The Richest School Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Properly
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This story from Vice about Harvard shows the sad state of affairs across the working world in North America. Harvard is doing the “great service” for it’s student workers of showing them resources to help them pay for things, like food. They want to be congratulated for this, while we look the other way as…
Canadian Government Sinks More Money into Propping Up Fossil Fuels and Planes
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Sigh…so it appears that the current federal budget has money earmarked for “making improvements to air travel”. They have $1.8 billion dollars devoted to this nebulous “improvement” campaign, specifically to improve security screening. Most of us know that the pain we go through at airport security is useless. It does almost nothing to keep flying…
Control Sonos from Fedora
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For a while now I’ve controlled my Sonos system via AirPlay from any one of my Apple devices. But with a Fedora Framework laptop in my house, I needed to find a new way to send audio to the speakers without needing AirPlay. Unfortunately, Sonos doesn’t make an official Linux app, but open source to…
PKM Weekly March 26 2023 – Issue 062
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Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. This issue was sponsored by Reflect.app. Reflect is a note-taking app that mirrors the way your brain works through networked notes. It has a GPT-4 AI assistant that lets you save your…
What Does it Take for Us To Rethink Our Most Closely Held Ideas
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Today we look at why it’s hard to rethink our closely held ideas, and how to engage in the work needed to start thinking more critically about them. If you want to read this whole post become a member. Members get all my courses included..
How to Access Synology in Fedoras Terminal
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I had to move a bunch of files over from macOS to my Framework laptop, including a bunch of node stuff that just wasn’t copying via the standard file browser in Fedora 37. This means I turned to rsync which will just work to copy any amount of files, and can resume itself. Where is…
Publish from Obsidian to WordPress
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Back in early 2022 I covered an Obsidian plugin that let you publish to WordPress and at the time I wasn’t all that impressed. It felt hard to use, didn’t remember your password, and really didn’t save any time. Since then I had it on my list to write a better plugin that took advantage…
PKM Weekly March 19 2023 – Issue 061
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Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. If you get value out of this newsletter consider supporting it by becoming a member. You can either get my weekly thoughts or all my courses and my weekly thoughts. You could…
Excellent Look at why TikTok Bans are Economic not Privacy Related
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From Paris Marx Since the dawn of the internet era, the United States has been pushing the line that every company needed to allow unfettered access to the web, or else they were violating the rights of their citizens. Any country that dared limit access to the web was chastised for their supposedly authoritarian actions.…
Owning Books is Resistance
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In today’s member post we talk about owning books as an act of resistance to censorship. Specifically physical books. If you want to read the whole post become a member. Members also get my courses..