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Mr. Esfandiary sees the future as an earthly Heaven in which, by the miracle of technology, humans will usurp the role of God — who, it may be recalled, was once thought to be the only maker of manna...
He is berating us, with the fervor of an evangelist because we do not abandon ourselves to machines as people of faith abandon themselves to God. He is berating us, in fact, for not being gods or at least acting as if we were gods.

The crucial concept here is that of“limitless” or “infinite”quantity.

From _The Unsettling of America_: Wendell Berry on a 1975 article where F. M. Esfandiary
nytimes.com/1975/08/09/archive…


#WendellBerry #TheUnsettling #FMEsfandiary more #FuturologyBullshit like for Nukes in the 1950s "too cheap to meter" or "AI" (LLM Salami data-center waste) "generative AI" "agentic AI" probability games will save us from the over-use add the wasting of everything..

Homo Sapiens: The Manna Maker

A "bright-sided" article about the wonders of technology on the brink of providing everyone with heaven on earth, from 1975..
www.nytimes.com
#wendellberry #TheUnsettling #FMEsfandiary #FuturologyBullshit
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bsmall2

"In 1950[3?], excess is always a comfort, and sometimes a career. Moderation, on the one hand, is nothing but pure tension. It smiles, no doubt, and our Convulsionists, dedicated to elaborate apocalypses, despise it. But its smile shines brightly at the climax of an interminable effort: it is in itself a supplementary source of strength...."

#CamusOnModeration #ModerationAsTension #Moderation

@bsmall2@nerdica.net

#Moderation #ModerationAsTension #CamusOnModeration @Brian Small
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Brian Small

> Moderation is not the opposite of rebellion. Rebellion in itself is moderation, and it demands, defends, and re-creates it throughout history and its eternal disturbances. The very origin of this value guarantees us that it can only be partially destroyed. Moderation, born of rebellion, can only live by rebellion. It is a perpetual conflict, continually created and mastered by the intelligence. It does not triumph either in the impossible or in the abyss. It finds its equilibrium through them. Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.

#ModerationAndRebellion #ModerationAndIntelligence in #TheRebel by #AlbertCamus
@bsmall2

#AlbertCamus #TheRebel #ModerationAndRebellion #ModerationAndIntelligence @bsmall2

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If animals are regarded as machines, they are confined in pens remote from the source of their food, where their excrement becomes, instead of a fertilizer, first a “waste” and then a pollutant. Furthermore, because confinement feeding depends so largely on grains, grass is removed from the rotation of crops and more land is exposed to erosion.

If plants are regarded as machines, we wind up with huge monocultures, productive of elaborate ecological mischiefs, which are in turn productive of agricultural mischief: monocultures are much more susceptible to pests and diseases than mixed cultures and are therefore more dependent on chemicals.

If the soil is regarded as a machine, then its life, its involvement in living systems and cycles, must perforce be ignored. It must be treated as a dead, inert chemical mass. If its life is ignored, then so must be the natural sources of its fertility — and not only ignored, but scorned. Alfalfa and the clovers, according to some of the most up-to-date practitioners, are “weeds”; the only legitimate source of nitrogen is the fertilizer manufacturer...

#WendellBerry #TheUnsettling #AnimalsAsMachines #PlantsAsMachines #SoilAsMachine
#DirtAsMachine #EarthAsMachine

Amitav Ghosh's books _Nutmeg's Curse_ and _The Great Derangement_ come to mind...

#wendellberry #TheUnsettling #animalsasmachines #PlantsAsMachines #SoilAsMachine #DirtAsMachine #EarthAsMachine

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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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> We’ve heard about upskilling and re-skilling due to AI — but how about de-skilling? A new study published this week found that doctors who frequently use AI to detect cancer in one medical procedure got significantly worse at doing so.
> The researchers set out to discover whether continuous exposure to AI impacted doctors’ behavior when conducting colonoscopy..

>The rate was about six percentage points lower.

> The study was published in The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology journal by medical professionals and researchers in countries including Poland, Norway, Sweden, the U.K., and Japan.

theverge.com/ai-artificial-int…
#HaydenField on
#SalamiAI #SalamiDoctors #AIDeSkilling #SalamiCancer #AICancer

Some doctors got worse at detecting cancer after relying on AI

It’s the latest in worrying medical AI headlines.
Hayden Field (The Verge)
#salamiai #HaydenField #SalamiDoctors #AIDeSkilling #SalamiCancer #AICancer

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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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Baby goats
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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.

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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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