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Of course, the single issue thinking and purity tests feed poisonously into all of the large scale systems of domination, which include all systems based on majority voting.

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People often fixate puritanically on single issues which cause them to vilify specific actions or actors. While some issues are terribly important, the problem with purity tests is that they selectively excuse an unlimited number of related compromises (yes, compromises) and consequences.

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Such simplification may seem to enable practical actions or, at least, meaningfully defined efforts toward goals which could prove to be practically impossible. We generate belonging and reduce stress by delimiting ourselves.

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People often avoid such ambivalence by falling into the generic equivalent of single issue voting, where they determine a single supposed need at the exclusion of all other factors in complex issues.

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I don't think that we evolved biologically or culturally to process the explosively growing ambivalence which we can easily experience these days, where we're aware that many actions and strategies simultaneously contain immense costs, benefits, risks AND opportunities.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

If we got past our situationally convenient bullshit excuses for vengeful and punitive behaviors, we could effectively discuss the reasonable boundaries of protective use of force.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Bullyin' Logic= construction of falsely binary and formally logical propositions to supposedly destroy opponents' beliefs or pressure them to support yours

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I'm more focused on protocols than applications, but I'm potentially interested in any truly responsible project. Feel free to DM

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

generate constitutional practices, collective practices, governed activities, network activities and other activities with a support system of consulting confidantes, teams, communities and external help to navigate and transform tensions

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Inclusive Action Framework of acting, reacting, adapting, interpreting and conversing via thesis, antithesis and synthesis to create/design via sourcing, harvesting, specifying, prototyping, proposing and deciding to ...

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The visual model of Inclusive Action Framework may become the keystone of Inclusive Organizing. Alt text description in comments below.

Inclusive Action Framework of acting, reacting, adapting, interpreting and conversing via thesis, antithesis and synthesis to create/design via sourcing, harvesting, specifying, prototyping, proposing and deciding to generate constitutional practices, collective practices, governed activities, network activities and other activities with a support system of consulting confidantes, teams, communities and external help to navigate and transform tensions.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Anytime someone holds concentrated wealth and power, they're constantly motivated to justify holding it instead of sharing it or giving it away. This motivation works steadily and perniciously.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Right-sized relationships: in most aspects of life we need far greater tolerance of diverse perspectives and self-determination, BUT society is unsustainably hurtling toward potential doom because we complicitly feed deeply destructive forces, and that must change asap.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Android's new Clock icon keeps making me think I have a speck of dirt on my screen protector. Good work people.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Everything else is a tragic and existentially risky trap.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I believe that the only way you can change the world significantly, and sufficiently, is by developing consent-based collaboration.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Perhaps the secret to life is to wish for the best weather but try to enjoy everything.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It seems likely that whenever a new form or way of life becomes feasible, it fails many times before succeeding.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This world, which we've built together, constantly urges me to think and be like a machine.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The problem with this world is that the vast majority of clearly preventable harm occurs through deeply normalized behaviors (actions and inactions) which can't be easily vilified. We can only marginalize such behaviors by growing deeply prosocial partnerships and communities.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Surprisingly well-detailed perspective, although pessimistic in some areas where I see uncertainty-- plus, doesn't show awareness of the core problem with "democracy" (i.e. electing representatives who use factionalized majoritarian decision-making, instead of prioritizing consent and partnership.)

theguardian.com

Your worst fears about cultural collapse might be true – here’s what you can do about it

Writer Sarah Wilson argues we’re hurtling toward the same end as ancient Rome and the Mayan civilisation – but there’s plenty to fight for

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The most secure and sustainable foundation for policy is to place a clear and sincere emphasis on positive interactions and desired behaviors.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

We're each bound to many communities, but one key feature of healthy prosocial culture (and community) is to repeatedly generate optionality in most relationships and interactions. This doesn't mean that there's no role for commitment, but we should often rethink why and when.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

In creating or describing optional assignable roles, we should start by describing the expectations (i.e. purpose or function) and then define any permissions or benefits which aren't clearly present within that description.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This seems rather deeply related to a post I made earlier today: "We are invariably unqualified to judge human beings, but we must often evaluate their actions." We can, at least in theory, skip every subtext of personal judgment. (Not to imply that I consistently do; life is messy, and I'm a mess.)

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

We are invariably unqualified to judge human beings, but we must often evaluate their actions.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Social protocols come before technical protocols for communication and collaboration, always.

Computing is not a synonym for thinking.

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It's amazing how many powerful people, in the US and elsewhere, intentionally endure the POTUS publicly and explicitly threatening war crimes. I know that he and his cronies have been "flooding the zone" but could we just hold a thought long enough to hold him accountable for that?

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Nothing drains me more than getting inefficient or disrupted on effectively standardized tasks. I already have more than enough unpredictable, exploratory, deeply creative activities to occupy the rest of my days.

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Apart from those HUGE problems, efficiency can be really great! I love seeking efficiency with predictably standardized tasks such as washing dishes or (sometimes) updating a database. It can be very mindful, meditative and inspiring. It can also free the mind up for brainstorming on other subjects.

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Some people in my circles have understandably been criticizing "efficiency". It's a good time to not throw the baby out with the bathwater! There are at least two bad types of "efficiency" in this bathwater: (1) extraction of value (2) subjugation of valid creative tension

If we believe that personality isn't fixed, we're more likely to realize when we were personally responsible for harmful events, and to do whatever we reasonably can to make amends and come back into community.

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Justice is more likely when people can genuinely reduce their attachment to the person they "were" when they created great harm, but without reducing their responsibility for atonement. It helps, of course, if we don't have deep-set notions of supposed personal "essence" or innate personality.

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As conversations will often be imperfect and unfair, we can only work to minimize unfair vilification-- and to manifest transformative justice-- through ongoing dialogue.

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^ Implicitly, all vilification is unfair, because we unfairly blame individuals instead of practically-treatable environments and systems. However, we can't avoid many harms which almost inevitably occur (often to unfairly-vilified people) during processes of atonement and transformative justice.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

It's terribly important to prioritize marginalized & precarious people, but also to not unfairly vilify or harm others. Not implying that we can be perfectly fair (or perfectly anything) as we explore ethical issues, but we must work to minimize preventable and often counterproductive harms.

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I think it's generally desirable for helpful limitations to be personal decisions or (often) agreements, including community-wide agreements, instead of intentionally being built into a tool according to the assumptions or preferences of a tool- builder or business.

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Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Yes, we select some apps based on intentional limitations. Such limitations can be developed on per-community or per-user bases, including an endless variety of filtering options.

Greg Cassel @gregsc1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

I'm not referring only to social apps, but you have a good point. Social clustering & network effects can be developed through protocols and open app ecosystems, instead of proprietary walled garden; "all" we have to do is sufficiently switch the focus of protocol & software dev resources.