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Stoic wisdom:

“Wealth consists not in having many possessions, but in having few wants.”

— Epictetus

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves too much, who is poor.”

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realize how unnecessary many things are. We've been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”

— Seneca

Want to read more?

https://gurwinder.substack.com/p/stoicism-the-ancient-remedy-to-the

#quote #quotes #quotetoot #wisdom #philosophy #thought #thoughts #stoic

Check out the intro to editing video with #Kdenlive talk by @klaatu at @fedora Creative Freedom Summit in case you missed it.

https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/w/vonS1XJhMw1KSEDU2Udw56

Unions yes, please! And also, hopefully, alternative approaches? Collectives. Collaboratives. Networks. New business models, built for mutual aid rather than shareholder profit or VC exit strategies. New visions for sustainable jobs, working on sustainable code?

There are many people exploring new path's already, but we need to ensure these are accessible options for more people.

We talk a lot about owning our content on the web, but even better if we can own our livelihoods?

Ooh — Mastodeck!

https://mastodeck.com/

If you used to dig Tweetdeck back in the day, this looks like a pretty promising modern-day equivalent for #mastodon.

Really cool to see!

So yeah: some of #GNOME 44’s bew backgrounds are next-level awesome https://www.omglinux.com/gnome-44-stunning-backgrounds/ #design #linux

Thinking about all the recent layoffs in tech, media, etc., and how so many of the "Nobody wants to work anymore!"/"Where'd the go-getters go?!"/"The rise of 'quiet quitting'" type articles in the past year or so overlooked the effect that the "hey, maybe we'll just lay a bunch of people off because we want to make a little extra cash" culture the business world has fostered might have on, well, everything involving worker morale/sense of loyalty/etc.

Come celebrate Public Domain Day (1927!) with us tonight. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-domain-day-party-in-san-francisco-tickets-477675589547

I'm older so I remember things. Everything you see happening today should be understood this way:

The top tax rate used to be 90% in order to prevent the really rich from destroying democracy.

The corporate tax rate was 50% because corporations exist to serve society.

AND the inheritance tax was really high to keep family dynasties from gaining power over us.

#taxes #democracy

i was laid-off twice early in my career in very large reorgs / cost-cutting.

the thing that wld have been helpful for me to hear then was 'this is not abt you. you were a number on someone's spreadsheet. they wanted that number to go down by 1000 or 2000 or 10,000'.

so, to anyone who needs to hear that today:

it's not abt you. you did nothing wrong.

Are you looking for open source professionals to add to your team? List your jobs on #OSJobHub and get connected to qualified candidates https://opensourcejobhub.com #jobs #career #OpenSource #FOSS #engineer #SoftwareDeveloper #marketing #sales #tech #DevOps #sysadmin #security #Linux

Sometimes on the bird site I would post a thread of photos but that means replying to your own tweets and replies were downgraded by the algorithm and hardly anybody saw them.

Here on Mastodon I can run a thread for two weeks but each post is slotted into the timeline regardless and that's very nice.

#GNOME has always had great, distinct wallpapers, and GNOME 44 is no exception! Here are some of my favorites from the upcoming release.

I am annoyed at how much coverage of these recurring "Big Gorilla lays off around 10.000 people" is basically just a rehash of the company press release, with not a single journalist asking how it's possible that all of these big tech companies made the same exact mistake of hiring too many people, while simultaneously showing record profits.

Like, if a 'rigorous review' finds 12.000 redundancies, why does nobody question leadership about how this was allowed to happen?

Not one critical note.

Bird site senses tingling. I detect another migration. Time for another round of #introductions.

Hi, I’m Kevin, a professional #puppet builder and #maker of fun media. A small sample of my work, feel free to follow and check the Linktree in my bio. #MastoArt #muppets

Julian Assange is a political prisoner.

Over the River Wharfe and through Middleton Wood. A cold, bright winter day but not very photogenic - these are from a morning that was.

Creative Freedom Summit 2023 - 1/17/2023, 4:31:07 PM

https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/videos/watch/0ad2e926-f405-495c-85e5-19fa9ed9aa94