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Bill Anderson

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I am not the droid you are looking for. I am an open access advocate and inveterate punster.


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this would be a step in a better direction

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what do you think T did get, if anything

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Vince Mpls's avatar Vince Mpls @vincempls.bsky.social
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March 23 1933, the Enabling Act becomes law in Germany, giving the chief executive power enforce his own laws without checks and balances. The passing of the Act marked the formal transition from democratic republic to totalitarian dictatorship. 6 months later, it was a 1 party state.

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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I just cannot comprehend this. Many, if not most, news media folk, seem to behave as if, no matter what happens, they will be unharmed by any consequences. Climate and politics reporting are two examples that come to mind for me.

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ha, ha, ha -- one errant mouse-click and voila! oots and skeets are reposted. did not intend to do that, but UX, like growing old, is not for sissies!

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Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle's avatar Dr. Glenn Patrick Doyle @drdoylesays.bsky.social
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Don't expect a person or institution to realistically be part of the solution if they can't accept or articulate how they were part of the problem. If nothing changes, nothing changes.

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thanks for the reminder to take care of ourselves and each other. An excerpt from Jacqueline Rose - The Plague: Living death in our times, p.82: "There is a limit to how much we can psychically tolerate. This remains the fundamental insight of psychoanalysis, never more needed than today."

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Shoshana Zuboff points out how hard it was for people to comprehend totalitarianism. I feel that here in the USA we are struggling to comprehend what is happening in politics and society:--

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thank you for putting into one sentence what i have been struggling to sort out in my own thinking about the widespread implementation and adoption of AI systems.

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Dr. W: i agree with your point here. And i also think that the tech folk think their points have merit, or they behave as if they believe this. it is tiresome and dis-heartening, to say the least.

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i'll send you a summary in email.

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Paul Welsh's avatar Paul Welsh @paulwelsh89.bsky.social
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Olivetti M40 typewriter (1930), designed by Camillo Olivetti with Gino Levi Martinoli

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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This read-in-small-chunks and provide time for digestion practice is how i have been reading books on philosophy, political science and climate change over the past several years. it seems to work for me.

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go you! and thanks so much for your continuing scientific and public society work to keep us informed and grounded.

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"pop"-psychology is better than questions like this. (but, yes, that is a low bar) "I weep for the species." -- Preed to Cale -- Titan AE

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I am using the bluesky/fediverse bridge (fed.brid.gy) with some success. (although, what is primary and secondary and ... is still somewhat fuzzy in my own practice)

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the leaf and the cloud [excerpt] — Mary Oliver

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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i'm all a titter and tatter (i said what i said)

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thx. i was doing that. but evidently things didn’t stick with me or the managers. oh well.

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and every single time i want to use deck.blue i seemingly must create a new app-password. What.Is.Happening?(TM)

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Chris Strauber's avatar Chris Strauber @cstrauber.bsky.social
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Also, lots of college and university libraries are open to the public and you can use their computers to get access to even more stuff that way.

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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uh-oh, what about the "anti-crust"? that's a thing ....

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Gillian Branstetter's avatar Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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Donna Haraway: "Facts are theory-laden; theories are value-laden; values are story-laden."

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Ketan Joshi's avatar Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co
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You can show in En-ROADS (an easy climate model interface anyone can use) that maximum carbon removal but no reductions = still a catastrophe Whereas maximum reductions and no removal = mostly avoided catastrophe There is no plan B. There is no unmixing the milkshake.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi's avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams: Magus, Werewolf, Cyborg, Bi @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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Seriously: People have so much grief & rage & trauma & pain, these days, and so so many of us seem absolutely adamantly opposed to acknowledging that, let alone doing anything about it. It's honestly sad, in the abstract, & just so deeply wearying when they decide to make it everyone else's problem.

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Paul N. Edwards's avatar Paul N. Edwards @avastmachine.bsky.social
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Sartre had no idea. Hell is just passwords.

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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there are the vitreous and aqueous humors as well ...

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Elly's avatar Elly @ellyzoe.bsky.social
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Mary Oliver taking us all to task.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg 's avatar Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social
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Even if you want to regard voting for Biden as harm reduction, do that. And yes, I am cognizant of now. But not voting for him only does one thing. There is no messianic option that suddenly appears if we let a man who has already tried an authoritarian coup take the reins of power again.

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Climate News's avatar Climate News @climatenews.bsky.social
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Portugal generated 95% electricity from renewables in April. More of Europe needs to follow the enlightened politics and financial investments of Southern Europe and ignore the backward destructive idiocy of Germany.

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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posting here, but i am not getting experiences there, or here, with the bridge that seem confirmable.

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Peter Gleick 's avatar Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social
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You Are Here. Current atmospheric CO2 levels are higher than ever in human history, and far earlier... This is human-caused climate change.

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Bill Anderson's avatar Bill Anderson @anderbill.bsky.social
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okay; so from there to here seems quick. and this is a reply from here to there (where again? am i?)

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yes; i just tested that. if you want to try just put the full handle at the start of the post.

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if you search, here, for "@band.hachyderm.io" , there is only one result that contains the full handle, and, for now, "@band.ha" narrows the search result to that one result.

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