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This paper using gene sequences to track linguistic 'capacity' is from a #Chomskyite perspective (eg Tattersall among authors) pinning #language #evolution to #genetic #mutation!

But even chimps and bonobos have significant 'capacity' so the key question would be #social conditions which liberate that capacity.

We know from the #ochre record that #ritual culture had become #PanAfrican by 140,000 years ago. This date needs to catch up! They have shell beads in Morocco already.

frontiersin.org/journals/psych

FrontiersFrontiers | Linguistic capacity was present in the Homo sapiens population 135 thousand years ago

Macron a reçu Bayrou et plusieurs ministres à l’Elysée pour discuter de l’effort de défense. La présence de Lecornu et Haddad est compréhensible, mais celles des ministres aux affaires sociales et au travail Vautrin et Panosyan-Bouvet interroge: "Elles sont là parce qu'il va falloir faire des choix douloureux", souffle un conseiller. Traduction: exiger des Français qu'ils travaillent plus ou qu'ils renoncent à revenir sur la réforme des retraites

“Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free”, by @Daojoan.

joanwestenberg.com/big-tech-wa

> It's about whether we build systems that distribute power or concentrate it. Big Tech's dominance wasn't inevitable, and it's not unbreakable. But it's reinforced by the choices we make every damn day. Because over and over again, we choose easy. We choose platforms with less friction.

westenberg. · Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You FreeBig Tech designed their platforms to keep you trapped. YouTube, X, Instagram, and TikTok aren't neutral spaces. They're businesses built on capturing your attention and data. Their algorithms, notification systems, and content policies all serve one purpose: keeping you engaged on their terms. And their terms alone. There's no freedom

I think a lot about unlearning problematic behaviors and things society socialized into us.

The text on my graphic reads:

"We can't grow unless we are willing to be uncomfortable. If we are unwilling to be uncomfortable, then we are stagnant. Once stagnant, we run the danger of transforming into black holes, pulling those around us into accretion discs, trapped in an orbit of stagnancy, where problematic behaviors are normalized and never called out for fear of causing discomfort because discomfort and growth becomes the mark of evil rather than the mark of life.

We aren't black holes. We're stars, our light burning with the fusion of life, transforming over time into new and better human beings, but only if we're willing to let that transformation happen, to let ourselves grow." -- Aidan (Bird, ThatOneBirdWrites) of reshapingreality.org

I want to add that this thought is mostly me thinking about how so many White Cishet people get intensely upset, defensive, and harmful when they are uncomfortable to the point of hurting those around them.

At that point, they're stagnant; they are a black hole in their refusal to understand or admit that their uncomfortable feelings are rooted in shame, anger, or anxiety. No one likes to admit when they've done wrong or did a problematic thing, but we all do it at times.

(Yes, it's not just White Cishet folks that do this, but they are often the loudest. Anyone can fall into this behavior.)

We need to be able to recognize the behavior. Apologize and strive to do better. To not get caught in a black hole of stagnancy, but instead grow toward being a more loving person.

This is also why we need to be willing to stand up for others, to not let people get away with causing harm. With being bigoted.

We should not tolerate the intolerant people. Intolerant people have broken the social agreement, and thus they should not be tolerated. Their bigotry needs to be called out, no matter how much being called out might make them or others uncomfortable.

So if you find yourself defensive, think of this quote. If you're feeling uncomfortable, especially while talking with a marginalized person (Black, Indigenous, person of color, disabled folks, LGBTQIA folks, immigrants for instance), think of this quote.

Think of how you can listen to what the other person is saying.

If you don't understand what they're saying, then repeat back what you heard and ask, "Is that what you said? To make sure I got it right?"

Or ask for clarification, "So to understand, what do you mean by x?"

Take the lessons from that encounter and then look at your own core beliefs and worldviews, and consider whether they need adjusted. A lot of the time after we're called in for a hurtful behavior, we do need to adjust our worldview and unlearn the problematic thing.

Unlearning the bigotry society socialized into us from a young age is hard, and yes, it's lifelong.

But we should not balk at the labor needed to become a better, more loving, and more justice-oriented person.

Consider it an adventure. You're learning and leveling up toward a better, more just, more equitable, and more loving future.

But to build that future, we need to first build it within ourselves and our relationships and communities.

Thanks for reading.

Be safe.

#mindset #unlearning #BeingBetter
#communication
#justice #social justice

Hola, soy Elal. Autista, vegano, desarrollador experimental, divulgador. Apasionado por las ciencias e ingeniería, defensor del intelectualismo, la justicia, la ética, educación y el ambiente. Una persona activamente crítica.
Me gusta investigar y estudiarlo todo. Actualmente me encuentro en busca de personas que quieran acompañar varios proyectos relacionado a software e ingeniería. Pero también que le guste el periodismo verdadero (que se enfoquen en hechos reales, tangentes en vez de estupideces mediáticas ficticias que no contribuyen a nada faltando el respeto al lenguaje y al propio periodismo que fue construido por personas que han dado su vida por la verdad).
También busco personas que les guste la educación, como diseñar nuevas estrategias para emplearlas de una mejor manera. y por ultimo,
busco personas que al igual que yo, pertenezcan a la neurodiversidad, esto para realizar estudios mas profundos y adaptados a nuestra visión y manera de percibir el mundo.
Juntos debemos combatir las pseudociencias, la romanización de la violencia, y la corriente anti-intelectualismo que arrasa el sistema mundo.
Pues, no destruye quien construye su mente.

Do you guys know about the Fediverse?

It's a decentralized, open-source social network where you own your data! Unlike Big Tech platforms, the Fediverse connects independent servers using ActivityPub, letting you interact across apps like Mastodon, PeerTube, and Lemmy.
No ads, no algorithms-just real, community-driven social media.
How's your experience been on the Fediverse so far? What's your favorite part?
#mastodon #opensource #fediverse #social

La mancanza di un algoritmo mi fa perdere, a volte, di vista la mia timeline.
E’ qualcosa che accetto.
Perché, in cambio, scorrendo vedo dei boost o dei post di persone che non conosco.
Persone vere, non bot o influencer pagati per sponsorizzare l’uno o l’altro prodotto.
E vedo foto meravigliose fatte da persone con 10 follower, che non vedrei mai in un social commerciale. Vedo opinioni, idee, consigli da persone comuni, come me, appassionate e felici di condividere le proprie visioni e idee con gli altri.
Il Fediverso è anche questo: comunicazione, condivisione, dialogo - non numeri.

#Fediverso #Social #PersoneNonNumeri

📣 Call for Papers: 2. International Workshop on Open Web Search

Our team is hosting #wows2025 as part of #ECIR2025 (6-10 April in Italy).

Join to discuss approaches to open up the #WebSearchEcosystem to foster an open, diverse search market.

The 1st Call for papers seeks ideas along the pipeline for creating an #OWI, i.e. crawling, preprocessing, enrichment, indexing, + serving (parts of) an open web index to Also #ethical, #legal & #social aspects are welcome: opensearchfoundation.org/en/ev

After seeing
Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache from @itnotes@snac.it-notes.dragas.net via
https://snac.it-notes.dragas.net/itnotes/p/1738139676.258050
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/
I decided to prematurely optimize and adjust this for my apache2 httpd server in debian where I run snac.

I've never done any caching etc before so it was a nice adventure to learn something new. The documentation helped and in the end it wasn't very hard. I learned a bit about some http headers and regex on the way too.

Basically it works like this:
Enable the relevant modules:

´a2enmod expires cache cache_disk´

Be sure "htcacheclean" is running to clean up old disk cache. (under debian see /etc/default/apache-htcacheclean or else the relevant systemd service)
Then add to the snac virtualhost config:
    CacheRoot /var/cache/apache2/mod_cache_disk
CacheQuickHandler off
CacheLock on
#Optional while testing stuff;
CacheDetailHeader on

#My Instance ist not at the root, but under "/social"; so this needs to be adapted:
<LocationMatch "^/social/[^/]+/s">
CacheEnable disk
ExpiresActive On
ExpiresDefault "access plus 30 days"
</LocationMatch>
This will use the disk cache to cache everything under the /s/ Path, same as the original ngnix tutorial, Utilizing the mod_expires to generate the appropriate cache headers (for lazy ones like me), In this case caching it for 30 days.
Further reading and all options explained under https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/caching.html ff

Thanks for the initial tutorial @itnotes@snac.it-notes.dragas.net

#Fediverse #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #apache2 #httpd #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Web #Debian
snac.it-notes.dragas.netIT Notes (@itnotes@snac.it-notes.dragas.net)2 following, 85 followers · **Improving snac Performance with Nginx Proxy Cache** https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/01/29/improving-snac-performance-with-nginx-proxy-cache/ #Data #Fediverse #Freebsd #Hosting #ITNotes #Networking #Nginx #NoteHUB #Ownyourdata #Server #Snac #Snac2 #Social #Tipsandtricks #Tutorial #Web