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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2h

No purpose, no freedom.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 3h

Two words: Linux Desktop

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cocademolletes.bsky.social @cocademolletes.bsky.social · 16h

Han passat 351 dies des de la DANA.
I encara ningú li ha trencat els nassos d'una punyà al gens honorable president de la Generalitat Valenciana.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 1d

Just as well, otherwise you'd be taking a hop.

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Daniel Kennedy @fliglman.bsky.social · 2d

We say "highbrow" because the Germans have massive foreheads, and by complete coincidence they decided that having a massive forehead was a sign of intelligence

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Hang on, this technique reminds me of another, much older one.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

He gets the ingredients just right so you don't notice the effect until just before it finishes.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Which is to say: the movie is a success.

Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Just finished Magnolia (1999), and it has left me with the distinct feeling that I actually like people.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Just finished Magnolia (1999), and it has left me with the distinct feeling that I actually like people.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 2d

Courage

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Tòfol @black.cristofol.org · 2d

Put my favourite egui demo up as the website for black.cristofol.org. Something had to go there.

dr kristau's egui web

black.cristofol.org

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 3d

You could have just stolen it, e.g.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 3d

Reading a book by Karen Ng that makes the argument through Kant and Hegel that human [instrumental] reason could not exist without the internal purposiveness of the living.

Tòfol @cristofol.org · 3d

One of the major lessons for me from having lived here in Spain is precisely that.

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samuel @quilombo.bsky.social · 4d

This is what is left of Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 3d

A little bit of coast.

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Patrick Reinsborough ❌👑 @giantwhispers.bsky.social · 4d

FILE UNDER: News, very bad #ClimateSky

"Many of the seeps were found at sites that had been repeatedly studied before, suggesting they were new. This may indicate a “fundamental shift” in the methane released in the region, according to the report."

Scientists discovered something alarming seeping out from beneath the ocean around Antarctica | CNN

Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed, with new seeps being discovered at an “astonishing rate,” raising fears that future global warming predictions may have been und...

www.cnn.com

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

Better for human well-being, although 'the most liberal forms of society are, to a great extent, also the blindest with respect to nature', hence climate change, biodiversity decline, and so forth.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

Me.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

A lot of work has gone into these comparisons of different types of software, and I think a lot of it is very useful.

eylenburg.github.io

Eylenburg's Tech Website

eylenburg.github.io

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

This labeler looks as though it's going to be fun.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

That post about own-goals eventually being cheered by the team's own supporters?

Complete bullshit.

(I will not be taking questions.)

Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

This is very insightful from Max Horkheimer. I can really feel what he means here, not only understand it. This text taken from @jamescrane.bsky.social's blog here:
jamescrane.substack.com/p/max-horkhe...

Civilization itself cannot be cleared of the responsibility of having engendered its opposite: barbarism. History achieved the domestication of man only by continuous suffering.23 In the childhood of humanity all activity was directly conditioned by immediate need, under menace of danger. Vital instincts comparatively unfettered by social organization guided the first men. The path from that era until people first became used to organized labor was a painful one, and the necessity to provide for hard times was often impressed upon their minds. Ruthless conquerors who had come to rule the aborigines, tyrants and castes of military oppressors, —in one word, domination, did the job. The profound story of Paradise and the expulsion from it in the first chapters of Genesis may combine a theological truth with a historical memory which toiling and oppressed people harbored of happier days free from the burden of organized and regular work. Only during the last one or two thousand years has man learned to do his work without the pressure of the ruthless taskmaster by transforming the outside coercion into the power of conscience in his own soul, by translating the immediate need into concepts which comprise the future as well as the past and the present.

What I am referring to is the process which leads from a stage in which compulsion of the masses by the very few was a social necessity to a level where force finds its expression in the law, where people have become capable of molding their own relations by respecting their mutual interests and of making work a tolerable and even desirable expression of life. If we try to understand the psychology of the present-day human being, we have to remember that this whole transmutation is a recent one. It has left its imprint not only on the institutions of modern society but also on the character of its individuals. They still bear the marks of the terrible punishments, the humiliations and tortures which humanity had to undergo until it learned to respect law, the neighbor’s property and life, the woman’s or the stranger’s weakness. These marks are shown in the ambiguity with respect to such values, in the readiness of the individual to tear down the boundaries of civilized life not only because of a strong materialistic urge but also for the sake of the violation itself.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

This video is AI.

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Tòfol @cristofol.org · 4d

Planetary habitability vs. plenary authority.

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