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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-12-19 at 03:12

"This radicalized population erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, leading to one of the largest mass movements we had seen in our lifetimes, too. The intertwined nature of racial capitalism was newly visible, as people stuck at home began connecting the dots between our insatiable economy and the death drive of whiteness itself. Our country was rotten to the core, and we finally went outside to join with others and do something about it."

… and more worthy excerpts— a very good piece.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-12-19 at 03:04

Powerful article on the social vs biological "ends" of #COVID

”Denial is a powerful force, the engine of the cognitive dissonance that we see in the CVS ad campaign. By denying the value of human life, the millions of Covid deaths, and the new disability running rampant through our populations, we are able to manufacture the social end of a pandemic even in the midst of its biological peaks…”

https://emilysdupree.substack.com/p/manufacturing-the-end-of-a-pandemic

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-12-04 at 03:56

The quoted sentence is an example of what it describes. Replace enough of those words or move them around, and the meaning they convey together disappears!

https://mastodon.social/@RuthMalan/113588953985686673

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-11-21 at 20:18

Q: Why Software Is Heating the World

A: AI

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-11-15 at 00:58

It has been years since Twitter fell. Twitter had been struggling to find a better future for a long time before that.

Then a sometimes-main-character billionaire swooped in, thinking, “What if I could be the main character, all the time?” $44B later, the psychopath pulled off Twitter’s wings and watched it scurry, flightless and confused.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-11-15 at 00:57

If someone is angry that Mastodon is losing out to Bluesky, they probably expected it to be something it isn’t.

I’ll explain what I mean, but first some background… (1/x)

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-10-14 at 19:26

Today in bad ideas: opening a chicken-based restaurant called Marco Pollo

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-10-09 at 02:37

Whatever happened to the sad trombone? I miss that.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-09-19 at 16:51

The world is a big, complex, ever changing place. Rarely is it about "winning." More often it is about "thriving." When I encounter competition language, I pause to consider whether the goal is to have exclusive rights. Whatever is being framed as contested, is it actually something that if we had it then others wouldn't?

I would prefer to grow a market rather than to fight for market share, myself.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-09-19 at 16:44

Competition culture is so pervasive and seeps into our language. Phrases like "SWAT Team" (or Tiger Team) or "War Room" escalate tensions. Do you really need to invoke heavily armed life-or-death stakes?

Sports metaphors similarly take a winner-take-all view. This frames the situation as power-over. That removes the opportunity to take a power-with stance. While there are times where it may make sense, often it is simply our language default.

https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/113162490585764644

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-06-18 at 01:35

Douglas Adams would be proud.

https://mastodon.social/@round/112632824757781570

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-06-04 at 17:24

Why is it called "digital detox" and not an "enshittivacation"?

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-05-17 at 18:08

@rklau To say a bit more:

[#]1 removed uncertainty (Will I actually qualify? How much work will it take?) and also completely removed the burden of filing and chasing that paperwork.

[#]2 I'm not knowledgeable enough to make an informed judgment when researching and choosing an installer. Plus, I've been burned enough by "add-on work" to be wary. Onsemble brokered the relationship and then acted like a mediator to ensure that both parties worked better together and that my expectations were met.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-05-17 at 18:00

Like @rklau, I also replaced our gas water heater with a heat pump in March. Two game-changing aspects about Onsemble:

1. They front the incentives, meaning the out-of-pocket costs are built-in to the job.

2. They are outcome-oriented, meaning they mediate the relationship with the plumber/electrician.

https://sfba.social/@rklau/112457436479907716

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-05-15 at 17:41

One way to explain platform engineering is as "official" glue work, where official means that the business value has been well-articulated.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-05-07 at 15:21

Spoiler: both are driven by a crisis of leadership that feels out of control plus the idea that leadership has to look like leading.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-05-07 at 15:17

How quickly we went from "We're data driven" to "AI in everything".

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-05-01 at 20:23

I wish I could have pursued a degree in analogy & metaphor. That might have opened a door for me.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-02-11 at 00:28

While I'd like to see other social networks copy this feature, I don't expect that to happen given the trickiness of mapping it to core metrics.

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Written by Marsh Gardiner 🌱🐝 on 2024-02-11 at 00:12

One of my favorite features of Mastodon is the private note you can leave for yourself about any user on their profile page. I find it useful to remind future me why I chose to follow someone.

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