King Charles III #Coronation party in Sheffield @ Peace Garden. 👑
Ivan Atmanagara
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Policy analyst and PhD researcher @InfoSchoolSheff @sheffielduni. Intersection of digital techs, organisations & society. All Toots are my own.
https://medium.com/@making.ivan
“Whenever you notice a take, an article, a statement that rubs you the wrong way and is also gender-based, try switching the genders and see if the premise holds up. Would it still make sense?”
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlyharrington/p/can-women-really-have-it-all-implies?r=1v8r5e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
https://open.substack.com/pub/kimberlyharrington/p/can-women-really-have-it-all-implies?r=1v8r5e&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane — Marcus Aurelius
Winter is the time to slow down. https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/dec/30/dark-days-are-a-time-to-replenish-how-to-walk-well-in-winter?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Lars E. F. JohannessenTHE PROBLEM OF EXCESS
Social theory is full of quirky, thought-provoking essays. A good example of this genre is Andrew Abbott's "The problem of excess", which sees him adopt one of his many heuristics - making a reversal (2004: 121) - to argue that "the central problematic of human affairs is not dealing with scarcity, but dealing with excess" (2014:1): https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0735275114523419
(For more on Abbott's heuristics, see Methods of Discovery (2004))
The #Ukrainian conflict has been a war over language and identity. Ukraine’s libraries are the key since one of Russia's agenda is to erase Ukrainian people sense of identity. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/dec/04/our-mission-is-crucial-meet-the-warrior-librarians-of-ukraine
‘Our mission is crucial’: meet the warrior librarians of Ukraine
When Russia invaded Ukraine, a key part of its strategy was to destroy historic libraries in order to eradicate the Ukrainians’ sense of identity. But Putin hadn’t counted on the unbreakable spirit of the country’s librarians
#ChatGPT by OPENai is all the rage now and it’s not even the full version that was released. Will this finally replace translator, copywriter, blogger profession? https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpts-most-charming-trick-hides-its-biggest-flaw/
