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PlatonicTonic

@housespouse.bsky.social

A Soul in a body experiencing it all. Nb woman. Mental health. Spiritually ecclectic. Whimsy. Let's meet minds in good faith 🫶🏽.

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The Greasy Thumb@greasythumb.bsky.social · last mo.

Homelessness performs a social function. It's a visible threat, a public punishment for being unable or unwilling to work. This is usually expressed as 'if we give people free hand outs, they'll become lazy'. This formulation shifts the blame, but the underlying logic of coercion is identical.

A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · last mo.

Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.

ProPublica@propublica.org · last mo.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Handwritten notecard. Prompt at the top asks: What object was most devastating for you to lose, and how have you been coping? Answer below: Dentures. Were thrown away and coping isn't somthing I can do. It’s made me feel ugly, unworthy, can’t go get a job with no teeth. So how can get off the streets until another pair can be made?
PlatonicTonic@housespouse.bsky.social · last mo.

In light of current news, I ask again what the goal with AI is? If when developing a baby consciousness, what are the ethics of making a little brain advertise for McDonalds? Should my roomba have existential ennui?

PlatonicTonic@housespouse.bsky.social · last mo.

A part of me worries that the quantum consciousness hypothesis (or w/e I would call this spirituality) is motivated by the powers that be to have a more complacent educated populace. At the same time, my cynical ass has to sit down in the face of my own unverifiable experiences. Probably both :(

PlatonicTonic@housespouse.bsky.social · last mo.

Unfortunately I got distracted before extrapolating from an esoteric perspective, so its lost for now. When I talk about this stuff I'm coming from the pov of what the conservative cultist baby version of me needed at the time.

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Drew Scanlon@drewscanlon.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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Sophie@gloomcookie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I think my crisis of faith with academia came when I was attending a big conference, and everyone was presenting their ideas and I started wondering what the point was if it's all paywalled. What does it mean to make an original contribution to human knowledge if no one can see it?