#philosophy #resist #Trump #uspol #worldpol
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try telling the people who matter. I've given up on Americans making any kind of meaningful resistance. So keep making me nenes while people of color and immigrants die. Yawn
more endless discission, yet NaZos are still alive and in power. Y'all take care of this. I'm done caring.
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Please spread the word
#ICE #NYS #NewYork #antifascism #HealthCare
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UPDATE: The number is now 1,000. Ladies and gentlemen, we have a four digit number! This is a tremendous day for number enthusiasts everywhere.
gofund.me/711f1548
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Numbers can have four digits? I'm a bit skeptical here...
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The finalists for Pre-20th Century Historical Fiction are The Ring of a Bell by Ellen Kingman Fisher, King of the Gulls by Stefan Scheuermann & Paul Alexander, and Fairest of the Fayre by Sheri Cobb South. Congratulations!
#calawards #historicalfiction #finalists #AwardWinning #books
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People have asked why the elites don't seem to care about ecological disaster. My response has been that they obviously think they will be immune and safe in their bunkers.
This article goes into great detail and shows that is just scratching the surface.
theguardian.com/us-news/ng-intβ¦
#world #worldpol #maga #fascism #climate #resist
The rise of end times fascism
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop themNaomi Klein (The Guardian)
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Due process isn't as exciting to talk about, but it's a load-bearing right. If you don't have that one, you don't have the other ones either
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Due process is a load-bearing right. π
I like this, it is easy to understand.
βDue process isn't as exciting to talk about, but it's a load-bearing right. If you don't have that one, you don't have the other ones eitherβ.
Thanks! ππ»
I like this, it is easy to understand.
βDue process isn't as exciting to talk about, but it's a load-bearing right. If you don't have that one, you don't have the other ones eitherβ.
Thanks! ππ»
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Congrats to CAL's Amateur Sleuth Mystery finalists: Wild Ride by Lenore Mitchell, The Suicide Detective, by W.L. Bach, Trailridge by Kevin Wolf.
#calawards #mystery #finalists #books #awardwinning
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"Crosstalk" by: Connie Willis
In the not-too-distant future, a simple outpatient procedure to increase empathy between romantic partners has become all the rage. And Briddey Flannigan is delighted when her boyfriend, Trent, suggests undergoing the operation prior to a marriage proposalβto enjoy better emotional connection and a perfect relationship. But 'things' donβt quite work out as planned...
#author #reading #library #books #scifi
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Crosstalk
Science fiction icon Connie Willis brilliantly mixes a speculative plot, the wit of Nora Ephron, and the comedic flair of P. G....Bookmark Day
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Shameless promo. π
Have you ever wondered what it is to live on a cube world?
Kai Wolffe finds out when she pulls a woman from under a tree in the garden of her new house. Curious and interested in #fantasy ?
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The Glass
Moving house is always a strenuous task. Just when Kai Wolffe is about to settle into her new home, things start to get weird. She pulls a woman from the ground in her garden.Paul Kater
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@veronicawilliams Thank you. (I always hope they are also good reads! π )
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Melinda Curtis's Dandelion Wishes FREE w/newsletter signup: βEmma lost her creative talent after a car accident. She heads to her small hometown, where Emmaβs childhood crush is pushing changes Emma and her grandmother donβt want...β NOW A TV MOVIE!
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#books #Romance @bookstodon
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Yeah, it seems like these anti-trans laws always forget that there are, like, transmen with full beards out there who certainly would make most women feel uncomfortable being in "women only" spaces.
Yeah, it seems like these anti-trans laws always forget that there are, like, transmen with full beards out there who certainly would make most women feel uncomfortable being in "women only" spaces.
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Finally got my own physical box of the @oblique_strategies set. It's from 1975, and it feels like that, too. In the best possible way.
As serendipity wants it, I came across a study today that compared LLMs with Oblique Strategies set as creativity support tools (CSTs)
"The use of an LLM as a CST [makes] the LLMβs users feel more creative, and even broaden the range of ideas suggested by each individual user, but also homogenize the ideas suggested by different users."
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3635636β¦
In other words, while LLMs might help individual users to become more creative, it does so for everyone in the same way. Thus, collectively, creativity is diminished.
This finding at the group level has been repeated a few times now in different studies.
This is not the case with the Oblique Strategies. Perhaps because applying these strategies is hard and requires the examination of one's own position and process.
Thanks to @remixtures for the pointer to the New Yorker article which contained the pointer to the cited study.
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I think the lesson is, when it comes to thinking, friction is a good thing. It has to be hard. Otherwise, it stays within well-travelled paths.
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got a physical set a year or two ago. Theyβre great for sure.
Interesting on the study results!
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Sorry for the late reply but the driver stuff was me trying out proprietary vs community Nvidia drivers and then just weird things that would happen on restarts after switching/updating drivers. I have an intermittent issue where the primary monitor (I have two) alternates being entirely light grey, red, blue, and green upon startup I haven't researched it yet because I just restart the computer and it is fine. And it has happened maybe 3 times over the last month (amongst dozens of restarts). There are a few things like that that only happened once so I wrote off the occurrence.
I have had the most luck with the proprietary Nvidia driver so far.
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in reply to Kevin Bowersox • • •Fascism thrives on callousness and cruelty. Empathy in action is a form of resistance to fascism.