Adverse_Reaction

Confabulation!

Not sure about your specific needs, but I saw this recently:

https://handy.computer/

There is this: https://gitlab.com/azzurite/lemmy-universal-link-switcher

The photo is sadly missing.

I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%. (Christopher Armitage)

Participants self-reported how often they dropped the kids off at the pool , and the researchers organized them into four categories: constipation for those reporting one or two bowel movements per week; low-normal for three to six movements per week; high-normal for one to three movements per day; and diarrhea for four or more watery stools per day.

Is ‘dropping the kids off at the pool’ a real euphemism for pooping?

https://github.com/rramiachraf/dumb

you can also achieve the same, and much more with the LibRedirect browser extension:

https://libredirect.github.io/

Fnord!

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

supplyin’ da man. Why not get 5 for only $50?

Best I can do:

For those who don’t recognize the reference: This is extremely dangerous to our democracy.

Including the trauma, sadly.

Here is a quote, taken slightly out of context, that I believe speaks to what you are experiencing:

“The clinical picture of a person who has been reduced to elemental concerns of survival is still frequently mistaken for a portrait of the survivor’s underlying character.” - World Health Organization. (May 31, 2016). ICD-11 Beta Draft (Joint Linearization for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics).

Extrapolating from that in this other context, we can assume more and more people are simply losing their capacity to entertain “loftier” ideals than immediate survival. For all too many, there was never any other choice.

I studied philosophy at university in the 80’s, and remember the endless jokes about what restaurant job I would be able to get with my degree, etc. It speaks to the hidden framework of capitalism that confines us all. It’s only gotten worse in my lifetime.

I look back at my parents, who were able to buy their own house and raise two kids with a single earner, blue collar wage. My mom did eventually work as well, which allowed us children to go to college.

Now I am close to retirement, and I have nothing to show for it. No house, no car, no big retirement payout waiting. I ‘squandered’ my money and time being an activist and humanitarian, living in the moment and refusing to produce or hoard wealth for the capitalist machine just because.

I try to use my philosophical insight as a practical methodology to remove myself from the clamor for crumbs. I am a minimalist, an environmentalist, a gardener, a handyman and helper, a teacher - a papa smurf to my community and philosopher to my peers. I wouldn’t trade it for all the money in the world, but I would be remiss to ignore the looming economic circumstances that threaten the future of humanity, myself included.

But I will forge ahead into this wilderness. As Deleuze and Guattari would say, forget reading someone else’s map, become your own cartographer. Philosophy is a great basis for profound understanding of the human condition. It won’t make you rich, and it certainly won’t be respected or understood in this modern world - but it will enrich you. If you follow your heart it can show you a path through the madness that does not require that you shed your humanity or reduce yourself to that of an economic survivor, victor, or victim, and can serve as a beacon for others less fortunate to have been afforded such a perspective.

I often share the story of Taigu Ryōkan, the Zen Master, who perfectly illustrates both the value of philosophical introspection, and it’s liberating effect from the confines of the material world.

https://laspina.org/the-thief-and-the-moon-a-zen-tale-in-ryokans-haiku/

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This a nice read on the topic:

https://libcom.org/article/anti-semitism-and-beirut-pogrom-fredy-perlman

Big money in building the Chinese surveillance state:

https://apnews.com/article/chinese-surveillance-silicon-valley-uyghurs-tech-xinjiang-8e000601dadb6aea230f18170ed54e88

Forklift Driver Klaus

This has Judi Bari vibes.

The Bombing of Judi Bari - An Unsolved Mystery

Who Bombed Judi Bari?

After META and Yandex had their long established and trivial-to-implement cookie tracking abilities (Localhost->HTTP(S)/WebRTC) exposed a few months ago, I have been waiting for some changes to come along to try and lock out potential snoopers who might figure out how they are now de-anonymizing phone users and tracking their web habits.

Preventing sideloading, combined with moving some of the dev internal, both seem like moves toward this end to me. But what do I know, I have never even owned a smartphone.