The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.
She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/11/progressives-are-dehumanising-charlie-kirk-even-in-death/
His death does not come out of the blue. It happened after years of violent and hyperbolic rhetoric from the mainstream media and Democratic elites attacking conservatives as evil, Nazi-adjacent threats to the status quo. Indeed, the day before Kirk’s assassination, Connecticut Democratic senator Chris Murphy announced, ‘We’re in a war right now to save this country… so you have to be willing to do whatever is necessary in order to save the country’.
Nothing is beneath these people. After Kirk’s death, ‘progressive’ pundits and assorted online leftists have claimed that Kirk brought this on himself. That he deserves it for espousing ‘controversial’ views. MSNBC political analyst Matthew Dowd said that ‘[Kirk has] been one of the most divisive younger figures, who is constantly sort of pushing this hate speech aimed at certain groups. And I always go back to, hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which lead to hateful actions.’ By hateful thoughts and words, of course, Dowd means any views that challenge his liberal-left worldview.
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Nobody is dehumanising Kirk. He did that all to himself.
He spread, promoted and glorified hatred and violence, and he got what he endorsed.
nostr:npub1cuscsrz6efq99ptktk26x58v4yqy9y46ytp8xw4rjjwq0wlt6znst66789 More like the Peter principle.
Get a sense of scale for computer storage...
Byte of data: a grain of rice
Kilobyte: a cup of rice
Megabyte: 8 bags of rice
Gigabyte: 3 container lorries
Terabyte: 2 container ships
Petabyte: covers Manhattan
Exabyte: covers the UK (3 times)
Zettabyte: fills the Pacific Ocean
How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism & Pragmatism
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-politics-software-criticism/ from nostr:npub1mr9ml9ppnne6dqyun7agk9jr54et88lr6dtcfkrnkwtkc92w67tqqn5drd
The privacy-focused messaging app arose from a fringe culture that emphasized individual autonomy & skepticism of authority. As it tries to go mainstream, can it escape its roots?