"But the art! Look how great the art was!"
Uh-huh. Think of all the artisans and craftsmen who died without having their best work ever realized.
Think of the artists who couldn't produce better work not for the lack of talent but for the lack of resources due to collapsed supply chain, or because they had to scrabble to stay alive instead of concentrating on their art.
All this goes unmentioned in discussions about art history — what we see now may not be but the dregs that survived.
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I've been studying the Middle Ages and Renaissance in relation to an art class I'm taking, one focused on Western civilization. I've been frustrated with reasons given for certain evolutions in art because they rarely take into account two major collapses of population due to the Justinian plague and the Black Death.
Imagine society when 25-60% die off inside a narrow window of time in societies with no comprehensive education, no infrastructure, no social safety nets.
Anarchy. Chaos.
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Bastard Zuckerberg's looking to copy Musk, will likely move to Texas to escape accountability.
If you own Meta stock or hold mutual funds which hold Meta in their portfolio, you should be contacting Investor Relations and demanding resistance to such a move because Meta also wants to avoid accountability to shareholders.
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Tagging people in photos was one of several privacy-violating features which led me to quit Facebook in 2010.
Absolutely no fucking way do I want to be tagged in Threads.
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This strikes me as an unusual whiff of a question by Doctorow because this is already playing out and it's not a solution.
Ex: Threads and Bluesky are both intended to be interoperable with Mastodon+Fediverse and yet Threads is migrating toward advertising and Bluesky lacks transparency about its business model — and both Threads and Bluesky have problematic moderation. These problems will become fediverse problems by exposure, ie Threads harvesting Fediverse data.
https://mastodon.cloud/@slashdot/113896639861167177
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Good photo choice -- implied Nazi salute combined with Nazi "America First" slogan.
Not a good look, Rubio. Or are you worried your Hispanic origins are going to give Trump reason to deny your citizenship if you don't go full Nazi for him.
https://mstdn.social/@bloomberg@flipboard.com/113885446659691691
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A "small test" is like "a little pregnant."
This is why I have blocked Threads' domains.
https://mstdn.social/@Engadget@flipboard.com/113884678327591134
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I don't think white -- yes, mostly white, whose families may have been here for generations -- people realize that the end of birthright citizenship means EVERYBODY'S citizenship is in question.
You were born here, you can't be certain you're a citizen.
US Constitution Article II, Section 1 and the 14th Amendment are the only things we should be able to rely upon regarding our birthright citizenship. Not the word of an executive office holder.
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Like I needed more evidence RFK Jr is a fucking moron.
https://flipboard.com/@abc/news-54f0unfaz/-/a-5efyauHQSfqOcxZNGaI3pQ%3Aa%3A3195386-%2F0
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This is much needed and has enormous potential and should be supported. Wondering if there will be any overlap with state-based public broadcasting, though.
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I don't know if I like this new feature which tells me who is posting content I have filtered. On the other hand, it may give me a better idea if an important news event happened if a bunch of news outlets I follow all suddenly post about this filtered item within minutes of each other.
As this post was a singleton, it's probably not important news but likely policy-related fuckery.
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Another victim of the fascists' war on women.
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LOL almost looks like southern Louisiana today. https://mastodon.social/@livelakemichigan/113868010175528895
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And yet MSFT is steadily cramming their AI down our gullets into our PCs.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/17/microsoft_ai_redteam_infosec_warning/
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This is among the last fucking things I would ever read. This dipshit wouldn't know character if it slapped him on his bald pate with an icy wet towel.
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Yep. Right-wing crunchy moms and tradwives. So nasty -- the return of the Nazis' "kinder, kuche, kirche" loaded with prettified hate speech.
I'd be leery of their "wholesome" content, too. It's probably a combination of Gwyneth Paltrow's GOOP and RFK Jr's anti-vax nonsense, lashed together with generative AI.
https://flipboard.com/@npr/u.s.-news-aspd61boz/-/a-7VIex0yZRauNHHQPEfksDQ%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0
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Oh just great. Corporations are going to start front running not only our stock trades but our entire consumption habits.
AI needs to be reined in already.
https://www.courthousenews.com/ai-might-start-selling-your-choices-before-you-make-them-study-warns/
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I have officially spent too much time recently with ebooks and not enough time with traditional books.
I just ran my finger up a paper page in a scrolling motion to advance to the next page instead of turning it.
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Read this — it's a long read, expect to take several partial bites rather than all at once.
This piece does a great job picking apart one startup founder but in doing so taking apart nearly all the big techbros and their fuckery.
Narcissism. That's my ultimate non-professional assessment — we've rewarded a toxic personality disorder across an entire industry.
https://mstdn.social/@hkrn/113677157329774249
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I wonder if this is interrelated with the doorway effect - episodic memory 'wiped' when passing through doorways.
Entering/exiting a room or clearing a doorway may be a trigger for our brains to launch a new segmented or episodic event?
https://www.psypost.org/scientists-sheds-light-on-how-our-brains-create-mental-chapters-with-new-event-segmentation-study/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doorway_effect
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