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I'm an old fashioned liberal lefty, champagne socialist type of guy. A pro-equality, opportunity-for-all, welfare state snowflake. But, if I ever defend freedom of speech on here, I'm suddenly an alt right nazi. How did that happen?
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Another reply to pessimists bemoaning modern technologies as soul-crushing and isolating. As usual, XKCD nails it. xkcd.com/1601/ – at Santa Barbara, CA
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As @Evolving_Moloch demonstrates in this essay, it is possible to have an informed discussion of patriarchy that is based in science. Early discussions from feminist evo biologists and anthropologists seem to have been forgotten recently. quillette.com/2018/11/25/on-…
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There is no collective sanity nor collective intelligence that does not begin from an individual’s willingness to hear out an argument for a position they don’t already believe. In proportion to how much the individuals stop doing that, the collective goes mad.
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MUST SEE: This is extraordinary. A tunnel inserted beneath a motorway in 48 hours in Holland, seen here in fast time lapse video. Drainage work on my nearest main road have been ongoing for 4 months...🤔
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"If you ever really learn something, it's usually painful. It usually means that you have to recognize that you're wrong in some important way. You have to let that part of you that's wrong die"
Glad to have discovered @Slavojiek and his ideas. And again through a very fun @cathynewman interview in which she gets lost. (But for a very different reason!) youtube.com/watch?v=xN2ZGSX0…
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Interesting to read about how readily crypto is taken up as 'community currency' in the absence of central banks
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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Especially at this time when we are so tempted to think that the other side is dumb/ evil / uninformed / acting in bad faith et cetera. Reminder: no. The other side is not dumb medium.com/@SeanBlanda/the-o…
Where it all startend. The computer lab in high school.
Good Afternoon.
The Internet Archive now hosts emulation of the Commodore PET, argued by many as the first real "Personal Computer" for the home. It is also my very first home computer, so this one is special to me. 339 items (of more to come) at archive.org/details/software…
