Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦9h ago
“It turns out that the kinds of #career #pressures familiar to #employees everywhere … can be enough to incentivize lower- and #midlevel #officials to violate #professional #obligations, fundamental #norms and even basic #morality.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/w...

Actually, Democracy Dies in H....
Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.

New research sheds light on how mediocre employees help would-be authoritarians maintain power.

The New York Times
WIST QuotationsApr 24

A quotation from Horace

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none’s so wild,
But may be tame, and may be wisely mild,
If they consult true Vertue’s Rules with care,
And lend to good advice a patient ear.
 
[Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator,
nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit,
si modo culturae patientem commodet aurem.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 “To Maecenas,” l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/78567/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #advice #anger #brutality #character #coarseness #culture #degradation #drunkenness #envy #faults #gluttony #lust #moralcharacter #norms #reform #rehabilitation #selfcontrol #selfimprovement #sloth #society #temperament #vice #virtue #wisdom #wrath

Horace - Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 1 "To Maecenas," l. 38ff (1.1.38-40) (20 BC) [tr. Creech (1684)] | WIST Quotations

The Rash, the Lazy, Lover, none's so wild, But may be tame, and may be wisely mild, If they consult true Vertue's Rules with care, And lend to good advice a patient ear. [Invidus, iracundus, iners, vinosus, amator, nemo adeo ferus est, ut non mitescere possit, si modo culturae patientem…

WIST Quotations
David W. JonesApr 24

The question from the article:

"How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from everyday habits to workplace norms?"

We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story

https://phys.org/news/2026-04-norms-imitation-deceptively-simple-human.html

#science #sociology #norms #social #convention

We think norms spread by imitation, but one deceptively simple rule tells a more human story

A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from everyday habits to workplace norms? Researchers from the CUNY Graduate Center, the University of Pennsylvania, and Stanford University have found that people do not primarily learn by copying others or by calculating the most likely choice. Instead, they follow a two-stage process—sampling behaviors at first, then committing once enough evidence accumulates.

Phys.org
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦Apr 22
I keep thinking about this piece, which is the closest thing I’ve seen to a complete reckoning of the #damage #Trump is inflicting on the #US and the rest of us. I think it’s probably right in identifying the wholesale obliteration of the #norms of #American #democracy as one of the most significant

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dqmsn4cznmbcubnsrzloxkuo/post/3mjzw6bkb422w
Kpop News HubApr 18
Worth Over $8 Billion USD — The Heiress Who Broke Norms And Married Her Own Bodyguard #Billion #Bodyguard #Broke #Heiress #Married #Norms #USD #Worth
https://kpopnewshub.com/worth-over-8-billion-usd-the-heiress-who-broke-norms-and-married-her-own-bodyguard/?fsp_sid=25502
Worth Over $8 Billion USD — The Heiress Who Broke Norms And Married Her Own Bodyguard - KpopNewsHub – Latest K-Pop News, Idols & Korean Entertainment

She was expected to marry someone also rich.

Kpop News Hub
QCCEクリスApr 16

Governments around the globe are trying to establish new norms, protocols and control around cyber-security generally and spec, AI.

Non-Gov actors are biggest players.

"If you're building ICBMs we see you. If you're at a keyboard, we don't."

Who are you more scared of Mass Surveillance vs Hackers policing the internet?

"The gov needs capabilities. If the gov has capabilities, then they're subject to abuse."

#Obama #AI #Norms
#ChatControl
#AgeVerification
#PrivacyMatters

Bwambale Robert MusubahoApr 10

Keeping #girls in school is one way we can break the cultural, religious and traditional #norms that have always undermined #womenempowement and #womenemancipation.

I today took a snapshot with some girl student at Municipal High Humanist School , am happy some lucky ones are listed under the Kasese Humanist Orphans

Sponsor a child with us at:
https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/sponsor-a-needy-child-at-kasese-humanist-school/

With Science, we can progress

Nicole HennigApr 1
What T-Pain can teach us about AI norms descriptapp.substack.com/p/the-t-pain-t… #AI #AutoTune #norms #change

What T-Pain can teach us about...
What T-Pain can teach us about AI norms

+ This week's AI news for creatives, read by a fruit stand owner who loves AI-slop fruit videos.

Fort Human
Nicole HennigApr 1
What T-Pain can teach us about AI norms https://descriptapp.substack.com/p/the-t-pain-trap #AI #AutoTune #norms #change
What T-Pain can teach us about AI norms

+ This week's AI news for creatives, read by a fruit stand owner who loves AI-slop fruit videos.

Fort Human
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 26
Oh, look! The Olympic Committee, in a move shocking absolutely no one, takes a stance straight out of the last century, clinging to #outdated #norms like they’re vinyl records in a Spotify world. 🎶🙄 Meanwhile, #NYT insists on letting you read its content only if you disable that precious ad blocker, because who doesn’t love ads more than #news, right? 📜💰
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/olympics/ioc-transgender-athletes-ban.html #Olympics #AdBlocker #Media #Criticism #HackerNews #ngated
Olympic Committee Bars Transgender Athletes From Women’s Events

The decision is the most significant since Kirsty Coventry was elected last year to serve as president of the I.O.C.

The New York Times