Tituba ends her testimony, emphasizing the subjective nature of spectral evidence. Much of her story is shaped by what she believes will protect her.

She claims Sarah Good can harm children physically. Tituba’s story implicates others, possibly to divert blame from herself.

Tituba accuses other women of harming children. This was likely a strategy to protect herself, showing how accusations could be used to shift suspicion onto others.

Tituba claims the Devil appeared and forced her to serve him. By framing herself as under the Devil’s influence, she confirms the Puritan expectation of witchcraft, even though she may not be guilty.

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• quote: survival of the richest

  • All that's going to happen to these extraordinarily wealthy folks with their estates in New Zealand with their landing strips is that they're going to have an extra couple of decades to watch things fall apart around them and that doesn't sound very appealing to me
• author: Thomas Homer-Dixon

• date: 2021

• reference

  • Douglas Rushkoff wrote a book on this phenomena
    • https://rushkoff.com/books/survival-of-the-richest-escape-fantasies-of-the-tech-billionaires/

blah. this surveillance system is one big personality test.<br /> the problem is, they do not want a balance of all personality types or "natural order",<br /> but they do a one-sided selection by personality type.<br /> aka socialdarwinism, socialism, survival of the social, social credit score, civilization, high culture, progress, "made order", human laws, human rights, humanism, ...

"Der Verfassungsschutz hat die Aufgabe, Bürger vor Verfassungsfeinden zu schützen."

und wer schützt mich vor "bürger"? also vor "zivilisten"?

das hier ist noch mehr sozialdarwinismus, also "survival of the social",<br /> also sozialisten, die unter sich sein wollen in ihrer echokammer, eugenik.<br /> "antisoziale" menschen sollen ausgerottet werden, euthanasie.

der witz ist, ein antisoziales weltbild ist angeboren,<br /> es ist ausdruck von angeborenem persönlichkeitstyp.

erziehung kann den subtyp ändern,<br /> aber wir brauchen alle persönlichkeitstypen für eine "gerechte" welt,<br /> für ein biodynamisches gleichgewicht, für symbiose.

also die sozialdarwinisten sagen:<br /> "die natur ist schuld, dass unser sozialismus nicht funktioniert,<br /> also müssen wir eine hälfte der natur ausrotten."

ich sage:<br /> "wenn ihr die halbe natur ausrotten müsst, damit eure erwartungen erfüllt werden,<br /> dann habt ihr falsche erwartungen."

aber ja... sozialisten (und pazifisten) sind schon circa 10.000 jahre auf diesem "trip",<br /> dass sie die natur "beherrschen" müssen, damit ihre "schöne" zivilisation funktioniert.

und wie immer, diese idealisten interessieren sich keine sekunde für das "hier und jetzt",<br /> sondern es geht immer um eine "bessere" zukunft oder ein "besseres" leben nach dem tod.

also die sozialisten marschieren wieder...<br /> in dem sinn: leute, wir sehn uns im knast

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So, Essentially, they're proposing we take populous countries and limit the automation and let it go wild, but wouldn't this mean that over time, there would be technology segregation or a widespread between the automated countries and the manual labor ones? This would potentially create a crisis. We can likely say that opening borders because of not having to be in the physical location could open up some other doors.

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• quote
  • Richest 1% Took 2/3rds of Global Wealth Since 2020
  • Richest 1% increased wealth in 2020 and 2021 twice as much as 99% of Population Earned

• Oxfam inequality report
• Report name
  • Survival of the Richest
• Date
  • Jan 2023
• Key findings
  • the richest 1% earned nearly 2/3 of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020
  • the remaining 99% earned the remaining 1/3

• Herbert Spencer fully developed Digby's concept into the modern concept of functional integration
  • Spencer introduced the term "survival of the fittest"
  • ‘He tried to unite complex new findings about metabolism and organismic development with evolution and the seeming correspondence of organisms to their environments.
    • In The Principles of Biology (1864), Spencer wrote
      • a biological individual is one in which
      • the interdependence of the parts allows it to function and
      • respond to environmental change as a whole.
    • That is: ‘any concrete whole having a structure which enables it,
      • when placed in appropriate conditions,
  • to continuously adjust its internal relations to external relations, - so as to maintain the equilibrium of its functions.’

Bei einer Vollversammlung des permanenten Forums der UN für indigene Angelegenheiten warnten Vertreter indigener Völker nachdrücklich vor einer Dekarbonisierung auf ihre Kosten, etwa durch Bergbau. Auch Artenschutz wird angeführt um indigene zu vertreiben, wie bei einem von den Vereinigten Arabischen Vereinigten Emiraten vorangetrieben Wildreservat im Massai-Gebiet. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/23/un-indigenous-peoples-forum-climate-strategy-warning

Perhaps play helps to provide social lubrication, communication, and bonding between animals which may help in creating cooperation which improves survival or reproduction?

I suspect that artificial memory systems, particularly those that make some sort of logical sense, will indeed be long lasting ones.

Given the long, unchanging history of the Acheulean hand axe, as an example, these sorts of ideas and practices were handed down from generation to generation.

Given their ties to human survival, they're even more likely to persist.

Indigenous memory systems in Aboriginal settings date to 65,000 years and also provide an example of long-lived systems.

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Merely surviving on the little bits of life that still exist during the winter. Feeding on mainly potatoes and whatever else can be found.

Though he’s been associated with a very strange idea he never had, Edward Sapir was quite explicit about this loss over a hundred years ago. Thinking specifically about a later passage warning people about the glossocide English language. But it’s been clear in his work from long before that excerpt that we’re missing out when we focus on a single language.

The people will find a way to survive.. they always do.. but we should be able to find easier ways to make that happen that will provide better situations for them.

Changes in the environment are reflected by the characteristics of society.

This is a really good point. They are all at a very low point doing what they have to do (even though it is wrong) to survive.

consider in context of Darwinian "survival", and interesting to consider the contrast with Berlant's "Slow Death" concept--hunger to the point of obesity, love striving after objects to the point of depression