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“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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“Fyp” we don’t do that here. I mean, Tumblr the app and website tries, but we don't do that here.
“But then how will anyone see it?” peer review.
“How do you get engagement?” by talking and engaging with other people. Or making a devastating typo. Either way.
“But—” Listen, you’re not doing solo stand up anymore. This is a group improv class being held in a SAW dungeon. Good luck.
Trevor Paglen Trinity Cube, 2015
Irradiated broken glass collected from inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone forms the outer layer of this sculpture. The work’s inner core is made out of Trinitite, the mineral created on July 16, 1945 when the United States exploded the world’s first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, heating the desert’s surface to the point where it turned surface sand into a greenish glass.
Trinity Cube was created by melting these two forms of glass together into a cube, then installing the cube back into the Fukushima Exclusion Zone as part of the Don’t Follow the Wind project. The artwork will be viewable by the public when the Exclusion Zone opens again, anytime between 3 and 30,000 years from the present.
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just found out that if i stay in my room all the time my life will eventually shrink to the size of it and i will lose all memory of how to function as a person. shocked & upset
Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.
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Eyes of the forest. Aspen trees
https://www.fs.usda.gov/wildflowers/beauty/aspen/grow.shtml
Allen, a source close to Xiaohongshu, revealed to PConline that the company issued internal and partner directives this morning to “not discuss, not promote, and not share” the matter. This surge in traffic has become a Damocles’ sword hanging over Xiaohongshu. For the platform, which unexpectedly became the recipient of this influx of traffic, the risks far outweigh the opportunities.
Allen pointed out that the biggest challenge facing Xiaohongshu is whether regulatory red lines will arise from a large number of foreigners using a Chinese app.
Typically, domestic social media apps that expand internationally create separate domestic and overseas versions due to differences in content regulations, data security, and privacy protection across countries. Examples include Douyin and TikTok or Kuaishou and Kwai. However, Xiaohongshu, which has shown little ambition in overseas expansion, does not have an international version. In simple terms, foreign users downloading and using the same Xiaohongshu app stores as Chinese domestic users.
This means that as a significant volume of foreign-language content appears within the domestic internet environment, Xiaohongshu faces immense pressure on its content review mechanisms. Although automated content moderation technologies continue to improve, domestic platforms still face limitations in understanding and identifying foreign-language content. Dialects, colloquial expressions, and other nuances in foreign languages often have lower recognition accuracy by machines, requiring greater reliance on manual review and filtering. These differences in language habits create blind spots in moderation, not to mention the inherent differences in the tolerance levels for speech between domestic and foreign contexts. If low-quality or even dangerous content emerges, it could become the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back for a content platform like Xiaohongshu.
Source: pekingnology.com
I don’t think a lot of centrists or leftists are actually listening to how TRUMP, the GOP are messaging to non-white voters. I really don’t. Maybe if they were, they wouldn’t be so…surprised all the time? I don’t know. They took our “free college” plan and said, “watch this!” They stripped out all of the complicated nuance about whether or not college was regressive and truly stupid ISAs and the like — and they stripped it down to pure racially-motivated self interest. Is it good policy? Not really no. But it is great politics and those two things they are not the same. I was listening to an interview on Latino USA on NPR this weekend. They had on a long-time Latino Democratic strategist, whose name escapes me now. It might be Chuck. Anyway, he had a really fascinating conversation that everybody right now wants to have (and that we have probably beat to death), which is why did Hispanic men move towards Donald Trump in this election. And after parsing the numbers in a very smart way, he did a sort of vernacular take on the politics of patriarchy, sexism racism, national identity, and status anxiety in a crumbling opportunity structure. One of things that struck me is that when he was asked what are the two issues the Democrats should focus on to bring back, not just some of these minority voters, but also speak to the issues of working class Americans? Not middle class Americans. But working-class Americans. He named two policies: higher education, access and cost and housing. Nothing about the right’s attacks on higher education has been unplanned. Weaken it to own it. Anyway, I thought that was worth thinking about.
The privatization of American leisure is one part of a much bigger story. Americans are spending less time with other people than in any other period for which we have trustworthy data, going back to 1965.
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Self-imposed solitude might just be the most important social fact of the 21st century in America. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many observers have reduced this phenomenon to the topic of loneliness. In 2023, Vivek Murthy, Joe Biden’s surgeon general, published an 81-page warning about America’s “epidemic of loneliness,” claiming that its negative health effects were on par with those of tobacco use and obesity. A growing number of public-health officials seem to regard loneliness as the developed world’s next critical public-health issue. The United Kingdom now has a minister for loneliness. So does Japan.
But solitude and loneliness are not one and the same. “It is actually a very healthy emotional response to feel some loneliness,” the NYU sociologist Eric Klinenberg told me. “That cue is the thing that pushes you off the couch and into face-to-face interaction.” The real problem here, the nature of America’s social crisis, is that most Americans don’t seem to be reacting to the biological cue to spend more time with other people. [...]
Although young people are lonelier than they once were, there is little evidence that loneliness is rising more broadly today. A 2023 Gallup survey found that the share of Americans who said they experienced loneliness “a lot of the day yesterday” declined by roughly one-third from 2021 to 2023, even as alone time, by Atalay’s calculation, rose slightly.
Source: The Atlantic
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If human beings, through most of our history, have moved back and forth fluidly between different social arrangements, assembling and dismantling hierarchies on a regular basis, maybe the real question should be ‘how did we get stuck?’ How did we end up in one single mode? How did we lose that political self-consciousness, once so typical of our species? How did we come to treat eminence and subservience not as temporary expedients, or even the pomp and circumstance of some kind of grand seasonal theatre, but as inescapable elements of the human condition? If we started out just playing games, at what point did we forget that we were playing?
– David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything (2021)
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Greenland has a military base to protect NATO/EU. Canada has natural resources and control maritime waterways/shipping. Panama has sanctions on Russian vessels traveling through the canal.
It's all for Putin.
Truth.
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The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon:
Unheroic though bourgeois society is, it nevertheless needed heroism, sacrifice, terror, civil war, and national wars to bring it into being. And in the austere classical traditions of the Roman Republic the bourgeois gladiators found the ideals and the art forms, the self-deceptions, that they needed to conceal from themselves the bourgeois-limited content of their struggles and to keep their passion on the high plane of great historic tragedy. Similarly, at another stage of development a century earlier, Cromwell and the English people had borrowed from the Old Testament the speech, emotions, and illusions for their bourgeois revolution. When the real goal had been achieved and the bourgeois transformation of English society had been accomplished, Locke supplanted Habakkuk.
Thus the awakening of the dead in those revolutions served the purpose of glorifying the new struggles, not of parodying the old; of magnifying the given task in the imagination, not recoiling from its solution in reality; of finding once more the spirit of revolution, not making its ghost walk again.
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The social revolution of the nineteenth century cannot take its poetry from the past but only from the future. It cannot begin with itself before it has stripped away all superstition about the past. The former revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to smother their own content. The revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead in order to arrive at its own content.
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Bourgeois revolutions, like those of the eighteenth century, storm more swiftly from success to success, their dramatic effects outdo each other, men and things seem set in sparkling diamonds, ecstasy is the order of the day – but they are short-lived, soon they have reached their zenith, and a long [hangover] takes hold of society before it learns to assimilate the results of its Sturm-und-Drang period soberly. On the other hand, proletarian revolutions, like those of the nineteenth century, constantly criticize themselves, constantly interrupt themselves in their own course, return to the apparently accomplished, in order to begin anew; they deride with cruel thoroughness the half-measures, weaknesses, and paltriness of their first attempts, seem to throw down their opponents only so the latter may draw new strength from the earth and rise before them again more gigantic than ever, recoil constantly from the indefinite colossalness of their own goals – until a situation is created which makes all turning back impossible, and the conditions themselves call out: Hic Rhodus, hic salta!
something of a spectral warning against obsessively and uncritically trying to recreate or nationalistically defend the aesthetics, policies, values, content, etc. of 20th-century socialist revolutions and states.