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Report: Rams, QB Matthew Stafford agree to one-year, $55 million contract extension https://www.nfl.com/news/report-rams-qb-matthew-stafford-agree-to-one-year-55-million-contract-extension

The first record of the parable commonly known as the "Blind Men and the Elephant" showed up around 2500 years ago, in a Buddhist text from India. At this point it's pretty commonly known. I assume that most folks reading this will be familiar with some variation of it.
If not, it's essentially a story about people who have limited information making assertions about something: one man grabs a tail and says, "it's like a rope," another the trunk and says, "it's like a snake," a third the leg saying, "it's like a tree," and so on. Later variations are less kind to the men, having them not simply report their findings, but fight over them. The first English translation draws a parallel to religion.
This comes to mind for me, because social media has a tendency to incentivize us to make those hard assertions, to dig in, to argue our perspective as part of a spectacle. Free and federated social media isn't structurally that different from corporate media, so the incentive models built to maximize engagement by maximizing conflict tend to leak through the similarities in the user experience and the conditioning of other platforms.
I didn't really come here to critique the fediverse, but rather to remind everyone, "no one sees the whole fucking elephant." We are limited and there are necessarily some things so big they will never be individually comprehensible. Any system that relies on us all agreeing cannot possibly respond to those big things.
We can see that concretely if we look at the difference between "democratic unity" and "diversity of tactics." In the first model, everyone either agrees or gets forced to behave as though they agree (at least on some issues). That's how liberal democracy works. Diversity of tactics (which systematically described, for example, in the "St Paul Principles"), on the other hand, let's people align on goals without needing to agree on exactly how to achieve them. The reality being that often there are multiple "correct" paths, and sometimes those paths can only work if multiple paths are taken in unison.
No one sees the whole elephant. We won't even see the elephant later. People will still be arguing about the elephant long after it's gone. But if you want to get rid of the elephant, you're gonna need to accept that you can't comprehend it all and you're gonna have to figure out a way to work together that doesn't require a unified approach.

@… Haven’t gotten that far in the post yet, so I won’t comment on your exclusion of AP yet, just to note that I agree with what you want to build, and I have a PDX local friend who is a film buff and has been working on a Letterboxd replacement on and off over the years.
I really hope something comes to fruition. I just want to log how I feel about things I sa…

At Cornell University in upstate New York, researchers are testing how a deep geothermal system can work
far from the tectonic boundaries and volcanoes that have long defined where distributing their energy is even viable.  
By tapping into the planet's internal warmth, the project, known as
"Earth Source Heat",
could supply the 2,300-acre
(931-hectare) campus in Ithaca with fossil fuel-free heat to help the university become carbon neutral by 2035.…

How geothermal energy could power US homes
Advancements in geothermal systems and sustained political support in the US provide an opportunity for this clean energy industry to scale.

A dozen memes (in a thread) of the foreign policy moment: capitulation, surrender, losing the war.
🧵 1 of 3
#USpol #Iran #kegseth

So, serious talk: I completely understand why a Steam Machine would be desirable. Even with having all of the parts on-hand, there's still rough patches that aren't really gonna fly with most people. Still have to acquire the hardware (and GPU/RAM/storage aren't cheap), get it assembled (not too difficult, but difficulty increases as you try to stuff more components into less space), and then get "SteamOS" installed (let's be honest, this is Bazzite 99% of the tim…

So Microsoft have a new server OS eh?
Azure Linux
https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux

GitHub - microsoft/azurelinux: General purpose Linux OS for Azure
General purpose Linux OS for Azure. Contribute to microsoft/azurelinux development by creating an account on GitHub.

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

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break the cycle of bad leadership,
and navigate the changing demands of those in power
and the evolving expectations people have of their workplace.
Based on Amanda Litman’s experience as a founder and executive (and mom of two who’s trying desperately to have a life outside of work),
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When We're in Charge (Paperback)
Featured on Forbes, Morning Joe, Teen Vogue, Pod Save America , and more From Amanda Litman, cofounder of Run for Something, “a refreshingly candid,…

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…