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@technogeek75 that’s useful to know - thanks. I might just try it
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@technogeek75 Your site looks great. I like your photo page. Do you upload new photos ‘by hand’ or is it somehow automated?
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@technogeek75 hi there, thanks for reading & thanks for letting me know – fixed now.
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@ewancroft.uk Extremist ethnic nationalism seeks to naturalise power by appeal to emotive categories. Having the power to say who’s in and who’s out is made to seem legitimate when it’s arbitrary. In attempts to tell others where they’re “really from”, arbitrary power is the main point, not geography or culture.
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@bobdoto thanks - it’s an experiment, but so far so good
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@halfgrosser thanks - glad to hear this
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@bobdoto.bsky.social Yes, they were far apart on this. Habernas saw misunderstanding as a failure of communication, whereas Luhmann saw it as inevitable and generative.
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@bobdoto.bsky.social Luhmann contested Habermas’s theories of communication and knowing a little of Habermas makes Luhmann’s position clearer. Unfortunately if anyone’s harder to understand than Luhmann, it’s Habermas. 🫨 Gorm Harste’s book, The Habermas-Luhmann Debate (2021) is the last word, for now.
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@lbflyawayhome.bsky.social Castell Dinas Bran (Crow Castle) is in the centre of the image. I used to climb it as a child and cycle the whole area as a teenager. Feeling a bit homesick to see this.
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@manton This is a really great new feature! I tried it. I’m hooked. Thanks as ever
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@davespriggs I agree! It’s interesting how these evolve over time. Game stores are way more popular now than they used to be, which is great to see. And where I live the public libraries are really cherished too. Then in Sydney we have the beaches - I just realised these are ‘third places’ too.
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@roelio That’s not an alien. This is an alien.
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@ablerism this is a great idea!
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@writingslowly maybe it worked!
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@microadrian yes it’s interesting that Star Trek could get it right all those years ago.
I’m also reminded of the denouement in the movie Her, where the guy suddenly realises the AI was massively multitasking on what he thought was their uniquely intimate relationship. The let-down was immense. - ∞
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@marick First they make you a hero, then they make you burn out — but then it doesn’t look like <all of this> is going to fix itself so thanks for volunteering!
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@marick thanks — rebels like you help us imagine a better world
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@philipbrewer ha, I’d never tried that on my android phone — it only works with the number keyboard but now I’ll be doing it all the time
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@writingslowly oh, but there already is a keyboard shortcut for the em-dash: Shift + Option + Hyphen. I could try text replacement instead.
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@Miraz that’s probably what the bots tell themselves – but still, as long as the em-dashes keep coming it’s all good!
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@hjalm turns out there are five ways to type an em-dash on a Mac. This is civilized!
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@philipbrewer yeah, I still use two hyphens and sometimes it works.