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[victusinveritas]

[victusinveritas]

There's more:

[guerrillatech]

[farewell-mortal-bus-boy]

like to charge reblog to cast

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[depsidase]

[wilwheaton]

Cybertrucks are full of trash, so I am with the raccoons on this one.

[guerrillatech]

A new mode of production arises out of the newly networked masses.

[praeca]

Fanartists:

Thingiverse users:

Royalty free sounds

Flash games

Productivity has always been there

[tim-burton-bitch]

Because shockingly when people enjoy what they do (you make it enjoyable instead of just hammering on them) people WANT to do things!

[rudolphsboyfriend]

Fanfiction authors!!

[fatefulfaerie]

Where is the button to shout this from the rooftop?

[changelingsrule]

[mindblowingscience]

Daycares in Finland Grew Forests, And It Changed Kids' Immune Systems

Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, a

Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to an experiment in Finland. When daycare workers rolled out a lawn, planted forest undergrowth (such as dwarf heather and blueberries), and allowed children to care for crops in planter boxes, the diversity of microbes in the guts and on the skin of the young kids appeared healthier in a very short space of time. Compared to other city kids who play in standard urban daycares with yards of pavement, tile, and gravel, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds at these greened-up daycare centers in Finland showed increased T-cells and other important immune markers in their blood within 28 days.

Continue Reading.

[rejectingrepublicans]

[maaarine]

@hatr @fasterthanlime

[the-real-numbers-deactivated202]

Oh man I hope these services die an awful nasy death

[atotalmess]

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in Skinner boxes

Enshittification is the process by which digital platforms devour themselves: first they dangle goodies in front of end users. Once users are locked in, the goodies are taken away and dangled before business customers who supply goods to the users. Once those business customers are stuck on the platform, the goodies are clawed away and showered on the platform’s shareholders:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/algorithmic-wage-discrimination/#fishers-of-men

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[afieldinengland]

[classicsstudentsunion]

living with classics majors is so great because once I innocuously said "i love soup" expecting nothing in return and without missing a beat my roommate nodded sagely and said "like Dionysus in the Frogs"

[shitacademicswrite]

[jstor]

Thanks for the tag @froginakettle

[depsidase]

[xeansicemane]

One of my favorite genera of posts is "Libertarians realizing that a world without regulation just means that the people with money end up running everything"

I won't shame them, honestly.

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