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I hope the tech billionaires who are always grousing about how everyone hates them are watching the reaction to Dolly Parton’s passing. Nobody hates you because you’re rich. We hate you because of what you decided to use being rich to accomplish
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Stupid'o'clock alarm clock was, indeed, worth it.
A view of the Matterhorn at sunrise - the top is glowing red, and it is reflecting in a small lake below. Spectacular.
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Just in case you missed it, I'm re-posting this...

#JasonArday

Emeritus Prof. Christopher May

2026-08-20 06:12:19

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As a welcome counterweight to the waves of negative commentary on Jason Arday before his death (and indeed in some quarters after his death), here is a testament to 'Everything Good About Jason Arday' put together by his students & others....

If nothing else this is a humane & compassionate response to a human tragedy....

#JasonArday #politics #universities #racism

leilacancode.github.io/everyth…


Everything Good About Jason Arday

First-hand accounts from people who knew him. Collected by his students.
leilacancode.github.io

#jasonarday

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@adfichter Cofnas is not a coincidence. There is more going on. First this, dark money flowing in philosophy and ethics. Where Yarvin is, Thiel is usually around:biopoliticalphilosophy.com/202…

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How Much Dark Money Is in Professional Philosophy? 

One of the purposes of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY is to expose eugenic principles and practices within professional philosophy. As Shelley Tremain has argued persistently since founding this blog, the…
Mich Ciurria (BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY)
@Adfichter
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And then this by Timnit Gebru. Seemingly the person hiring Cofnas at Ghent is talking about dysgenics, as in: "because we are not taking care of the gene pool, the industrial world is decline." Yes, dysgenics framed as opposing eugenics.

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Timnit Gebru (she/her).

2026-08-21 14:05:54

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Well, well, well, I KNEW that the hounding of Arday was gonna get connected back to the TESCREAL bozos somehow. See this "paper" by the guy who hired Cofnas at Ghent University.

Reminder "dysgenic" is the opposite of "eugenic," they mean Black people and other undesirables reproducing too much.

Reminder, the L in TESCREAL is for "longtermism."

Read more at dair-institute.org/projects/te…

These are also the people pushing generative AI down your throats.

The dysgenics objection to longtermism Bouke de Vriesa, b, 1 ª Department of Philosophy, Ghent University, Belgium b Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Check for updates ARTICLE INFO Longtermism Intelligence Fetic Moral Status Future generations ABSTRACT - Strong longtermism maintains that how we should act morally is determined almost entirely by the expected effects on the welfare of our descendants existing thousands if not millions of years into the future, who might include both other humans and any artificial agents with a comparable or higher moral status that we end up creating. It is based on three key assumptions: (i) that our descendants will have a moral status that is at least as high as ours and therefore should not have their welfare discounted by us; (ii) that there is a good chance that these individuals will vastly outnumber us; and (iii) that we can do things here and now that can be expected to positively shape the long-term trajectory of humanity. The aim of this contribution is to suggest that authors such as Will MacAskill and Hilary Greaves have been too optimistic about all these assumptions as a result of having ignored evidence that the populations of post-industrial countries are becoming less intelligent due mostly to the negative relationship that has emerged within these societies between intelligence and fertility and to the proclivity of intelligent people to delay parenthood.

The TESCREAL Bundle

The array of utopian ideologies that power Silicon Valley's elite is ultimately bleakly eugenicist.
DAIR (Distributed AI Research Institute)

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Why the USA needs #Flock cameras!

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Library4498

2026-08-21 05:31:21

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🪿 This counts as a bird post, right?

Flock 🦅 Flock Bad :(

404 Media

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'Darth Vader' Wants Flock in His Town

Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
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#Flock
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As Christopher Wood (Work Foundation) argues:

'Instead of succumbing to pressure & rowing back on key employment rights reforms, the [Govt.'s] focus must be on rebuilding the household spending power upon which foundational services rely on to grow';

instead of seeing workers as a cost to be reduced the Govt. need to embrace the notion that a well-paid workforce with 'good' jobs (better terms & conditions) can stoke the required 'effective demand'!

#workers #economics
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Shaky foundations: Where will the new job opportunities come from? - Lancaster University

The latest ONS labour market data indicates that vacancies have fallen to their lowest level in normal times in more than a decade, as the UK’s jobs drought deepens.
Lancaster University
#economics #workers
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Edmundo Ventolera

The government will need to increase the minimum wage then, and start employing more people itself. The marginal cost of employment for the government is only the difference between benefits and their wage. More and more human employment will inevitably be government funded, and this has to include health and social care.
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I'd like to see UBI introduced at a level where everyone in poverty is able to pay their rent, energy and water bill, phone and Internet, save for a holiday, eat healthily, afford prescriptions etc without going without or having to deal with the DWP

#UniversalBasicIncome

#universalbasicincome

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This whole thing was longer and I have more clips but please enjoy a bit of the joy and exuberance I felt from this minute+ of #Taiko
#Drums
from an event in #Toyama #Japan (Nov 2O25).

#日本 #太鼓

#Japan #日本 #drums #toyama #taiko #太鼓

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Even after that display I still trust the library 😂

#Loops #Funny #FYP #Library #LibraryMemes #Meme #Libraries #Librarians #Humor #Humour #Funny #Bookstodon #Books #Bookstagram #NotOC

#humour #humor #meme #Books #funny #libraries #library #librarians #fyp #Bookstagram #loops #bookstodon #librarymemes #NotOC

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New Edit 22- aug: The Amsterdam "Lucky" is NOT the missing canadian John Russel Kenny.

nu.nl/binnenland/6407161/polit…

Old Edit 20 -aug: There might be an answer to who he is:

www-at5-nl.translate.goog/arti…

Please boost for maximum reach in #Canada and the #USA . Who is this previously unknown man with aphasia caused by a stroke? He has been living in an Amsterdam care home for three years.
(English below the Dutch text)

politie.nl/nieuws/2026/augustu…

Is 'Lucky' geïdentificeerd? Spoor leidt naar vemiste man in Canada

Amateurspeurder Anton van Straten (58) uit Tiel traceert mogelijk identiteit van 'Lucky'. Canadese politie neemt contact op met Amsterdam. Lees het hele verhaal.
Maaike Polder (AT5)
#USA #canada
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Peter Middelkoop

@UkeleleEric In my opinion there is not much use in discussing al the possible options. The more this search reach out the higher the chance they can identify him and find some relatives. Let's help te poor guy.
@UkeleleEric
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"Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur of what is known as... PARKLIFE"

#Photography #StreetPhotography #BlackAndWhite #Candid

A young girl with long hair and wearing jeans and trainers is frozen in time as she bounces joyfully up and down in a harness suspended on thick elastic ropes on a fairground trampoline.
A man and a woman are sitting in wooden, foldable deckchairs facing away from the camera are completely dwarfed by a massive Great Dane dog which is sitting patiently beside the man and facing towards the camera. It is like the dog is on high alert and watching over his humans.
A mother wearing sunglasses holds her small boy in front of her as they sit on an ornate wooden horse going round and round on a fairground ride.
A woman is taking part in an axe-throwing sideshow and her axe is frozen in mid-air between her and the target. The target has four circular zones on it and the whole sideshow is surrounded by safety netting. A split-second later, the woman's axe landed with a thud, embedding into the target for her first successful throw!
#Photography #blackandwhite #streetphotography #candid

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#SilentSunday
[via Kimber Johnson]
A small body of water in a wooded area. The trees are bare. Near the edge of the water a sign, the text of which can only be read in its reflection in the water. "MIRROR LAKE"
#silentsunday
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