Last post - and last Thought For The Day:

The moment you take in a cat, you are no longer the most egocentric being in the house...

... which took me some getting used to.

#CatsOfMastodon
#Egocentrism
#ThoughtForTheDay

"Regardless means it fits me. Regardless."

#BeautyStandards #DarkHumor #Egocentrism #Narcissism #SickOfMyself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xt_6ey0wwnE

How #Finland Is Teaching a Generation to Spot #Misinformation

https://archive.ph/LNpan#selection-451.272-451.286

Rambling: I strongly favor the approach of teaching critical thinking and media #literacy in contrast to #censorship and #regulation of #freespeech #freepress and #firstammendment — It’s very important as #parents and #educators of all types to support open #information (yes, even nonsense, #fantasy, #propaganda, etc.) I do realize that #fakenews and #deepfakes have more #power of #influence than ever. However, #bookbanning, censoring and #control is not the answer. (It also inspires defensive resistance and motivates persistence of the deception worth culling.) Once upon a time, public discourse and debate was normal. I’m not sure if it’s that we’re too lazy, too busy, or don’t care. But it seems more today that it’s “Cooler” to erase #history or selectively ignore things that are uncomfortable. I also realize that people are afraid for the neglected and uneducated children of the world who lack #education and parental oversight being wrangled into #dangerous activity. Rather than impose our views and overstep jurisdictional, parenthood, and personal #boundaries (which are healthy to promote in general) in order to control others, gain false sense of security and ‘save the world’ (which is vainly imperious, imo- but that’s another topic). It better serves the world (in my opinion) to teach critical thinking and how to learn, not just what to learn and whom to trust (which in itself, could suffer from appeal to authority: a fallacy.) Even formal #academia is congested with #egocentrism and rigid near #religious #beliefs in dogmas. (I, in part, blame this on the modern science distain of #philosophy- another aside for another day.) I remember when school taught that the tongue had different taste zones as if it were law. My point being that honest #science is open to correction. There are many things that even #Einstein thought to be impossible that we know are not. With the tenacity of the internet and the dawn of more powerful #AI, what the world may need more of is a revival of the lost #art of fearless skepticism.

But why does he continue with this continuous provocation? Who does he think he is? A God perhaps?

#elonmusk #musk #Smartphone #RIPTwitter #twitter #egocentrism #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #hatespeech #freespeech #apple #android #tesla #ios
https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-make-his-own-phone-apple-app-store-2022-11?r=US&IR=T

#INTERNATIONAL_TECH_NEWS | #BIG_GOV

Putin says the West has already lost its confrontation with Russia, and an irreversible breakdown of the U.S.-led liberal order is underway.

~.This is the beginning of the transition from #liberal_globalist American #egocentrism to a truly #multipolar_world ~

https://www.facebook.com/PutinDirect/videos/438338494617811/

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#TuesdayColumn: Taking a look at the inevitability that reasonable #egoism stumbles toward careless #egocentrism when we overload our lives with priorities. #individualism #philosophy #writing

A Self-serving Malady:
https://wastedwordsweb.wordpress.com/2021/09/21/a-self-serving-malady/