the right. The train forms a straight bottom line and the red bus stands exactly between the building and the mountain. A photo with several levels and a great view of the photographer. Info: The Yick Fat Building, also known as the Monster Building, was built in the 1960s. It consists of several five buildings that merge into a huge architectural complex and are all connected by a very narrow inner courtyard. It is therefore one of Hong Kong's most famous photo motifs on Instagram. Visitors call it the "Monster Building" because the buildings resemble a Transformers-like monster. It consists of 2,243 units that are 18 storeys high. Currently, 10,000 people live in the complex.
#Fotografie #art #Photography #HongKong #travel #artist #architecture #StreetArt #photoart #aphotolove #quarrybay #karunchaitreetrong

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@Atomic_Samson @Vo @sj_zero
I concepted this smartypotty a long time ago as a joke, and then it actually became a thing. 💩 cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/V…
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The extent of #Arctic sea ice is still a record low and is currently more than 400,000 square kilometers less than the prior record for today's date. This previous record was set in 2016. The data here is from JAXA's Arctic Data archive System.
Line graph time series of 2024's daily Arctic sea ice extent relative to the record low for each day. All days in 2024 were above the previous record until mid December.
#arctic

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Our lack of critical thinking explains so many complex societal threads — technology, media, economics, education, demographics, and culture.

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Nice it touches the origin of the most problems - trade. I could be added in 1000 pages book "The origin of the most problems" tromsite.com/trombooks/#flipbo…
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I don’t know if anyone else has noticed but there are some real cunts on this here World Wide Web

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Good morning. ☕☕☕

14 December 2024

I recall times many years ago when I would get up to go to work on a winter morning and it would be so cold that I could not stop shivering. I would light the oven to warm up and watch some local country variety show on TV because it was the only channel that I got ... I read a lot more books. That was the norm for me way back when. Now-a-days though it's all about central heat and air. 250+ TV channels, and streaming. Of course, back in the day, we didn't have home computers, internet, cable, satellite TV, or cellphones. Hmmm ... I did have a digital watch and thought it was fancy.

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology." - Carl Sagan

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #technology #landscape #RedRiver

"The image shows a scenic view of the Red River near Pineville, Louisiana. The foreground features a variety of grasses and reeds growing along the riverbank. The middle ground includes a section of the river with lily pads and other aquatic plants floating on the water's surface. Several trees are growing along the riverbank, providing a natural border between the water and the land. In the background, there is more greenery, including a grassy area and additional trees. The overall scene is lush and vibrant, showcasing the natural beauty of the river and its surroundings, highlighting the rich biodiversity and tranquil environment." - Copilot
#Photographer #Photography #Photo #technology #nature #landscape #morning #photographylovers #redriver

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@Beasley

Today's young people will probably reminisce in the future about the days when people had to actually have something in their hand to make a phone call or look up something on the internet.

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Enshittocene
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#Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
#enchittocene
#newscientist
#news
#2024

From enshittocene to virome, science and technology's words of 2024

Here are 10 words that entered our vocabulary this year, capturing discoveries at the cutting edge of science, elusive emotions and the various ways technology is changing our lives
Ian Taylor (New Scientist)
#News #newscientist #cory #2024 #enchittocene
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spent 6 hours in walmart challenging random shoppers to duels with pool noodles until security removed me. the spirit of combat is dead in this country

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Pool noodles are underrated. When social distancing was a thing, I thought about strapping on a couple of them pointing out from me, like sea urchin quills. Didn’t do it because that would have meant leaving my house which was not happening. How many social dilemmas could we solve with pool noodles? I’m guessing quite a few. Your pool noodle dueling at Walmart is inspired!
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By any metric, we're the most documented civilization ever. Future historians should have an unprecedented window into our daily lives, thoughts, and experiences.

Right?

Right??

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entropy wins all the cookies. Wrote about this here monkeynoodle.org/2024/01/20/no… which will disappear if I stop blogging…
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will there be historians of this civilization a few hundred years from now? Probably some other species million years later digging up the Earth's crust and calling us the plasticzoic era.

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#news
#bbc
#universe
#cosmos
#galaxy

Firefly Sparkle: 'Christmas' galaxy reveals how Universe formed

The galaxy resembling Christmas lights hanging in the cosmos has space scientists feeling festive
Pallab Ghosh (BBC News)
#News #universe #bbc #cosmos #galaxy
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Very large portions of the #Arctic observed temperatures more than 5°C above the 1981-2010 reference period last month! This was especially prominent across Siberia and the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatur…. Data from cds.climate.copernicus.eu/data…

Two polar stereographic maps side-by-side showing actual air temperatures in November 2024 on the left and the temperature anomaly on the right for November 2024. Anomalies are calculated relative to a 1981-2010 baseline. All data uses ERA5 reanalyasis. All areas are warmer than average, except for the East Siberian Sea region and parts of Greenland.
#arctic

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#ClimateDiary An Eastbourne friend just told us about how he went to hear Simon Reeve at the Congress theatre on Friday. He showed us this image he had taken from Reeve’s talk: “this amount of ice melts every HOUR. You could hear a pin drop in the audience. When you see it like that it really brings it home.”

Well done Simon Reeve for talking about climate change in the Eastbourne Congress theatre (not a climate activist crowd, more the opposite) - and for using an image that works.

An image (from a Simon Reeves talk in Eastbourne): a block of ice next to the Eiffel tower showing its size; ie its a cube of ice almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower" that melts every hour.
#ClimateDiary
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#ClimateDiary ok so with all the debate around the image I did some digging and saw that it wasn’t Simon Reeve who created it but Enrico van der Loo.

linkedin.com/posts/enricovande…

#ClimateDiary
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For #BlackFriday, I am adding new donations at @Liberapay for @FreeCAD, @fdroidorg and @davidrevoy 🎁
#blackfriday @Liberapay @David Revoy @FreeCAD @F-Droid
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Remembrance day for lost species
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#extinctanimals mber
#environment
#species
#planet
#global
#extinct

The big idea: on Remembrance Day for Lost Species, here’s why it matters

A way to personally connect with wildlife is vital when statistics alone can’t convey the scale of the loss
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#Environment #planet #global #species #extinct #extinctanimals

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Another problem mainly driven by the origin of the most problems - trade! Article do not even discuss where the problem comes from, and how to fix it, the article trade the problem for more exposure/ attention. The society of idiocracy.
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#bbc
#news
#idiocracy
#sex
#porno
#trade
#society
#mind
#addiction
#problem
#solution

Porn obsession: Personal stories of how it takes over lives

What happens when watching porn takes over your life?
Siobhan Smith (BBC News)
#News #problem #bbc #society #Porno #trade #Sex #addiction #idiocracy #mind #solution

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Nuomonės keitimas nėra nenuoseklumas, tai - augimas. Tai vienas iš nedaugelio tikrai neįvertintų gyvenimo džiaugsmų - nuspręsti, kad tai, ką anksčiau laikei evangelija, nebetinka.

JA Westenberg

2024-11-28 04:47:04


Changing your mind isn’t inconsistency; it’s growth. It’s one of the few genuinely underrated joys of being alive, to decide that what you once held as gospel no longer fits. 🧵

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