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For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
[Ridiculum acri
Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence
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For ridicule shall frequently prevail,
And cut the knot, when graver reasons fail.
[Ridiculum acri
Fortius et melius magnas plerumque secat res.]Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 10 “Nempe incomposito,” l. 14ff (1.10.14-15) (35 BC) [tr. Francis (1747)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/1955/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #argument #comedy #debate #derision #humor #impact #jest #jibe #jokes #laughter #mockery #rhetoric #ridicule #satire #scorn #wit #witticism #writing #persuasion #influence
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
"I didn’t recognize myself;" For Ukrainian soldiers with facial wounds, US surgeons help restore dignity ----- High probability of Russian missile launch from Oreshnik site over next day ----- What we know about Starobilsk strike Russia turned into propaganda flashpoint ----- Putin repeats maximalist war claims as battlefield reality shifts ..... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/06/saturday-june-13-2026/
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Saturday, June 13, 2026
"I didn’t recognize myself;" For Ukrainian soldiers with facial wounds, US surgeons help restore dignity ----- High probability of Russian missile launch from Oreshnik site over next day ----- What we know about Starobilsk strike Russia turned into propaganda flashpoint ----- Putin repeats maximalist war claims as battlefield reality shifts ..... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/06/saturday-june-13-2026/
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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"I can't believe the poors would support a horrific creature like you just because they're reduced to slaves in their own homeland!"
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The Truth about Truth – a follow-on to my previous teaser, as it were.
I'm not much of a tease. In any case, I trace my documented journey to determine the folly of Truth.
#philosophy #philosophyofmind #blog #paradigms #rhetoric #power #perception #reality #mediation #encounter #language #grammar
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The Truth about Truth – a follow-on to my previous teaser, as it were.
I'm not much of a tease. In any case, I trace my documented journey to determine the folly of Truth.
#philosophy #philosophyofmind #blog #paradigms #rhetoric #power #perception #reality #mediation #encounter #language #grammar
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CFP (2 wks to deadline) CBI's MOSAICS Symposium on Interdisciplinary AI Studies. We welcome paper proposals from the humanities, social sciences, arts, law, policy...
#aistudies #AI #AILaw #technology ##science #artificialintelligence #sociology #anthropology #geography #art #communication ##mediastudies #English #rhetoric #culturalstudies #law #publicpolicy #hci #philosophy #politicalscience #EthicsInAI #ethics
CFP:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers
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CFP (2 wks to deadline) CBI's MOSAICS Symposium on Interdisciplinary AI Studies. We welcome paper proposals from the humanities, social sciences, arts, law, policy...
#aistudies #AI #AILaw #technology ##science #artificialintelligence #sociology #anthropology #geography #art #communication ##mediastudies #English #rhetoric #culturalstudies #law #publicpolicy #hci #philosophy #politicalscience #EthicsInAI #ethics
CFP:
cse.umn.edu/cbi/call-papers
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I hired Claude to articulate my thoughts on the self-improvement industry…
…and, frankly, LinkedIn and pop psychology. I leverage my notion of ontological grammar.
#philosophy #psychology #blog #podcast #selfhelp #language #power #reason #rhetoric #personadevelopment #bollocks #vulnerability #writing #reading #cognitivebias #llms #claudeai
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I hired Claude to articulate my thoughts on the self-improvement industry…
…and, frankly, LinkedIn and pop psychology. I leverage my notion of ontological grammar.
#philosophy #psychology #blog #podcast #selfhelp #language #power #reason #rhetoric #personadevelopment #bollocks #vulnerability #writing #reading #cognitivebias #llms #claudeai
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https://www.europesays.com/people/48069/ Column: Whenever political violence erupts, Washington starts playing the blame game #BlameGame #BloodyCrime #democrats #HasanPiker #Hypocrisy #JamesDavidVance #JDVance #partisan #PoliticalViolenceErupt #Republicans #rhetoric #right #side #TeaParty #Violence #ViolentPeople #washington
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Words cutt more than swords.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound
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Words cutt more than swords.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound
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Words cutt more than swords.
James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian and writer
Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “English Proverbs” (1659)
[compiler]More about this quote: wist.info/howell-james/83382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #cruelty #cutting #fightingwords #gossip #hatespeech #insult #language #rhetoric #sharpness #slander #speech #sword #verbalabuse #words #wound
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Some relevant hashtags:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
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Some relevant hashtags:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
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Some relevant hashtags:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
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Some relevant hashtags:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
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Some relevant hashtags:
#CriticalPedagogy #CriticalManagementStudies #CriticalEd #CriticalEdTech #education #EdTech #EmergentStrategy #FountainPens #freethought #HigherEd #Humanism #interbelief #interfaith #intersectionality #introduction #nonreligion #labor #LaborUnions #OrganizationalCommunication #PaperNotebooks #Paper #Pencil #Pen #rhetoric #SciFi #secular #stationery #TeachingWriting #writing #WritingTools
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I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754
The summary (from the paper) is:
Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.
#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper
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I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754
The summary (from the paper) is:
Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.
#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper
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I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754
The summary (from the paper) is:
Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.
#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper
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I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754
The summary (from the paper) is:
Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.
#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper
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I came across this excellent paper on the philosophical underpinnings of Machine Learning (as a discipline). It's well worth a read.
http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06754
The summary (from the paper) is:
Machine learning is a style of reasoning, and is as rhetorical as any other. It• Takes data as fact (not a core object of enquiry)
• Presumes the data is “random” (as an omnibus sanitisation protocol)
• Purports to learn representations of the world (from the “intrinsic structure of data”)
• Presumes that knowing the world suffices to control it
• Takes categories as features of the world (to avoid grappling with the hard choice)
• Avoids grappling with the tension between the individual and the aggregate
• Confuses and conflates data and information
• Valorises method above all
• Judges methods solely via canned “benchmarks”
• Makes black boxes, without providing the associated data-sheets.
• Construes its products as fully autonomous, when it is mere partial delegation.It has honed its style of reasoning so that the style is invisible. It has thus successfully turned itself into a self-perpetuating thought-style — in other words, a “discipline”.
#ML #MachineLearning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #assumptions #philosophy #rhetoric #NewPaper
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Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans
"We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/trump-hegseth-white-house-frame-iran-middle-east-war-as-a-game/106427790„Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trump-iran
#war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt -
In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/meet-the-language-insufficiency-gpt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast #rhetoric #communication #truth #justice -
In anticipation of the publication of A Language Insufficiency Hypothesis in January 2026, I have created a Language Insufficiency GPT. 🤖 https://philosophics.blog/2025/12/15/meet-the-language-insufficiency-gpt/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=lih
#Language #PhilosophyOfLanguage #Meaning #Semantics #Polysemy #GPT #AI #Philosophy #LanguageInsufficiency #blog #gpt #podcast #rhetoric #communication #truth #justice -
Welche Macht steht hinter den Worten?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDcwvJPfBck
#Macht #Sprache #BelohnenBestrafen #Belohnen #Bestrafen #Punish #Rewards #PunishedByRewards #Verhalten #Asymmetrie #Ungleichheit #Rhetorik #Machtrealismus #Qualität #Quantität #Quality #Quantity #Power #Geld #Gewalt #Money #Violence #Trump #DonaldTrump #politics #USA #Rhetoric #Language #Speech
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Sunday Classics: Cicero #Latin #Oratory #Literature #rhetoric #eloquence
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Sunday Classics: Cicero #Latin #Oratory #Literature #rhetoric #eloquence
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Russian fuel crisis escalates as half of gas stations in occupied Crimea halt gasoline sales -- Blackout at Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant enters 3rd day after grid strike -- Ukraine's sea drones paralyze Russian Black Sea oil hubs -- Ukrainian, European leaders push Trump to change tone on Russia. Will actions follow? ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/09/friday-september-26-2025/
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Friday, September 26, 2025
Russian fuel crisis escalates as half of gas stations in occupied Crimea halt gasoline sales -- Blackout at Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant enters 3rd day after grid strike -- Ukraine's sea drones paralyze Russian Black Sea oil hubs -- Ukrainian, European leaders push Trump to change tone on Russia. Will actions follow? ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/09/friday-september-26-2025/
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"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg
#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power
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"Free Speech" / "Freie Meinungsäußerung" als reine Ablenkung vom wirklich Entscheidenden: von Macht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xJN2hGTAeg
#Machtrealismus #Machtverhältnisse #Machtdynamik #Trump #Putin #Böhmermann #Pispers #VolkerPispers #Rhetoric #Rhetorik #Populismus #Populism #öffentlichkeit #Kimmel #public #politics #aristocracy #democracy #colbert #violence #money #wealth #Machiavelli #Realism #Idealism #Zivilgesellschaft #Einfluss #ThomasGordon #Belohnen #Bestrafen #reward #punish #punishment #power
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Farbpsychologie: Das sagen Farben über Status aus und so beeinflussen Sie uns - Gold & Purpur gelten seit jeher als Insignien der Macht, Violett steht für Kreativität, schwarz für Autorität. Doch wie sieht es mit allen anderen Farben aus und welchen Einfluss hat Farbpsychologie auf Leben und Erfolg?
Warum ist Farbpsychologie so wichtig?
#Communication #CorporateHealth #Psychology #Rhetoric #Stresshttps://berufebilder.de/farbpsychologie-status-beeinflussen-kommunikation/
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Russian cannibal soldier ate his own comrade; leaked audio — “All of Ukraine is ours,” Putin on Russia’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine — Russian drone strikes on Ukraine might drop due to Iran-Israel conflict, Estonian intel says — ‘Massive’ Russian drone attacks on residential buildings in Odesa kill 1, injure 14 — Russia’s war-fueled economy is running on empty, Central Bank chief warns … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/saturday-june-21-2025/
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Saturday, June 21, 2025
Russian cannibal soldier ate his own comrade; leaked audio — “All of Ukraine is ours,” Putin on Russia’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine — Russian drone strikes on Ukraine might drop due to Iran-Israel conflict, Estonian intel says — ‘Massive’ Russian drone attacks on residential buildings in Odesa kill 1, injure 14 — Russia’s war-fueled economy is running on empty, Central Bank chief warns … and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/06/saturday-june-21-2025/
