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firefly

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I am a #bibliologer and a #cryptologer. I study the Bible, codes, and ciphers among other things. I enjoy #poetry. I like #neologisms. I burn with insatiable curiosity about everyone and everything.

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KPED, to books
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A book I edited was written up in the local paper.

So happy to see Shannon Bohrer's book, Judicial Soup: One Man's Wrongful Conviction and What It Means for Criminal Justice Reform, getting some media attention. This is a very relatable book on a hugely important topic. When you read it, first you'll be angry. Then you'll think, "If it can happen to that guy, it can happen to anyone."

https://www.fredericknewspost.com/news/arts_and_entertainment/judicial-soup-by-emmitsburg-author-highlights-the-need-for-justice-reform/article_ef4a743d-e470-5146-bf92-625c0cfb2a24.html

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firefly,
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@KPED @bookstodon

'Judicial Soup' is a good title.

The 'criminal justice' system is an assembly line human trafficking racket run by con artists and villains hiding behind the deadly force of the criminal state.

They secretly say their prayers to Wackenhut for a return on investment. More warm bodies equals more cash in, more 'justification' for their racket.

ChrisMayLA6, to scifi
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 153.

Each of Emma Newman's Planetfall quartet explores a different aspect of the same overarching story of religious driven intergalactic migration. In Atlas Alone (2019), the fourth story centres on an elite gamer & their attempt to uncover & then take revenge for a crime against humanity. To say much more would ruin the plot for you, but as with the others, this is great, fascinating sci-fi, which has a great payoff at the end.


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firefly,
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@fskornia @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

The sole purpose of religion is and always has been to control large masses of people.

There has never been any other purpose for religion. Take people's minds, take their labor, take their shekels. That's all it ever was for, a tyranny and a con so the worthless parasites incapable of making anything useful can leech off the masses and elevate themselves above their hosts.

Christians are especially guilty of this. Revelation says that God hates the heirarchical, pastoral grift model, calling it, 'The deeds of the oppressors of the people, which thing I hate.'

firefly,
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@stephenwhq @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

Secularism is the religion of the state. Secularism is ecumenicalism taken to its most logical extreme. It is a religion that subverts all other religions to the power of the state. Secularism was the religion of the Roman empire and remains so today.

Go into the capitol building and look up at the dome rotunda, and you will see their secular gods painted a la fresco for all to see.

firefly,
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@fskornia @TimWardCam @ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon

What thing is being denounced? Specifically, and exactly, what is being denounced?

Are you conflating the Bible with Christianity? The twain shall never meet.

More than half of the Bible was written and in circulation 900-1500 years before the existence of Christianity.

If you read the Bible without Christian blinders on, it is plain that the Bible condemns Christianity and all other religions as idolatry. Rather the Bible authors call men to worship God in spirit and truth without regard to a priesthood or place.

This dramatization shows a recorded event from the Bible demonstrating what Jesus taught about the end of religion:

https://youtu.be/ordhsDeAt60

d6133367256042a6777318655bf1f38d8cdd944f4baa6c0b70ef4b025994af04, to random
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Support for legal abortion is widespread in many places, especially in Europe. In the United States, where a Supreme Court decision ended the constitutional right to abortion in 2022, 63% of adults say abortion should be legal in all or most cases. U.S. support for legal abortionhas not changed in recent years.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/05/15/support-for-legal-abortion-is-widespread-in-many-countries-especially-in-europe/

firefly,
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Exodus 23:2
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

AlanC, to photography
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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
~ Virginia Woolf

firefly,
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@AlanC

This is such a heute-teute way of saying, 'Make me sammich."

47f97d4e0a640c8a963d3fa71d9f0a6aad958afa505fefdedd6d529ef4122ef3, to random
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https://image.nostr.build/c2c1fc46b2203c172b255c0dce69314ee524805cdf4ed73f0f8cb2524ff68b34.jpg

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@deab79dafa1c2be4b4a6d3aca1357b@mostr.pub @47f97d4e0a640c8a963d3fa71d9f0a@mostr.pub

+1 OpenBox

jason_w_karpf, to ai
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How New Science Fiction Could Help Us Improve AI - Scientific American

Fascinating article about organizations trying foster positive sci-fi stories about AI. Good reason why AI sci-fi is mainly negative—more plausible given humankind’s record AND more interesting. My upcoming book The HONOR System is case in point.

@bookstodon @religion https://apple.news/AXoC6_0DHQ8yjy44u1K4rLA

firefly,
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@ghast @jason_w_karpf @bookstodon @religion

Oh, look, yet another anti-christ bigot. We finally have an oxymoron that makes sense.

soatok, to random
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Something I detest: Defeatist people who ass-moan whenever someone talks about changing something.

"You won't succeed"

"The fight's already lost"

"Why bother?"

Fuuuuuuuuuck you. I hate that pointless negativity.

Yes, I will probably fail. A lot! Maybe you've already tried before and failed, or maybe someone you know has.

Do you know what failures are?

Lessons.

Failing is how you learn to fucking succeed.

Failure doesn't mean you give up.

Failure means you study WHY you failed and see if you can change anything to get a different outcome.

I'm very quick to point out a doomed tactic, but that doesn't always mean the goal is unattainable.

firefly,
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@soatok

Yup. When someone tells me I can't do something I get infuriated. The world is like whack-a-mole, ready to beat down the one that stands up.

chema, to fediverse
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If you're looking to host your very own single-user/a-few-users instance, you cannot go wrong with . It is simple to install on Ubuntu and works very well with some really solid clients. It is also written in C, so it is fast, with few dependencies. Great work @grunfink, you've got a new monthly supporter on Ko-fi!

https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2

firefly,
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@vv221 @chema @grunfink

Addictive behavior modeling equals advertising shekels.

jillrhudy, to bookstodon
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The actual NORTHERN LIGHTS showed up in Virginia and I was too engrossed in a book to notice. #bookstodon @bookstodon @librarians

firefly,
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@jillrhudy @bookstodon @librarians

They are being seen in diverse places, including the midwest and the mid south.

firefly, to usenet
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Do you remember Usenet? It's still free.

https://sybershock.com/#usenet

kirby, to 3goodthings

they told me i had to eat my vegetables. i will not stand for this authoritarian request what do i do

@3goodthings @nifwatchparty @mutualaid @espresso @pagans @vegancooking @wfpb @punk @thearchers @rugby @psychotherapist @cfb @mecfs @pagan @socialwork @synths @eliitinmusakisa @nba @brettspiele @pizza @bookstodon @python @fedibikes @horror @psychiatry @eu @esc @allstartrek @spurs @gnarley_boot @art @fediblock @nfl @poetry @LouisConde @mastodonindians @porn @teamheardle @ru @classicalmusic @plants @israel @askfedi_de @histodon @academicchatter @palestine @whn @nyx @vegan @genchat @psychotherapists @mastobikes @sewing @coffee @socialpsych @actuallyautistic @psychology @vinylrecords @fedibikes_de @actuallyadhd @mastobikes_de @ai @photography @communitytv @tea @tennis @histodons

firefly,
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@kirby @3goodthings @bookstodon @histodons

Watch out for the racist carrot.
https://youtu.be/NaFjLZvRNFU

neko, to random
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firefly,
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"And the worms ate into his brain ..." ~ Pink Floyd

ai6yr, to random

G4! #spaceweather https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/

firefly,
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@ai6yr

We're due for the 2600 year grand solar minimum cycle. The massive magnetic energy release is right on schedule.

screwtape, to random
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One of my uni student computer friends has gotten too powerful to really ever need help or commentary with their bog standard Micro$oft classwork.

What advice should I give to make their computer life harder?

firefly,
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@screwtape @CryogenicIce9

Software freedom may feel good at first until that damn penguin nails you with his sharp beak.

246052c37882f81dc9eb3023256a1ee668024f8494d1437f3a93a9221e4b3d16, to random
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Some of the most apparent chem trails I’ve ever seen.
https://m.primal.net/IFAD.jpg

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@d388af725538cea442c0a9f8c35b87@mostr.pub @246052c37882f81dc9eb3023256a1e@mostr.pub

try harder

61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb79d1ddbc3e7bff19cf2298f40466f8715e9, to random
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There are like 10 people on nostr whose thoughts and opinions I care about. People I’d like to meet in real life.

The rest is nebulous clouds of words moving and morphing and blurting. I watch, periodically interacting with complete sentences.

firefly,
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@61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb7@mostr.pub

... mostly btc pumper dumper parrots ...

TootTropiques, to bookstodon
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"One never lies to people, they lie to themselves. A good liar gives fools what they want to hear and allows them to free themselves from the facts at hand, and choose the level of self delusion that fits their level of foolishness and moral terpitude."

--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

@bookstodon

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@TootTropiques @bookstodon

Fools of a feather fantasize together.

rat, to Autism
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14-year-old grandson: 'my hack-fu makes me happy'

Gran: “He’s never done any of it in a malicious way. Why didn’t the school system put in more filters, or firewalls, to prevent children from getting into that?”

County Spokesperson: "Threats to over 100,000 students’ safety, including hacking, will be met with the full force of the law and applicable District policy."

https://infosec.exchange/@douglevin/112412361774579936

firefly,
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@rat

HACKING IS NOT A CRIME
ACKING IS NOT A CRIME H
CKING IS NOT A CRIME HA
KING IS NOT A CRIME HAC
ING IS NOT A CRIME HACK
NG IS NOT A CRIME HACKI
G IS NOT A CRIME HACKIN
IS NOT A CRIME HACKING

#HackingIsNotACrime

61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb79d1ddbc3e7bff19cf2298f40466f8715e9, to random
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The U.S. government has created enemies to keep you scared of what those enemies might do to you. So they remain needed.

firefly,
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@61066504617ee79387021e18c89fb7@mostr.pub

Bingo.

JustTooOdd, to oklahoma
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In the latest installment of Oklahoma's elected officials not having the necessary background to do their jobs, we have this:

The Satanic Temple plans to place ministers in Oklahoma schools if new bill becomes law

Of course Oklahoma legislators don't want those chaplains in schools. And, it apparently never occurred to them that allowing one religion means allowing ALL religions. I don't even think this is some misguided 1st Amendment challenge. It's just ignorance, ignorance that doesn't belong in public office.

https://kutv.com/news/nation-world/the-satanic-temple-plans-place-ministers-oklahoma-public-schools-new-senate-bill-36-becomes-law-chaplains-volunteer-background-checks-religion-community-service-representation

firefly,
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@JustTooOdd

Religion and religious institutions or entities are two entirely different matters in law.

No religious institution has the right of access to anything public.

But every believer in a religion has the right of his own expression in public.

But the purpose of public school is not religious expression of any kind. The purpose of public school is education for the cultural and commercial benefit of the society. Our civil society and all its laws, and the very fundamental principles of our laws are founded on and originate from the Lex Talionis of the Old Testament and the Golden Rule of the New Testament and are uniquely and fundamentally Christian. Every attempt to undermine that is a treasonous attempt to collapse the society into chaos and belam. The separation of powers clause is straight out of the Bible. The rights of man being superior to the preogatives of government is straight out of the Bible. It did not originate with the Greeks or Romans, whose 'democracy' and 'republic' was a form of racial supremacist fascism. These western principles of law originated with the Nazarenes who carried forth the Bible and the Gospel to the world.

The modern concept of the nation state as a vessel that affords equal rights to all inhabitants is a fundamentally Christian idea. Even when it was ephemerally practiced in the ancient world it was because of the influence of Hebrews or Christians on the rulers of the Empires of those ages.

Whatever is calculated to disrupt that end of equality before the law, and substitute it with a false and destructive equality, regardless of your claims of 'religious freedom' such treachery can and should be limited and curtailed by public policy. It is called the, 'necessary and proper' clause. Under the common law it is called the peace and order of the state.

The freedom of Satanists to offend and blaspheme against the vast majority is neither necessary nor proper, and is a false equivalence. Everyone who worships Satan should be in a lunatic asylum, along with you. Putting satanism on equal footing with the faith that gave us our liberty is beyond insane. Nobody has the right to promote the worship of devils and demons. The only right they have is to have their heads examined.

mttaggart, to random

A password is a secret handshake you do with your keyboard.

firefly,
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@mttaggart

The password is a secret handshake done by keymasons.

firefly,
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@iAmTheTot @return2ozma @mibo80 @Plastic_Ramses

You must not have been a civil or criminal defendant in a court room.

firefly,
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@return2ozma

Democracy is a religion that glorifies the lesser of two evils.

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