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A sign of defeat and despair.

KEEP EYES OPEN EXCEPT TO BLINK

KEEP STEERING WHEEL STRAIGHT EXCEPT TO TURN

KEEP FOOT ON ACCELERATOR EXCEPT TO BRAKE

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A sign of defeat and despair.

KEEP EYES OPEN EXCEPT TO BLINK

KEEP STEERING WHEEL STRAIGHT EXCEPT TO TURN

KEEP FOOT ON ACCELERATOR EXCEPT TO BRAKE

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US highway road sign: "KEEP RIGHT EXCEPT TO PASS"

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@JamesK You put it better than did!

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@JamesK You put it better than did!

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@outofcontrol Privacy is so fundamental that it resides in the human body. And then expands outward in concentric circles starting with your physical contact with loved ones. Would you prefer to be the one who draws the outer circle for yourself?

Or would you prefer to leave the outer circle to be drawn by ... global mega-corporations? ... by the State?

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@outofcontrol Privacy is so fundamental that it resides in the human body. And then expands outward in concentric circles starting with your physical contact with loved ones. Would you prefer to be the one who draws the outer circle for yourself?

Or would you prefer to leave the outer circle to be drawn by ... global mega-corporations? ... by the State?

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@outofcontrol Was Diogenes correct? When he said that if we are honest, we should carry out openly and in the public square all of our bodily functions? That we should do all our peeing and pooping and barfing and ejaculating in public? By one small step, that we should change our babies' diapers and embrace our loved ones and caress our lovers, only in public?

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@outofcontrol Was Diogenes correct? When he said that if we are honest, we should carry out openly and in the public square all of our bodily functions? That we should do all our peeing and pooping and barfing and ejaculating in public? By one small step, that we should change our babies' diapers and embrace our loved ones and caress our lovers, only in public?

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@outofcontrol Bodily functions. ("Parasympathetic-dependent involuntary smooth-muscle contractions," but those are grade two words.)

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@outofcontrol Bodily functions. ("Parasympathetic-dependent involuntary smooth-muscle contractions," but those are grade two words.)

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a strange late afternoon light

#caturday

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a strange late afternoon light

#caturday

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Gray kitty lies in a loaf on the back of the couch. But he is bathed in a cold, bright, oblique light from below, coming in from the sunset out of frame, bouncing diffusely but very intensely off the shiny hardwood floor out of frame. The field of view behind him is dark but his mischievous gray face is spookily bright and his pupils are diabolical slits.

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@tromo @Lana I was upset and discouraged by the entire affair. But even more upset and discouraged after considering dozens of other instances I saw that I would never find a fit that was as good.

So I made it just be me, and now I can pack my own parachute.

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@tromo @Lana I was upset and discouraged by the entire affair. But even more upset and discouraged after considering dozens of other instances I saw that I would never find a fit that was as good.

So I made it just be me, and now I can pack my own parachute.

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@PuercoPop Wow. Cool!

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@PuercoPop Wow. Cool!

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@Lana I am STILL laughing at anticistamines and guybuprophen

I want to live in a world in which you are more relevant than Jimmy Fallon.

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@Lana I am STILL laughing at anticistamines and guybuprophen

I want to live in a world in which you are more relevant than Jimmy Fallon.

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@ferriera_trevi Thank you! Exploring and understanding the world via arithmetic is like moving from proprietary to free software:

➡ incremental gains accumulate and before you know it you have built solid skills

➡ after you have tasted its awesome power you will never willingly relinquish it

#math #science #foss #freesoftware

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@ferriera_trevi Thank you! Exploring and understanding the world via arithmetic is like moving from proprietary to free software:

➡ incremental gains accumulate and before you know it you have built solid skills

➡ after you have tasted its awesome power you will never willingly relinquish it

#math #science #foss #freesoftware

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@tromo @Lana I'm feeling my wings after fledging the nest 🤣

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@tromo @Lana I'm feeling my wings after fledging the nest 🤣

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So I just lived through 24 hours during which I learned to appreciate how great Mastodon is. And I have to acknowledge @Lana who is one of the funniest people on the internet right now

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So I just lived through 24 hours during which I learned to appreciate how great Mastodon is. And I have to acknowledge @Lana who is one of the funniest people on the internet right now

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@sachac Yes! It turned out to be astonishingly easy to set up my own Mastodon instance.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/

led me to @mastohost

https://masto.host/

which setup is dead easy and super cheap. Totally the way to go, for me at least. (I had the domain name already.)

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@sachac Yes! It turned out to be astonishingly easy to set up my own Mastodon instance.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/

led me to @mastohost

https://masto.host/

which setup is dead easy and super cheap. Totally the way to go, for me at least. (I had the domain name already.)

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@akkartik Wow. I love your appeal to Ivan Illich to observe that software is like—mining: extraction from externalities to decreasing marginal returns. Such an insightful statement of the problem.

https://akkartik.name/about

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@akkartik Wow. I love your appeal to Ivan Illich to observe that software is like—mining: extraction from externalities to decreasing marginal returns. Such an insightful statement of the problem.

https://akkartik.name/about

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Wow! I'll have to find it! I didn't know there was such an essay. Surely it would be a fun reading assignment.

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite Wow! I'll have to find it! I didn't know there was such an essay. Surely it would be a fun reading assignment.

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@AndyPaciorekArt So much to love about the story of Lafcadio Hearn, but the thing I love the most is that it's so difficult to think of a Western figure in Japanese history with a name so difficult to pronounce in Japanese

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@AndyPaciorekArt So much to love about the story of Lafcadio Hearn, but the thing I love the most is that it's so difficult to think of a Western figure in Japanese history with a name so difficult to pronounce in Japanese

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@BigEatie Ye gods, I don't mean to imply that my presentation of the concept of "theory" is comprehensive or complete. Or even if there is any such thing. I know practically nothing about the philosophy of science at the current state of the art.

This is a discussion in a general education course for non-science majors. We can't do everything. But it makes for great questions (like yours!) in the hallway after each meeting....

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@BigEatie Ye gods, I don't mean to imply that my presentation of the concept of "theory" is comprehensive or complete. Or even if there is any such thing. I know practically nothing about the philosophy of science at the current state of the art.

This is a discussion in a general education course for non-science majors. We can't do everything. But it makes for great questions (like yours!) in the hallway after each meeting....

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Just moved to a private instance! Pleased that it seems to have gone smoothly, and happy to be self-sufficient.

Leaving emacs.ch was unfortunate, but after twenty-four hours of very mixed feelings, I take away a sense of gratitude. And a resolution never to take Mastodon, or the Emacs community, for granted.

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Just moved to a private instance! Pleased that it seems to have gone smoothly, and happy to be self-sufficient.

Leaving emacs.ch was unfortunate, but after twenty-four hours of very mixed feelings, I take away a sense of gratitude. And a resolution never to take Mastodon, or the Emacs community, for granted.

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New blog post: Just a theory: the flat earth vs. evolution https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-09-06-just-a-theory-the-flat-earth-vs-evolution.html

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New blog post: Just a theory: the flat earth vs. evolution https://jamesendreshowell.com/2024-09-06-just-a-theory-the-flat-earth-vs-evolution.html