Adrian Czarkowski

Mostly a sportive G͎͓̘eek̞̝͔̺̠̯

[Dr. Friedrich Pürner, MPH @DrPuerner]

Da reibt man sich als Abgeordneter ungläubig die Augen: Eigentlich war die Chat-Kontrolle vom Tisch. Doch kurz vor der Sommerpause – während alle die Badeutensilien packen und auf die Fußball-WM schielen – schiebt die Parlamentspräsidentin das Thema klammheimlich wieder auf die Agenda. Natürlich unter anderem Namen. Heute wird also abgestimmt, ob das Ganze am Donnerstag zur Abstimmung kommt. Realsatire pur.
Und tatsächlich: Das Dringlichkeitsverfahren wird angenommen – am Donnerstag wird nun in der Sache selbst entschieden, das Manöver ist aufgegangen. Unglaublich!

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

Nobuo Uematsu's work in "Final Fantasy" helped ease me into classical music.

Bill Waterson's work in "Calvin & Hobbes" helped me embrace fine art.

The linguistic genius of rappers like Common helped me love Shakespeare.

Don't listen to people who hate pop culture, and don't be afraid of "high art."

You have the capacity to enjoy both, and chances are you're doing it already.

[Adrian Czarkowski @Atzeloth]

@kangminlee the fun thing is that, as far as I am aware, Korea is the only place where Christianity took root not due to someone doing missionary work and preaching, but the first korean christians actually converted themselves after reading a bible they stumbled upon

[Akua Reindorf KC @akuareindorf]

One of the many odd things about transactivism is how it accommodates both the idea that you can’t tell whether someone’s a woman by how well they perform femininity and the idea that a trans identified man can prove he’s a woman by demonstrating how well he performs femininity.

[DJI @DJIGlobal]

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[Mehdi (e/λ) @BetterCallMedhi]

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock

my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive

when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost

what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise

I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily

the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing…

China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally

so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine

the gap is ARCHITECTURAL

it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks

it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study…

and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now

BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee

I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one

Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure
Merz at least had the courage to name

it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster

[Allie Beth Stuckey @conservmillen]

Everyone should read the book, “When Children Became People” by historian OM Bakke.

In it, he explains how the ancient pagan world justified the slaughter and mistreatment of children. Scholars believed at the time that a person’s worth was determined primarily by their possession of the “logos” or their ability to reason. Only the adult free male were thought to have the fullness of rational capacity, so women, slaves, and children were seen as inherently less-than. Children got the worst of it, as they were considered in the same category as animals and barbarians.

Thus, children were, without qualm, aborted, murdered, trafficked and objectified. Unwanted newborns were left to die on what were called “exposure hills.” Babies would be left there —alive and screaming— to be exposed to the elements until they died.

But about 2,000 years ago, the perspective on children started to change. Eventually, the practice of infanticide was stigmatized, then criminalized, then replaced— with orphanages, hospitals, and other means by which desperate parents could ensure their babies were cared for.

Children became people. Slowly but surely, they went from a class of sub-humans to be discarded and oppressed to a special category of vulnerability deserving of love.

Those of us in the West consider this sentiment the norm. Even with our raging debates on abortion and other child-centered issues, the Western instinct is still to show compassion for the child above and beyond the compassion we show for adults.

But it was not always so, and it is not so in most of the world today. The game changer for children— and the impoverished, the sick, the elderly, slaves, and women— two millennia ago was Christianity.

Christians changed how the world saw children.

This strange and persistent group worshiped a man named Jesus, whom they claimed to be God. Yet unlike the pagan gods of the day, their God came to earth in weakness and meekness.

In fact, He arrived first as an embryo. He was heralded by the kicks of a newborn John the Baptist. He was worshiped by angels and wise men as an infant. And, against the protestations of His disciples, insisted: “Let the children come to me, for such as these belong the Kingdom of Heaven.”

This Jesus had another name— one with which the pagan scholars at the time would have been familiar: Logos. The Word.

Pagan scholars said “logos” determines a person’s worth. But the Logos said, “Your worth is defined by me.”

Christians popularized the concept of the Imago Dei — that all people are equally valuable just because they are people. And they preached this radically equalizing gospel that said that all people are dead in sin apart from Christ but all can be made alive in Him.

Christians, through this message, because of Jesus, completely changed how the world saw people.

You cannot have all the things we cherish in the West: compassion, dignity, human rights, and forgo the foundation upon which these things are built.

Look to the non-Western world today and see the unbroken chain of oppressing women and children.

Perhaps so-called “Christian nationalism” isn’t the bogeyman you should be most afraid of.

Something to consider.

[Colin Gorrie @colingorrie]

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

The Spelling of our Tongue was in the main ſettled ere the eighteenth Century, & the Grammar has ſuffer'd but little Alteration ſince. Yet before this happy Settlement, things were exceeding ſtrange.

In Shakeſpeares dayes, ſpelling was much more variable, & you ſhall finde notable differences in the grammar: "thou" could bee intimate or inſulting, depending vpon whom you ſayd it to; to chooſe amiſse had conſequences.

Wende we now tuo hundred ȝeer bifore, to Chauceres tyme. It seemeth ȝit as Englisshe, but it nis nat esy to reden withouten greet connynge.

Yet tuo hundred wintre er, sone after þat the Normans comen to þis londe, is Englisch on muchel wandlunge. Þe tunges work is tobroken, Frensce wordes comeþ in, and þe writunge is al totwemed.

Þy furðor þu underbæc færst, þy gelicor biþ Englisc gesewen þære Deniscan spræce. Englisce bec þæs m. geare ne mæg nan mann rædan buton he sundorlice geleornad sy.

[Possum Reviews @ReviewsPossum]

Stripping female characters of their feminine traits and making them androgynous because you're afraid of the "male gaze" or perpetuating "girls wear pink" tropes is actually deeply anti-woman because it implies femininity is shameful and inferior to masculinity, and you're allowing the very historical oppression you claim to be undoing to influence your creative decisions.

[Luke Coffey @LukeDCoffey]

“We need Greenland for national security”

“We need Greenland for natural resources”

“Greenland is in our backyard”

“The people of Greenland aren’t governed well”

Now replace “Greenland” with “Crimea” and you have Kremlin talking points about Ukraine.

This is a problem.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

People often say that the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole their resources.

The truth, however, is that over the past century, the developing world has, for the most part, shown that they are completely incapable of harnessing their own resources. They are not poor because we stole from them. They are poor because they do not know how to run and administer their own countries, resources be damned.

Take Venezuela. The world's largest oil reserves mean nothing if you have a corrupt communist as your leader. People will actually be starving and trying to eat zoo animals while you sit on trillions of dollars in resources!

Africa is another example. Europeans left behind farmland, trains, roads, and mines in Africa. What happened to it all?

It's not that all of a sudden, the Africans started running things like anti-colonialist activists had envisioned at the time. No, no.

All the infrastructure fell into disrepair and/or was stripped down and looted. They were literally handed fully functioning, completed supply chains for resource extraction, and basically unlimited wealth, but they couldn't manage the simple upkeep.

Now, the defense for Africa might be that "The Europeans didn't teach the Africans how to manage any of this! It's not the Africans' fault they couldn't run it independently! They were never trained!"

But my brother in Christ, the Europeans DID try to train locals for management! Obviously it would have been easier to have at least some locals in administration, rather than having to import an ENTIRE workforce, but efforts to find African talent were largely unsuccessful.

Don't believe me? Just look at the different outcomes in Hong Kong and Singapore when compared to Africa. In East Asia, Europeans often did work with locals in administrative and management capacities. When colonialism ended, Hong Kong and Singapore were able to manage themselves. Not the case with Africa.

Now, none of this is to say that colonialism is good. People have the right to self-rule and seld-determination. However, the idea that colonialism and resources extraction are responsible for the developing world's ongoing poverty? That is quite simply a crock of shit.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

Huawei spent $1.5B recreating 12 european villages for their R&D campus because studies show historic architecture improves creativity and wellbeing.

meanwhile western tech companies build glass boxes and wonder why everyone’s depressed.
the civilization that invented beauty forgot why it matters

[Artem Shapiro @MetaDumplings]

Rig test

[Meaghan Mobbs @mobbs_mentality]

Her hand rising toward her mouth in that final moment is unbearably innocent - it is an instinctive, childlike gesture, the same movement a child makes when startled or frightened. It speaks to the most basic human impulse to seek comfort, to shield oneself, to hold fear inside when words cannot come.

Curled into herself, wide-eyed and defenseless, she embodies pure vulnerability, a young woman suddenly stripped of safety and choice.

The world is reacting to this photo because in that fleeting, innocent gesture we recognize the universal cry for mercy - and the unbearable tragedy of it being denied.

[Adrian Czarkowski @Atzeloth]

Finished my current playthrough after 136h. What a ride... #N7

[Adrian Czarkowski @Atzeloth]

@voneverecs Indeed 😁

[Thunderroar Studio @ThunderRoarTeam]

And here is TOPH!
we just finished another ATLA character for our fanart project.
Planned to do some animation afterward!

[Cards of History @GodPlaysCards]

They rode with ferocious speed to save Western civilization.

Would they arrive on time to save Europe when all seemed lost?

The ground shook as they thundered across the battlefield, lowering their lances and bracing for impact…

[Adrian Czarkowski @Atzeloth]

@DudespostingWs “If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.”