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Decolonial secular humanist & analyst. Autistic & ADHD, white, Mad. I got hit by a car end of 2020 and my hand doesn't work properly now. There is no absolute objective frame of reference. UK based she/her. DMs open. COVID kills. Wear a mask N95+

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · Aug 12

Fascism isn't a disease. Fascism isn't a disability. Fascism isn't a lack of education. Fascism isn't foreign.

Fascism is a defence of established power and privilege through the dehumanisation of anyone that challenges it.

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 8m

being right wing more rudely isn't going to help when the country didn't vote for a right wing government at all

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 10m

as if touching anything Bad means you're corrupted by sin and must give up on your humanity

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 11m

it's not a contradiction

it's like saying you can't complain about a car crashing into your house if you've ever driven one

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 21m

that's been the status quo for decades

it's just some people had the privilege to be able to ignore it

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 24m

there are people who think they can't be fooled

but that's not everyone

many of us know we can be and have been and will be again

that's being human

it's not as good as being a perfect rational actor, but it is real

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 31m

the claim of objective neutrality is always a scam

it just means you're ignoring the people who identify your biases

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 18h

humanity doesn't need to be educated into people

they already have it

it is the inhumanity of the civilised rational actor that must be taught

and it takes the rewards of privilege to motivate acceptance of membership of that elite class

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 38m

as if you can't criticise anything on a computer if you've ever done anything on a computer 🙄

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 43m

we don't all believe that AI can do these things well enough to use it for them though

the people pushing for it in contexts like healthcare are clearly not concerned about potential harm, but getting medical care is an important task for the person seeking it

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 1d

this is a deeply traditional approach across 'western civilisation'

in many ways it is fundamental to Enlightenment philosophy

the belief that human nature is inherently sinful and undeserving and must be overcome in order to be considered a valid person

R.L. Stollar @rlstollar.bsky.social · 3d

"Haarer viewed children, especially babies, as nuisances whose wills needed to be broken."

Harsh Nazi Parenting Guidelines May Still Affect German Children of Today

The Nazi regime urged German mothers to ignore their toddlers’ emotional needs—the better to raise hardened soldiers and followers. Attachment researchers say that the harmful effects of that teaching...

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 4d

neurotypicality is a myth as in an ideal concept that cannot exist in material reality

but it is also a social construct that does exist in material reality

because nothing is just one thing

everything is lots of things

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 5d

some people think that's how brains work

it's a relic of the natural philosophy of Newton's era that still dominates some areas of academia

the ideal rational actor has access to the instruction manual and therefore never makes mistakes

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 9d

the history I learned was romanticised

especially the avoidance of colonialism

but it was not the story of serfs liberated by the enlightened bourgeois

it was a story of an establishment that assumed a divine/natural right to rule

and a working class that has always rebelled and fought back

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 10d

the people of this country have never been as compliant and weak willed as his agenda needs them to be

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Leanest Optician @vertigoem.bsky.social · 1h

AFAICT, out of the mainstream media, only The Independent has covered this story

ECIU @eciu.net · 1h

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

England has seen its second worst harvest on record, according to an analysis of Government figures, after the country’s hottest spring and summer on record as well as the driest spring in more than 100 years.
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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 55m

we don't want a party that's keeping problems secret

that's the problem

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 3d

elites don't have broken brains

they have fixed brains

as in minds and belief systems that are assumed to be mature and complete and therefore immutable

maintaining that against the weight of contradiction means they must dismiss and deny more and more of material reality

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 15h

it comes from people who prefer public schoolboy politics

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 20h

I had a mental health breakdown nearly twenty years ago and I got sent to a work coach months before I had any kind of talking therapy.

And they still try and act like it's a fresh new idea 😫

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 15h

There are some similarities. It isn't the same.

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 15h

the we that needs a source of absolute authority must find a new one, because people kept disagreeing with the old ones

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 16h

scolding people for complaining doesn't get them to stop doing it

it's a bad strategy

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 17h

and rationalism allows some people to believe they are the true intellectual elite despite not being at the material top, and to tolerate the situation based on that comfort

but that still takes privilege

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 17h

why would you want to be world leaders in bullshit?

it's not a good thing

it's embarrassing

it's british behaviour

r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 18h

even the people at the very top never get the total comfort and safety and absolution that is promised

but they do get to hate Other people for that

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 18h

this person does this a lot

criticising anything about AI tools means you must hate everything that's ever been done on a computer 🙄

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · Feb 12

I can't accept that anyone seriously believes that the internet did not exist before AI tools came along.

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r @recombobulating.bsky.social · 18h

by definition only a few at the top can ever be granted the status of elite

everyone else is expected to eternally strive for it, and to blame and hate themselves when they do not achieve it

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