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  We have reached a catastrophic tipping point in #climatechange - where mass migration to cooler climates becomes a much more likely necessity and not just a desirable. Impossible to remotely fully grasp the devastation being wreaked very fast and very broadly in Spain and France. Imagine the billions pumped into destroying land and people in wars was spent helping fight climate change ...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social This is beyond brilliant. Maybe the start of backlash at often indulgently reckless natures of the powerful who have a chilling indifference towards those they adversely affect.

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  @beep@follow.ethanmarcotte.com The human mind so readily steered away from the holistic view by tasty carrots. AI blindsighting many to the big picture context ...

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  @urlyman@mastodon.social Very much so. The human mind seems to gravitate far too much towards those in the spotlight, ignoring lots of great stuff in the shadows.

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  @QasimRashid@mastodon.social His own teenage daughter was the subject of his sexual attention. Kind of hard to hide is perversions. And STILL he holds the most powerful position in his land. Astonishingly stupid human race to allow this.

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  @georgetakei@universeodon.com NY Times online has the video of what happened. It is deeply damning of the US govt

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  @themediumkahuna@tech.lgbt The normalisation of trivial matters so stupid. Like wearing a throat throttling tie at work in case higher management popped over.

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  @Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Basically we have what were social media platforms now commandeered as people control and indoctrination mechanisms. Antisocial systems now.

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  @benlockwood@ecoevo.social And the media endlessly trotting out the importance of the bloody economy and growth - so often that it gets normalised. The repeat simple message that Hitler used. The economy principally serves those who really do not need 'more'. Bhutan government have a better idea - happiness of the people is their number 1 priority.

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  @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt Thiel is nearly an anagram of evil, the nature infused into his core it seems.

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  #Schools need to start teaching social skills. Face to face communication skills badly in decline - harder to develop when left too late.

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  @oli@social.tchncs.de Very succinct. Necessarily damningly so. What a horrible state of the human race. A key driver of civilisation collapse is instability - and accelerating complexity in all spheres of life will pretty well guarantee that.

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  It seems to me that those who call themselves Jews garner a kind of privileged protection from those who are not jews. Hard to see from this description of Jews why they should merit special treatment. I never get special treatment for being a humanitarian - I even get challenged often for not believing in a deity. Maybe I should call this out as anti-humanitarian? I DO NOT HATE Jews. I try to hate no one. I just see humans with a label - a Jew did this or a Black man did that - as biased.

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  @JugglingWithEggs If you visit the Shorpy web site and scan through some of their old glass plate building photographs, you will see how deeply sadly far we have gone from quality and beauty to profit-serving.

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  @QasimRashid@mastodon.social Brave man in a way - far too many are chillingly exploited by unscrupulous business owners. Stepping back, profit channelled into the pockets of a few was never how Capitalism needed to go - profit was there to sustain a business. Resource renewal, research, contingency. Commandeering it by lining already full pockets was just insanely bad. Distributing such an excess across the workers much more sane. Besides, workers then happier and thereby work better.

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  Early April #Starmer claims we are not in the war ... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-keir-starmer-not-our-war-iran-british-bases Yet we were ALREADY involved ... https://www.gov.uk/government/news/raf-personnel-become-first-ever-drone-aces-during-operations-in-the-middle-east

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  I would not trust #Trump to get me a cup of coffee.

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  A Romanian friend I met online playing Go sometimes writes me poems. Today she wrote this : You—a miracle. Me—a chance. Two halves, drawn together through passing seasons. Two songs, one silent dance. Two colors, never seen— becoming joy. You and Me.

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  @QasimRashid@mastodon.social US politics is in systemic failure now, endangering millions. NOW is the time to evict the guilty and put them on trial for war crimes. Or it will continue to be meaningless to define a crime that is never punished.

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  Made a #clay sculpture and it looked a bit bland. Kind of. So I added some #bead structures. The shape on the left was mostly a result of chance but loved how it looked.

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  RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116356031295983164 The kind of 'sanction' that even crazy Trump can surely not ignore ...

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  Side of a tree in the park yesterday looked like a landscape.

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  #Cardiff #ButePark has some lovely and interesting trees!

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  Some 4 decades younger than I but balanced engaging conversation. She is lively anti-establishment independent thinker but very warm of nature. Both in bands. She stopped to talk for an hour last year in another park. Very open minded engaging creature. He is very placid by comparison. Before that a chat with a passer by who asked to sit - professor of criminology researching restorative justice. Another palpably good chat but quite different.

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  It might bemuse you to know that the #subconscious pretty well does all our #thinking - the #conscious mind too slow and lumbering to do anything other than steer and vet what the subconscious delivers. So can we really claim to be superior thinkers when #AI uses much the same kind of neural net pattern matching that our subconscious uses?

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCyWAFSLuVg An AI creation but the visuals and music and singing are just magical.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@harmscommitted/116284135904387934 Staggeringly bad by staggeringly evil beings.

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  The past 3 days I had great chats with some interesting people. With fascinating names! Keet, Red, Heffyn and Noah. And a supremely healthy young lady wearing what looked like a necklace around her waist. Slim, very pretty, decades younger than my 69 years yet deeply warm smile and connection with me. She was seeking something new today so I suggested she explore an artist in a city she had already been to - Prague. Alphonse Mucha should move her - she has a large print on her wall by Klimt.

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  @cstross@wandering.shop Immigration understanding has been relentlessly broadcast with but one aspect. As you say, there are other critical factors.