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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Goethe

Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous.
 
[Alles, was unsern Geist befreit, ohne uns die Herrschaft über uns selbst zu geben, ist verderblich.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) German poet, statesman, scientist
Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), “Life and Character,” #33]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/goethe-johann/22780/

WIST Quotations · Sprüche in Prosa: Maximen und Reflexionen [Proverbs in Prose: Maxims and Reflections] (1833) [tr. Saunders (1893), "Life and Character," #33] - Goethe, Johann von | WIST QuotationsEverything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous. [Alles, was unsern Geist befreit, ohne uns die Herrschaft über uns selbst zu geben, ist verderblich.] From Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years (1829). (Source (German)). Alternate translations: Every thing that frees our spirit without giving us the mastery…
#quote#quotes#quotation
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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕

When the greed becomes automatist, something like this happens here:

»Open Source World – FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies:
LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.«

😐 thelibre.news/foss-infrastruct

LibreNews · FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesLLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.
#foss#opensource#llm
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JRD3DU
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The end result: 177km/day, 8000+ calories per day (12% fat yogurt saved me on this trip), 18lbs lost, and a very odd #tan on my back and right side (south facing everyday for 30+ days). .
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#throwback series about this #lifechanging #trip in #2010 ~ 5300km from #Vancouver to #Quebeccity in 38 total (32 riding) days. .
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#weightloss #oddtanlines #8000calories #photography #fitness #lifeadventure #cycling #touring #outsideisfree #breathemorelife #picoftheday #wanderlust #fitness #training #freedom #smallfootprint #ecotourism #rest #drive #tangibleactions #cheap #biketouring #canon #epic
#epic
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🇺🇦 Je me souviens 🇨🇦

Just finished a chat and thought I'd share these statements:

"Systems rise and fall, but people—acting with courage, love, and quiet defiance—are what really shape the world."

"It’s not about grand gestures; it’s about millions of small, deliberate acts of strength, love, and resistance."

#Strength#News#Action
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DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic

Delaware Online says HB140 End of Life Options bill is the Right Thing to Do!

It's all about patient choice and autonomy.

Republicans, who always tout ‘freedom’ were vehemently against HB140 (freedom only for things they support, like guns and no vaccines or masks!)

#HB140 #Delaware #maid #deathwithdignity #freedom #guns #vaccines #republicans
delawareonline.com/story/news/

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Zhi Zhu 🕸️

The US government has sent Columbia University a ransom note

Like a mob boss, the govt threatens to cut off two of the university’s fingers: academic #freedom & faculty governance
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

"Like a ransom note, the #government letter insists that #Columbia comply with a list of #Trump administration demands in order to even have a chance at recovering the $400m in federal funding for scientific #research that the govt canceled on 7 March"

Text from article(edited for length): After threatening some 60 other universities with the same fate, on 13 March the government sent their ransom note to Columbia alone. Their conditions were to be met within seven days, and not in return for the release of the funds, but merely as “preconditions”. Further demands would then be presented for “formal negotiation” – which would not be an actual negotiation, because the GSA would continue to hold back the university’s money, like a mobster. The preconditions concern mainly the policing of student protest on campus. Their imposition likely violates both federal law and the US constitution, as Columbia law faculty have made clear. But in a startling and equally unlawful move the Government took another hostage in its letter: Mesaas. For a period of five years, Columbia must place the department in academic receivership... This is an unparalleled attempt to seize control over people and ideas in an American university. Universities do find it necessary sometimes to place an academic department in receivership, typically when the department’s self-governance breaks down... Mesaas’s current self-governance is outstanding... For the United States government itself to intervene directly in faculty governance – specifying the extraordinary five-year period, and with “deliverables” on whose performance the future funding of the entire university might depend – is without precedent in the history of American higher education.
#DonaldTrump#USPol#Science
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JRD3DU
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The challenge is not distance, it's maintaining the drive to go ahead despite facing adversity - Hitchhiking turns out is more difficult than finding a friendly bike shop to stay open later to replace a wheel. 60km outside Sudbury.
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#throwback series about this #lifechanging #trip in #2010 ~ 5300km from #Vancouver to #Quebeccity in 38 total (32 riding) days. .
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#help #goodsamaritan #adversity #challenge #instabike #lifeadventure #cycling #touring #outsideisfree #breathemorelife #picoftheday #wanderlust #freedom #smallfootprint #ecotourism #sudbury #drive #tangibleactions #biketouring #wandering #Wanderlust #mosaic #photography #adventure
#adventure
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