Aaron Wolf @wolftune@social.coop

perspective on time and history:

The time between now and the birth date of the current president of the U.S. is the same as the time between his birth date and the American ~~Civil~~ Slavery War

#history #timeperspective

Conscious Activism (well, conscious anything, but this is a framing toward activism) https://conscious.is/concepts/conscious-activism

I actually found this intro to what is socialism to be a very good 101 explanation to be able to share with others https://www.npr.org/2021/03/26/981686254/socialism-101

#socialism #misunderstood-words #trigger-words

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/10/gas-stoves-are-bad-you-and-environment/616700/

We have never once used the gas stove in our house, lived here almost 5 years. Since going back well over 10 years, we put a cover over our stoves wherever we lived and just used a couple plug-in $60 induction cooktops. Maximum efficiency, but the MAIN benefit: we just set a timer on the units and they turn off by themselves. We will never go back.

#lifeprotips #efficiency #inductioncooking

4yo improvised a long song at the end of bath time. One of the lines was:

"Boom boom boom, I tap on your back
and you say that's uncomfortable
and I say that's stoic practice!"

wow, how did I miss that last fall the STAR Voting effort put out the best short explanation by far: https://youtu.be/3-mOeUXAkV0

#starvoting

insight of the day with the 4yo: there's more songs than people on the planet!

(yeah, if everyone made up just one song, it would be the same, and we can all make up more than one song in our lives)

OMG https://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2021/02/nevada-to-become-officially-field-test.html

Corporate-run non-democratic regions planned in the U.S.

I want to spread this idea:

In any discussion with people you disagree with, the game should be: try to be the first to get the other(s) to say: "yes, that's exactly how I feel (or what I think)"

Is there any existing hashtag/meme for this? I know of Rapoport's Rules and many other sources for the *idea* but I want a catchy meme to spread this. If none exist, what hashtag would be best?

#igetit or #ihearyou or what? Please help, I think this could be really valuable

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210108/17022646023/not-easy-not-unreasonable-not-censorship-decision-to-ban-trump-twitter.shtml

#contentmoderation #censorship #nuance

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/wednesdays-other-story

on Julian Assange situation and the grotesque crimes of "normal" politicians (with no excuses for the blowhard delusional personalities)

OMG, I heard an anecdote about a mother who lived next door to her kid's school in Texas, and she was so used to the idea of driving as the only way to go anywhere that she habitually got in her car without thinking and drove to the parking lot of the school which was a farther walk to the school building than it would have been from her own front door of her house.

Happy new years time everyone!

My new Kite Guitar arrangement of Auld Lang Syne: https://youtu.be/sZGZmgGkYzI

#justintonation #microtonality #harmony #guitar

I was going to post something about Timur Kuran and his important ideas around "preference falsification" as a social phenomenon.

But then I realized that communities and people I want to maintain good terms with just *might* be critical of either Kuran or of various other public intellectuals he has ever associated with.

So, I think better to falsify my preference for the insights of preference falsification and avoid the danger of bringing up contentious topics.