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🏰 Pride is a fragile fortress. It mixes bold confidence with hidden anxiety, leaving us both egoistical and insecure. Every victory feels temporary, every applause fleeting.
#Pride #Fragility #Ego #EmberhartJourney

AI's $344B 'Language Model' Bet Looks Fragile

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-11/ai-s-344-billion-language-model-bet-looks-fragile

#HackerNews #AI #Language #Model #Fragility #Tech #Investment #344B #Future #of #AI

Sad, but true:

“Open Source Is One Person”, Open Source Security (https://opensourcesecurity.io/2025/08-oss-one-person/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45047460

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/dgpbar/open_source_is_one_person

#OSS #OpenSource #Projects #NPM #Packages #Dependencies #Security #Fragility

This article argues #InternationalCommunity should #RecognizeSomaliland's independence, citing #Somaliland's #Stability, #Governance, & fulfillment of #Statehood criteria, contrasting it with #Somalia's ongoing #Fragility. A reality-based policy is needed.

https://saxafimedia.com/somaliland-realities-somalia-chronic-fragility/

Easily Swept Aside

I thought about making an analogy between spider webs and something fragile like human plans, or political ambitions, or romantic fixations, but they all seemed too obvious. You all know already that our best laid plans often go awry. You also know that you would not hesitate to swat away a cobweb that touches your face. So, I decided instead just to show some lovely, clever, temporary, webs on my patio this evening. They may not be there tomorrow.

#analogies #beauty #cobwebs #engineering #fragility #nature #Photography #spiderWebs #temporary

“The subaltern as female cannot be heard or read.”
– Gayatri Spivak

#relationships #subalternStudies #exploitation #patriarchy #couples #emotions #domination #sociology #women #femininity #fragility #heteroNormativity #quotes #citation #GayatriSpivak #Spivak

#LGBTQIArightsarehumanrights
#fragility
#toxicmasculinity
#snowflakes
#Manchild

And perhaps the most beautiful paradox
of all is how a human soul is heart-breakingly fragile and unbreakably strong at the same time.

via bluelady329luv

#quotes
#fragility
#resilience

@zakalwe @benroyce @LoranJohn@mastodon.social @Robo105

I basically agree... but like many bad things, I suspect it will be more banal (using the word as Hannah Arendt did)...

Take the simple case of a six week power grid failure in the state of #Texas. This has already happened to a lesser degree. For this thought experiment... let's assume there won't be much Federal relief (as the Texas GOP would like it!).

The first two weeks people would mostly do okay, surviving on stored food and charity.

The next two weeks a portion of the population would become increasingly desperate. Major clashes over resources would occur. If there was someplace to go (surrounding states or Mexico) mass migration would begin.

By the fifth week desperation would dominate. Those that remained would turn on each other and begin assaulting the remaining enclaves where either wealth or forethought created safe zones.

Things might progress faster or slower, but IMO this is the most likely scenario.

Note that for the above to happen only ONE element of modern society (cheap, available electricity) would have to break down.

#Society #Fragility #Breakdown

@broadwaybabyto
The hatred is not because of you.
I wonder if people were scared of diversity. Some may fight back.

"It turns out that, actually, most people are uncomfortable around social difference and get considerably less comfortable when you point it out."
Here is an article if you wish reading: https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism

#fragility #handicap #squash #EstelleSays

Autism is an illegible feature

"How disabling it is depends as much on your social circumstances as it does on your symptoms."
"It turns out that, actually, most people are uncomfortable around social difference and get considerably less comfortable when you point it out."

Laurie Penny: https://observer.co.uk/news/first-person/article/laurie-penny-autism @socialpsych via @hosford42

#stigma #tolerance #acceptance #selfAcceptance #autism #handicap #normalcy #relationships #society #living #socialty #quotes #self #selfPower #mentalHealth #psychology #criticalThinking #anthropology #fragility

I need this anger, I am this angry:

https://open.spotify.com/album/40NXbeibh21FS21MvVr382?si=mTbANogEQdKeJhHOap7Dcw

#BulletsBetweenTongues #Fragility

#nonce is two separate nouns:

Nonce (1) means: The one or single occasion; the present reason or purpose.
(Etymology 1 is inherited from Middle English nonse, nones.)

Nonce (2, in Britain and Ireland) means: A sex offender, especially one who perpetrates against children.
(Etymology 2 is dated 1975, in British criminal slang.) French equivalent: #pointeur

More: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nonce

#homonyms #incel #masculinism #reputation #fragility #maleFragility #manliness #masculinity #virility #homophobia #teenagers #prison #maleViolence #badBoy #boys #gender #etymology #slang #linguistics #English #Adolescence #Netflix #crime #criminality

Children of Life https://thehumanmosaic.org/children-of-life/ #Awareness, #Connection, #Fragility, #Life

"Few assets in financial history have been more fragile than bitcoin. The customary standard argument is that ‘bitcoin has its flaws but we are getting a great technology; we will do wonders with the blockchain’. No, there is no evidence that we are getting a great technology – unless ‘great technology’ doesn’t mean ‘useful’. And at the time of writing – in spite of all the fanfare – we have done still close to nothing with the blockchain. So we close with a Damascus joke. One vendor was selling the exact same variety of cucumbers at two different prices. ‘Why is this one twice the price?’, the merchant was asked. ‘They came on higher quality mules’ was the answer. We only judge a technology by how it solves problems, not by what technological attributes it has.—Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility >

https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/BTC-QF.pdf

#PDF #NassimNicholasTaleb #prices #CryptoCurrencies #technology #blockchain #bitcoin #value #finance #fragility

What to do if bullying? Try consistent boundaries

1. do not writhe or waver. (Movement attracts the bully)
2. do not attempt to appease. (Any offer is interpreted as weakness and obtains thrust)
3. flee to a safe position that you could hold with support
4. then stand still. Set limits on how others treat you. Affirm boundaries (The bully will redirect attacks eventually)
5. connect: turn to a trusted person, reach out only to someone you feel well about
6. offer backing, foster, become accomplice, enjoy

#boundaries #community #safety #negotiations #negotiating #allies #support #retreat #relationships #consistency #fragility #tips #lifeHacks #attitude #standing #resources #domination #violence #personalSafety #groupSafety #psychology #sociology #solutions #bullying #bullies #appeasement #containment #geoPolitics #politics #USPol #USPolitics #Europe #defense #defence #harassment #Ukraine #war #silentSunday #manliness #masculinity #patriarchy #enjoy #joy #solidarity #dappledLight #childhood #selfWorth #self #selfCare #trauma #abuse #family #mentalHealth #selfStudy #personal #intimate #positive #recall #care #domesticViolence #ThePromise #KeepThePromise #dispair #resentment #recoil #acceptation #anarchism #geoPolitics #Russia #Zelensky #NATO #stroll #hiking #hedges #hedge

#Screens "train us in convenience, which is training in predictability, in the facade of certainty. And when that facade inevitably breaks, we often find ourselves at sea.

"In the brilliant and ever-relevant Seeing Like a State, James C. Scott outlines the many ways states fail; principle among them is an obsession with putting things in order, with simplification and efficiency. More often than not, that efficiency translates into brittleness and weakness, into systems so fragile they break the moment something unanticipated arises."

https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/make-life-possible

#engineers #engineering #smartphones #iPhone #Android #Culture #development #creation #creatives #art #entertainment #distraction #alienation #screen #technique #tech #technology #technocriticism #phones #mentalHealth #capitalism #statehood #technocracy #fragility #progress

Hear, hear!

“We Are Destroying Software”, Salvatore ‘antirez’ Sanfilippo (https://antirez.com/news/145).

On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275

On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/xfjcze/we_are_destroying_software

#Programming #Rants #Software #SoftwareEngineering #Complexity #Fragility