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Joined the Order Of Blocked By People I've Never Interacted With Or Heard Of, 2019/06/08

[Real Name @ExactlyBackward]

@_Vs_The_World Biometric security: not even once.

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

see also this, which is well put despite my substantive disagreement

https://t.co/Rbe7Gp5gGj

[Guy @nosilverv]

Hellll yes, fucking free for all. Cognitive wild west here we GOOOOOOO

[Real Name @ExactlyBackward]

@ded_ruckus i, too, doubt the 'exponential growth' tomfoolery, my worry is the more grounded "the statistical analysis combines with the existing surveillance state to make 'parallel construction' possible for *anything,* rendering 'privacy' both technically preserved and a moot point"

[Real Name @ExactlyBackward]

@eigenrobot broadly “the most dangerous time for a bad government is usually when it begins to reform”
https://t.co/sNdYf0ieYa

[eigenrobot @eigenrobot]

not sure how i feel about this overall but "gdp is the best measurement for flourishing etc" advocates really need to grapple with number go up --> for some reason people want to burn their countries to the ground now

[Canzone @Canzone25403266]

Lunch in the park
公園でランチ

#animation #art #cartoon #originalanimation #cute #shorts #애니 #애니메이션 #アニメ #作画

[ナカノソト @nakanosoto]

鴨川オオサンショウウオの貴重な帰宅シーン

[まに🍡Mani @Ma_Ni0122]

お面🦊

[BleepingComputer @BleepinComputer]

FBI: Russian hackers now target Signal backup recovery keys
https://t.co/VNHLj5kxbp

https://t.co/VNHLj5kxbp

[Shabazik @shabazik]

Kynokephaloi dog-head men, under human service.

.In greek folklore, they had a human face, with a dog head on the back… so I decided to play with that a bit for my #fantasy world, as I have Cynocephaly but no double head.

[Mariam @Gaismair]

Confederate jurisprudence is seldom discussed by lost causers in favor of focusing on the Union for very good reason.

It was a looney bin of presumptive guilt military tribunals. In one case a man was charged & convicted of a crime that did not exist under the confederate code

[Jack @tracewoodgrains]

there’s an interesting sort of center-left personality — this guy as exemplar — who acted as among the most aggressive and nasty enforcers of ideological orthodoxy among the Dems and are now faced with the unenviable task of trying to call things back from the brink

[삼중/모리코아(morikoa) @moriko38]

They are just kids

[井 @1041uuu]

えさやり体験

[Real Name @ExactlyBackward]

@tracewoodgrains maybe it's just a west-coast thing where public libraries and community centers are magnets for "those adults least able to control themselves." i still don't buy the "they only trash X because X is the only place they can control their environment" explanation.

[misato. @misato08280]

★彡

[Zuccnini 🏳️‍🌈 @zuccnini]

[oc] Worm readin, 2024

[QUINLAN📌 @16rabbits]

here is her sheep disguise

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

another cool thing about knights is that cs lewis wrote an essay about them

> The important thing about [chivalry] is, of course, the double demand it makes on human nature. The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, almost a maidenlike, guest in hall, a gentle, modest, unobtrusive man. He is not a compromise or happy mean between ferocity and meekness; he is fierce to the n-th and meek to the n-th. When Launcelot heard himself pronounced the best knight in the world, “he wept as he had been a child that had been beaten”.

...

> Let us be quite clear that the ideal is a paradox. Most of us, having grown up among the ruins of the chivalrous tradition, were taught in our youth that a bully is always a coward. Our first week at school refuted this lie, along with its corollary that a truly brave man is always gentle. It is a pernicious lie because it misses the real novelty and originality of the medieval demand upon human nature. Worse still, it represents as a natural fact something which is really a human ideal, nowhere fully attained, and nowhere attained at all without arduous discipline. It is refuted by history and experience. Homer’s Achilles knows nothing of the demand that the brave should also be the modest and the merciful. He kills men as they cry for quarter or takes them prisoner to kill them at leisure.

the argument here is something like chivalry was an extremely intentional attempt to engineer the archetype that we now know as the superhero or shonen protagonist, the hero in the modern and not the classical sense, and that this archetype is civilizationally significant

> The ideal embodied in Launcelot is “escapism” in a sense never dreamed of by those who use that word; it offers the only possible escape from a world divided between wolves who do not understand, and sheep who cannot defend, the things which make life desirable.

https://t.co/4EBpJSZMcT