Mastodawn

Here is art depicting the same human condition of suffering, as in my, now forced-hidden, previous image: https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/116266901138324187

Is this content "appropriate" to be shown openly or must I hide it too behind a "content warning"? What's different in human suffering in art and in reality? Is all human suffering to be hidden from view? Maybe expunged by decree?

Images and story about Käthe Kollwitz:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz

#Art #suffering #politics #humanCondition

Jack William Bell 4d ago

"It's the algorithm," they say. "Blame the algorithm."

Uh, no. An algorithm has no agency. It can form no intent. It is only a mathematical clock mechanism, cranking through the numbers. You cannot blame math for any harm the math causes.

[contd]

#HumanCondition

Jack William Bell 4d ago

Time's distance can make some events and outcomes seem historically inevitable; while to those living through them all is confused and pregnant with any possibility.

#history #HumanCondition

Jack William Bell 5d ago

Sam Altman Confronted At Oscars Party Over Pentagon Deal

OpenAI Sam Altman was compared to a Nazi collaborator at an Oscars bash for his agreement with the Department of Defense.

Futurism

RevDrMatthewFox 6d ago

Jeffrey Szilagyi: "As we reclaim a #SacredEarth, we must also reclaim the sacred journey of #biology that has begot our #humancondition. Not just the parts that feel good & seem safe, but all of it." #RadicalWholeness #DeepEcology #SacredBalance #ShadowWork
#OrderoftheSacredEarth bit.ly/4hkaVA6

WIST Quotations Mar 16

A quotation from Victor Hugo

   You are right, sir, when you tell me that Les Misérables is written for all nations. I do not know whether it will be read by all, but I wrote it for all. It is addressed to England as well as to Spain, to Italy as well as to France, to Germany as well as to Ireland, to Republics which have slaves as well as to Empires which have serfs. Social problems overstep frontiers. The sores of the human race, those great sores which cover the globe, do not halt at the red or blue lines traced upon the map.
   In every place where man is ignorant and despairing, in every place where woman is sold for bread, wherever the child suffers for lack of the book which should instruct him and of the hearth which should warm him, the book of Les Misérables knocks at the door and says: “Open to me, I come for you.”

   [Vous avez raison, monsieur, quand vous me dites que le livre les Misérables est écrit pour tous les peuples. Je ne sais s’il sera lu par tous, mais je l’ai écrit pour tous. Il s’adresse à l’Angleterre autant qu’à l’Espagne, à l’Italie autant qu’à la France, à l’Allemagne autant qu’à l’Irlande, aux républiques qui ont des esclaves aussi bien qu’aux empires qui ont des serfs. Les problèmes sociaux dépassent les frontières. Les plaies du genre humain, ces larges plaies qui couvrent le globe, ne s’arrêtent point aux lignes bleues ou rouges tracées sur la mappemonde.
   Partout où l’homme ignore et désespère, partout où la femme se vend pour du pain, partout où l’enfant souffre faute d’un livre qui l’enseigne et d’un foyer qui le réchauffe, le livre les Misérables frappe à la porte et dit: Ouvrez-moi, je viens pour vous.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli

More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/13238/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #borders #downtrodden #economicinjustice #global #humancondition #poor #poverty #serfdom #slavery #socialills #socialinjustice #socialproblem

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Front Page Mar 16

A driver lost consciousness on the highway. A stranger pulled a heroic PIT maneuver to stop his car.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/a-driver-lost-consciousness-on-the-highway-a-stranger-pulled-a-heroic-pit-maneuver-to-stop-his-car/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-driver-lost-consciousness-on-the-highway-a-stranger-pulled-a-heroic-pit-maneuver-to-stop-his-car

WIST Quotations Mar 16

A quotation from James Shirley

The glories of our blood and state
   Are shadows, not substantial things;
There is no armour against fate;
   Death lays his icy hand on kings:
         Scepter and crown
         Must tumble down,
And, in the dust, be equal made
With the poor crooked scythe and spade.

James Shirley (1596–1666) English poet, playwright
Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for Achilles’s Armour, sc. 3, st. 1 (1659)

More about this quote: wist.info/shirley-james/82728/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jamesshirley #equality #class #death #humancondition #leveler #mortality #rank

Shirley, James - Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for Achilles's Armour, sc. 3, st. 1 (1659) | WIST Quotations

The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against fate; Death lays his icy hand on kings: Scepter and crown Must tumble down, And, in the dust, be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and spade. Sung by Calchas over the…

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StreetSoul Mar 14

Selective Indifference
Leica M10 Monochrom + Thypoch Ksana 1:3.5/21 ASPH.
#streetphotography #streetphoto #candidstreet #urbanlife #streetmoment #documentaryphotography #humancondition #everydaylife #streetstory #urbanobservation #bnw #blackandwhite #monochrome #leica #leicam10monochrom

WIST Quotations Mar 13

A quotation from Horace

Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk —
But sleep may well worm its way into any long work!

[Et idem
indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 “Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos],” l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14656/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #homer #homernods #humannature #error #flaw #frailty #genius #greatness #humancondition #imperfection #shortcoming

Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 2, ep. 3 "Art of Poetry [Ars Poetica; To the Pisos]," l. 358ff (2.3.358-360) (19 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)] | WIST Quotations

Good Homer sometimes nods, which gives me a jerk -- But sleep may well worm its way into any long work! [Et idem indignor, quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus; verum operi longo fas est obrepere somnum.] Noting that even the greatest poet, Homer, sometimes produced sub-par work, though they can be…

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