Tane Piper ⁂

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"Pretty serious pattern seeker"

Software Engineering Leader - Modular Content Delivery @ #IKEA / #connectedContent / #KnowledgeGraphs / #SemanticWeb / #ContentStrategy / #digitalEthics

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I have opinions! and #ADHD #AuDHD He/Him.

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Remembering that time in America when it was illegal to teach kids anything that deviated from the Biblical fairy tale of creation - and when teachers who dared to tell kids about evolution were brought to courts.

And to be honest, in many parts of America this deep bigot sentiment still runs deep, 100 years later.

We’re often told in school that America was a nation built on the values of Enlightenment. That the American revolution was spurred by the ideas of folks like Benjamin Franklin, who built on top or the political doctrine of Rousseau and Montesquieu, on a strong belief in science, freedom and liberalism.

The truth is that there’s always been another America that couldn’t be more antithetical to those values.

The America of the rural religious fanatics who migrated to the New World from Germany, England and the Netherlands because their ideas made them mavericks even in their own countries at the time.

The America of those who believed in the imminent end or the days, of those who fought science and the values of Enlightenment because they denied their beliefs, those who still in the 17th and 18th century would hunt witches, and who believed that it was their God-given right to enslave “inferior” human beings.

A synthesis between these two completely opposite visions of America was never found. Even after the Civil War the defeated southerners didn’t acknowledge their loss - they just retreated to their rural havens and built up more and more grudge towards the perceived “urban elites” that stole their vision of a theocratic promised land founded on dogma and exploitation.

America will always be a very sick country that will keep destabilizing the rest of the world until it solves this structural contradiction.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/08/nx-s1-5430760/evolution-scopes-creationism-monkey-trial

BBC director of music steps down after Bob Vylan Glastonbury controversy - yet no one at BBC News has stepped down for bias reporting 🤔

https://share.google/4wNjQ6q4QfiPS9oaI

BBC director of music steps down after Bob Vylan Glastonbury scandal

The news of Lorna Clarke’s resignation as BBC's director of music comes after UK culture secretary Lisa Nandy condemned the "appalling and unacceptable scenes" that were broadcast during this year's Glastonbury festival.

euronews

The #bbc have and always will be the state propoganda machine - note above and below the lead

Public Outcry = Pearl Clutching

Sometimes I wish I had the lack of moral fortitude and integrity to just make money of such obvious grift
‘We have to keep growing:’ Mother of killed Israeli hostage in battle to have a grandchild with his harvested sperm

“Something can be born out of everything – if you want it to,” said Iris Haim, whose hostage son Yotam was killed in Gaza. Those words are helping her find hope, as she seeks to use his sperm to have a grandchild.

CNN

#devDiary - Sometimes you just need some boring information about gravity and light when you're working on a #simulation

#video #devDiary #gameEngine #gameDev #threeJS #webGL #teskooano

Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...
It's 12pm on the 1st Monday - you know what time is, Netherlands....
I really don’t understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.
Lemon Party > America Party
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@ipg Using slavery.
@enigmatico @ipg Yeah, it was slaves.
Were the Egyptian pyramids built by slaves? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Asked by: Laura Price, Cardiff

BBC Science Focus Magazine
@kaliagainstallodds @enigmatico @ipg Thanks, I learned something today. I never heard this before (as opposed to having been constantly told the opposite) and it's actually kind of cool.

@kaliagainstallodds @vashti @enigmatico @ipg

It's funny that our first instinct is to attribute any ancient achievement to slavery, rather than realise they did the same as we do... throw a shittone of money at it.

@enigmatico @ipg that fact is actually debated! scientists believe that the workers who built the pyramids were not slaves: https://history.stackexchange.com/a/609
What kind of labor was used to build the Egyptian pyramids?

Most people believe the pyramids were built with slave labor (or at least it seems that way). This notion is perpetuated by movies; the building of the pyramids often evokes images of ancient Egypt...

History Stack Exchange
@ipg aliens because if non-white people do something it's either aliens or some other conspiracy

@ipg

They had leaders, not Idiots. They had capable engineers, maybe workers were also treated with more respect than they are today.

@ipg how did they get organise work without Jira
@null @ipg if they do use jira and write delulu tickets like GIZA-16 invent slopes we might not have a pyramid because they would spend more time fiddling with jira than actually building the pyramid
@ipg how could they manage such a feat without being an AGILE team??? ​
@ipg yeah, not sure this is really aiming high as a comparison 😂
@ipg Faster and better, that's how.
@ipg in that age, there wasn't a concept of basic needs, eg to not use teams etc. So the employers didn't think of not respecting those basic needs because they didn't exist :)
@ipg that's how they build those.
@ipg Slavery.
Were the Egyptian pyramids built by slaves? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Asked by: Laura Price, Cardiff

BBC Science Focus Magazine

@kaliagainstallodds @ipg "Sciencefocus" is quoting a bbc documentary full of selective interpretations and inaccuracy

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8mx2073f

Slavery and Servitude

Author(s): Loprieno, Antonio | Abstract: While various forms of coercion to labor and restriction of individual freedom did exist throughoutEgyptian history, slavery is rather defined by economic than by legal indicators. Some literary textspresent figures of slaves, called Hm (“laborer”) or bAk (“servant”). The documentary evidence ismultifaceted: during the Old Kingdom, very large segments of the population were drawn to corvéework, exemption for religious service and even upward mobility being possible, while foreignprisoners of war were clearly enslaved (sqr-anx). With the emergence of new social elites, Egyptiantexts from the early Middle Kingdom onward display a more distinct consciousness of the differencebetween “free” people, even if at the lower level of the social ladder (nDs), and “servants” (Hm,bAk), conscripts (Hsb), and fugitives (tSj), true slavery being presumably confined to foreignprisoners. The New Kingdom, with its relentless military operations, is the epoch of large-scaleforeign slavery, but also of local—owned or rented—servitude, both of which had becomeeconomically indispensable, adoption of a slave being a common practice leading to “free” status(nmHj). During the first millennium BCE, references to slavery become rare and are superseded byvarious forms of voluntary servitude caused by economic dearth or religious commitment. “Slavery”in the legal, inherited sense of the term unfolds in Egypt during the Hellenistic Period and is basedon capture in war, on purchase in the slave market, and on the enslavement of debtors.

Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves

Egypt's leading archaeologist says 4,000-year-old burial plots with skeletons expose myth that builders were slaves

The Guardian

@hosford42 @kaliagainstallodds @ipg Afaik it refers to the same source material. But the presence of (eight) nice "pyramid worker towns" does not exclude the presence of forced labor along the production chain since there are written proofs eg. the penal code. The workers on the site of the great pyramids assembled premade parts from down the Nile and were exempted to many penal codes (please compare to the ocerview i linked). They were also kind of elite workers / stonemasons but a rather small group.

That being said: The level of slavery changed as egypt discovered real economy, even refined craftmanship and gained some vertical social ascension in the later half of the middle kingdom (they still did raids in Africa and the eastern Mediterranea for slave farm workers and women even until facing the Roman invasion).

@ipg It's called "work". 😁
@ipg They sacrficed many many slaves. Not a better idea than teams calls.
Were the Egyptian pyramids built by slaves? - BBC Science Focus Magazine

Asked by: Laura Price, Cardiff

BBC Science Focus Magazine

@kaliagainstallodds Thanks for the link. Intersting. Did this apply to all pyramid buildings?

Anyway, I am happy to have learned something new, but why do you have to present it in such an arrogant style?

@ipg

@junior42 @ipg i am sorry. i have an overdose of people spreading misinformation and overreact to it. i am working on it.
@kaliagainstallodds @junior42 @ipg IMHO, the orientalist barb was called for. People who post like reply guys shouldn’t be offended when someone treats them like a reply guy. Cool of you to apologize anyway.

@heartofcoyote
You can teach something to someone without being resentful against them for not knowing in the first place. One does not necessarily think of checking every bit of information they've been breastfed since infancy once they acquire some critical thinking.

If the correction is rejected, then it becomes orientalism. Before that, it's only unfortunate ignorance and an opportunity to become one of the 10000.
@kaliagainstallodds @junior42 @ipg

@cafeinux @kaliagainstallodds @junior42 @ipg Well, that’s a kind way to look at it. Thank you.
@heartofcoyote @junior42 @ipg the barbs literally brought science and medicine to europe. visit the iberian peninsular, they are very proud of that herritage.
@heartofcoyote @junior42 @ipg oh ok you mean the hook kind of thing... 🤦‍♀️

@kaliagainstallodds I know about the huge achievements of the oriental sciences.

However, I think the meme is bs anyway, because it implies a backlash in efficiency, which I would deny, and it neglects working conditions - and these were horrible in ancient times in all parts of the planet. My answer would habe vmbeen the same if the question would have been, say, "how could they build Notre Dame".

Anyway, I know too little about egypt history, this is what I learnt 😉

@heartofcoyote @ipg

@kaliagainstallodds @junior42 @ipg
Ha! I have the same Problem.

It got better since i mainly do SoMe on the Fedi. The Groove here is definitely different. And i like it.
@monkee @junior42 @ipg thank you so much i already though i was insane.
@kaliagainstallodds @ipg It's OK 😊 I can relate, I know it from explaining non-vegans again and again the most basic facts, and you never know if the other one is someone who is open or who just wants to shout out their false opinion...
@junior42 yeah i was with the US greens before, they became a russian asset, completely now. it destroyed my entire community. since then i have a tantrum about it every two months or so. i am so sorry. thank you for forgiving me this.
@ipg Probably a bit of slavery.
@ipg a pyramid is literally the simplest shape you can build.
@ipg @nixCraft They certainly did NOT use Agile. They might have used sub-contractors, with unique work incentives much like Amazon warehouses.

@ipg

All the people commenting about slaves, please don't, it's a myth.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt

Great Pyramid tombs unearth 'proof' workers were not slaves

Egypt's leading archaeologist says 4,000-year-old burial plots with skeletons expose myth that builders were slaves

The Guardian
@ipg It must have been aliens 👽
@ipg
Monarchy and lack of options?
@ipg human enslavement, by the rich, for the rich.
@ipg which seems to be the point of teams, pitch decks and a.i. baloney…
@ipg

but why are the pyramids in Egypt?"

(because they were too big for the British to take back home with them) #Spoiler
@ipg 💠 by disregarding injuries and deaths of the workforce!
... wait
@ipg Beer. It was beer.

@wcbdata @ipg

Beer was my guess for what the Egyptians secret team building power was too

@ipg

pretty sure the pyramids were the first large scale use of productivity tools and jira.

no one but a pharaoh could afford them and they resulted in a huge pile of stuff that took years to finish.

@paul_ipv6 @ipg

You can tell it's union work though, because it's largely still standing.

@ipg Not saying it was aliens, but…
@ipg and big data
and crypto
and nfts
and... uhh... [insert buzzword]

@ipg With slaves. A lot of slaves. Most of whom died.

If that's the world you want to live in... you do you.

@ipg @DelilahTech
They just had well educated people trainend and empowered to develop these technics.
That all.
Well, they bot some bis stone blocks too.
Just look around can you see such people around you?
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@ipg аутар мема прапануе павярнуцца да батугоў і рабаўладальніцтва як альтэрнатыве тымс? 😅