Ernest Worthing @ejworthing@octodon.social

Why religiously orthodox people should accept the "liberal consensus" to "live and let live":

https://theelectricagora.com/2018/03/10/the-liberal-consensus-and-the-orthodox-mind/

TL,DR: "If you are even minimally realistic, you must realize that it is impossible to hold power forever, which means that one day, inevitably, you’ll find yourself at the political mercy of your opponents, and how you’ve treated them when you were in power will have a profound effect on how they treat you, now that power has passed to them."

On this 18th day of the season of Discord, remember that it is written: a Discordian is prohibited of believing what he reads.

@jeff @natecull

OK. Thanks for clearing that up.

@jeff @natecull

OK. I think I understand better. I was confused by some of your posts at the beginning of the thread because I think of socialism as public ownership of the means of production. I don't think there are many people in the U.S. who want socialism in that sense.

@jeff @natecull

Not Jeff, how do you define "socialists"? What are the defining features of socialism, in your mind?

Mastodon is a great place for public conversations with interesting people from around the world.

Keep in mind:

People here may not be who they say who they are. I am definitely not an Oscar Wilde character!

Status privacy settings are only as trustworthy as the administrators of the instances that receive your toots.

There are ways to have semi-private conversations on Mastodon, but that's not what Mastodon is primarily designed for.

Great to see so many new users and new #introductions from old users!

I'm Ernest John Worthing. I'm a confirmed Bunburyist. Some interests:

#oscarwilde
#lgbt
#philosophy and #ethics
#privacy
#FOSS (especially tools for writing)
#languages
#yoga
#cooking
#homebrewing
#classicalmusic

I read EN, FR, EO, some DE.

@cwebber Emacs is my first choice, but I'm open to trying new things!

@cwebber I'll have to check it out!

@cwebber This looks interesting!

I've played with Racket before, but I haven't used it seriously.

Do you have an opinion about how Scribble compares with Markdown or Pandoc?

If you're still on Facebook, and you're (justifiably) upset about the latest privacy revelations, you could quit.

Or you could feed them bad data.
"Like" a bunch of things you don't actually like. Search for names of people you don't know.

@ajroach42 @chosafine@instance.business

I misunderstood what your post was referring to. I thought that you were referring to a widely-boosted post saying that it would be bad for privacy if people switched from Facebook to Mastodon and started using Mastodon the way they use Facebook.

@ajroach42 @chosafine@instance.business

Were these people claiming that Facebook has good privacy controls? Or were they saying that the Fediverse has almost no privacy controls?

Mastodon is not designed to keep people's posts or their social graphs private. I want more people to use Mastodon, but I also want new Mastodon users to understand that their social graphs are public and that "status privacy" isn't totally reliable on a distributed network.

Adele, "Rolling in the Deep"
Amy Winehouse, "Rehab"

@elomatreb Not to say that ethics training in corporate contexts doesn't do some good, but you're right--it has limited value.

@elomatreb

Agreed! I'm guessing we were thinking about different things..."ethics training" in a corporate context v. serious ethics courses at a college or university.