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incognitopolls · 1 month
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We ask your questions so you don’t have to! Submit your questions to have them posted anonymously as polls.
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queerism1969 · 1 year
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quantummechanics · 2 months
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Saturn has 83 moons. 63 moons are confirmed and named, and another 20 moons are awaiting confirmation of discovery and official naming.
This is their dynamic visualization while they travel with Saturn through space
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philosophybits · 6 months
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I'm more than ever of the opinion that a decent human existence is possible today only on the fringes of society, where one then runs the risk of starving or being stoned to death. In these circumstances, a sense of humor is a great help.
Hannah Arendt, Correspondence: 1926-1969
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palestinegenocide · 4 days
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Mainstream media finally reports on Gaza famine but won’t admit Israel is deliberately responsible
Palestinians in Gaza are starving, but the mainstream media won’t tell you the simple truth that Israel is intentionally causing the famine.
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greelin · 9 months
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$35 for. t shirt. world in shambles. you want long sleeves, do you? $45. at the very least. a SWEATSHIRT? are you being fucking for real with me right now? okay. 60 bucks. fuck you
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hussyknee · 2 months
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I'm really not a villain enjoyer. I love anti-heroes and anti-villains. But I can't see fictional evil separate from real evil. As in not that enjoying dark fiction means you condone it, but that all fiction holds up some kind of mirror to the world as it is. Killing innocent people doesn't make you an iconic lesbian girlboss it just makes you part of the mundane and stultifying black rot of the universe.
"But characters struggling with honour and goodness and the egoism of being good are so boring." Cool well some of us actually struggle with that stuff on the daily because being a good person is complicated and harder than being an edgelord.
Sure you can use fiction to explore the darkness of human nature and learn empathy, but the world doesn't actually suffer from a deficit of empathy for powerful and privileged people who do heinous stuff. You could literally kill a thousand babies in broad daylight and they'll find a way to blame your childhood trauma for it as long as you're white, cisgender, abled and attractive, and you'll be their poor little meow meow by the end of the week. Don't act like you're advocating for Quasimodo when you're just making Elon Musk hot, smart and gay.
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Friendly reminder that-
Israel isn't attacking Hamas, it's attacking Palestinians.
This doesn't have anything to do with religion.
There are lgbt+ people in palestine.
There are Jews in palestine and it's not the IDF soldiers.
There are Christians in palestine.
Whenever Hamas releases a former hostage, all of or at least the majority of them say that they had been treated good by the Palestinians.
When the former hostage, Emily, yes that little blonde girl was asked if Hamas taught her to share her food with those needed more, she nodded.
People who support palestine and or are Palestinian but are in other, more "civilised", countries have faced death threats, losing their jobs and even physical violence by people who support Israel.
Jesus was a Palestinian jew.
Holocaust survivors have compared the crimes that Israel is committing to the crimes nazis did back in world War 2.
The reason why no one spoke up about palestine before was due to the fact that many received death threats.
Isreal is allowed to do this because of world War 2, it's fully exploiting the hundreds of deaths of Jews along with the torture they faced.
The Pope is pro-palestine and has stated that what Isreal is doing is terrorism.
Boycotting is easy.
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eightiesfan · 7 months
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the Ethical Society of St. Louis (Missouri)
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trans-cuchulainn · 6 months
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had a really interesting convo yesterday about ethics and whether intent or results matters (eg if you tried to make an ethical purchasing choice but the business was actually exploitative as hell, does that "count") and very much came to the conclusion that sure, if you're concerned with your personal immortal soul, as a christian might be, then intention counts. but if what you're focused on is your impact on the world, then intention means nothing if the actions have negative results, right? (that doesn't mean you're to blame for them! you didn't know! but you also don't get "ethics points" for trying, you know?)
and this also got me thinking about the whole christian idea that sinful thoughts are as bad as sinful actions because. they're just not imo. maybe for the sake of your Immortal Soul they are points against you, if that's your jam. but in terms of putting good into the world, in terms of your impact on other people, the ONLY thing that matters is what you choose to do with those thoughts. there is no way that "was kind to someone who was pissing me off, for the sake of community harmony" or "helped an acquaintance with a task even though I felt resentful about the time spent doing that" is a Bad Thing for the world
and it made me wonder how much purity culture and thought policing is rooted in (mostly evangelical) cultural christianity and this idea that ethical choices are an individual thing because what matters is the impact of them on YOUR soul and not, you know, things we do because of what we owe the world around us / because of love for others / because a world where people are trying to put good into it is a hell of a lot nicer to live in than one where people are only worried about themselves
i grew up evangelical but like. fairly mild evangelical and even though there wasn't a big focus on hell and stuff, i definitely fixated on imperfect thoughts and behaviours that were putting absolutely no harm into the world, rather than focusing on what i could do to put good into it, and that individualistic vs outward-focused approach to morality has been something i've grappled with a lot as an adult. but i never really thought about it as simply as this and really that's what it boils down to. are you making the ethical choice because you're trying to put good in the world, or because it would make you a "good person" to do so? because the answer to that 100% defines whether it's the thought or the result that counts
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wolfythewitch · 10 months
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Having had a theology subject every term but this one is genuinely so funny, especially now that all the art homework has been drastically upped in quantity. Like yeah, you do have to draw 2000 drawings by mid June. Why are you praying? God has forsaken you.
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nando161mando · 7 months
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When criminals run society
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closet-keys · 1 month
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watching a philosophytube (I really have been enjoying listening to her videos while I'm high lately, it's so soothing to be gentle brought through different philosophical arguments and how to navigate the shape of them. the videos are lovely, and one of the things I love about them is how honest and internally consistent she is when it comes to the edges of where she has preexisting steady and developed views (e.g. discussing frankly that she was hesitant at first about police abolition but once she actually read the theory she admitted she was convinced completely that police abolition is an internally consistent position with the rest of her ethical positions.) anyway I was watching one just now and she just so simply and plainly explain a thing a lot of people do that is discussed sometimes by vegans but assumed my many to be a false or disingenuous read of the situation, but she just admits exactly the thing so plainly on its philosophical level and reveals that it is something people know they're doing on some level. kind of blowing my mind right now to hear someone just say this out loud. the subtext made text "Passive ignorance is when you just don't know something, like, 'I don't really know all that much about owls... No offense. There's just some things I don't need to know.' Active ignorance is when you go out of your way to make sure that you don't know something. To ignore it because you need to not know. And that's where things get interesting. For instance: I am not, at time of recording, a vegetarian. Maybe I will be someday. I have tried a few times and if I'm honest, it made me pretty miserable. But I am aware, because I have vegetarian and vegan friends, that if I were to really look into what factory farming is like, it's possible that would make me even more miserable than not eating meat would. And so, I don't look into it. In order to avoid being miserable, I deliberately remain ignorant. And most of the time, I don't even think about that ignorance. I'm deliberately ignorant of my deliberate ignorance!"
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philosophybits · 9 months
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A crowd in its very concept is the untruth, by reason of the fact that it renders the individual completely impenitent and irresponsible, or at least weakens his sense of responsibility by reducing it to a fraction.
Søren Kierkegaard, The Point of View
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My New Article at WIRED
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So, you may have heard about the whole zoom “AI” Terms of Service  clause public relations debacle, going on this past week, in which Zoom decided that it wasn’t going to let users opt out of them feeding our faces and conversations into their LLMs. In 10.1, Zoom defines “Customer Content” as whatever data users provide or generate (“Customer Input”) and whatever else Zoom generates from our uses of Zoom. Then 10.4 says what they’ll use “Customer Content” for, including “…machine learning, artificial intelligence.”
And then on cue they dropped an “oh god oh fuck oh shit we fucked up” blog where they pinky promised not to do the thing they left actually-legally-binding ToS language saying they could do.
Like, Section 10.4 of the ToS now contains the line “Notwithstanding the above, Zoom will not use audio, video or chat Customer Content to train our artificial intelligence models without your consent,” but it again it still seems a) that the “customer” in question is the Enterprise not the User, and 2) that “consent” means “clicking yes and using Zoom.” So it’s Still Not Good.
Well anyway, I wrote about all of this for WIRED, including what zoom might need to do to gain back customer and user trust, and what other tech creators and corporations need to understand about where people are, right now.
And frankly the fact that I have a byline in WIRED is kind of blowing my mind, in and of itself, but anyway…
Also, today, Zoom backtracked Hard. And while i appreciate that, it really feels like decided to Zoom take their ball and go home rather than offer meaningful consent and user control options. That’s… not exactly better, and doesn’t tell me what if anything they’ve learned from the experience. If you want to see what I think they should’ve done, then, well… Check the article.
Until Next Time.
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Read the rest of My New Article at WIRED at A Future Worth Thinking About
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johannestevans · 4 months
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went on a lunch date recently where the guy like. didn't mention what job he did on grindr, just that he'd been working late etc, and then when i got there and mentioned it i asked what he did, and he was like "oh well i work for the police" and i was. immediately shut down, understandably
and later on i asked his opinions abt police brutality, police abuse rates, if he thinks the police should be abolished etc, and later was like, yeah, ethically this is a bad match
but idk like. when ppl tell me they're a cop or a gard (or in the military) on grindr i just block them from the off, bc it's like, well, you're cool w brutality, rape, and abuse, there's no reason you could or should be trusted with an intimate partner. and this guy had mentioned he followed me on twitter and didn't at all seem surprised by my open disgust for his profession, and idk if that was why he didn't mention it up front and thought i wouldn't make a big deal about it (as if) or if he just doesn't mention it to anybody
but i'm still so like ??
like my house has a very explicit no cops policy. if sb else brought their partner or brother or whatever to dinner and they were a cop, they would be told to fucking leave. as if i'm gonna fuck one myself
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