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@hypostase@bsd.network
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Vaguely human. Once a DBA. Probably queer, Pākehā to UK, now Sweden. Move like Silver. Pronouns not so much, just no f***ing titles. nvi. Antifa.
AvatarTattoo on the back of the neck, some say it’s a squatting squirrel, but it was supposed to be a monkey: Content warning/label.
Pronounsgnome/fencer
TitlesNo. Just no.
Banner.Tiny human, walks on four legs, with a bottle of the McCallum clutched in its sword side forepaw. Beneath a fauna skin, and concrete. The McCallum likely has a man with sword and target. Start as you mean to go on.

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The concept and philosophy of the liberal arts education is the (I think) sensible idea that everyone* should know a little about the 'greatest hits' of human knowledge.

Obviously what is considered a 'greatest hit' could be contentious. Should everyone read Shakespeare? Does everyone need to know a little algebra? Should everyone be able to read? Should everyone be able to critique art?

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*Sometimes this is contracted to only include the ruling class. I see no reason to do this.

I believe that Computer Science has a place in "The Liberal Arts Education"-- that is I think an understanding of how computers are made, programming and algorithms should be a part of what a "well educated" person knows regardless of their particular area of focus.

This is not the case at present and one can be considered "well educated" a know nothing about computers.

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I dunno why I'm so shocked when a conversation veers into a place driven by Islamophobia.

Not that I am without sin, but I grew up with that sort of Christian that would figure the Taliban were on the right path if only they called Jesus God instead of prophet, and I really cannot tell the difference between any of the fundamentalists.

I'd like to think that normal white people were better than that.

"In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries - some as many as three or four times.
None of those countries has ever attacked Russia.
So (Russia) doesn't need security guarantees.
The Security guarantees are needed for everybody else."
- Kaja Kallas, Fmr. PM of Estonia

#Blakes7 Series D, Episode 05 - Animals

SERVALAN: Make for the ridge. Its a natural vantage point. Captain, I want you to make sure we're ready to lift off this mud ball at the first sign of trouble.
CAPTAIN: We will be, Commissioner.

https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/273 B7B1

This made my day today.

Police pulled over a dalek outside DSEI, London's arms fair, scanned the QR code on its lanyard and were taken to my fake Royal Navy recruitment website - http://royalnavy.org.uk

My mom needed a man’s signature to get a credit card. We fought for decades to change that — and now the Trump administration wants to roll those protections back.
Absolutely not. Take a minute to say NO.

https://nationalfairhousingalliance.salsalabs.org/ecoaregb/index.html

To spell it out more clearly:

It’s not that the Black person need not provide evidence of claims of racism. (Well actually, they don't and especially not to *you*)

It’s that *you* think you get to judge whether that is racist, that is racist.

I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.