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Is Facebook evil? Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason — Quartz
Is Facebook evil? Everything bad about Facebook is bad for the same reason — Quartz
Without question, Facebook enables brutal and immoral hatemongers. I can hear Facebook arguing that they cannot possibly take a stand on moral issues without becoming censors and losing objectivity. Facebook cannot make those decisions without messing up a lot of the time. I agree. Its scale is just too massive.
That’s just the thing: Facebook can’t admit it, but it’s possible that the most moral thing is for Facebook not to exist.
In a country that slew indigenous people and was built on slave labor, White Nationalism is always also White Supremacy.
273.16 degrees of Kelvin Bacon is so close to being a good joke.
Seven Books I Have Loved
I can’t say ‘favorite’ because these are basically the earliest books I loved, or the latest books I have loved.
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- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
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- A Field Guide to Ecology of Eastern Forests; North America by John C. Kricher and Gordon Morrison
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- How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo
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- Beloved by Toni Morrison
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- Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
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- A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
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- How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker
My ego is like a Cable News pundit telling me how to think and feel about everything that happens, and meditation is like turning off the TV and seeing life myself.
How’s it going? - BrettTerpstra.com →
Hey buddy, how you doing? I’m good, thanks for asking. You don’t seem good. What’s going on?I deeply appreciate when writers share how they’re really doing.
Since the time my firstborn was very little it’s always been clear he’s going to roll his own bowling ball and all I can ever hope to do is put bumpers in the right gutters.
Oscar Romero, May 11, 1973
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know that we only preach the subversive witness of the Beatitudes, which have turned everything upside down to proclaim blessed the poor, blessed the thirsting for justice, blessed the suffering.