Gustavo Ogasawara @gojonnes@qoto.org

I CAN'T be the first person to have thought of this …?

This is the real question: When so much at work has changed, why can't we shake presenteeism?

“The pandemic changed nearly everything about work. Why are we still stuck with performative long hours?”

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20230718-post-pandemic-presenteeism-overwork-culture

"I was trying to get across the idea that the art is in the people who come to see it. That you’re important, not the objects. I’m not saying ‘Come and look at these beautiful things on pedestals.’ I’m saying 'whatever is important is in your head. It’s your reactions that count.'" -- Yoko Ono

TIL: Chuck norris’s first name is actually carlos

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/15bt2ow/til_chuck_norriss_first_name_is_actually_carlos/

"The era of global warming has ended. The era of global boiling has arrived.

The air is unbreathable, the heat is unbearable, and the level of fossil fuel profits and climate inaction is unacceptable.

Humanity has unleashed destruction. This must not inspire despair, but action."

— United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres

Late to the party but here I am now on mastodon! Follow me if you are interested in uk academia, higher education, developing educational analog games, dignity at work, critical management studies, business ethics, or just general nerdery about sci-fi, fashion or fantasy.
#games #ethics #academia #introduction

For those who might not know, following a week after the Russia-Ukraine wheat embargo, there are even bigger and ominous signs hinting at global food insecurity and the catastrophic agricultural crises coming our way.

India last week banned export on all non-basmati rice varieties.

I repeat: EXPORT BAN ON ALL non-basmati RICE varieties.

[Aside, export of basmati variety will continue, the demand for which is relatively small in India when compared to the nearly 15 major varieties of rice (it's home to at least a 1000 varieties) consumed by very large populations everyday(these are the ones which are now banned). Basmati is a "festive" and only occasionally consumed variety in India. It is largely exported to the richer nations, many of whom think it is the only variety of rice from India.]

Why is India banning rice now?
Answer: global warming.

What’s happening in the India (and South Asia at large) should both terrify you and wake you up

Here’s more (facts? trivia? bothersome news? how the world actually works?).

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#GlobalWarming #PoliticalEconomy #ClimateChange #FoodSecurity #RiceBan #India #SouthAsia #SubContinent #Agriculture #Food #AgriculturalCrises #Inequality #EcologicalCrises

"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."

Here is where I am. #comics

I do a lot of storytelling with grown ups but I do love telling stories in schools because the audience is always very keen to join in!

#hello #introduction #MyJob

PhD opportunity with me on hearing loss & physical activity at #LancasterUni & some fabulous collaborators like Dr Helen Nuttall and Dr David Maidment👂🧠🫀
Fri 18th Aug deadline for proposals so get in touch if you are interested!🤸‍♀️‼️

#audpeeps #phdposition #hearingscience

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/hearing-and-physical-activity-as-we-age/?p159861

Interesting story about how Kolektiva had a copy of their server sezed by feds... suggesting mastodon has some legal vulnerabilities over big tech...

https://www.pcmag.com/news/watch-out-fediverse-users-the-fbi-can-seize-a-mastodon-server