Ellen Griley
@equilibrious.bsky.social
Founder of Equilibrious Communications and creator of Internal Calms™ | I train comms pros on how to communicate with employees during uncertainty and polycrisis. More at internal-calms.com
Watched Lewis Lapham’s The American Ruling Class on Criterion last night and now I feel compelled to quit my business and write the definitive oral history of its production. I’ve never seen anything quite like it. Also, found what the lead actors were up to on LinkedIn. Quite the coda.
“In other words, corporate leadership is starting from the premise that AI has (or will) radically change the business, and they're working backwards from that premise to find the evidence to support this article of faith.”
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is basically the entire underlying premise of my work. I believe society is in an active trauma response.
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3w agoOne of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
verifiably pre-2023 information (software, writing, imagery) is going to take on the import of low-background steel, a vital and increasingly rare resource from an era free of cataclysmic distortion
If people can’t go outside in the Summer, is that bad for the economy?
How can anyone be expected to create shareholder value on a day like this?
i like that Paul Simon gets big cocky with his theory that there's 50 ways to leave your lover, and then when pressed for answers he's only got like six and one of them is just "get on the bus"
You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."
I deeply regret reading this piece--but also feel compelled to point out that it contains this absolutely spectacular example of Both Sides-ing it. An NYT all-timer "influencers who are accused of human trafficking and rape" are "functionally equivalent" to feminists
Introduce yourself with 10 artists you’ve seen live Fleetwood Mac Steely Dan Michael McDonald Kenny Loggins Christopher Cross Chaka Khan Ned Doheny Paul McCartney Neil Young Young Gun Silver Fox ⛵️ 🪨
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 3mo agoIntroduce yourself with 10 artists you’ve seen live UTFO Poor Righteous Teachers MC Hammer New Edition Janet Jackson Prince Nas Biggie OutKast (Obligatory) Beyonce
Sure as heck prefer this over instructing pharmacists not to fulfill birth control prescriptions.
Elizabeth Lopatto@lopatto.bsky.social · 3mo agohard not to read this as a direct call for all practicing catholics to quit their jobs at palantir and andruil
![212. At this point, however, a subtle temptation may emerge, namely the thought that the problems are too big and we are too small, and that our choices, therefore, cannot make a difference. This is a polite form of resignation, often disguised as realism. Certainly, not everyone has the same power to make a difference. There are those who govern, make investment decisions, lead institutions, conduct research, educate, produce or provide information, and then there are those who only seem to live their daily lives. Yet, no one is without responsibility. We all have our own areas for action, and it is precisely there — and nowhere else — that we must choose whether to fuel the mentality of force (even if only through indifference, cynicism, lies or hatred), or to preserve the mindset of peace (with truth, moderation, closeness and care).
213. The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.” [187] The civilization of love will not arise from a single or spectacular gesture, but from the sum total of small and steadfast acts of fidelity that serve as a bulwark against dehumanization. For this reason, it is worthwhile pausing to reflect on some aspects of how we, each in our own way, can cooperate in building the civilization of love. Without presuming to exhaust this theme, I would like to propose five paths toward daily and public responsibility: the need to disarm words, building peace through justice, adopting the perspective of victims, cultivating a healthy realism and reviving dialogue and multilateralism.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j3tpb4iabrq3ukfaui6eymwf/bafkreifm32mcbgqcatjm73nx6lexs5d7inkmo723cb7odknhjbq54nfqw4)
McKinsey preparing a 12-page report on trauma-informed leadership without citing anything but its own research and framing it as how leaders can “help their organizations metabolize strain” is exactly the thing I’m concerned about when I talk about the trauma-informed industrial complex. 🧵
Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli.
H-ear-me-now Singh@admadlad.bsky.social · 4mo agoFilm you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, DC, Marvel, Disney, Pixar, Spielberg, Cameron, Wachowskis, or Ghibli. Cheat code: anything by the fine folks who made this, literally anything👇🏽
That there even was momentary consideration for the #WHCA going on speaks to how completely numb people in positions of power are on the inside. This Amazon telling people to keep working after a coworker collapses. This is prioritizing business continuity through natural disasters.
In the most unexpected news of my life, realized today there is a decent chance I met Kash Patel in college while I was studying abroad.
Genuinely sorry to anyone who has notification alerts for me on LinkedIn because I’m blowing up the feed commenting on everyone’s #InternalCommsDay posts.
I wonder if this “water for me, not for thee” privilege for data centers in droughts is going to impact AI sabotage efforts that were reported recently. I cannot emphasize enough how teams leading transformation efforts must take a beat, read the room, and adjust expectations for adoption.
Seeing this headline and thinking about how unexpectedly delighted I felt in my first months of remote work. It was safety. I felt safety.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4mo agoCNN exposes a global “online rape academy” that teaches men how to drug and rape women without detection. Over 62 million men attended in February alone.
The through-line from Marc Andreessen’s introspection-is-for-losers to this post.
Salute to the headbanger kid in my 8th grade art class who one day quietly said that the best guitarist in the world wasn’t Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhoads, or Jimmy Page. It was, in fact, he insisted, George Benson. We didn’t know what to do with this information but he was resolute.
Desperately wish there was a stronger #internalcomms space for real-time conversation. Genuinely curious if anyone else is wondering if it’s time to ask HR whether they’re planning a conscientious objector policy for AI.
At least one cop in Kansas is going to demand that a driver pull down their pants, "just to check," before this is over.
People mostly say "Americans live in different realities" to talk about politics but it is blaring in my head reading the positive reviews of One Battle After Another
Cool, gonna go throw up now. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books
Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles.
washingtonpost.com
Hugo Lowell told MSNOW that the Trump administration expects that the murder of Alex Pretti will "blow over and go away." They believe that Americans will forget about it in a week or so.
V. grateful for this text, which is such a brilliant springboard for internal comms and employee comms practitioners looking to re-examine their approaches in polycrisis.
