@servelan@newsie.socialPresident suggests being anti-Trump is ‘probably illegal’ in bizarre rant about Seth Meyers | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-seth-meyers-truth-social-rant-b2856783.html
@rmdes@mstdn.socialTibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialRE: https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115826406220766544
Much truth in this.
@alejandrobdn@social.linux.pizzaYour Windows 11 Computer’s Hidden Spy: The Dark Truth About TPM Chips
https://inv.perditum.com/watch?v=t1eX_vvAlUc
Windows 11 is not an operating system, it is a set of tools created to spy on its users. It's ridiculous.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's night of 160 posts on Truth Social fuels debate about US president's stamina (Richard Luscombe/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/02/trumps-truth-social-post-health
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p122#a251202p122
@crell@phpc.socialDropping the penny is one thing, but like everything this moronic administration does is unplanned chaos.
https://fortune.com/2025/10/30/america-is-running-out-of-pennies-costing-millions/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTrump Media, owner of Truth Social, plans to distribute a new token to shareholders with partner Crypto.com, expected to operate on the Cronos blockchain (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-31/tr…
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThe truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
-- Andre Malraux
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialUSpol
Was just having a conversation with someone about how "50%" of the country voted for Trump and in reminding them it's way less took the time to look up the numbers. In 2024 Trump got 77.3 million votes in a country of 340.1 million people. That's 22.7% of the people. ~21.5% of the people are under age 18, so 263.6 million adults. Trump got the vote of 29.3% of them. Some of those adults aren't eligible to vote, but when discussing social dynamics, they matter just as much, as do kids... Even of the people who voted for Trump, many were not at all MAGA fanatics (even if they at minimum had a seriously warped worldview and dangerous politics of one kind or another).
The truth is, almost no president has ever had a huge popular mandate, because our society is engineered to let a minority political class retain most of the power while giving the illusion of influence to the masses.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialHear about the bombshell discovery of a report that U.S. govt officials had ordered burned that has the potential to expose the truth about one of the most radical policy decisions in all of American history.
Listen to:
✅ Burn Order | Rachel Maddow
https://www.rachelmaddow.com/burn-order/<…
@cheryanne@aus.socialPivot Club
Sarah Davidson has intimate, and at times hilarious conversations with both household names and everyday heroes who took the plunge and sharing the messy, honest truth about reinventing yourself...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/pivot-
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euYour Windows 11 Computer’s Hidden Spy: The Dark Truth About TPM Chips - Rob Braxman Tech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1eX_vvAlUc
@ckent@urbanists.socialHappy 20th Anniversary, “Truthiness”
It’s probably even more relevant to this decade’s technology than last decade’s politics
#colbert #truthiness #ai
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Stephen Colbert, portraying his character Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, chose the word truthiness just moments before taping the premiere episode of The Colbert Report on October 17, 2005, after deciding the originally scripted word – "truth" – was not absolutely ridiculous enough: "We're not talking about truth, we're talking about something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist", he explained.[15][16] He introduced his definition in the first segment of the …](https://cdn.masto.host/urbanistssocial/media_attachments/files/115/465/324/634/840/566/original/4a93b6ee3da42381.png)
@UP8@mastodon.social🍾 Simulations show Saturn's moon Enceladus shoots less ice into space than previous estimates
#saturn
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump Launches Into Massive, Unhinged Late Night Posting Spree (Ben Blanchet/HuffPost)
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-truth-social-meltdown-michelle-obama-biden-autopen_n_692e49c0e4b02d38edef47cf
http://www.memeorandum.com/251202/p45#a251202p45
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Florida judge grants The Guardian's and others' motions to dismiss Trump Media's defamation lawsuit over reporting on a federal criminal investigation (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/judge-throws…
@heiseonline@social.heise.deTruth Social plus Fusionsenergie: Trump-Firma fusioniert mit TAE Technologies
Die Medienfirma der Familie Trump, die bislang primär für Truth Social bekannt ist, macht nun auch Fusionsenergie. Dafür sorgt eine Fusion mit TAE Technologies.
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comWow, Snopes added an adblock detector which actually adwalls the content.
Sorry but web ads are far too intrusive/insecure and I don't think Snopes is worth the $3/month minimal subscription.
Guess I'll remove their RSS then
@primonatura@mstdn.social"10 years after the Paris Agreement, world leaders are letting go of its most famous goal"
#ParisAgreement #Climate #ClimateChange
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump announced he is pulling the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland,
although the troops already had a limited presence because those states had sued to block their deployment.
Trump said on his social media platform Truth Social that troops would return if “crime begins to soar again.”
The Trump administration has been battling lawsuits aimed at removing the National Guard from cities in blue states.
“We will come back, perhaps in a much differ…
@rmdes@mstdn.socialAbuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
@servelan@newsie.socialA faint glimmer of the truth breaks through the fog:
Boebert suggests Trump's veto of funding in her district is 'retaliation' for Epstein vote - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-boebert-epstein/
@vosje62@mastodon.nlRE: https://mastodon.social/@schipholwatch/115813413386079297
Ik ben heel benieuwd hoe dit gaat uitpakken... Het lijkt bijna 'to good to be truth'.
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaAlready the spirit of our schooling is permeated with the feeling that
every subject, every topic, every fact, every professed truth must be
submitted to a certain publicity and impartiality. All proffered
samples of learning must go to the same assay-room and be subjected to
common tests. It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that
any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse. The characteristic
of religion, from their point of view,…
@david_colquhoun@mstdn.social"Because science rejects claims to truth based on authority and depends on the criticism of established ideas, it is the enemy of autocracy. Because scientific knowledge is tentative and provisional, it is the enemy of dogma. "
The late Dick Taverne
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "It's Lonely at the Center of the Earth" by Zoe Thorogood.
CW: Frank/graphic discussion of suicide and depression (not in this post but in the book).
It feels a bit wrong to simply give it my review here as I would another graphic memoir, because it's much more personal and less consensual than the usual. It feels less like Thorogood has invited us into her life than like she was forced to put her life on display in order to survive, and while I selfishly like to read into the book that she benefited in some way from the process, she's honest about how tenuous and sometimes false that claim can be. Knowing what I've learned from this book about Thorogood's life and demons, I don't want her to feel the mortification of being perceived by me, and so perhaps the best thing I could do is to simply unread the book and pull it back out of my memories.
I did not find Thorogood's life relatable, nor pitiable (although my instinct bends in that direction), but instead sacred and unknowable. I suspect that her writing and drawing has helped others in similar circumstances, but she leaves me with no illusion that this fact brings her any form of peace or joy. I wonder what she would feel reading "Lab Girl" or "The Deep Dark," but she has been honest enough to convey that such speculation on my part is a bit intrusive.
I guess the one other thing I have to say: Zoe Thorogood has through artistic perseverance developed an awe-inspiring mastery of the comic medium, from panel composition, through to page layout and writing. This book wields both Truth and Beauty.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@Techmeme@techhub.socialTruth Social launches Truth Predict, a prediction market platform in partnership with Crypto.com to let users trade on major current events like elections (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/485594b3-5a72-4ae1-aa93-8ee987be1569
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"They used to say, my friend, that the words of the oak in the holy place of Zeus at Dodona were the first prophetic utterances. The people of that time, not being so wise as you young folks, were content in their simplicity to hear an oak or a rock, provided only it spoke the truth."
Plato, Phaedrus 275b
🏛️
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialOnline gambling is a lowest common denominator entertainment for the weak-minded. Now watch Stephen / Coffeezilla because this is pure truth.
▶️ Exposing the Gambling Epidemic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Ii1ROzeSwU&si=-Ss_R63HrskGBuEj
@markhburton@mstdn.social20 former children at school with #NigelTheStockboker allege racist behaviour then, which he denies.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.socialTrump wirft Ukraine erneut mangelnde Dankbarkeit vor
US-Präsident Donald Trump hat der Ukraine erneut mangelnde Dankbarkeit vorgeworfen. "Die ukrainische 'Führung' hat null Dankbarkeit für unsere Bemühungen gezeigt", schrieb Trump in seinem Onlinedienst Truth Social. Der Krieg sei eine "menschliche Katastrophe". Den russischen Angriffskrieg verurteilte er nicht.
Der 28-Punkte-Plan der USA enthält vor allem russische Forderung…
📑
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialReview: Truth in fantasy: what Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials taught us over its 30-year run
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/dec/24/philip-pullman-his-dark-materials
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«In a world where fascists redefine truth, where surveillance capitalist companies, more powerful than democratically elected leaders, exert control over our desires, do we really want their machines to become part of our thought process?»
I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html
@wraithe@mastodon.socialFound out the”big news” this morning involved Olivia Nuzzi and I’m all set.
![Clip from “Rick and Morty” with Rick asking the family if they actually want to know if the “Salisbury steak” is really Salisbury steak and the family, laughing and continuing to eat, insisting that no, they do not
Rick: “Do you wanna know or not?”
[All]: “No Thanks!” (Laughing)
R: “Just so you know, it's really bad.”
Morty: “Whatever you say.”
(All Laughing)
R: “Seriously, I'm not kidding.”
R: “I won't tell you, but I need you to know the truth is horrible, so that if you ever find out on acci…](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/594/199/769/355/386/small/a496b8270aa0270c.png)
@cdarwin@c.imLeading Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have launched an investigation into the Trump Administration’s
use of private platforms like
Truth Social and X for official business.
https://meidasnews.com…
@danyork@mastodon.socialRE: https://social.chatty.monster/@losttourist/115405548135751803
There is so much truth in this…
@servelan@newsie.socialTruth Social To Let Users Make Wagers On Elections - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/truth-social-to-let-users-make-wagers-on-elections/
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThis reminds me of how truth is just whatever monster people decide to follow.
#Fascism #Nazis #Authoritarianism
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWent to a staged reading of Orwell's 1984. They had a well selected set of pieces from the text. Overall it was doubleplus good.
I had forgotten how well Orwell predicted our present el cheato government, plus our self-created monitoring overloads - Facebook, smart phones that track everything, even Wikipedia which, due to editors promoting their view of the world, starts to resemble the Ministry of Truth.
Afterwords we all chatted - and to my mind too many of the responses…
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl"So long as Boemeke’s readers leave with the vibe that “nuclear good”, it’s job done. (...) Whether you’re slinging eyeliner or second-hand ideas to soldiers for a cause, the trick is to never let the whole truth get in the way of a quick sale."
#kernenergie
@kctipton@mas.to
@tagesschau_eil@mastodon.social📢 Trump kündigt Treffen mit Putin in Ungarn an
US-Präsident Donald Trump will sich mit Kremlchef Wladimir Putin in der ungarischen Hauptstadt Budapest treffen. Das kündigte er nach einem Telefonat mit dem russischen Präsidenten auf der Plattform Truth Social an. Einen genauen Zeitpunkt nannte er nicht.
➡️
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep saying the same thing over and over with my kids: you don't make decisions with your voice, you make them with your body.
"I want to go to the park."
"Ok, put your shoes on."
"I want to go on my play date."
"Put on a jacket and get in the bike."
"I don't want to be late to school."
"I don't control time, if you don't want to be late you have to brush your teeth."
There's a fundamental truth underlying this concept though, one that I hadn't really thought about. On some level, I feel as though, any choice you can't make with your body isn't a real choice. If you're begging someone to do something for you, it's ultimately not something you control.
As I'm compelled, by threat of violence against my family, to pay for war against my comrades and to kill people I don't even know, I think about that. How far is our concept of freedom from the police state we are taught to imagine as the global beacon of liberty. My participation in the violence had always been compulsory.
Perhaps we could do better than just #NoKings.
#USPol
@jdrm@social.linux.pizzaJoder chaval, es que no tiene ni un štomo de vergüenza el pavo este https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/11/21/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-who-is-the-most-vain-of-them-all/
@UP8@mastodon.social⛏️ Behind our screens: The truth about ‘artisanal’ mining and ‘natural’ technology
https://globalvoices.org/2025/10/05/behind-our-screens-the-truth-about-artisanal-mining-and-natural-technology/
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialThe truth is you *can* say and *have* been able to say fuck on the internet this whole time, you just won't see anyone responding cuz the algorithms on mainstream platforms deemed your post too risky and suppressed the cunting shit out of it.
"Ooh just send it, who gives a fuck lmao" I do, I'd like people to see what I post.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialAbuse in Buddhism: The Law of Silence https://openbuddhism.org/library/videos/2022/elodie-emery-wandrille-lanos-present-buddhism-the-unspeakable-truth/
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialA recurring issue:
Source of Truth vs Point of Truth with many-system setups.
Imagine having separate
- issue tracking (e.g. JIRA)
- time tracking (e.g. Toggl)
- development tracking (e.g. GitLab)
- daily team sync (e.g. Confluence)
- weekly sync with stakeholders (...)
Without diligent manual labor or a lot of handcrafted automation, those keep getting out of sync.
@whitequark@mastodon.social💭 "Truth Social" is just the Pravda newspaper of 2025
@cwilcke@bildung.social
@asterisk@social.linux.pizza
@roelgrif@mstdn.socialMichael Cohen teaching the 8 defecting Democrat Senators a lesson.
Although I fear they will not be eager to learn that one .... they will discover the hard way that they've sold out the healthcare for millions of Americans. Or not, if they continue to close their eyes for the truth.
#MichaelCohen #shutdown
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"Emperor... will free our hands in all manners of surveillance, search & seizure."
"Why can't they just leave us in peace?"
"It's going on everywhere."
Sounds familiar.
▶️ Andor: The Death of Truth
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q4cVBVSS9f
@socallinuxexpo@social.linux.pizzaNew Clean Website, Same Awesome Event - SCaLE 23x Call for Presentations
🗣️ Got a great talk idea? SCaLE 23x Call for Presentations is now open! Submit your session before Dec 1, 2025. Speak your FOSS truth!
👉 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp
@heiseonline@social.heise.deRumble übernimmt deutschen Cloudbetreiber Northern Data
Truth-Social-Host Rumble steigt ins Cloudgeschäft ein und übernimmt die deutsche Cloudfirma Northern Data. Deren Aktionäre erhalten weniger als angekündigt.
h…
@fgraver@hcommons.socialThe Future of Truth by Werner Herzog review – profound, or just a prank? The director’s provocative seventh book takes in toupees, AI, and a pig in a sewer. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct
@detondev@social.linux.pizza
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI don’t know if this is a sick burn (by a FOSDEM organiser spilling the truth about FOSDEM) or an own goal.
🤷♂️ https://pleroma.debian.social/objects/f49df30a-d65e-4195-833d-29b7481b3aba
@mrysav@social.linux.pizzaNew assignment idea: teachers & professors feel free to steal:
It’s a literature review, but it’s submitted as a video essay (we all know most of them use the same boring structure anyway) and/or series of short form videos that must be filmed in a car. It’s called Reference Core, and you must bill it as nostalgia bait or capturing the vibe of a bygone era where people care about truth and giving credit
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euHoly mother of all dear, this lentil soup made me smile like a benevolent king. The guy was telling the truth. This is my second serving. The rest gets stowed in the fridge.
Here's the video again:
I’ll be making this Black Lentil Soup all winter!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrV5fLZpCQA
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn ex-BBC editor says Panorama's editing error is a minor issue exaggerated by right-wing newspapers and social media, but the BBC needs major internal reforms (Lewis Goodall/Goodall and Good Luck)
https://goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/the-truth-about-im…
@jrm4@mastodon.socialNow perhaps might be a good time for the reminder of a truth always obscured:
Black People (not Black "women" -- ALL BLACK PEOPLE - you have to watch how they do black men dirty here) are the practical always-voting correctly BASE of the Democratic party -- which in turn makes them the moral center of voting in America.
#uspol
@bthalpin@mastodon.socialIf there is any truth in these allegations, we really have to worry about that is going on in both AGS and GSOC.
The initial story was bad enough: the Irish police service being so incompetent that their statistics on homicides were wildly incorrect, and the whistleblower getting penalised; but this is batshit.
@portaloffreedom@social.linux.pizza@… Basically it is. But I think if you go to study as a priest at the Vatican, then you are thought the truth.
Then again I've met my fair share of shitty and awesome priests. The latter being more rare than the former.
@compfu@mograph.socialRE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/115690324653570906
The sci-fi novel "The Truth Machine" describes a future where people can wear a ring that shows whether the person they are talking to is lying. This changes society on a fun…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"I have little to no sympathy for Tim Davie. He has helped create the problem by constantly opining on the BBC being too liberal. He has legitimised the critique which has toppled him. He appeased the same forces who have brought him down"
The truth about impartiality at the BBC - by Lewis Goodall
https://
@rmdes@mstdn.socialTibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialIt's the #DayOfHelios / Sol's Day / #Sunday! ☀️
"And Hyperionides [Helios] answered her: 'Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rheia, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless g…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialMy anecdotal observations suggest to me that since El Cheato has returned to the gilt oval office that regard for laws, ethics, and morals has decreased.
I am noticing a lot more minor things, like spam, phishing, speeding, running stop signs, etc. A more scientific study could look at crime rates and such.
My sense is that the trump disregard of law, truth, and morality has infected a lot of people.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's Truth Social to allow trading on election results (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/485594b3-5a72-4ae1-aa93-8ee987be1569
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p25#a251029p25
@cheryanne@aus.socialJust One More
This podcast is all about the truth behind growth — the messy, honest, life-changing parts we don't usually talk about. I'm Brooke McIntosh, an endurance athlete and speaker...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/just-o
@servelan@newsie.social"what does the Kremlin brand as “traditional values”? While Putin denounces Western modernity as a moral threat, Russia itself contradicts its supposed ideals: children are abducted from occupied territories of Ukraine, domestic violence is normalized, religious minorities are persecuted, and soldiers’ lives are deemed expendable."
The Ugly Truth Behind the “Traditional Values” Russia Sells — UNITED24 Media [from October]
https://united24media.com/anti-fake/the-ugly-truth-behind-the-traditional-values-russia-sells-11690
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPresident Trump threatens a "massive increase of Tariffs" on Chinese products, in response to export controls that China imposed on rare earth minerals (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/10/trump-china-tariffs-rare-earths.html
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe NYT says it won't be deterred in its work after Trump posted on Truth Social that reporting by The NYT and others about his health was "seditious" (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-health-press-new…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialTrump threatens to cut funds if ‘communist’ Mamdani wins mayoral election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/03/trump-mamdani-new-york-election-mayor-cuomo
@cdarwin@c.im
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaThree people have changed the way I see the world in ways I can never undo: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Rudolf Rocker.
Each of them, through their own political and philosophical struggles, stripped away the false comforts I once clung to. They exposed the machinery of power, the illusions of morality, and the myths of authority, leaving me face to face with the bare truth of how the world works.
Coming to that realization, one that cannot be undone, life appears more viv…
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«The truth is, I believe, far simpler, more sinister and depressingly familiar. Milei never really broke with Argentina’s sad oligarchic practices of the past. He merely rebranded a type of heist practised by a long succession of his predecessors»
Javier Milei is no libertarian - UnHerd
https://unherd.com/2025/10/javier-milei-is-no-libertarian/
@hex@kolektiva.socialAdding 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
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTruth.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zxzdh6rfywlc6rhh2atpxglf/post/3m3cybypytc2c
@rmdes@mstdn.socialTibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 20: bell hooks.
Despite having decided to continue to 30, number 20 feels important, and hooks gets the spot in part because I haven't yet included a non-fiction feminist author, which feels like an obvious thing to include on such a list. The one category of author being bumped out of the first 20 here is anime writers, but I'll follow up with one of them, along with more academics and mangaka who I've been itching to include.
In any case, hooks is absolutely legendary as a feminist writer for good reason, and as a teacher I've especially appreciated her writing on pedagogy like "Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom" and "Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom". These have challenged me to teach at a higher level, and while I'm not sure I've completely succeeded, they're important to me. They also pair well with Paolo Friere's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed", but hooks always seems to be focused on very practical advice and it's incredibly direct in her writing, even though her advice isn't always straightforward to implement. In fact, that's one of the things I value about her writing: when the truth is complicated or the real work is messy interpersonal relationships that need to be negotiated with each student, she's not afraid to say so and give good advice for navigating those waters instead of trying to dispense simple-seeming platitudes or formulas for success that paper over the deeper issues. Her concern has always been truth, rather than simplicity or audience comfort and the popularity it might seem to entail, which I think is part of why her legacy endures so well.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen
@Techmeme@techhub.socialNew White House guidance says AI models procured by federal agencies must have "unbiased AI principles" and ensure "truth-seeking" and "ideological neutrality" (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/11/white-house-woke-ai…
@cdarwin@c.imNovember 3, 2026:
Donald Trump calls the press into the Oval Office and announces that the GOP has held the House
—but he warns that Democrats will try to steal the election,
and announces plans to send a legal team to Arizona to root out fraud.
He spends the rest of the night posting threats and allegations on Truth Social.
In the morning, Republican lawyers file to stop vote counting,
arguing that any votes counted after Election Day are illegal under f…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a meeting with news agencies, Pope Leo XIV urged journalists to stand firm against manipulation of information, conveyed respect for war reporters, and more (Kristina Millare/Catholic World Report)
https://www.catholicworldreport.com/…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI’ve realized that life has no built-in meaning or higher purpose. Ideas like morality and truth are things humans create to make sense of the void. The universe doesn’t care, it just exists, silent and empty, and I’ve stopped pretending it hides some secret reason for being.
Some people seem upset that I’ve turned toward existential nihilism, as if I’ve surrendered to hopelessness, yet facing the emptiness has brought me greater clarity. When you accept that no meaning has been writte…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euThis week's monologues - watched them all, Colbert's and Kimmel's - referred to the most jaw-dropping and upsetting things I think I've ever heard of America. It looks like a vaudeville production of The First Days of the Third Reich over there. Lie is truth, wrong is right, crook is President ->
Trump Cashing in Bigly, GOP Calls No Kings Protest the "Hate America" Rally & RFK Junior Jr. is Back - Jimmy Kimmel Live
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaI see the universe as an endless ocean of indifference. It does not care about my existence, nor will it ever. This void frees me. In knowing that life has no inherent meaning, I am no longer bound by others’ expectations or empty promises. My words, my actions, even my name will vanish in time, and that liberates me to live solely for the moments I choose.
Existential nihilism handed me a blank page. Life’s meaning is not given; it is mine to write. This truth healed my old anxieties …
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow Trump Is Using Fake Imagery to Attack Enemies and Rouse Supporters (Stuart A. Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/10/21/business/media/trump-ai-truth-social-no-kings.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vE8.9CZD.83RGbNI6-Ysg&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251021/p16#a251021p16
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTrump attacks Paramount owners as "no better than the old ownership", demanding an apology from 60 Minutes and Lesley Stahl for Marjorie Taylor Greene interview (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/12/trump-paramount-60-minutes-david-el…
@cdarwin@c.imResponse to President Trump’s Unauthorized Use of “Danger Zone”
Late Saturday, Oct. 18, Donald Trump posted an AI-generated video on his Truth Social account that portrayed him dumping brown sludge on a crowd of protesters while wearing a crown and flying overhead in a jet labeled “King Trump.”
The music accompanying the video clip was Kenny Loggins’ hit recording “Danger Zone,” from the 1986 motion picture Top Gun (it was also used in the 2022 sequel Top Gun: Maverick).
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialPerkins, Frye, Jefferson & Harris droppin' TRUTH BOMBS about #ChrisPaul & the #Clippers.
Experienced, smart, funny... the #Roadtrippin' Podcast is the best damn thing on ba…
@servelan@newsie.social"An AP photographer covering the event zoomed in on the handwriting on White House stationery that read, “You need to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first.”
Rubio passed Trump urgent note on Mideast peace deal during roundtable | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-rubio-note-middle-east-peace-f570658c65daefab6d0af9b29e851dd7
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaIf I’ve stopped lying, then you should too. But you can’t seem to stop twisting the truth about anarchism, using the dictionary as a weapon to bend reality toward your own system and agenda. That manipulation says more about your control than my beliefs.
@rmdes@mstdn.socialTibetan Buddhism is quick to judge an "imperfect documentary" but much more laxist to leave a system of abuse in place because : traditions and root guru cult
https://web.archive.org/web/20221201073253/https://tricycle.org/art…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTruth bomb.
Original post: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc/post/3m4m5om5q3n2j
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn interview with Laura Poitras about her new film, Cover-Up, which examines the career of Seymour Hersh and the role of investigative journalism (A.J. Goldmann/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/the-interview/cover-up-laura-poitras-invest…
@servelan@newsie.socialHow a reporter uncovered the truth about some of those killed in US strikes on alleged drug boats | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-boat-strikes-drugs-cocaine-trafficking-e4fcf945e48e36bf2c510f9f111e031c
@cdarwin@c.imDonald Trump has announced trade talks with Canada will cease, claiming our northern neighbor “fraudulently” used an ad featuring the late Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
“The Ronald Reagan Foundation has just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement, which is FAKE, featuring Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about Tariffs,” Trump wrote on Truth Social late Thursday night.
He continued: “TARIFFS ARE VERY IMPORTANT TO THE NATIONAL SECURITY, AND…
