No Merit

No merit. Vast emptiness; nothing holy. I don't know.

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Opposite People by Fela Kuti on Apple Music

Album · 1977 · 2 Songs

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More and more, it appears our victory-lap attitude about the pandemic’s end may look like George Bush on an aircraft carrier waving a “mission accomplished” banner.

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Infrastructure Bill by Todd Walker

The real infrastructure improvement we urgently need today is ending right wing hate in America.

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Behavioral Scientist’s Summer Book List 2021 - By Antonia Violante & Heather Graci Behavioral Scientist

Summer isn’t the same without a good reading list. Here are our behavioral science picks for summer 2021.

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This is the Awful Voice Inside My Head

On employee intimidation.

“Culture fit is really a way that power reproduces and sustains itself in an organization and silences any dissent.”

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https://www.lionsroar.com/erased-no-more/

Erased No More

After years of painful struggle to fit in, Yenkuei Chuang decides to stand up for her identity, her anger, and the heritage of Asian America

First-person experience with issues that divide “immigrant” and “convert” Buddhist sanghas in the West.

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We need to rethink power - Tortoise

Old ideas of top-down and bottom-up are no longer fit for purpose. The time has come (again) for an even older idea: interdependence

“if you ask the more interesting question of “What’s the opposite of winning and losing?” nine out of ten of us will say something like, “I don’t know, sitting it out, not playing.”

“One in ten of us says “Playing,” or being or loving or laughing or learning or any of the other things we enjoy every day that aren’t strictly winning and losing. The things we value most in life – marriage, careers, friendship, parenting – these are things you cannot win.”

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スター・ウォーズだるま発売決定！ | エンスカイNEWS

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Art, Branding, and the Illusion of Authenticity

Emily Segal's "Mercury Retrograde" provides a wickedly sharp depiction of the socioeconomic and cultural conditions of New York's creative c

“in brand strategy presentations it was totally acceptable to generalize, globalize, lob assumptions as truth, casually plagiarize, misconstrue sociological data, and worse, as long as it was persuasive and narratively coherent.” Emily characteristically sees this as fodder for her art: “It was the feeling I’d always yearned for when I’d tried to write fiction.”…

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A provocative and irresistable argument that the need to “work for a living” is not a natural order but rather an invention—and one that can

“This is a really neat little trick, when you see it clearly. Faced with growing demands to make work more dignified, company owners made the dignity of the worker contingent on doing a good job. By tying the worker’s identity to the work, they undercut any assertion that the work itself was meaningless or poor—because doing so would just reflect back on the worker’s own conception of themselves.”

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Can Loki Overcome the MCU’s Comics Problem?

The big comics houses, Marvel and DC, have been going for the better part of a century, and through it all, they’ve kept a large portion of

"There have been on-going tales for the Avengers, and the Justice League, and all their adjacent friends for decades. So how do you keep these stories fresh and interesting while moving these beloved characters forward?

"Here’s the problem: You don’t."