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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange It is deeply sad and chliiing. Fundamental to societal cohesion and health is people safely talking with and greeting strangers. Even simple things like a nod or smile. This article adds to the already toxic head- and smart-phone indulgences that put self ahead of others.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

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@cdarwin@c.im Imagine just a few conditions for owning something outrageously expensive (that is utterly at odds with the stark poverty reality of BILLIONS on this planet) ... ... such as mandated rescue equipment and staff

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@vicfroh@mastodon.social How convenient that the bible is open to interpretation. But that means it communicates poorly.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@alice@lgbtqia.space I talk with strangers wherever I go. I try, mostly go good effect, to treat all I might without judgement. As equals in a way. Buddhist concept of acceptance without judgement. It makes chat lighter and warmer.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@cwebber@social.coop The complete absence of care for ANYTHING except money making is way into criminal territory in my view. The decision makers behind this are toxic to our species and the planet.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@petergleick@fediscience.org Ultimately, we started the path to the end of our civilisation when people could acquire wealth and power. And corporations like lumbering slow changing behemoths that are beholden to shareholders and actually not allowed to care about anything else. It is all insane.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca @vicfroh@mastodon.social Very, very well put. Indeed! And how such a powerful being could not just at least try to keep it up to date. The bible story plagiarised anyway. Signature of myth all the way thr9ough. As for a trick played out innocent Eve that angered this deity so much that he went into the largest ever level of disproportionate punishment in the form of 'original sin'. Quite how we can be born sinful without doing a sinful deed ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt Like arranging the deckchairs on the Titanic ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@randahl@mastodon.social In most jobs that would be a dismissal offence

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@petergleick@fediscience.org Exponential curves start slowly ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social Excellent! Deeply frustrating and wrong that the media and politicians continuously talk incorrectly about tax. And added to that is that the notion of 'taxing' is negative. I prefer 'civilised Society contribution' to 'tax'.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@TJ1001@mastodonapp.uk Reform is in fact same-old-fraud spearheaded by pathologically greedy and uncaring Farage. Yet another in power of sorts fully exploiting that power to the selfish hilt.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

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@wikipedia@wikis.world And uniquely beautifully.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@BathNature@ecoevo.social Utterly fabulous. Wings as canvases.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social That I did not know. And the sheer audacity coupled with stupid implausibility to attribute to their deity absolute power and compassion. Yet somehow resorts to 'mysterious ways' when the vast ocean of suffering on this planet does not engage that infinite compassion.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@jeffowski@mastodon.world The very conception of corporations was evil - to be REQUIRED not to care about environmental damage if that compromised dividend to shareholders was insane.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@TJ1001@mastodonapp.uk Yup. Classic snake oil salesman. Silver tongued bastard. Imagine being like that, knowing you are conning people all the time. Then living with yourself.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@greenpeace@mastodon.social That Norway is on fire is probably the most scary of these. It is guaranteed not to be fixed because the Corporations of the Capitalist machine were configured to avoid any need to care. About anything. Except shareholder dividends. Juggernauts racing to the end of civilisation and a scarred planet in the process.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@benroyce@mastodon.social It is like they do not care ... ... but when was a Capitalist system ever about caring and not about capitalising?

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange But point is that they are NOT programmed in the original procedural sense. The developers do not know how they will behave.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@MugsysRapSheet@mastodon.social Wealth seemingly so often mindlessly 'burdened' by a perceived need to keep every last cent. As if you will never spend it ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@c_gajewski@mastodon.social I am autistic - AuDHD as it is commonly termed - met and talked with a fellow AuDHD today. Deep connection with palpable warmth and meaning. This is often a defining nature of those receiving greater sensory data - and by corollary, I get relentlessly saddened when non-Autistics perceived and connect at a shallow level. It feels like they have miss great depth in life experience. But a downside is that this can often overwhelm ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@ErikUden@mastodon.de Systematically conditioned into that herb behaviour. If you have any doubt about the power of indoctrination, look at religious people and even the public in Israel - soaked in propaganda from an early age t appeatrs.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@MarciaW@ohai.social One day the Capitalist model that got corrupted into chasing profit ahead of all other considerations will be exposed and deposed. Reveals a chilling aspect of the nature of too many in powerful positions. And how the positions themselves amplify these evil natures.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@anderseknert@swecyb.com They are so annoying. And of course pointlessly small. In similar vein, the song next and previous navigation controls in Spotify on my android device are all cramped. As if fingers were thin like pencils. Do they not observe users using their software?

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@Nonilex@masto.ai The lazy, unfounded presumption that the bible is all truth and not a multi-authored set of stores and morals. Mandating that it be read is all wrong.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@KarenKasparArt@socel.net Excellent painting. A photo on my wall of such flowers has the same feel.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@NotTheLBCGuy@mstdn.social A fellow I met here in Cardiff works at the Sennedd as a speech writer. Has worked in Westminster. Describes it as toxic because of the people and the rats. But more than that, it is the plethora of access routes for industry to lobby and bribe and pay their way into politics. It is a systemically corrupt place.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@whophd@ioc.exchange @paulschoe@mastodon.world Thanks Christian. Oxytocin is generally seen as the family bonding hormone as it is released in parents to bring them together. But it also increases aggression to outsiders - support and protection twin needs for new parents. I just hate the wielding of privilege that many 'groups' acquire. To be able to preach to all in a busy shopping centre about a mythical God is allowed ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@whophd@ioc.exchange @paulschoe@mastodon.world This detail is very generous of you - and VERY rare these days. We are in a lazy tick-box culture where even intelligent people succumb. From my view, the Jews are a kind of big cohesive family. Not a state. Much as humanitarians as I try to be are a kind if family united in a cause, not a state. Antisemitism has been leveraged as political and accusary mechanism. I could accuse religious zealots who try to convert me as anti-non-deityists.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@whophd@ioc.exchange @paulschoe@mastodon.world Not too sure what you are saying here. There are times where my mind goes a bit dim ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social Just so many flaws in the myth as reality push.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3w ago

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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social Mostly good point, but taxing them out of existence is a bad conclusion to seek - the system is at fault where vast wealth can be accumulated on the backs of the efforts of others. Inequality not tax avoidance is the key symptom to address with billionaires.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@ketan@climatejustice.social Yet again private profiteering mania damages the environment.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Mass migration towards, eventually, Scandinavia will surely just ramp up. Intolerable temperatures and these deeply fast and destructive wildfires give the people little choice. All while immigration is increasingly tightened up. What will give?

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange I already explained. It is NOT programmed. It uses neural networks and vast amounts of data and training of these networks. Read about it please rather than continuously challenging what I am saying.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social 75 MILLION! Who the hell is posting them? And why?

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@broadwaybabyto@zeroes.ca Human brains love to economise - so instant judgement rather then a deeper understanding tends to happen a lot. And how many schools teach and train us to be able to move beyond impulse?

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@junesim63@mstdn.social And why the mindless destruction? Why not at least reuse the material!!! Are they that narrow in their thinking?

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Ongoing, externally managed tests for fascism, fraud etc would have long since jailed Trump. US system of governance stinks of malpractice whichever aspect you look at.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@tayfonay@beige.party @blogdiva@mastodon.social Human species so really, really, really easily revert to pathological greed obsession.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange AI developers are also responsible. But that still does not mean they can know how it does what it does. Really truly! Not knowing how it works - how it does each thing it does in a generalised pattern matching tool armed with a vast LLM - means that developers do not have full control.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

We have reached a catastrophic tipping point in #climatechange - where mass migration to cooler climates becomes a much more likely necessity and not just a desirable. Impossible to remotely fully grasp the devastation being wreaked very fast and very broadly in Spain and France. Imagine the billions pumped into destroying land and people in wars was spent helping fight climate change ...

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@MarciaW@ohai.social Very much so. But it did not start quite so bad - mom and pop stores where money went back into the community was replaced by same-everywhere shops of big businesses. It is destroying the planet and human mindsso fast and human

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@cR0w@infosec.exchange It is - in a way. But it is also staggeringly powerful. It is finding protein folding mechanisms that have eluded humans. But we also do not know how a human works. The genius in your department has to be trusted. Not all are reckless. Not all AI is reckless.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@DeliaChristina@sfba.social Often, it seems, those with the thick hide needed to rise to positions of power are by consequence mostly lacking all consideration for others. And it is brutal types like this who then exploit power to the hilt.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@jmcrookston@mastodon.social Many thanks. And of course the Old Testament is casually disregarded by some. For obvious reasons.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 3d ago

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@Sheril@mastodon.social Absolutely. And the 'right' (wrong, not right) do not wan to spare any of their hoards on even these precious institutions. Local library has toddler and parent singing that blows me away each time. It is a 'community' hub - that thing that the rich in their gated residential silos seemingly just do not get.

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Neil Moffatt @NicelyManifest@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@ketan@climatejustice.social Such dangerous baboons should be sent to the front line in France or Spain fighting fast approaching wild fires. Maybe we will get to a point where critically ill informed judgements broadcast by those with access to the public ear get duly punished. Imagine 3 strikes and you are out for Trump on just the simple matter of truthful statements...

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