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BDG View: Inner Freedom and Outward Resistance: Buddhism in Times of Tyranny
🔗 Read here: https://tinyurl.com/2zpt7ra9
#Buddhism#Buddha#Commentary#Politics#Trump#USA#Ethics#Compassion#Activism
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BDG View: Inner Freedom and Outward Resistance: Buddhism in Times of Tyranny
🔗 Read here: https://tinyurl.com/2zpt7ra9
#Buddhism#Buddha#Commentary#Politics#Trump#USA#Ethics#Compassion#Activism
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Generative AI isn’t delivering on its promises, but that hasn’t stopped governments from turning it into a geopolitical football.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @timnitGebru to discuss the state of AI in 2025 and how it continues to sustain the hype.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/267_ai_hype_enters_its_geopolitics_era_w_timnit_gebru
[Laughs through tears]
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@georgetakei
These years Americans are free to choose from benign incompetence, malevolent incompetence, or feckless incompetence. That's how the votes fall. Amusingly enough, the #YOB (Yuge Orange Buffoon) checks all three boxes, though mostly the malign box.
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FREE community #fediscience, please BOOST!
Everybody welcome, just turn up!
LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM
🌘Tues Feb 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌑
Erica Lagalisse
'On Anarchist Anthropology' in conversation with our own activist and radical anthropologist Chris Knight.
Erica is author of 'Occult Features of Anarchism' (PM Press, 2019). And many many popular anthropology zines!
Erica will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak
#anarchism #anthropology #politics #activism #ethnography #conspiracytheory #religion
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If you know of or are involved with an organization that helps people in a way that the #TrumpAdministration doesn't approve of, and the org is worried about continuing to do their work while protecting their employees, volunteers, and clients, I am happy to meet for free with the org to work through with them what their threat model is and how they can improve their security posture. They can reach out to me on Signal at jik.87. Please 
for reach.
#politics#USPol #resist
for reach.#politics#USPol #resist
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Andy Haldane (Royal Society of Arts, writing in the FT) argues the UK should reform its regulative culture to join the US & focus on forgiveness rather than permission;
so writes a man who likely has never suffered a loss due to rapacious financial service operators, had to rent from an exploitative landlord, or found himself stolen from by scammers;
its always the comfortable middle-class who champion deregulation & a shift to higher risk; strangely never the victims!
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I agree with Martha Gill, it would be a really positive move if our political class actually listened to what people really think about immigration, and were not so influenced by the vocal minority who think migrants are a problem....
Actually we manage integration pretty well, we value the contribution migrants make to our society & actually would welcome more..... however, that's not the story that dominates, but it should!
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New to the platform - looking for folks into #folk #folklore #folkmusic #darkfolk #musicadvocacy #oralhistory #politics #electronicmusic #environment
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One person anywhere, no matter how insignificant, who refuses to think as they have been ordered to think acts as a goad to the tiny people of authoritarian government.
The present and the future are always in YOUR hands.
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BDG View: TikTok, Shifting Platforms, and Global Community
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/28d4324p
#buddhism #socialmedia #digitalmedia #politics #geopolitics #china #usa #commentary #ethics #interconnected #internet #privacy
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China’s forced boarding schools for Tibetan children are aiming to erase their cultural identity, with children subjected to political indoctrination and separation from families. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01/14/asia-pacific/politics/china-tibetan-culture-child/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #china #tibet
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“You don't think much of my chances, do you?"
"Not much," agreed the ex-Minister of Education. "You're a Smyrnian."
"That's no legal bar. I've had a lay education."
"Well, come now. Since when does prejudice follow any law but its own.” —Asimov, Foundation, 1952
"Not much," agreed the ex-Minister of Education. "You're a Smyrnian."
"That's no legal bar. I've had a lay education."
"Well, come now. Since when does prejudice follow any law but its own.” —Asimov, Foundation, 1952
Sadly still relevant today.
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Hober Mallow pays a 50% income tax. The king of Merchant Princes pays way more than Musk.
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BDG feature: Ramya Jirasinghe’s Water for Kings: A Sri Lankan Writer’s Poetic Vision and Caution
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/mrw929d2
#buddhism #srilanka #politics #theravada #literature #theater #colombo #civilwar #peace
@lori_garver “It got funded as a rocket to nowhere, and we at #NASA had to figure out something to do with it”.
The #rocket is #unsustainable by design, relying on an old and potentially quite expensive 💰 way to get to #space 🌌. Much of #SLS is a holdover from the #SpaceShuttle. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon
The #rocket is #unsustainable by design, relying on an old and potentially quite expensive 💰 way to get to #space 🌌. Much of #SLS is a holdover from the #SpaceShuttle. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/09/1065143/nasa-artemis-return-to-moon
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"Political and #aerospace interests were more than reluctant to embrace any changes which they viewed as a threat to their own hegemony."
The mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for #politics. People writing about space exploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye on how our national monies 💰 are spent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program/
The mainstream media doesn’t cover #SpaceExploration and #SpaceScience with the same questioning 🔍 rigor that they reserve for #politics. People writing about space exploration are mostly cheerleaders 🥳 for the cause, rather than independent observers keeping a watchful eye on how our national monies 💰 are spent. https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2022/06/23/new-book-paints-bleak-picture-of-nasas-human-spaceflight-program/
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BDG feature: Post-Election Conversations: Embodying Curiosity and Empathy, Resisting Polarization
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/332he5cy
#buddhism #mindfulness #communication #relationships #democracy #politics #fear #usa #uselection
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BDG feature: Taking and Offering Refuge -- grounding in times of uncertainty
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/5n8d3sdf
#buddhism #buddha #engagedbuddhism #usa #newmexico #buddhistpractice #buddhistcommunities #politics #climatechange #threejewels
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BDG feature: Buddhistdoor View: The 2024 US Election – Politics, Power, and Compassion
Read here: https://tinyurl.com/3n95d3d4
#buddhism #commentary #usa #politics #election #democracy #wisdom #buddhistethics #buddhistpractice #courage #peace #donaldtrump #joebiden #kamalaharris
