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www.npr.org www.npr.org
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throw money at a problem — whether that's Ebola, Zika or COVID-19. Then, as fear ebbs, so does the attention and motivation to finish the task.
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gay men and later, heterosexuals. Cases in women started accelerating in 2013, followed shortly by increasing numbers of babies born with syphilis.
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Since then, funding has remained anemic.
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By 2013, as elimination seemed less and less viable, the CDC changed its focus to ending congenital syphilis only.
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States in the South and West have seen the highest syphilis rates in recent years.
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three weekly shots of penicillin at least 30 days before she gave birth, it was likely that the infection would be wiped out
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40% chance the baby would die.
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Six states have no prenatal screening requirement at all. Even in states that require three tests, public health officials say that many physicians aren't aware of the requirements.
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"There's no incentive for a private physician to stock a dose that could expire before it's used, so they often don't have it.
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dougengelbart.org dougengelbart.org
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If we can see how some of the basic assumptions that we bring to the development of computing technologies lead us away from improvement in our ability to solve problems collectively, we can reexamine those assumptions and chart a different course.
for - quote - Doug Engelbart\ - collective IQ - status quo heading in the wrong direction - Indyweb dev - flipping the web - Doug Engelbart - Collective IQ - the Flipped web
quote - Doug Engelbart - If we can see how some of the basic assumptions that we bring to the development of computing technologies - lead us away from improvement in our ability to solve problems collectively, - we can reexamine those assumptions and chart a different course.
Indyweb dev - flipping the web - Doug Engelbart - Collective IQ - Flip the current web - the Flipped web - leverage the decentralized design of the original web via named content of IPFS network
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- Dec 2023
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www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
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Conclusion: Supporting our hypotheses, we identify a general trend that social marginalization is associated with less system-justification. Those benefitting from the status quo (e.g., healthier, wealthier, less lonely) were more likely to hold system-justifying beliefs. However, some groups who are disadvantaged within the existing system reported higher system-justification—suggesting that system oppression may be a key moderator of the effect of social position on system justification.
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for: system justification theory, status quo bias, question - lack of commensurate action
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summary
- Supporting their hypotheses, the authors identify a general trend that social marginalization is associated with less system-justification.
- Those benefitting from the status quo (e.g., healthier, wealthier, less lonely) were more likely to hold system-justifying beliefs.
- However, some groups who are disadvantaged within the existing system reported higher system-justification—suggesting that
- system oppression may be a key moderator of the effect of social position on system justification.
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- The question here is this:
- Can system justification theory be applied to explain why the majority of citizens, even though they are aware that the current fossil fuel energy system must be rapidly scaled down, there is no commensurate sense of emergency of concomitant action?
- The question here is this:
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for: system justification theory, status quo bias
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summary
- Supporting their hypotheses, the authors identify a general trend that social marginalization is associated with less system-justification.
- Those benefitting from the status quo (e.g., healthier, wealthier, less lonely) were more likely to hold system-justifying beliefs.
- However, some groups who are disadvantaged within the existing system reported higher system-justification—suggesting that
- system oppression may be a key moderator of the effect of social position on system justification.
- This is a very important finding and could be used to develop more effective social tipping point strategies
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- Sep 2023
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Let us at this point simply note that the Māra drive seems reducible to a wish to maintain the status quo (“sentient beings suffer, and they shall keep doing so!”) whereas the Bodhisattva is committed to infinite transformation.
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- this is definitely seeing evolution through a Buddhist lens!
- mara - maintain status quo
- bodhisattva - infinite transformation
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- Dec 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Tentori, K., Pighin, S., Giovanazzi, G., Grignolio, A., Timberlake, B., & Ferro, A. (2021). Default change nudges Covid-19 vaccine uptake: A randomized controlled trial. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9bsjg
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- Oct 2021
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podcasts.apple.com podcasts.apple.com
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journalism historian David Mindich
The View from Somewhere
Hallin’s spheres
At 11 minutes into this podcast episode, David Mindich provides an overview of Hallin’s spheres.
Hallin divides the world of political discourse into three concentric spheres: consensus, legitimate controversy, and deviance. In the sphere of consensus, journalists assume everyone agrees. The sphere of legitimate controversy includes the standard political debates, and journalists are expected to remain neutral. The sphere of deviance falls outside the bounds of legitimate debate, and journalists can ignore it. These boundaries shift, as public opinion shifts.
I learned about this podcast from Sandy and Nora in their episode, Canada’s democratic deficit.
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www.lewispants.com www.lewispants.com
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The podcast focuses on the troubled history of “objectivity” and how it has been used to gatekeep and exclude people of color, queer and trans people, and people organizing for their labor rights and communities.
I learned about this podcast through Sandy and Nora.
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- Apr 2021
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www.dekudeals.com www.dekudeals.com
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In a world where everyone sticks to the status quo of saying “YES”, create your own custom character and take on the role of an intern on a mission to change the world with the positive power of “NO!“. With this new power nothing will get in your way as you shout “NO!” at any absurd requests fired your way.
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- Sep 2020
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github.com github.com
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questions the status quo in the UI framework world again
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- Aug 2020
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Carroll, P. (2020, August 20). The Cognitive Biases Behind Society’s Response to COVID-19 | Patrick Carroll. https://fee.org/articles/the-cognitive-biases-behind-societys-response-to-covid-19/
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- Jul 2020
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osf.io osf.io
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Herzberg-Druker, E., Tali, K., & Yaish, M. (2020). Work and Families in Times of Crisis: The Case of Israel in the Coronavirus Outbreak [Preprint]. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/fxs64
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- Apr 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Davidai, S., Day, M. V., Goya-Tocchetto, D., Hauser, O. P., Jachimowicz, J., Mirza, M. U., … Tepper, S. J. (2020, April 27). COVID-19 Provides a Rare Opportunity to Create a Stronger, More Equitable Society. Retrieved from psyarxiv.com/hz4c7
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- Mar 2017
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tachesdesens.blogspot.com tachesdesens.blogspot.com
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The Academy won't save us.
academia capitalism status quo
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- Feb 2017
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slatestarcodex.com slatestarcodex.com
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Right, well of course people don’t look up product information now because the government regulates that for them. In a real libertarian society, they would be more proactive.
Most people don't care, or trust the big companies. I do that. I also think that the existence of some government regulation incentive companies to not sell poisoned food.
On the other hand, there is certification, independent certification, and these are being used today and trusted by people today. It's reasonable to supposed independent certification would be much much greater in a libertarian world.
Of course certification would not cover every field, every product and every possible problem, but neither does the State.
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For a boss to fire a worker is at most a minor inconvenience; for a worker to lose a job is a disaster. The Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale, a measure of the comparative stress level of different life events, puts being fired at 47 units, worse than the death of a close friend and nearly as bad as a jail term. Tellingly, “firing one of your employees” failed to make the scale.
Because of State labor laws, stupid. They make it hard to change jobs, hard to fire workers and hence hard to hire workers. In a libertarian world this would in principle be much smoother.
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Once the employee is hired, the boss may ask on a moment’s notice that she work a half hour longer or else she’s fired, and she may not dare to even complain. On the other hand, if she were to so much as ask to be allowed to start work thirty minutes later to get more sleep or else she’ll quit, she might well be laughed out of the company. A boss may, and very often does, yell at an employee who has made a minor mistake, telling her how stupid and worthless she is, but rarely could an employee get away with even politely mentioning the mistake of a boss, even if it is many times as unforgivable.
Here and after the author treats as a libertarian problem what happens today under the rule of the State labor laws.
In a world without State labor laws, contracts would apply. Contracts could evolve and have all these situations expected in their clauses. Also, this seems to me to be a case for actually working law (which the criticism imagines as unexisting in a libertarian society): https://hypothes.is/a/PBirDvnYEeaWvjeIs4H9kg.
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- Jul 2015
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www.gradesaver.com www.gradesaver.com
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he launches into an extended claim that “privileged groups” will always oppose action that threatens the status quo. They will always consider attacks on their privilege as “untimely,” especially because groups have a tendency towards allowing immorality that individuals might oppose (173).
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- Feb 2014
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www.shirky.com www.shirky.com
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Interest in using the internet to slash the price of higher education is being driven in part by hope for new methods of teaching, but also by frustration with the existing system. The biggest threat those of us working in colleges and universities face isn’t video lectures or online tests. It’s the fact that we live in institutions perfectly adapted to an environment that no longer exists.
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Arguing that we need to keep the current system going just long enough to get the subsidy the world owes us is really just a way of preserving an arrangement that works well for elites—tenured professors, rich students, endowed institutions—but increasingly badly for everyone else.
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www.justinhughes.net www.justinhughes.net
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In many quarters, property is viewed as an inherently conservative concept --
a social device for maintenance of the status quo
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- Jan 2014
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www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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Less than half (45%) of the respondents are satisfied with their ability to integrate data from disparate sources to address research questions
The most important take-away I see in this whole section on reasons for not making data electronically available is not mentioned here directly!
Here are the raw numbers for I am satisfied with my ability to integrate data from disparate sources to address research questions:
- 156 (12.2%) Agree Strongly
- 419 (32.7%) Agree Somewhat
- 363 (28.3%) Neither Agree nor Disagree
- 275 (21.5%) Disagree Somewhat
- 069 (05.4%) Disagree Strongly
Of the people who are not satisfied in some way, how many of those think current data sharing mechanisms are sufficient for their needs?
Of the ~5% of people who are strongly dissatisfied, how many of those are willing to spend time, energy, and money on new sharing mechanisms, especially ones that are not yet proven? If they are willing to do so, then what measurable result or impact will the new mechanism have over the status quo?
Who feel that current sharing mechanisms stand in the way of publications, tenure, promotion, or being cited?
Of those who are dissatisfied, how many have existing investment in infrastructure versus those who are new and will be investing versus those who cannot invest in old or new?
10 years ago how would you have convinced someone they need an iPad or Android smartphone?
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