#institution — Public Fediverse posts

Despite seeming #unstable and anything but #safe for use, it looks #inviting, #sage and ready to deliver #wisdom and #relief for any weary #heart, #soul or #body.

All the #conversations it #witnessed, all the #ives it touched, all the #minds it connected, all the #love, #friendship, dis- and #agreement.
More an #institution than a spot to #rest, any #repair, would change the #nature of this spot, would make it into something it is not.

So, weary #traveller, #rest here, despite the looks of this place...

#photography #Landscape #bench

Feeling like a smart #NewYorker #today!
Often when I'm in Amy's Bread complaining they're sold out of something, they'll say "You can call ahead & reserve" and today I finally did that!
I'll be bringing pieces of sourdough chocolate bread sticks & pistachio croissant twists (yes, they're as good as they sound) to a cookout in 'Jersey later.
#AmysBread #NYC #midtown #Manhattan #institution #bread #chocolate #BreadTwist #pistachio #croissant #SoldOut of #almond #brioche
https://www.amysbread.com/

Back at Jubilee Hospital. Today, it's for work. At RJH for next 2 hours with a client.

I think these concrete exterior walls would look better, and feel warmer, if they had pretty art murals painted on. It feels so cold & unwelcoming, as it is - gives off prison vibes.

#institution #hospital #monochrome #Concrete #architecture #urban #building #windows

Poulet portugais

Le poulet portugais est un incontournable à Montréal, notamment grâce à des institutions comme les rôtisseries « Coco Rico » et « Romados ».

Poulet portugais : les rôtisseries « Coco Rico » et « Romados »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07QL3-_3YQ

You might be a banker but you're not the bank. 🏦

#banker #bank #difference #role #institution

Jackass Now the Strongest American Institution

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://thehardtimes.net/breaking/jackass-now-the-strongest-american-institution/

Senator Maggie Hassan and Dr. Melinda Treadwell to Be Honored at 2026 Commencement

Dr. Melinda Treadwell; Photo courtesy of SUNY Geneseo Senator Hassan; photo courtesy of the Office of Senator Maggie…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #blog #commencement #Institution #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/601531/

📢 CHASSE AUX PAUVRES PAR MAËL DE CALAN : SOUTIEN À LA LUTTE DES ALLOCATAIRES DU RSA EN FINISTÈRE !

Révolution Permanente Brest soutient pleinement le combat des six allocataires du RSA qui, avec la CGT, assignent en justice le président du conseil départemental du Finistère, Maël de Calan, au motif de « harcèlement moral institutionnel ».

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#Brest #Finistère #RSA #CGT #harcelement #institution #maeldecalan #deCalan #Calan #chomage #pauvrete #precarite #controle #FranceTravail #Bretagne

The Funeral of Handwriting: What We Lose When the Hand Stops Moving

In 2010, the Common Core State Standards Initiative dropped cursive instruction from its recommended curriculum. The decision arrived without ceremony. No public debate, no period of mourning, no recognition that a cognitive practice stretching back to the Sumerian reed stylus was being retired from American education. Forty-one states adopted the standards. Cursive, along with its slower sibling manuscript handwriting, began its institutional death.

The loss registers first in the brain. Karin James, a cognitive neuroscientist at Indiana University, published research in 2012 demonstrating that children who practiced letter formation by hand showed activation in the left fusiform gyrus, the reading circuit of the brain, that children who typed the same letters did not. The hand, moving across the page, recruits neural networks that the keyboard bypasses entirely. Virginia Berninger’s longitudinal studies at the University of Washington reinforced this finding: children who wrote by hand produced more words, generated ideas faster, and composed more complete sentences than those who typed. The hand thinks its way through language.

The argument here has nothing to do with sentiment about fountain pens and wax seals. The motor act of forming letters creates a proprioceptive feedback loop that anchors memory and comprehension in ways that tapping a glass screen cannot replicate. A 2014 study by Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer, published in Psychological Science under the title “The Pen Is Mightier Than the Keyboard,” showed that students who took longhand notes outperformed laptop note-takers on conceptual questions, even when the laptop group had more recorded material. Speed worked against understanding. The hand’s slowness forced selection, compression, and interpretation in real time, while the keyboard encouraged transcription without cognition.

The cultural history tells a parallel story. In the nineteenth century, Platt Rogers Spencer developed the Spencerian method, a system of penmanship that became the standard American hand from the 1850s through the turn of the century. Spencer did not conceive of handwriting as a mechanical skill. He understood it as moral training. The discipline of forming graceful, consistent letterforms was a discipline of the self: patience, attention, proportion, restraint. When Austin Norman Palmer replaced Spencerian script with his own method around 1900, he stripped the moral philosophy but kept the premise that handwriting shaped character. Both men would have found the idea of abandoning handwriting instruction incomprehensible, the equivalent of canceling arithmetic because calculators exist.

The legal and institutional architecture of Western civilization was built on the handwritten document. Wills, contracts, treaties, confessions, correspondence, medical notes, field observations, laboratory records: for centuries, the handwritten text carried an evidentiary weight that print could not match. A signature functions as an assertion of identity and intention, a mark that forensic examiners can trace to a single human hand. The typed name carries no such specificity. As handwriting recedes from common practice, an entire system of authentication rooted in the irreducible individuality of the body recedes with it.

The counterargument writes itself: nobody needs cursive to function in a digital economy. Keyboards are faster. Screens are ubiquitous. Communication has moved to platforms where handwriting has no utility. All of this is true, and all of it misses the point. Efficiency has never been the right lens for evaluating a cognitive practice. Running is less efficient than driving; we do not therefore recommend the abolition of legs.

What is happening is a form of cognitive amputation performed in the name of convenience. The connection between the hand and the brain’s language centers, between the body and the act of composition, between the slow, resistant, physical work of making meaning and the frictionless digital surface that asks nothing of us but a tap, is being severed by policy and indifference. The children who will never learn cursive will still read and write. They will compose texts and emails and reports. What they will lack is the knowledge of what they are missing, which is the particular cruelty of amputation: the phantom limb aches, but only if you once had the limb.

A growing number of American states have passed legislation mandating cursive instruction, swimming against the Common Core current. Louisiana’s Act 300 in 2016 was among the earliest. These legislative acts respond to accumulating evidence that the hand’s retirement has consequences the brain cannot absorb on its own. The neuroscience keeps arriving, and it keeps pointing in the same direction: the hand and the mind developed together, over millennia, and separating them carries costs that no efficiency calculation can account for.

The funeral of handwriting is the funeral of a particular kind of thinking: slow, embodied, resistant to acceleration, irreducibly personal. Every word written by hand carries the tremor of the individual body, the pressure of the moment, the angle of fatigue or excitement or care. The keyboard produces uniform characters regardless of who strikes the keys. Uniformity offers comfort, and the comfort has a price measured in capacities we can no longer name.

🚨 UPDATE: Cornell University is Live with the new DSpace-CRIS platform!

💡 This #milestone marks an important step forward for an #institution that has long been a global leader in scientific #innovation. For 4Science, it is an honor to support Cornell.

💻 The platform is built on the latest release of DSpace-CRIS, and hosted on 4Science powerful cloud based on AWS, the new #platform delivers a fully updated #experience
READ MORE: https://lnkd.in/gHFGnytk

Il est légaliste, cet homme, même s'il critique aussi la #loi telle qu'elle est actuellement. Il s'appuie sur l' #institution #pénal e, et c'est pragmatique.

Mais c'est dommage qu'il ne dise pas (ne semble pas voir) que pour sortir du désastre, il y a aussi besoin de l'instituant, et que les démarches restauratrices, régénératives, transformatrices, communautaires, peuvent aussi y contribuer.
Sans doute qu'il a rencontré des trucs insatisfaisants, qu'il se méfie de la résilience et du pardon, du spiritualisme inconséquent : tout ce qui se trimballe là de déni, c'est vrai !

Mais dommage de jeter le bébé avec l'eau du bain

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#JusticeCoopérative

"1st, #infrastructure is always #shared means, which means that it requires coordination, and 2nd those means are shared to many ends—ideally very open-ended, unpredictable ends so that society may express its greatest creativity—which means that you cannot predict how it will get used and not all uses will be good. Because of this, you can't just regulate and forget: you need an #institution to remain involved in the continued operation of the infrastructure system."
https://berjon.com/infrastructure-shock/

FSER 2026 : la plateforme ouvre, les radios associatives face au dossier annuel https://www.lalettre.pro/FSER-2026-la-plateforme-ouvre-les-radios-associatives-face-au-dossier-annuel_a40326.html La plateforme de dépôt des demandes FSER 2026 est désormais ouverte. Chaque année, plus de 700 radio #Institution/Régulation/Juridique

An #institution rooted in #slavery cannot be the voice of our people.

DaShanne Stokes

#quote #quotes #slave #slaves

An #institution rooted in #slavery can never set us free.

DaShanne Stokes

#quote #quotes #slave #slaves

Die Definition von #Rechtsstaat galt der "Einhegung des staatlichen Gewaltmonopols" und daher stellen die #Grundrechte #Abwehrrechte gegenüber dem Staat dar.

In den nun geplanten Verschärfungen im #SGBII werden nicht nur noch mehr staatliche Eingriffe durch die #Institution #Jobcenter ermöglicht und damit das Ueberleben von #Menschen in #Armut erschwert.

Es werden auch die #Abwehrrechte reduziert.

Und dies zu einer Zeit wo es immer weniger Fachanwaelte mit dem Fachgebiet #SGBII gibt!

Sylvain Delfau adresse ses vœux sous contrainte budgétaire https://www.lalettre.pro/Sylvain-Delfau-adresse-ses-voeux-sous-contrainte-budgetaire_a39940.html Dans ses vœux pour 2026, le président du Syndicat National des Radios Libres alerte sur une situatio #Institution/Régulation/Juridique

"SAO's stmt on #collapse of its 30-storey HQ is disappoint'g. It dwells on technical detail while sidestep'g te most fundamental question of all: who must be held responsible? It was a #state #asset, built w taxpayers' money. Its collapse claimed at least 95 lives.. identifying #responsibility is not optional; it's a duty of te state. How can a #public #audit #institution credibly defend taxpayers' money while appearing reluctant to confront failures w'in its own house?"🤔
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3165249/sao-dodges-blame

Der #Internationale_Tag_der_Epidemievorsorge findet seit seiner Deklaration durch die #Generalversammlung der #VereintenNationen (UN) jährlich am 27. Dezember statt.

Er dient laut #UN zur #Ermutigung jedes #Einzelnen, jeder #Institution und jeder #Regierung ... in angemessener Weise ... hervorzuheben.

Den #Anstoß, diesem #Thema einen eigenen #Tag zu #widmen, gaben die #Erfahrungen mit der #COVID19Pandemie, die 2020 die gesamte #Welt beschäftige...
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationaler_Tag_der_Epidemievorsorge

#Aktionstag

#Reziprozität werde #sozial #institutionalisiert und #technisch #vorgeschrieben.

Beispiel: Follow-for-follow

Ungleicher #Gabentausch – User-Interaktionen und #Wertschöpfung auf digitalen #Plattform​en
Oliver #Nachtwey · Simon #Schaupp

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11577-022-00828-5

#Institution #Institutionalisierung

A quotation from Henry Commager

It is the function of the university to preserve what is best in the heritage of the past, and pass this on to the future; what other institution can do this so magisterially? Its function is to inflame the minds of the young with passion to serve society, and to train them for that service; what other institution does this? Its function is to inspire all its acolytes with a sense of the beauty and the dignity of the search for truth, and to make sure that this great task will never be neglected. Its function is to stand aside from its own society and its own time, to exalt those values that are universal and timeless. Its function is to push outward the bounds of knowledge — knowledge of the physical universe, and of the nature and history of man, and thus enable man to confront and perhaps even to triumph over those problems which crowd about him so pitilessly. No other institution can do this.

Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) American historian, writer, activist
Speech (1971-04-10), “The University and the Community of Learning,” Kent State University, Ohio

More about this quote: wist.info/commager-henry-steel…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henrycommager #heritage #progress #knowledge #academia #college #education #institution #learning #university

Solidarity seems like a noble goal, but it's specious at best. When rallying for a cause, we want solidarity – for others to join – but what if we are among the others? #Solidarity comes at the expense of self – fine if you are already committed. Otherwise, not so much.

https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/03/on-the-strange-politics-of-solidarity/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
#solidarity #ethics #virtue #commongood #teaching #indotrination #normativity #institution #philosophy #psychology #virtue #dogma #flourishing #boundaries #goodandevil #totalitarianism #morals #principles

#MissUniverse #owners in #Mexico, #Thailand hit with fraud, trafficking claims
"Miss Universe #beauty #pageant was hit by fresh #scandal days after it ended, with the #Mexican co-owner of te contest accused of #trafficking #drugs & #arms & his #Thai counterpart accused of #fraud. This year's Miss Universe contest concluded last week in Thailand with a win for #MissMexico"
🤦‍♂️>> This global pageant is no longer a serious #institution & 2025 results questionable. #wasteoftime
https://www.straitstimes.com/world/miss-universe-owners-in-mexico-thailand-hit-with-fraud-trafficking-claims