Estelle Platini
estelle@techhub.social
<p>I discuss entanglement, beliefs, bias, entitlement.<br />(I purposely do not propagate news.)</p><p>Banner: sepia photo of a 26-year-old facing the camera – Hannah Arendt, Europe, 1933</p>
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Remember the thrill of a child fearing a tale wolf? As we grow we may consider that a wolf lives in us. Cultural boycott may help us tame the wolf in us. 🧶 #InstitutionsDeceive #EstelleSays #entanglement #beliefs #proZionism #culturalBoycott
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"In the United States we would never dream of operating on anyone without consent, let alone a malnourished and barely conscious 9-year-old girl in septic shock. Nevertheless, when we saw Juri, that’s exactly what we did." Feroze Sidhwa is a trauma and critical care surgeon who practices in Northern California. Mark Perlmutter is an orthopedic and hand surgeon who practices in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-0016...
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How healthcare became official and a luxury – something that the rich elite had recourse to, and which everyone else had to do without: https://going-medieval.com/2017/05/26/on-medieval-healthcare-and-american-barbarism/ #midwives #monks #medieval #healthcare #Janega @DrEleanorJanega@mastodon.world #history #sociology @ethics@a.gup.pe @sociology@a.gup.pe @socialpsych@a.gup.pe #medicine #physicians #pandemic #ModernTimes #modernity #modern #MiddleAges #Europe
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“Mass #propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they wou...
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For the first time in two centuries, the West is no longer the leader in future technology, but the follower. https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2023/06/rmi_renewable_revolution.pdf #tech #innovation #renewables #solar #wind #energy #technique #technology #china #oilAndGas