Can the United States apply consistent standards to pro-Palestine protesters as it does to protecting speech in favor of our country’s violence? No, it doesn’t seem like we can.
The solution, instead, is to look for what is holding the procrastinator back. If anxiety is the major barrier, the procrastinator actually needs to walk away from the computer/book/word document and engage in a relaxing activity. Being branded “lazy” by other people is likely to lead to the exact opposite behavior.
Often, though, the barrier is that procrastinators have executive functioning challenges — they struggle to divide a large responsibility into a series of discrete, specific, and ordered tasks. Here’s an example of executive functioning in action: I completed my dissertation (from proposal to data collection to final defense) in a little over a year. I was able to write my dissertation pretty easily and quickly because I knew that I had to a) compile research on the topic, b) outline the paper, c) schedule regular writing periods, and d) chip away at the paper, section by section, day by day, according to a schedule I had pre-determined.
Yeah, this matches my experience from when I used to tutor people. They tended to be below grade level and would fall victim to a fear of failure, since their self-esteem has taken hits from struggling with the work, in their mind the failure would be confirmation that they’re stupid and would make them not want to try. Getting them to change their mentality resulted in more productive sessions going forward and accomplishing that required addressing the root causes of their anxiety and/or skill deficits.
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture.
Something that has become very apparent to me over the past year of migrating away from the big 6 sites into the dark forest is that, no honestly, the internet isn’t that; the big 6 sites are that. Places like Neocities still exist and have lots of traffic and you can go there and have an interesting time. I’ve encountered more cultural diversity on the Fediverse than I had in the past decade of using Reddit. There’s still cool stuff and interesting communities; it’s just hard to find because search engines are increasingly useless. We need better discoverability; if we fix that, then we’re golden.
The labor organizer and writer is approaching the end of her life. She leaves behind vital organizing lessons that will reverberate over the next decades.
Palestine Protests are a Test of Whether This is a Free Country (www.currentaffairs.org)
Can the United States apply consistent standards to pro-Palestine protesters as it does to protecting speech in favor of our country’s violence? No, it doesn’t seem like we can.
Laziness Does Not Exist (drdevonprice.substack.com)
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Haiti’s Disintegration and US Foreign Policy (znetwork.org)
Leaked Cables Show White House Opposes Palestinian Statehood (theintercept.com)
Pro-Palestine Activists Attempt to Block Workers from Entering Arms Manufacturer in Charlotte (unicornriot.ninja)
Ongoing War Crimes: Israel Targets Journalists, Aid Workers, Civilians in Gaza (unicornriot.ninja)
Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding of Digital Threats (www.eff.org)
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Universities Are Profiting From Blocking Drug-Price Reform (jacobin.com)
The Victories of the 20th Century Feminist Movement Are Under Constant Threat (www.currentaffairs.org)
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Google Employees Sit-In to Protest 'Project Nimbus' AI Tech Contract With the Israeli Military (unicornriot.ninja)
Americans Deserve More Than the Current American Privacy Rights Act (www.eff.org)
‘Brutal’ Is a Word Mostly Reserved for Palestinian Violence (fair.org)
UN Tells Israel: Cease Fire; NYT Says: If You Want (fair.org)
Narendra Modi Is Preparing New Attacks on Democratic Rights (jacobin.com)
Kathy Hochul Is Leaving a Climate Law Off the NY Budget (jacobin.com)
Teamsters for a Democratic Union and the New Labor Insurgency (jacobin.com)
What Jane McAlevey Has Taught Us (www.currentaffairs.org)
The labor organizer and writer is approaching the end of her life. She leaves behind vital organizing lessons that will reverberate over the next decades.