if you're bored, you're not paying attention
This year I took the kids shopping with me on Christmas Eve. I gave them $60 each: A twenty to buy a present for their mom, a twenty to buy a present for their sibling, and a twenty to buy some stocking stuffers for the other three members of the family.… Story continues … “Santa is real.”
I’m done with Facebook for now, so I am signing off for awhile.
Partly I am annoyed with the company for not taking a stand against the Trump administration and its elected leader’s comments about making lists of Muslims and immigrants.… Story continues … “Signing off Facebook for awhile.”
Jonathan Taplin:
… Story continues … “How Google and Facebook are transferring content revenues to themselves”Since 2000, recorded music revenues in the United States have fallen to $7.2 billion per year from $19.8 billion. Home entertainment video revenue fell to $18 billion in 2014 from $24.2 billion in 2006. United States newspaper ad revenue fell to $23.6 billion in 2013 from $65.8 billion in 2000.
A really insightful essay on why nonviolence plays such an important role at Standing Rock — and how it might work going forward.
… Story continues … “Nonviolence and Standing Rock”“The way we see and treat someone is a powerful invitation for them to be as we see them.
Has it really been 7 years since I relaunched tinywords.com? Time flies. I am no longer editing the journal — that job has been ably taken over by Kathe Palka and Peter Newton — but I continue to maintain the technical side of the site, which is now about 16 years old.… Story continues … “7 years since tinywords relaunched”
This is what I was searching for about not panicking and not overdoing the outrage. (click through to see Quinn’s whole thread)
https://twitter.com/quinnnorton/status/803631403879395328
“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion.… Story continues … “If language is not correct”
Keeping a gratitude diary, or less pretentiously, taking some time out of every day to write down the things you’re thankful for, is an effective way to increase happiness.
And I’d like to suggest one small addition.
In addition to writing down things you’re thankful for (rainbows, puppies, burritos) take some time each day to express your gratitude to a specific person.… Story continues … “Specific gratitude”
This article has inspired me to do a few things more consistently on Facebook:
1. I won’t share any articles I haven’t actually read
2. I won’t like or share memes/statement images unless there’s an article I’ve read attached to them
3.… Story continues … “How Facebook feeds conspiracies and bogus news”
Rise up. (thanks Dave Bonta)