potatoguy

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This seems a very simplistic way of seeing racism. Like, to me, complex human interactions and systems cannot be simplified in this manner:

Some are expressed as formulas (priviledge+power or prejutice+power) with the key concept being power.

There's a lot more nuance than this. If you're thinking about structural racism, the legal, the opportunity given, segregational, educational and societal (even if not official) factors of racism, that's what I think it is, the amalgamation of various factors into the added institution of racism, as they are at the structural foundation of our modern society, not just a guy being racist, not just priviledge, but the educational access for black people or laws implicitly made to keep latinos out of legality (some examples).

It's not that simple. Check this and this as they're a good start.

And, to the question, in the definition I just gave, the question:

To what extent is the standard structural definition of racism structurally racist?

Doesn't even make sense, as describing the ways racism prevail in society is not racist, because the definition of racism is a lot different than this.

At least an age verification law didn't turn valid just yesterday for OP.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Downloaded the book, seems like smoking crack hahaha.

Going to read it later.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The same here while using droid-ify.

I believe these two:

firefox.settings.services.mozilla.com

content-signature-2.cdn.mozilla.net

involves certificate expiration, so they are really important. But I could be wrong.

If lz4 was already the king (lzo on btrfs) on performance, this would make it what?

That sweet almost no cpu usage with gbs/s decompression is amazing.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sometimes you can run out of edits, like:

Edit:

Edit 2:

Edit 3:

At that point I just make another comment on that comment.

Ngl, i'm addicted to edits, the thoughts start coming and they never stop.

[–] potatoguy@mbin.potato-guy.space 64 points 1 week ago (9 children)

It's not about buying, it's about staying in your head, even if you don't remember it explicitly.

This kinda boring, menial, repetitive propaganda doesn't try to make you buy something straight away, it's to make you numb to it, to know it, to receive it without thinking, so then it tries to affect you. It tries to turn nothing into anything resembling truth, it turns advertisement and news, into an endless cycle of boring things that get hammered by the "a lie told 1000 times turns into truth" line.

It doesn't affect you when you're watching it, it affects you when you see or do anything relating to it.

When you need to buy new tires, you know what to buy, you don't buy based on technical sheets, you buy it knowing it, even not explicitly.

(A take from Adorno and Horkheimers "Dialectic of Enlightenment", the part where they talk about the media, culture, art, etc)

 

Crossposted from https://mbin.potato-guy.space/m/world@lemmy.world/t/31545

Pakistan has bombed Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities as fighting spread following attacks by Afghan forces against Pakistani military positions along their shared border earlier.

 

Pakistan has bombed Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, and other cities as fighting spread following attacks by Afghan forces against Pakistani military positions along their shared border earlier.

 

Idk, it might be old news to everyone.

I just discovered that we can follow the magazines the profiles publish, like !brasil-dw_brasil@flipboard.com that turns into a community, or follow them directly like @dw_brasil@flipboard.com, turning all of their posts into a microblog feed (on mbin, mastodon, etc).

Might be interesting to people, if they want to see some different type of posts, news, articles or cultural analysis.

I see this as a win-win, they get their "someone entered your website through flipboard and the fediverse" (the links come with only this tracking) and we get different "content".

 

From the description:

I discuss Claire Bishop’s theory on attention, automatism, AI, mid century modern Facebook Marketplace slop, address the hyperfication of media trends causing a reduction in itself, Franco Berardi, Italian Futurism, Herbert Read….. actually I’m going to stop listing things because basically I kind of talk about a lot.

 

Wolbachia is a genus of gram-negative bacteria infecting many species of arthropods and filarial nematodes. The relationship between Wolbachia and its hosts ranges from parasitism through benign symbiosis up to obligate mutualism. It is one of the most common parasitic microbes of arthropods, and is possibly the most widespread reproductive parasite bacterium in the biosphere. Its interactions with hosts are complex and highly diverse across the various species in which it is found. Some host species cannot reproduce, or even survive, absent internal Wolbachia colonies. One study concluded that more than 16% of neotropical insect species carry bacteria of this genus, and as many as 25 to 70% of all insect species are estimated to be potential hosts.

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