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Humans: Yes! We can generate energy from sustainable sources like wind and energy. Also humans: Let's use ridiculous amounts of energy to let AI generate shitty images and texts nobody asked for.

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Three universal psychological needs motivate the self to act: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. - Self-determination theory Learn more: - Video: www.ted.com/talks/dan_pi... - Website: selfdeterminationtheory.org - Article: doi.org/10.1080/0963...

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Academia: reading an article, only to realise you need to read 10 more articles.

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"A strong motivation to engage in extra work and a fear of being overlooked [while remote working] has the potential to turn into over-commitment and self-exploitation, which could subsequently lead to higher levels of stress or even burnouts." - doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ...

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The harm principle: Your freedom ends where it harms others.

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399 BC: The unexamined life is not worth living. 2025: The unselfied life is not worth living.

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This

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"When environmental performance is reduced to an indicator like 'kilograms of carbon dioxide emissions', other crucial environmental qualities like biodiversity are rendered virtually invisible." - doi.org/10.1177/0007...

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What happens when organizations measure and reward performance of professionals? Employees change their behavior "by avoiding tasks that do not yield quantifiable results." Link: doi.org/10.1007/s001...

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This offers endless opportunities... Misery While Playing with LEGO All That Is Solid Melts into Air While Playing with LEGO Waiting for the Barbarians While Playing with LEGO On the Road While Playing with LEGO For They Know Not What They Do While Playing with LEGO And so on, and so on...

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How to be an antiracist while playing with Lego.

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One Hundred Years of Solitude While Playing With Lego

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Poirot Investigates While Playing With Lego is actually improved, I think

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Today's tip: Ruin a book title by adding "while playing with LEGO". #booksky

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Ha! I knew it! 🥳

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"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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"Reading good books is like having conversations with the finest minds of the past.” - René Descartes #booksky

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Official Announcement It's OK to buy a book, even if you didn't read all books on your shelf yet. Have a nice day! #booksky

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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." - Friedrich Nietzsche

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Universities: obtaining your PhD means you are a scholar for the rest of your life. Also universities: three days after your PhD defense, access to the library will be cut off.

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Confronted with a brakeless, self-driving car with 4 passengers in it, Bentham regretted his work on utilitarianism.

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"The more we view ourselves as self-made and self-sufficient, the less likely we are to care for the fate of those less fortunate than ourselves." - Michael Sandel

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"Our desire not to be inferior to others in terms of performance, combined with the idea that we can freely choose to go the extra mile, can lead to self-exploitation. We force ourselves to go beyond what is good for us, until we burn out." - goodreads.com/quotes/12497...

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"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts." Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

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”The rector of one of the world’s oldest universities,for one, set up citation cartels to boost his citation scores,while others reportedly buy(!) bogus citations. Even top-ranked institutions seem to play the indicator game by submitting false data to improve their position on university rankings!”

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Also don't miss following this account, btw.

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Exactly what I’ve been talking about for years. And here we are…

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"...one [academic], set up citation cartels to boost his citation scores, while others reportedly buy bogus citations" 💀This is fine🔥

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"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts." Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

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Over 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023! How are research credibility and the quantified society connected? This I discuss in a piece on social science space, open access! Link: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

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"Fake news is first of all information. It produces its effect before the process of verification has even begun." - Byung-Chul Han

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Hannah Arendt: “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction [.] and the distinction between true and false [.] no longer exists.”

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"You get paid in direct proportion to the difficulty of problems you solve." - Elon Musk "In an unequal society, those who land on top want to believe their success is morally justified." - Michael Sandel

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Christmas, all I want for, you is.

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Christmas, all I want for, you is.

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THE 7 SECRETS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE 1. Private school 2. Legacy Ivy admission 3. Nepotism hire 4. Seed capital from family 5. Family network 6. Personal assistance 7. Strong belief they're "self-made"

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"In our society, there seems a general rule that, the more obviously one’s work benefits other people, the less one is likely to be paid for it.” - David Graeber

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Wow! Can I use this online service FOR FREE??!!

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"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant

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If you study hard, do your best and work hard, your future boss may one day go to space.

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The Elon Musk bias* The false belief that if a person is successful in one area this means s/he is an expert in all areas.

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"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains." - Rosa Luxemburg

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Greek philosophy: how to live the good life. German philosophy: how to know the world. French philosophy: how to understand society. American philosophy: how to justify neo-imperialist exploitation of the third world.

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“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.” - Daniel Kahneman

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