The abbreviation #ED requires some serious context.
"ED is wrecking my life."
Erectile Dysfunction?
Eating Disorder?
Economic Development?
Edema?
Enterprise Development?
Early Death?
Eminent Domain?
Early Deployment?
Edward (with autocorrect capitalization)?
A delinquent barfly went to the pub. A delinquent briefly went to the cheese shop.
"To be different without fear."
T.W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
"The referendum, Mr Sivaraman said, had "mainstreamed a torrent of racism" and emboldened people to "immediately challenge" any small measure granting self-determination to Indigenous people. People feel like the defeat of the Voice has given them licence to espouse their racist views...Racism towards First Nations people within Australia had been a "constant" for 238 years that "escalated dramatically" when there was something to attach it to, like cultural heritage protections or the Voice referendum."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-20/mt-arapiles-plan-triggers-racism-towards-aboriginal-people/104604286
'Freedom is no fear.’ Nina Simone/ Nicholas Payton
https://visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu/exhibitions/music-for-abolition.html#sleepwalkers
#referendum #IndigenousPeoples #FirstNations #voice #silence #CulturalLandscape #sacred #respect #SettlerSociety #WhiteRage #violence #racism #safety #discrimination #denial #backlash #tolerance for #ambiguity #AuthoritarianPersonality #fear #loss #mountains #climbing #industry #Australia #freedom
Mild repeated annoyance with #linuxmint (though I still use and love it): Every time I download updated software (i.e., not using APT) I see this.
Which fucking version? I end up searching which command to find this out on my computer, then I always have to do a SECOND search because, due to not living Ubuntu 24/7 I have no fucking clue which numerical version "Jammy" is.
Can we just agree to use ONE version system? Names or numbers, people. Pick! And if you can't do that, it doesn't seem too much to ask that you ALWAYS put both in any document ever. EVER.
Choosing the right download version costs me 5-10 minutes of my life every. damn. time.
#rant over.
Sometimes I wish the past tense of "read" was spelt differently so that a subjectless report like "Read such-and-such a book" wouldn't look like a command
Can't think of a viable alternative, though, and even if I could, it wouldn't catch on
the answer in this case is "eastern North America" and no, I'm not happy about that! #ambiguity
What was the man doing with plants in his dressing gown?
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/drunk-man-punched-bit-man-29797057
Is the (second) measurement before the cut or after the cut? 
Just don’t tell the zoologists.
(Yes, I do know what they really mean. And yes, I support that goal.
But I find this sort of imprecision and ambiguity disproportionately annoying).
#30DaysOfBiking, Day 6 (i.e. continuation of day 5, just after midnight): One more weird picture. I have no idea how this sign must be interpreted:
Forbidden for motorized vehicles
On Sundays and public holidays
Shuttle service allowed
So is it forbidden only on Sundays and public holidays, but shuttle services are allowed?
Or is it always forbidden, but shuttle services are allowed on Sundays and public holidays? 
Is someone else struggling with the choice of #language for communicating in the #fediverse ? One of the reasons I focus on #photography is that I can largely avoid this issue. It does not feel right (for me) to privilege English nor to focus on one other language instead. My current choice is to use title words in the language of the location a photo was taken - which is nothing but a hint at the #multilingual nature of our environments, neither is it without #ambiguity . I am writing this in Brussels - Bruxelles - Brussel.
“A and B both have their charm….” Pick one. Because if I choose A, and you later say that B was clearly the better choice, I’ll be pissed. #ambiguity
Reading a book that keeps referring to "anti-social housing policy". That is not the same thing as "anti-social-housing policy"
Writers: multiple hyphenation is your friend
My #introduction :
I am an associate professor of economics at Temple U in Philadelphia, USA, an economic theorist who has taught a wide variety of courses. Interested in #inequality. Newbie in applied econometrics. My papers have been on #GeneralEquilibrium models with #PublicGoods, #Consumer_Producers, #networks, and #ambiguity in #GameTheory. I love #opera and #ArtSong and dabble in singing and photography. Big fan of #openAccess, #TeXLaTeX, #foss
Moved my account from econtwitter.net
Meditations | 07-26
The thing about ambiguity is that it begs for projection. Ambiguity is not a mirror but a screen that passively accepts what is broadcast onto it without making you aware that it's really you you're watching.
Ambiguity is a little uncomfortable, a little distorted, a little uncanny. It reveals things that hit home, but that you aren't consciously aware of. It speaks -- not to you -- but over your shoulder, breath on the back of your neck. It doesn't aim to be disconcerting: it doesn't aim to be anything. But the result of unconscious fears, desires, beliefs being projected onto an unexpected surface in unexpected ways is just that.
Sometimes the urge is to resist the discomfort. Sometimes, the urge is to rationalize it. If we can make it make sense, force the ambiguous thing to fit into the schema of the world that we've created through our life, then we can alleviate the discomfort. In this way, other people become symbols when we don't know them well. Sometimes we idolize, fantasize, make someone everything we want them to be, and set them up on a pedestal of all of our strange expectations. Sometimes we denigrate, hate, dismiss, or even attack them, make them the very symbol of all we fear and despise.
We could learn so very much about ourselves if we could lean into these projections: if we could be aware of this unconscious behavior as we engage in it. If we could recognize the ambiguity of a person or a thing, and then walk ourselves through the way that we're projecting onto that screen, dissect the resulting images, and try to figure out where they come from, there is space for a significant amount of growth. Beyond that, when we do this with people, we do ourselves and them a massive disservice. Either we force expectations on others and suffer when they do not live up to them, experience severe envy when we assume someone is all that we desire but all that we are not, or we dismiss and despise those who may very well be allies despite that they have not actually wronged us.
[thread] Climate change, psychology, mental health
Why people struggle to understand climate risk
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2023/07/13/why-people-struggle-to-understand-climate-risk
* known as Ellsberg paradox after Daniel Ellsberg, researcher at think tank RAND Corporation
* Ellsberg called the behaviour ambiguity aversion
* deviation f. model of rational choice developed by mathematician John von Neumann
* demonstration that knowing the likelihood of something can alter decision-making
Appropriately, this paper on #ambiguity comes out three days after the passing of Daniel #Ellsberg, who made seminal contributions to the literature we build upon
“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” —Gilda Radner
New Blog Post: "Live and Thrive in An Ambiguous World ... https://livingtheemersonrule.com/live-and-thrive-in-an-ambiguous-world/
#ambiguity #guts #needforclosure #amwriting #living #thriving
| R.I.P Natenom 
