Toots š¦£ from 01/01 to 01/05
John ColagioiaAs discussed previously, on Fridays, I present my weekly social media roundups. Note that toots of articles generally include header images from the articles, which I donāt include here unless their creators happen to have released them for use under a free license, and I notice. Most have not, or I donāt notice. But I now add my commentary here, where I donāt feel restricted by message length.
Also, I donāt generally attach pictures to posts with quotations.
9:04 ā Mon 01 January 2024
Image Not Shown: man, from behind, standing at dirt crossroads in woods
The curious joy of being wrong from The Conversation
Intellectual humility isnāt lacking conviction; you can believe something strongly until your mind is changed, and you believe something else. It also isnāt being wishy-washy. You should have a high bar for what evidence you require to change your mind.
Hashtags: #Psychology #Humility
The article admittedly does that obnoxious thing of insisting that we open-minded people should approach fraught political issues with curiosity and a desire to learn, rather than dismissing the idea that certain people donāt deserve human rights out of hand. However, other than thatāpresumably necessary in the authorās world, given that he mentions growing up with a white evangelical familyāit makes some good points.
12:07 ā Mon 01 January 2024
Those who wish well towards their friends disdain to please them with words which are not true.
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:07 ā Tue 02 January 2024
Content Warning: Exploitation
Image Not Shown: Ma Ma Khin (pseudonym), former migrant worker at a sewing factory
The invisible labor cost of famous clothing brands in Thailand from Global Voices
The employer didnāt care. Anyone who didnāt want to work could leave. But if we left our job there, where could we find a job during Covid-19? Making demands was like banging your head against the wall. It was pointless, because we got nothing.
Hashtags: #Thailand #Labor #HumanRights
Iāve mentioned this before, but I highly encourage people to learn the skills required to make the least-complicated things that you use in your life. Once you try your hand at it, youāll quickly realize that the price that you pay in stores doesnāt match the value of the labor, meaning that someone must get cheated. This article introduces you to a few such people.
12:03 ā Tue 02 January 2024
Say not āa small event!ā Why āsmallā? / Costs it more pain that this ye call / A āgreat eventā should come to pass / From that? Untwine me from the mass / Of deeds which make up life, one deed / Power shall fall short in or exceed!
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:01 ā Wed 03 January 2024
Image credit: Library of Congress, (probably) in the public domain
How Librarian Spies Helped Win World War II from Voice of America
Adele Kibre, who had a Ph.D. in medieval linguistics, was among the first of these academic spies to use microphotography ā taking pictures of documents and sending the film back to her bosses for analysis.
Hashtags: #WWII #Spies #Librarians
You know, Iād almost suggest that the political far-right hates libraries so much, because their predecessors at libraries helped defeat a prior generation of fascists, and authoritarians love little more than holding a pointless grudge. But then I remembered that authoritarians also hate reading and learning about history, so the idea that they know this particular story seems pretty laughableā¦
12:01 ā Wed 03 January 2024
Great wits are sure to madness near allied, / And thin partitions do their bounds divide.
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:03 ā Thu 04 January 2024
Image Not Shown: Thoughtful sad non-binary person lying on bed at home
Loneliness is about more than the need to belong from Futurity
What should people do if they believe someone in their social circle seems lonely? Try to be warm and supportive to that individual, but in a way that goes beyond hugs. Help them understand they have some control and choice in their lives, Ybarra says.
Hashtags: #Loneliness #Belonging
This reflects some studies that Iāve seen suggesting that people with āpassion projectsā donāt generally feel lonely.
12:06 ā Thu 04 January 2024
The man who is in the highest state of prosperity, and who thinks his fortune is most secure, knows not if it will remain unchanged till the evening.
Hashtags: #Quotes
9:05 ā Fri 05 January 2024
Content Warning: US Politics
Image Not Shown: Biden celebrates passage of the Inflation Reduction Act
Bidenās climate triumph is the new Obamacare for Republicans from Daily Kos
Among their repeal efforts: ā¦homeowner rebates and training for energy-efficient appliances; the $4.5 billion High-Efficiency Electric Home Rebate Program; $200 million in State-Based Home Efficiency Contractor Training Grants; and $1 billion for Technical Assistance for Building Energy Codes.
Hashtags: #InflationReductionAct #USPol
You really only need to know one thing to make sense of politics in the United States: One political party campaigns on the idea that government doesnāt help people, and when people elect them, they try to make that true. Once you see that, just about everythingāexcept why we continue to treat them as a legitimate political partyāfalls into place.
12:05 ā Fri 05 January 2024
In sooth, it is a shame to choose rather to be still borrowing in all places, from everybody, than to work and win.
Hashtags: #Quotes
Bonus
Because it accidentally became a tradition early on in the life of the blog, I drop any additional articles that didnāt fit into the one-article-per-day week, but too weird or important to not mention, here.
Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate from Drew DeVaultās Blog
Prusaās early foothold in the market was strong, and they were wise to execute the way they did early on. But they absolutely had to diversify their lines of business. Prusa left gaping holes in the market and utterly failed to capitalize on any of them.
My original comments, here, started talking about how this idea might explain a lot about the problems with people not paying attention to Free Culture. But then I realized that I had written a few hundred words on the topic. As such, Iāll leave you to check out the interesting story now, but a week from Sunday, expect a full post on the subject.
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