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@nemobis@mamot.fr
2025-08-19 13:52:26

#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

Imperialism. The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. This relationship has never been made clear by official Socialist propaganda, and the British worker, instead of being told that, by world standards, he is living above his income, has been taught to think of himself as an overworked, down-trodden slave. To the masses everywhere ‘Socialism’ means, or at least is associated with, hi…
@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-08-15 14:33:04

Absolutely no reason at all why we should be looking at this book right now. Pure coincidence.
brown.edu/news/2025-08-11/geor

Original manuscript of George Orwell’s ‘1984’ is a highlight of Brown’s literary archives
The one-of-a-kind artifact in Brown University Library’s special collections offers students and scholars insights into the novelist’s writing process.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-08-11/george-orwell-1984-manuscript

Orwell was literally a peniless immigrant in France.
It's all there in "Down and Out in Paris and London".
It taught him empathy for the poor, who he wrote about as human beings.
This is the antidote to the xenophobia that was being pedalled in London today.

@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social
2025-08-05 07:51:00

Orwell träumte vom perfekten #Pub, doch hierzulande bleibt viel Wunschdenken – der unterschätzte Wert echter Kneipenführung und regionaler Bierkultur geht verloren. Der Blog „Fliegende Bretter“ bringt’s genau auf den Punkt: Kneipen sind kein Franchise, sondern soziale Horte mit Wirt und Charakter. Ohne Stammgäste keine #Kneipe

@kurtsh@mastodon.social
2025-07-05 03:53:15

geeksoutfit.com/products/truth

@kubikpixel@chaos.social
2025-06-30 06:10:04

»Dein Gesicht gehört uns – Die Gefahr automatischer Gesichtserkennung:
Ein Computersystem, das sekundenschnell jeden einzelnen Menschen auf der Welt identifizieren kann: Das klingt mehr nach dem Roman «1984» von George Orwell als nach der Realität. Und doch: Die Software des US-Unternehmens Clearview AI ist schon sehr nahe daran, genau das zu schaffen.«
Wenn deren "Sicherheit" auch zur Bevölkerung Überwachung eingesetzt wird?
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@thijs_lucas@norden.social
2025-08-10 19:18:33

Die Geschichte umschreiben und damit Lügen zur Wahrheit machen.
Den Absturz der USA in die Diktatur, alle Schritte dort hin, sehen wir bisher - mit wenigen Jahren Verzögerung - auch in Deutschland.
Man muss den Schneeball zertreten bevor er zur Lawine wird. #AfDVerbot

@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2025-06-26 00:17:02

Asked 5 different local AIs (not internet based nor connecting to the internet):
What is the average airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
And they attributed it to 3 novels: Alan Sillitoe's "The Lonely Voice"(which does not exist), Douglas Adams's "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," George Orwell's "Animal Farm" and also the correct answer, the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
So as long as we're good with AI being 75%…

@lysander07@sigmoid.social
2025-06-25 05:00:12

In today's ISE 2025 lecture,, we will introduce SPARQL as a query language for knowledge graphs. Again, I'm trying out 'Dystopian Novels' as example knowledge graph playground. Let's see, if the students might know any of them. Wtat do you think? ;-)
#dystopia #literature

Example knowledge graph for the ISE 2025 lecture. The novels represented in this graph are:
- George Orwell: Nineteeneightyfour
- Harry Harrison: Make Room! Make Room!
- Octavia E. Butler: Parable of the Sower