Joanne Valentine-Cooper

I'm a little weird, just like everyone else.

Also experimenting with ' (but not much)

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@willquinnart What do you mean, they can't see their blanket? I can see it just fine. All of the cats are clearly visible, after all.

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

"You have been studying capitalization for years" might be the greatest line of code ever written

[千ㄖ乂 🦊 @FoxGazerTales]

Foxes are the cutest animals ever

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@KrisSchnee This sounds like it well illustrates why I have problems finding friends on either side, because my answer to that question is "no, but also yes". Human nature doesn't change per se, but how folks respond to it does. Murder used to be No Big Deal, after all. It's a slow process.

[6ɪx✦ @ok6ixx]

I'm a substitute teacher and I just discovered why the regular teacher left me a note that said "don't believe anything about the rabbit." I made the mistake of asking about the empty rabbit cage in the corner. Immediately 23 third-graders started talking at once. The stories included: the rabbit is in witness protection, the rabbit escaped and is running the black market from the cafeteria, the rabbit was actually a spy, the rabbit retired to Florida, and my personal favorite, "the rabbit achieved enlightenment and no longer needs a physical form." I asked what the rabbit's actual name was and got seven different answers. I checked with the teacher later and she was like "there has never been a rabbit. I put the empty cage there on the first day by accident and they created an entire mythology. I can't get rid of it now, they're too attached to the lore." There's a classroom full of kids mourning a rabbit that never existed.

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

This is the US government potentially going down a neo-Lysenkoism path, in which Politically Acceptable Science is dictated by the state rather than by peer review merit.

An Urgent Threat to the Foundation of Federal Science Funding https://t.co/0VrVojyo7f via @EntsocAmerica

[lıquıdprısm 🜄 @liquidprismata]

this does indeed seem an absurd desire that begot this desire path… IF you assume the path was caused by the desires of organisms just like you — i.e., bipedal human ambulators

but then you realize this path is the most natural desire in the world for a DIFFERENT type of organism: one with a much different affordance/constraint topology than that occupied by those of “similar mind”…

bicycles!

this pattern is isomorphic to the general prısmatıc variation which differentiates all humans. if ever you see an “absurd desire”, remember… perhaps you just don't understand how their affordances & constraints differ from your own to produce such (ostensibly) aberrant behavior

[Columbus Blue Jackets @BlueJacketsNHL]

Now, if you'll just look right here...

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

RT @BlueJacketsNHL: Columbus Blue Jackets President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Don Waddell and All-Star defenseman Zach Weren…

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@AllisonTheVixen It could be a whole hell of a lot worse.

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@ToxicLeafsFan @DarrenDreger Or we've been getting a distorted view of the whole thing from Day 1.

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@LILawdawg @Buccigross Why are we bothering to talk about "getting something"? Everyone who comes here either dies or runs away, so "getting something" is a worthless exercise. Keep 'em here out of spite.

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@findadam @Buccigross @sarah____kent It's been clearly demonstrated that we're not allowed to have nice things, so I'd rather keep them for the whole of their contracts out of sheer g-ddamn spite.

[千ㄖ乂 🦊 @FoxGazerTales]

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[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@edgaralandough Really what we need are more respect for the lower-intensity words. Fractures aren't wholly broken bones and soreness isn't a damaged muscle, but they're still things to be wary of and not overlook because the one can still lead to the other if the cause is unaddressed.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Lukewarm take: we need to stop using mental health/therapy buzzwords in day to day life. Not everyone you dislike is a narcissist. Being sad doesn’t mean you’re depressed. There’s a resounding difference between being nervous and having anxiety. You’re not ADHD because you don’t like to sit still. You’re not autistic because you’re quirky. OCD doesn’t mean you’re organized. And for the love of all that is holy, not every situation that made you uncomfortable is “trauma”.

[Joanne Valentine-Cooper @Viqsin]

@AllisonTheVixen Made that same choice months and months ago (even tho I help *run* a politics discussion site); kind of had to if I wanted to survive. Good luck and G-dspeed.

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