https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/evangelical-trump-christians-politics/620469/

Evangelical Christians have been held together more by political orientation and sociology than they have by a common theology. This has set them up for a schism which has been exacerbated by Donald J. Trump, COVID-19, and social changes.

Similar to Kurt's quote, "We go to church to see and be seen", too many churches are focused on entertainment and being an ongoing institution that they aren't focusing on their core mission. This is causing problems in their overall identity.

Time at church and in religious study is limited, but cable news, social media, and other distractions are always on and end up winning out.

People are more likely to change their church because of politics than to change their politics because of church.

The dichotomy of maleness and femaleness compound the cultural issues of the evangelical church.

Southernization of the Church

Pastors leaving the profession due to issues with a hostile work environment. Some leaving because parishioners are organizing and demanding they be fired.

Peter Wehner looks at the rifts that are appearing in the Christian evangelical movement in America, some are issues that have been building for a while, while others are exaggerated by Donald J. Trump, the coronavirus, the culture wars, political news, political beliefs, and and hypocrisy.

What part does The Great Resignation have in part of this? Any? Is there overlap for any of the reasons that others are resigning?

What about the overlap of causes/reasons for teachers leaving the profession since the pandemic? What effect does the hostile work environment of politics play versus a loss of identity and work schedule during a time period in which closures would have affected schedules?

What commonalities and differences do all these cases have?

Tania Bubela. (2021, November 17). New resources on #COVID19vaccines & #pregnancy from the fantastic group @CDCofBC Indigenous Knowledge Translation Working Group. @HarlanPruden working to meet knowledge needs of Indigenous communities in ways that are meaningful. @ScienceUpFirst take note! @SFU_FHS @CaulfieldTim https://t.co/oK3WJUj9p6 [Tweet]. @bubela_tania. https://twitter.com/bubela_tania/status/1460776956379557889

COVID is disrupting scientific careers around the world. (2021). Nature, 599(7884), 179–179. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03049-6

Schreiber, M. (2021, October 16). US throws out millions of doses of Covid vaccine as world goes wanting. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/16/us-throws-out-millions-doses-covid-vaccine-world-shortages

https://i.reddit.com/r/recruitinghell/comments/qhg5jo/this_resume_got_me_an_interview/

NHS Test and Trace has not spent £37bn so far. (16:10:35.640943+00:00). Full Fact. https://fullfact.org/online/37bn-test-trace-spending/

https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/netflix-employees-stage-walkout-protest-dave-chapelle-special-the-closer-transphobic-1235093535/

This article refers to the site I created to document the design process for the builders collective: time, energy, and matter, which redirects to timeenergyresources.com.

If the Bauhaus existed today, what would it look like?

What would the Bauhaus do differently, learning from the mistakes of the past and how modernism was co-opted by neoliberal capitalism.

Interestingly, this is still all-too-often how business owners, entrepreneurs, and corporations view their own workers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MBaFL7sCb8

Passion is a terrible yardstick for life.

You create life by living it.

"Do not loan money to a person following their passion." —Scott Adams advice on being a loan officer

Passion is where your energy and effort meets someone else's need. —Terri Trespicio

This is the water we swim in.

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

Lower-income countries are letting far fewer COVID-19 vaccine doses expire than wealthier nations | Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. (n.d.). Retrieved October 3, 2021, from https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/lower-income-countries-are-letting-far-fewer-covid-19-vaccine-doses-expire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7CyM1Zrqc

An interesting experiment to change one's schedule this way.

I feel like I've seen a working schedule infographic of famous writers, artists, etc. and their sample work schedules before. This could certainly fit into that.

One thing is certain thought, that the time of waking up is probably more a function of the individual person. How you spend your time is another consideration.

“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” ― Picasso

“Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.” ― Picasso

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. —Picasso

see also: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/07/child-art/

What a great quote to include in the closing!

Josiah Wedgwood was apparently the first to institute a system of clocking-into work.

We attend to time in large measure as a need to be able to synchronize our work.

Eternal struggle of competition here. The workers (and the poet) admonish that one compares themselves against their neighbors (competitors) than simply themselves.

The fix for this is for the leadership/bosses to participate themselves to see if the yield isn't as good as it might otherwise be. So much could be fixed if the "boss" is involved in the actual work or physically on site at least some of the time to experience what is going on. Participation counts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Monday

I've been wanting to read Zinn, so perhaps this is a good place to follow along? A sort of pseudo book club perhaps?

It's interesting to see Dan struggle with an obvious listicle article in Forbes as an authoritative source. This example is a great indicator that Forbes online has created far too much of a content farm to be taken seriously anymore. From what I've seen of it over the past several years it's followed the business model of The Huffington Post before Huffington sold it and cashed out. My supposition is that Forbes is providing a platform for people to get reach and isn't actually paying those writers to create their content.

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States

• Covering a chapter a week
• companion edition, Voices of People's History of United States by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnov
• Erik Foner's article about Zinn
• Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism by E. P. Thompson *
• cultural theorist Raymond Williams' idea of resources of hope
  • Resources of Hope: Culture, Democracy, Socialism by Raymond Williams
• An Indigenous People's History of the United States

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlnYt9NOUAw

Deep Concept: The US Government, in the 1960's/70's provided a crystal ball glimpse into the future by defining climate change (man-made global warming) as a national security concern. Various reports warned of "exponential" growth (population) and related man-made factors (technology etc.) that would contribute to climate change and specifically discussed the possibility of irreconcilable damage to "finite" natural resources.

The Uncomfortable Truth is the Difficult and Unpopular Decisions are Now Unavoidable.

Topic is relevant across a span of global issues. Natural resources are Finite.....period! Timely decisions are critical to insure intelligent use of resources. DENIAL is the enemy and 800lb gorilla in the room. Neoliberisim and social dysfunction feed on any cognitive dissonance and poop it out as "crap". True believers of American Capitalism (yes there is a difference) have become "cult-like" and drink the fluid of the cult to the very end, human consequence is of no concern.

Point being: Reality is always elusive within a cult controlled (authoritative) mindset. Cult members are weak sheep, incapable of individual logic/reason. Authority can not be challenged. -- Denial, a human defense mechanism has been and is the common denominator in all personal and global conflict. Denial can be traced throughout modern history and rears its ugly head whenever the stakes are high.

People’s Covid Inquiry: Impact of covid on frontline staff and key workers—The BMJ. (n.d.). Retrieved September 1, 2021, from https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/08/27/peoples-covid-inquiry-impact-of-covid-on-frontline-staff-and-key-workers/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

@dancohen @ayjay, don't forget the noble professions of philosopher's clerk or secretary:

What it would be like to be a philosopher’s clerk: “It’ll be a matter of filing the generalisations, tidying up paradoxes, laying out the premises before the boss gets in.” —Tom Stoppard

For five years he [Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)] served as personal secretary to, yes, Francis Bacon. In fact, I’ve noted over a course of years that the job of a secretary can be utterly fulfilling just in case one’s boss happens to be Francis Bacon. —Daniel N. Robinson

(reply to https://micro.blog/dancohen/11752827)

Inside America’s Covid-reporting breakdown—POLITICO. (n.d.). Retrieved August 23, 2021, from https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/15/inside-americas-covid-data-gap-502565

Soumen's work in virtual world design is elegant; complex interactions connecting users and components with (and thru) data..

Question: Are these tools ready for prime time?

Note: First use of'resources' tag?

See you soon, Later

Office of Global Affairs, HHS on Twitter: “Through COVAX, 1 million Johnson & Johnson doses arrived in Bolivia today. Https://t.co/YT86D49xsD” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved August 4, 2021, from https://twitter.com/HHS_Global/status/1414337572143239171

Mahase, E. (2021). Covid-19: Countries dump vaccines as demand slumps and sharing proves difficult. BMJ, n1893. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1893

Is Covid Coming Back 2021? Delta Variant, New Global Hotspots Are Reality Check—Bloomberg. (n.d.). Retrieved July 28, 2021, from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-07-27/is-covid-coming-back-2021-delta-variant-new-global-hotspots-are-reality-check?srnd=premium-europe&sref=jjXJRDFv

This does exist. Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR; pronounced 'fire') is an open standard that describes data formats and elements (the 'resources' in the name), as well as an application programming interface (API) for exchanging electronic health records.

See more here: https://hl7.org/fhir/

https://theamericanscholar.org/blue-collar-brilliance/

Acknowledging the work and art that blue collar workers do is an important thing.

Sometime in the past six months I ran across a description of how migrant workers do this sort of activity in farming contexts. That article also pointed out the fact that the average person couldn't do this sort of work and that there was extreme value in it.

<small><cite class='h-cite via'>ᔥ <span class='p-author h-card'>Alan Jacobs</span> in July Check-In · Buttondown (<time class='dt-published'>07/01/2021 09:19:13</time>)</cite></small>

Idea of John Paul II's encyclical being a form of blogging in a different era. They're all essays in form, it's just about distribution...

This same sort of illusion also occurs in email where we're always assumed to be constantly available to others.

Hascher, T., Beltman, S., & Mansfield, C. (2021). Swiss Primary Teachers’ Professional Well-Being During School Closure Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 687512. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.687512

The automatic portion of loading things inline and slowing down a page is part of the issue?

I'm reminded of seeing the "pull buttons" on Flancian's anagora.org site. He includes links to things like tweets, posts, and could do so for images, but the links have a button next to them that says pull. Clicking on it loads that remote resource. This has the benefit of speeding up the page and can also act as a sort of content warning depending on the particular content.

UNICEF on Twitter: “This is what it takes to deliver lifesaving vaccines to the world. Thank you for your support. Https://t.co/Y04PhlMSRb” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2021, from https://twitter.com/UNICEF/status/1400002998198280192

Adam Kucharski on Twitter: “Imagine if we were now facing the Delta variant without widely available vaccines. Because that’s the situation many, many countries are currently in. Https://t.co/zaJzSALCj2” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved July 2, 2021, from https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1410163303876280321

An interesting take on valuing one's time.

After restriction: Why the public can only fulfill its responsibilities if the government fulfills theirs—The BMJ. (n.d.). Retrieved June 30, 2021, from https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/06/29/after-restriction-why-the-public-can-only-fulfill-its-responsibilities-if-the-government-fulfills-theirs/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Mahase, E. (2021). Covid-19: Where are we on vaccines and variants? BMJ, n597. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n597

Just give us the vaccines, WHO pleads, as poor countries go wanting | Reuters. (n.d.). Retrieved June 28, 2021, from https://www.reuters.com/world/just-give-us-vaccines-who-pleads-poor-countries-go-wanting-2021-06-25/

reflecting on the year after george floyd for me is that the different responses that we all have right are valid and true and authentic and they create possibilities when they're read in you know its full context um but some of what is happening or some of what the role of the the classroom or the the person is to do is to try to say this is the range of the acceptable response and i feel like as a teacher our role is to kind of say you get to choose how you want to show up but base it in something that's real that's authentic that's not just about you this but it's about the collective so how do we cultivate that connection to collectivity how do we cultivate that ethical uh commitment and conviction to one another but at the end of the day how do we allow young people and everyone really the agency um to decide how they want to like show up—Christopher R. Rogers (autogenerated transcript)

This is a powerful teaching philosophy. Return to reflect on this.

a lot of our assessment system our accountability system in education is built around being able to say oh are you on the right path and not acknowledge the multiplicity of paths or in in some ways that the uh the things that are structuring this path is oppressive to our humanity in the first place—Christopher R. Rogers (autogenerated transcript)

He very carefully encapsulates a lot of the issues we've got in modern education here. Should we worry about the "standards" like memorizing and correctly using a semicolon over acknowledging our humanity and removing focus from eudaimonia?

when i was in high school just a high school in chester pennsylvania there was like english class there was also like a card game that was happening in the back of the room and no one like asked those students what they were teaching in that card game because we were like supposed to be doing worksheets in english class but that's also an intellectual practice so like ...—Christopher R. Rogers (autogenerated transcript)

I love the idea of this parable of a card game in an English class.

Moral: Don't marginalize the card game in preference for the supposed main topic as it has its own power and value, and may in fact be more valuable to the participants and their lives than the "main conversation". Value the thing for itself and not for some perceived other thing. View it in a positive framing rather than in a negative one. Simultaneously, don't attempt to subvert it either to reframe or re-capture the topic. Let it be what it is.

you could kind of go deeper with that is um do the work of like fred moten and stephanos harney's uh black study or radical study in in the undercommons of of this idea of like um there are these molds intellectual practice you know that sometimes we don't give you know uh you know credit to or sort of like survive underneath in the subterfuge of what's happening—Christopher R. Rogers (autogenerated transcript)

He's talking about work (scholarship) that may sit outside the mainstream that for one reason or another aren't recognized (in this case, because the scholars are marginalized in a culture mired in racist ideas, colonialism, etc.). At it's roots, it doesn't necessarily make the work any more or less valuable than that in

cf. with the academic samizdat of Vladimir Bukovsky who was working under a repressive Russian government

cf similarly with the work of Thomas Kuhn in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.

Consensus can very often only be consensus until it isn't.

How do these ideas interoperate with those of power (power over and power with)? One groups power over another definitely doesn't make them right (or just) at the end of the day.

I like the word "undercommons", which could be thought of not in a marginalizing way, but in the way of a different (and possibly better) perspective.

How vaccines are affecting Covid-19 outbreaks globally | World news | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved June 18, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/apr/21/how-vaccines-are-affecting-covid-19-outbreaks-globally?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Quote from Daniel Markovitz

This does raise the point of whether or not some of the things elites are doing is actually good or productive for society. Many are only working at privatizing profits and socializing losses which can be phenomenally caustic to society as well.

This may be the case for high-earners, but where do these people sit with respect to the higher elite or "leisure class"?

Are these hard working high-earners a new class of people that has emerged that aren't the previous elite of the mid-1900s?

What effect does the rise of finacialization (versus manufacturing or service sectors) since the 1970's have on this shift? Did these high-earners arise out of a hole in the market to service the elites on the highest rung up to make their wealth grow faster?

There seems to be a hole in this argument with respect to the prior quote:

Fifty, 60, 70 years ago, you could tell how poor somebody was by how hard they worked. Today, that relationship has been completely reversed. Elites work for a living. They work harder than they used to. They work harder in terms of brute hours than the middle class on average, and they get most of their income by working.

Adam Kucharski on Twitter: “A few reports from COVID situation in Taiwan that might not necessarily be what people expect: Https://t.co/7k1YKuU0qn” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved June 14, 2021, from https://twitter.com/AdamJKucharski/status/1395039636204965891

G7 support for pharma monopolies is putting millions of lives at risk | Amnesty International. (n.d.). Retrieved June 12, 2021, from https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/g7-support-for-pharma-monopolies-putting-millions-of-lives-at-risk/

Time in the US, School, Learning English / ESL

Mallapaty, S. (2021). India’s neighbours race to sequence genomes as COVID surges. Nature, 593(7860), 485–486. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01287-2

Twas ever thus in corporate America

Liverpool, M. L. P. and L. (n.d.). What’s the fairest way to share covid-19 vaccines around the world? New Scientist. Retrieved 21 May 2021, from https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25033353-100-whats-the-fairest-way-to-share-covid-19-vaccines-around-the-world/

Vaccinate vulnerable global poor before children in rich countries, WHO says | Coronavirus | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved May 18, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/14/vaccinate-vulnerable-global-poor-before-rich-children-who-says

Another resource to review...Spark Video!

Oliver, D. (2021). David Oliver: A vision for transparent post-covid government. BMJ, n1123. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1123

Another specific example of this has been noted by Zeynep Tufekci of an economist becoming the face of criticism of the education space being open or closed during the coronavirus pandemic. The woman, who had no background in public health or epidemiology, became the public face of the argument about whether schools should be open or closed.

The ability to set the bounds of the discussion or the problem is a classical example of "power-over" instead of power-with or power-to.

Opinion | Our Pathetic Herd Immunity Failure—The New York Times. (n.d.). Retrieved May 7, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/opinion/herd-immunity-us.html

I want this career!

One of the major problems that underlies our society is that the police represent power-over when what we really need is power-with or power-to.

An interesting break down of power.

More context on the Basecamp story

Seems fairly innocuous corporate speak until you think about it for a minute...

Krueger, A. (2021, April 20). You Pfizer, Me Moderna: Vaccine Recipients Declare Loyalty. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/20/style/pfizer-or-moderna.html

Indian expansion of Covid vaccine drive may further strain supplies | India | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved April 19, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/19/indian-expansion-of-covid-vaccine-drive-may-further-strain-supplies

UK’s Covid vaccine programme on track despite AstraZeneca problems | Vaccines and immunisation | The Guardian. (n.d.). Retrieved April 12, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/uks-covid-vaccine-programme-on-track-despite-astrazeneca-problems

Civai, C., Caserotti, M., Carrus, E., Huijsmans, I., & Rubaltelli, E. (2021). Perceived scarcity and cooperation contextualized to the COVID-19 pandemic. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/zu2a3

Studie des World Resource Institute über Entwaldung 2020 https://research.wri.org/gfr/global-forest-review

Siehe auch im Februar: URL repubblica.it/green-and-blue/2021/01/13/news/rapporto_wwf_scomparsi_43_milioni_di_ettari_di_foresta_tropicale_in_13_anni-282348755/

Burki, T. (2021). COVID-19 among American Indians and Alaska Natives. The Lancet Infectious Diseases, 21(3), 325–326. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1473-3099(21)00083-9

Fischer, M., Twardawski, M., Steindorf, L., & Thielmann, I. (2021). Stockpiling during the COVID-19 pandemic as a real-life social dilemma: A person-situation perspective. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/w4ez7

The Principles of Disease Elimination and Eradication. (n.d.). Retrieved February 15, 2021, from https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su48a7.htm

One of my early sessions on Open Education, with an emphasis on leveraging the material we create in the course of our work.

Too often corporations use the idea that the workplace is a "family", but when times get tough, we don't abandon our families the same way that corporations will summarily fire their employees to try to survive themselves without any real thought about their supposed "family members".

We need to restructure how we interact with work. There's a definite bias against/toward some careers that isn't levied against other. No one ever says that Wall Street investors should put others before themselves.

Work is not going to love you back and we've been lied to about the idea that we should love our work.

This portends to be an interesting concept: user domestication

Nuijten, M. B. (2020). Efficient Scientific Self-Correction in Times of Crisis. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9hc8z