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"text": "Over on fs.blog, an article discussing how Efficiency is the Enemy. It\u2019s got some solid observations, mostly gleaned from a book on the subject by Tom DeMarco called Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency. For instance:\n\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s possible to make an organization more efficient without making it better. That\u2019s what happens when you drive out slack. It\u2019s also possible to make an organization a little less efficient and improve it enormously. In order to do that, you need to reintroduce enough slack to allow the organization to breathe, reinvent itself, and make necessary change.\nTom DeMarco\n\n\n\n\nThere\u2019s been some articles already that talk about the idea of leaving room for flexibility and inspiration in creative endeavors, but I do think it applies to other kinds of work as well. The urge for \u201cefficiency\u201d I feel like is driven by the same Puritan-work-ethic mentality that loads up children with hours of homework every night \u2013 namely, that idleness is inherently wasteful, rather than an essential part of healthy productivity and learning.",
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I'm partway through watching this and the tears are flowing. War is ghastly, doubly-so when it's so outrageously one-sided. No Ukrainian asked for this. The world stands united on their side, against Putin and his sick regime.
twitter.com/abc2020/status…
NOW STREAMING: ‘Putin’s War: The Battle To Save Ukraine’ a special edition of #ABC2020, anchored by @DavidMuir with reports from around the region.
Watch on Hulu:...
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After listening to this episode, I can't help but feel the shadow of Christian extremism looming over the war in Ukraine. After all, we've already seen the Trumpism playbook at work here at home. Guess where he got it from? (Hint: rhymes with lootin'!)
In THE WILEYMAN, we begin with a throwback to the Cold War of the 1970s and quickly arrive at the war today instigated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. #LateGreatPlanet...
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I just posted an album to itch, at fluffy.itch.io/novembeat-2021
The neat thing about this is that this is also the first public, end-to-end test of pyBlamscamp! See github.com/fluffy-critter… for more information.
Thanks to @suricrasia for the inspiration and original web player. :)
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So ep 2 of Diabolical—the Justin Roiland one—is essentially a Quentin Tarantino-inspired adaption of Ursula Le Guin’s The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas.
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Hello interwebs! If you're new here, I typically post observations about Ruby & web development topics…
…and politics
…and movies
…and art
…and religion
…and philosophy
OK, clearly I don't know how to run a successful Twitter account. 😜
Anyhoo…hello there!! 👋
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The main people involved in my medical decisions seem to be: my spouse‘s employer, my insurance company‘s pre-authorization board, and their pharmacy benefit manager. My doctor just files paperwork for the above.
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"text": "People who should be involved in your medical decisions:\n\u2705 you\n\u2705 your doctor\nPeople who shouldn't:\n\u274c your politician\n\nMake sense?"
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"text": "a worse thing is that people make such censorship so easy by congregating on one domain."
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"text": "Facebook being banned by a country is a bad thing. Full stop."
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A message to the To the European Federation of Psychological Associations that was posted as a copy to an email Listserv
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Please do not paint all Russians with Stains of Putin Paint
To the psychologists of Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, and Es…lnkd.in/euxBJUQE
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"text": "thanks to the @plutopia gang for lively conversations last night. i hope we can meet again in person soon. youtube.com/watch?v=LJLe4q\u2026",
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Much appreciation to @danweissmann who just got a novel-length follow-up email from me about copay accumulator adjustor rules 😂 If you aren't listening to @armandalegshow, you should be. Practical, well-produced radio on American health care costs.
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So…much…misinformation …!
I was searching for a summary on ENS and came across an article with this preamble. Pffff! DNS *predates* the WWW and it supported human readable names from the very beginning!
Get your facts straight, people! 🤪
The only way the open web will ever lose is by letting non-web tech cynically co-opt its brand and its purpose. We must stand firm against the callous misinformation camp...
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