Quitting my TV news career has come with many benefits but perhaps none as important as how it has affected my ability to parent. My relationship with the Producer would have consisted of about an hour in the morning (stressed about what I’d cover that day) and an hour at night (still stressed about what went wrong with my report that day). I’ve started “Hold On to Your Kids” by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté and I highly recommend it. They describe the era since World War II as one where peers have taken over the role of parenting, calling it “peer orientation”. They write, “Orientation, the drive to get one’s bearings and become acquainted with one’s surroundings, is a fundamental human instinct and need. Disorientation is one of the least bearable of all psychological experiences. Attachment and orientation are inextricably intertwined. Humans and other creatures automatically orient themselves by seeking cues from those to whom they are attached.” This has also got me thinking about my pressing question about why so many journalists prefer group think over curiosity. Are we adults also suffering from “peer orientation”?
Pete is Lynn’s least favorite animal on the farm so it’s always a little funny to me when Lynn has to come to Pete’s rescue.
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Training a cow was never something I expected to do - because I don’t know the first thing about it! But God blessed us with Maisy who is a little “green” as they say. In this video, I’m working to get a lead rope hooked to her halter so I can teach her to walk with me. I’m confident we’ll turn her into the best milking cow there ever was - might take a decade, but we’ll get there!
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We took 4 chickens and 5 baby goats to Lily’s summer camp today for “farm week”. It was total chaos but worth it!
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Nicolas Hulscher is coming on to discuss recent reports that the USDA is working to mass-vax poultry. He is an epidemiologist and administrator for the McCullough Foundation.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/usda-develops-potential-plan-vaccinate-poultry-bird-flu-2025-06-20/
YouTube is the new TikTok.
YouTube Shorts absolutely dwarf TikTok with 200 times the daily views
https://tech.yahoo.com/streaming/articles/youtube-shorts-absolutely-dwarf-tiktok-140819423.html
Amazon Is on the Cusp of Using More Robots Than Humans in Its Warehouses
https://archive.ph/sdNPT
"The automation of http://Amazon.com facilities is approaching a new milestone: There will soon be as many robots as humans.
The e-commerce giant, which has spent years automating tasks previously done by humans in its facilities, has deployed more than one million robots in those workplaces, Amazon said. That is the most it has ever had and near the count of human workers at the facilities.
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Warehouse Worker Resource Center, a nonprofit that advocates on the behalf of warehouse employees, said robotics haven’t changed jobs as much in smaller Amazon sites as in large fulfillment centers to date.
Yet Kaoosji expressed concern about the longer-term impact on employment. The company’s “dream is to have significant reduction of workforce in high-density facilities,” he said."
