Masthash

#reality

JillZ
4 hours ago

#Reality #HboMax #RealityWinner #movie

I just finished watching Reality.
It was just as amazing as I thought it would be. A dramatic reenactment of the actual transcript of the FBI’s interrogation of perhaps the most important whistleblower of our time seems to me like a film that’s even more important than “All The President’s Men” was in its day.

Still shot of actor in blue plaid shirt and glasses with closed caption “this is a podium” a phrase the FBI character told Reality’s character as he was asking about her motive for exposing classified NSA report that proved then president T**** was lying to the public about Russian attacks on the 2016 election.
Screen shot from Reality movie, close up of young woman’s face with caption. She was explaining how awful
It was at her workplace where they had Fox News on all the time.
I knew It was secret. But I also knew I had pledged service to the American people. - Reality Leigh Winner
NGRippel
15 hours ago

change is a variable commodity
patience is its ally

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
18 hours ago

there is no future or meaning for humans
without the continuation of humanity

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
19 hours ago

the universe is always moving toward making itself a more complete entity

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

William
1 day ago

Are you where you want to be?
Plan to Change
https://paralosdos.com/change/

#quotes #reality #change #life

An artistic rendering of a mountain village. There is a bridge over a river leading to the upper floors of a house. The quote reads: "It's one thing to make people laugh, it's another to make people smile."  Norm Macdonald
Lori Brown
1 day ago

@LexTenebris Yes! The follow-up superpower would be GETTING what is needed, effortlessly. If only. Well, it is fun to imagine, at least. #dream #vs #reality

Adam 🐭
1 day ago

This looks good 🙌

#EmpireMagazine

#FilmReview 🎞️🍿

#Reality

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

DIRECTOR Tina Satter
CAST Sydney Sweeney, Marchánt Davis, Josh Hamilton, Benny Elledge, John Way
PLOT Translator and whistle-blower Reality Winner (Sweeney) arrives at her Georgia home to find a team of FBI officers at her door. As her house is searched, she is interrogated about her involvement in the leaking of documents exposing Russia’s interference in the 2016 US election.

https://youtu.be/sSbGyXjNqi4

Verdict:

“A beautifully understated performance from Sydney Sweeney, paired with stylistically minimalist filmmaking, make for a chilling, compelling chamber piece — finding the humanity underlying even the tensest of confrontations.”

Tarek the Wanderer
2 days ago

Mind creates #reality

NGRippel
2 days ago

usually the only conspiracy against us is the one which we’ve built in our own mind

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
2 days ago

the universe is constantly evolving, so should we

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Nissa Tolton
2 days ago

Since we know #dreams happen, and that dreams within dreams happen, what are the odds that you are not in some kind of dream right now?

Claiming to be in the ultimate and true and final #reality feels a little like claiming that the sun revolves around the Earth.

I think another Enlightenment is coming.

#psychedelics

man standing in a surreal landscape
jlbdixon
2 days ago

I cared for my mother for years while raising 3 children and working fulltime. It was impossible at times and caused a lot of stress and a strain on my marriage not everybody can handle that and not every marriage can survive it.
I now care for my husband who lost his leg a few years ago and it is not any easier despite having taken early retirement and my kids being grown. It can be lonely and isolating and stressful.
It should never, ever be expected.
#Reality

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/05/22/family-care-crisis-emily-kenway/

jlbdixon
3 days ago

More government retaliation by Republicans. Everyday there are more and more examples of Republicans abusing their power to punish those who disagree with them or take them to court. More and more examples of unconstitutional laws controlling speech, what name someone can use, what entertainment, books, movies they can see and the unamerican warnings to stay away from "their state" if you are not a Republican or be subjected to hostility. #Reality #vote #2024
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2023/05/auditor-legislature-demand-school-districts-disclose-public-money-theyre-spending-to-sue-ohio.html

NGRippel
3 days ago

everything within this universe is but a temporary configuration

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
3 days ago

extinction of a species is its final act
be thankful for existence
make the best of it

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
4 days ago

words describe existence
words do not define existence

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

NGRippel
4 days ago

eternity abides
#existence flows through it

#perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

jlbdixon
4 days ago

This is America. We are allowed to make fun of anything we want including Catholicism. It is called free speech. If you don't like the drag show then don't go but to call on people to boycott a baseball team because they like the drag show is why the church is bleeding parishioners and why so many young people are flocking away from the church.
#truth #Reality
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/bishop-barron-calls-for-dodgers-boycott-citing-anti-catholic-drag-queen

j. Arevalo-Adam
5 days ago

It is important that you get clear for yourself that your only access to impacting life is action.”
— Werner Erhard
#being #existence #reality #truth

WIST Quotations
5 days ago

A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:

«««««
To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/60889/

#quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #reality #understanding #wisdom

NGRippel
5 days ago

just because millions on millions of people believe it, does not make it fact

stand up for truth, advocate for justice

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Thomas Kumlehn
5 days ago

We plan to make "USD Updates" biweekly (in english) #USD #Reality #WWDC23

Brian Russell
5 days ago
Barry Phillips Smith
5 days ago

Do the #political #elite live in an #alternate #reality?

Come and #walk a #mile in my #boots.

Yahia Lababidi
5 days ago

@CassandraZeroCovid Hah! Good point 👌🏼

Not often I permit myself to indulge in schadenfreude, but really upsetting to be listening to #desantis & #ElonMusk pretending to represent #reality & #truth

#corruption #twitter #gop

Finale night is exciting for any reality TV show. Tonight it's the conclusion of Survivor 44 on CBS. How does the show fare in our episode devoted to the Best Reality TV Competitions? Find out how our tribe voted! Link below! #realitytv #podcast #podcasts #reality #survivor #survivor44 #PopCulture https://www.greatpopculturedebate.com/best-reality-tv-competition/

Survivors ready?! For tonight's season finale of Survivor 44, that is. Before we find out who joins the Survivor winners circle, check out our episode on the Best Survivor Cast. (Recorded last year, so 43 and 44 weren't in contention.) #survivor #Survivor44 #podcast #podcasts #PopCulture #Reality #cbs
https://www.greatpopculturedebate.com/best-survivor-cast/

It's finale night for Survivor! Before we discover who the tribe chose to win Survivor 44, check out panelist Karissa’s Top 10 Survivor Torch Snuffers. If you love Survivor, check out this week's episode on the Best Reality TV Competition! #Survivor #survivor44 #reality #podcast #podcasts #tv #PopCulture https://www.greatpopculturedebate.com/top-10-survivor-torch-snuffers/

Old White Dude
5 days ago

The key flaw in Ted #Cruz’s partisan take on civil rights history https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/key-flaw-ted-cruzs-partisan-take-civil-rights-history-rcna86008 Although they both start with “R” Cruz keeps proving that “#reality” and “#Republicans” are at opposite ends of the spectrum.

Rachel Armstrong
5 days ago

Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. #Reality https://www.quantamagazine.org/is-it-real-or-imagined-how-your-brain-tells-the-difference-20230524/ via @QuantaMagazine

jlbdixon
6 days ago

Stop sugarcoating illegal, unconstitutional laws and government retaliation. DeSantis has and will ignore the Constitution and use the government to retaliate and punish those who speak out.
The media did this with Trump making him out to be a harmless maverick with a big mouth despite the warnings and now after attempting to blackmail an ally and a political coup attempt followed by January 6th the world knows what he is. #truth #Reality #2024 #vote https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/us/politics/ron-desantis-florida-governor-power.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

jlbdixon
6 days ago

This is what parents need to do. In this day and age children need phones but they do not need smartphones, tablets or laptops. My children were 18 when they were gifted their first laptops and smartphones. Until then they had flip phones and our home computer that was in the front room. Unfiltered, unsupervised access to the internet for children and teens is dangerous and detrimental to their mental health.
Everyone including adults could use limits. #truth #Reality
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/dumb-phone-gen-z-smartphone-screen-time/

NGRippel
6 days ago

existence is not a story with an unexpected or happy ending
#existence is a story without any ending

#perspective #reality #adaptation

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NGRippel
6 days ago

the only burden which we were born with is the need to adapt to this #existence well enough to survive

#perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

Peter Nimmo
6 days ago

A chemical weapons expert has been disinvited from a #UK #government conference after civil servants, acting on a policy introduced by #JacobReesMogg, spotted social media posts critical of the government.
This Toot actually relates to my last Toot- when people construct #reality to suit their #prejudices
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/23/dan-kaszeta-banned-from-uk-government-event-for-tweets-criticised-tories

NGRippel
6 days ago

the universe neither mythologizes nor needs to be mythologized

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

jlbdixon
6 days ago

If the reason you have children is to have a caretaker when you are old then PLEASE DO NOT HAVE CHILDREN, EVER.
Children are not accessories or future caregivers or anything other than a piece of you to live on. Someone to take care of and love and launch into a successful life of their own not to make your life easier when you are old.
And there is ZERO guarantee your children will take care of you so that should not be your retirement plan. Seriously.
#Reality #truth
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/good-luck-dying-alone-couples-203000887.html

jlbdixon
6 days ago

Many of those older Americans voted for the Republicans responsible for this because stopping abortion and taking away the constitutional rights and protections of LGBTQ Americans was more important than voting for politicians that will govern, i.e. pay the country's bills. Elections have far reaching consequences as does voting for intolerance and judgement of others. #DebtCeiling #consequences #Reality
https://abcnews.go.com/US/older-americans-worried-debt-default-means-social-security/story?id=99506742

jlbdixon
6 days ago

This has to stop. Students should never have to pay to receive their diplomas or the accolades and celebrations they worked for such as prom or graduation ceremonies. Schools can spend the year fundraising if they do not have the funds in their general budget but the burden should never fall to the students. Never.
#Reality #greed #wrong
https://www.businessinsider.com/graduation-dress-cap-gown-fee-discrimination-students-ceremony-2023-5

jlbdixon
6 days ago

Instead of paying the country's bills. Instead of addressing life saving but unaffordable prescriptions. Instead of addressing unaffordable child care. Instead of addressing the broken immigration system. Instead of addressing the epidemic of gun violence in this country that is the #1 killer of children.
Instead of governing Republicans are bidding on used chap stick. #WreckItRepublicans
#vote #2024 #Reality
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/23/house-gop-auctions-mccarthy-chapstick-debt-talks-00098347

🦄 Maddy Stylo 🌈
1 week ago

If #News would be the reflection of #Reality, every rhetorical figure is a deviation from #facts. #Journalism

jlbdixon
1 week ago

This should be unimaginable in the United States of America. Right or wrong travel advisories by private organizations are the prerogatives of those organization.
For an elected Congressional member to single out innocent Americans and say you are not just unwelcome in my state but if you come we will be hostile toward you not because you've done something wrong or illegal but because of your personally held beliefs is unamerican and unacceptable.
#Reality #vote #2024
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4017344-rick-scott-issues-travel-advisory-for-socialists-warning-florida-is-openly-hostile-to-them/

jlbdixon
1 week ago

None of the pain and grief is necessary. If they would leave the judgement of others to God as they are supposed to there would be no pain or grief. Churches welcome drug addicts, alcoholics, those who worship money or power, adulterers, liars, those who are divorced, who live with a lover without being married, the list goes on and on all without a single objection. No one left the church over it.
#truth #Reality #LGBTQ
https://apnews.com/article/united-methodists-schism-disaffiliation-lgbtq-44fd14d471124d23e1fd5677a8f2b1d9

steve dustcircle ⍻
1 week ago

Nearly half of #GenZ has NO #religious #affiliation!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77-2m3s0s90
The youngest #Americans are the least likely #churchgoers we’ve ever seen in this country.
#atheist #atheism #reality #science

WIST Quotations
1 week ago

A quotation from Chamfort, Nicolas:

«««««
Pleasures may be based on illusion; happiness must be based on truth.

[Le plaisir peut s’appuyer sur l’illusion; mais le bonheur repose sur la vérité.]
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/60847/

#quote #quotes #quotation #happiness #illusion #pleasure #reality #truth

WIST Quotations
1 week ago

A quotation from Weil, Simone:

«««««
Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.
»»»»»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/weil-simone/60840/

#quote #quotes #quotation #allure #evil #good #imagination #immorality #literature #morality #reality #vice #virtue

jlbdixon
1 week ago

Because like America itself the history of the song is complicated and means different things to different people.
Using a show of fealty to a song or a flag as "proof of patriotism" or the lack of one to question their love for their country is unamerican. In America we are free to protest anything in any legal way and it should never lead to questions of loyalty or patriotism or politicians and media figures attacking innocent Americans. #true #Reality
https://deadline.com/2023/05/wnba-brittney-griner-stands-for-national-anthem-admits-song-means-more-1235375092/

I Like Books
1 week ago

Homosexuality:
A Biological Reality

Homophobia:
A Lifestyle Choice

#Meme #Homosexuality #Homophobia #Biology #Reality #Lifestyle #Choice

Text only meme of two words with a comment about them below

Text

Homosexuality:
A Biological Reality


Homophobia:
A Lifestyle Choice
NGRippel
1 week ago

how we like to think our universe works has no impact upon how our universe actually does work

#existence #perspective #reality #adaptation

ngrippel.com

jlbdixon
2 weeks ago

Republicans are so extreme they are now passing laws to jail librarians, school employees even book vendors.
This is America and this is happening. We are threatening to jail librarians. #reality #frightening #freedom

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/05/18/school-librarians-jailed-banned-books/

Roh Jisun Philippines
2 weeks ago

fromis_9 (프로미스나인)
1st Album [Unlock My World]
2023.06.05 6PM(KST)

#reality Official Photo
#노지선 #RohJiSun

#fromis_9 #프로미스나인
#Unlock_My_World
#menow

🔗 https://twitter.com/realfromis_9/status/1659168741916295176

Roh Jisun Philippines
2 weeks ago

fromis_9 (프로미스나인)
1st Album [Unlock My World]
2023.06.05 6PM(KST)

#reality Official Photo
#노지선 #RohJiSun

#fromis_9 #프로미스나인
#Unlock_My_World
#menow

🔗 https://twitter.com/realfromis_9/status/1659168726611288064

Roh Jisun Philippines
2 weeks ago

fromis_9 (프로미스나인)
1st Album [Unlock My World]
2023.06.05 6PM(KST)

#reality Mood Film
#노지선 #RohJiSun

#fromis_9 #프로미스나인
#Unlock_My_World
#menow

🔗 https://twitter.com/realfromis_9/status/1659168706839314432

Philo Sophies
2 weeks ago

#Zoomposium with Professor Dr. #Gerd #Ganteför: "The enigmatic fabric of our #reality and the limits of #physics"

The complete interview is available on our Youtube channel "Zoomposium" under the link:

https://youtu.be/V4pUEEtFCUo

or information at:

https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/04/16/zoomposium-gerd-gantefoer/

There is an orange translation button "Translate>>" on the bottom left of my page.

Diluvium
2 weeks ago

Wenn man darüber nachdenken möchte, ob KI sich bereits jetzt den eigenen Platz/Arbeitsplatz für die Zukunft sichert, ist es nicht schon so? Zwar sind es jetzt noch Menschen, die den Impuls zu einer Handlung geben, aber ich glaube, dass sich das mehr und mehr verselbstständigen wird.

Nein, keine verrückten #skynet-Phantasien.

#google wird dafür beispielsweise KI benötigen. Es geht gar nicht mehr ohne.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/as-ai-generated-fakes-proliferate-google-plans-to-fight-back/ #ai #ki #rules #zukunft #reality

A new theory of quantum mechanics suggests that reality may be a sum of all possible realities, rather than a single one. The theory called the “many interacting worlds” approach, proposes that parallel worlds interact through quantum forces. This could explain some of the paradoxes and mysteries of quantum physics.

#QuantumMechanics #ManyWorlds #Reality

https://www.wired.com/story/how-reality-may-be-a-sum-of-all-possible-realities/

Red Faster
2 weeks ago

@samlitzinger #Christianity started as an #antiseparatist (read: #totalitarian) campaign during the Vespasian conquest of #Judea and LATER shifted to a Nordic demographic because #Rome was getting the #shit kicked out of them and so selling #Sweden in particular on the idea of international slave trade required a #SunCult #mascot

You might as well say #Jesus was #black and maybe someday he'll be #chinese but he will never be an actual person that existed in #reality

This one is the most thrilling post we’ve ever seen anywhere, and we found it at the blog of #KenHam (ol’ Hambo) — the ayatollah of Appalachia, the world’s holiest man who knows more about #religion and #science than everyone else. It’s titled #Genesis — It Explains the #Origin of Everything!, and it was written by ol’ Hambo himself.
https://sensuouscurmudgeon.wordpress.com/2023/05/14/hambo-explains-the-origin-of-absolutely-everything/
#creationism vs #reality #science #evolution #cosmology

Krisztina Hirth
2 weeks ago

"The power structures in software development" 😕
This is how a chat between @kentbeck and @davefarley77 starts. I am not the only one seeing how bad the situation is
https://youtu.be/J4ihLROXzPk

#leadership #reality

Ivan Milovanov
2 weeks ago

There is this hidden gem, called Brave Sparrow, described as an "alternate reality experience." If more (unrelated) players #play it, they are part of that same world. Check it:
https://buriedwithoutceremony.com/brave-sparrow

Such a unique execution! I hoped of making something similar.

A few years ago, stumbling on the banks of Firth of Forth, I found this cool rock.

Yesterday, my brain fused the two. I think I'll make a #microRPG where the act of painting rocks & purposefully hiding them builds an "alt #reality."

A stone lodged in a larger rock, painted in black with white letters saying:
"Never
never
ever
give up!"
A stone held in a human hand, painted in black with white letters saying:
"Post pic to
[Facebook] Luvinrocksuk
Keep / Rehide"
Krisztina Hirth
2 weeks ago

To be or what to be?
Being able to "ride the elevator" in a big company is a great chance but it allows me to see all the decisions on the different levels - and how often the consequences of those hurt. Usually, the management is not used to a person like me, doing this; they not even try to listen. At the same time, if I Would be in the Mngmt I would probably not be able to ride the elevator like this 🤔.
What to do?
#leadership #reality

Crystal_Fish_Caves
2 weeks ago

@Badger_AF @GhostOnTheHalfShell @JaniceSelbie @DemocracyMattersALot arent they all just arguing over who has the coolest imaginary friend? #athiest #reality #religion is ignorance blinded by faith in imagination given license to kill.

greeen
3 weeks ago

A literal sign of the times in #SanFrancisco #AI #reality

Photo of billboard with the following text: HIVE Can't tell what's real? We can help. APIs to Understand, Generate, and Search. 

Billboard Graphics:
Box around a photo of a dog with the caption: Not Al-Generated 

A different box around a different photo of what looks like the same dog with the caption: Al Generated
Yahia Lababidi
3 weeks ago

A reminder to myself and whoever needs to hear it:

When people are through amusing themselves to death,
they move past the skin of things
and escapist fantasies

There they will find the indestructible world:
Art & Spirit.

Have faith & never lose hope... _/|\_

#psa #art #hope #spirituality #reality #consciousness #faith

Ars Electronica
3 weeks ago

(5/7) In the age of #socialmedia and constant information, it's important to be aware of how media can change our perception of #reality. We need authenticity and truth in the stories we're told, but who can we trust to interpret the #truth? Whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have dealt with unpleasant truths and found a way to deal with liars in power, but at what cost?

a man sitting in a chair and talking into a microphon.
Yahia Lababidi
3 weeks ago

Coming this November (2023)
Translation by @wordkunst

#philosophy #language #reality #science @bookstodon #books

screenbeard :Kinoite:
4 weeks ago

How someone can dismiss real generational harm done to Indigenous people because phones and cars exist, while simultaneously decrying the harm of climate change or monarchs...

A lot of the left really struggles to understand problems that don't impact them directly, for all their/our big talk, even while they want to be seen talking about the "real issues".

Seriously this take was "modern phones good, therefore colonialism ok?", while in other posts they were bemoaning climate change (what was causing that again - oh yes those same technologies we're benefiting from, so I guess you shouldn't complain?), or the monarchy for conscription during WW1 (but again, the world is "better" now, so by your logic you should let it go).

Ugh. Just a seriously bad take.
#facts #reality #science

Leisureguy
1 month ago

@GottaLaff

Wow! That is a GREAT explainer. I truly feel *much* better about the settlement.

Thank you for posting that link —
https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-rupert-murdoch-s-stupidity-gave-dominion-a-huge-win-170739781892

#law #civilLaw #Dominion #Fox #legal #reality

In case anyone needs a #RealityCheck in how #disconnected from #Reality #CryptoBros loving #Shitcoins and #Decentralland are:

A guy who told BBC he won't sell for under $10M sold for $980 a year later...

And even that would be $981 too much in my opinion since it'll cost me time to even accept as a donation.
https://youtu.be/EiZhdpLXZ8Q?t=4778

@ewdocparris
The #Oligarchy and their henchmen, paid for #Politicians and paid for #Media, are already turning #Reality into "we live in #Utopia and ain't it wonderful and by the the way you need new clothes". And how dare you criticize! #UGH

jlbdixon
2 months ago

@velshi
If Republicans want to lose in 2024 they are right on course. A party leader indicted in one state and likely to be indicted in another, deadly, draconian abortion bans, book bans, speech bans, medical care bans and even bans on interstate travel, open racism in removing duly elected lawmakers for minor non criminal infractions and an unconstitutional crusade against LGBTQ Americans. Independents will decide 2024 and one of their top concerns is the erosion of democracy. #Reality

"...like I'm 5" is a surprisingly effective prompt.

Also: whoa.

#llms #llm #alpaca #reality #eli5

Rob / OGTrekker
2 months ago

She’s not wrong. We should all keep this in mind and temper our reactions. Yes, we love our fandom, but let’s remember it is just entertainment and that these folks have real lives. 🙏🖖 #ActorsArePeople #BeKind #Fandom #Acting #Reality #StarTrek #StarTrekPicard

Regarding Marina Sirtis limited appearance in Picard S3, Jeri Ryan reminds us all: “And I'll just add to that a reminder: actors are PEOPLE. With actual LIVES, OUTSIDE of the shows you watch. And not all actors WANT to have larger roles, requiring more time on set. As is the case here.”

Regarding Marina Sirtis limited appearance, Jeri Ryan reminds us. “And I'll just add to that a reminder: actors are PEOPLE. With actual LIVES, OUTSIDE of the shows you watch. And not all actors WANT to have larger roles, requiring more time on set. As is the case
here.”
Janice Selbie
2 months ago

I had a terrific interview with The Thinking #atheist (Seth Andrews) today for the Divorcing Religion #podcast. I will be sure to let you know when it drops. Every interaction I have had with him has been positive. I sure do appreciate those who have managed to divorce religion and embrace #reality. It can feel isolating and scary at first, but intensely liberating as we begin to use #criticalthinking and build our safe, #secular support networks.

Here's a #Message of #TransJoy in These #Challenging #Times.

While it may sometimes seem like being #trans means a #life of #hardship, we know that the #reality is that being trans is #beautiful, and that so many of us are #living, #surviving, and #thriving

https://www.advocate.com/voices/trans-joy-challenging-times

Tove Harris 2. Account
2 months ago

#Freedoom

When brute facts collide with social constructions

"Last week in the UK more than 600 people died of covid. Last week climate scientists warned that we're on the verge of ecological catastrophe. Nothing much happened in response. Why? Social constructions of reality are clashing with brute facts."

https://donotpanic.substack.com/p/freedoom

#FrEiHEiT #Realität #reality #CovidIsNotOver #COVID19 #COVID #Corona #CoronaVirus #SARSCoV2 #freedom #Klimaschutz #SimulationDerNormalität #Normalität

WordofTheHour
2 months ago

#reality : actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance

- French: réalité

- German: die Wirklichkeit

- Italian: realtà

- Portuguese: realidade

- Spanish: realidad

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Fill in missing translations @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations

Yahia Lababidi
2 months ago

Okay, this is pretty amazing :O

3 students from Stanford University combined #GPT4 #whisper & augmented #reality #glasses to create #RizzGPT .

RizzGPT listens in real-time conversations and guides you on what to say next. They're calling it Charisma as a Service (CAAS for short).

It uses:

Whisper to transcribe live audio from conversations

GPT-4 to come up with a response

Monocle AR glasses to display the response live in the glasses

#ai #ar #technology #fun #Monday #today #tech #news

Yahia Lababidi
2 months ago

'Who knows the meaning and reality of a thing Sufis call 'arif (gnostic), and one who knows merely the verbal expression without keeping the spiritual reality they call 'alim'.

For this reason, when the Sufis wish to disparage a rival they call him danishmand (possessing knowledge).'

—al-Hujwiri

#sufi #mysticism #Islam #gnosticism #ramadan #faith #esoteric #books #bookstodon #book #SilentSunday @bookstodon #Sunday #wisdom #light #reality #religion #spirituality #life #today #JoinIn

DiplDes_AR
2 months ago

It took over 200 behaviors in #RealityComposer to realize the #Shooter #Game Goats&Wolves. Anyway, here's an impression of what it looks like in object mode:

#free #Reality #AR #3D #ARQuicklook #Apple #ARQL #AugmentedReality #GoatsAndWolves #iOS #OSX #MacOS

Gameplay of the AR-Quicklook game Goats&AndWolves in object mode. Played on an iPhone 11.
DiplDes_AR
2 months ago

Over 25 animations simultaneously + sound + exzessive use of the physics engine isn’t something every iPhone can handle such easy. The recording stutters a bit while playing and recording at the same time. But without recording just playing its fine :-) This is an impression what the #free #Game Goats&Wolves looks like in #AR mode:

#RealityComposer #AugmentedReality #ARQuicklook #ARQL #GoatsAndWolves
#iOS #OSX #MacOS #OSX #Reality

Video of the gameplay of Goats&Wolves recorded in a sunny park.
DiplDes_AR
2 months ago

The second #free #ARQL #Game I’ve made and like to repost is Goats&Wolves.
My first #AugmentedReality #Shooter (Only #iOS and #MacOS).
Here I also used the “proximity to camera” function to control the scene.
It was created for iOS15, but also still seem to work fine on iOS16.4.

Download it here:

https://usdzshare.com/?ug-gallery=photo-detail&photo_id=6774

Enjoy playing and feel free to boost this post.

Please tell me what you think about it.

#RealityComposer #Reality #AR #3D #Apple #OSX #usdzShare #GoatsAndWolves

Title screen of the AR-Quicklook game Goats&Wolves
DiplDes_AR
2 months ago
Video of the ArQuicklook game BLOCKS gameplay at a sunny beach.
Corey S Powell
2 months ago

Two important lessons from asteroid 2023DW.
First, the media aren't going to write headlines that say "No Asteroid Danger, Everything Fine"! So mentally add a lot of "maybes" and question marks when you see stories like this. (4/n)
#risk #reality

Corrected version of a scare headline about a potential asteroid impact, reflecting the actual scientific uncertainty.

"The gold standard of crazy on these shores, it seems to me, is the Salem Witch trials of the late 17th century. Three hundred years after the birth of the Renaissance, the best and the brightest of Massachusetts Bay Colony—including the president of Harvard, the wonderfully-named Increase Mather—believed that some of the women in their midst might be witches in league with the devil,"

#reality #truth #science
/2

Good commentary from Greg Olear this morning about how the insanity we've been living through — people choosing to taie horse de-wormer until they died, in the middle of a pandemic, rather than listen to reason and medical science — is not new in American history.

Olear writes,

"North America has been home to a great deal of crazy since the craziest Europeans that could be found settled here 400 years ago."

#reality #truth #science
/1

https://gregolear.substack.com/p/peak-crazy-with-aja-raden

Rasta™ OLD
2 months ago

"Become friends with people who aren't your age."

I dislike tours and arranged travel. I prefer to meet the people, where they are, doing what they do, than that 'tourist view' pushed into brochures.

I've traveled to many countries, and believe this to be true.

#Travel #Age #Language #Class #Reality #ALT4You #ALTText

Become friends with people who 
aren't your age. Hang out with people 
whose first language isn't the same as yours. Get to know someone who doesn't come from your social class. This is how you see the world. This is how you grow.
The Arcane Nibbler
2 months ago

@RickiTarr They can shame me all they want. I’m old and on a budget. IDGAF. I like Aldi. They have a limited selection, but they have some great deals, esp. on toilet paper and paper towels. And a lot of the Great Value generic stuff at Walmart is comparable to name brands and much cheaper. #Reality

@wilbr @ryanhoulihan @ivo
"The #fediverse is already breaking into mini-fiefdoms. This is just the next step in the #democratization of #thought, which the early designers of the #Internet dreamed would #unite #humanity, instead #destroying all of objective #reality."

Badwolf303
3 months ago

https://wdwnt.com/2023/03/disney-cruise-line-visiting-lighthouse-point-beginning-summer-2024/.

#Disney is creating a Bahamian themed island in the Bahamas. Disney is doing what? Alternately, you can visit an actual Bahamian island & help the local economy.

#Bahamas #DisneyCruiseLine #economy #caribbean #vacations
#cruiseship #reality

Just found my first weird, clearly AI-written article. This was on the FIRST PAGE of a Google search for Terry Kath, even ABOVE terrykath.com. Read the text of the second image and see if you can find the MULTIPLE things that are weird/wrong. The issue here? Confusion. Disinformation. AI is a problem at the very *least* just for that aspect alone.

The article claims it was written by "Eric". So I checked another article of his.

See the third pic.

Did you know Clapton was in the Beatles? fuelrocks.com, huh. 🙄

The internet is just going to fully become this weird place where *nothing* is real or believable anymore.

Questioning things is good for intelligent thought, and the internet can often be a shady place. But the same problem started with images and videos a few years back, even offline, when you couldn't always believe what you saw (think tabloids). These days, any visual medium can be pretty easily faked and manipulated with Photoshop, Blender, Maya, etc.

Now, AI is generating what at first glance, appears to be semi-believable text. But upon closer inspection, there are bizarre and inhuman spots in the writing.

Basically, we're just going to need to *always* remember to verify things we see for truth and accuracy. I mean, if you're into that kind of thing, I guess.

It's a weird new age. And not the *fun* kind of weird.

WEIRD weird.

#ai #aiwritten #google #search #machinelearning #disinformation #artificialintelligence #truth #reality #googlesearch #chatgpt

The viciously anti-science "color is an illusion" meme is making the rounds again. Please post and share the correct explanation, whenever and wherever you see that hot garbage.

#color #perception #physics #reality

COLOR IS PHYSICS
NOT AN ILLUSION

Color perception in humans is the result of interaction between the physical properties  of light and the biological characteristics of our visual system. Light is made up of electromagnetic waves, each color a different wavelength. The photons that compose light also have some properties of particles. Don’t let that confuse you.

When light enters our eyes, it interacts with specialized cells in the retina called photoreceptors, which convert the light energy into electrical signals that are sent to the brain. 

Color perception varies slightly between people, but we’re all looking at the same colors. Light is a physical object with wave/particle duality. Whether reflected, or coming from a luminous source, our perception of light is based on a combination of absolute wavelength, and any adjacent colors.
PeterD
3 months ago

@jilleduffy Welcome to the #RealWorld. #UGH (Sorry - I am sarcastic) We could live in a better world if we could agree on #Reality. That has not happened - ever. #Piracy is the order of the day.

Estelle Platini
3 months ago

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced #Nazi or the convinced #Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the #reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, "The Origins of Totalitarianism"
#communism #nazism #postFactual #totalitarianism #war #propaganda #Russia #quotes #commOdon #truth #agnotology #history 🧶

derPUPE
3 months ago
Reality: I got my Driving License 

LinkedIn: I'm honored and thrilled to announce that I have been selected among the top 5 applicants who participated in the professional and most respected exam which evaluates the skill and ability to operate fuel-based vehicles. I cannot wait to see what the next chapter holds, and I cannot express my appreciation to the ministry of transportation, Google, NASA, and My neighbors who supported me during this challenging Journey.
Ralph Gauthier
4 months ago

#introduction: I am a #Liberal #Atheist #boomer.

I put a lot of faith in #Science and it's ability to discover #truth and teach us about the #reality we occupy.

#Humanity faces many challenges, the #ClimateCrisis being the biggest and I worry about how #ClimateChange will affect my grandchildren.

I want a world where basic #HumanRights are protected. I want a #fair and #equitable #distribution of #resources. I want a world where the needs of the many outweigh the selfish desires of the few.

PeterD
4 months ago

@tomw That is the state of affairs now! #Reality has been lost.

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
4 months ago

@hannu_ikonen

We're getting closer to re-envisioning justice. I love the cartoon you showed us, but I worry about the implication that some people's legs aren't long enough. It might not be that those who can't see over the fence have physical deficits. It might be that they have lived their entire lives in deep trenches.

#Reality
#Equality
#Equity
#Justice
@socialjustice
@ethics
@activism
@publicpolicy

Joseph Quigley
4 months ago

I wrote some reviews of these five non-fiction books and how they changed me during 2022:

- The Case Against Reality
- The Civil War As A Theological Crisis
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
- Four Thousand Weeks
- The Myth of Normal

https://forthelearn.blog/issues/4/

#history #sociology #trauma #therapy #science #reality #consciousness #philosophy #politics #religion #parenting #parents #book #books #BookReview #blog #podcast #learning #writing

@hacks4pancakes #IfyouDontKnowNowYouKnow "#Gaslighting is a #colloquialism, loosely defined as #manipulating someone so as to make them question their own #reality. The term derives from the title of the 1944 #American film #Gaslight, which was based on the 1938 British theatre play Gas Light by Patrick Hamilton, though the term did not gain popular currency in #English until the mid-2010s"

#TheMoreYouKnow

Yhou Whraing
5 months ago

@TheTweetOfGod I've never been a fan of #reality , not really my thing. :psyduck:

A Passion for Jazz!®
5 months ago

♪♫ "Keep searching for that #sound you #hear in your head until it becomes a #reality." - Bill Evans
@jazz #jazz #piano #musicians
https://www.apassion4jazz.net/quotations4.html

A Passion for Jazz!   •  apassion4jazz.net
Neil Hopkins
5 months ago

ICYMI - the latest episode of #HelloYou #Podcast dropped just before #christmas2022!

https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/nKb7lg6B7vb

In it, @louisew & I wrestle with #reality / realities, think about what it means to #age in different #Culture settings. dive into the #anthropology of place names and whether #winter is a time of slowing down.

Please have a listen, boost if you will - and enjoy every riotous second of the madness!

@markhenick
It's like using statistics of an engine to guess how long your engine will last with the amount or upkeep you do. The science is taking it apart and analysing the ware and other factors for the period or use. Then they can determine with much more accuracy. I hope this helps you to understand the truth.
In Christ alway,
~ J. Peter

#truth #reality #sciencefact

Cees Grootes
5 months ago

M.C. Escher on Creativity and Grasping the Largest Mystery Through the Immense Beauty of the Very Small

“What is that so-called reality; what is this theory other than a beautiful but primordially human illusion?”

Nothing shapes our experience of reality, and nothing limits it, more than our frames of reference.

🔗 https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/11/15/escher-creativity

#illusions #reality #truth #experience #creativity #art #artworks #MCEscher #Escher

M.C. Escher: Self-Portrait in Spherical Mirror, 1935
Yhou Whraing
5 months ago

@emptywheel Time shifting #Reality

We're Not In Kansas Anymore
6 months ago

@VPS_Reports

She needs to arrested and 0ut in jail. She doesn't even follow her oath to the Constitution.

#USPolitics #demcast #TeriKanefield #GerrymanderingOhio #Music #Art #covidIsNotOver #reality #facts #science #medicine #animals