Hello Wilma!
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4731
Thank you @linuxmint for all you do!
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It’s an innately human thing to do. Hope!
Today’s blow your mind philosophical/biological thread of the day!
That is an absolutely bonkers pitch, by the way, and everyone thought you were a showoff, even before the opposable thumbs. When the winter came, and the winter of winters, and the rain was acid and the air was poison on the tender shells of their eggs and choked the children in the shells; when the plants turned to poison, and the ocean turned against you all; when the climate changed, and the world’s children fell to shadow; your internal ocean was it that held true. A bet laid against the changing fates, a bet laid by a small beast against climate and geography and the forces of outer space, that you won. The dinosaurs fell and the pterosaurs fell and the marine reptiles dwindled, and you, furthest-child, least-looked-for, long-range-spaceship, held hope internally at 37.5 degrees. Which is another thing that humans do, sometimes.
— elodieunderglass on Tumblr
https://dduane.tumblr.com/post/756925146317602816/gallusrostromegalus-derinthescarletpescatarian
I learn so much thanks to @dianeduane!
#Biology #Philosophy #Hope #Life
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112845803442176796
#biology, #philosophy, #hope, #life
#TIL that #KoboUtilities lets me store and restore reading progress to #Calibre
and here I was manually keeping track, all these years 😂
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=215339
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#til, #KoboUtilities, #calibre
Today’s #earworm …
All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world
#mjbMusic #TearsForFears #EverybodyWantsToRuleTheWorld
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#earworm, #mjbmusic, #tearsforfears, #EverybodyWantsToRuleTheWorld
Drucker’s subsequent description of the insensate labor of unskilled men in factories draws almost entirely from Taylor’s portrait of them—and accordingly condescends to their abilities to plan and organize work. In actual fact, it wasn’t so. Before Taylor, work was already organized by teams of factory workers, who in large part had control over how they worked. The knowledge they applied to work was largely “tacit” in nature, agreed upon among workers themselves rather than “explicit” (to borrow a famous definition from the sociologist Michael Polanyi). What Taylor sought in particular—indeed, what constituted his signal obsession—was to extract this tacit knowledge and install it in another set of people, the “industrial engineers.” Drucker called them “the prototype of all modern ‘knowledge workers’”—a plausible assumption but one that excised the tremendous amount of knowledge that already existed in the work process.
it’s even better to acknowledge that there never were any knowledge workers.
There have only ever been workers
— @aworkinglibrary
https://aworkinglibrary.com/writing/knowledge-workers
(as someone who began his work life on the factory floor, cleaning CNC machines, and have slowly moved along the spectrum of work to now doing devops, I’ve experienced every single inch of the journey above. )
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112794289198355889
Echoing Howard Marks’ mental model of second-order thinking,
“We create technologies, but we don’t know, where and how they will be affected”
— @kushal
(and what harmful consequences they might bring — me)
https://youtu.be/p_Vx3gDHeUI?t=1790
Original: https://toots.dgplug.org/@jason/112790326221228308
“Physical matter is music solidified” - Pythagoras
Above is the harmonic series
Below a photographic x-ray of a sea shell🐚
— didanawisgi on Tumblr
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do it scared
do it stupid
do it alone etc etc
*but*
***don’t do it hungry.***
eat a snack first!
— hummingbirdsaltimolockia, on tumblr
https://hummingbirdsaltimolockia.tumblr.com/post/753312313404276736/do-it-scared-do-it-stupid-do-it-alone-etc-etc-but
#NoteToSelf #PutYourOxygenMaskOnFirst
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#notetoself, #PutYourOxygenMaskOnFirst
“
“how did you get into writing”
girl nobody gets into writing.
writing shows up one day at your door and gets into you
”
— sourdough-seal on tumblr
https://sourdough-seal.tumblr.com/post/733549479619395584/how-did-you-get-into-writing-girl-nobody-gets
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Fantasy needs to be grounded. It is not simply a license to do anything you like. Smaug and Toothless may both be dragons, but they should never be confused. Ignore canon, and the world you’ve created comes apart like tissue paper.
— GRRM on writing (dragons)
https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2024/07/11/here-there-be-dragons-2/
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