speaking of personal websites

(especially if you're plural and you're several to post on your website), do you have a CMS/static site generator/other you could advise us&? we& can't really design beautiful websites, but we&'d still like to try so ideally not something too opinionated. if it's hard to use it's not a problem, we&'ll manage

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#blog #personalwebsite #indieweb #plurality

Irreducible Plurality: Dissensus, Debate, and the Rejection of Imposed Consensus

Irreducible plurality is more than diversity: it’s the right to dissensus, creative debate, and the refusal of mandatory consensus. From Diderot to Lefort and Abensour, democracy is invented in the concert of wills and the tumult of differences. #plurality #dissensus #democracy @democracy @philosophy@a.gup.pe @philosophy@newsmast.community @politics…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/irreducible-plurality-dissensus-debate-and-the-rejection-of-imposed-consensus/

Ecology of Knowledges, Plurality, and Contract with the World: de Sousa Santos, Stengers, and Serres

The “ecology of knowledges” (de Sousa Santos, Stengers) calls for valuing the plurality of knowledge against colonial “epistemicide.” As in politics, irreducible plurality should guide science: we must prefer a contract with the world (Serres) over conflict and domination. #EcologyOfKnowledges #Plurality #Decolonial #Serres #Stengers @philosophy…

https://homohortus31.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/ecology-of-knowledges-plurality-and-contract-with-the-world-de-sousa-santos-stengers-and-serres/

TIL about Pluralpedia, a wiki about plurality.
https://pluralpedia.org/w/Main_Page

#Plural #Plurality #Pluralpedia #Wiki #Wikiverse

For those who are familiar with both of these terms (i.e. you didn't have to look them up):

In your opinion, does plurality fit within the category of alterhumanity?

There are two wolves inside of you. There are also three goats, five cabbages, a hawk, an axolotl, and a dragon. They're all standing in groups on one side of a river, and you can only take two at a time with you on the raft. Given that the front is on the other side of the river, how many trips does it take to reach the front before getting completely exhausted and giving up?

"For Putin, it is imperative that his invasion of Ukraine is framed as a spiritual war in defence of Russo-Christian values. It is therefore hardly surprising that the church’s supreme leader gave his blessing to the war, which he has labelled “a holy war”."

Source: https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/28/russia-war-ukraine-fake-spirituality/

And people wonder why organized religion is viewed as oppressive and cruel by so many... by me!

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Meta now training on EU user data:
"to understand the “diverse nuances and complexities that make up European communities,” referring to dialects and “hyper-local knowledge.”

#GeoBlocking #plurality #privacy https://www.euractiv.com/section/tech/news/german-privacy-watchdog-scraps-plans-to-stop-meta-ai-training-on-personal-data/

#plurality : a number consisting of two or more of the same kind

- French: pluralité

- German: die Vielzahl

- Italian: pluralità

- Portuguese: pluralidade

- Spanish: pluralidad

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"In [non-Western] cultures, they might have never used terms like 'plural', because they don't need to. In a culture where they have a concept of self that is not singular, they have the language they need to articulate their experiences. And if you refer to people in other societies who experience something like we do as 'just plural', you are not better than the people in psychiatry who say they 'just have DID'. You are superimposing your understanding over their own, and claiming its superiority. It is the same bias that prioritises Western explanations and insists on looking at things through Western eyes."

[…]

"Even though I think the study of plurality is fascinating, even though we have DID and have found the psychology surrounding it to be helpful, most of us don't use those labels at all anymore. We don't want to be validated by psychiatry. We don't want there to be a rational explanation. We want to be respected as people regardless."

— Coriander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlLuSE8bO6Q&list=PLr5Whxm2UJ6CfLatH7f3kRmSxwBHOqUWo&index=12

Hey organizational scholars, do as the Beatles did, visit Hamburg:
https://www.icos2025.com/program/

> The foreword to the landmark 1980 DSM-III was appropriately modest and acknowledged that this diagnostic system was imprecise - so imprecise that it never should be used for forensic or insurance purposes. As we will see, that modesty was tragically short-lived.
- The Body Keeps the Score (p. 33) by Bessel Van der Kolk

WHAT THE FUCK?! EXCUSE ME?! THE DSM DID _WHAT_?!

And yet here we are. LOLOLOLOLOL

If I come across anyone who invalidates self-diagnosis again then I'm gonna smack them with this quote so hard that they get knocked out of our solar system. -Vox

#neurodivergent #DSM #psychology #psychiatry #diagnosis #selfDiagnosis #ADHD #actuallyADHD #autism #autistic #actuallyAutistic #AuDHD #actuallyAuDHD #plural #plurality #actuallyPlural @actuallyautistic @actuallyadhd @actuallyaudhd

does any entity here has a ready summary that explains (from "our" perspective) for the following:

- not all human-shaped creatures identify as "people" or "persons"
- relationship between (personhood) vs. (plurality and therarians/otherkin identities)
- how diagnoses like depersonalisation and DID can affect the above