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> **RIKER**: The rules on this ship do not change just because Ro Laren decides they do.
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No, but they do seem to change when almost everyone else decides that they do...
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No, but they do seem to change when almost anyone else decides that they do...
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> **PICARD**: No, let's umm...let's begin this with a show of good faith.
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> **DATA**: Our scientists theorize the Lysians are using an energy wave, either plasma-based or a subspace interference pattern. The weapon severely disrupts a starship's computer system as well as the mental functions of its crew.
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Since we don't have much to do with this episode, I should point out that Data, lacking his routine identity, acts like a professional. He doesn't waste time asking people to define English words or drift off on useless tangents.
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Since we don't have much to do with this episode, I should point out that Data, lacking his routine identity, acts like a professional. He doesn't waste time asking people to define English words or drift off on useless tangents. The Federation did that to him.
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> **PICARD**: Return fire.
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> **RIKER**: Well. I'm glad I ran into the two of you. When you have no memory of who you are, or who anybody else is, you find yourself---
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Womanizing? Violating every human resources guideline? No, wait, he does those things normally. Apparently, he only wants to have his sorry sitcom moment of "terrified, because women might compare notes on him."
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Womanizing? Violating every human resources guideline? No, wait, he does those things normally. Apparently, he only wants to have his "terrified, because women might compare notes on him" sorry sitcom moment.
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## Conclusions
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title: Toots 🦣 from 08/12 to 08/16
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date: 2024-08-16 17:52:05-0400
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tags: [linkdump, mastodon, socialmedia, week]
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summary: Toots for the Week of August 12th, 2024
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thumbnail: /blog/assets/CLM_14456_71r_detail.png
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teaser: This week, we have racism and aging, right-wing riots, Mastodon for Harris, anti-abortion centers, Terawulf's fraud, battery recycling, Paulo Coelho, and quotes.
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spell: Terawulf Wolcot Rotherham Bhāravi Wieland DESs nrkbeta
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proofed: true
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* Ignore for ToC
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{:toc}
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As [discussed previously]({% post_url 2019-12-31-new-year %}), on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I don't include here unless their creators *happen* to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I don't notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I don't feel restricted by message length.
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Also, I don't generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
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## 9:07 -- Mon 12 August 2024
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{% embed https://images.theconversation.com/files/610943/original/file-20240801-23-7qsv16.jpg|Anti-racism protest, with Black protestors holding hand-made signs on cardboard|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112949200655370849) [Racism and discrimination lead to faster aging through brain network changes](https://theconversation.com/racism-and-discrimination-lead-to-faster-aging-through-brain-network-changes-new-study-finds-233959) from The Conversation
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> Racial discrimination is a ubiquitous stressor that often goes unnoticed. It might look like a doctor questioning a Black patient’s pain level and not prescribing pain medication, or a teacher calling a Black child a “thug.” It is a constant stressor faced by Black people starting at an early age.
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Hashtags: #Racism #Aging #Health
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It occurs to me that "often goes unnoticed" has two meanings in that quoted bit, both pretty terrible. Racism "often goes unnoticed" by most of us, because we can afford not to care, to some extent, and the people who can't ignore it don't trust us enough to confide in us. For the people who experience it directly, racism "often goes unnoticed" because it happens so often that they notice it about as often as we notice air.
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We have a *lot* of work to do.
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## 12:04 -- Mon 12 August 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112949896888307093)
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> Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, And every grin so merry draws one out.
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{% cite John Wolcot %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:06 -- Tue 13 August 2024
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{% cw Great Replacement Nonsense %}
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{% embed https://cdn2.opendemocracy.net/media/images/An_anti-immigration_protester_wearing_a_Unio.max-760x504.jpg|An anti-immigration protestor wearing a Union Jack mask in Rotherham|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112954858598662064) [Great Replacement & boogaloo: The ideology driving the modern far right](https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/far-right-riots-great-replacement-boogaloo/) from openDemocracy
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> ...the modern far right is no longer made up of organizations with clear hierarchical structures. Instead, it is an international and online-networked movement. It organizes around a shared ideology spread by a core of theorists, leaders and influencers who use their power to put out statements designed to trigger others to commit violence.
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Hashtags: #FarRight #Violence #Racism
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While I don't agree that Great Replacement trash "drives" them---*hate* drives them, and Great Replacement gives them a marketable excuse that naïve journalists find novel enough to help them spread---definitely take lessons from the structural points.
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## 12:05 -- Tue 13 August 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112955562755210059)
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> The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
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{% cite Bhāravi %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:05 -- Wed 14 August 2024
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{% embed https://i0.wp.com/wedistribute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/mastodon-for-harris-card.png|A Mastodon for Harris sign featuring a cartoon mastodon knocking a coconut out of a palm tree|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112960517678872452) [“Mastodon for Harris” is a Success Story for Fediverse Activism](https://wedistribute.org/2024/08/mastodon-for-harris/) from We Distribute
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> Mastodon For Harris continues to fundraise for the Harris campaign, and harnesses a growing amount of energy and enthusiasm as different groups across the network converge together.
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Hashtags: #USPol #MastodonForHarris #Activism
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The article has a section on people finding the situation uncomfortable, and I posted this primarily to make the point that other causes can and should *learn from this*. No, your mutual aid network[^1] doesn't have the benefit of constant media coverage like the Harris campaign rightly benefits from, but it doesn't take that to replicate what they did to get the word out on this specific fundraising push.
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[^1]: I feel sorely tempted to put sarcasm-quotes around the mutual aid network phrase, because it feels like an excuse, a hypothetical cause to suggest that the Fediverse shouldn't waste time on preventing the fascist oligarchy outlined openly in [Project 2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025). People always have these causes that they don't usually contribute to themselves, but think that you should instead of whatever you decided to do...
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## 12:01 -- Wed 14 August 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112961210056360727)
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> For rhyme the rudder is of verses, With which, like ships, they steer their courses.
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{% cite Samuel Butler %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:03 -- Thu 15 August 2024
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{% embed https://i0.wp.com/otherwords.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/shutterstock_2475095573.jpg|A person waiting nervously for results from a home pregnancy test|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112966171489210390) [Anti-Abortion Centers Deceive Patients. Here’s How We Fight Back](https://otherwords.org/anti-abortion-centers-deceive-patients-heres-how-we-fight-back/) from OtherWords
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> It begins with public education. States can play a critical role to ensure residents have the tools and resources they need to make informed reproductive health care decisions — and avoid dangerous and deceptive anti-abortion centers.
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Hashtags: #Abortion #Education
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These anti-abortion centers have always worried me the most about the forced-birth movement, because they seem illegal on almost every level. They pretend to offer medical care without a license. They collect medical information and store it on servers. And they advertise in ways meant to deceive. I've probably forgotten a few aspects, too, but you get my point. It feels like Attorney Generals could make names for themselves fairly quickly by wiping most of these groups off the map.
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## 12:06 -- Thu 15 August 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112966890981439205)
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> Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
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{% cite Alexander Pope %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## 9:01 -- Fri 16 August 2024
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{% cw Cryptocurrency Stuff %}
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{% embed https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/coal-bitcoin.jpg|Coal executives with green-tinted goggles accepting an environmental award in front of a crew of child laborers|false| %}
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i>](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112971827135064749) ["Carbon neutral" Bitcoin operation founded by coal plant operator wasn't actually carbon-neutral](https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/09/terawulf/) from Pluralistic
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> Terawulf is a scam from top to bottom. Its NY state permit application promises not to pursue cryptocurrency mining, a thing it was actively trumpeting its plan to do even as it filed that application.
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Hashtags: #Crypto #Fraud
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I can't help but notice that all these inane industries have started joining forces to prop each other up. While burning more coal won't end in anything good, it still feels somewhat gratifying to see that cryptocurrencies and AI. in particular, now seem to exist primarily to give coal power plants customers. I call it gratifying, because these sorts of alliances have the virtue of making the targets more vulnerable by how they cluster together...
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## 12:03 -- Fri 16 August 2024
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[<i class="fab fa-mastodon"></i> Quoted on Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/@jcolag/112972545536897407)
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> Stupidity has its sublime as well as genius, and he who carries that quality to absurdity has reached it, which is always a source of pleasure to sensible people.
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{% cite Christoph Martin Wieland %}
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Hashtags: #Quotes
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## Bonus
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Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didn't fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
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{% embed https://www.futurity.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/lithium-ion-battery-waste-1600.jpg|Pile of redundant mobile and smartphones on white background|false| %}
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [Faster, cleaner method recovers lithium from battery waste](https://www.futurity.org/lithium-recovery-battery-waste-3243752/) from Futurity
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> Conventional recycling methods often involve harsh acids, while alternative eco-friendly solvents like deep eutectic solvents (DESs) have struggled with efficiency and economic viability. Moreover, current recycling methods recover less than 5% of lithium, largely due to contamination and loss during the process as well as the energy intensive nature of recovery.
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Speaking of dealing with electricity, it would definitely improve everybody's lives if lithium became less problematic...
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{% cw State Violence %}
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{% embed https://globalvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1024px-Paulo_Coelho_nrkbeta-800x573.jpg|Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho|false|Paulo Coelho https://www.flickr.com/photos/95021520@N00/2256062962/ by nrkbeta (CC BY-SA 2.0) %}
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<i class="fas fa-square"></i> [Bestselling writer Paulo Coelho remembers his torture under Brazil's military dictatorship](https://globalvoices.org/2024/08/07/bestselling-writer-paulo-coelho-remembers-his-torture-under-brazils-military-dictatorship/#) from Global Voices
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> The Truth Commission, which published a final report in 2014, pointed to 377 people responsible for human rights violations in Brazil and counted 434 people dead or disappeared by the State. The violations suffered by Coelho are mentioned in the second volume of the report.
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I don't really have anything to say, here, other than that you should probably read the article.
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**Credits**: Header image is [Circular diagrams showing the division of the day and of the week](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CLM_14456_71r_detail.jpg) from a manuscript drafted during the Carolingian Dynasty.
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