akindnessofravens.bsky.social
@akindnessofravens.bsky.social
Might feel good, but then what?
March 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Proper Christians, such as there ever are any, are best understood as anarcho-communists as per the Gospels, as was Day and many saints, but due to Atheist Marxists and their ilk and the politics of her time in the US, other terms were used to differentiate their theistic models.
March 2, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Yes, Roman Communists
March 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The Dorothy we need
March 2, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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March 2, 2025 at 12:03 PM
One can believe that, so let’s harness them for good, at least that’s a start
March 2, 2025 at 2:55 AM
His phrase was National Conservatives, but likely can be read as you did.
March 2, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Don’t stop there, also add Gross Margin, Material Cost vel sim, a whole panel of product facts on every label. If Capitalists argue that the consumer should be informed, then the consumer should demand to be informed.
March 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Yeah, all seems like a good start, but the batteries are toxic as noted.
March 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
It might seem momentarily satisfying, but ultimately a failure of imagination. Rather hope, but not expects, full repentance and a true change of heart to repair the damage. If Origen can look forward to the healing of Satan, why not this? But, yeah we might not get that, and then…
March 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating fundamentally the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction. — Eckhart Tolle

Metanoia is not simply a change of mind, but a full rupture, recognizing another world is possible and embracing it’s paradigm
March 2, 2025 at 2:13 AM
“The freedom of each is realizable only in the equality of all. The realization of freedom through equality, in principle and in fact, is justice.”
— Mikhail Bakunin
March 2, 2025 at 2:04 AM
National Conservatives, who consider themselves Christians, are simply not Christians, there is nothing about their vision of reality or their view of their fellow man that has the slightest resemblance to who and what Christ was and what he taught.
– David Bentley Hart
March 2, 2025 at 1:45 AM
March 2, 2025 at 1:39 AM
It is interesting how pervasive that imagery is, the goddess Nut comes to mind
March 1, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It is related to illusory agency and it’s addictive effects…. [Or as a summary, Capitalism is evil] 😞
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12152-022-09491-1
The Illusion of Agency in Human–Computer Interaction | Neuroethics
This article makes the case that our digital devices create illusions of agency. There are times when users feel as if they are in control when in fact they are merely responding to stimuli on the screen in predictable ways. After the introduction, the second section of the article offers examples of illusions of agency that do not involve human–computer interaction in order to show that such illusions are possible and not terribly uncommon. The third and fourth sections of the article cover relevant work from empirical psychology, including the cues that are known to generate the sense of agency. The fifth section of the article shows that our devices are designed to deliver precisely those cues. In the sixth section, the argument is completed with evidence that users frequently use their smartphones without the sort of intentional supervision involved in genuine agency. This sixth section includes the introduction of Digital Environmental Dependency Syndrome (DEDS) as a possible way of characterizing extended use of the smartphone without genuine agency. In the final section of the article, there is a discussion of questions raised by the main claim, including suggestions for reducing occurrences of illusions of agency through software design.
link.springer.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Yes! But also
March 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Probably not new, but no one is pretending anymore to be working for humanity
February 28, 2025 at 11:21 PM