Affirmation of the self directly reduces the threat experienced when receiving difficult information -- this has been documented in psych for a long time and found across a lot of domains (tolerating negative health information, info about racial disparity and inequity, behavioral planning for unpleasant tasks, etc).
Buried in the jargon in this area is empirical validation of the simple insight that most of us believe: insecure people can't tolerate difficult-but-true information as well
Pourquoi j'aime Wikipedia:
A l'assertion :
[Averell Dalton a]...parfois des éclairs de génie.
Il est noté :
"Ce passage nécessite une référence..."
#PALESTINE IS BENG GLOBALIZED.
⚡️🇵🇸🇮🇱JUST IN: Tracked, and Targeted: Gaza under total surveillance
Israel’s aggression on Gaza is run not only with bombs and tanks, but through a vast surveillance regime.
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#DigitalApartheid
#Gaza #Yemen
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What I learned in the past four days, having @tbernard at my place:
- fractional scaling is
awfulbullshit - most of the work related to grants is unpaid
- FOSS people should sleep more
ZATAZ » North Korean IT workers inside US government contracts
Sentenced to 15 months in prison, 40-year-old Minh Phuong Ngoc Vong allowed North Korean IT workers to use his identity to secure software development rolesBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Swedish mining is commonly presented as environmentally and socially benign. That's some joke. That's some joke. Benign mining? Hah hah
"The mining plans are a sign that history is repeating itself, another reindeer herder tells me. It is important to resist “for myself and for my children and everyone who comes after us who wants to live the life that I have lived”.
theconversation.com/swedens-mi…
There's a reason we're wiping out life on earth, including our own.
Sweden’s mining industry is threatening the Indigenous Sami people’s way of life
The Indigenous Sami in the far north of Sweden say intensive industrial projects pose risks to their way of life.The Conversation
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Gerry, I am sure that you don't mean that there is reasoning in our stupid human following on self extinction pathways?
Surely you mean that there is no reasoning at all, only mindless obedience coupled with no bravery to imagine a future for all that we have created ourselves?
@darkerknight It feels that way, doesn't it. I think our job now is to imagine what comes after collapse and to prepare for that. To do all we can to protect the good soil, air, water and life that is left.
We are all now gripped in the final death spasm of the Growth Death Cult, although it's ultimate demise may take hundreds of years. Let's try and stop it bring everything down with it.
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Nice article featuring some familiar names. Wonder if they read my thesis as part of the research...
How a 'fertility gap' is fuelling the rise of one-child families - BBC News
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How a 'fertility gap' is fuelling the rise of one-child families
'For every three children wanted… only two are born,' says one expert. So, what has led to this gap?Hazel Shearing (BBC News)
I have been donating to @internetarchive for the past years (10 EUR per month), because it sometimes proves itself to be invaluable at specific times when I need to find information.
Ofcourse, it can go month without me visiting archive.org, but when I do - I find what I need.
We Are Working to Pressure Israel to Withdraw from …
Syrian President Ahmad al-Shar’a affirmed that Syria is cooperating with international powers to pressure Israel to withdraw from the territories it occupiedBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Yo Fedi!
Is there anyone here who uses Backblaze with Linux? Do you use the CLI client and scripts, or a third-party tool from this list at the link? Infodump on me please.
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#backup #backblaze #linux #LinuxBackup
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Wow.
This says *everything* about the German defence debate, really.
For YEARS experts have fretted over public opinion on defence spending and how it would be impossible to justify spending over 1 or 2%. Turns out 35% (!!!!) of Germans think we’re already spending OVER 5 % of GDP. WTH.
Source: koerber-stiftung.de/site/asset…
Me está dando una rabia infinita como se está cubriendo el tema de la peste porcina.
En vez de aprovechar para explicar que las macrogranjas de cerdo deberían eliminarse. Por cuestiones de depredación de agua, terreno y emisiones de C02, por compasión hacia los animales, por salud humana...
Solo se habla de las cifras que van a perder los magnates del cerdo.
Sí. Una cosa que echo de menos en la forma que se informa actualmente es el hecho innegable que tienes que buscar por tu cuenta las posibles causas.
Ahora solo se da la noticia y se enumeran las medidas cortoplacistas para resolver sus consecuencias. Para nada se plantea (contadas excepciones de medios imparciales) soluciones al origen del problema.
Si la solución del problema afecta a beneficios económicos (también cortoplacistas) ya ni te cuento.
Lo cual lleva a una conclusión realmente triste: si un problema no lleva aparejado consecuencias negativas en lo económico, no es un problema. Si una solución acarrea pérdida de beneficios de unos pocos (a corto plazo) no es una solución.
Pero es que las consecuencias económicas derivadas de las macrogranjas también son economía.
Es decir, las consecuencias por cambio climático, la degradación de suelo para agricultores, los problemas de salud para la población...
Pero parece que solo llamamos economía a la pérdida de beneficios futuros de ciertos megarricos, en vez de la pérdida real de dinero de millones de personas diversas.
#PennedPossibilities 866 — Do any of your characters use medical or assistive devices (including glasses)?
Sidren, the MC of Dragon Prey, uses a staff. She has a club foot and can't really get around well without her staff.
This doesn't slow her down one bit. She's a healer forced to watch her clan dwindle under the attacks of the firebeasts. Then, one dreadful day, she ends up face to face with a beast - a turning point.
Dragon Prey, Cloud Lands Beginnings 1
Ancient Greece to Turner v Constable: Seven of the greatest rivalries in art history
There is an art to rivalry. Mastering its rules has, since ancient times, shaped cultural history over millennia.
By Kelly Grovier
bbc.co.uk/culture/article/2025…
Art History at PG:
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Nicolai von Neudeck
in reply to Cat Hicks • • •Cat Hicks
in reply to Nicolai von Neudeck • • •David Sherman and Geoffrey Cohen's work on this is a great starting place.
Handbook: labs.psych.ucsb.edu/sherman/da…
Cohen has some really simple reflection exercises: geoffreylcohen.com/surveys-and…
His book covers this topic too: wwnorton.com/books/97813240061…
Belonging
wwnorton.comNicolai von Neudeck
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in reply to Cat Hicks • • •Cat Hicks
in reply to Nicolai von Neudeck • • •that's not my area so I can't really speak from the evidence on it or give a universal rule. I'm not a therapist nor a researcher with that population specifically.
But context: self-affirmation theory was developed by Claude Steele who worked directly on racism experienced by Black students so if the question here is "has this been developed & tested with complex adversity in mind" I think the answer is definitely. Many resources for ND populations emphasize very similar themes.
Cat Hicks
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Cat Hicks
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