Post A3Ds24It52HwfSn6eW by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
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(DIR) Post #A3DfTqpBUQojZEobDM by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T06:15:06Z
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I've never seen a supposed "right wing extremist" remind me so much of the insane hippie lefties I knew in art school. 😂
(DIR) Post #A3DhMWRv2uWWFvZAHY by Bubba@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-01-14T06:36:11Z
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@pete Hell I don't know. Sounded pretty coherent. But yeah... Not your usual right wing extremist.... Maybe the new right will be more libertarian...we could only hope. Cuz the left have done plum gone loco
(DIR) Post #A3Dld0fMrqgaQDyRrE by htimsxela@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-01-14T07:23:59Z
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@pete seeing someone dressed like that, in that situation, you make some assumptions. Watching this interview, you realize that those assumptions were not assuming enough 😂
(DIR) Post #A3DnCXWEoVP8P1D2f2 by DMN737@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-01-14T07:41:33Z
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@pete You went to art school?
(DIR) Post #A3Do24fFL81VyAzqmO by notresz@noc.social
2021-01-14T07:50:55Z
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@pete hey peter, curious why you chose to use activitypub over alternative distributed social networks
(DIR) Post #A3DoOcTCKd3LBe6y5g by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T07:55:00Z
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@DMN737 yes! And then worked full time as an analog electronics designer at a gravity gradiometry startup. Also did part of a physics degree before dropping out to do bitcoin stuff.One of my timepiece artworks, the spiral clock.
(DIR) Post #A3DoSoXnNlDZnCGJM0 by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T07:55:44Z
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@notresz Most mature software, with the largest user group.Scuttlebutt would have been my first choice - it's really cool - but it's not there yet.
(DIR) Post #A3DpAkEqkecHBGLe0e by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:03:41Z
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@DMN737 There's a lot wrong with that artwork! Irs supposed to be a clock, with a ball travelling around the spiral. But you can't see the ball easily, and mechanically it doesn't work well in it's intended vertical orientation. I had an earlier version that was horizontal, pure white and backlit with leds. But you can't sell horizontal artworks....
(DIR) Post #A3Dpp67EpdAkcC1tVg by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:10:59Z
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@DMN737 Here's one of my later artworks. It's a 64-bit counter. :)Color rendition is a bit messed up due to my phone camera...
(DIR) Post #A3DqHIkLSr5Ltflo9I by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:16:04Z
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@pete Yeah funny about that, the buffalo guy looks like he has done a few to many mushrooms and never came back from lala land.
(DIR) Post #A3Dqg6ryl92oIjAcZk by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:20:35Z
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@dsmatthews He's proof that the left/right political spectrum is actually a complex number, with him far into the imaginary axis.
(DIR) Post #A3Dr2tg7yC9039UbmC by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:24:41Z
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@pete Oh yeah, it is without a doubt a multidimensional thing, even without the space cadets getting involved. I find people hard to take seriously if they are fixated on a simple dichotomy because they are either idiots or deliberately divisive and tribal, playing divide and conquer where you are the other if you don't drink the kool aid they are serving up. I hate that, I am not a herd animal, I have my own unique mix of ideas and views.
(DIR) Post #A3DrHBucyQBkeh5hNw by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:27:16Z
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@dsmatthews In the last few months I've repeatedly had to explain to people that there's a lot of gay and minority Republicans, as well as racist Democrats.Indeed, lesbians is an interesting case because many of them feel like they're getting erased by the trans movement.
(DIR) Post #A3DrKyBjwOupFWtfXs by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:27:58Z
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@dsmatthews ...and of course, when I say "Republicans" and "Democrats" above, I'm simplifying too!
(DIR) Post #A3DrZF3s0JTJdP1NeC by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:30:31Z
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@pete True, I listen to all of those individual voices and I see them getting shouted down, or deplatformed by monomaniacal extremist bullies. It is so perverse that the people who screech at us about diversity can often be so hateful toward genuine diversity.
(DIR) Post #A3DrjrGinyix1o5w24 by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:32:27Z
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@dsmatthews I think what went wrong is left wing politics figured out a repeatable recipe for getting opponents cancelled. The rest is just incentives.
(DIR) Post #A3Drv1C2FM9KzfDxnk by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:34:28Z
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@dsmatthews ... though part of the problem is that the left has won on so many issues. When the other side has accepted your hot button issues that identified left-vs-right, where do you go next?Environmental and economic issues are really complex, without tidy answers.
(DIR) Post #A3Ds24It52HwfSn6eW by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:35:44Z
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@pete That would explain why I find the left so repulsive and hypocritical, even though I am a non car driving, vegetarian who is married to a Mayan indian woman, and I stay at home looking after the kids while she works, amongst other non-typical attributes.
(DIR) Post #A3DsGs0B6GmYrH67wO by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:38:25Z
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@dsmatthews The crazy thing about it is you're almost a modern-right stereotype! Having a family and choosing to live your life the way you want too doesn't quite fit the mold of the extreme left anymore.
(DIR) Post #A3DsOA1CVuAelL3KHw by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:39:44Z
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@dsmatthews Same with my successful Muslim background friends: they don't fit into the left, because they're successful on their own terms and (in many cases) value their families.
(DIR) Post #A3DsX6VUwDaCTjULQW by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:41:20Z
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@pete Most "issues" are solved by going offworld using advanced AI, nanotech, biocybernetics & fusion energy that set of technologies means great abundance for all & no need to exploit Earth's biosphere even if we live on/in Earth we can have our cities as self contained Earthships with closed cycle economies. In fact that really is our only hope, so holding back economies and other insane crap for the sake of fake climate BS is just going to make reaching that sustainable level all the harder.
(DIR) Post #A3Dshyr5j9Knvsm6eu by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:43:19Z
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@pete Yes well I do appreciate the left doing us the favour of not breeding. They will be all gone in a few centuries, all of the people who are that way due to their genetics are purging themselves from the genepool en masse.
(DIR) Post #A3DsqbDYyqbTEDOap6 by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:44:53Z
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@dsmatthews Well, *could* be solved. A lot of that tech you mentioned doesn't clearly work. It hopefully will. But we need to be putting more effort into finding out. Also, I think you're ignoring the larger issue of relative inequality: it's not enough to have a high living standard on an absolute scale. People have a psychological need to be important and valuable. Jobs are very good at providing that; basic income is not.
(DIR) Post #A3Dt48UwYY1cD4yotc by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:47:19Z
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@dsmatthews Or sooner... Evolution happens on a much faster scale than people realize, because in mature organisms selection is most of evolution. And in social organisms, memetics evolution - your culture - happens quickly as well. Whatever ideas cause people to have families - even if adopted - will be what's passed down to the next generation.
(DIR) Post #A3DtEsLkw2OxJRnt2W by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:49:15Z
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@pete The answer there is that we all become "robot owners" and we have an allocation of mass/energy that we can do as we please with. Combine that with an education that is lifelong and focused on entrepreneurial science and creativity at the same time and you have happy productive people with things to offer to each other, so a hybrid economic system that works in a hyper abundant environment where most work is mind work, unless you want to be a traditional artisan with physical skills.
(DIR) Post #A3DtdVWAxd3LjxQGmW by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:53:43Z
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@dsmatthews Sorry, but I just don't think that will work out. You're talking about a system in which differences between many individuals are erased, because they're not a part of the advanced knowledge economy that actually matters. That will lead to idleness and hopelessness. People want to be genuinely valued, and have that opportunity. Energy allocations can't do that. Education can't either, because many are simply incapable of learning those real skills.
(DIR) Post #A3Dtf560AWLWN9vkae by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:54:00Z
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@dsmatthews That's not to say I have a better alternative though. :(
(DIR) Post #A3DtgHIIIk9GUiFc1Y by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:54:12Z
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@pete Yes, it seems that the left have both the genetics and the cultural influences against their long term survival. If you are talking about the typical inner urban hedonistic types that are first and foremost about "me" and not family. If you associate reproduction with enslavement to a group, the family, then you are perfectly able to avoid that situation, it is a matter of choice, as it should be, but people need to accept the consequences/reality of making such choices.
(DIR) Post #A3DtvPWE0KdQLXyyxs by pete@mastodon.petertodd.org
2021-01-14T08:56:57Z
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@dsmatthews It's easy to see that in my apartment building: the minorities are the ones with the most kids. Often obviously religious minorities. Of course, where I live ethnic minorities also happen to be numerically majorities: I'd estimate the % of "white" people in my building is something like 40%, and many of those are slavic immigrants, eg from russia.
(DIR) Post #A3Du023mePPn2Rsoym by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T08:57:47Z
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@pete Modern life will get even more complex and dangerous with more ways for such fools to wipe themselves out. I call those dangers "civilisation's tar-pits", they can be anything but the end result is that they become a filter that defines future generations and those generations will be more comfortable in that future which I described.
(DIR) Post #A3DuXjmh6baQCfxgVU by dsmatthews@mastodon.online
2021-01-14T09:03:52Z
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@pete There are people who do that out of habit or culture/religion, then there are those who are far more deliberate, it is a strategic decision. Both groups will flourish but probably diverge into two types of human, the naturals and the biomoders who are outward looking because once you have mastered travel to distant planets you realise that you don't really need planets and that gravity wells are actually an inconvenience. Space has everything you need if you can deal with the dangers.
(DIR) Post #A3Dupabdy7VUwyIzTM by cypherspace@bitcoinhackers.org
2021-01-14T09:07:03Z
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@pete I'd say it's Jack Dorsey!!!