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After more than four decades, one of the few things I believe I have really learned is that the teacher, that professional amateur, teaches not so much his subject matter as himself. If he is a teacher of literature, he provides for those less experienced in song and story, including the reluctant, the skeptical, the uncooperative, the incompetent, a model of one in whom what seemed dead, mere print on the page, becomes living, a way of life — palpable fulfillment, a transport into the world of wonder.

To do so effectively, he must show himself capable of responding not only to those works which his students are not likely to discover without his guidance, but also to those which have persisted in spite of critical disapproval. He must, moreover, teach such works in the same courses, as chronology or theme or his own whim dictates, thus avoiding even the semblance of celebrating already established works at the expense of those still despised, much less those preferred by an elite at the expense of those loved by the great majority. Only in this way will he be able to make clear the continuity of all song and story, preprint, print and post-print, high, medium and low.

I am not talking about English as vocational training, much less English as elitist brainwashing. I mean English for everyone: an introduction to works of the imagination over which all humankind can weep, laugh, shudder and be titillated; communal dreams, shared hallucinations, which in a time when every­ thing else tends to divide us from each other join us together, men and women, adults and children, educated and uneducated, black and white, yellow and brown-- even, perhaps, teachers and students.

archive.org/details/whatwaslit…

#LeslieFiedler #EEnglish #EveryonesEnglish #WhatWasLiterature #LitCrit

#LeslieFiedler #EEnglish #EveryonesEnglish #WhatWasLiterature #LitCrit

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Optimi corruption pessima
The best corrupted is the worst.. rotten lillies smell terrible..

Taking a great word and making it stupid.. like what the did with the free, open, and interesting internet.. collaboration without exploitation for enough of a utopia would work but...

Abundance adherents often bristle at the suggestion that the project is orchestrated by Silicon Valley elites. But as the leaked documents demonstrate, Rosen and his colleagues clearly view it as such, and even frequently use the word “elite” by choice.
In a statement, Phoenix Project executive director Jeremy Mack said that the fundraising document demonstrates that “Abundance to-date is being backed by hundreds of millions of dollars from Silicon Valley’s wealthiest tech elites, and they are investing heavily into a movement that will support their interests.”


prospect.org/2026/06/12/new-do…

#ZackRosen #AbundanceNetworkBS
#ProspectOrg

Zack Rosen the Walter Lippman and Edward Bernays and Trilateral Commissoon Crisis of Democracy genre dork of the day..

#ZackRosen #AbundanceNetworkBS #ProspectOrg

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> Howard observed and came to support traditional Indian farming practices over conventional agricultural science. Though he journeyed to India to teach Western agricultural techniques he found that the Indians could in fact teach him more. One important aspect he took notice of was the connection between healthy soil and the villages' healthy populations, livestock and crop. Patrick Holden, Director of the UK Soil Association quoted Howard as saying "the health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible." He was president of the 13th session of the Indian Science Congress in 1926.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_H…

#AlbertHoward #SirAlbertHoward #WheelOfLife from Wendell Berry's _The Unsettling of America_ #HealthySoil

Albert Howard - Wikipedia

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#AlbertHoward #SirAlbertHoward #WheelOfLife #HealthySoil
in reply to Brian Small

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bsmall2

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> Howard advocated studying the forest in order to farm like the forest. He devoted the last half of his career to understanding that end, presaging those contemporary ecologists who advocate the understanding of the interface between ecology and agriculture.

@bsmall2@nerdica.net
#AgroEcology #ForestAsModel #ForestFloor

#agroecology #ForestFloor #ForestAsModel @Brian Small

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How Nixdorf fell

@Christoph S this could be interesting to you

youtu.be/8wT-QYm0zlg?is=NDp7Fq…

How Things Fell Apart for Germany’s Nixdorf Computer

Links:- Patreon (Support the channel directly!): https://www.patreon.com/Asianometry- X: https://twitter.com/asianometry- Newsletter & Podcast (available thr...
Asianometry (YouTube)
@Christoph S

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Conexión y dualidad en las relaciones

La conexión y dualidad en las relaciones románticas representan la unión de dos personas distintas, equilibrando la afinidad emocional con la individualidad, creando a menudo una "dualidad" donde las debilidades de uno son cubiertas por las fortalezas del otro. La conexión genuina fomenta la confianza, aceptación y comunicación, mientras que la dualidad integra mundos, ritmos y formas de pensar dispares para crear una vibración extraordinaria.

Aspectos Clave de la Conexión y Dualidad

Conexión Emocional: Se caracteriza por la presencia genuina, confianza y la sensación de ser visto, escuchado y aceptado tal como uno es.

Dualidad de Pareja (Sociónica): Se describe como una relación donde la cercanía natural permite a los miembros relajarse, sin temor a que sus debilidades sean criticadas. Es una mezcla de dos formas de pensar, estilos de vida y pasiones que crean un equilibrio.

Retos de la Dualidad: Aunque a menudo idealizada, la dualidad también implica retos como la posible dependencia, el estancamiento, o un desajuste en el ritmo de vida.

Integración Interna: La dualidad no es solo externa, sino que también implica la aceptación de nuestros propios conflictos internos (emociones vs. razón, seguridad vs. aventura) para conectar mejor.

Diferentes Enfoques sobre la Dualidad

Relación de "Anam Cara": Se refiere a la idea de almas gemelas o una conexión profunda donde dos personas se sienten iguales, trascendiendo convenciones.

Dualidad como Conflicto: A veces la dualidad representa la lucha interna entre el amor y la duda, o la dicotomía entre "partes dignas" e "indignas" de ser amadas.

La verdadera magia radica en aceptar la dualidad no como una pareja perfecta sin dificultades, sino como la integración de dos seres distintos que deciden complementarse.

#momentozen #namaste #espiritualidad #gritosdelalma

#gritosdelalma #momentozen #namaste #espiritualidad

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¿De dónde vienen los escrúpulos?

De una piedra en el zapato.

Literalmente.

La palabra “escrúpulo” proviene del latín scrupulus, que no significaba otra cosa que :

“Una piedra pequeña y afilada”.

Los soldados romanos lo sabían bien. En sus largas marchas, las piedritas se colaban dentro de sus sandalias (kaligae) y causaban un dolor constante.

Entonces, los legionarios debían decidir:

¿Sigo marchando con dolor… o me detengo para sacarla, arriesgando retrasar a todo el grupo y recibir castigo?

Esa incomodidad constante, ese dilema entre actuar o no actuar, dio origen al concepto de :

“Tener Escrúpulos”.

Con el tiempo, el término salió del ejército y se instaló en la vida civil.

Pero he aquí el giro:
senadores, jueces y políticos romanos no caminaban

Viajaban a caballo, en carruaje o en litera.

Como los políticos de hoy, que van en auto con chofer.

Nunca tuvieron piedras en los zapatos.

Por eso, tampoco tuvieron escrúpulos.

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@Christoph S this is for you

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Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social)

Prof. Sam Lawler

2026-05-09 02:58:50

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The last baby was just born! The #BabyGoatCountdown for 2026 is complete! (But don't worry, there will be loads more super cute photos)

13 babies from 8 mamas.


@Christoph S

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The Confederacy lost the war.
But the planter class kept too much land.
The traitor elite kept too much dignity.
The Lost Cause kept too much cultural power.
White terror kept too much room to organise.
The courts gave Jim Crow too much legal cover.
And the federal government abandoned Black Reconstruction too soon.
That is the Confederate afterlife. See less

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## **Blue Dot Fever: The Worker’s Purse and the Death of the Stadium God**

The panic is not that people have stopped loving music.

The panic is that people have started doing maths.

They are looking at rent, food, transport, debt, wages, childcare, medicine, exhaustion — and then looking at a concert ticket swollen with dynamic pricing, service fees, parking fees, VIP tiers, merch markups, drink prices, and miserable stadium seats — and saying:

**No. This is not worth my survival.**

And now the industry acts wounded.

“Why are young people killing concerts?”

They are not killing concerts.

They are refusing to bankrupt themselves for joy that has been fenced off, branded, tiered, algorithmically hyped, and sold back to them at landlord prices.

Music did not become unaffordable by accident. It was made that way by the same forces that make housing unaffordable, healthcare terrifying, food expensive, transport unreliable, and rest feel like a luxury. The worker produces the wealth, builds the venues, staffs the bars, drives the trucks, cleans the floors, streams the songs, buys the shirts — and then cannot afford the civilisation built out of their own labour.

That is the obscenity.

They rob people of leisure, then scold them for not participating in culture. They drain people’s lives of joy, then call them boring. They turn every human need into a payment plan, then act shocked when the public begins choosing groceries over spectacle.

People still want music.

They want dance, sweat, sound, communion, romance, rebellion, bass in the ribs, strangers singing the same chorus, the holy little madness of being alive in a room full of noise.

What they do not want is to be treated as wallets with legs.

And here is the great lie cracking open: **the industry is not music.**

The ticket platform is not music.
The promoter is not music.
The stadium is not music.
The brand campaign is not music.
The “cultural moment” manufactured by managers, bots, playlists, and corporate partnerships is not music.

Music is older than markets.

Music survives in small venues, basements, house shows, local festivals, workers’ choirs, queer dance nights, punk rooms, street corners, community halls, bedrooms, garages, churches, warehouses, and friends making strange beautiful noise because they have to.

The collapse of the overfed concert machine would not be the death of music.

It would be the choking of a parasite that mistook itself for the host.

So when they ask why the blue dots are multiplying, why the seats are empty, why the tours are cancelled, why the public is no longer rushing to save the luxury spectacle, the answer is brutally simple:

**You cannot underpay people, overcharge them for survival, and then demand they keep every entertainment empire alive.**

People want lives.

They want beauty.

They want leisure.

They want experiences.

They want music.

But they are tired. They are priced out. They are insulted. And increasingly, they are refusing to confuse participation with submission.

Pay for what genuinely delights you.
Support the artists and spaces that treat people like human beings.
Let the bloated machine tremble.

Music will survive.

The extraction model built around it may not.

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Absolutely — here’s a **combined, sharpened version** that fuses the anarchist chorus into one flowing argument/rant. 🎤🔥

## **Blue Dot Fever: The Worker’s Purse and the Death of the Stadium God**

The panic is not that people have stopped loving music.

The panic is that people have started doing maths.

They are looking at rent, food, transport, debt, wages, childcare, medicine, exhaustion — and then looking at a concert ticket swollen with dynamic pricing, service fees, parking fees, VIP tiers, merch markups, drink prices, and miserable stadium seats — and saying:

**No. This is not worth my survival.**

And now the industry acts wounded.

“Why are young people killing concerts?”

They are not killing concerts.

They are refusing to bankrupt themselves for joy that has been fenced off, branded, tiered, algorithmically hyped, and sold back to them at landlord prices.

Music did not become unaffordable by accident. It was made that way by the same forces that make housing unaffordable, healthcare terrifying, food expensive, transport unreliable, and rest feel like a luxury. The worker produces the wealth, builds the venues, staffs the bars, drives the trucks, cleans the floors, streams the songs, buys the shirts — and then cannot afford the civilisation built out of their own labour.

That is the obscenity.

They rob people of leisure, then scold them for not participating in culture. They drain people’s lives of joy, then call them boring. They turn every human need into a payment plan, then act shocked when the public begins choosing groceries over spectacle.

People still want music.

They want dance, sweat, sound, communion, romance, rebellion, bass in the ribs, strangers singing the same chorus, the holy little madness of being alive in a room full of noise.

What they do not want is to be treated as wallets with legs.

And here is the great lie cracking open: **the industry is not music.**

The ticket platform is not music.
The promoter is not music.
The stadium is not music.
The brand campaign is not music.
The “cultural moment” manufactured by managers, bots, playlists, and corporate partnerships is not music.

Music is older than markets.

Music survives in small venues, basements, house shows, local festivals, workers’ choirs, queer dance nights, punk rooms, street corners, community halls, bedrooms, garages, churches, warehouses, and friends making strange beautiful noise because they have to.

The collapse of the overfed concert machine would not be the death of music.

It would be the choking of a parasite that mistook itself for the host.

So when they ask why the blue dots are multiplying, why the seats are empty, why the tours are cancelled, why the public is no longer rushing to save the luxury spectacle, the answer is brutally simple:

**You cannot underpay people, overcharge them for survival, and then demand they keep every entertainment empire alive.**

People want lives.

They want beauty.

They want leisure.

They want experiences.

They want music.

But they are tired. They are priced out. They are insulted. And increasingly, they are refusing to confuse participation with submission.

Pay for what genuinely delights you.
Support the artists and spaces that treat people like human beings.
Let the bloated machine tremble.

Music will survive.

The extraction model built around it may not.

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Christoph S

2026-03-14 13:30:44

diaspora - Link zum Originalbeitrag

Plötzlich Facebook-Lobbyistin: Irlands einst höchste Datenschützerin wechselt die Seite


Jahrelang stand Helen Dixon in der Kritik, weil sie als irische Datenschutzbeauftragte zu nachsichtig mit Tech-Konzernen gewesen sei. Jetzt arbeitet sie für eine Anwaltskanzlei, die Meta in Verfahren gegen ihre Behörde vertreten hat. Für Datenschützende kommt das nur wenig überraschend.


Surprised Pikachu!
#lobbying #tech

netzpolitik.org/2026/ploetzlic…


Plötzlich Facebook-Lobbyistin: Irlands einst höchste Datenschützerin wechselt die Seite

Timur Vorkul (netzpolitik.org)

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Friendica Issues now resolved on Nerdica.net

As of today, during the night, the backlog of >5 Mio. worker queue items has been resolved and new posts are delivered on time again.

Hopefully it stays that way.

Counter measures were:
- increasing count of CPU cores from 8 to 24 vCPUs
- increasing memory size from 20GB to 65GB
- redundant setup of Friendica behind a load balancer, so that two virtual servers can work on the backlog

Whileas CPU and RAM are back to their old settings, the redundant setup will stay and maybe extended to a third virtual machine.

#fediadmins #friendica

#friendica #fediadmins

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TRUMP'S "JUSTICE" DEPT Disappears Study that Proves Most Violence is Caused By Far Right Radicals

dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/12…

#PoliticalViolence #usa #unitedstates #rightwingterrorism #rightwingextremists #farrightextremism #rightwing #Doj

TRUMP'S "JUSTICE" DEPT Disappears Study that Proves Most Violence is Caused By Far Right Radicals

While the nation continues to process the shock and grief caused by the murder of far right activist Charlie Kirk, vile and thoughtless MAGA partisans are feverishly endeavoring to politicize the crime, blaming Democrats and liberals for allegedly...
Daily Kos
#USA #unitedstates #doj #rightwing #politicalviolence #farrightextremism #rightwingExtremists #rightwingterrorism
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