#myths — Public Fediverse posts

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About LANs

https://dreamstation.systems/personal/lanfalsehoods.html

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49581179

#HackerNews #Falsehoods #Programmers #Believe #About #LANs #LANs #Networking #Myths #TechEducation #ProgrammerLife

'Mercury and Psyche' by Reinhold Begas (1878), and a photo of the artist

#art #arts #artist #artists #museum #museums #myth #myths #mythology #sculpture #sculpting #artlover #artlovers #artgallery #artnet #artwork #artmuseums #artmuseum

Who really built the #EgyptianPyramids and how did they do it? https://zorz.it/satgx

#history #technology #hypotheses #MarkLehner #archaeologist #GreatPyramid #Veritasium #myths #realities

https://anuncommonland.substack.com/p/deconstructing-nicola-how-public
Deconstructing Nicola: How public finance myths and moral language shape us
Guest post by Searchlight
Catherine Knight
Jun 07, 2026

'In the same week New Zealand recorded its highest level of #homelessness in modern history, the Minister of Finance ... delivered a Budget speech built on ... discipline, restraint and fiscal virtue.

'... While families queued at #foodbanks, youth #unemployment surged in the poorest rural communities, and young people continued to leave in droves, the Government’s central narrative was one of belt tightening, bending debt curves and returning the books to surplus.
'This contrast ... reflects a set of public‑finance #myths so deeply embedded in New Zealand’s political culture that they feel like common sense. These myths shrink political imagination, justify #underinvestment and turn economic management into a moral test.
'.....
'Nicola Willis has a first‑class honours degree in English literature and a postgraduate diploma in journalism. She understands rhetoric and how language works instinctively and through training.

'...The household metaphor makes investment in #teachers, #nurses, #housing, #science, community wealth‑building, the arts and public #infrastructure look reckless. It makes cuts look responsible, even when those cuts fall hardest on people already struggling.

'... she relies on the “cultural code”, drawing on familiar household metaphors that feel natural even as they distort how New Zealand’s public finances actually work. This is not accidental. It is craft. The Budget is written not just to inform but to shape the moral universe in which political decisions are judged.
'Deconstructing that story as we have here is not cynicism. It is clarity. Willis’s speech is ... a clever fiction about ... who deserves what and what the future should look like, with Nicola Willis cast as a virtuous Eve who did not eat the apple, and those who ... dispute her narrative as profligate devil’s advocates.'