axiologist

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by axiologist 9mo ago
I'd rather be concerned about friendly fire from our own. As an US American, i'd rather be concerned about big tech and government backdoors than anything else. Especially in the current atmosphere of doom inside the US.
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by axiologist 9mo ago
Direct link to the embedded video: https://youtu.be/z8Qv7zZBxq8
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by axiologist 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/0Q8kA
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What the World Got Wrong About Autistic People(psychologytoday.com)
10 points by axiologist 9mo ago|3 comments
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by axiologist 9mo ago
Quote: »Prejudice is one reason decades of research got autism so wrong. Researchers measured autistic people against neurotypical expectations and called every difference a deficit. They tested empathy by measuring in-group preference and
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Johannes Kepler(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by axiologist 9mo ago|2 comments
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by axiologist 9mo ago
Today is Johannes Kepler's birthday (27 December 1571 – 15 November 1630)
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by axiologist 10mo ago
https://xcancel.com/vmfunc/status/2003292986650853825
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by axiologist 10mo ago
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/john-lanchester/for-...
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by axiologist 10mo ago
Favorite quotation: »If you work a job where you do something useful, you are on the losing side of this economy. All the real money is in this socially useless, no-value-creating, hypertrophied, metastasized finance sector. Every gain in f
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by axiologist 10mo ago
Interesting perspective on the hard problem: »Consciousness, on this view, is not a thing to be explained. It is what physical processes look like from the inside — from the perspective of the system that those processes constitute. The har
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by axiologist 10mo ago
https://archive.is/vxcDS
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Accumulation by Dispossession(en.wikipedia.org)
21 points by axiologist 10mo ago|1 comments
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Passport(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by axiologist 1y ago|0 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
https://archive.ph/UR7cD
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by axiologist 1y ago
Closely related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44348016
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Chauvinism(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by axiologist 1y ago|0 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
https://archive.ph/oIWGI
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by axiologist 1y ago
https://archive.ph/wnEm4
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'Luxury' Originally Meant 'Lust'(merriam-webster.com)
3 points by axiologist 1y ago|1 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
»We associate luxury with comfort, quality, wealth, and aspiration. But it wasn’t always that way: the word originally meant lechery and lust in English.«
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Why Advertising Falls Flat in Individuals with Autism(psychologytoday.com)
6 points by axiologist 1y ago|2 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
»People with autism are better than the rest of us at filtering out extraneous contextual information in order to make rational economic decisions. For them, the package color and the products it is surrounded by are irrelevant to whether o
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Neural anticipation of virtual infection triggers an immune response(nature.com)
1 points by axiologist 1y ago|1 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
Abstract: Once contact with a pathogen has occurred, it might be too late for the immune system to react. Here, we asked whether anticipatory neural responses might sense potential infections and signal to the immune system, priming it for
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Missionaries using secret audio devices to evangelise Brazil's isolated peoples(theguardian.com)
15 points by axiologist 1y ago|8 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
Evangelical hubris in action, using tech to commit spiritual poisoning of defenseless people.
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Weltschmerz(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by axiologist 1y ago|1 comments
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by axiologist 1y ago
»Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts]; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, resulting in "a
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by axiologist 1y ago
https://archive.ph/R3Hbg

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