"Primitive people clearly didn’t value thinking … didn’t enact' 'thinking' in the way it was recognized by European culture. So [they] were lower in caste and value because they couldn’t recognize that transcendence was more valuable than embodiment.

… That these differences were said to be biological was crucial because they established a hard boundary between white European masculinity and those who needed … the benevolent rule of a superior race."

Follow @ourhumanfam https://mastodon.world/@ourhumanfam/113071181370683705

https://journa.host/@atrupar/113306048418041757
#usPol #usPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

@fulelo wow! Where is your header photo taken? (Wall of clogs)

If you're new to following me, and live elsewhere, you may not be interested in my politics posts. If so, add a filter in your mastodon (etc.) settings!

Filter out: #cdnPoli and #onPoli

👀 😡 TFG's bible includes the Constitution, but OMITS amendments 11-27 … that means it is missing the amendments abolishing slavery and granting women and Black people the right to vote. Also, how the electoral college works!

And it uses a 1954 version of the pledge of allegiance, containing "under God."

This is the bible Oklahoma wants to bring into schools. 😤

Welcome to TFG's Ministry of Truth:
Hate is love.
War is peace.
We'll tell you what you believe.
https://meidasnews.com/news/amendment-abolishing-slavery-missing-from-trumps-bible

… "[the issues are] all there, and described beautifully, especially in the antepenultimate paragraph which mentions decisions that destroy jobs, wreck the planet, and steal labor, content, and drinking water, under the guise of “AI innovation.”

#generativeAI #generative_AI #enshittification #ethics #AI #LLM #journalism
#natural_intelligence #NaturalIntelligence

"My position is pretty straightforward: There is no ethical way to use generative AI, and I avoid doing so both professionally and personally. I haven’t written about this and don’t plan to, but I also don’t need to, because this fantastic essay from Jane Ruffino exists*."
-- Ed Yong, Journalist/Author

*essay: https://www.characterworks.co/blog/we-deserve-better-than-an-ai-powered-future

#generativeAI #generative_AI #enshittification #ethics #AI #LLM #journalism
#natural_intelligence #NaturalIntelligence

"new documents obtained by Gizmodo reveal that [Truth Social] has … been flooded with scammers who are swindling users out of enormous sums of money. We’re talking about people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in a relatively short period of time.<
https://zeroes.ca/@maleve/113255720332020364

Alert: "TREES ARE BEING CUT AT ONTARIO PLACE! COME DOWN ASAP & BEAR WITNESS … under the cover of darkness, trees have been cut down on Ontario Place's West Island.

Come down ASAP!"
https://mailchi.mp/9bdcdedc5e76/treecuttingsupporters-12723172?e=b8480e04d1

This is an arboretum of 850 trees planted 54 years ago by landscape architect Michael Hough, that has become a mature forest, home to birds, foxes and rabbits, & 12 species endangered or at risk.
https://spacing.ca/toronto/2024/08/29/ontario-places-west-island-trees-on-death-watch/

#dougFordIsCorrupt

I'm having trouble finding adequate adjectives for JD Vance…
Toxic?
Ignorant?
Arrogant?

After 20 years in the encouragement and affirnation business, my vocabulsry seems to have atrophied, in this department 🤔

What's a good adjective for someone deeply steeped in the Dunning-Kruger effect?

Dammit. Somehow, my account again seems to have blocked mastodon.social and I lost all my follows from there 😭

Remember that initiative I participated in this summer?

The plan's unfolding ... On Tues, Oct 1st, you’re invited to join us for a 1-hour organizing call. We’ll dig into the political context surrounding the Housing Crisis, unveil our plan to begin shifting the public narrative, and share the part you can play to begin conversations about homes for people, not profit in your neighborhood. 

Join us! RSVP for the call:
https://you.leadnow.ca/events/housing-organizing-call?share=36f69e0c-b97e-445a-97de-971baf97e667&source=email-share-button&utm_source=email

Florida bans instruction on contraception and consent in sex ed classes:
😳 #christofascism #AmericanTaliban

Florida "educators were told that 'pictures of external sexual/reproductive anatomy' or discussions of 'different types of sex' should not be included in 'any grade level.' …"

You are now entering thr blessed state of Gilead 🙏

https://popular.info/p/florida-bans-instruction-on-contraception?publication_id=1664&post_id=149374564&isFreemail=true&r=evf5&triedRedirect=true
#usPol #usPolitics #HarrisWalz2024

ProPublica does important, independant investigative journalism. Support them!

The Mission:
To expose abuses of power and betrayals of the public trust by government, business, and other institutions, using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform through the sustained spotlighting of wrongdoing.

"Our investigative journalism does more than expose wrongdoing and injustice; we intend for it to spark real-world change."

@ProPublica https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113171128575745373

"Renowned author Pankaj Mishra was in Canada this week to receive a major literary award and to give an accompanying lecture, customarily excerpted in The Globe and Mail …

But … editors cut out every single mention of Israel—no less than 17 times.

Ironically, some of the newspaper’s proposed cuts were of Mishra’s descriptions of past experiences having his writing on Israel stifled"

Globe and Mail censored criticism of Israel by award-winning Indian author:
https://breachmedia.ca/globe-and-mail-censored-pankaj-mishra-criticism-israel/?vgo_ee=SKxaXSg%2Bf%2FZAUHAKKtjJq0B96Dm4uDDrFyWIWTOXcIIRM5Ya2A%3D%3D%3AL5xi%2Bh4PNvBN93xi8HHhO5Xd6p%2FOCTxg

She's my new hero.

"There are flashing indicators that something is quite wrong in 🇨🇦: productivity down,
unemployment & violent crime up, worsening state services.

PM’s response: … hector MPs to spend more time sharing social media memes. The msg: … Canadian voters must fix themselves, not Trudeau & his team …

Voters have tried to tell the Libs … Ottawa’s problem is … a failure to deliver. Trudeau isn’t listening."

#giftlink https://archive.is/AWn1a

Via @justinling https://mastodon.online/@justinling/113170240640164838
#cdnPoli #cdnPolitics

Translated:

"Did you know?
In Germany, climate warming is already significantly more than 2 degrees.
This is generally the case in land areas of the earth, because the global average temperature consists of 71% sea surface, and the seas warm more slowly.

Source: https://www.deutsches-klima-konsortium.de/basisfakten"

@rahmstorf https://fediscience.org/@rahmstorf/113163864829474812

The state of Lower Austria offers a public dashboard with up-to-date flood data. That's great, but whyyy is it an Angular SPA? Lots of people have no electricity and/or very poor network conditions. They get a loading spinner instead.

👏 EMERGENCY WEBSITES SHOULD BE STATIC 👏

https://noel.gv.at/wasserstand

“Like watching Norman Bates talk to his mother.”