#statusQuo

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-06-25

A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

If you dare to sail first o’er a new thought track,
   For a while it will scourge and score you;
Then, coming abreast with a skillful tack,
It will clasp your hand and slap your back,
   And vow it was there before you.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author, poet, temperance advocate, spiritualist
Poem (1892), “The World” st. 2, Once A Week, Vol. 10, No. 6 (1892-11-19)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/wilcox-ella-wheeler/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #catchingup #change #inertia #innovation #progress #statusquo

2025-06-25

FRANCIS ROSSI – The Way We Were Vol. 1
eternal-terror.com/?p=69740

RELEASE YEAR: 2025BAND URL: francisrossi.com/

Francis Rossi of Status Quo fame recently released this seventeen-track compilation of various demo versions and alternate takes – many of which relate to his work with and songwriting contribution to the aforementioned Quo – and it is a rather intriguing album in many respects.

Some of the ideas presented on the disc are […]

#bluesRock #classicRock #countryRock #earmusic #francisRossi #hardRock #rockNRoll #statusQuo

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca
2025-06-25
WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-06-23

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

Often an opinion, a custom, seems absurd when we are young, and advancing in life, we find the reason. Mustn’t we conclude that certain habits aren’t so ridiculous? One is lead to think sometimes that they were established by people who had read the entire book of life, and that they are judged by people who, despite their esprit, have only read a few pages.
 
[Souvent une opinion, une coutume commence à paraître absurde dans la première jeunesse, et en avançant dans la vie, on en trouve la raison; elle paraît moins absurde. En faudrait-il conclure que de certaines coutumes sont moins ridicules? On serait porté à penser quelquefois qu’elles ont été établies par des gens qui avaient lu le livre entier de la vie, et qu’elles sont jugées par des gens qui, malgré leur esprit, n’en ont lu que quelques pages.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 21 (1795) [tr. Siniscalchi (1994)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/770…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #chamfort #absurdity #belief #conservatism #custom #elders #experience #growingup #maturing #maturity #opinion #receivedwisdom #statusquo #stupidity #tradition #wisdom

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-06-18

A quotation from Banksy

   The human race is an unfair and stupid competition. A lot of the runners don’t even get decent sneakers or clean drinking water.
   Some runners are born with a massive head start, every possible help along the way and still the referees seem to be on their side.
   It’s not surprising a lot of people have given up competing altogether and gone to sit in the grandstand, eat junk food and shout abuse.
   What we need in this race is a lot more streakers.

Banksy (b. 1974?) England-based pseudonymous street artist, political activist, film director
Wall and Piece, “Rats” (2005)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/banksy/77042/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #banksy #system #statusquo #apathy #classwarfare #competition #defiance #disrespect #givingup #humancondition #inequality #injustice #protest #ratrace #unfairness #world

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-06-16

A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

The most absurd customs and the most ridiculous ceremonies are everywhere excused by an appeal to the phrase, but that’s the tradition. This is exactly what the Hottentots say when Europeans ask them why they eat grasshoppers and devour their body lice. That’s the tradition, they explain.
 
[Les coutumes les plus absurdes, les étiquettes les plus ridicules, sont en France et ailleurs sous la protection de ce mot: c’est l’usage. C’est précisément ce même mot que répondent les Hottentots, quand les Européens leur demandent pourquoi ils mangent des sauterelles, pourquoi ils dévorent la vermine dont ils sont couverts. Ils disent aussi: c’est l’usage.]

Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 3, ¶ 249 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/377…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #absurdity #ceremony #convention #custom #precedent #protocol #ridiculousness #ritual #statusquo #strangeness #tradition

Nick Byrd, Ph.D.ByrdNick@nerdculture.de
2025-06-16

In 2017, researchers asked if people want #AI making decisions in #medicine.

People's #ethics didn’t explain much, but the #statusQuo did.

The more people thought AI *is* making decisions, the more they thought it *should*.

🔒 doi.org/10.1145/3278721.327875
🔓 users.cs.duke.edu/~conitzer/wh

Methods and results of Experiments 2a and 2bMethods and results of Experiment 3 with conclusion highlighted.
Rowan Brad QuniQNFO@mstdn.science
2025-06-10

@Anarchy_How just ask #flatearth believers, who can't seem to #reason with honest #logic but will make any number of pseduo-empirical claims. Or #physics, which has made its #dogma resisting new #science paradigms and dismissing non-materialist #cosmology as #metaphysics and #philosophy while insisting their #math empirically proves the #statusquo...yet can't seem to figure out #quantum mechanics.

"This leaves incumbents facing the classic innovator’s dilemma: when and how to embrace new production methods, while the old methods remain profitable." ☝🏽 I am often asked why nothing is moving forward, even though my alternative concepts are quite convincing. #concrete #cement #statusquo

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3nekuksdc3y37mr7q66aaq4d/post/3lqvt7g3ii22g

2025-06-08

A very happy 72nd birthday to Jeff Rich, Born today 8th June 1953,
Did a 16 year stint drumming for #StatusQuo , currently inspiring young musicians with his "Drum masterclass"

#music #photography

2025-06-03

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula Le Guin, National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters

theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in

#ursulaleguin #ideologiestattfakten #statusquo

2025-06-03

Hypernormalization:

“What you are feeling is the disconnect between seeing that systems are failing, that things aren’t working … and yet the institutions and the people in power just are, like, ignoring it and pretending everything is going to go on the way that it has,”

theguardian.com/wellness/ng-in

#hypernormalization #hierundjetzt #realitaet #ideologiestattfakten #statusquo

2025-05-29

Corporations, political parties, and universities all exist to maintain the #StatusQuo. Don't expect them to save you.

2025-05-29

"Most of us in this business are insecure little show-offs."

Happy 76th birthday to Francis Dominic Nicholas Michael Rossi OBE, aka Francis Rossi, Born today 29th May 1949

#StatusQuo #photooftheday #FrancisRossi #music #photography

📸 Frank Griffin

2025-05-29
2025-05-28

"California Republicans love to hate Kamala Harris. And they’d really love her to run for governor":
politico.com/news/2025/05/26/c
“The candidate who’s going to win in 2026 is the change candidate. Kamala Harris is the one who least represents change.”

When those “Whatifs” get really loud in your ears & make you question your life choices…

Those who grew up with Shel Silverstein poetry books in the classroom or home probably get the reference. For those who haven't or barely remember, let's just say it's all-too-appropriate for my day today...

texantally.com/2025/05/27/when

#empaths #SelfAwareness #doubt #cowardice #dreams #change #fear #feelings #frustration #psychology #trust #statusquo #goals

2025-05-26

@Dianora
It's why I don't give free passes to #BCNDP & their supporters. They're major ecociders, big on #eugenics & they want to keep protecting privileged #StatusQuo crap. They're #neoliberals by their own party choices to keep shifting to the right & putting corporate greed/backroom bucks above greater public interests.They aren't learning much from huge federal loss with #NDP & their own narrow provincial win. Pitiful & dangerous.

@AlisonCreekside

#BCpoli #CDNpoli

2025-05-24

A friend told me about a Status Quo documentation he watched the other day. Made me want to listen to them... #NowPlaying Ma Kelly's Greasy Spoon (1970) by Status Quo 🎶

album.link
album.link/i/1436080339

#Music #HardRock #BluesRock #StatusQuo

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