<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>https://ecency.com</link><image><url>https://ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>https://ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:43:55 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[The enigma of curation in the Hive system]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week's topic is really interesting to me, as I have noticed patterns in the curation process that show favoritism towards certain writers who, frankly, sometimes don't have much to say; meanwhile,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/the-enigma-of-curation-in</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/the-enigma-of-curation-in</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:58:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonYvwPi3SP7z5CwG9U9chgEJyDumX8k4nAV8mKoozQg6BZ5rkMavEANmnoSJ9pKKRg2eXZWKtXHeH6bPbDSyWMJ6NgHQNArfKFuRgpdNtMC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does It Mean to Be a Good Person?]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-good-person-14q by @jlat1412.Esta es mi reflexión sobre la bondad inactiva]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-good-person-14q-hive-186377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-good-person-14q-hive-186377</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:04:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Does It Mean to Be a Good Person?]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is curious that when we analyze what it means to be a good person, most people who consider themselves good tend to respond with a list of things they do not do: they do not steal, they do not kill,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-good-person-14q</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/what-does-it-mean-to-be-a-good-person-14q</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-111030]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:20:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2FFvzA2zeqoVPgRUuDKUinvD9B9LPPnXsRUBwBLP8tgmLdvv9n3oTLYo1eKQef1FestB9P4cDbx78DwafkjqNP7Z6ud2SbyJ2j3re4nzJbABiFXAzkwJfYxmyJy8A?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption in Soccer]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/corruption-in-soccer-ger by @jlat1412.Al final si pude abrir ecency así que aquí esta de nuevo el post.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/corruption-in-soccer-ger-hive-117084</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/corruption-in-soccer-ger-hive-117084</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:12:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Corruption in Soccer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Note. Spanish-to-English translation and images produced by Gemini AI. In many Latin American countries, sports such as soccer, baseball, or basketball are not seen merely as recreational activities; they]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/corruption-in-soccer-ger</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/corruption-in-soccer-ger</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 08:05:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvGBHbccWEZjKb3kuARN1v3aJidjaM2p2aMd1a3YkrR3uJXfRFPFfGP7GyDpq2eAmAtLfFVMxxPFPCU1UQFJrQesCxuHNyMSEHjM3KVx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illiterate]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/illiterate-bth by @jlat1412.Es sobre la educación en Venezuela]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/illiterate-bth-hive-186377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/illiterate-bth-hive-186377</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:51:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why We Must Reject Certain Connections to Preserve Our Integrity]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/why-we-must-reject-certain by @jlat1412.Este es un post sobre la corrupción en el país]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/why-we-must-reject-certain-hive-186377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/why-we-must-reject-certain-hive-186377</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:57:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why We Must Reject Certain Connections to Preserve Our Integrity]]></title><description><![CDATA[Starting without a professional network is like playing a video game on hell mode: you can have talent, excellent grades, and even high-quality peer-reviewed publications in academia. However, in a society]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/why-we-must-reject-certain</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/why-we-must-reject-certain</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 21:45:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonYvwPi3SP7z5CwG9U9chgEKDyhePmUey25JvEzrjVU1Gk123ZWvHWSzTttU26JgXieU2a1JhVQaRNJvAQHkg7td1s7BgVYFSP257D6LydQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Illiterate]]></title><description><![CDATA[I have ignored many pieces of advice throughout my life. However, I believe that one of the most important observations I have ever encountered relates to a book called Ethnology for Wanderers, written]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/illiterate-bth</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/illiterate-bth</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-111030]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:09:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/4i88GgaV8qiFkxccFCt3jiB1TPhHnzDTrodxt8etoHh1SDFxvyyeyvpgCkMjqdJKErqu9AhkdwkEx4ataUZWw1cTce5dNZbvNnoRUFVujHVhwDA1Te6cPnDrfx?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life After the Earthquake]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/life-after-the-earthquake by @jlat1412.Este es un análisis sobre lo que viene después de la tragedia]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/life-after-the-earthquake-hive-186377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/life-after-the-earthquake-hive-186377</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:37:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life After the Earthquake]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Invisible Impact of CatastrophesThere are many lessons to be learned from crises caused by earthquakes. From how to build infrastructure that can better withstand seismic activity to how to provide]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/life-after-the-earthquake</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/life-after-the-earthquake</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:06:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonYvwPi3SP7z5CwG9U9chgEK4fiacqBu3ybndCMgycxY7t7ZvhZR3D6YUCEGPdD6QpaXWQ3AGPPUbA9AGQTfWNvoWDPBSmMY3qs47Npu358?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leadership, Democracy, and Quality Control]]></title><description><![CDATA[When we think of democracy, we tend to think of it as the best system in the world compared to a dictatorship. The problem is that democracy lacks something that corporations have had for over a century:]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/leadership-democracy-and-quality-control-del</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/leadership-democracy-and-quality-control-del</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-111030]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:56:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/qjrE4yyfw5pJD9XBvScWccM3MYnVYYNVW9NiweGHZioGYtWX16mDgngqakjZisbVBEu77ZRHuKfwPXnMkFedgFvGVdkMiBUJkqz3tR2Q8Fo7zFhQctkonyRG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genocidal Corruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/genocidal-corruption by @jlat1412.Este es mi post sobre la corrupción en el país.]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/genocidal-corruption-hive-186377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/genocidal-corruption-hive-186377</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:50:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Genocidal Corruption]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I raised this topic about modern sins on Queercoin, I had cyberbullying, cyberscams, etc., in mind. But the truth is, with the recent double earthquake that struck my country (Venezuela), I decided]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/genocidal-corruption</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/genocidal-corruption</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:03:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/62PdCouTvNPDEhtndMZsi8ceAeSzUoBuJSBPhEuk2CiCKaPwfnHd59C9vDnkfFboXWBWjxrhgyY27LB6RHpAiKk5zzunJM3wtnqJr5ZZP2kMh4i?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anatomy of Social Decomposition: How do you rebuild a country's infrastructure when the moral fabric of its people is truly broken? Eng-Esp]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a cross post of @jlat1412/anatomy-of-social-decomposition-how-do-you-rebuild-a-countrys-infrastructure-when-the-moral-fabric-of-its-people-is-truly-broken-engesp-4kz by @jlat1412.Aquí esta post]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/anatomy-of-social-decomposition-how-do-you-rebuild-a-countrys-infrastructure-when-the-moral-fabric-of-its-people-is-truly-broken-engesp-4kz-hive-186377</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/anatomy-of-social-decomposition-how-do-you-rebuild-a-countrys-infrastructure-when-the-moral-fabric-of-its-people-is-truly-broken-engesp-4kz-hive-186377</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:34:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Anatomy of Social Decomposition: How do you rebuild a country's infrastructure when the moral fabric of its people is truly broken? Eng-Esp]]></title><description><![CDATA[It happened during the 1999 Vargas tragedy, where between 700 and 1,000 people died when a severe flash flood devastated several parishes in the state. It also happened during the floods in Valencia, Spain,]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/anatomy-of-social-decomposition-how-do-you-rebuild-a-countrys-infrastructure-when-the-moral-fabric-of-its-people-is-truly-broken-engesp-4kz</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/anatomy-of-social-decomposition-how-do-you-rebuild-a-countrys-infrastructure-when-the-moral-fabric-of-its-people-is-truly-broken-engesp-4kz</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-131951]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:10:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/PB8ro82ZpZP35baDbn94LZJgbR43MAivbjXjJx2NpauAeAHYiDevby5fPPSwqjvZmQ1DdX7UakS2c4VTWGXi9fsRM34xuRUJWnC5jSvh5dcv4pKG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The license to sin enjoyed by the wealthy, like Epstein: what does it say about us as a society?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Image of Epstein taken from Wikimedia Commons The impunity in the Epstein case was not a fortuitous failure of the system; rather, it was a premium service that money can buy. For decades, Jeffrey Epstein]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/the-license-to-sin-enjoyed</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/the-license-to-sin-enjoyed</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-117084]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:55:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2923mN3pnd7PiAie5AC5ErJbFRLwFuc6WKbpNSSdFcEifj8ytn7um97EbNR4M3JaVc2SHYj5zXkcKiQanBdXEAtJ6iPEtkB69bo7pf5z5mQAY6?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[¿Qué tan preparados estamos para atender a las víctimas del terremoto en el país?]]></title><description><![CDATA[La naturaleza nos acaba de dar un recordatorio devastador de nuestra propia vulnerabilidad. Hace apenas unas horas, el suelo bajo nuestros pies se sacudió con una violencia que la mayoría de nosotros jamás]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/qu-tan-preparados-estamos-para-atender-a-las-vctimas-del-terremoto-en-el-pas-3qy</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/qu-tan-preparados-estamos-para-atender-a-las-vctimas-del-terremoto-en-el-pas-3qy</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-186377]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:56:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/Zskj9C56UonZ32MeESG7FjGD4N6EvzmNPVhtuvHHc4xkWyNKeAq4xdiKeZ2EmV7uTNrwdQvMYQfKziY1fuvAB7HS1tFaj1wZP8rW2eNZxRFmuPoqtopJ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Other Price of Toxic Hope: How Much of Your Life Are You Going to Waste on a Change That Never Comes?]]></title><description><![CDATA[In my post about “the toxic hope that the other person will change,” I talked about how dangerous it is to expect an abusive or self-destructive partner or family member to straighten up and decide to]]></description><link>https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/the-other-price-of-toxic-hope-how-much-of-your-life-are-you-going-to-waste-on-a-change-that-never-comes-5rj</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://ecency.com/@jlat1412/the-other-price-of-toxic-hope-how-much-of-your-life-are-you-going-to-waste-on-a-change-that-never-comes-5rj</guid><category><![CDATA[hive-126152]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[jlat1412]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 08:30:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjW4Pvz7LJVgc1Y8Dr68VKxqQHhW8tqNEhjX2xQMqcoYouDf62ing8QzNqRYApH374GYMNgrKJeBDk6MKnKZyNbavmG9ABJYW3NZ5NFhd2EUE?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dream of the Promised Land (That Won't Always Accept You)]]></title><description><![CDATA[This week's theme of dying for a dream is quite interesting, since I lack the kind of ideological commitment that people willing to do so possess. 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