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Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 14:55:04 CEST Alberto

SFDK - Me Queo en Mi Casa (Videoclip Oficial) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGViRQGoppA

#cancer #activismo #musica
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1. SFDK - Me Queo en Mi Casa (Videoclip Oficial)
  
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Menéame (meneame@quitter.im)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 13:00:08 CEST Menéame
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Medina Azahara consigue el título de Patrimonio Mundial de la Unesco http://www.meneame.net/story/medida-azahara-consigue-titulo-patrimonio-mundial-unesco https://quitter.im/attachment/1178264
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switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 19:22:56 CEST switching.social
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Kobo.com has a mixture of DRM and non-DRM ebooks, but their own search doesn't let you choose just non-DRM.
However, you can work around this by using any search engine with the terms:
(search terms for book, author etc) "drm-free" site:kobo.com
I wanted to use DDG to create a simple search box to do this automatically ( https://duckduckgo.com/search_box ) but I can't work out how to add the "drm-free" bit.
Can anyone help? Doesn't have to be DDG search.
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1. DuckDuckGo Search Box
  
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  Add a DuckDuckGo search box to your site!
Lyrilith (lyrilith@mastodon.art)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 22:34:01 CEST Lyrilith
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Asu (@asurelle on Instagram) offered a pic for the #drawthisinyoustyle challenge and I just had to. :)
#art #mastoart #sketchbook #watercolor #witch #summer #asurocks
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Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jul-2018 02:04:01 CEST Alberto

Existential isolation, the subjective experience of feeling fundamentally separate from other human beings, tends to be stronger among men than women. New research suggests that this is because women tended to value communal traits more highly than men, and men accept such social norms. - https://quitter.es/url/1814188 #psychology
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1. "Existential Isolation": Why Is it Higher Among Males?
  
  from Psychology Today
  
  New research tested why men feel existentially more isolated than women.
Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 18:45:56 CEST Alberto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9KeyKVuLHU
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1. What are animals thinking and feeling? | Carl Safina
  
  By TED from YouTube
Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Saturday, 30-Jun-2018 15:21:15 CEST Alberto
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- Sean "Loverboy" Tilley
@aldobelus @deadsuperhero hahahaha well, at least people should try to understand our position in the same way we do with them. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 18:52:15 CEST Alberto
- Whats in your ear
!listening to Cattle Decapitation "The Prophets of Loss" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCsoB8p578Q

"We fucking die tonight and that's perfectly alright with me"
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1. Cattle Decapitation "The Prophets of Loss" (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
  
  By Metal Blade Records from YouTube
Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 17:27:47 CEST Alberto
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- Aurochs
@auroch I'm glad you do 😊

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Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Friday, 29-Jun-2018 17:17:14 CEST Alberto

Conspiracy theories as maladaptive coping - https://mindhacks.com/2017/12/23/conspiracy-theories-as-maladaptive-coping/

Belief in conspiracy theories appears to be driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (understanding one’s environment), existential (being safe and in control of one’s environment), and social (maintaining a positive image of the self and the social group).

In their review they cover evidence showing that factors like uncertainty about the world, lack of control or social exclusion (factors affecting epistemic, existential and social motives respectively) are all associated with increased susceptibility to conspiracy theory beliefs.

But also they show, paradoxically, that exposure to conspiracy theories doesn’t salve these needs.
#science #conspiracies #conspiracy
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1. Conspiracy theories as maladaptive coping
  
  By tomstafford from Mind Hacks
  
  A review called ‘The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories‘ sets out a theory of why individuals end up believing Elvis is alive, NASA faked the moon landings or 9/11 was an inside job. Karen Douglas and colleagues suggest:
  
  Belief in conspiracy theories appears to be driven by motives that can be characterized as epistemic (understanding one’s environment), existential (being safe and in control of one’s environment), and social (maintaining a positive image of the self and the social group).
  
  In their review they cover evidence showing that factors like uncertainty about the world, lack of control or social exclusion (factors affecting epistemic, existential and social motives respectively) are all associated with increased susceptibility to conspiracy theory beliefs.
  
  But also they show, paradoxically, that exposure to conspiracy theories doesn’t salve these needs. People presented with pro-conspiracy theory information about vaccines or climate change felt a reduced sense of control and increased disillusion with politics and distrust of government. Douglas’ argument is that although individuals might find conspiracy theories attractive because they promise to make sense of the world, they actually increase uncertainty and decrease the chance people will take effective collective action.
  
  My take would be that, viewed like this, conspiracy theories are a form of maladaptive coping. The account makes sense of why we are all vulnerable to conspiracy theories – and we are all vulnerable; many individual conspiracy theories have very widespread subscription – for example half of Americans believe Lee Harvey Oswald did not act alone in the assassination of JFK. Of course polling about individual beliefs must underestimate the proportion of individuals who subscribe to at least one conspiracy theory. The account also makes sense of why some people are more susceptible than others – people who have less education, are more excluded or powerless and have a heightened need to see patterns which aren’t necessarily there.
  
  There are a few areas where this account isn’t fully satisfying.
  – it doesn’t really offer a psychologically grounded definition of conspiracy theories. Douglas’s working definition is ‘explanations for important events that involve secret plots by powerful and malevolent groups’, which seems to include some cases of conspiracy beliefs which aren’t ‘conspiracy theories’ (sometimes it is reasonable to believe in secret plots by the powerful; sometimes the powerful are involved in secret plots), and it seems to miss some cases of conspiracy-theory type reasoning (for example paranoid beliefs about other people in your immediate social world).
  – one aspects of conspiracy theories is that they are hard to disprove, with, for example, people presenting contrary evidence seem as confirming the existence of the conspiracy. But the common psychological tendency to resist persuasion is well known. Are conspiracy theories especially hard to shift, any more than other beliefs (or the beliefs of non-conspiracy theorists)? Would it be easier to persuade you that the earth is flat than it would be to persuade a flat-earther that the earth is round? If not, then the identifying mark of conspiracy theories may be the factors that lead you to get into them, rather that their dynamics when you’ve got them.
  – and how you get into them seems crucially unaddressed by the experimental psychology methods Douglas and colleagues deploy. We have correlational data on the kinds of people who subscribe to conspiracy theories, and experimental data on presenting people with conspiracy theories, but no rich ethnographic account of how individuals find themselves pulled into the world of a conspiracy theory (or how they eventually get out of it).
  
  Further research is, as they say, needed.
  
  Reference: Douglas, K., Sutton, R. M., & Cichocka, A. (2017). The psychology of conspiracy theories. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26 (6), 538-542.
  
  Karen Douglas’ homepage
  
  Previously on mindhacks.com: Conspiracy theory as character flaw, That’s what they want you to believe. Conspiracy theory page on mindhacks wiki.
  
  I saw Karen Douglas present this work at a talk to Sheffield Skeptics in the Pub. Thanks to them for organising.
Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Thursday, 28-Jun-2018 10:12:16 CEST Alberto

Scientists weighed all life on Earth. It’s mind-boggling. - Vox - https://quitter.es/url/1808136 #science #biology
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1. All life on Earth, in one staggering chart
  
  from Vox
  
  Scientists estimated the mass of all life. It’s mind boggling.
Alberto (moshpirit@quitter.es)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Jun-2018 22:55:11 CEST Alberto
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@silkevicious looks like lots of fun!!

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