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#humanity

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Aral Balkan

We cannot rely on the US to protect or nurture the commons. Think of the US as a giant shopping mall with guns. That’s it. That’s the whole philosophy right there.

We want to safeguard the infrastructure of civilisation, we have to do it ourselves here in the EU before it’s too late. And we can start by acknowledging our own failures and redoubling our commitment to fundamental rights and democracy (and not limit our own potential by having every single decision framed by the fucking “Single Market”).

You want to end up like the US? Then let’s keep going as we are. You want something different? We must invest in the commons, embrace our diversity, embrace equity, and move to an inclusive, post-capitalist existence.

It’s up to us. The bacteria in places we haven’t even visited yet that will survive long after we’ve made ourselves extinct – should that be the route we decide to take (because yes, it is a decision) – don’t really give two shits either way.

#EU#US#capitalism
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TECC

✊You, the people, have the power!✊

#Dictators rise and fall. They rule with #fear, they divide, they suppress. But as #CharlieChaplin said in The Great Dictator:

"You, the people, have the power – the power to create machines, the power to create #happiness!"

This speech was true then, and it is true now. The world has changed, but human nature has not.

🔥 Stand against fear. Fight for #humanity. The power is in our hands! 🔥

#democracy#war#usa
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Aral Balkan

Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

#AI#VibeCoding#design
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Aral Balkan

Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”

bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r

Who needs a giant asteroid when we have these assholes?

www.bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host climate talks in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.
#habitat#humanity#fools
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MadeInDex 📰🌎

Who here feels like they are subjectively too NICE? Or that it might be better for themselves to be less NICE? 🙂

(This question focuses on your personal feelings, not the impact on the world)

· 107 people · Closed
#Poll#Emotions#Feelings
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Priceless Planet

Do you know about ROBIN HOOD ARMY!?

It's an organization that accepts no money and feeds the poor people through, fit to eat leftover food and also other resources.

Working in 13 countries currently.
#India #Pakistan #Malaysia #Nepal #Srilanka
#Nigeria #Uganda #Zambia #Bahrain #Bangladesh #Botswana #Indonesia #Guinea

• No funds ✨
• Apolitical ✨
• Non-Religious ✨

tradelessearth.wordpress.com/r

Boost to spread this movement! ✊☮️

#MutualAid #robinhoodarmy #apolitical #anarchist
#atheist #atheism #nofunds #zerofunds #volunteer #volunteering #Community #abolishmoney #feedthepoor #foodwastage #climatechange #Freeeconomy #resourcebasedeconomy #rbe #ubi #gifteconomy #openaccesseconomy #freeworld #eattherich #tradelesssociety #moneylesssociety #humanity

Tradeless Earth · Running VoluntarilyRobin Hood Army “The Robin Hood Army is a volunteer based, zero-funds organization that works to get surplus food from restaurants and the community to serve less fortunate people.” Swa…
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killing.more.people.is.worse

@jopy @dozymoe @kmpiw@kolektiva.social @kmpiw@mastodon.social @palestine @israel

You don't know what #Hamas or #terrorism are, and you seem to be very out of touch with #humanity or you have a very narrow definition of who counts as human?

About 7 countries regard "Hamas" as a terror group. Most of humanity – including many people in those countries, including me – don't regard a doctor connected to Hamas as a terrorists.

It would not be valid to target an Israeli medic for being a member of #Likud (a direct descendant of the #Irgun and #Lehi #terrorist groups) or an #IDF reservist, or even a military medic, because all medics are forbidden as targets, regardless of political affiliation, and even if they are medics in the military.

There is actually nothing wrong with doctors being connected to Gaza government. Somewhere like #ShifaHospital was a government hospital. It's entirely normal and expected for doctors there to be connected to Hamas, that doesn't mean it's a terror facility, that means it's a goddamn public hospital. It was run in cooperation with the PA in Ramallah, but at times Fatah affiliates were discouraged from working there by #Abbas

#Hamas were severely over due for an election, but less over due than Abbas. When Hamas' Change and Reform list won the election, Israel (seemingly determined to maintain their status as the only country who are allowed to have a democracy in the Middle East) declared the entire electoral list a terrorist organization, which included at least one Christian. The Change and Reform Christian won the Christian reserved seat in #GazaCity on the Hamas list. Maybe Americans hate #Hamas for doing #DEI that favours #Christians ?

Also, for a bit of perspective on whether "member of ruling party" says much about a doctor's allegiance or character, Dr Li Wenliang – the infamous COVID whistle-blower – was a member of the #CPC (aka CCP) bbc.com/news/world-asia-559638 but strangely, despite claiming to be communist, China has even less public health care than most liberal countries, but that's also another story.

memorial to Dr Li
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Pottery by Osa

#Ethiopian #artist Tesfaye Urgessa
hopes to generate compassion with his #paintings: “I don’t think most people do wrong or evil things because of a deficiency of information, it’s a deficiency of experience and they don’t know what it means to be in the other position. Painting has the ability to show experience without verbal communication. That’s what I’m trying to do.”
artsy.net/article/artsy-editor
#blackart #humanity #neoexpressionism

Artsy · The Artsy Vanguard 2023–2024: Tesfaye UrgessaEthiopian painter Tesfaye Urgessa, who portrays long-limbed bodies in his action-packed canvases, is featured in The Artsy Vanguard 2023.
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