Good Idea: Become multilingual.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/sep/17/how-learning-thinking-in-a-foreign-language-improves-decision-making

The "foreign language effect" is a phenomenon where switching from your native language to a second language can improve decision-making, moral reasoning, and memory. It reduces biases, making you more rational and open-minded. This switch also enhances personality traits like adaptability and tolerance for ambiguity. Using a second language can help you think more objectively and make better choices, offering unexpected cognitive benefits.

Song of the day 🇨🇭🌍: https://spotify.link/EomL0gzbzDb

Good Idea: Create your tech independence.
Email, cloud storage etc should not be in the hands of greedy corporations. Form groups and organize!
(kudos if you also manage every step and find the one where the author relies on 3rd parties)
https://sive.rs/ti#why

Tech independence is not depending on any particular company or software.

The only tools you need are the common open source basics built into any Linux or BSD operating system — free public-domain tools that are not owned by anyone, and can run on any computer.

Learn a few of these basic tools, and you can run your own private server on any computer forever, for the rest of your life. Host your own website and email. Keep your own contacts and calendars synced with your phone. Back up and sync your photos, movies, and music to your own private storage. No more subnoscriptions needed.

You can ignore all the companies offering “solutions”, even if they are free, because they take away self-reliance. The point is to know how to do it yourself, not to have somebody do it for you. It’s worth a little up-front work, like learning how to drive.

TIL New York City is sinking 1-2mm each year due to the weight of its skyscrapers, worsening the effects of rising sea levels and flooding. [source, comments]

TIL Peter Norman, the white athlete standing on the podium in 1968 while Tommie Smith and John Carlos gave the Black Power salute, was not selected to run in the 1972 Olympics for supporting his fellow athletes. He was not welcomed at the 2000 Olympics because he refused to renounce his actions. [source, comments]

TIL that the first political assassination in Roman history took place in 133 B.C when tribune Tiberius Gracchus tried to redistribute land to the poor, and was promptly beaten to death with wooden chairs by the Senate [source, comments]

Song of the day 🤖🦗: https://spotify.link/67wJagyXADb

TIL That Terry Pratchett changed German publishers because Heyne inserted a soup advert into the text of one of his novels and wouldn't promise not to do it again. [source, comments]