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Some people distrust what they do not grasp.
Three possible solutions are:
- ask multiple independent experts
- gain an understanding yourself
- get comfortable trusting anyway
The caveat is that #expertise and #knowledge is extremely hard to verify.

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

Where to watch Jaguars vs. Cardinals: TV channel, live stream and preview for Week 12

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They say Mother Superior can disregard nothing — a meaningless aphorism until you grasp its other significance: I am the servant of all my Sisters. They watch their servant with critical eyes. I cannot spend too much time on generalities nor on trivia. Mother Superior must display insightful action else a sense of disquiet penetrates to the farthest corners of our order.
— Darwi Odrade
#dunequotes

”Yet far fewer people would disagree that when a billionaire uses their wealth to buy a politician, to influence a government, to own a newspaper or a social media platform, or to out-lawyer any opposition to ensure them impunity from justice, that these actions are inimical to progress and fairness. Such power gives billionaires a grasp over all our futures, undermining political freedom and eroding the rights of the many.”

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

Is #AI really just dumb statistics? "Olympiad-level physics problem-solving presents a significant challenge for both humans and artificial intelligence (AI), as it requires a sophisticated integration of precise calculation, abstract reasoning, and a fundamental grasp of physical principles," says the (abstract of the) paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10515: "The Chinese Physics Olympiad (CPhO), renowned for its complexity and depth, serves as an ideal and rigorous testbed for these advanced capabilities. In this paper, we introduce LOCA-R (LOgical Chain Augmentation for Reasoning), an improved version of the LOCA framework adapted for complex reasoning, and apply it to the CPhO 2025 theory examination. LOCA-R achieves a near-perfect score of 313 out of 320 points, solidly surpassing the highest-scoring human competitor and significantly outperforming all baseline methods." Oops ...?

One of the things that made organizing a lot easier with the GDC was a thing called "GDC in a box." It was a zip file with all kinds of resources. There was a directory structure, templates for all kinds of things like meetings and paperwork you had to file (for legal reasons) and "read me" files.
We had all kinds of support. There were people you could talk to who had been there. There were people you could call to walk through legal paperwork (taxes). Centralized orgs are vulnerable and easy to infiltrate. They're easy for states to shut down. But there are benefits to org structures.
I think it's possible to have the type of support we had with the GDC, but without the politics of an org (even the IWW). I hope this most recent essay has some of the same properties. I hope that it makes building something new, something no one has really imagined before, easier.
This whole project is something a bit different. It's a collective vision and collective project, from the ground up. Some of it has felt like a brain dump, just getting things that have been swimming around in my head down somewhere. But I hope this feels more like an invitation.
Everything thus far written is all useless unless people do things with it. Only from that point does it become a thing that lives, a thing with its own consciousness that can't be controlled by any individual human.
Tech billionaire cultists want to bring a new era of humanity with AGI. That is definitely not possible with LLMs, and may not be possible at all. But there is a super intelligence that is possible, though it's been constrained by capitalism: collective human intelligence.
The grand vision of the tech dystopians is that of the ultimate slave that can then enslave all humans on their behalf. I think we can build a humanity that can liberate itself from their grasp, crush their vision, and build for itself a world in which people will never be enslaved again. Not only do I think it's possible, I think it's necessary. I think there are only two choices: collective liberation or death.
And that's what I plan to write about next time to wrap this whole project up. Today things often feel impossible. But people talked about the Middle Ages as though they were the end of the world, and then everything changed in unimaginable ways. Everything can, and will, change again.
"The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings."

As Donald Trump deteriorates
and his grasp on power fades,
he has been lashing out furiously
at female journalists and ethnic groups, most recently Somali Americans.
His insults land because of their animosity and his power,
not their accuracy.
Likewise, his administration’s attacks on immigrants are sloppy and driven by lies.
It’s strikingly clear that the target is not individuals with criminal records.
It’s anyone and everyone guilty of …

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

istg people who have opinions on AGI should be required by law to at least grasp the basics of information theory

The fact that so many on the Fediverse remain so uneducated isn’t surprising. It only reveals how deeply bourgeois ideology continues to shape public consciousness, molding perception to serve the interests of capital, especially US imperialism.
Just as it took decades for many to see the war on terror for what it truly was, and even longer to grasp Palestine’s struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism, the same pattern will repeat.
I wholeheartedly reject imperialis…

"This single task of managing memory has proven to be one of the most difficult, let alone to grasp and understand, but most importantly, to get right.
Because not getting this right meant crashes, security issues, resource shortages, unhappy customers, and lots of white hair. To make things worse, pretty much every programming language comes these days with their own ideas of how to keep track of things on the heap."

The screen captured post reads:
“If someone works full-time and receives SNAP, that means your taxpayer dollars are subsidizing the company’s profits bc it refuses to pay them a livable wage. This can only be said so many ways; it isn’t difficult to grasp.”
https://universeodon.com/@jaykuo/11549

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/115632365784352544
German politicians fail to grasp the fundamental shift in the global car market. The world no longer wants yesterday's German cars; it wants the best, and it wants them now.

Fascinating read - and while I don't expect the politicians to grasp these, I'd have expected that the policy experts were asking and answering these sorts of questions.
Makes me grateful for investigative research nonprofits like #Dekleptocracy.
West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’

Fascinating read - and while I don't expect the politicians to grasp these, I'd have expected that the policy experts were asking and answering these sorts of questions.
Makes me grateful for investigative research nonprofits like #Dekleptocracy.
West is ‘missing obscure sanctions that could set back Russia’s war machine’

Guangzhou is quietly becoming a blueprint for sustainable cities.
The Chinese megacity has transformed urban living with vertical gardens replacing concrete, parks built over malls, and green spaces woven throughout. They're prioritizing clean transit and renewable energy while proving dense cities can actually improve quality of life.

🧙‍♀️𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑏𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝐵𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝐷𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑜𝑛: 𝑀𝑦 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑇𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝐾𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑀𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑖𝑓𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑈𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝐺𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑎 𝐼 𝐺𝑜𝑡 𝐿𝑉𝐿 9999 𝐹𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑚 𝑂𝑢𝑡 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑅𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑀𝑦 𝐹𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑃𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑀𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑜𝑟𝑙𝑑
... another #anime whose reach exceeds its grasp as the character designs of Light's summons don't express the supernatural beauty described in the light novel …

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

Adding another post. This one is a bit less polished, but I want to get it out. As things get harder for everyone, I'm seeing a greater tendency to want to grasp onto revolutionary fiction such as #Andor. I think there's value in that, but it has to come with an informed critique.
> We are so thirsty for hope that we will drink it up, even when that hope comes from a fiction and the truth behind the hope is poison. In Andor, we see the worst elements sacrifice themselves for some of the best. The revolution goes through a process of purification, the complicated elements weeding themselves out to make room for the simplified good, as the rebellion unifies. In reality, this tends to be the opposite how things actually work.
> [...]
> [The Urban Guerilla movement of the 60's through the 80's] centered militant revolution. In doing so, they omitted or cut themselves off from the logistic support needed to sustain such revolutionary activity. The trauma of carrying out violence further isolated and radicalized them. Lacking infrastructure for trauma healing, their decay escalated and became unrecoverable. Ultimately, their revolutionary movements both emulated and reinforced the status quo they were trying to resist.
> There emerges a strange historical parallel that is difficult to see from within the dominant paradigm. The competitive politics of electoralism derives from heroic competition, where people (typically men) compete (often violently) for control over a territory or people. Thus the insurrectionary enters into the very same competition as a challenger, not against the system of domination but for control over it. The success of the revolution, then, does not abolish the system of violent domination but changes rather replaces its management.
> Many modern anarchists will be quick to point out the disconnect between ends and means. While authoritarian projects often assert that "the ends justify the means," and Andor implies the same, anti-authoritarian projects assert the ends and the means are not only united but are, in fact, the same.
This is still very much something I'm actively editing, but I'd still love feedback to help me refine it to it's final form. Typo catches and clarifying questions welcome.
#USPol

The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

For the last year, the nation has witnessed Trump’s rapid physical and mental decline.
The 79-year-old president has repeatedly lost track of his thoughts, his whereabouts, and even his grasp on the English language.
The New Republic’s breaking news team has put together a list of the president’s most senile moments in his first year in office

If you are an anti-fascist, you are against petroleum. Petroleum funds fascism globally. It is at the heart of the military industrial complex driving global imperialism, from both the US and Russia. Motonormitivity is fascist, both in it's elitist roots and in it's ties to historical fascism (Hitler hated bikes, just on principle). Oil is militarism.
Oil is the dominant resource which drives war, both in terms of it being the primary spoil wars are fought over and in terms of fueling the military vehicles and weapons that carry out those wars. Practically every war since (and including) WWII has been over oil. Genocides are carried out to secure oil. Gaza is over oil, in more ways than one.
Oil is the absolute enemy, and AI is simply an extension of that: an attempt to atomize us so we can't resist the oil-centric global order, one last grasp at the control over our lives oil has given to those whose power is now threatened by a solar punk future.
"I haven't written for a few weeks now. As I write the closing chapter and begin rewriting previous sections, everything feels both more distant and more immediate. The working title [Kairos] has only continued to feel more and more resonant, both during the writing and during my pause."
Now is the time to resist by making something different, by creating a world fundamentally opposed to these systems of oppression.
This is the last in my Kairos series. From here on out I'll be editing to try and make it more of a book than a series of posts. Thanks to everyone who has helped so far. All editing is welcome (typos, spell checks, questions and challenges). Between ADHD and dyslexia, it's always hard for my brain to notice mistakes in my own text so I always appreciate the support of those who can.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/kairos

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

Jaguars vs. Cardinals: Where to watch today's matchup, plus pick, odds, kickoff time and latest updates

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The judicial cases in OKC are closely linked to the silence and lack of accountability of Tibetan Buddhist Heads of Nyigmapa Lineages in 🇫🇷🇧🇪🇵🇹. To grasp the full extent of responsibility and complacency, check out this documentary. #TibetanBuddhism #Responsibility

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …

"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication."
—Marlon Brando
#acting #coaching #inspiration …