It is pollen season and it got me thinking about lungs...and flowers...and spring!

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/just-breathe-lung-art-human-body-anatomy-organ-illustration-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #fediart #mastoart #handmade #handmadeart #lungs #breathing #pollen #spring #springtime #flower #flowers #floral #botanical #humans #human #body #organ #medicine #medical #figure #SharonCummingsArt #colorful #fun #cute #mandalas #mandala

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Colorful lungs with flowers and mandalas by artist Sharon Cummings. Over a sofa.

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Colorful lungs with flowers and mandalas as a spiral notebook. Art by Sharon Cummings.

One thing that isn't always #clear to me.

How do you tell somebody needing #help that you aren't in a #position to do that directly?

I've always #struggled with this both #morally and #abstractly so. Because I don't like denying anyone any kind of #support if and when I can give it.

Maybe it's just my inner #empathy at play, but I often times feel like I'm there with them in that #moment where I can't just do nothing if it's not an emergency, but not a passive disinterest either.

The way I've delt with this, is to pass the word along to someone who I know could make that #difference more #meaningful or who I #trust to do so. It still doesn't #feel like I've done enough in those kinds of situations though. And I do often wonder if those #people got what they #needed because I was there to put in the #effort at least in part.

I would be okay with it, if it wasnt up to me alone to #fix it. But I still consider the plight of those who need the only #human in sight to act like one. And I wish more of us would and could do that on a collective basis. Our world would be so much better informed and run a lot easier too because there would be a lot less confusion and a lot more certainty on exactly where you stand.

I'll just put this here for the #record in case anyone wants to #question me about it later.

I #donated with #BitCoin back in January to #AnnasArchive and now the site's knocked #offline literally.

I paid like C$120.00 for the online form of the #project just to disappear.

Yeah ok #wikipedia has them moving #domains every other day but it was a lot more stable than that before I gave them a leg up.

This is why I hate centralized #websites and hosting.

This is why #self #hosting works by connecting #dedicated #servers to the #internet as a whole.

If you use anything less, you will face more #legal challenges hosting #human #knowledge and unfortunately, it is as #simple as that.

You cannot convince me that #BigTech is not turning into #authorized #tech as it seems as though the #copyright #industry and the #torent industry has eluded to colluding with one another to obtain #rights for.

Guys, I don't know what to say anymore. I'm a huge fan of #books and #media and #free #open #source #software and I long for the day that the #government doesn't need to get a cut of everything I #download or #upload anywhere, especially for #personal #use over all.

Please do whatever you can to fight #statistical #bottlenecks where ever they appear. I want humanity to have better access to #education and #intelligence built by real people in a fair and consistent manner.

I always am striving and trying my best to be a better #human being.

In our #world, we ultimately have two #choices to make. that is, if continuing on the #human #race is of any #interest to you.

1. You have to #love someone in order to start a #new #family with them.

2. You #need to also Love #yourself to be that someone to start a family with.

And that's it. A very #simple #solution for the #everyday #person as I see it.

I just got called a #Nazi by someone who mentioned me in a post then later deleted it.

So I will call that person a #coward because they can't stand by their convictions the way the Nazis did.

Name calling is so over rated and stupid. Insecure people shouldn't have to be able to influence diversion like this on a constant basis.

this exact response is the reason why centralized platforms target you now.

Here's a fact for you guys.

#Hitlerian ideology existed far longer than the #European attempted #colonization of everything into a #German #Reich which effectively makes #Nazism prone to regional difference, all be it one with the potential #historical #power to have long lasting consequences on the people who at the time, didn't see it coming as satellite states emerged from it.

So let's face it. I'm not #German I'm #Canadian and speak #English and no other #language as such.

For anyone who really wants to know, the term #neonazi exists for people who #self-identify as being simpathetic to Hitlerian doctrine.

I've #studied this extensively, because I think in a lot of ways, we never concluded #WWII completely from the #human #psyche and that is very frustrating to see this #tribal resurgence come back into #living #memory again.

So let's say that the year is 1940 something and not 2020 something. And let's point out the fact, that #National #Communism is an idea that got exported 80 some odd years into the #future to now.

Even if that's the case, the world has changed a lot since that time. And we've gotten stupider as a result of being primarily lazy with our own ambitions.

This is how dumb you guys are for doing this. And I know what you try to #suggest as such. That we are in such a #state of irreparable #disagreement, that this is the best you can come up with to #distance yourself from any sort of wider #context that doesn't fit your #narrative of #people who disagree with you.

So what? Can we not have an honest conversation about a few things without making solutions barred by political disconnectivity? That's exactly what the Nazi's proposed to do accept their solution wasn't just silence, it was death and destruction on a scale that has never truly went away ever since subsequent governments around our world, came into power and upgraded weapons systems continuously while operating elite networks from the shadows. In an effort, to instigate things like the #world #economic #forum and other big #thinktank organizations into a much broader sense of hostility than any of us individually call for as citizens of any and every nation.

I will say it loudly and #proudly as such. I am not someone who wants any group of people to face a premature end of their life on this planet, based on factors that nobody can control. And even if we can, I still want us to live our lives unimpeded by political #violence of any kind. And that includes #faith based groups to get along within #community spaces that do not challenge monomorphic #dominance at every step of the way.

I am disgusted at the #tribalism going on infecting every aspect of a normal #life facing my generation. And to just throw words like this out there, without any existential #planning or forethought on how this entire wretched #ideology can finally meet the dustbin of #history as such, to put it to #rest has no basis in #reality at all.

Look. I'm against people controling my life in ways I don't want them to. But that's true for all of us. So if you're going to name call, just remember that not everyone will take that lying down with a straight face and not move a mustle in the direction of a #fighting stance your way afterward.

I will not react in that manner, because I do put #peace and #prosperity first. And I don't censor people if they have opposing views to my own. But that's me. It's not you, and if you're that much of a coward to the point where you essentially do the same thing, only after you #feel #safe behind a cyber void, all the power to you.

But I bring this up publicly because reputations like this, although they're not supposed to, they actually do effect how highly you rank as a content provider. And on a shared internet, that carries more weight than you might think. Especially in today's toxic divided world where prayer is so much needed more so than ignorance and stupidity, where none can be found.

I don't want to live in a world where people start literally weaponizing eternity over a personal choice of faith. Nor do I want to live in one, where not choosing faith of any kind, let alone mandated ones, will land you as a person who is a continuous victim of statelessness by your actual neighbor in kind.

The Abrahamic religions are a perfect example (one of many in context) that have done more harm to divide people, than any other group in human history combined. And I am not one to book ban, but if those religions want to continue spewing their vile trash all over the place, it's time to set a precedent. But even still, that requires rethinking your approach to lead by example, and not paying attention to the example someone else can't lead by. Which again, makes book banning, the thing the Nazi's did, utterly archaic and barbaric to me

Wake up people. We don't live in a world that's so hard done by, that it can't be repaired. And it starts with refusing to use a tool at your disposal against someone you barely even had words with, because you can.

The only way you'll learn discernment, is by understanding this as a core concept. I have all the tools at my disposal as a server instance owner to really stick it to people if I choose to. But so too does the US government own nuclear weapons to stick it to us if they chose to. And I count my blessings every time I wake up, and we haven't regressed that far into mass destruction to which there is no return. So likewise, because and due to that, I practice discernment out of choice, even when I can legally get away with being a lot harsher. I do not do so out of pity, but out of respect.

So let's take a second and thank the Nazi's for coming into our lives. Not for their ideology, or their vile addiction to power and hatred. But because they taught us, to be better people to not be like them because they failed at suppressing the human spirit.

I don't want to see you pull some shit online you wouldn't in get away with in real life. Not because I want you to be oppressed, but because the more we treat our communities like bridges connecting real people together, the less likely we'll respond to situations with outlandish and stupid methods of containment until and unless we have no other choice but to defend against systematic collapse.

Please know the power of your presence and use it. I don't want to have to be the only one who does. I'm fully aware that I'm not in control of what someone else does. But so long as they're not doing something to you that you wouldn't want, let them be and move on. That's what being responsible gets you in 2026.

I wish I didn't have to spell this out. But honestly, what hurts me more so than the accusation of something that isn't even real. Is that, you use that as a justification to do something that is real, with lasting consequences on not just reputation, but disinterest without a trail of provocation to go along with it. It'd be not unlike setting your neighborhood ablaze because the pizza delivery guy was 5 minutes late.

If this kind of antisocial behaviour isn't course corrected, our 30 something year old generation will be the last to have known the meaning of true freedom as we know it, because people like you, will get more attention by being underhanded, rather than straight up and honest about where we stand. And as such, would force the natural rather than enforced suppression of sudden unpredictability, back where it rightfully belongs. In the could have been moments of our lives, but not in the never were enactments of them.

Or in other words, focusing on the self you become not as a hot headed entity, or a cold calculating monster. But the one in between, that sees both sides, and not just the one you embody because you think it's going to matter to a fault, rather than a cause.

Stay informed, and know you are not alone in caring for the same things I do. History doesn't always get things right, but that's why we talk about it, rather than remaining silent and hoping it goes away on its own.

For some situations, that can happen. But this isn't one of them.

Thank you for all that you are. I appreciate you.

I am writing an open #letter to all #political sides as an #introduction to #hope I wish to turn #hurt away from and closer into as such through #affirmative #action accordingly if at all possible.

Let me start out by saying, that I #believe in the #power of real human prayer as #unbound #energy finding its way through us. And in turn, I'm no #religious #person by and large, but I am going to send this #prayer out there anyways because I feel it needs to be #said as is.

This will be a prayer covering several #topics of conversation that I #feel are important and significant enough to relay as one broadcast.

#extremism

To all #people I #pray that:
You realize living on your own #political #island sounds great in theory, be it on the #left or the #right of the spectrum. Or even at the #top or #bottom of it as well. But being unable to find or care for the #center of it, leaves you #vulnerable to #attack more so than anything else. And that is not a state of things I #desire for you to have to #live by.

#awareness

I pray that:
As #individuals you #collectively and #personally #understand that there are differences between the #perception of how you come across to others, and how others #perceive you in turn. It is okay to have a #difference of opinion, but to be #blind sighted by this, leaves you open to being #weaponized and I do not #wish that for you to have to #experience at all.

#sovereignty
I pray that:
You can #recognize how someone wants to be able to experience #respect without having to diverge or divulge your #interest in a #potential #conflict as such. In order for us to be able to #trust each other, we have to #remember how to #treat one another as #equals rather than constantly #competing for #dominance based on denying that there #exists a spectrum of #agreeability at play that we are all apart of.

#CommonSense
I pray that:
We keep building upon #frameworks that do not need to become a totally separate #foundation that exists just to serve you. But rather, exist as #modular #blocks that can join and detach from one another as already built #structures full and complete. This way, we are not trying to conflict over what block we have to share space with someone else in prioritizing. Because the entire thing is ours to shape in our own way. And so as a #metaphor, I feel it is #important to attach to the idea of having a sense in common, as opposed to a common sense where applicable, of things that cause us to #fight over how #relevant it is to most of us around the #actual or #planned #change currently in motion.

#battles
I pray that:
We are able to tell when to be #still and when to #move upon any #focus that #captivates us in part. Whether it exists as apart of a #whole or not. Doing so will help us make the best #impact #possible for the change we want to make a #reality for the #cause we are #concerned for.

And ultimately, I pray that we can move past the blatant need to have an #existential #crisis be on full display at the #crossroads of #agendas being carried out as they are each in turn, #instigated by #georegional #tribalism that serves nobody accept to put #humanity as a whole last, not first, as I intend to do.

All of these things are #real and can be #fixable and #doable as such. And I want to make sure, that this reality does not have a chance to get far out of #control the way it currently has.

For it is #outcomes like this, that #incomes should never have appropriately #manifested into #place that I want to #avoid and keep #preventable from ever #happening again.

To me, I find it very #unfortunate that we are living through #times of such blatant #hardship that should not have to be so unnecessary in today's day and age. For in this latest #protest #style #news #video we see this very inteersection of mounting, preventable #activities #culminating all at once in a display of #violent #behaviour best #repurposed for other #interests in my #opinion acordingly.

#posted by #YouTube #reactor and #media #podcaster #RebelNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjT3kK5lHKk

In #America #israel and #Canada or anywhere else in our #world we should not have to worry about #migration #problems at home #effecting the #symptom of #indifference at the #core of #ineffective #deference as such. Rather, if we simply #agree to #adapt our time towards #focusing on the #things we can #bear #witness to as our own #personal #legacy then I say we have done enough for our #community be it or we tied to a particular #faith or not.

I say this, in my own #human name for all it is worth. Because that is who I am now, and if any #guardian #angel believes this to be #true then all I ask, is that you add yours to this prayer and pass it forward.

Thank you for your #attention to this #matter as such. I #appreciate it and you very much for the #blessing that you are.

#ThomasAquinas: " #Christ teaches the #dignity of #human nature ...and the full participation in #Divinity which is truly humanity's #happiness & the goal of human life." #MeisterEckhart: indeed the #nobility or #royalty of #ordinary people was at the heart of #Jesus' teaching. bit.ly/3Tz8mQW

In this #HotTake I explore a new #idea of #world #citizenship for everyone.

No #passport needed, just have one #border - #life itself.

Have a couple world laws any #region enforces about ones well being, but don't #weaponize things on that level. Leave the rest up to individual #cities to cultivate.

This is about #respect, #culture #conservation and #human #dignity. Throughout #locations where only common ground makes decisions, rather than #laws or #empires instead.

This is how you know #woke #ideology has gone too far.

When believing in original #biology gets you fined for bothering to state your #opinion and or #facts as either or in #British #Columbia #Canada resulting in a #news worthy #human #rights violation.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/the-750000-opinion-how-a-canadian-tribunal-silenced-a-school-trustee/

In a recent #news clip #American #health and #human #services #secretary #RFK JR. weighs in on the best meat for carnivores to eat.

He thinks that cheaper cuts of meet are better for you, and that the liver is the most nutrient rich of any organ to consume.

https://www.infowars.com/posts/steak-every-day-rfk-jr-is-right-about-cheaper-cuts-of-meat-especially-liver/

#Singapore warns students to keep their #critical thinking skills and not let #AI blindly #teach or instruct them. I think it is a double edged sword with a sharper side for harm when it comes to #learning / #education. How can students who are learning what they don't know apply critical thinking in that context? #Human resources with expert knowlege are going to be the primary benefactors of #aritificalintelligence in my view.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/ai-schools-learning-moe-students-critical-thinking-cognitive-offloading-desmond-lee-5969391

When it comes to #guns they more often than not are used to harm people, statistically so. With that being said, I have always been an #advocate for #self defense. Yes, bar none. Defending and protecting and securing self livelihood is an inherent #human #right that shall not be infringed. By anyone, or anything. I have friends who are #furry #bisexual #multinational #international #trans #gay #straight #qweer and #proud to be who they are in their own #identity #ethos and I encourage that.

I use real paint. I create with my own hands and use PS to collage my art into new work. This piece is acrylic on Yupo. Then made into a spherical form. I am having a BALL seeing what my own brain comes up with. :)

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/black-magic-ball-1-black-and-white-modern-art-sharon-cummings.html

#art #artwork #human #humanart #humanartist #handmade #handmadeart #blackandwhite #blackandwhiteart #homedecor #interiordesign #interiordecorating #sphere #geometric #geometricalart #modern #modernart #contemporary #contemporaryart #SharonCummingsArt

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Black and white painting in a spherical shape by artist Sharon Cummings.

Companies will always need human workers.

What else will companies like Amazon and Tesla blame when their ai has massive failures.

#generativeAI #ai #amazon #tesla #aws #human #news

Linked study and papers

Study here: https://www.remotelabor.ai/paper.pdf

Website: https://www.remotelabor.ai

#LLM #AI #job #worse #fails #human #jobs #programming #technology #OpenSource #ClosedSource #gemini alphabet #study

LLM fails miserably when it needs to do jobs that humans have done The results were surprising 3.5% succes was the best performer!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3kaLM8Oj4o

#LLM #AI #job #worse #fails #human #jobs #programming #technology #OpenSource #ClosedSource #gemini alphabet #study

Is something wrong with #Statistical #Reasoning? : Medium

#Consciousness May Not Be Uniquely #Human, New Theories Suggest—Rewriting Everything We Know About the Mind : Pop Mech

'Hullo, hillo, holla': The 600-year-old origins of the word '#Hello' : BBC

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

What do these people actually mean when they shout that man is a machine? It is, as I’ve suggested, that human beings are ‘‘computable’’ (berechenbar), that they are not distinct from other objects in the world, in any way deserving of special respect or even attention. This then leads, at first gradually and then with exponentially increasing speed, to a view of human beings as mere objects who—no! Not who, that—can be exploited, inducted in killing machines, imprisoned, tortured, killed (providing they are ‘‘enemy combatants’’). It leads to the American military sponsoring programs to produce robot soldiers. What is then left of Norbert Wiener’s vision of the human use of human beings? And does not our world show us with utmost clarity how far we have already come?

I want here to emphasize, especially to this audience, that all this is not the fault of the computer. Guilt cannot be attributed to computers. But computers enable fantasies, many of them wonderful, but also those of people whose compulsion to play God overwhelms their ability to fathom the consequences of their attempt to turn their nightmares into reality.

This 67,800-year-old hand stencil is the world’s oldest human-made art

The world’s oldest art has an unintentional story to tell about human exploration.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/this-67800-year-old-hand-stencil-is-the-worlds-oldest-human-made-art/#anthropology #archaeology #australia #cave-art #hominins #human-migration #indonesia #rock-art #sahul #science

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photo of pointy-fingered hand stencils on a cave wall

2.6 million-year-old jaw from extinct ’Nutcracker Man’ is found where we didn’t expect it

A fossil jaw of a distant human relative was disc...

Archive: ia: https://web.archive.org/web/20260123223007/https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/2-6-million-year-old-jaw-from-extinct-nutcracker-man-is-found-where-we-didnt-expect-it
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/human-evolution/2-6-million-year-old-jaw-from-extinct-nutcracker-man-is-found-where-we-didnt-expect-it#archaeology #human-evolution

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2.6 million-year-old jaw from extinct ’Nutcracker Man’ is found where we didn’t expect it

I hate "Ai" because they came for Tai Chi.
Knowledge known for millennia
Now replicated and sold by an
Asian muscle bound nanobot
Promises as adverts
Perverting human kind
Stripping spirit out of practice
Distasteful disappointing out of touch
The true magic of humans BEing
Breathing energy in motion
They came for Tai Chi

#NoAi #TaiChi #poetry #human #human_made

#HotTake: Every #human should be entitled by international #law to free, unseizeable #ID documents in the form of a travel #passport to evidence their #identity and have #FreedomOfMovement as well as a chance to #flee.

• It should also be illegal to demand #biometrics like #Fingerprints which are trivial to forge anyway!

Why?

• Because in past and in present day denying the issue and/or confiscation of #passports has been used and abused solely to commit #democide, #genocide and #hatecrime both #opposition groups and #minorities.

#RightToPassport #FreedomOfMovement #HumanRights #TransRights #NonbinaryRights #refugees #RefugeesWelcome #USpol #Trump #EU14168 #PersoOhneFinger #PassOhneFinger #FreedomOfTravel #SansPapier #undocumented #RightToIdentity #Statelessness

The fact that the World Economic Forum thinks it's necessary to remind business leaders not to forget their human employees in the AI boom should be telling.
#AI #human #business
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/01/ai-agentic-workplace-human-resources/

#peerreview in action. It appears that the magnitude of #microplastics in the #human #body according to recent studies, might have been overstated.

#science #research #plastic

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/13/microplastics-human-body-doubt

@kobilacroix nodds in agreement

Personally I expect this result in "100% #human made #art" becoming a Seal of Quality where artists are putting their reputation on the line...

#Christ is #God become #human in time & history in #Jesus but also in all of us. #MeisterEckhart's question, "What good is it to me if #Mary gave birth to the #SonOfGod & I do not do the same?" carries on this same understanding of the omnipresence of Christ in time & history.
Image: "The Mother from #Gaza" by Daniel Arrhakis on Flickr.
https://www.matthewfox.org/books/meister-eckhart-a-mystic-warrior-for-our-time

My slides and a video of my talk "Grow your [engineering] brand while putting privacy first" are available on my blog: https://talkweb.eu/openweb/4500/

#mastodon #fediverse #privacy #engineering #human

EVERY DOLLAR COUNTS ‼️
While you're comfortably settled in your warm home, enjoying your favourite drink, don't forget those around you who have no shelter.

End this year by doing something good, help someone , Your #donation will give them #warmth and #saftey.
https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids
#GazaWinter #gaza_help #GazaNeedsHelp #Gazachildren #gazamutualaid #socialmedia #mastodon #human #gazagenozid

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Winter in gaza

(28 Nov) Modern humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago and may have interbred with archaic humans such as ’hobbits’

A new study of nearly 2,500 genomes may have finally settled the debate about when modern humans arr...

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/i8sno

#archaeology #human-evolution

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Modern humans arrived in Australia 60,000 years ago and may have interbred with archaic humans such as ’hobbits’

(24 Nov) Neanderthals cannibalized ’outsider’ women and children 45,000 years ago at cave in Belgium

Fragmented Neanderthal bones discovered in a cave in Belgium show that one group cannibalized the women and children of another group.

https://s.faithcollapsing.com/eoxxe
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/g70g5

#archaeology #human-evolution

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a series of fragmented Neanderthal long bones against a black background

They didn’t know which factory had built him and there was no serial number or manual anywhere, but they decided they would love him for however long his battery lasted. #grickledoodle #robots #love #loss #human #cartoon #art #drawing

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A cartoon illustration of two robots holding hands with a small blonde boy wearing glasses.

#captcha #bot #human #CloudFlare #web #tech #dev

#2025 #dystopia #Cloudflare #AI #human #web #tech #dev

#Cloudflare #captcha #human #robot