What, centralisation has the opposite effect. It makes things worse. Imagine lemmy.world shutting down (the biggest instance), lemmy would be fucked.
Decentralisation is to be encouraged. So if an instance shuts down, it’s not the end of the world.
Like how basically all lemm.ee communities were migrated.
That’s pretty smart of the admins, actually. Thankful they thought of that.
Yup, things like temperature, humidity, and atmospheric makeup can change quite a bit depending on geological periods.
There’s a bit of an evolutionary necessity to adapt on those timescales.
But he’s got lived experience of totalitarianism. Of rhetorical practices states use to crush ideas.
Epistemically he’s very qualified to comment on this.
And academics who you might call historians, like Foucault, would back him up here.
But
All this is political.
What you’re describing is technocracy. And it has major limitations.
Orwell would disagree, unfortunately.
Politics and Science will literally always mix. Science always exists in a political context. It’s not some platonic ideal.
The research that gets funded, published, advertised. The people that have the privilege to get degrees and academia jobs. Is all inherently political. It’s maybe more obvious now with Trump’s meddling, but it literally always has been this way.
I think it’s dangerous to look at science (especially social sciences, political sciences, economics, sociology, psychology etc.) without considering the political context.
What do you mean. The Daily Mail Online is known to be one of the most rigorous publications!
Me frantically going through all my Maths papers to replace the equal sign with “Is Equivalent to”
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In our recently submitted grants we had to change “traumatic brain injury” to “concussive brain injury” and “male and female mice” to “male and non-male mice” because traumatic and female are now verboten words that can get our grants killed. It’s insanity.
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This is a screenshot of a bluesky post from “The Tennessee Holler” posted 12 hours ago. The post reads: “If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?” The post includes a repost from Joe G posted 2 hours ago that says “Arresting people in wheelchairs protesting Medicaid cuts.” Below the text is a video thumbnail showing what appears to be law enforcement officers restraining an elderly person in a wheelchair in what looks like a government building or office setting.
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Woman in a wheelchair saying: “THERE IS NO MARRIAGE EQUALITY UNTIL PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES CAN MARRY WITHOUT LOSING BENEFITS”
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In ZFC set theory (which most of modern maths is built upon). The natural numbers are defined as recursions of empty sets.
Ie. 0 = ∅ (the empty set)
1 = {∅} = {0}
2 = {∅, {∅}} etc…
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Sarcastic bluesky post saying [time traveling back to 1933 to make sure to tell Germans to protest Hitler less vigorously so as not to alienate bougie centrists who want to go to brunch undisturbed, thus preventing the rise of fascism]
What’s so sad about Hong Kong is I know we’re probably all going to watch this go down again in Taiwan.