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elle armageddon - neither doomerism or toxicity
@ellearmageddon.bsky.social writes (July 3, 2025): link: > "fwiw, i don’t personally think that either doomerism OR toxic positivity is what this moment calls for; i think what [...]

2022-07-08 notes on social defenses in organizations
Excerpts and notes about [[James Krantz 2010 Social Defenses and 21st Century Organizations]]: - "social systems function as a defense against persecutory and depressive anxiety". - persecutory anxiety: "fear of destruction by external forces"(1). - [...]

Brian Bilston - the last bus
**YOU TOOK THE LAST BUS** you took the last bus home i still don't know how you got it through the door but you're always doing amazing stuff like the time when you caught that train Link:

2013-04-24-You_dont_do_data_entry_on_a_manual_Underwood
Date: 2013-04-24 Matthew Battles has an engaging and informative blog post in the New York Times titled [How Writers Interact With the World](http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/22/how-writers-interact-with-the-world/). The post helped me [...]

2009-12-06-On_unfettered_capitalism
Date posted: 2009-12-06 In a [letter to the New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2009/12/07/091207mama_mail4) on a review of a biography of Ayn Rand, Lisa Turner writes, > "... Capitalism, in its most extreme form, is the mirror image [...]

Wiki Theory and Culture
A place to collect various pages about wiki theory and wiki culture. - [[Link As You Think]] - [[WikiNow]] 2023-06-17: it seems quite odd, to me at least, that these notes on Wiki culture are posted in a folder named "blogPlus". Maybe this is part of [...]

2025-06-19-17 Camus - distinguish melancholy from sadness
A `threads` gem from today: ber9ta : I steal time every morning > "Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and [...]