I have not had a mobile phone since the Snowden confirmation.

GrapheneOS is the first thing to give me serious consideration of getting one [despite the remaining issues].

Preinstalled devices, increases chance of a snap purchase.

I failed to take in the rest of this, after the second frame induced a loud ringing, like I’d just been hit by a flashbang of “the boy who cried wolf”.

Corroborating

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

and such, I’ve come across https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akj4EGPiQEY … interesting for anyone interested in pedagogy and psychology and sociology and so on. Johan Hari on Peter McCormack, “We Built A World Humans Aren’t Designed For”.

It seems like awareness of this is increasing,

and shall increase even more as the mismatch of provision and needs widens as ai and robots increasingly take up more and more of what industrial education had been conditioning us to be the robots for. Our robotification shall become farther out of reach of worth, into redundancy, revealing our real worth.

Johan Hari puts it better than my mangled clumsy verbosity.

So it’s like that line from Good Will Hunting: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”

Oh please. Surely we’re of better moral character than the Q already [On the bridge of the Enterprise D]. At least by example of the mischievous loud one most seen. We can do far better at aiming high, than to aspire to Q. … “What was it they called you on Brax, the god of lies?”

Part way reading through that, I began to wonder, the when, and what was happening then, …

It seems, Trek lost its way in this moral regard, after Voyager, …so, after 2001. 2001… so, after the PNAC plan kicked into action with their unifying false flag terror attack?

Can’t help also wonder about maybe the slippage had already begun earlier… perhaps, showing the fringe of the federation, evoked, in a “what if all art a tool of manifestation” sense, sanctuary districts. Overdue mends… Where’s our Bell?

And as I near the end, I think of the pale moonlight, and yup, you rightly mention it too. … It’s haunting, as Sisko closes the episode, trying to convince himself he is okay with it. New fake trek would have just blasted past that like it was nothing of consideration at all.

I’m glad there are others who see this too, and can put it to words as well as you have there. Good stuff. Maybe we who care about the essence of trek can revive trek. … I’ve already got various notes taken for an outline for a new trek in the same spirit as TNG, DS9 and VOY, accumulating over years. I wont be the only one. … How long before some start to churn it out via LLM? [Edit: <- Oh look, that’d be like thinking the ends justify the means.] I’d rather make it for real.

All the whitewashing narcissistic sadistic psychopathic machiavelianism, as seen in the fake trek (especially the most recent), is clearly not star trek.

The older Star Trek made an extraordinary effort to maintain coherence.

Character coherence.

Ethical coherence.

Political coherence.

And even scientific coherence, as far as science fiction could reasonably achieve it.

And it can be again. :)

Make it so.

Yeah for sure there’s a mix, different usecases, and it’s just handy to illustrate the other extremes, to elucidate others of the existence of these other paradigms otherwise beyond their ken. Some of them may indeed likewise have been a star shaped peg trying to fit in a square shaped hole, not realising there are ways that fit them better.

So much exhausting bureaucratic organisational downtime in college between ladles of info, perchance you’re fit for it when they pour it, compared to just freely swimming in the ocean of information.

It takes some kind of self motivation, be that curiosity, dedication, purpose or something else.

Then it’s not just faster, it’s broader, deeper and further, than narrow metric matching of industrial “educations”'s specialisation’s maximal-ignorance-bar-one; than is sought in employment roles that simply seek a degree. [Which I’m given to understand is increasingly the type of adaptive polymathy sought in many endeavours.]

Also then there’s the perspectives that value education above mere preparation for employment roles.

Leave [that] school.

You can learn more, faster, at your own pace, with a library card and an internet connection (if you use it like a library, not like TV).

You could also try walking your teacher through the user agreement… paying special attention to the deal with the devil clause, where they can change the agreement after you agree. And the parts about how they use all your data, and how they consider your emails their property after 90 days, and and and… So many egregious points. So against the spirit of pedagogy that any educational institute should be about.

impose rent?

but…

it’s already working for you, setting up traps for flies.

bloody capitalists… always short-sightedly, myopically, trying to maximise wealth extraction.

Adding a log to the camel’s back seems overkill. Already had plenty reasons long time ago. Since before Greta existed even.

It’s free software. You’re assured the 4 freedoms. Put up or hack up. If you want GIMP the same but with another name, that’s a fairly easy fork to make. You do not need to reaffirm your dis-empowerment, wishing on eventuality.

Why’s it a shame it has the name it has?

It’s a great name. It’s fun. It’s whimsical. It’s practical. It says exactly what it is. Where’s the shame?

And speaking as someone with several ailments that give me a gimpy walk, I feel seen, having the already-homonymous word gimp extended to yet another meaning. … Is the objection to the name coming from those who are yet to comprehend the concept of homonyms and extend that comprehension more broadly to things they’d not prior considered to be homonyms?

Please do not change the name.

There’s nothing wrong with it whatsoever. ~ I feel seen (with my gimpy walk), with that homonym out there. It’s a strong positive.

Also, what an ugly book-burning history-rewriting miscrediting to try hush an advocacy of freedom, when [ironically] that freedom’s right there, availing you the solution (that does not seek to impose any doubleplus goodspeak), in that you can just fork it, and rename it, yourself, if that’s the issue you have with it.

… Also… I’ve never heard it called GNU Imp. Gimp, or GNU Image Manipulation Program, or the gimp. That’s just silly. … And why’s Imp considered an improvement? What’s the benefit? What itch would it scratch?

I have tried various versions in the 3 series. Several times. Across several distros. And several arrangements of useflags in gentoo. The new new point version? probably not yet. Have they changed the toolkit or done some magic to change it to be as responsive as the 2 series? If not, seems a safe bet it’ll still be noticeably laggy like all prior versions in the 3 series.

Yeah… I’ll stick with 2.10. It’s responsive.

Here’s hoping they’re squeezing so tight as to make more people slip out of their grasp, drop their borg boxes, and return to being real humans.

Dang. What that was in reply to, got removed. I don’t remember what it was (and failed to find what it was in the modlog systems ~ remind me, how do I get to see what was removed?).

Now I’m wondering if I misinterpreted something serious as satirical or vice versa. And even wondering if my reply there could likewise get misinterpreted. IIRC, either way, that image, what it depicts, still stands… remarking on the deranged insanity of being wistful for war.

… One of these days this war’s going to be over.

That’s debatable.

That smells like a false dichotomy… but, I’m heading on to other things better to do with my time than to think up examples outside those two possibilities.

But don’t worry, everybody. The national/global digital ID single point of failure will protect us from such fails. :`3