kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io
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Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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violent crime amongst teenagers in my old town
This happened in the area I grew up and went to school in (13 year old victim is from my old high school, and I wouldn't be surprised if the suspects (none older than 14) are also from there; as this field is a good 6km from the centre of Reading and is not the sort of place a teen would easily get to on Sunday afternoon unless they lived nearby (buses are less frequent, and its a long bike ride)
https://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/emmer-green-stabbing-live-updates-19557434
🇵🇱 Głosowanie na Biologiczną Bzdurę roku 2020
https://www.totylkoteoria.pl/2020/12/biologiczna-bzdura-roku-2020-gosowanie.html
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Quote comparing late Soviet year and contemporary Russia, but, I feel, relevant to other contexts:
> "Before, when a person walked into the store and found only empty shelves, they blamed the system, but now, when they walk into a store chock full of consumer goods but cannot afford to buy them, they blame themself. This is even truer when they admit that other people no more capable or intelligent have somehow adapted to this system and prospered. " - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/04/the-kremlin-need-have-no-fear-of-mass-economic-protests-a72537
> "Before, when a person walked into the store and found only empty shelves, they blamed the system, but now, when they walk into a store chock full of consumer goods but cannot afford to buy them, they blame themself. This is even truer when they admit that other people no more capable or intelligent have somehow adapted to this system and prospered. " - https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2021/01/04/the-kremlin-need-have-no-fear-of-mass-economic-protests-a72537
These tools were initially forged by Marx to facilitate his wishful thinking about how societies operate that science did not support.
In 20th century far-left faced the same challenge and picked the same tools as they knew them well due to ideological compatibility and general inspiration by Marx.
Today the same Marx-inspired tools are being picked up by alt-right generation that talks about "evils of cultural Marxism" (a bullshit term on its own).
Sokal Affair was LOL, this is LOL squared.
An interesting observation after traditional Christmas arguments with my right--wing relatives in Poland:
Alt-right is now talking 100% postmodernism.
History made full circle: half-century ago it was mostly far left who ranted about "gender aspect of mathematics" and "science as a social construct", basically denying humans ability to objectively describe reality.
Gender inclusive is OK but this reads like some kind of satire really:
"'Amen and a-woman': House opening prayer goes gender-inclusive"
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house-congress-prayer-emanuel-cleaver-amen-democrats
(except it originates from Biblical Hebrew not Latin)
"Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko authorised political murders in Germany in recent years, according to a sensational recording of his former spy-chief obtained and published by EUobserver." 🇧🇾 #Belarus
Each *month* airline passengers expose themselves to a radiation dose equivalent to the one released in Fukushima and the dose received by airline crews are way higher than those received by #nuclear plant workers. Obviously no environmental organisations push moral panic about the about this massive source of radiation, perhaps because it's "natural" 😂
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Ways Mastodon can be more cyberpunk:
* Everybody refers to their local currency as "credits".
* We change our avatars to look like the 80s. More day-glo hair and multicolor eye shadow, everybody.
* We meet people we follow now and then to hand off data on physical media.
1 January 2021 welcomed us with a perfect view of Tatra mountains 🇵🇱
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It reminds me of something Maciej Ceglowski said at a meetup I went to a few years ago (paraphrasing). If you're a coder and you want to contribute to the public good, it's unlikely you're going to help by inventing some new whiz-bang thing using Merkle trees or blockchain or whatever. Most likely, there is just some underfunded local government office that needs help updating their MySQL database or something – the boring, unglamorous work that nobody wants to do.
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An example of a successful climate change adaptation strategy. Poland, 2020.
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The #PolishUprising has started on transparent, rational, structured (#markdown) decision-making! The #Poland #ConsultativeCouncil of activists working on key sociopolitical topics with draft proposals of carrying out specific goals is now open to the public for voting and discussion using #Loomio.
For example ;), equal access to online education:
(Similar software: see
https://democracy.foundation/similar-projects )
Useful for #Belarus too?
🇵🇱 Udało mi się dodzwonić do NFZ w sprawie testów na Covid-19 dla przyjeżdżających z UK. Pani z pewnym zmieszaniem poinformowała mnie, że może wystawić skierowania tylko dla osób w Warszawie... bo takie dostała polecenie od kierownictwa.
Germany, Poland, Italy and Czechia account for 70% of EU CO2 emissions from the energy sector.
Blaming GRU for hacking SolarWinds is like blaming rain for being wet. The actual target of "vigorous response" should be arrogant and incompetent software vendors who win gov tenders by declaring all kinds of security compliance yet cannot deliver on the very basics.
- OpenPGP
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- Website
- https://krvtz.net
- Matrix
- @kravietz:krvtz.net
Polish expat into UK. Information security engineer. Caver & cave rescuer (thus the bat). NHS volunteer & blood donor.
Joined May 2019
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