Dividing women is (and has been) a high priority for #antidemocracy#trolls. They use existing issues and history to paint an ALL - ALWAYS - NEVER narrative about women, our history, and our movements. They weaponize #compassion and desire for #justice, #equality, and #truth to silence legitimate objections to divisive and inaccurate characterizations. This is not new but it keeps happening on all platforms. Reject division / elevate solidarity.
Three minor feature frustrations with Mastodon that never get better:
Lack of a choice between chronological and "relevance" when searching. I search my own posts a lot & now I have a year and a half of history it's REAL hard to find stuff if I can't search chronologically.
When replies to a post are shown, you can't "collapse" or sort down sub-replies. If a post explodes such that subthreads spawn the replies become unreadable. It would be nice to be able to say "hide non-direct replies".
"If anyone can refute me—show me I'm making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I'll gladly change. It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." —Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Book VI
(1/4) “A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.” - We all know that. But it's not that simple. The question of #truth, its meaning, and the existence of multiple truths has become a pressing concern due to recent events like a rathetr unique presidency, an unexpected war in Europe, accelerated climate change, and the popularity of a hyped chat bot ...
(3/4) In 2023, Ars Electronica aims to explore the question of #truth and #ownership. The Ars Electronica Festival invites global participants from various fields to discuss these topics, with the goal of engaging the broader public and shaping our collective future. https://ars.electronica.art/who-owns-the-truth/en/
In the future, the top 1% will be extra for edited, proofed content printed on paper or captured on physical film. The rest of us will be left to fight over what is true vs. what is AI-generated truthiness.
sorry fedi but if you have never taken the time to use macos as your primary os, you know nothing about it and have no right to shit on it. stop being linux evangelists, let people use what the fuck they want
@nano I've been that kind of asshat before and I highly regret it. Like I get that apple and mac are far from perfect but its A LOT better than windows. And some people just want that.
Hell, I've been seing youtubers recomending linux to play instead of fucking windows!
When I was a philosophy grad student longtermism hadn't been invented yet. Even now it is, long after I left the field, apparently a fringe area of research. But what I am now reading about it is frankly alarming.
This is an article from a recovered longtermist philosopher. I'll add some quotes and comments below.
@johnwehrle "Potentials" seem to me to have much in common with Aristotle's "future contingents", and amongst various classes of knowledge, assertions as to future states are ... interesting in numerous regards.
For the present we can rely on direct (or indirect) observation. For the past we can rely on records, impressions (as in discernable tracese left by some phenomenon), interpretation, inference, etc.
For the future the ultimate test is "wait and see", which might be feasible when addressing an immediate promise (or threat) ("pick up that chair and I'll straighten the rug" or "get out of my sight or I'll break your face"), or tomorrow's weather forecast, quarterly financial projections, or election polling. It's a somewhat less viable proposition for predictions of life 100 years in the future, climate in 1,000 years, geological events over the next billion years, or the Heat Death of the Universe. Though I suppose if you're sufficiently patient there's some hope of empirical verification.
Mostly, though, we have to rely on similar small-scale events which occur with some frequency, where "small scale" generally means "multiples over the span and stretch of space and time. House fires, vehicle accidents, actuarial mortality data, flood risks, hurricane and earthquake predictions, stellar life-cycles, etc. Even where a specific even has no direct comparison (say, potential extinction of h. sapiens), we can look to similar events (other hominid, great ape, primate, mammalian, or animal extinctions, say) to make some degree of inference.
I want to do some closer reading on just what it is that the Longtermists themselves have to say (and I'll note that the SEP doesn't seem to have an entry, or even mention, of the topic). But I will note that Longtermists seem ... extraordinarily willing to place extreme significance to prospects with little or no evidence whatsoever in any historical or observable record or phenomena.
Which ... gives me pause.
(As I'd noted in my commentary on Torres's critique of the concept, I'm not defending Longtermism. But I'd really like to see a stronger case made as to why it might be questionable.)
What from reddit do you hope to never see on lemmy?
i can’t stand megathreads – no one reads these! no one wants their posts banished there!