John Ribbon

@johnribbon
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A work of fiction.
A believer in the value of honest debate, privacy and liberalism.
Waterford, London a while ago. 🇮

I give you ... "Photos of dudes (and one lady) posing with computers, for newspaper profiles of their bulletin board systems."

#bbsing #bbses #bbs #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #history #newspapers #localnews

Happy Holidays!
This is actually not about XML, despite the title, it's about us geeks being fashion victims, and I really enjoyed reading it. https://www.bitecode.dev/p/hype-cycles
XML is the future

Okay, campers, rise and shine...

Bite code!

Sums me up to a T.

Thank you, https://www.willmcphail.com/cartoons/

WILL McPHAIL

Will McPhail cartoons published in The New Yorker magazine.

WILL McPHAIL

An island on the mastodon archipelago
https://insightful-merlante.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/mastodon-home-town-social-networking-community/

A blog post about mastodon, hometown and my philosophy around hometown social networking.

Thanks to @comeetie for the visualisation. Hat tip to @darius for the aforementioned fork. Hope you don't mind me using a screen grab of our convo, @helvick.

#mastodon #hometown #community #waterford.international

An island on the mastodon archipelago

blog.waterford.international
@sotirisrex Sure, go ahead. :)

@ewisniowski @philosophy Yes, it was.

If existentialism is basically the precept that you start out from the fact of personal existence rather than the fact of physical essence, then your focus is on how humans encounter their world and make choices in their situation rather than how they are causally determined by physics events.

Heidegger has this exact focus, and arguably existentialism is just the moral consequences arising from this analysis.

“Mr. LaRusso. Come with me if you wanna live.” #CobraKai

@sotirisrex After long reflection, I have come to the conclusion that morality is not a numbers game. Killing is worse than letting die. Utilitarianism can be used to justify anything as long as some abstract final condition can be met.

The survival/best interests of the species can be used to justify almost any evil.

7 abortion providers are ready to switch to misoprostol-only medication abortions if a judge bans the main abortion pill, mifepristone, nationwide. That ruling could happen as soon as this Friday.

Pretty much everything that Team "you're overreacting" insisted would never happen after Dobbs is, in fact, happening. It's almost as if they were not arguing in good faith this whole time.

https://jezebel.com/mifepristone-ban-misoprostol-only-abortions-in-the-us-1850083070

If the Main Abortion Pill Is Banned This Week, Providers Are Prepared to Go Off-Label

Seven abortion providers told Jezebel they're planning to offer misoprostol-only abortions if a federal judge blocks mifepristone nationwide.

Jezebel