SmallRobotArmy

@spiritplumber@kolektiva.social
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A number of small, lovingly crafted robots trying to make their way in the world. Drones, robotics, DIY, sustainability, resilience. They/them.

https://f3.to

Fascists aren't telling you what they actually believe to be true, they don't care what's true and think you're weak for caring about something so unimportant. They're telling you what would have to be true to justify what they're already planning to do.

They have no loyalty to an argument. They don't use an argument to state their position. They will flip flop on them at any given turn as long as they feel like they won. Power and cruelty is their only motivation. They couldn't care less about anything else.

Believing your own hype = Model collapse for humans

Believing Your Own Propaganda: The Fastest Way to Self-Destruction There’s a simple rule in politics, business, and war: the moment you start believing your own propaganda, you’re screwed. We see it over and over—governments, corporations, and...

Daily Kos

When they came for immigrants
I spoke up, but I had no clout.

When they came for trans folks
I spoke up, but the algorithm hid me

When they came for non-whites
I spoke up, but it was now against TOS

When they came for butch women
I spoke up, but it was illegal by then

When they came for me, I had no voice
They brought a gun to a laser fight
Now they have no eyes.

I wish to experience joy.
New College of Florida tears up nature preserve, claims it’s an improvement • Florida Phoenix

Sarasota used to be home base for the Ringling Brothers Circus. Maybe that’s what’s led to so much clowning around with the fate of its institution of higher learning, New College of Florida. Gov. Ron “I Went to Two Ivy League Schools To Become An Educated Fool” DeSantis has done his best to tear down […]

Florida Phoenix
Complete aside: I wish that Keanu Reeves had made a low-budget remake of Johnny Mnemonic in 2021, where he just sticks a SD card with COVID vaccine data up his nose and takes it to a hospital. Just that. No fights or anything, just Keanu recording himself taking a flight and a taxi. But wearing the same clothes he wore in the 1995 movie.
Signal boost please - if you had to pick 20 banned books to automatically unban forever, what would they be? (I am working on a way to do this, but there is only limited space).

how much would you spend for a search engine that worked properly?

Like... $100 una tantum? $20 a year?

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading as usual, the problem stems from bad science overruling good science in the implementation phase, because the bad science is easier and "makes more common sense" (also see: creationism, the cass report)
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't know there's anything wrong with it.

APM Reports

I'm going to start referring to Trump supporters as "The rusted ones".

They are old, slowly falling apart, neglected maintenance when they needed to do maintenance (physical, emotional, societal), and bought into the lie that a new coat of gold paint will make it all better even as it's flaking off