🚀 NGI Forum Day 2 is underway
With the same #enthusiasm!
Highlights from the opening talks:

🗣️ @StefanVoigt
Let’s build a public, transparent web search infrastructure like Galileo or Copernicus.

🗣️ @MichaelGranitzer
Search influences behaviour is crucial 20–80%. It's core to LLMs and AI.

Let’s treat #OpenWebSearch as a base public service, built on EU HPC centres.

@NGICommons is part of this adventure
#NGIForum #OpenWebSearch #DigitalSovereignty #FOSS #LLM #WebInfrastructure #Fediverse
@ngi

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #HJacksonBrownJr #Enthusiasm #Life #Success

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Driftwood #Florida

#Trump gives me the blues.
Re our future, can't #enthuse.
So please pass the booze!

#BlueskyRelay #Enthusiasm #HaikuChallenge #Haiku #News #Senryu #Poetry #News #MicroPoetry #Resist #USPolitics #MAGA #USPOL #Politics

A quotation from Milton

But here the main skill and ground-work will be, to temper them such lectures and explanations upon every opportunity as may lead and draw them in willing obedience, inflamed with the study of learning, and the admiration of virtue; stirred up with high hopes of living to be brave men, and worthy patriots, dear to God, and famous to all ages.

John Milton (1608-1674) English poet
Tractate on Education (1673)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/milton-john/76609/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #teacher #inspiration #enthusiasm #learning #education #pedagogy #school #teaching

AC Milan Reach Coppa Italia Final After Fabio Capello Praises Rafael Leão's Effort

#enthusiasm #football #playerskills #RafaelLeao #sports
https://blazetrends.com/ac-milan-reach-coppa-italia-final-after-fabio-capello-praises-rafael-leaos-effort/?fsp_sid=19622

»How the #US #Public and #AIExperts View #AI: far apart in their #enthusiasm and #predictions. But they want more #personalcontrol and worry #regulation will fall short.« https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2025/04/03/how-the-us-public-and-ai-experts-view-artificial-intelligence/?eicker.news #tech #media

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

Vehemence is the expression of a blind effort to support and uphold something that can never stand on its own — something rootless, incoherent, and incomplete. Whether it is our own meaningless self we are upholding or some doctrine devoid of evidence, we can do it only in a frenzy of faith.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 60 (1955)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/hoffer-eric/76046/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #truebeliever #onetrueway #zealot #devotion #enthusiasm #faith #fervor #belief #meaning #passion #vehemence #insistence #zeal

Meeting your #goals begins w/ replacing someone else’s problems w/ #joy. It’s the #goldenTicket for #business & #life – a #lesson on display right here on Adam Savage’s Tested. …

https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/success-looks-a-lot-like-replacing-someones-problems-with-joy/
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#ambition #business #Community #enthusiasm #expectations #goals #goldenTicket #joy #lesson #life #passion #productExperience #qualityassurance #QualityMatters #qualityProduct #satisfaction #surpassingExpectations #workQuality

Success Looks a Lot Like Replacing Someone’s Problems with Joy.

Meeting your #goals begins w/ replacing someone else’s problems w/ #joy. It’s the #goldenTicket for #business & #life – a #lesson on display right here on Adam Savage’s Tested.

https://mindcreatesmeaning.com/success-looks-a-lot-like-replacing-someones-problems-with-joy/

#enthusiasm #joy #productExperience #qualityassurance #QualityMatters

A quotation from Teddy Roosevelt

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary. There is little use for the being whose tepid soul knows nothing of the great and generous emotion, of the high pride, the stern belief, the lofty enthusiasm, of the men who quell the storm and ride the thunder.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) American politician, statesman, conservationist, writer, US President (1901-1909)
Speech (1910-04-23), “Citizenship in a Republic [The Man in the Arena],” Sorbonne, Paris

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-theodore/7…

#quote #quotes #quotation #virility #action #activity #belief #confidence #conviction #courage #cynicism #dandy #emotion #enthusiasm #fop #hedonist #inaction #manliness #passion #pleasure #pride #sloth #vanity

A quotation from Oppenheimer

However, it is my judgment in these things that when you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) American theoretical physicist, "Father of the Atomic Bomb" [Julius Robert Oppenheimer]
“In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” testimony transcript, US Atomic Energy Commission, Personnel Security Board (1954-04-13)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/oppenheimer-j-robert…

#quote #quotes #quotation #consequences #consideration #creativity #enthusiasm #ethics #excitement #irresponsibilty #problemsolving #ramifications #science #technology #unintendedconsequences

A quotation from Addison

There is nothing in which Men more deceive themselves than in what the World calls Zeal. There are so many Passions which hide themselves under it, and so many Mischiefs arising from it, that some have gone so far as to say it would have been for the Benefit of Mankind if it had never been reckoned in the Catalogue of Virtues. It is certain, where it is once Laudable and Prudential, it is an hundred times Criminal and Erroneous; nor can it be otherwise, if we consider that it operates with equal Violence in all Religions, however opposite they may be to one another, and in all the Subdivisions of each Religion in particular.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-10-02), The Spectator, No. 185

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/addison-joseph/53093…

#quote #quotes #quotation #commitment #dedication #enthusiasm #fanaticism #holywar #intolerance #onetrueway #religion #religiousintolerance #religiouspersecution #sectarianism #truebeliever #vice #virtue #zeal #zealot

me: !!!
me: Baby tapirs make peeping noises!
the Mr.: what
me: Baby tapirs! they make bird noises!
the Mr.: i need to get my homework done
#marriedlife #tapirs #enthusiasm

@Cambion @nllgg
did u mean #enthusiasm?
Sounds awesome and urgently needed thanks for doing that!

(I'm going to look right now if there's an easy English translated one...)

On March 15 I will hold a session at the @nllgg #event in #Utrecht about getting rid of #BigTech, directly followed by a second session about the #Fediverse. Sessions can be followed separate if wished, and are in #Dutch.

Not your #topic? There are alternate tracks to follow, as well as a lot of people to meet. The events are for #anyone. No skill required, just some #enthusiasm. And the best part? Entrance is #free!

So if you're into #Linux and #opensource and speak Dutch, why not come by?

More and more #euphoria and #enthusiasm for and in the blue sky, when you gradually realize what is (im)possible. Any fool can mess things up with their own #server. Dumbasses can spread just as much as b. #TwitterniX. It's really bad with the #lists.

Secondo l'Anti-Defamation League se dici che a Gaza c'è un genocidio sei un pericoloso antisemita ma se fai il saluto romano non bisogna saltare alle conclusioni

#awkward #enthusiasm

Forget faking #enthusiasm. These 9 tactics will help you really #engage with your #work

https://www.fastcompany.com/91258580/forget-faking-enthusiam-these-9-tactics-will-help-you-really-engage-with-your-work

Enthusiasm is the ultimate game-changer! Let’s embrace it and inspire the world. Which area of your life needs a boost of enthusiasm today? 🌟 #Enthusiasm #Leadership #Inspiration #Motivation #PersonalGrowth #Innovation
https://sanjaymohindroo.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/enthusiasm-moves-the-world-arthur-balfour/