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She taught me one of the cardinal rules of gathering plants:
“Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind."
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the [Overview Effect](https://interconnected.org/home/2021/07/20/overview_effect) and I want to have that feeling the whole time!
I Wish My Web Server Were in the Corner of My Room
Matt Webb
More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually [reduces the effectiveness of collective action](https://par.nsf.gov/servlets/purl/10095997?ref=404media.co). The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them.
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
404 Media
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