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Coding is like taking a lump of clay and slowly working it into the thing you want it to become. It is this process, and your intimacy with the medium and the materials you’re shaping, that teaches you about what you’re making – its qualities, tolerances, and limits – even as you make it. You know the least about what you’re making the moment before you actually start making it. That’s when you think you know what you want to make. The process, which is an iterative one, is what leads you towards understanding what you actually want to make, whether you were aware of it or not at the beginning. Design is not merely about solving problems; it’s about discovering what the right problem to solve is and then solving it. Too often we fail not because we didn’t solve a problem well but because we solved the wrong problem.

When you skip the process of creation you trade the thing you could have learned to make for the simulacrum of the thing you thought you wanted to make. Being handed a baked and glazed artefact that approximates what you thought you wanted to make removes the very human element of discovery and learning that’s at the heart of any authentic practice of creation. Where you know everything about the thing you shaped into being from when it was just a lump of clay, you know nothing about the image of the thing you received for your penny from the vending machine.

Amazon forest felled to build road for climate summit

“A new four-lane highway cutting through tens of thousands of acres of protected Amazon rainforest is being built for the COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian city of Belém.”

bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy191r

Who needs a giant asteroid when we have these assholes?

The road under construction
www.bbc.comAmazon rainforest cut down to build highway for COP climate summitThe infrastructure required to host COP30 in Belém is undermining the cause, campaigners say.

A gentle reminder from a retired old prof. We are all humans, not NPC. We cannot be reduced. We all have value, we all deserve to live and to love. Our humanity and worth cannot be taken away. We must fight those to try to devalue, denigrate, or deny the worth of any of us. Stand up for your rights and for the rights of all humans. Governments work for us, we do not work for them; they serve us, or should fear us.

When did you first start worrying for humankind?

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

My latest post concerns the moment that I became uncertain about the survival of a species, thanks to an otherwise typical bus journey.

Please do comment with any similar experiences you have

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · When did you first start worrying for humankind?By Dean Burnett

When did you first start worrying for humankind?

theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.

My latest post concerns the moment that I became uncertain about the survival of a species, thanks to an otherwise typical bus journey.

Please do comment with any similar experiences you have

The Neuroscience of Everyday Life · When did you first start worrying for humankind?By Dean Burnett
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@evacide

So here is something you can spread amongst your #christian and #evangelical brethren.

We all know that tRump is the #antichrist .
Lord of lies.
Survived mortal wound.

DEI in Latin literally means GOD.

So when these minions of dark lard (not a spelling error) use slogan
"End Dei"

They literally mean "End God"

The end of times #eschation was meant to be a battle of good vs. evil

Spread it far and wide.
Dissent in the ranks of the dark forces is good for #humanity

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“Never sacrifice your humanity or that of others. If you find yourself willing to negotiate another’s humanity, that is when they’ve won something real. That is when you’ll have surrendered your soul.”
—Sarah Kendzior, Your Questions Answered: We're Already in the Aftermath
#values #humanity

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ICE uses several databases & govt records to track down targets.

…Mellissa Harper, a former #ICE official who now heads #ORR, told a staff meeting on Thurs that the agency plans to use #DNA tests to establish familial relationships, one of the sources said. It was unclear whether DNA tests would be used only on cases that raised a red flag, or on a routine basis.

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In the memo, #ICE said it had collected data from a number of sources on unaccompanied #minors & sorted them into 3 priority groups, "flight risk", "public safety" & "border security."

It directed agents to focus on #children deemed “flight risks” - including those ordered deported for missing court hearings & those released to sponsors who are not blood relatives.