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I’ll just say this: For the very most part, the systems of our society do not reward creators. They reward people who have power over what is created.
A deep part of our society’s mythology is that we reward people with great ideas, people who make great things — and therefore those who are rewarded must somehow be great.
That is false. If you see someone rewarded, the most likely explanation is that they had power to reap rewards.
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„Krone“ in Indien - Bajaj sagt „Ja“ zu KTM, aber der Sparstift kommt #News #Nachrichten

AAR> Indian and Chinese Religions in Dialogue
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Online Workshop: Technology & Society in Japan and Beyond (Fri: Nov 07, 2025) Susanne Brucksch…
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Lawyers who care should run for positions in their respective state bar ethics committees.
We need to hold these people accountable, and make sure they never practice law again.
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60 Attorneys on the Year of Chaos Inside Trump’s Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.

We desperately need to figure out how to flip this: how to lift up the creators of wonderful things, instead of rewarding whoever can acquire power over their creations.
I don’t think we know how to do this. There’s a vast spectrum of schemes for fixing this, ranging from capitalist versions of “intellectual property” to Marxist “just end capitalism” notions to various versions of “easy, society should just be different.” I find them all lacking, both in theory and in practice. This is a problem that’s existed for millennia, not decades, and I’m not convinced we have a clear solution.
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Ich wurde heute angespuckt. Von einem Mann. Der sich danach entschuldigte bei einer Person die er auch getroffen hat. Indem er sagte, dass er ja eigentlich nur mich treffen wollte. Toller Typ.

One of the great shames of my software career is that I have not once but •twice• been a part of a project where I found out only after I was off the project that a male manager or client had been just absolutely, utterly •wretched• to a female teammate.
In both cases, it happened out of my sight. I had no idea what was going on.
I still think to this day about my obliviousness: how I could have found out sooner, what warning signs I missed, what I could have done to stick up for my female colleagues.
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Seminar> Reading the Works of Śāntideva (Online/In-person with Professor Vesna A. Wallace)
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People played the Frozen soundtrack to drown them out
Lang appears to be yelling anti-Muslim phrases on his megaphone, but it’s difficult to hear what he’s actually saying. Dozens of people, including ones from the media, are around him as he stumbles from one side of the street to the other.
Jake Lang trying to hit people with what appears to be a curtain rod
Lang is stuck in a window recess against Minneapolis City Hall. He’s soaked with freezing water after counterprotesters hurled water balloons at him.
Big ups to whoever got Lang with a water gun LMAO
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FYI, the temperature in Minneapolis is about 10°F / -12°C.
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If you’re baffled by the chasm between “How could anyone support this kind of cruelty??” and “Society needs a Strong Father Figure with a firm hand,” well…
…look to who has endured abuse, who has only seen and abhorred abuse but not endured it, who has escaped abuse (and at what personal cost), who’s spent their life rationalizing and accommodating abuse, who is themselves an abuser.
Look at that, then look at what they think of Trump.