@dariaphoebe@mindly.social2025-10-30 13:05:34
Yesterday you missed Marie’s biscuits, eggs and bacon, tea and coffee. We had an Awesome Foundation meeting last night! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/sfg1n2KCQ3Af5m4GA
@andycarolan@social.lol2025-11-24 11:20:32
An update to my work-from-a-coffee-shop experiment.
I finally got out to a coffee shop with my iPad and Magic Keyboard, and am using this time to respond to emails.
The coffee shop seemed very happy with me buying a coffee and sitting here without restriction. So, that’s what I am doing.
Although they have free Wi-fi here, I am tethering to my phone… feels safer, although I guess I could VPN 🤔
I’m also meeting @… here for lunch, so that will be nice.
Best of all, I can access my NAS remotely, so I have everything I need 😅
#WFH #NotWFH #CoffeeShop
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-10-27 04:40:34
Sixty-five countries sign a UN cybercrime treaty to share data and extradite suspects, despite privacy and security concerns from tech companies and activists (Lien Hoang/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/cybe
@relcfp@mastodon.social2025-11-28 16:06:05
#CFP: NABPR Region-at-Large Call for Papers CTS/NABPR-RAL 2026 Meeting at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, May 28-31, 2026
https://ift.tt/w5ocpRF
NABPR Region-at-Large Call for Papers CTS/NABPR-RAL 2026 Meetin…
@netzschleuder@social.skewed.de2025-12-25 19:00:04
macaques: Japanese macaques (1976)
Dominance interactions among a group of adult female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata fuscata), observed during a non-mating season in 1976. Edge weights represent the frequency of interaction.
This network has 62 nodes and 1187 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Weighted
https://networks.s…
@geant@mstdn.social2025-11-05 10:23:03
5 reasons to submit your idea for #TNC26 Call for Proposals - Part 2
Next June, Helsinki 🇫🇮 will welcome our global R&E community under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish concept of “sisu:” inner strength, perseverance, and determination when things get tough.
In our digital era, sisu is about taking action, meeting challenges with courage, creativity, and collaboration to…
@DieGesellschafterinLang@swiss.social2025-11-12 17:29:51
#GoodNews #GuteNachrichten #Girlpower
Mädchen weinen nicht - Girls Don't Cry
Regie: Sigrid Klausmann, Lina Lužytė
Positive, mutmachende Porträts über 6 junge
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems2025-10-02 19:43:19
"""
[…] Paradoxically, the more a population grew, the more precious it became, as it offered a supply of cheap labour, and by lowering costs allowed a greater expansion of production and trade. In this infinitely open labour market, the ‘fundamental price’, which for Turgot meant a subsistence level for workers, and the price determined by supply and demand ended up as the same thing. A country was all the more commercially competitive for having at its disposal the virtual wealth that a large population represented.
Confinement was therefore a clumsy error, and an economic one at that: there was no sense in trying to suppress poverty by taking it out of the economic circuit and providing for a poor population by charitable means. To do that was merely to hide poverty, and suppress an important section of the population, which was always a given wealth. Rather than helping the poor escape their provisionally indigent situation, charity condemned them to it, and dangerously so, by putting a brake on the labour market in a period of crisis. What was required was to palliate the high cost of products with cheaper labour, and to make up for their scarcity by a new industrial and agricultural effort. The only reasonable remedy was to reinsert the population in the circuit of production, being sure to place labour in areas where manpower was most scarce. The use of paupers, vagabonds, exiles and émigrés of any description was one of the secrets of wealth in the competition between nations. […]
Confinement was to be criticised because of the effects it had on the labour market, but also because like all other traditional forms of charity, it constituted a dangerous form of finance. As had been the case in the Middle Ages, the classical era had constantly attempted to look after the needs of the poor by a system of foundations. This implied that a section of the land capital and revenues were out of circulation. In a definitive manner too, as the concern was to avoid the commercialisation of assistance to the poor, so judicial measures had been taken to ensure that this wealth never went back into circulation. But as time passed, their usefulness diminished: the economic situation changed, and so did the nature of poverty.
«Society does not always have the same needs. The nature and distribution of property, the divisions between the different orders of the people, opinions, customs, the occupations of the majority of the population, the climate itself, diseases and all the other accidents of human life are in constant change. New needs come into being, and old ones disappear.» [Turgot, Encyclopédie]
The definitive character of a foundation was in contradiction with the variable and changing nature of the accidental needs to which it was designed to respond. The wealth that it immobilised was never put back into circulation, but more wealth was to be created as new needs appeared. The result was that the proportion of funds and revenues removed from circulation constantly increased, while that of production fell in consequence. The only possible result was increased poverty, and a need for more foundations. The process could continue indefinitely, and the fear was that one day ‘the ever increasing number of foundations might absorb all private funds and all private property’. When closely examined, classical forms of assistance were a cause of poverty, bringing a progressive immobilisation that was like the slow death of productive wealth:
«If all the men who have ever lived had been given a tomb, sooner or later some of those sterile monuments would have been dug up in order to find land to cultivate, and it would have become necessary to stir the ashes of the dead in order to feed the living.» [Turgot, Lettre Š Trudaine sur le Limousin]
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(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@dariaphoebe@mindly.social2025-10-23 13:15:21
Leftover biscuits with cheddar egg packets and bacon, mine with jalapeño relish, as a sandwich. Tea and coffee. RIPTA board meeting and a local theater season launch today! #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/38Pq3rgHJdRHqyvx8
@dariaphoebe@mindly.social2025-12-16 14:20:09
Pumpkin pancakes (there’s batter left for Thursday) with egg and bacon, tea and coffee. Meeting our mahjongg friend tonight. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/apMkrQJwiHE3Zzf5A