Karolina Kriechbaum

“Within groups, selfish individuals beat altruistic individuals, but groups of altruists beat groups of selfish individuals." – E.O. Wilson

If you feel unproductive or ineffective at work, consider this:

"Human beings are projects of mutual creation. Most of the work we do is on one another." – David Graeber @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

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It’s easy to think of backlash as a sign of failure. That the thing we believed in didn’t stick, that people lost interest. But maybe that’s the wrong lens. Maybe backlash is actually proof that something mattered. If it was irrelevant, no one would bother pushing back.

4/10

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

It costs a lot less to house people.

Myth #2:
Markets always produce the best outcomes

Reality:
Markets miss what can't be priced

Implication:
Without boundaries, the invisible hand destroys the commons

1970s: “We went to the moon.”
2020s: “Your fridge wants to charge you $9.99/month to keep cooling.”

Every social network has its own language. Bluesky is somewhere between hacker manifesto and wine mom shitpost.

Progress is the story we tell to explain why the side effects were worth it.

"I'm sure you understand what prehistory is. It's rather like prewater, and you all know what that is, don't you? Prewater is the stuff fish lived in before there was water, and prehistory is the period people lived in before there was history."
– #DanielQuinn, The Story of B

👀 #TheDawnofEverything

I think what we're witnessing are the effects of long-term short-term thinking.

"At a moment when the capitalists’ collective refusal to even consider rethinking any of their basic assumptions about the world might well mean not just the death of capitalism, but of almost everything else, our only real choice is do it ourselves – to begin to create a new language & a new common sense, about what people basically are and what it is reasonable for them to expect from the world, and from each other." . - David Graeber

From, Revolutions in Reverse
Book by David Graeber

In other words: "The Buddha wasn't a Buddhist"

"The really problematic pronouns are I, ME, and MINE." – Jon Kabat-Zinn

Just read about the "Orphan Crushing Machine" theory and it perfectly describes everything wrong with society.

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphan-...

What divides us now is not our political views, but our ethical beliefs.

This one is doing the rounds. It’s correct.

Another one for my Tsundoku pile? 🤩

“We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology.” – E.O. Wilson

Homeland Security veteran Dan O'Connor explains how our first world luxuries come at the expense of those at the "bottom of the totem pole," and how this insulation ultimately makes us "at the top" more vulnerable to potential disruptions.

A photo of a corner of a piece from the Big Issue magazine, the main quote is from David Graeber and says "what if,in stead of telling a story about how our species fell from some idyllic state of equality, we ask how we came to be so trapped in such tight conceptual shackles that we can no longer even imagine the possibility of reinventing ourselves?"

Good to start the day with a bit of @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social

Close-up of a birch tree trunk with peeling bark that looks like a face. Sunlight filters through the gaps in the bark, creating a glowing effect, with a blurred forest background.

Resting birch face

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Planet Definitions xkcd.com/3063

Vuxnas fantasi har så oförtjänt dåligt rykte. Vi sitter bokstavligen i ett kalt kontorslandskap och hallucinerar fram hela företag

Bra fråga.

All three work fine in Sweden right now 🌟

I just want a kinder world than this.

Eller jordmånen!

Förvirrande! Hur ska man då kunna skilja mellan en jordgubbe och en jordgubbe?

Oddly satisfying to play around with a maninthedark.com