For Deleuze, as for Foucault and Lyotard, the activity of political reflection must have as a primary goal the freeing of an individual (be that individual a person, a group, or a practice) for new practices, practices that change, undermine, or abandon the power relationships that keep old practices in place. Foucault addresses the same concern in his description of philosophical “curiosity”:
"...not the curiosity that seeks to assimilate what it is proper for one to know, but that which enables one to get free of oneself… There is always something ludicrous in philosophical discourse when it tries, from the outside, to dictate to others, to tell them where their truth is and how to find it, or when it works up a case against them in the language of naive positivity. But it is entitled to explore what might be changed, in its own thought, through the practice of a knowledge that is foreign to it." (Foucault, The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure)
I'm going to use fake labels here, because I want to make a general point. People should be allowed to express their personal opinions, as long as they are not actually threatening others, or encouraging violence. If you say "I don't think Martians should be able to use the same bathrooms as Venusians", "Martians should stay home and watch their children", or "Martians should be sent back to their planet and not allowed to come to Earth without interplanetary passports", those are opinions. But if you write a post defending the rights of Earthlings to attack Martians or defend someone who did, or tell a Martian that he should kill himself, that's entirely different. Those are not just opinions. They can lead to actual crimes.
In reality, while I wouldn't call myself a feminist, I do believe in equal rights for men and women. I firmly support and defend the rights of homosexuals and bisexuals and will not befriend those who actively speak against them. I also believe that those who moderate groups should be able to set the rules and not allow such content. But in general, I don't think that personal opinions should be stifled. I just wouldn't associate with such people, just as I wouldn't with those who hate the blind. It's just common sense. I also think that, many times, people today are offended by the most ridiculous things. There are actually warnings about songs or radio shows made in the past, for example. I've listened to some of them and can't find anything wrong with them. I also realise that it's foolish to judge something from a hundred years ago by the standards of today, which many people seem to have forgotten. And not everything needs to be criticised, analysed, or is because of the upper class, or the patriarchy, or whites, or meat eaters, or whatever group is being blamed this week. I'm sick of everything being politicised on all sides of the spectrum.
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06/11/16 - Picked up at Gepps Cross Market, which used to take place on the drive-in cinema site. All closed down now, to feed the insatiable housing beast. Another loss for people who like to browse random shite spread out on a tarpaulin.
Also, another record that's barely worth a dollar.
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There I was, running up the foreshore, and....FUUUCCCKKK! #brownsnake
Greeted by the very picture of pathetic. Poor Herbie.
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Une proposition vraiment intéressante.
L'UE révolutionne l'accès aux données de santé : Un pas de géant vers une Europe médicale sans frontières
L'Union européenne franchit une étape décisive dans la transformation numérique des soins de santé avec l'adoption du règlement sur l'Espace européen des données de santé (EHDS) le 21 Janvier 2025.Ce texte novateur, ayant été une large majorité par le Parlement européen le 24 avril 2024, promet de redéfinir l'accès et le partage des informations médicales à travers le continent.
Au cœur de cette initiative se trouve la volonté de faciliter l'accès des citoyens européens à leurs données de santé électroniques, qu'ils se trouvent dans leur pays d'origine ou dans un autre État membre. Cette avancée majeure permettra non seulement une continuité des soins lors des déplacements au sein de l'UE, mais offrira également aux patients un contrôle accru sur l'utilisation de leurs informations médicales.
L'EHDS ne se limite pas à améliorer les soins individuels ; il ouvre également de nouvelles perspectives pour la recherche médicale et l'innovation en santé. En permettant aux chercheurs et aux décideurs politiques d'accéder à des données de santé sécurisées et anonymisées, le règlement promet d'accélérer le développement de nouveaux traitements, en particulier pour les maladies rares qui touchent 30 millions d'Européens.
La mise en œuvre de l'EHDS s'accompagne de garanties solides en matière de protection des données personnelles. Le règlement prévoit la création d'autorités de santé numérique dans chaque pays membre, chargées de veiller à l'application des nouvelles dispositions. De plus, les patients auront la possibilité de s'opposer à l'accès à leurs données, sauf pour des fins d'intérêt général strictement encadrées.
Avec une entrée en application progressive sur les 2 à 6 prochaines années, l'EHDS représente un défi d'adaptation pour les systèmes de santé nationaux, mais aussi une opportunité sans précédent. En harmonisant les réglementations à l'échelle européenne, ce règlement pose les fondations d'un écosystème de santé numérique plus intégré, plus efficace et plus innovant, promettant des avancées significatives dans la qualité des soins pour tous les citoyens européens.
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#SantéNumérique #EHDS #InnovationMédicale #DonnéesDeSanté #UESanté #EHDS
Herbie doesn't like the dog wash...
29/10/16 - Taken at On The Run, Largs Bay. Herbie hated a bath.
His front half was a kind of very dark brindle, which would only be evident for a week or so, post-wash.
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New nose hair trimmer Woo-hoo! #middle-age
28/10/16 - One of the most irksome things about getting older is the way you sprout hair. Nose, eyebrows, ears. This nose hair trimmer is still knocking about the bathroom cabinet, largely unused.
Also, in a lot of the pics around this time, focus (or the lack of it, more precisely) doesn't seem to be something I'm particularly interested in.
I've been driving this car for years, but have only just noticed the sloth-face steering wheel. #pareidolia
Another choon.
What does 'Notifier task is pending' mean? Google doesn't seem to know.
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When they moved this instance to a larger server it somehow messed up the background task workers that pretty much do everything. So there is a huge backlog of jobs to be done, each with different priority, which is why any new post's notifier task is pending, and - as is my understanding - will be until the queue ahead of it gets completed.
The big downside of this is that, right now on friendica.world, none of the local-only communications work. You can post and reply publicly, but you can't post to just your friends or followers, nor are DMs working. The server admin recently commented on one of my posts that it should be caught up this weekend. Hopefully everything will be working correctly after that and our posts will no longer have the hourglass and "Notifier Task Pending" on them.
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Choon.
23/10/16 - This is a classy bit of soul, which I had bought after hearing the great Dr Bob Jones play it on his show. Turns out there's a mis-labelled version of this out there (which I found out to my cost). The one you want has the word Century scribbled out on the label presumably because they'd all been pressed with the wrong name on, or they found out there was another group with the same name, after the labels had been printed.
I really like writing on labels (WOL) of records I buy, even though it knocks value off. Seeing someone's name on there always makes me wonder who they were and what happened to them.
Just finished reading this. Punk, feminism, class & ethnicity. Fuck, #Spitboy were great.
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in reply to pataphysician • •As such, experimentation is a sober and often tentative activity. One experiments by constructing practices that one is prepared to abandon if their effects are intolerable. The recognition of contingency that inhabits networks of practices brings in its wake another recognition: practices that seem liberating may, because of unexpected interactions with or developments of other practices, have consequences very different from those imagined by their initiators. There is no blueprint for practice. The ethical principles that help one to judge practice remain; but one can only experiment in their realization.
One such experimentation, discussed by Deleuze, is that of “becoming minor.” It is a concept best understood as engaging in a practice that, while within the social network of practices and thus not transgressing that network, occupies a place that disrupts dominant practices by showing creative possibilities within those practices which would escape the political oppressions associated with them. To engage in a becoming-minor is to construct a line of flight within the social network by constructing—or following—one of the stems of the social rhizome that in the same gesture entangles dominant stems and is a positive possibility for practice. Regarding language, Deleuze and Guattari claim that “it is certainly not by using a minor language as a dialect, by regionalizing it or ghettoizing, that one becomes revolutionary; rather, by using a number of minority elements, by connecting, conjugating them, one invents a specific, unforeseen, autonomous becoming.”
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