stole your meme, yadda yadda cuz GLUE PEOPLE is who we once called ELDERS.
a hallmark of #fascism is the belief #history is a thing that lives outside of us; and that, thru violent means, only the “winners” write and impose as The Truth.
but History isn’t a thing.
history exists in being, living, doing.
books, archives, GIT repos are great, but give us a false sense of security. when “life happens”, we need Elders to wing solutions.
there is no institutional memory, only Elders.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social blind cuts are also extremely violent both for people who lose their job and the one who stay in degraded conditions.
I remembered a guy telling me that every organization has useless/lazy people and that we should do blind cuts everywhere to weed them out. I think he never experienced a toxic work environment (at least not on the harrassed side).
I remember when that billionaire bought Sears and began to cut the workforce. Within that first year that they thought to save money by turning off the A/C in their stores at night. In the southern USA and especially the gulf states, this is a horrible idea. The HVAC could never keep up with the humidity to create a pleasant shopping experience if it ran only during the day.
If they had anyone with knowledge of corp history they'd know it was a disaster last time they tried it.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social We have a saying in Spain "más sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo"
Aproximate translation would be: "The devil knows more because of his age than for being the devil"
As you get older you realise how much useful knowledge you have acquired.
@blogdiva@mastodon.social government should not have so little slack in the system that it has a bus number of 1 everywhere. single points of failure are grossly inefficient outside of fairytale investor projections
h/t to Gossi for the previous post
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114869284832294345
and i say this lovingly:
one of the most powerful apps you can have on any mobile device ―as well as all of your computers― is the #OCR scanner.
here’s the link at F-droid:
https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.subhamtyagi.ocr
it’s in my top 10 apps & software to have & use.
and on dotSocial, AltTxt has actually 5 times the text capacity than a toot. i use and abuse it for that reason 😉
@blogdiva@mastodon.social Thank you for this acutely precise analogy.
This is the “Shane Battier Effect”
@blogdiva@mastodon.social Often organizations think that if people write down their knowledge, they can fire people easily. It is impossible to write everything down. This is an insight that philosophers got 100 years ago, but it gets ignored because people in power don't like this answer
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