For the nth year in a row, I was on the kickoff panel for a workshop at MIT for women/NB PhD students and postdocs planning to go into academia.
It’s on work-life balance, and I think they keep inviting me back because I say things like, “Every to-do list is, ultimately, about death.”
Quoting my friend @clive’s wonderful piece about the allure, shame, and hidden truths of time-management and to-do list apps:
https://www.wired.com/story/to-do-apps-failed-productivity-tools/
#RightToRepair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than #apple whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage repair while claiming to be a caring environmental steward, a lie that covers up the mountains of #ewaste that Apple dooms our descendants to wade through.
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/22/vin-locking/#thought-differently
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Det er jo på tide at noen må ta ansvar for denne suppa snart. Hvordan kan vi forsvare å blø penger og ansatte ut av helsevesenet på denne måten?
Det står ikke så mye om hvorfor Bane NOR ikke klarer å elektrifisere #Meråkerbanen i tide.
Men enig med #SJ Norge-sjefen:
> – Vi kan ikke akseptere denne utsettelsen. Det må bli ferdig til ski-VM. Arbeidet må intensiveres. Her må #samferdselsministeren på banen og sørge for at Bane Nor har ressursene til å gjennomføre prosjektene. Det er min utfordring til Jon-Ivar #Nygård, sier hun.
Deb Chachra
B. C. Harper 
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Iris van Rooij 💭
Dan Hon
Cory Doctorow
Atle 🧇🧅
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