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  Beating burnout in social movements requires strategy https://wagingnonviolence.org/2026/10/burnout-movements-chris-dixon-book/ So much of burnout is about not being effective, and so much ineffectiveness comes from not having a plan. #Burnout #Organizing

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  Your life is so valuable. Not only to your company, but to your family and friends as well. Eleanor Mariano #Quotes #FilipinoAmericanHistory

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  Exxon and Chevron are having a ‘very good crisis’ reaping massive profits during the Iran war https://www.fastcompany.com/91583262/exxon-chevron-having-very-good-crisis-reaping-massive-profits-during-iran-war ExxonMobil on Friday reported doubling its second-quarter profits to 4.53 billion, up 105% from the same time a year ago. The oil giant, based in Spring, Texas, brought in 16.02 billion in revenue, up 42% from the same time last year. #Iran #Profiteering

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  If union membership were to triple, workers could get a 14.5% raise https://www.fastcompany.com/91574297/workers-could-get-a-14-5-raise-if-union-membership-tripled Broader unionization could also correct some of the disparities that have depressed wages. It would help address the racial wage gap, reducing it by more than a third, and disproportionately raising pay for Black and Hispanic workers. It would also raise pay to match the rise in worker productivity, which has outpaced wage growth for...

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  On my blog: Free Culture, Creator Obstacles https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/07/12/free-culture-creators-1.html Finally explaining Free Culture from the ground up, this time what prevents creators from getting this right #education #freeCulture

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  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Galactic Mutant Animals, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/07/04/gma.html This week sees an older comic scanned from paper as animals get organized. #freeCulture #bookClub

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  On my blog: On the Basis of Race https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/07/05/basis-race.html Gosh, why would a Supreme Court Justice need to prioritize partisan bias over racial equity...? #history #politics #rant

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  @geekysteven@beige.party More seriously than you meant it, but it really impresses the heck out of me that everybody lived under a authoritarian dictatorship because random jerks said "I own this area and everybody in it, because my god said it was cool," and all it took was a couple-dozen guys writing "but what if human rights," and now it takes billions of dollars to keep authoritarian regimes in power for longer than a hamster's lifetime...

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  @david_chisnall For a while, this has felt like the central problem with these things. Everything is a prompt for Content Marketing Writ Large, with a patina of "writing for posterity," both because the business model needs you to wait as long as possible before realizing that it's wrong, and because software can't care about the reader's time or the credited author's reputation. And so we get demotivation, deskilling, and so forth.

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  On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/13 to 04/17 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/17/week.html This week, we have surveillance salaries, food prices, war profiteers, AI liability, sexual violence in movements, right to repair, anti-Vatican tactics, creativity from art films, and Arab American Heritage. #linkDump #socialMedia #quotes #week

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  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — Avalon High, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/18/avalon-high-1.html This week sees a comic about a high school. #freeCulture #bookClub

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  On my blog: La Rana in Mission Unlikely https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/19/mission-unlikely.html A post-mortem on John's attempts at creating a comic without actually drawing. #comic #freeCulture

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  Attacks on Trans People Are Attacks on Everyone https://otherwords.org/attacks-on-trans-people-are-attacks-on-everyone/ The tide of contemporary anti-trans legislation has grown from 2016’s famous (and failed) “bathroom bill” in North Carolina to a wave of speculative legislation funded by conservative billionaires creating division by stoking manufactured mass hysteria. #Transphobia #USPol

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  On my blog: Toots 🦣 from 04/06 to 04/10 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/10/week.html This week, we have Reuters and ICE, customer service and sleep, wealth tax, postal workers, anti-trans attacks, AI making you worse, bee granola bars, war against humanity, and Asian American Heritage. #linkDump #socialMedia #quotes #week

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  On my blog: Free Culture Book Club — À l’orée de la ville, pt 3 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/11/oree-ville-3.html This week sees a French cyberpunk novel. #freeCulture #bookClub

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  On my blog: Fair Share https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2026/04/12/fair-share.html Not quite eat-the-rich, but maybe make them more palatable for an eventual brunch. #economics #politics #rant

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  Five solutions that could help solve housing inequality https://scalawagmagazine.org/2026/03/five-solutions-that-could-help-solve-housing-inequality/ For families spending over 50% on housing — considered severely cost burdened — financial stability becomes nearly impossible. More than 70% of households earning under 0,000 annually fall into this trap. #Housing #Inequality