Follow-up: Colloque International Mythologie, Mémoire et Narration. Le jeu des temporalités (2022.12.08-09, Université libre Bruxelles – ULB)

Colloque International Mythologie, Memoire et Narration (ULB)

Le Colloque International „Mythologie, Mémoire et Narration. Le jeu des temporalités” a eu lieu sur place (Université libre Bruxelles – ULB) et en ligne via Microsoft Teams, les 8 et 9 décembre 2022 – 5èmes Journées scientifiques d’études roumaines à Bruxelles – JERB5.

Ci-dessous, des photos de l’événement et l’enregistrement vidéo.

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Ignoring people

Animated Heaven - Social Media Keyboard

There are quite a few people who follow me on various social media.

I tend not to follow back; although I’m on a few networks, I tend not to follow back the people who follow me.

The reason is simple – I think social media is harming people, so I prefer to use it as little as possible.

But I admit – my logic might make some people suffer.

Sorry about that.

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Without any peace

Sean X Liu - Inquiring mind

I used to have an email address similar to „Without any peace.”

I received some concerned questions – „What’s with the email address? Is something wrong?”.

I used to be, at that point, without any peace, I was fighting with some thoughts. And I put it plainly in the view.

Later on, I wrote a big article, and even later on, I found my peace.

But the process of healing couldn’t have started without first acknowledging there’s an issue.

So, when people were worried about my questions, it would have been better to be worried about the answer.

I think it’s better to be very honest about yourself, even if that implies some dark thoughts, rather than hide the truth.

Putting it in plain sight helped me understand the issue and, later on, find the solution.

In conclusion, if you notice a dark pattern in you, don’t hide it, but face it.

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Joburi freelancer remote: Cum îți găsești de lucru ca freelancer, lucrător independent remote (de la distanță) dacă ai puțină experiență?

Janis Stoneberg - Work

Să zicem că vrei să lucrezi ca lucrător independent (freelancer) de la distanță (remote). Cum îți poți găsi de lucru?

Notă – aici vorbim de angajare legală. Ar trebui să ai și o formă legală de a încasa banii, dacă e o sumă oarecare ceva mai mare va trebui să ai o formă prin care poți emite facturi furnizorilor.

Mai jos, video pe tema asta.

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What is love without an interest in it?

Adam Y Zhang - Love and Hate Relationship

To me, loving another entity without an interest in this is when you don’t have to think about this.

When you love that entity and think, „But I don’t want something back,” it means you’re considering this.

Example #1: You love X but expect to be loved back. You are faithful to X but expect the same. This is conditioned, love.

Example #2: On the other hand, when you love X but think, „They can do whatever they wish,” you still think you deserve some things.

Optimal? Loving X, but not even thinking about receiving something back.

On a side note, loving X, even with conditions, is much better than not loving at all. Good is good, no matter the context. Do good; it’s the hard thing to do, and it’s the optimal solution. Even if you have benefited from doing good, you should still do this.

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Annoying

Jonathan Cutrer - iPhone 11 Pro Max

In a small village in the woods where some relatives live, we have a relatively good phone connection with only one mobile network provider.

That provider did some rather nasty things in the past with us and even in recent times.

Two options for looking at the situation:

  • „They are evil; we must get our revenge!”;
  • „They are doing us a service by providing mobile network connection even in remote areas; we should be grateful to them!”.

I like the second option better.

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Negative comment

Will Grootonk - Negative/Space

Brands tend to fear negative comments.

On the other hand, these are on most people’s minds – „What’s the catch? What should we read between the lines? What aren’t we told? What am I missing here?”.

Sure, if „negative” means swearing and personal attacks, be sure to delete such a comment.

But a 100% negative comment, all critical, with nothing positive in it, might increase the trust people have in your brand and make your post (on whatever platform) more engaging.

My conclusion is, don’t fear negative comments, as long as there are some limits.

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Why is it so hard to create another search engine?

Neil Conway - Research

Probably, Google is the most advanced technology on Earth.

They built their Operating System (OS) for data storage.

They have „seen” a lot of queries and people interacting with their pages so they can build on that experience.

They don’t have a „single” algorithm, but multiple, competing algorithms.

They store quite a bit of the Internet on hard drives and can search through results in less than a second.

They have a business made so that they can get money out of ads.

Also, working with sensitive date is not easy.

Resources:

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