@CanisPundit

🤣🤣🤣 I laughed out loud.

I'm still laughing!

Yes! Let's!

@Jorro

Oh, that's only human. When shiny new objects are put in our line of sight, we do love to play with them!

What did you do before the AI browser? How did you corroborate data, when you needed to?

@CanisPundit

And there are so many such politicians!

I think we need to elect more dogs and cats for mayor again. And a human 35 is 7 in dog years, right - for presidential nominees?

One final thought:

Folks here were boggling the other day at how immigrants to the US couldn't see the GOP for what it is.

But many in the West, often out of a "polite antisemitism" that fails to differentiate between Jewish cultural & Israeli political spectrums, have been living in cognitive dissonance: quick to identify & condemn far-right extremism on their home turf, while credulously supporting far-right extremism (*supported* by the GOP!) in another country.

So. That's how it happens.

@gemswinc

"Holy" in this case meaning full of holes: vacuums of life and decency that riddle our long, agonizing history of tribalism.

No different at all. We are a frightfully small species, at the end of the day. 🫂

Atheist note, though:

History will show this awful work to have been done by *secular* folk too.

There are some extreme Jewish traditions involved - messianics in N's far-right coalition government - & they're bolstered by a mass of US Christian Evangelicals who've been supporting this conflict for decades...

But Netanyahu is secular, & belongs to a movement that leverages Torah solely for territorial ambitions, with none of the grace of faith involved.

It is a sick, brutal thing to witness.

Reading about the latest range of war traumas today, from the killing of Oxfam-affiliate water engineers by IDF, to the destruction of olive trees & a woman harvesting them by WB settlers, to many dozens lately slaughtered in the north...

It is painful to know this will only end when the extremists win.

So many *here*, as there, do not a flying F about the lives shattered.

They're just not *people* to those who think fulfillment of violent prophecy is the best solution for all.

#Gaza #Israel

@Jorro

It says something about our state of affairs that, early in internet days, folks were taught to treat Wikipedia with caution because it's curated by a group of everyday editors. But years on, as expert sites & forums have been underfunded or lost amid a deluge of bad info, we now know Wiki is a rare example of fairly reliable intel, & we desperately need more investment in such curation elsewhere, too.

Trouble is, our online "town hall" is mainly a bunch private, for-profit platforms!

@janallmac

Oh, I love the energy in your posts! Good morning, Jan! Congrats on getting care for a loved one - always a huge ordeal packed into one little sentence, eh?

Have you seen this recent design tool for free-flowing 3D sketching? I don't have the tools to make the best use of it, myself, but it looks like a wonderful way to jot down some preliminary thoughts and visions! Happy creating! #CoSoArt

https://feather.art/

As a teen, I thought I was going to be a physics professor. Loved the heck out of the citizen science involved in astronomy research as well. Thought we were on the cusp of something extraordinary online.

Today, many life dreams later, I came across this video, which doesn't just correct info about a so-called exoplanet; it also depicts how mangled everyday #science info is (made worse by AI!).

We could've had such nice things.

#MediaLiteracy #ScienceLiteracy
#Space
https://youtu.be/EzrwL3W5wl4

@Tacitus_Kilgore

(The cost part, I mean.)

@Tacitus_Kilgore

It already has. 🫂

@Tacitus_Kilgore

I see a lot of people who can temper their worst behaviours when they have enough needs met.

And I see a world in which most of us live with relentless exposure to stressors (media, environmental) that put them squarely in the category of "not having needs met".

And I see media & ecosocial stressors getting worse--upping tribalist derangement--in a cascade failure.

So no, I don't think it's achievable.

We can only try to gentle the ache of that failure for those around us.

@Tacitus_Kilgore

We're a first-working-draft species.

We never needed perfection for our genetic material to lurch forward: just sufficient procreative momentum.

The real agony came from the confused tendrils of higher concepts we learned to slap onto our actions: "justice", "morality", "peace", "humanity".

Aquinas wanted so much to believe that we ache around such imperfect concepts because a perfect form exists.

But no.

We ache because we're *just* wise enough to grasp our inadequacy.

I've been skipping through old #Zine uploads lately, and tonight's was a hoot: 1968, Yandro 184 - an issue filled with commentary on recent #SFF movies (2001, Planet of the Apes), #StarTrek episode commentary, new books by the likes of Ellison, and tons on fan culture with the usual drama around Worldcon, Nebulas, and censorship.

Just a delight of a reminder that the more things change, the more things stay the same! #Reading

Some choice bits screencapped below:

https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Yandro/Yandro184.pdf

@NiveusLepus @wolfwoman

💛 I'm glad you're doing it in safe company! Don't forget to hydrate with water, too! :)

@NiveusLepus @wolfwoman

It's a stunning cover, and a thrilling description. 💛💜

Rebecca, well done! 🤗 I know how much work goes into getting one's writing to this point, and I wish you a "peachy" celebration of his milestone tonight!

@NiveusLepus @wolfwoman

!!!

That is fantastic! What a gift to have you publishing your writing again, and with such a wonderful team behind the work.

Happy day indeeeeeed! 🥳

1 hour 30 minute meeting.
1 hour 30 minute meeting debrief.

🙃

I can't share details, but there were SO many details I'd love to see go into character studies for a story one day.

Peopling! Good gravy, why do we do it?