#appearances — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

It is of the first importance not to allow your judgment to be biased by personal qualities. A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem. The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning. I assure you that the most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 2 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

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What is Security Theater?

#Security #theater refers to highly visible security measures that create the #illusion of increased #safety but don’t stop #threats.

The term is often used disparagingly to describe #superficial security practices that don’t reduce risk. Simply put, security #theatre is all about #appearances, not #results.

https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/security-theater

#SecurityTheatre #ignorance #incompetent #IT #CriticalThinking #Internet #banking #airports #QuestionAuthority

A quotation from Euripides

MEDEA:                     Let no one think of me
As humble or weak or passive; let them understand
I am of a different kind: dangerous to my enemies,
Loyal to my friends. To such a life glory belongs.
 
[ΜΉΔΕΙΑ:μηδείς με φαύλην κἀσθενῆ νομιζέτω
μηδ᾽ ἡσυχαίαν, ἀλλὰ θατέρου τρόπου,
βαρεῖαν ἐχθροῖς καὶ φίλοισιν εὐμενῆ:
810τῶν γὰρ τοιούτων εὐκλεέστατος βίος.]

Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 807ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]

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A quotation from Brennan Manning

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds. I drop hints about the absolute priority of meditation and contemplation to create the impression that I am a man of prayer. At some unremembered moment I have lost the connection between internal purity of heart and external works of piety. In the most humiliating sense of the word, I have become a legalist. I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.

Brennan Manning (1934-2013) American author, laicized priest, theologian, speaker [Richard Francis Xavier Manning]
The Ragamuffin Gospel, ch. 7 “Paste Jewelry and Sawdust Hot Dogs” (1990)

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A quotation from Wendell Berry

Do not think me gentle
because I speak in praise
of gentleness, or elegant
because I honor the grace
that keeps this world. I am
a man crude as any,
gross of speech, intolerant,
stubborn, angry, full
of fits and furies. That I
may have spoken well
at times, is not natural.
A wonder is what it is.

Wendell Berry (b. 1934) American farmer, educator, poet, conservationist
Poem (1980), “A Warning To My Readers,” A Part, ch. 3

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A look at the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2026 World Baseball Classic https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/558292/ #AbnerUribe #AngelZerpa #Appearances #Baseball #Brewers #BriceTurang #CarolinaMudcats #Chicago #CorbinBurnes #ERA #IsaacCollins #JackSeppings #JacksonChourio #JoeyOrtiz #Langhorne #Miami #Milwaukee #MilwaukeeBrewers #MilwaukeeBrewers #Minnesota #MLB #NickMears #RobZastryzny #Strikeouts #TeamCanada #WilliamContreras #WorldBaseballClassic

A look at the Milwaukee Brewers in the 2026 World Baseball Classic https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/558292/ #AbnerUribe #AngelZerpa #Appearances #Baseball #Brewers #BriceTurang #CarolinaMudcats #Chicago #CorbinBurnes #ERA #IsaacCollins #JackSeppings #JacksonChourio #JoeyOrtiz #Langhorne #Miami #Milwaukee #MilwaukeeBrewers #MilwaukeeBrewers #Minnesota #MLB #NickMears #RobZastryzny #Strikeouts #TeamCanada #WilliamContreras #WorldBaseballClassic

A quotation from Thoreau

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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A quotation from Thoreau

No man ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his clothes; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
Walden; or, Life in the Woods, ch. 1 “Economy” (1854)

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