Ooze 𓁟

Virtually Real
We each live in our own perceptual universe, no two sensoria are exactly alike, but, because we all live in the same physical universe, we imagine it is a shared whole, its entirety common to us all. But our perceptual worlds are as unique as we each are, each unique perceptual world adding to the creation of the whole of reality.

Pagan Theologian. Ethicist. In self imposed exile from academia. Regenerative farmer. Photographer. Punk. Open data advocate. Virtual world developer.

Dogmatic religion is a bitch: https://ooze.net/dogmatic-religion-is-a-bitch/
Virtually Real: being in cyberspace: https://ooze.net/virtually-real-being-in-cyberspace/
I'm sorry Dave I can't do that: ethics in software developmentment: https://ooze.net/im-sorry-dave-i-cant-do-that-ethics-in-software-development/
Blog: https://ooze.net

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2026-03-25 03:50:53 UTC

Would you use substack if you were aware it monetised actual nazis?
Please do part two of this poll in the replies.
#substack #ethics

2026-03-23 01:37:29 UTC

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That shot with the rocket launch!

2026-02-09 11:11:32 UTC

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Two things. Firstly, there are literally millions of postgraduates or posdocs on the planet. You are probably going to say that they aren't all in academia. Many more of them would be if we made places for them instead of doing stupid austerity economics with higher education or trying to automate jobs that humans are really good at.
Secondly, if we abandoned numbers of publications as a metric for academic success there would suddenly be a lot less stuff to wade through.

2026-02-09 09:26:11 UTC

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Yes.

2026-02-09 01:02:32 UTC

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Good news everybody! We already have a great tool for this, humans. If we stop making academics run the treadmill of endless grant applications and needless publishing it will free up time for such activities.

2026-02-02 05:38:15 UTC

Academic publishing has no shame. Over $200 for a 392 page hardcover. And "only" $80 for the paperback.

2026-01-16 03:52:20 UTC

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Plus, you know, America is a fascist state now.

2025-10-28 07:04:00 UTC

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Just remember that with such things one is dependent on the company continuing in business. Several times these companies have gone bankrupt and bricked the devices, leaving people with non functioning implants. e.g. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1474162-more-about-right-to-repair-150000-bionic-retinal-implants-bricked-after-company-shutdowns/

2025-10-01 04:03:27 UTC

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I hear this all the time. And then temporary turns into forever. It is just as fast and easy to use, etherpad, or onlyoffice, or cryptpad, or hedgedoc as it is to use google docs. Just walk away from the evil. Just do it.

2025-10-01 02:47:33 UTC

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The irony of using Google docs for this.

2025-08-30 00:07:52 UTC

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Day four of the Imgur user rebellion. More media have noticed https://imgur.com/gallery/todays-episode-of-wtaf-is-going-on-404-media-has-summarized-fiasco-4tv2TXa
Users are flooding the front page with "The gif" as it is known on Imgur. A pornographic Marvell gif which has previously been a guarantee of an instant ban and instant removal of the post. Many copies of the gif have been showing on the front page all day without being removed.
Sorry these posts are out of order. I was unable to post for a couple of days and am filling in the blanks.
#UserRebellion #Imgur

2025-08-29 23:59:56 UTC

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Day three of the Imgur user rebellion. The site owners post about the rebellion. It is a wall of text that is not well received by the users. In it the company claims both that no one was fired but that there are "less of us here" to handle the workload. The company also claims to not be doing any of the things the users have documented that they are clearly doing. They claim no one was fired while statements by ex employees saying they were fired have been posted by users.
It is as if the company doesn't read its own site and doesn't think the users communicate with each other.
https://imgur.com/gallery/hey-s-business-daddy-got-sec-ctQTDDt Full text of the company's reply.
@npub1fdr…lvhs Are you aware of this user rebellion?
#UserRebellion #Imgur

2025-08-26 11:17:18 UTC

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Day two of the Imgur user rebellion. The media has noticed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/general/imgur-protest-covers-the-front-page-in-anti-medialab-memes/ar-AA1LcArz
https://www.engadget.com/apps/imgur-protest-covers-the-front-page-in-anti-medialab-memes-225502091.html

2025-08-26 00:57:48 UTC

The once great, but now a shadow of it's former self, image sharing site Imgur is having a bit of a moment. The site was recently sold to MediaLabs who have plastered the site in ads, replaced moderation with AI and fired most of the staff. This has resulted in some parts of the site failing to function e.g. the entire notifications system.
Media Labs performance has been so bad it has pushed the numerically small but devoted remaining users to realise their power. The users of Imgur have united in rebellion to protest and have covered the entire front page in images disparaging the company. The site is entirely dependent on the users posting things to generate its income. The site owners literally add nothing except ads.
This is an exemplar to the rest of our society, struggling as we are under the weight of parasites who only detract from our efforts for their own gain.
#Imgur #UserRebellion #Capitalism
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2025-07-29 23:45:16 UTC

https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/ - This excellent blog now has a podcast!
If you wish to be considered a scientific-minded person, you probably know that you really shouldn’t believe in the occurrence of events commonly referred to as supernatural. If there was something to that sort of thing, surely the greats of science such as Newton, Bacon, Boyle, the Curies and Einstein would have told us.
What may surprise you is that each of the scientific icons named above, and many others of similar standing, took reports of marvelous phenomena quite seriously. In fact, the consensus in historical scholarship regarding the relationship between science and ‘magic’ has shifted notably during the past five decades. Even the most conservative historian of science will tell you today what previous generations ignored or denied:
That the revolutionary scientific works of Brahe, Kepler, Newton and other early moderns were inextricably related to their committed beliefs in biblical prophecies, alchemy, astrology and other ‘occult’ ideas and practices.
That others like Francis Bacon, Robert Boyle, and later Pierre Curie, J. J. Thomson and William James observed and rigorously tested reported miraculous goings-on, and insisted that certain instances of distant mental influence constituted facts of nature.
That these examples are not mere anachronisms, but that – contrary to traditional assertions of a disenchantment of nature – interest in miraculous phenomena has continued in elite members of scientific communities, though not necessarily pursued within curricula of professionalized sciences.
That at least since the nineteenth century, scientific interest in these things has been marked by a pluralism of interpretations, and cannot simply be pigeon-holed as instances of a religious need to believe or flight from reason.
Depending on your personal sensibilities and experiences, such statements may provoke reactions ranging from surprise to consternation – some of the standard responses historians of science and medicine working on unorthodox topics encounter when we try to explain our work to non-historians, and which have determined the choice of this blog’s title. Forbidden Histories may have a melodramatic ring to it, but means to implicate the existence of a certain taboo, comprised of a variety of concerns that have prevented mainstream historical research from becoming part of common knowledge.
Debates over the reality of certain supposed occult phenomena are ongoing, yet our intent is not to validate nor debunk the paranormal. Instead, we wish to study and understand reasons for belief as well as disbelief by scientists in various extraordinary phenomena over time.
The purpose of this blog is therefore to rehearse questions and ideas concerning the historical contingency of scientific naturalism and other standards of Western rationality – particularly those which academics are not accustomed let alone encouraged to critically reflect upon, even though they have powerfully shaped individual and collective identities.
Aware that the subject matter of Forbidden Histories thoroughly goes against the grain of many established ideologies and metaphysical standard positions, contributors strive to employ those principles that most would agree make good science as well as good history: contextualized evidence and differentiated analysis.
#history #philosophy #science #occult #religion

2025-04-30 01:28:43 UTC

Ok gardening people, what's going on with this King David apple?
#gardening #orchard #apple
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2025-04-16 23:28:46 UTC

https://www.zdnet.com/article/german-state-ditches-microsoft-for-linux-and-libreoffice/
German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice. Why? Schleswig-Holstein cites cost, security, and digital sovereignty - though not necessarily in that order.

2025-04-02 08:32:54 UTC

"Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest and then I will murmur agreement, not actually say anything. I am not as stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard. But no one said anything. The cowards, each man thought."
Terry Pratchett - Guards, Guards.

2025-04-02 08:14:49 UTC

It has taken way longer than we hoped, but we now have our own instance. I have just finished migrating my account so I would appreciate it if you could boost this post so our little instance gets noticed by a bunch of servers. Here's a picture of my cats Huginn and Muninn so I am at least adding something to the fediverse instead of just asking for something.
#cats
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