A quotation from Taylor, Barbara Brown
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
Barbara Brown Taylor (b. 1951) American minister, academic, author
An Altar in the World, ch. 8 (2009)
#quote #quotes #quotation #engagement #interaction #opportunity
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Option # 1/2
Will this be the end of the (aspirational/active) #democracy which has been a beacon of #hope, #joy, #opportunity?
Or... will the #TrumpVirus #cult of #nihilism, #fascism, and #division be swept away by a tsunami of rationality, loud & clear?
#music #AllmanBrothera #BlueSky #Election2024 #KamalaHarris #election #GQP #TrumpVirus vs. #KamalaHarris
A quotation from Johnson, Lyndon
Poverty must not be a bar to learning, and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973) American politician, educator, US President (1963-69)
Speech (1964-05-22), Graduation, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
#quote #quotes #quotation #education #learning #lowerclass #opportunity #poverty #safetynet #socialmobility
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The more I read about technological development, new research and increasing respect for diverse and indigenous culture the more I feel like I'm living in humanity's chase scene or fight scene and this is the most exciting time to shine. It's our evolutionary opportunity to realise our emergence into the Mature Anthropocene and show the rest of the galaxy what we can do.
#love #life #growth #hope #opportunity #evolution #development #excitement #goodvibes #itsallhappeningrightnowbaby
Dear #developer,
I’m reaching out to you to offer you an #opportunity to make you and your #projects better known.
#Unitoo (unitoo.it/en), in 2019 started a #radio (radio.unitoo.it) dedicated to #FOSS and #CreativeCommon #music.
I’d love for you to join them and contribute to some content.
You’ll be entitled to a 3 minutes free #audio recording, to #promote your #code #repository and a chance to discover new #opportunities in the #world of #Software #Development.
A looped #broadcasting of such content/media will be scheduled to grant everyone the chance to promote their #work.
At first a recording in #English would be preferable to reach a wider #audience.
How to join? Send them an email with the following:
- #voice recording
- a #title
- #Author’s name
- a brief #summary of your project
- #link to the code repository in question at radio dot unitoo dot it and they’ll handle the rest.
This is just the #beginning.
They have #planned a #series of #podcast that can feature your project.
We believe FOSS is severely lacking in #visibility and want to #change that by providing a stage for you all to perform on. Your #contribution is greatly appreciated.
Happy #HackListening!
https://mastodon.social/@pomarede/112452337550259791 pomarede@mastodon.social - How amazing is that? A Martian Dust Devil captured in Stereo3D by the Opportunity Rover, March 31, 2016 (Sol 4332)
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#Opportunity #Mars #DustDevil #Sol4332 #rover #OpportunityRover #MERB #space #KnudsenRidge #MarathonValley #MeridianiPlanum #Martian #dust #devil #science #STEM #3D #Stereo3D #steoroscopic #photography #blackandwhite #Astrodon
#economics #inequality #wealthinequality
#ittakesmoneytomakemoney #trajectory
#assetmanagement #theeconomy
#values
To further accompany problem identification (than already done in the interview), here's a video of Gary Stevenson's about #solutions and #opportunity (to win the ideological theoretical debate) with the #povertymajority, big #demand for alternative, in #awareness of the #statusquo not working, and about helping people understand what's happening and build on that understanding ( #educateyourselfsoyoumayeducateothers ), reform, democratic pressure, ... not hopium to placate you back to defeated slumber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFHGiq063rA
... and while I'm at it, here's the explosive first interview from a year or so ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ViY-zI3b5JQ
There are so many many portions I could have quoted from that interview. Hard to pick. Here's just a couple.
"a call to arms."
"... [the book is] a massive opportunity for me to spread awareness of these problems"
"...this beautiful and horrible irony that if you can convince poor and ordinary people to be very very selfish in a material sense, you will completely materially impoverish them."
"So this is this amazing irony that if you cam make poor people obsessed with getting rich, they'll become poor."
"It's kind of a moral test for our society: are you willing to put your selfishness aside enough to protect your selfish interests?"
"The rich have got so much money now, they have to do something with it, they can't just sit on it."
interviewer: "I think I saw a statistic ~ this is from 2019, it's probably worse now ~ one in six baby boomers is a millionaire. Right? That is... ~ if you want to talk about the people who do the door knocking for the conservative party, that y'know... they will vote in every single bloody election for the Tories and think the sun shines out of Jeremy Hunt's backside, even when they're as terrible as they are right now. You look at the polls, and who are these 25% of people? It's those people, and the people sort of immediately around them."
Dear #developer,
I’m reaching out to you to offer you an #opportunity to make you and your #projects better known.
#Unitoo (unitoo.it/en), in 2019 started a #radio (radio.unitoo.it) dedicated to #FOSS and #CreativeCommon #music.
I’d love for you to join them and contribute to some content.
You’ll be entitled to a 3 minutes free #audio recording, to #promote your #code #repository and a chance to discover new #opportunities in the #world of #Software #Development.
A looped #broadcasting of such content/media will be scheduled to grant everyone the chance to promote their #work.
At first a recording in #English would be preferable to reach a wider #audience.
How to join? Send them an email with the following:
- #voice recording
- a #title
- #Author’s name
- a brief #summary of your project
- #link to the code repository in question at radio dot unitoo dot it and they’ll handle the rest.
This is just the #beginning.
They have #planned a #series of #podcast that can feature your project.
We believe FOSS is severely lacking in #visibility and want to #change that by providing a stage for you all to perform on. Your #contribution is greatly appreciated.
Happy #HackListening!
A quotation from Gould, Stephen Jay
Elitism is repulsive when based upon external and artificial limitations like race, gender, or social class. Repulsive and utterly false — for that spark of genius is randomly distributed across all cruel barriers of our social prejudice. We therefore must grant access — and encouragement — to everyone; and must be increasingly vigilant, and tirelessly attentive, in providing such opportunities to all children. We will have no justice until this kind of equality can be attained. But if only a small minority respond, and these are our best and brightest of all races, classes, and genders, shall we deny them the pinnacle of their soul’s striving because all their colleagues prefer passivity and flashing lights? Let them lift their eyes to hills of books, and at least a few museums that display the full magic of nature’s variety. What is wrong with this truly democratic form of elitism?
Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) American paleontologist, geologist, biologist
Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History, Part 5, ch. 18 “Cabinet Museums: Alive, Alive, O!” (1995)
#quote #quotes #quotation #genius #capability #education #opportunity #elitism #brightness #gifted #intelligence #interest #learning
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Портативные фотоэлектрические системы отлично подходят для выработки электроэнергии вне сети, но постоянное перемещение, чтобы держать их на солнечном свете, может быть хлопотным занятием. Теперь Solar Generator Mars Bot от Jackery предлагает решение этой проблемы, поскольку он движется сам. В настоящее время бот публично дебютирует в качестве концептуального продукта на выставке CES 2024. Недавно бот был […]
Сообщение Солнечный генератор Mars Bot накапливает электроэнергию, перемещаясь вместе с солнцем появились сначала на AB-NEWS.
#робототехника #opportunity #солнечныепанелиипаруса #электричество #lang_ru #ru #abnewsru #abnews #наукаитехника
#smartphone #teenager #world #technology #internet #online #socialNetwork
В очередной раз на Марсе был обнаружен камень странной формы в виде пончика. Он был найден марсоходом Perseverance, который продолжает исследовать кратер Джезеро в северном полушарии Марса. Изображение было получено с помощью удаленного микроскопического формирователя изображений (RMI), входящего в состав инструмента SuperCam, с расстояния около 100 метров от ровера 22 июня 2023 года — 832-й […]
Сообщение На Марсе обнаружен странный камень в форме пончика появились сначала на AB-NEWS - Новости науки и техники.
#астрономияикосмос #планетология #opportunity #perseverance #марс #марсоход #lang_ru #ru #abnewsru #abnews #наукаитехника
She flees to #Russia and hopes for the #opportunity of #freedom and #peace.
https://odysee.com/@indienews.network:7/breaking-a-statement-and-press:7
#USA #Assault #Hate #protection #Biden #corruption #enemy #trust
We are writing this quickly, as events are unfolding on the ground.
Weeks-long wave of refusal and civil resistance forced the Israeli government yesterday (Monday) to postpone the #anti-democratic judicial coup! Due to the refusers' pressure, on Saturday, the minister of defense, Yoav Galant, had a press conference and announced his opposition to the judicial #coup, citing voices of #dissent in the army as the major reason for his break with his own party and the government. As a result, the prime minister, Netanyahu, fired him on Sunday. The firing led to a huge backlash: mass #protests, a general #strike by universities and trade unions, the blocking of roads across the country and the shutdown of the airport. All this forced the government to postpone the judicial coup. And it all started with the refusers.
Earlier this week the Israeli press overflowed with daily refusal statements and civil resistance announcements. Each day hundreds of reserve soldiers protested against the government and declared their refusal to continue to serve in the Israeli army. Among them are soldiers of the Intelligence Corps soldiers, doctors, combat pilots and more. In a letter sent to the Israeli defense minister, soldiers of the Intelligence Corps wrote:
“Our conscience does not allow us to cooperate with the attempts to change the regime In Israel. An undemocratic Israel is a weak Israel which is dangerous to minorities within it, an Israel with a failing economic system. Our love for the country and the many years we spent serving it compel us to resist.”
The act of refusal also worked its way to different sectors of the #army and the Israeli society. 700 Soldiers in the standing army sent out official letters to the minister of defense and the Commander-in-Chief of the Israeli army stating that they will resign from service. Parents of soldiers to be facing mandatory #conscription have reconsidered sending their children to serve in the army and a group of 40 soldiers currently serving their mandatory conscription filmed a video vowing not to serve an undemocratic government.
On Friday, the Israeli army Commander-in-Chief warned that the Israeli army is disintegrating and that military operations are at risk due to massive amounts of refusals caused by the judicial coup. Israeli prime minister Netanyahu addressed the unprecedented crisis the army is facing and mentioned that refusing to serve in the military is a great danger to Israel.
The refusal wave puts the government in an unparalleled #crisis, and this crisis is a huge #opportunity. This represents a massive crack in the Israeli mainstream’s conviction that the army is used purely for defense. It is a moment of deep change in the worldviews of the Israeli citizenry, that could allow the anti-occupation movement to show Israelis that a democracy only for some people, is not a democracy at all.
Although this could be a time to celebrate decades of hard work leading to a moment of success, the fight is far from over. The reforms have only been postponed and not canceled. Netanyahu called for the army to punish the #refusers, and to get the majority needed to approve a delay in the legislation, Netanyahu promised an ultra-nationalist party to create a new “national guard” under the control of Itamar Ben Gvir, the leader of an extreme #right-wing party. All this means that leveraging the protests to fight the occupation is a challenge, and there is no democracy without an end to the #occupation.
Refuser Solidarity Network continues to support local Israeli refusers. We support efforts to use this moment to expand the anti-occupation movement and continue the fight to bring an end to the occupation.
Source: https://mailchi.mp/refuser/refusers-solidarity-15085353
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN32y8McS4s
#wearenotdoingthatanymore #lettherebeherb #cannabiscansavetheworld
#cannabisbatteries #hempbatteries can haz nice things, no harm. :D
.jpeg "cannabis batteries, better than lithium, better than graphene, cleans the air when cannabis is grown, plus 1000s other uses")
#graphene #carbon #foodfuelfibermedicine #fiber #supercapacitors #sustainable #sustainability #environment #environmentallyfriendly #green #electrodes #cheap #clean #cleantech #emancipatorytechnology #emancipationtechnology #potential #hemppoweredcar #hemppoweredcars #conductivity #superconductivity #development #investment #opportunity #sustainablefuture #freeherb #cannabis
Марсоход Perseverance был первым ровером, оборудованным микрофоном, работающим на поверхности другой планеты. Ученые использовали его, чтобы сделать первую в истории аудиозапись внеземного вихря. Микрофон не включен постоянно; он записывает около трех минут каждые пару дней. По словам ученых, запись звука марсианского вихря (пылевого дьявола) была удачным стечением обстоятельств, хотя и не обязательно неожиданным. В кратере […]
Сообщение Получена первая в истории звуковая запись пылевых вихрей на Марсе появились сначала на AB-NEWS - Новости науки и техники.
#астрономия #космонавтика #планетология #insight #opportunity #perseverance #звук #информация #марс #марсоход #ураган #lang_ru #ru #abnewsru #abnews #наукаитехника
Похоже, что дни посадочного модуля НАСА InSight Mars сочтены после того, как космическое агентство объявило, что космический зонд постепенно теряет мощность из-за накопления пыли на его солнечных панелях, что уже снизило их мощность на 90 процентов. После приземления на Красную планету 26 ноября 2018 года посадочный модуль InSight развернул две круглые солнечные батареи диаметром 2,2 […]
Сообщение Марсианский посадочный модуль InSight будет отключен к декабрю появились сначала на AB-NEWS - Новости науки и техники.
#астрофизика #космонавтика #планетология #insight #opportunity #марс #марсоход #наса #робот #lang_ru #ru #abnewsru #abnews #наукаитехника
Source: https://modernheretic.com/
The text is so fitting that this time I have to reproduce very long passages.
concern about the supposed risk posed by “the unvaccinated,” who apparently no longer merit consideration as human beings worthy of compassion; we’ve become in the minds of people like him just a filthy amalgam of contagion and stigma.
They are not, as they have styled themselves in their own delusional minds, the hip Cagney-esque mobster with a heart of gold making gin in the bathtub or the wild flapper dancing the charleston on the roof with a skirt short enough to scandalize the matronly landlady below; they are the scandalized landlady who will snitch to the #police the first chance she gets or the sanctimonious #politician who is building his profitable career on compelled temperance.
Despite lusting after subversive non-conformity, these mere re-enactors are content to live in the shadows of their rebel icons, resigned to merely creating the palest imitation of the lives of truly adventurous people from the past instead of having the courage to live their own adventures today. With their obsession for safety, these people can only infuse their lives with the adventure they still crave by living vicariously through others more daring than themselves.
That is why when finally faced with the #opportunity to rage against the machine, these imposters got behind the machine and helped push it along instead. Lacking the moral courage to stand for their supposed convictions, they sublimate their own desire to be deviant into movies and make-believe. From the #punk enthusiast with a shaved head and ripped pants to the John Waters fan who identifies with the Drapes in Crybaby–many of these people who lust after subversive non-conformity and style themselves after countercultural icons are ironically, laughably, pathetically devoted to fitting in.
When it comes to the dichotomy of maestro versus tribal character types, they are #tribal people through and through. In essence, the tribal personality is the #conformist who is conventional, strives to fit in with others, and is great at tasks requiring unity and standardization. The maestro is the aloof non-conformist who is comfortably on their own wavelength, who is not afraid to think outside the box, and prefers to work independently. According to a popular career guidance book, the vast #majority of the population are tribal types, and maestros comprise a tiny minority.
It is easy to see this dichotomy illustrated in the #pandemic. We see it amply demonstrated in mask compliance, with tribal individuals basing the strictness of their mask-wearing, not on any supposed concern about germ prevention— but solely based on what others around them are doing. They are stringent about mask wearing when around others who also appear to be strict in their compliance. But when around others who defy the custom, they let their masks slip down to their chins or even take it off altogether because they know the risk of social ostracism is low. For most people, the mask serves as a social tool rather than a tool of supposed #hygiene.
Tribal people’s sense of values is relative and changes based on their social environments. All the societal evils that have taken place in the United States (and elsewhere) have occurred by the hands of an #establishment with the consent and complicity of masses of otherwise good, tribal-minded people who lacked the #independence and courage to be deviant. If it looks like the majority are going along with something, even something in retrospect that would clearly be deemed wrong or evil, the tribal person will go along with it as well by rationalizing their guilt and responsibility away. These rationalizations, collectively, become mass delusions that are later used to excuse the complicity in the wrong-doing. “We did not now any better,” or “it was a different time,” they will say. Hogwash. They knew exactly what they were doing, but they lacked the courage to stand apart from the crowd. For every mass atrocity that was committed, there was a strident minority that not only knew better but tried to hold the majority to task for its actions. These minorities were #historically and are currently dismissed, ignored, laughed at, socially ostracized, or even penalized.
Progressive #ideology teaches that we are better than previous generations, that we have learned our lessons from past mistakes, and that we will not repeat those mistakes. This is a load of crock, and the past two years have shown that humans are no more evolved now than they were at any previous period, that they are more willing than ever to persecute others for their differences and to subjugate people into #conformity. If nothing else, the pandemic revealed that most people today have no deep understanding of why various past persecutions were wrong, and if persecution today does not look exactly like a persecution of yesterday they cannot recognize it for what it is. Their understanding of persecution as a moral wrong is a reductionist list of rote memorization rather than an innate value borne of an underlying moral #philosophy.
These tribal-minded people, these supposed lovers of #rebellion and #subversion, are going to rationalize their culpability and cowardice away. They always do. They will say that they were operating on the best information they had at the time, that no one could have known, that even the experts were fooled, that they simply followed the leaders and experts.
We cannot let them get away with these lies.
Their complicity was not an innocent mistake as they will try to make us believe, but a willful effort to persecute the rebel #opposition.
Declared emergencies are the most expedient way for governments to seize power and the method by which many military dictatorships come into existence. A medical #dictatorship is a new twist on an old classic. Emergency powers enable politicians to do things they otherwise do not have the power to do and to severely trample on the rights of the citizenry
