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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 2mo ago

... the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is, by way of the manifold consequences of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert Kennedy hacking away at American state capacity. The latest consequence can be heard in the groaning emanating from thousands of bathrooms across the country: the worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history. It deserves a name, so I’m calling it the MAHA Trots. https://prospect.org/2026/07/16/how-donald-trump-created-worst-diarrhea-outbreak-cyclosporiasis-food-safety/ #RyanCooper #MAHATrots #DPresident #uspol #USDisease

How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect
The American Prospect

How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century - The American Prospect

The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

"The politics are embedded into the characters and the narrative, which is a more sophisticated way of doing it"
> It makes you angry, not on your own behalf, but on behalf of the people whose voices weren't allowed to be heard. When you had trade unions, ordinary people, rank and file, never been on television, never been interviewed, and they're not allowed to be heard, that's scandalous.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Loach
#KenLoach #WorkingClassMovies #CensoredMovies

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

Probably 75,000 USA kid citizens.
Not that citizenship should matter for decency... the obligation to treat.kids and their caregivers well..
> A new analysis suggests that more than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown...
> The researchers estimated that about 205,000 children have had a parent detained — typically a precursor to deportation — including about 145,000 who are citizens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/us/brookings-institution-report-family-separations.html
#ICEThugs #USADeportationResearch
/HT #JeffreyStClair FB

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 7mo ago
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@rorystarr sometimes I wonder if he's part of the Alvin Toffler sort of "futurologist" genre. Business media must have an affinity for all sorts of "brightsided" bullshit.. it might be like heaven, keeps the drone workers focused on the next world and not the bullshit(meanjngless destructive work, long hours, low pay...) they have to put up with now.. I think Neil Postman mentioned how Toffler or somebody like that remained a highly paid speaker and guest in spite of being wrong about everything.
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 7mo ago
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@simulo@hci.social one of David Noble's books has a photo of him holding the only remaining (?) Luddite hammer.. _Progress Without People_ ?? I think he got to.it at the Smithsonia Institute but his event got closed down or something?
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 9mo ago
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Important Ax Work Year!!! 😂😂😂 #AxWork #AxWorkYear #AxWorkYear2026 (I hope you don't mind the tags, they'll help me find the post again later) Espero que no te molesten los "hashtags" quiero poder a encontrar la imagen después. @matiiob@mastodon.uy
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 11mo ago
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@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com @ki@chaos.social @johl@mastodon.xyz Sorry! I jumped in (nostalgic at seeing something by Eric Meyer after a couple years..) before seeing the .rip site without any script or ad-blockers.. Thought maybe I fell for a joke or something.. Even checking the source didn't show me much...
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 3mo ago
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オーウェルは、ニール・ポストマンが書いている通り、本が禁止された世界について警告した。ハクスリーはポストマンが書いている通り、誰も本を読もうとしない世界について警告した。オーウェルは永久戦争と恐怖の国家について警告した。ハクスリーは、頭を使う必要のない娯楽で気をそらさせられる文化について警告した。オーウェルは、あらゆる会話や思考が監視され、反対意見は過酷に懲罰される状態を警告した。ハクスリーは、国民が些事とゴシップに気を取られ、真実や情報など全く気にしないような状態を警告した。オーウェルは、人は脅されて、服従するのだと見ていた。ハクスリーは、人は誘惑されて、服従するのだと見ていた。だがハクスリーは単にオーウェルへの序曲に過ぎないということに我々は気づきつつある。ハクスリーは、我々が自らの隷属化に加担する過程を理解していた。オーウェルは隷属状態を理解していた。大企業によるクーデターが完遂されてしまった今、我々は裸で無防備のままだ。カール・マルクスが理解していたように、束縛もなく、規制もされない資本主義は、人類や自然界を枯渇、あるいは崩壊するまで搾取する、残虐で革命的な勢力であることを、我々は今理解し始めている。 #OrwellJa #PostmanJa #NeilPostmanJa

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 3mo ago
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ハクスリーが予見したように、肉体的な喜び、安物の大量生産商品、無限の掛売り、政治芝居や娯楽に、魅せられ、操作されて、大企業支配の国家によって、我々はじわじわと無力化されつつある。我々が楽しまされている間に、略奪的な大企業権力を抑制していた規制は撤廃され、かつて我々を守ってくれた法律は書き換えられ、我々は貧窮化した。貸付限度額は枯渇しつつあり、労働者階級にとって良い仕事は永遠に消え去り、大量生産される商品には手が届かず、我々は『すばらしい新世界』から『1984年』へと移動させられていることに気づいている。巨額の赤字や果てしない戦争や、大企業の背任行為によって機能を損なわれた国家は、破産に向かって滑り落ちつつある。ハクスリーの触覚映画や、オージー・ポージー(乱交最高)や遠心バンブル・パピー・ゲームから、ビッグ・ブラザーが引き継ぐ時が来たのだ。我々は、嘘と幻想で巧妙に操作される社会から、あからさまに支配される社会へと移動しつつあるのだ。 #ハクスリー #AldousHuxleyJa

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 2mo ago
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SoftBank is not the goose that lays the golden eggs. ARM Holdings is the goose. SoftBank’s profitable companies are the geese. They’re what produces the golden eggs. SoftBank is the goose’s greedy owner. SoftBank takes the money from its successful companies like ARM and sets the money on fire at WeWork and now OpenAI. Son is making out he is the AI-powered golden goose...SoftBank is not a golden goose, it’s not a factory... “The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs” is a cautionary fable about greed being bad. #GreedyEggs #ARMEgg #SoftBankGreed

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 5mo ago
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@mhoye It's devils all the way up!?? I 'd rather keep going down: turtles are probably better company...
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

Walking talking Money SackBag:
"Higher Value Human CapTal" 😂😂

> “‘Taken out of context’ is the oldest deflection in the book. If you’re cutting 15% of your workforce, the ‘building skills for new opportunities’ line doesn’t land—it insults people’s intelligence.”
https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/standard-chartered-ceo-bill-winters-apologizes-calling-some-workers-lower-value-human-capital-ai-push/
#LowerValueHumanCapital #HumanMoneySackBag #BillWinters #FinancialLeader
/HT #JeffreyStClair

After receiving backlash, the CEO of Standard Chartered apologizes for hurt over saying ‘lower value human capital’ will be automated by AI | Fortune
Fortune

After receiving backlash, the CEO of Standard Chartered apologizes for hurt over saying ‘lower value human capital’ will be automated by AI | Fortune

Bill Winters, the CEO of Standard Chartered, says about 15% of “back office” corporate function roles will be reduced in the next four years.

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

> He danced and sang from morn till night,
No lark so blithe as he.
And this the burden of his song,
For ever used to be:
I care for nobody, no, not I,
If nobody cares for me.

https://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/Music_P_files/P026_Miller.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_of_Dee
#MillerPoem #MillerSong #MillerOfDee #EPGDM #EP3 #EP3p185

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The Miller of Dee

Listen to The Miller of Dee, a traditional English folk song with lyrics and sheet music

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

> 2021年5月、ガーディアン紙の記事で、ブレット・クリストファースは、マルムの主張をこう紹介した。産業革命時に工場経営者が動力を水力から蒸気に切り替えたのは、蒸気のほうが安価だったからではなく、より多くの利益を生むからであった。蒸気機関の導入によって、生産者側は原動機を設置するにあたり、水力で不可欠だった水源にかんする地理的制約から解放され、安価な労働力のそばに工場を建設することができるようになったことが特に大きかったのである。
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/アンドレアス・マルム

#AndreasMalm #FossilCapital
#アンドレアスマルム #蒸気機関

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

"A poem is an activity, seeking to become itself. All behavior (or activity as I prefer to say: see _Speculative Instruments_ pp. 118-22) or organisms is organic. But, of course it must be _activity_. When we fall downstairs that is not activity; going up them is. "
-- I.A. Richards #PoetriesAndSciences pp. 108-109

This line, and maybe a similar on somewhere else helps fill out my aversion to the word _behavior.. Falling down the steps if behavior, going up them is activity.. 'behavior' for the physics-level, 'activity' for biology levels and up..

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#PoetriesAndSciences - Fedibird

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 4mo ago

> "Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you—they can’t turn you away."
#InOnePerson by #JohnIrving on #SmallTowns #APlaceForEveryOne

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#InOnePerson - Fedibird

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 3mo ago

米国独立250年 さまよえる超大国 7月4日、米国が独立250年を迎える。1776年のこの日、大陸会議が英国からの独立宣言を採択したからだ。自由・平等・幸福の追求が人間の天賦の権利だと高らかにうたった独立宣言とうらはらに、米国は、強大な軍事力と経済力を背景に世界に君臨してきた。だが、米国一極支配にも陰りがみえはじめた。わたしたちは米国とどのように向き合うべきなのだろうか。 https://www.kinyobi.co.jp/tokushu/004317.php

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特集:米国独立250年さまよえる超大国|週刊金曜日公式サイト

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 1mo ago
At the August BDays gathering on of the Bini (a young care-worker from the Philippines, Bagon Bayani!) brought a blue tooth microphone for Karaoke through cell phones. Euphoric fun around the meal table ensued. Grace did "Where's the Love" by the Black Eyed Peas^1. A fellow USAian did Wildflowers^2 by Dolly Parton. Good to learn! I got a Mom and Dad from the Vietnamese families to do Sac Mau. Got to be reminded. https://tiksi.net/wiki/bsmall2/DigitalGarden/SacMauSong #SacMau ^1 https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeyedpeas/whereisthelove.html ^2 Dolly Parton: Wild Flower https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NX9UuRyt0E I like "Little Swallow too.

Dolly Parton - Wildflowers w/lyrics

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 9mo ago
Replying to
I feel the same way, but I've been meeting a lot of people that seem to learn from "reels " or whatever... I'm starting to wonder if it's some sort of Howard Gardner "Multiple Intelligences" sort of thing!?!?? @Alice@beige.party
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 11mo ago
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@mark@mastodon.fixermark.com @ki@chaos.social @johl@mastodon.xyz Eric Meyer:

I have my own biases around this — some of them in direct conflict with each other! — but my focus here will be on what’s happened so far and what might lie ahead... It’s not hard to see where they got that impression, given some of the things Google has done over the years, but that’s not what’s happening here. Not at this point. I’d like to set some records straight, as an outside observer of both Google and the issue itself. https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2025/08/22/no-google-did-not-unilaterally-decide-to-kill-xslt/

No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT
meyerweb.com

No, Google Did Not Unilaterally Decide to Kill XSLT

The Web Discourse has been spicy of late, and XSLT is to blame. Well, sort of. It’s complicated.

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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 6mo ago
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@stux@mstdn.social My guess is that coding, regardless of employment prospects, should be decent for learning. It can help learners with accuracy, like Bertrand Russel thought math did for people.. And then the HTDP people talk about a design process for learning Racket that can serve as the core of a liberal arts program... Learning to be in command of your computer can also ease one into the history of math and and how people developed ideas... It should help us to enjoy thinking, not to avoid thinking..
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bsmall2 @bsmall2@fedibird.com
· 11mo ago
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@sysop408@sfba.social @hagen@mastodon.social I'd love to find someone like you near me... It would be great to have the skill and patience to do it myself but my time and effort goes into other fields... The Freedom Box and the Debian initiative are fascinating but there's always something, like getting a fixed IP address that is just too much detail. To bring people in if local schools or towns could provide free Fediverse accounts, even just the Hubzilla option (for everything) I could do awareness and coaching from there...
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