@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-29 02:37:13
Illinois judge removes Trump from primary ballot
An Illinois judge ruled Wednesday that former president Donald Trump should be removed from the state’s primary ballot because of the 14th Amendment ban on insurrectionists holding office.
Illinois became the third state where Trump has been kicked off the primary ballot, following Colorado and Maine. Both of those states’ rulings are on hold pending an appeal of the Colorado decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Cook County Ci…
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.social2024-04-30 02:32:42
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-04-28 16:24:04
Hey friends!
We are just back from another nice 42km #cycling loop. Lots of headwind, lots of up and down and a little mistake in starting the tour at the highest point of the loop. The final, long ascent was a bit... Not so much fun.
But the views were just ace, more streets than yesterday but very few traffic! I was rather happy to have sun cream today.
Just a great Sunday!
@aredridel@kolektiva.social2024-03-26 04:42:43
I've been reading "On Green” (https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/03/21/on-green) and its following article, “On Attunement” with some interest today. I am uninterested in the ways he is focused on “AGI”, but that might actually be part of what he's saying and missing.
They talk about the philosophy of green in the "magic the gathering" sense, which has five core modes of things, and being a game, designed to balance. It's an attractive system and not without merit as a philosophical labeling system. In short: white, moral; blue, knowledge and rationality; red, passion and desire; black, power and achievement. And green. Green is the subject they can't identify clearly.
I don't think they really understand green. (They come from a very rationalist place, and that's not a good mode to understand Green)
Green is the domain of systems thinking and of ecology. It's one of flexible boundaries and hierarchies that vanish when you look at them for long. They talk about philosophical agents and try to fit a green philosophical stance into that framework, but it misses: the very idea of a self is nebulous in a green philosophy. Yes, it obviously exists, we are all separate from each other. But also we are inseparable from each other. Green is a philosophy of relationality and multiple perspectives and ever shifting viewpoints. It's not just yin, passive, permissive, but holistic. It's not that it lets the Other in, it's that it actively is in relation with the Other. The other is the self, the self is the other.
The essays also label green as conservative, and this is not quite true. It is not about being slow or regressive or traditional, but about being whole. They can't quite see that green's willingness to accept death and pain as things that happen and also its strong preservationist stance are not opposed to each other. It seems incoherent, but it's not: death and pain are things that happen to living parts of an ecosystem. They matter, but so too does the whole matter. Where so many blue rationalists see statistical and demographic counts of deaths and "sentient beings harmed”, green sees a whole ecosystem where some of that is deeply natural. It's unnatural, ecosystem-harming deaths that are disasters in the green philosophy. Wholesale extinctions. Protracted, painful deaths, as much for the wound they cause outside the individual as the individual suffering as well. But we all come to an end, and to change that wholesale would end so many kinds of relationship, so many things.
Green revels in the illegible, the incomplete, and the connected. It's easy to be green-blind, to ignore the subtle systemic effects. So many of us want simple cause and effect, rather than action and plurality of reactions.
Green's ability to embrace the illegible lets it deal with Red chaos; its resilience tempers red passion. It can ally with White philosophies into a pastoral, conservative, moralistic framework. It ends up at odds with the rationalist Blue and the power-hungry Black, because they drive disequilibrium, but more than just transition to new stable ecologies, they drive systems permanently out of stability, destroying relationships in their path. When confronted with this, they will deny it because the objects are still there. Preserved. Catalogued. Legible and accounted for. Perhaps used instrumentally. Perhaps wrecked for some "greater purpose” but only acknowledged as objects. The relationships between things remain illegible.
@cark@social.tchncs.de2024-03-28 20:23:16
@MrBerard@pilote.me2024-02-29 10:07:29
Mastodon is predicated on community instances, and built for following/engagement with hashtags over accounts.
But if we've learnt anything from Late Capitalism, is that just because something is not needed it doesn't mean you can't build your whole business model around it.
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@cybeardjm@masto.ai2024-02-28 22:54:33
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2024-02-29 18:47:15
Calling Betteridge's Law on this one..
#BetteridgesLaw
@hikingdude@mastodon.social2024-04-28 16:24:04
Hey friends!
We are just back from another nice 42km #cycling loop. Lots of headwind, lots of up and down and a little mistake in starting the tour at the highest point of the loop. The final, long ascent was a bit... Not so much fun.
But the views were just ace, more streets than yesterday but very few traffic! I was rather happy to have sun cream today.
Just a great Sunday!
@cybeardjm@masto.ai2024-02-28 22:54:33