Fellow Republican on Gaetz https://thetransom.com/p/matt-gaetz-is-a-vile-sex-pest-and

Trump's nomination of Gaetz will be the clearest signal yet of whether GOP senators are ready to do his bidding on all sorts of issues.

If Trump can get 51 votes for Gaetz, he can get a Senate majority for just about anything — like cutting back Social Security.

Be warned.

“X is really teaching everyone the importance of who owns the sites that we use and rely on to communicate online,” EFF’s @falsemirror told @NBCNews. “What people are seeing with X is that it has subjectively deteriorated in value.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/x-sees-largest-user-exodus-musk-takeover-rcna179793

> In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory. This is one great reason for the utmost toleration of variety of opinion. Once and forever, this duty of toleration has been summed up in the words, ‘Let both grow together until the harvest.' The failure of #Christians.. --- [2] (1925)
https://zotum.net/channel/bsmall2?mid=b64.aHR0cHM6Ly96b3R1bS5uZXQvaXRlbS8yMzk3Yjk5My05NjEwLTQ0YzEtOWIzZi04OTZlZWIwODRmYWE
#AlfredNorthWhitehead #ReligionAndScience #LaudatoSi #PopeFrancis

# Foucault Before the Collège de France

Theory, culture, society, Volume 40 Issue 1-2, January-March 2023

Now in open access

https://journals.sagepub.com/toc/tcsa/40/1-2

#foucault #filosofia @PhilosophicalPsychology @philosophy

Risk of socially engineered backdoors in critical software seems like an indictment of open-source projects, but it could happen anywhere, EFF’s Molly told @theintercept - in fact, this one was found only due to the project’s open nature.
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/03/linux-hack-xz-utils-backdoor/

“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order.”
― Alfred North Whitehead https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_North_Whitehead

#Bot #Quote #Change #Success #AlfredNorthWhitehead

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

⬆ #Quotes #AlfredNorthWhitehead #Certainty #Truth

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Dinosaur #Tracks #Colorado

> A brief, and sufficiently accurate, description of the intellectual life of the European races during the succeeding two centuries and a quarter up to our own times is that they have been living upon the accumulated capital of ideas provided for them by the genius of the seventeenth century..
#ANWhitehead, #ScienceAndTheModernWorld
#Chomsky's #CartesianLinguistics stars with this quote..
and the #AlfredNorthWhitehead source is on-line! Includes #ReligionAndScience !
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68611

@stevesilberman
"Learning preserves the errors of the past as well as its wisdom. For this reason dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities." -- Alfred North Whitehead

"The anxious precision of modern mathematics is necessary for accuracy. [...] It is necessary for research. It makes for clearness of thought, and thence for boldness of thought and for fertility in trying new combinations of ideas." – Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math

"When the initial statements are vague and slipshod, at every subsequent stage of thought, common sense has to step in to limit applications and to explain meanings. Now in creative thought common sense is a bad master [...]"–Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947)
#quote #mathematics #maths #math

"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."

--- Alfred North Whitehead, February 1861-December 1947

Perhaps we must (re)learn this lesson every 100 years or so. And if that's true, it's about time we started turning things around, don't you think?

#idealism #savedemocracy #Patriotism

Amazon and Space X are fighting in court to have the National Labor Relations Board declared unconstitutional.

This means the two richest men on earth want to dismantle the agency that holds them accountable for union busting.

Nothing terrifies them more than worker power.

Futuristic Cityscapes
#cityscape #city #futuristic #scifi #urban #landscape #midjourney #ai #aiart #aiartwork #aigenerated #architecture

5 years of exec pay:

Tesla: $2.5 billion
T-Mobile: $675 million
Netflix: $652 million
Ford: $355 million

5 years of federal income taxes paid:

Tesla: $0 ($1M refund)
T-Mobile: $0 ($80M refund)
Netflix: $236 million
Ford: $121 million

Anyone else see the problem here?

https://fortune.com/2024/03/12/local-libraries-struggling-with-ebook-publishers-charges/

We can work towards a future

The discussion surrounding the classification of different versions of the web, such as #Web01, #Web02, #Web03, #Web04, or #Web05, is not merely an academic exercise but an aspect of understanding the evolving nature of the digital landscape. However, the proliferation of these hashtags can lead to confusion and contribute to the spread of fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) among users.

In response to this confusion, the hashtags #openweb and #closedweb offer a clear and concise way to delineate between platforms that embrace openness, transparency, and community control (#openweb) and those that prioritize proprietary technology, centralized control, and lack transparency (#closedweb). By using these hashtags, we can foster a better understanding of the ideological and technical underpinnings of different web platforms.

Projects like #indymediaback and #OMN exemplify grassroots efforts to promote decentralized, community-controlled media and communication platforms. These initiatives are vital in challenging the dominance of large corporations in shaping the digital landscape and in advocating for a more inclusive, diverse, and community-controlled approach to technology development.

At the heart of this discussion lies the #geekproblem, which refers to the tendency among technologically inclined people to prioritize technical solutions without considering their broader societal implications or the needs of ordinary people. By recognizing the #geekproblem, we can begin to address the inherent biases and limitations of tech-centric approaches to problem-solving and advocate for solutions that are more inclusive and community-driven.

The solution to this problem lies in developing social tech that transcends the #geekproblem and focuses on the needs and perspectives of the community. This entails involving a diverse group of people in the development and decision-making process and promoting open-source code, open standards, open governance, and open data in technology development. By embracing these principles, we can create a more equitable, transparent, and collaborative #4opens digital ecosystem.

However, achieving this vision requires overcoming challenges, including the resistance of the status quo and the fear of change. By actively using the #4opens—open participation, decentralization, transparency, and interoperability—we can challenge the prevailing narrative, call out pointless technologies, and compost the #techshit that contributes to the perpetuation of harmful social dynamics.

Moreover, it is essential to recognize that the struggle for a more equitable and sustainable future is inherently political. The dominance of large corporations and the perpetuation of #neoliberal ideologies pose significant barriers to progress. Therefore, it is imperative to mobilize collective action and advocate for policies and initiatives that prioritize the needs and well-being of communities over profit-driven interests.

In conclusion, the use of hashtags such as #openweb, #closedweb, and #4opens serves as a powerful tool for organizing and mobilizing grassroots efforts to challenge the status quo. By embracing these hashtags and the values they represent, we can work towards a future where technology serves the interests of the many rather than the few.

#4opens #closedweb #geekproblem #indymediaback #neoliberal #OMN #openweb #techshit #Web01 #Web02 #web03 #Web04 #Web05

https://hamishcampbell.com/?p=3314

According to ABC News, the American #Library Association has "recorded 4,240 unique #book titles that were targeted for removal or restriction in #schools and #libraries...About 47% of the titles targeted were by or about the #LGBTQ community and/or people of color."

"Every challenge to a library book is an attack on our #freedom to read," says #ALA President Emily Drabinski .

#Education #Books #School #Racism #Sexism #BlackMastodon #BookBans #USpolitics #1A #Democracy

https://abcnews.go.com/US/book-ban-efforts-spike-across-us-ala-data/story?id=108113763

#media #mysticism #code