@hex@kolektiva.social2026-03-16 10:22:41
On the first day of the #PTSD intensive, we talked about the shooting. I had felt like I was done with that, that it didn't have anything left for me. But there was something still that filled me with rage... that is still confusing and enraging.
It wasn't actually being shot. I wasn't even the possibility of death. I had been prepared to die. I always knew that was possible. It was something else.
I remember Marc Hokoana's face as he pepper sprayed pacifists, smiling and taunting, joyfully hurting people who he knew were refusing to respond. I remember their flags, the kek flag, literally a Nazi battle flag replaced in 4chan colors with the clover 4chan logo instead of the swastika. How many people have been tortured, have died? How much suffering, that these people not only welcomed but celebrated, joyfully participated in.
The cruelty was the point. It was the plan, the plan he posted to Facebook, the same plan as they have always had, of torturing people until someone responds and then murdering them. Inflicting trauma, responding with overwhelming force, showing how "big and strong" they are because they can always escalate.
Try to stop someone from peppers praying people, they shoot you. Shoot back, like Michael Reinoehl, and they send a death squad for you. But we keep standing up, so they keep escalating to the slightest imagined infraction. Now they just murder you for being in a car, for filming at a protest, for existing.
The bar for what justifies murder or torture will continue to move lower until there is no one left, or until they can no longer escalate.
The feeling of helplessness is still not the biggest thing though. It's the joy with which they inflict this on us. That's it. That's the thing.
CW: gun violence, abuse dynamics
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/the-creature-ptss-5-day-1
@cdarwin@c.im2026-03-16 01:54:12
The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic"
that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone,
give it away, and move on with your life.
I've been feeling this for a while now, and I suspect a lot of folks who have the itch to build feel it too, even if they haven't articulated it.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2026-04-15 14:35:44
On the radio, I hear the German research foundation #DFG defend its recent move to allow #AI in project reviews, just with local setups, just for language clarity – lots of reservations.
I then listen to the most recent episode of Mél’s Data Fix podcast. An anonymous guest (🔥) talks about their daily…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizza2026-03-15 12:58:20
As cheesy as this sounds - even if you’re failing by all the world’s metrics of success, if you can lift someone else up today - even in the smallest way - you’ve done something of weight and - for all involved - kept the darker things at bay.
And multiplied by many, a society that values this will outlast every society that doesn’t anyway.
@presseportal_pol_NDS@frawas.de2026-04-16 12:04:17
POL-HK: Soltau: E-Scooter-Fahrer unter Alkoholeinfluss; Bad Fallingbostel: Gefährlicher Eingriff in den Straßenverkehr - Zeugen gesucht! Heidekreis (ots) - 15.04.2026 / E-Scooter-Fahrer unter Alkoholeinfluss Soltau: Am Mittwochabend kontrollierten Einsatzkräfte der Polizeiinspektion Heidekreis gegen 21:10 Uhr einen 21-jährigen Mann aus Soltau, der mit seinem E-Scooter in der ...
@Yogi77@hessen.social2026-05-13 17:42:48
Wir waren gestern Abend in #Ingelheim im Kino. Im Rahmen der Filmauslese gab es Jim Jarmuschs „Father Mother Sister Brother“ zu sehen. Mir hat es gut gefallen. Die Karten konnten wir vorab mit #wero bezahlen. #filmnase
@jake4480@c.im2026-05-08 15:18:29
Art from 'Aliens: Reapers' from 1991. This was a short 8 page no dialog comic story by John Arcudi and illustrated by Simon Bisley about 'Reapers' - an alien race that infiltrate Xenomorph hives to eat their eggs. My kinda alien race. 🍳
#Alien #SimonBisley
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-05-13 12:01:29
"our energy systems are already massively in carbon debt. We cannot afford to borrow any more carbon from fossil reserves. To burn carbon now to build AGI on the vague hope that it may by some remote chance produce systems with more insight than we now have, at a time when our politicians are already failing to act on the very clear data being produced by their own scientists, it the purest folly"
#AGI
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-03-14 08:21:26
And once again with #AltText4You.
Why is that one simple link so hard to click?
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-03-04 14:46:17
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116171339797022986
I don’t care if someone calls stuff “spaceflight” (though that usually includes portions of actual flight through air).
But if it’s for a scientific or technology discussion it’s hugely inaccurate and misleading.
In space, things always move in orbits, which is essentially more or less perpetually falling.
To make things go places (e.g. make a thing go to Mars), you change how it’s falling.
Play some Kerbal Space Program some time!