sigmoid.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
A social space for people researching, working with, or just interested in AI!

Server stats:

596
active users

#control

8 posts8 participants1 post today

Trump In Scotland LIVE: Demonstrators In Edinburgh Protest Against Donald Trump's Visit

youtube.com/watch?v=tRD3MIV0cS

“Immigration is killing Europe," Trump told reporters at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, “You’re not going to have Europe anymore if this continues.”
Demonstrators in Edinburgh protest against U.S. President Donald Trump.

Continued thread

This account of the outage, & the growing #dependence on #Musk by governments & militaries worldwide, is based on interviews with >3 dozen people with knowledge of #SpaceX operations & the company’s #technology. These people included current & former employees, #US & #Europe military officials, & senior politicians & diplomats.

The reporting puts a spotlight on Musk’s #control of services now #critical to countries including the US, which has about $22B in contracts w/SpaceX.

Our culture thinks either the adult is in control or the child is in control. … It sets us up for power struggles… Nobody likes to be controlled. Both children and parents rebel against it. So when we interact with our children in terms of control—whether it’s a parent controlling the child or vice versa—we establish an adversarial relationship.
—Michaeleen Doucleff, Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans
#parenting #control

A quotation from Bill Watterson

   CALVIN: I’m at peace with the world. I’m completely serene.
   HOBBES: Why is that?
   CALVIN: I’ve discoved my purpose in life. I know why I was put here and why everything exists.
   HOBBES: Oh, really?
   CALVIN: Yes. I am here so everybody can do what I want.
   HOBBES: It’s nice to have that cleared up.
   CALVIN: Once everyone accepts it, they’ll be serene, too.

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-04-14)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/watterson-bill/4796/

A quotation from Alexander Hamilton

The truth unquestionably is, that the only path to a subversion of the republican system of the Country is, by flattering the prejudices of the people, and exciting their jealousies and apprehensions, to throw affairs into confusion, and bring on civil commotion. Tired at length of anarchy, or want of government, they may take shelter in the arms of monarchy for repose and security.

Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804) American statesman, author
Letter (1792-08-18) to George Washington, Enclosure: “Objections and Answers Respecting the Administration,” Objection 14

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hamilton-alexander/7…

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 104 (1955)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/16636/

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Still, the danger of the practice of violence, even if it moves consciously within a non-extremist framework of short-term goals, will always be that the means overwhelm the end. If goals are not achieved rapidly, the result will not merely be defeat but the introduction of the practice of violence into the whole body politic. Action is irreversible, and a return to the status quo in case of defeat is always unlikely. The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Essay (1969-02-27), “Reflections on Violence,” The New York Review of Books

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/47129/