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  "Israeli human rights org @btselem is calling for action to stop POGROMS against Palestinians." https://mastox.eu/@AssalRad/116983171821494845

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  #Normalcy is dead. Yet we have yet to bury it. Climate would've killed it—if #covid hadn't. Yet normalcy is dead. Yet we have yet to bury it. We only got so many #spoons. We can bury ourselves or bury the dead. We only got so many spoons. Use them wisely. ❖ #lumpentheory #poetry Previously: https://mastodon.social/@beadsland/109317477421500057 (Originally April 22, 2022 on Xitter.)

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  I was today years old when I learned that there's a cat cafe on youtube with hundreds of hours of engine-perspective videos of remote-controlled model trains being casually batted off their tracks by resident felines.

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  "Indeed, when I first entered the corridors of the United Nations in the 1980s, many states then existed that no longer existed when I left in 2023. Did the USSR, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Germany, Tanganyika, Zanzibar, and the United Arab Republic have a “right to exist?” No. And neither does Israel. "States come and go, but none of them has a “right to exist.” As a factual matter, this is undeniable. "And yet, some still actively parrot the baseless Zionist fabricatio...

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  The Oddcube Kickstarter, for a stylish, maintainable, 10" furnace filter-based, PC-fan driven air purifier, launched yesterday, and is already fully funded: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpA7-EJpKWU The cuboctahedron Corsi-Rosenthal box! Available as a kit or as 3d printer files for personal use. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/joelcreates/oddcube-air-purifier-kit #CleanIndoorAirNow #CleanTheAir #CovidIsNotOver #CovidIsAirborne

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  "So last week on June 30th, Brian Johnson, uh the the blood guy, announced to the public that he has been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease. The name of the disease is autoimmune gastritis or atrophic gastritis. And basically it means that your stomach lining like eats itself or your body attacks the stomach lining and gradually replaces it with other tissue. Sounds pretty bad. "And people everywhere. Okay. Well, people some places thought it was it was quite funny. People in his T...

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  #Annoplot #dataviz has had only minor maintenance this month. Previous status found here: https://beige.party/@beadsland/116049587908706944 Maintenance included diagnostic logging and further tweaks to bundling and color assignments, in support of dynamic legend pruning; also expansion of criteria and squishing a one-line bug for footnotes. Root level scripting included a rough plot of incarcerated populations by census block record: https://beige.party/@beadsland/116125341132396326 This w...

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  Insomnia is a bane.

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  @kAlvaro @n_dimension Please steer clear from parallels to blood libel in my mentions. One can discuss the cruelties they're engaged in, including, as disisdeguey mentions in reply to your post, accusations of resumed organ harvesting (this practice having been documented in a previous decade), without casting the institutional processes involved as even prospectively cannibalistic. Even without the blood libel angle, such insinuations are especially uncalled for given that both Juda...

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  Just ticked off the self-styled curator of a solarpunk visual art (still images) collection by noting that their event seeking submissions of art to said collection prohibits submissions that in any way make use of AI art, for a style of art that, in terms of aesthetics alone, has consistently looked, to my eye at the very least, like AI art, this since well before AI art was a thing. To be clear, myself agree with the prohibition. Indeed, only days prior had written up a 10+ page essay on why...

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  There was an article being shared the other day regarding a mathematical proof that supposed "AI" machines, if cut off from human input, would in feeding on their own outputs, converge toward a disconnect from representation of the world we inhabit. Can't lay my finger on same. Anyone got a link?

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  Israel not even waiting for the dust to settle before yet again violating yet another #ceasefire? Whodda thunk?

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  Were a genie to grant me three wishes, one of those would be for universal #STS literacy education starting from primary school.

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  Huh. A #MediaHistory question. Trying to find scholarship discussing the practice of 1970s/1980s television broadcasters compressing film on the horizontal (for instance, kung-fu genre movies) rather than cropping or letterboxing. Grew up watching impossibly lanky live-action martial artists on screen, and have a sense that this has impacted the aesthetics of media inheriting from that experience of the genre in latter decades. Yet am only turning up discussions of the much later transition...

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  @inquiline Sitting with the foundational colonialist irony of not understanding what the "resulting pile of materials" represents.

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  "At least three Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening in an Israeli strike targeting a gathering of civilians in Gaza City, amid near-daily attacks and ongoing violations of the US-backed ceasefire." https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116354996136613488 #ceasefire

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  "The instinct to pathologise it comes from discomfort, from the sense that something is off. But the more accurate way to understand it is not as deviation, but as outcome — the outcome of a specific social and ideological structure." https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/116311555165101069 #lumpentheory

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  Really need to stop arguing with folk who believe "late stage" is a thing. The term "capitalism" first appears in print in 1850 (Blanc). Supposed "late capitalism" was identified by Sombart as starting in 1918. At this point, supposed capitalism has been "late" for 108 of the 176 years, or three fifths of the time, during which "capitalism" has been a word. It's easier to imagine a forever late s...

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  As someone of the generation that had to learn that trusting someone is not a prophylactic, have to say this is the perfect way to frame prevention of transmission of communicable disease: https://friendhole.social/@beandreams/116242768550730215

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  "Lebanon’s army reported a low-altitude Israeli drone strike near an observation post in Marjayoun, southern Lebanon, on Tuesday, prompting troops to hold their positions and return fire. "The attack comes as Israel continues regular strikes in southern Lebanon despite the November 2024 ceasefire and maintains illegal control over five positions along the border." https://mastodon.neometropolis.net/@QudsNen/116128504874755805 #ceasefire

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  "When I moved to France in 2019, I thought the constant protests were excessive. I thought, why can't they just be reasonable, go vote, work through the system? "Then I watched from France as Americans, my friends, my family silently accepted things that would literally shut this country down. "Mass deportations of neighbors. In France, people would physically block it. "Police killing citizens. In France, cities would burn until there was accountability. Government...

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  "But the way these comparisons are so often framed reveals something more troubling than confusion. When people say, “This isn’t Iran. This isn’t who we are,” what they are really saying is: This kind of violence belongs to other people. Other countries. Other kinds of societies. "This way of talking treats repression and state terror as natural features of non-Western life — tragic, perhaps, but expected — while preserving the fantasy that the United States is fundamentally different...