„Angry at the tech CEOs who have benefited from the scientific research that has enabled their technology empires, but have mounted no opposition to the cuts. People like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos are conspicuously silent. We should call them out,”
“A human lifetime is very limited in time and space, compared to the universe.” In a way, it is humbling, but it’s also a relief to know that there’s a larger structure of which we’re a part that is so grand. Our imperfections, our struggles, our travails, when you put them in perspective, they somehow don’t seem so traumatic.”
We’re all emotional animals. And when there’s a crisis—when there’s no time to study the situation for weeks—we have to decide **now**. We react through our understanding and experiences. So yes, that means we’re all idiots, vulnerable to corruption.
That’s why we created **scientific methods**: to overcome the unchangeable parts of our inner selves.
A person who can clearly see and admit they’re corrupted, selfish, and greedy? They can still create techniques to control themselves. When a person clearly sees that they **can’t change anything**, that’s the first step.
I think the most horrible things—what’s happened and what will happen—come from this sickness in our minds. **And it is unchangeable.**
Environment Scientist(Student), I like positivity news, fitness, Olympic lifting, Linux, Fediverse, art, music, books, science, universe, activism.
Science is not media. I try to avoid, and I am not interested in Media politics, Media religion, media marketing, media economics and trades of those medians.
(he,him,his)
As meditating- listening to myself (Krishnamurti).
Memento mori — “Remember that you must die.”
Memento amoris — “Remember love.”
We are concerned with observing the actual facts, the ‘what is’. To observe ‘what is’ very clearly and to see the full significance of those facts, we must look at it without our conditioning. That is where the difficulty is going to lie, because you have opinions, you have values, you approach them as a Hindu, Buddhist, Christian, or what you will, with your nationality, with your peculiar idiosyncrasies, and these prevent you from observing, from looking. Observation is an art. It is not easily learnt. One has observed neither the sunset nor the stars, neither the trees nor the facts, outwardly or inwardly. So, if we are going to travel together – and I hope we will – we have to observe scientifically, ruthlessly and with great intelligence.
From Collected Works, Vol. 14 (krishnamurti)
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift, and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” — Albert Einstein
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Molly White
in reply to Molly White • • •News organizations are increasingly launching newsletters in hopes of building a more direct relationship with readers, as traffic from platforms they once relied on — like social media and Google Search — continues to shrink.
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in reply to Molly White • • •But the explosion in newsletters is overwhelming as a reader. Instead of one paper with a dozen writers, you’ve got a dozen newsletters scattered across your inbox.
What if you could curate your own custom newspaper? All your favorite writers, no spam, no surveillance.
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in reply to Molly White • • •Although I regularly read about “the death of RSS”, RSS is still alive and well, and I’ve been using it for more than a decade. Here’s how you can too.
#RSS
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in reply to Molly White • • •1. Choose an RSS reader. I use Inoreader, but there are a bunch of options out there (free and paid, mobile/web/desktop). Switching between them is pretty easy, so you don’t have to agonize over this too much.
#RSS
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in reply to Molly White • • •2. Add your sites. Try searching for feeds on the newsletters/blogs/websites you read the most (like Citation Needed!) You can even put in YouTube channels, or Mastodon or BlueSky feeds.
If you need ideas, I publish some of my blogroll: mollywhite.net/blogroll/
#RSS
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in reply to Molly White • • •Some websites don’t publish RSS feeds — often paywalled websites or newsletters. Increasingly, RSS readers are incorporating features that allow you to send newsletters to your feed reader via email, and there are also services like Kill the Newsletter that can do this for you.
#RSS
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in reply to Molly White • • •3. Read! As you use RSS more, you can make different “newspapers” for different purposes.
#RSS
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in reply to Molly White • • •And don’t forget to support writers — whose subscription reminders may be less noticeable in RSS feeds. Most newsletters allow you to pay for a subscription but disable email delivery, if you (like me) prefer to read in your RSS reader rather than your email client.
#RSS
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in reply to Molly White • • •RSS offers readers and writers a path away from unreliable, manipulative, and hostile platforms and intermediaries.
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in reply to Molly White • • •Citation Needed has a full-text RSS feed regardless of whether you subscribe, so consider adding it to your feed reader! citationneeded.news/rss/
And consider signing up for a pay-what-you-want subscription to help me continue this work. citationneeded.news/signup/
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in reply to Pete Prodoehl 🍕 • • •So, here's what I've been looking for ever since ditching Opera 12 as e-mail/RSS client:
A local RSS client (easy, most e-mail clients will do, plus a lot of browser extensions) which stores its data on what's been read or not in one handy directory that can be easily synced across all my devices (using e.g. syncthing, which I have going), in such a way that it works on bith Linux and Android.
The beauty of RSS is that no 3rd party needs to know what I'm reading, and having an online RSS aggregator kind of defeats that purpose unless I self-host, which is a fairly high barrier to entry if you ask me. I could deal with it but I'd prefer not to.
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This was a terrific write-up. I read Cory's piece when it was published, and tried a reader. But it would just launch a web browser, which kind of defeats the point of a quick overview without surveillance. I didn't realize that wasn't the way they all worked, until I read your piece. Now I'm running Capy on my LineageOS phone, and it's working beautifully.
I run some servers, and I'm thinking I should have them publish to (a private) RSS feed instead of sending me email.
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in reply to Molly White • • •No, RSS isn’t dead!
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in reply to Molly White • • •a few additions to your great thread.
1) one way I use (though not as much a I would like to) mastodon’s rss feeds is to subscribe to my “bookmarks” feed from my mastodon account in my rss feed. That lets me bookmark anything I find that I want to refer back to later while avoiding the many other posts in my feed less suited for an rss reader
2) I wonder if someone could add a “support your writers” feature to an rss reader that pulls out the support links from your specific feeds
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in reply to Monospace Mentor • • •@monospace hmm, just checked my YouTube channel and it’s still surfacing a feed: youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?c…
could it be an issue with your reader?
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in reply to Molly White • • •Don't need convincing. What I need is a list of reliable, reputable, preferably free RSS readers.
I do live by the reader I have now btw. Why anyone would not use one is beyond me.
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Also a mail/calendar client.
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Vivaldi Feed Reader - Read feeds from the sources you choose
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in reply to Molly White • • •indeed, RSS has its values!
#SimpleOldProtocolsForAStableFuture 😁
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in reply to Molly White • • •If one wants RSS (or Atom) feeds of sites that don't support feeds, they can be created using RSS Bridge. A very customizable way to create notifications about changes on pages. Something for the technically inclined to perhaps host on their own device or for public consumption
rss-bridge.org/
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in reply to Molly White • • •I love the newsletter format. It's not a neverending stream — you read to the bottom of the thing and you're done. I don't like them coming in email, though. Email is for other things. Also, some of my newsletters don't arrive. They get filtered as spam.
RSS is great for news, and I direct my newsletters to an RSS reader when I can. But that often does not work so well.
I wish more newsletter publishers made sure to have RSS feeds for their newsletters.
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in reply to Molly White • • •Is OpenRSS the only RSS provider with issues with Inoreader? I wonder if others have better experience than them (OpenRSS) or if it is specific to OpenRSS.
openrss.org/issue/141
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in reply to Molly White • • •Thank you for writing this, and especially for a general audience! Make RSS a norm again!
@FontsInUse has long provided RSS feeds for many aspects of our site. Not just the Blog and Uses, but also any typeface, designer, foundry, or tag. It’s a great way to get notified on stuff you care about.
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in reply to Obscuredavid • • •very nice to see people getting behind feeds, and finally the journalists are realizing it was a mistake to let others do their distribution.
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in reply to Molly White • • •appologies if this is something that's already come up, but do you know if any readers are looking into integrations with things like webmentions or syndicating shares to the fediverse or similar?
One big thing that makes it harder for me as an artist to go all in on RSS is that community is 90% of what I do. Not just financials either - I rely on critters commenting on my pieces in public. It's both a huge motivator and a big part of why I think my work is valuable.
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