for our bacterial partners, a human lifetime is deep time.
for - microbiome - one human lifetime is deep time - relativity
for our bacterial partners, a human lifetime is deep time.
for - microbiome - one human lifetime is deep time - relativity
Because one human lifetime may encompass a million bacterial generations, individual species and the microbiome itself can evolve within a single host.
for - quote - one human lifetime - evolution of a million generations of bacteria - Because one human lifetime may encompass a million bacterial generations, individual species and the microbiome itself can evolve within a single host.
The collective microbial genome in our gut may include 100-fold more genetic information than what can be found in our own eukaryotic cells.
for - trivia - microbiome - 100x more genetic information here than our other body cells -meme - most of the genetic information inside you is not really you
It was actually Shreddinger who formulated that idea way back in 1942 when he wrote a book called what is life?
for - book - What is Life? Schrodinger - formulated the idea behind the central dogma of molecular biology
Let me reiterate, global capitalism is the legacy of the agricultural system.
for - relationship - agriculture - is the parent - of global capitalism - It (global capitalism) is an elaboration of the agricultural system. - Surplus and expansion and - profound, almost mechanistic, interdependency in material life, and - duality in the human relationship to the more-than-human world - became the order of the day beginning with grain agriculture. - The basic structure and dynamic of the agricultural system were subsequently extended with elaborations that have eventually led to global capitalism.
Global capitalism can be considered ‘a system within a system’ in the sense that it models the agricultural system in its structure and dynamic
for comparison - agriculture - capitalism - one is the parent, the other is the uncontrolled offspring
Once humans attained culture, the pressure on genetic change is less significant and adaptation can take place through the flexibility afforded through cultural change.
for - key insight - culture - adaption through culture, not genes - SRG comment - danger is progress traps! - This is a key insight. Once we have sophisticated culture, we don't rely on slow moving genetic change to adapt anymore. Instead we rely on culture! - This is the world of human progress, but is also a dangerous one because progress (cultural adaptation to environmental pressures) comes with progress traps.
killing large groups of people who often at the prime of their working age means suddenly you're losing often decades or centuries of working hours as well. In every single case, it's a wasteful use of energy. Conspicuous consumption or as a way of saying I am more important than you. I have higher status than you do.
for - status competition - conspicuous consumption - war - waste in general
we need to educate general practitioners, not just specialists, right? We need to to look at the anthroposine geoysiology and say, okay, we need some GPS for anthroposine geoysiology.
for - metaphor - medical - anthropocene - beyond experts, we need GPs for Anthropocene geophysiology - SRG comment - Is SRG GP for anthropocene?
I think we need to concentrate more on the feedbacks between all of those nodes than on the nodes themselves. And that's tough because I might be an expert on one of those nodes and you might be an expert on one of the other nodes. And and it's not that that's needed. It's the feedbacks between the nodes.
for - wicked problems - feedback between nodes is the priority - wicked problems - SRG comment - feedback between nodes - indicates progress traps COLLECCT ecosystem design
post-growth and degrowth econ e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e e economies are part of this shared struggle for well-being within planetary boundaries
for - anthropocene - shared struggle - post-growth and degrowth is part of it
historically if you look at a history textbook, it's essentially a role called mass murderers.
for - explanation - why leaders are often psychopaths - history book is full of mass murderers
the phasing out is really a challenge and we need maybe collapse. Uh so how do we collapse things? That's the big question.
for - quote - phasing out is a challenge - maybe collapse is needed
if Bill Gates took one of my trainings I would say Bill it's yes and when we're prioritizing in the in the scene it's not either or you don't get to pick one of the nodes, you have to you have to prioritize the network
for - Bill gates climate article - is AND, not EITHER OR
a metalrich surface to the planet which is something quite new
for - stats - metal rich surface of planet is novel
about 30% of the plastic is is recycled or incinerated so kind of keeps in the system or moves out of the system and then the other 70% is effectively waste.
for - stats - pollution - plastic - 30% recycled or incinerated - 70% is landfill waste
With single parenting and cohabitation (when a couple shares a residence but not a marriage) becoming more acceptable in recent years, people may be less motivated to get married. In a recent survey, 39 percent of respondents answered “yes” when asked whether marriage is becoming obsolete (Pew Research Center 2010). The institution of marriage is likely to continue, but some previous patterns of marriage will become outdated as new patterns emerge. In this context, cohabitation contributes to the phenomenon of people getting married for the first time at a later age than was typical in earlier generations (Glezer 1991). Furthermore, marriage will continue to be delayed as more people place education and career ahead of “settling down.”
The people that are just OK with cohabitation rather than marriage surprise me but then it makes sense when we get to the next Section and they talk about one partner or many. The reason why more people are OK with cohabitation is because it’s less commitment rather than actually proposing a marriage, people want to still feel like they have the option to leave.(so they don’t feel trapped) It’s like they’re afraid of not having freedom or just afraid of the commitment in general.
The study also revealed that 60 percent of U.S. respondents agreed that if you consider yourself a family, you are a family (a concept that reinforces an interactionist perspective) (Powell 2010). The government, however, is not so flexible in its definition of “family.” The U.S. Census Bureau defines a family as “a group of two people or more (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together” (U.S. Census Bureau 2010). While this structured definition can be used as a means to consistently track family-related patterns over several years, it excludes individuals such as cohabitating unmarried couples. Legality aside, sociologists would argue that the general concept of family is more diverse and less structured than in years past. Society has given more leeway to the design of a family making room for what works for its members (Jayson 2010).
I like how the bureau is basically telling us that the definition of family has shifted overtime to something much brighter than just husband, wife and child. Being family is about an emotional connection, shared, living and economic cooperation. Rather than just the institutional structure
if that doesn't happen, we're in trouble with the climate problem because it's not going to be solved as long as uh the special interests are controlling our governments
for - climate crisis - opinion - James Hansen - won't be solve as long as - there is special interest - controlling government
China is becoming the world's first electrostate while the US is doubling down on being a petrostate
for - comparison - energy - China will become the world's first electrostate - The US is doubling down as a leading petrostate
globally, fossil fuel subsidies are almost nine times higher for oil and gas than for renewables
for - stats - comparison - 2025 - energy subsidies - fossil fuel subsidies is 9x more than renewables
Intertwined with its concern over ethnicity and religion, the Orange Order presented an ideal of nationalism that differed from the conceptions being presented by other competing forces in Canada. While other Canadian thinkers of the early-twentieth century began to conceive of the Canadian nation as part of a North American tradition, along with the United States, or as a “northern nation” that, through the crucible of Arctic winters, broke with both the United States and Europe, the Orange Order celebrated Canada’s past and highlighted the accomplishments of the British in North America. As the Order saw it, the devotion of the Loyalists and the rise of an Anglophone hegemony in North America were foundational to Canada’s existence, and both owed their authority to British identity. Indeed, as Scott See points out with regard to the Orange Order’s Loyalism of the nineteenth century, The Orange Order served as a form of connective tissue to link the Old World with the New. It was a complex blend of full-throated dedication to the Empire and unswerving support for Britain’s imperial endeavors, as well as an indigenous pronouncement of colonial identity in North America that applauded the British connection, yet strove to articulate a distinct identity of Britishness. (See Citation2014, 182)
"Intertwined with its concern over ethnicity and religion, the Orange Order presented an ideal of nationalism that differed from the conceptions being presented by other competing forces in Canada. While other Canadian thinkers of the early-twentieth century began to conceive of the Canadian nation as part of a North American tradition, along with the United States, or as a “northern nation” that, through the crucible of Arctic winters, broke with both the United States and Europe, the Orange Order celebrated Canada’s past and highlighted the accomplishments of the British in North America. As the Order saw it, the devotion of the Loyalists and the rise of an Anglophone hegemony in North America were foundational to Canada’s existence, and both owed their authority to British identity. Indeed, as Scott See points out with regard to the Orange Order’s Loyalism of the nineteenth century,
The Orange Order served as a form of connective tissue to link the Old World with the New. It was a complex blend of full-throated dedication to the Empire and unswerving support for Britain’s imperial endeavors, as well as an indigenous pronouncement of colonial identity in North America that applauded the British connection, yet strove to articulate a distinct identity of Britishness. (See Citation2014, 182)"
SPECIFIC BRITISH IDENTITY -> EMPHASIZES THIS AS OPPOSED TO NORTH AMERICAN IDENTITY CURRENTS LIKE AMERICANISM
Flag is connection between Canadians and the British Empire. Again, empty identity though. " “the Flag of our Empire, upon which the sun never sets is the outward and visible emblem of our loyalty to the great British Commonwealth, of which Canada is an integral part” (“Forms” Citation1937). This strain of thought resembled the ideas of imperialists like Stephen Leacock, who before World War I had advocated for greater Canadian participation in British imperial ventures as a means of sharing in the military victories won overseas and the spread of Anglo-Saxon civilization."
we don't value things that are less intelligent. We don't protect the animals. So why would we protect humans if we have something that is now more powerful, more intelligent? That's intelligence equals betterness
for - quote - more intelligent species is better species?
clarity is courage
for - quote - clarity is courage - Neil Postman
you have to pay for everyone's livelihood everywhere in every country? Again, how can we afford that
for - cosmolocal model - AI is forcing us towards socialism
More than a quarter of the labor force now does gig jobs, says the workers lab at Johns Hopkins.
for - stats - US economy - 25% is gig economy
Video: George H.W. Bush speaks at Johns Hopkins commencement in 1996<br /> by [[Jacob deNobel]] in JHU Hub<br /> accessed on 2025-11-11T09:12:00
'Be bold,' the 41st U.S. president told students at university's undergraduate diploma ceremony on May 22, 1996
there's a lot of people talk talking about you know Oneness and interconnectedness um however the underlying cognitive structure and therefore um linguistic structure that we use is based in separation
for - language - speaking of non-duality - is itself dualistic
going back to Sanskrit and other indigenous languages understanding that sound creates form
for - language - ancient - sound creates form - question - language creates form - what is she exactly saying?
we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time
for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall
for - Beautiful Mind Learning Labs - Question - Is it the same as Hummingbird Learning Labs? - adjacency - education - neuroscience - Beau Lotto
began with language itself.
for - adjacency - language - is the first AI
for - youtube - Legal AF - Opus Day - question - Who is Opus Day? What harm have they been doing? - They seem to be associated with dark conservative forces
malleable actors
supporting my premise: - AI actors are replacing humans and theyre more appealing to the studios.
This shows economic and creative incentives for replacing humans.
How do we manage to recover from the interlude of slumber? It is, of course, memory that allows us to experience this feeling of continuity.
for - adjacency - sleep - continuity - memory is the bridge!
MToC argues that “first-order” processes can be conscious without meta-representations.
for - MToC - first order processes can be conscious WITHOUT meta-representation. - interesting! - Question - does this mean sensory input is somehow conscious?
a reasonable speculation (expanded upon further below) is that memory reactivation during sleep is generally unconscious.
for - adjacency - claim - sleep - memory reactivation is - unconscious
for - from - search - Google - how new words divide the world in new ways - https://hyp.is/55MHUKUxEfC-TAfy9q1VjA/www.google.com/search?q=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&oq=how+new+words+divide+the+world+in+new+ways&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigAdIBCDgwODFqMGo0qAIAsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
Also just because some popular websites does something doesn't mean you should too. WebAIM Million 2021 revealed that 97.4% of the top 1 million home pages had detectable WCAG 2 errors (not warnings). They found that 40% of home pages had skipping heading levels; developers aren't exactly great at picking the right tool for the job, not even the developers of the most popular sites.
the question is, why didn't that biochemical story get you to this discovery?
for - quote - Michael Levin - what is a good story? - the question is: Why didn't that biochemical story get you to this (new) discovery? - adjacency - good models - predictive power - good story - a good model is a good language - new words frame the world in new ways, - it allows us to divide reality in different ways - and can lead us to look in places we otherwise might now - and that can lead to new observations
Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans
26:14 Elsa: Sie haben ja vorher das gesagt mit "immer gerne in den Spiel"... "selbstverliebt"...<br /> die Leute sehen sich gerne im Spiegel, dann hört man immer wieder das Wort "Wohlstandsverwahllosung"<br /> und dann gibt auch immer wieder die Aussage "die Leute brauchen vermutlich wieder mal einen Krieg".<br /> Wie sehen Sie das dann in diesem Zusammenhang?<br /> Würde es ihnen [den Leuten] letztendlich gut tun, dass sie dann auch wieder demütiger werden, dankbarer werden?<br /> Weil Sie ja jetzt sagen, es verändert einen, aber man hört das halt immer wieder, diesen Spruch. Was würden Sie dazu sagen?<br /> zu diesem "sie brauchen wieder mal einen Krieg, dass sie wieder mal normal werden"?<br /> Harter Spruch, ich weiß, aber ich höre es immer wieder mal.
26:49 Johann Gaiswinkler: Ist richtig... Ich lehne es also absolut ab, weil, wie gesagt,<br /> Krieg ist die Abwesenheit von Menschlichkeit und Vernunft und Hausverstand und was auch immer.<br /> Es müsste andere Wege geben... [welche? serienmord? stammkriege?]<br /> aber ich glaube Oswald Spengler war es, der hat ein mal ein 1000 Seiten Werk geschrieben,<br /> "Der Untergang des Abendlandes", in den 30er Jahren,<br /> und da beschreibt er, dass alle Kulturen sozusagen einem Jahreszyklus unterliegen.<br /> Es gibt für jede Kultur einen Frühling, einen Sommer, einen Herbst und einen Winter.<br /> Möglicherweise sind wir jetzt in Europa und der westlichen Welt in eine Art Winter angekommen.<br /> Ich weiß es nicht... Ich hoffe, es wird ein milder Winter...
Developers can ramp up more quickly on new APIs, providing quicker feedback to the platform while the APIs are still the most malleable. Mistakes in APIs can be corrected quickly by the developers who use them, and library authors who serve them, providing high-fidelity, critical feedback to browser vendors and platform designers.
Marketers are excellent communicators. They know how to use the written word in order to get attention and convey a message, as well as how to best utilize spoken or recorded words that do the same
This tells us that strong communication skilsl are essential to overcoming challenges, including both written and verbal forms to capture attention and effectively convey messagnes
In this paragraph, instead of looking at plagiarism or anything related to that, the study is relating to people and how ai influences people to think about themselves as real researchers.
I highly agree with the statement that "talking back" is/was seen as a form of disrespect even when the child was just expressing themselves. Now, I do also believe that it also determines on the way you take that approach which separates It from being disrespectful and the child responding
Researchers at the University of Reading recently conducted a blind test in which ChatGPT-written answers were submitted through the university’s own examination system: 94% of the AI submissions went undetected and received higher scores than those submitted by the humans.
WOW! This is actually insane.
“humanisers”, such as CopyGenius and StealthGPT, the latter which boasts that it can produce undetectable content and claims to have helped half a million students produce nearly 5m papers.
This is actually really alarming! Wow!
a generative AI researcher at British University Vietnam, believes there are “significant limitations” to AI detection software. “All the research says time and time again that these tools are unreliable,”
So does this mean AI will never be 100% reliable?
In the struggle to stuff the genie back in the bottle, universities have become locked in an escalating technological arms race, even turning to AI themselves to try to catch misconduct.
What a crazy era for technology.
More than half of students now use generative AI to help with their assessments
I am excited and nervous to use AI feels like a gateway drug to laziness
it's it's a it's a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme.
for - quote - scientific publishing is a very sophisticated Ponzi scheme - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb networked self-publishing
I think scientific publishing is a misdirection game.
for - quote - scientific publishing is misdirection and huge business for publishing companies - quote - Alex Gomez-Marin - alignment - Alex Gomez-Marin - Indyweb - networked self-publishing
the worst pseudocience is this kind of dogmatic scientism.
for - quote - the worst kind of pseudoscience is this kind of dogmatic scientism
I think reality is so incredibly rich and powerful. It's like looking at the sun like we would get blinded.
for - adjacency - reality is incredibly rich and powerful - poverty mentality - What he says here is in line with the Buddhist concept of poverty mentality, in which we cannot believe we are the very happiness and richness we have been searching for - we've been on a life goal of searching for enlightenment our whole lives, - not realizing that we are it
from - youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - A neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - Alex Gomez-Marin - a third is born between two in conversation
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for - book - More Everything Forever - Adam Becker - from - Youtube - Essentia Foundation - interview - Alex Gomez-Marin - Neuroscientist speaks out on the hidden war on consciousness - https://hyp.is/ile8TIvJEfCl35MW3f5B8Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7NIicE_h9w
Summary - Interesting adjacency with another video I've been watching, that focused on a Western monk's practice of Tibetan Buddhism, who after 12 years, entered a 4 year retreat and panicked - His demons emerged in the first 2 years of the retreat and he left but returned - This monk emphasized accepting the relationship with his demons instead of averting them and how craving and desire emphasized by Western civilllization is the cause of modernity's meaning crisis - to - Youtube - Diary of a CEO - Your brain is lying to you - Interview - Gerong Tupton - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DvIbLQQ1i56Y&group=world
did she also recall the opening line of the novel Snoopy never did get to finish? “It was a dark and stormy night ….” Time didn’t allow me to explain that this was not actually a Snoopy original. The celebrated incipit was dognapped by Snoopy’s creator, Charles M. Schulz, from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, a mid-19th century English novelist, poet, playwright and politician who also coined phrases such as “the great unwashed”, “pursuit of the almighty dollar” and “the pen is mightier than the sword”.
it's very intelligent to minimize surprise
for - explanation - why minimising surprise is a good definition of intelligence - Donald Hoffman - it's very intelligent to minimize surprise - I'm surprised all the time - I'm pretty stupid right, I don't understand the world very well - but if I'm NOT surprised, it's like I've got a really good model especially if I'm doing lots of stuff in the world and I'm almost never surprised - boy am I I'm really intelligent! - So, you can see why that's a really good principle for trying to build an AI, - not just finding correlations between everything, - but really something deeper.
that's sort of the the approach that Fristristen is taking to and his company is taking toward toward this. Um intelligence is somehow about minimizing surprise
for - paraphrase - Active Inference - Intelligence is about minimizing surprise - Donald Hoffman
That's me in a different headset. And when I really then then I ask, well, how would I want to treat me? I get the right answer. That's love. How would I if that's me, how how how would I treat me if that were me? Well, when you get the right when you do that, you're acting in love.
for - key insight - if that person is me, hope would I treat me? - Donald Hoffman - adjacency - if that person is me, how do I treat me? - Good Deep Humanity BEing journey
If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act. You don't really need to add anything more to that. That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.
for - quote / key insight - If if your religion is love and that's it and that's then that's how you act, you don't really need to add anything more to that. - That's that's all you really need. Love your neighbor as yourself. You're done.
through the lens of reality that you see the world and that you believe the world is what becomes the meaning of life
for - Q ? - What is the meaning of life - Donald Hoffman
The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.
for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.
adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species
All the egoic stuff that we do that causes all the problems in the world because you don't know who you are
for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.
all of our theories will comprehend 0% of reality
for - the map is not the territory - don't mistaken the finger for the moon
From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive
for - quote/key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is
quote / key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is - Donald Hoffman - From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive. - It takes a lot of calories. - You have to eat a lot of food - to run your brain and - to power your eyes and your ears. - - And so you need to do shortcuts. - You need to make your sensory systems not chew up so much of your energy. - The more expensive your perceptual systems are, - the more you've got to eat to to power those. - So that means you have to go out there and forage and put yourself at harm. - So there's a trade-off. - We try to do things cheaply in evolution. And you don't need to actually go for the truth because that's very very expensive
our sensory systems on Darwin's theory were not shaped to show us the truth. They were shaped to keep you alive long enough to reproduce successfully. Period. That's all Dharm's theory actually says
for - quote - Evolution shapes us not for truth, but to successfully reproduce - Donald Hoffman
for - AgroSphere Technology key research paper - carbon emissions - paper claims agriculture is the highest summary - The paper cited here is very important for AgroSphere Technology because - It shows how critical a role regenerative agriculture plays in mitigating the climate crisis - The claim of the paper is that carbon emissions from Agriculture are the biggest emissions of all
for - youtube - podcast - I've had it - Lindsay Graham is Gay - conservative political parties - closeted LBGTQ - Republican party - closeted homosexuals
summary - This program raises a very important, but ignored issue that is salient to the polycrisis - conservative religions harbor many closeted homosexuals who actively promote harmful LBGTQ hatred because they are in such denial - Complexity - simultaneous being both - conservative religious and - homosexual, queer, bi or trans - creates a pathological - contradiction - denaialism - self-hatred - hatred of LBGTQ community - Political parties that are conservative are composed of a majority of religious conservatives - hence, they also have a majority of CLOSETED homosexuals, gay, queer, trans, bi people - The denialism and self-hatred manifests as political policies that are harmful to the LBGTQ community
what I want to say very provocatively, there is makes no sense to talk about eternal life
for - claim - eternal life is nonsense
for - from - youtube - Just have a think - A controversial new paper challenges established emissions accounting criteria - https://hyp.is/9AQ6VF2SEfCsW8_68Y6AUA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9f16OTL1Lg - climate crisis - ERF - agriculture 60% - fossil fuels 18% - agriculture is the biggest contributor to carbon emissions summary - This paper uses Effective Radiative Forcing (ERF) as a metric to measure global carbon emissions instead of the traditional Global Warming Potential (GWP) - It points out the problematic nature of GWP and how ERF provides a more accurate picture - Using ERF, the most surprising result of this study is that agriculture is the leading sector causing global warming - Measured from a baseline of emissions since 1750, - agriculture contributes 60% while - fossil fuels contributes 18% - Projects like Project Drawdown already prioritize agriculture, this gives even more validation and priority on transforming the agricultural sector - This also increases importance on efforts in: - regenerative farming - bioreginalism - permaculture - agroforestry - rewilding
Ray Bradbury's Rules to Writing: Don't Think!<br /> accessed on 2025-08-12T09:45:59
"...you must never think at the typewriter, you must feel." —Ray Bradbury
This also cleverly goes against the idea that "writing is thinking". Bradbury frames it as "writing is feeling" or "writing is being."
or otherwise
The words "or otherwise" in Ohio's Constitution mean the state can fund schools without forcing people to pay taxes. They allow other ways, like using money from school trust funds or other sources, to support education fairly and efficiently.
This is the start of the undoing of the postworld war II order.
for - quote - This is the start of the undoing of the post world war II order - Eric Weinstein
Open Cooperatives
for - learned new term - open cooperative - this is an important subset of cooperative Cooperatives alive are insufficient for construction commons business systems because they can still be capitalistic cooperatives! - question - is Mondragon a capitalist or open cooperative?
for - article - substack - Annick De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - from - article - LinkedIn - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview"\ - https://hyp.is/oqgW2ivdEfCmu9M8EYHozw/www.linkedin.com/posts/bayoakomolafe_i-am-against-worldview-the-term-seems-activity-7319799984663535616-fpVW/ - to - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fipfs.indy0.net%2Fipfs%2Fbafybeihk6dcr7dfruu65z5e5ze2rkeiydkmgbbpadhyulckm4afnqbtdgy&group=world - from - Substack article - Can and should expect a spiritual Revolution any time soon? - Michel Bauwens - https://hyp.is/JDDTADInEfCKmLNKpwhsng/4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/can-and-should-we-expect-a-spiritual
summary - Annick de Witt takes the reader on a journey of discovery of that looks at the nuances of the complex set of entangled crisis we face today, by referring to the idea of worldviews - She shows how the quagmires now emerging are the result of interplay between three major worldviews, traditional, modern and post-modern and how each represents a partial truth that denies the partial truths held by the others - The article takes the example of Trumpism and the MAGA movement to illustrate, but the same analysis could be extended to the many different cultural worldviews found in different peoples around the globe - In particular, with Trump's recent decision to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, tensions between the traditional Islamic culture and the West's traditional, modern and post-modern segments of society are again on the rise - The insightful analysis culminates in the proposal for an integral worldview that includes all three but transcends each one - It may be useful to introduce Annick to Greg Henrique's Unified Theory of Knowledge (UToK), - https://www.unifiedtheoryofknowledge.org/ - Gregg works with John Vervaeke that Annick has cited - Regarding Bayo Akomolafe's short LinkedIn note on the word "worldview", I respect both Annick's detailed analysis as well as Bayo's interpretation and look forward to a comparative analylsis of these two perspectives around the word "worldview" - I am also in the middle of annotating Lisa E. Maroski's book, Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language, which is salient here as well
Indyweb dev - new Plexmark - analog affirmation slider - while reading the passage I was annotating, I realised that I was in agreement with a lot of what the author was articulating. However, I have no way to indicate this match because it would be too much - this gave rise to a new Plexmark: <br /> - Have an analog control slider for each sentence that indicates - agreement on one side and - disagreement on the other side as well as a - 'don't know' button. - This gives a running indication of resonance with your own salience landscape - This can then be used in conjunction with the Indranet - If there is an indication of strong agreement, then the reader may have strong motivation to investigate that author's mindplex, - especially if there is a strong salience mismatch between the author and the reader, indicating a possible learning event
Retrospective reflections - (See below) adjacency - sacred - relationship with - free - open source - what is your relationship with the sacred? - this is the same as asking - how do you feel in your time of solitude and aloneness? - do you feel deep connection and a sense of not being lonely while you are alone? - to be alienated if not to feel disconnected with others - as it is to be disconnected with the ceaseless sacred that continuously surrounds you, from birth to death
it means integration of both traditional and modern
two central ideas of Deep Humanity praxis fit into these three worldview
death awareness is a major focus on traditional knowledge systems but
June 27, 2025 - modernism - objective reality - validation - example - personal experience - beeping electricity meter
John Stuart Mill once said, referring to the different sides in intellectual controversies, they tend to be “in the right in what they affirmed, though in the wrong in what they denied.”
for - quote - right in what is affirmed, wrong in what is denied - John Stuart Mill - adjacency - worldviews - metaphor - blind men and the elephant
while postmodernism thus represents a new awareness of how our paradigms construct our world, it appears markedly blind to its own worldview — its own postmodern metanarrative.
for - key insight - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - quote - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - Annick de Witt - observation - adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts
adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts - observation - also we are seeing the shadow side of postmodernism in the Trump era where "alternative facts" have become dangerously fashionable - obviously the complete denial of an objective reality is not tenable while the complete denial of constructed reality is also no tenable - what we need is an integration, as Annick contends
meaning-making satisfaction to be their central function
for - meaning-making satisfaction - is central
who would have known this that your tracheal epithelial cells if expplanted if if liberated from the rest of the body they will make a self motile little uh construct that among other things knows how to heal neural wounds.
for - quote - no evolutionary history explains form and behavior - Michael Levin
observation - evolution alone is insufficient to explain life - These novel, artificial life forms behave in novel emergent ways, there is no natural selection at play here
learning is is a is a free gift from uh the mathematics of networks
for - myth - learning is a property of nervous systems - Michael Levin - salience - high - learning is a property of molecular networks - adjacency - learning - myth - molecular networks - it is a primitive property of molecular networks<br /> - patterns of learning such as habituation, pavlovian response, etc are observable in molecular network - This is a pretty profound claim - learning isn't even a property of the biotic world!
Where does this actual structure come from? Now people are tempted to say DNA. It's in your it's in your genome. But we know what DNA's encode. Now, DNA's don't encode any of this.
for - question - where is the plan that tells embryonic stem cells to form a specific morphological body? - not the DNA, that only specifies the molecular hardware
New irrefutable research confirms what ancient cultures always intuited:Hair is biologically active.It’s a resonant antenna—wired to the nervous system, tuned to subtle fields, and capable of storing and transmitting signals.
for - post - LinkedIn - hair - is biologically active
USA economy - gap between revenue and expenditire - Warren Buffet says is Congress's job, Contress is not doing that job, and its a job he Warren Buffet does not want
for - progress trap - AI - Anthropic Claude 4 - blackmail - from - youtube - Kyle Kilinski Show - AI is completely out of control - https://hyp.is/GhDOzj0nEfCvHZdiUaw4gQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j1gjSoRt8Q
A house is not a home without a typewriter.
via u/leapwolf at https://boffosocko.com/2025/05/17/acquisition-1966-underwood-touch-master-five-standard-typewriter/
Brendan Graham Dempsey explains metamemes as follows:
for - definition - metameme - Brendan Graham Dempsey - like worldview - Collective intelligence shapes meme networks — called “Metamemes” — which individual self-conscious minds “download” to better navigate their environment. - Dempsey's definition makes salient the related Deep Humanity idea of the individual / collective gestalt - adjacency - metameme - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt - to - Substack - article - Toxic polarization is killing us. Why a new worldview might save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us
he represents this in his writing with the point um it's it's the uh everything is a portal to everything else everything is in relationship with everything else there is nothing that is not in relationship with everything uh one point is a doorway to All Points
for - quote - one point is a doorway to all points - Jean Gebser - adjacency - Gebser's point - Indyweb's dot - Indranet's dot
for - source - Donna Nelham - @Fellowship of the Commons Telegram group zoom meeting - 2025, May 6 - article - Linkedin - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview" - to - article - Substack Annik De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us
Another limitation in this implementation is that passing other options in the shebang to vite-node won't work, as I expect exact indexes in order to figure out what are the arguments to forward. It's not perfect but I think it's good enough to unblock people like me as a start. 👍
science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that
for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning
comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have
show me any other program that that tries to teach you language for a one to two-year-old that's what we're doing it doesn't compare to teaching a language to a five-year-old we're not there yet
for - natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at
comment - 2 year old age is when an infant learns to hear and speak a spoken language first - reading and writing does not happen until about 5 years of age - When we are learning a new second language, it is therefore appropriate to aim for the same goal as a native 2 year old language user
i'm not trained as a linguist
for - David Long - is not trained as a linguist, yet heads this organization - This already says so much about the minor role that the STUDY of language plays in learning how to FLUENTLY SPEAK the language!
you can short-circuit that by diminishing the experience focusing on a language focusing on a word focusing on a sound or a meaning you miss the experience and you catch a word right and that's that's the whole that's like all of it in a nutshell
for - common mistake - learning a word is NOT learning a language
comment - The mistake that most second language approaches take is that it teaches meaning of words but NOT the EXPERIENCE of language
language is an outgrowth of experience so if i was going to give you language what would i do i give you experiences
for - adjacency - language - phenomenology - language is fundamentally an experience
if you were to distill down to its most basic component what is what is language it's not a phoneme it's not a word or phrase it's not even a meaning of some sound right in its basic component it's a it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience all right this is this is sort of like the key to everything we're doing in alg
for - quote - language is fundamentally an experience
quote - language is fundamentally an experience - David Long - if you were to distill down to its most basic component, what is language? - It's not a phoneme - It's not a word or phrase - it's not even a meaning of some sound - In its basic component, it's a happening it's an aspect or a part of an experience - This is the key to everything we're doing in alg (Automatic Language Growth)
as adults we have what we grew up with as young kids the the innate or the natural ability to acquire a language but most of us we've also learned and gained another quite natural ability and that is to learn things on purpose right so and so those two natures do conflict i don't think they fit well together
for - key insight / quote - innate language learning is in conflict with intentional learning - David Long - Common Human Denominator - learning language
there is something that all humans do naturally even without education yeah and that is learn language
for - quote - language education - there is something that all humans do naturally even without education, and that is learn language - David Long
Forrester: No thinking - that comes later. You must write your first draft with your heart. You rewrite with your head. The first key to writing is... to write, not to think!
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181536/quotes
In this quote from Finding Forrester (Columbia Pictures, 2000) Forrester (portrayed by Sean Connery) turns the idea that writing is thinking on its head.
I look at the one red smile. The red of the smile is the same as the red ofthe tulips in Serena Joy's garden, towards the base of the flowers where theyare beginning to heal.
Atwood makes use of these otherworldy comparisons, or analogies to convey the idea that death is healing. Although she specifically states it is not true, the fact that she mentions it plants an idea into our minds.
I wrote a novel, The One That Is Both, that describes a place in which theinhabitants know their already-always interconnectedness and live in harmony
for - futuring - book - The One that is Both
Itoccurred to me that as long as I feel separate from space itself, I am not experi-encing on
for - key insight - excluding space is excluding self - as long as "I" feel separate from "space", I cannot experience oneness
Besprechung eines neuen Buchs über das Projekt 2025. Das Buch und diese Artikel machen keine Aussagen darüber, wie genau Trump dieses Programm implementiert. Es wird aber klar, dass es darum geht die gesamte Entwicklung des amerikanischen Staats, seit dem New Deal zurückzutnehmen und damit die Regulation des Kapitalismus, die damals begann, auch wenn Diese Auszukier gar nicht verwendet wird. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/26/trump-project-2025-book
embracing the reality of embodied paradox.
for - question - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - Is the title inspired by Steven M. Rosen's writings?
he life on the planet is not in danger anyway it's a very anthropocentric issue
for - critique- claim - Anthropocene is no threat to life on earth - I have to disagree with him on this point - By definition, a sixth mass extinction implies that much of life on the planet is at risk - If he means life will continue to evolve, that is certainly true
AI is already augmenting important parts of the AI research process itself, and that will only accelerate
for - quote - AI - AI is accelerating AI research itself
Why file history can be important you ask In a commit ( or a series of commits ) there can be a lot of information that can explain decisions that were taken and why the code has evolved as it is right now. This information can be as valuable as the code itself so you can understand why I find --follow useful.
the flip side of a trade deficit is that we have, you know, financial asset financing that's coming into the United States. Right? We have other countries who are investing in American assets. Right. So that is, you know, why you need a you know, the current account in the capital account have to balance out a current account deficit will mean a capital account surplus. Right?
for - investigate - flip side of trade deficit is financial surplus
the US financial system is the most important choke point in the global economy
for - chokepoint - US financial system is most important - example - chokepoint - US sanctions
Your design should strongly depend from your purpose.
Ask yourself what is the main purpose of storing this data? Do you intend to actually send mail to the person at the address? Track demographics, populations? Be able to ask callers for their correct address as part of some basic authentication/verification? All of the above? None of the above? Depending on your actual need, you will determine either a) it doesn't really matter, and you can go for a free-text approach, or b) structured/specific fields for all countries, or c) country specific architecture.
What is it that delivers the air that we can breathe? Guess what? It's all the green things on the planet. Surely that should-- does that have a value in our economic system? Guess what? Economists call that an externality. And what I found out is, they don't care about that. It's considered so vast it's irrelevant to our economy.
for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki
the challenge is to reduce our circle within that planet. We've got to reduce and get back down to a size that makes sense. And within that circle, which is us, is a much smaller circle, which is the economy. That should be the way that we look at it. The biosphere, our species, and the economy,
for - economy is within ecology - David Suzuki
the point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative
for - meme - futuring - connect - present facts - to - future fictions - quote - The point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative - Maarten Hajer
the future is obviously a strange topic to study right it is not there so how can you study it so that's but you can of course because it's very active in terms of the images of the future in the present and these can be studied empirically we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the in the present
for - quote - the future is a strange topic - we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the present - Maarten Hajer
‘the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present’ (Tutton, 2017, p. 483)
for - quote - the future - the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present - Tutton, 2017, p. 483
for - question - is network coordination commons linked to GRC? - If not, it would be a good synergy
ostensibly
-apparently or purportedly, but perhaps not actually.
No one can precisely define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love, or any value.
for - quagmire - measurement of the sacred is impossible
breaking up the system of massive private ownership and wealth accumulation in the hands of a few.
for - ? - is there a viable alternative to private land ownership which can be implemented rapidly?
the only participation we have in our democracy is one vote one button every four years and that's it and then you leave them you Congressional people and your your um you know presidents Etc just to get on with things that's no longer fit for purpose
for - representative democracy is no longer fit for purpose
for - representative democracy is no longer for for purpose
even if and when we don’t have enough money or have no money at all, we can still do it—because commitments, not money, fill the gap.
for - money is only a proxy for resources
Jin's operation was based in China, and he used encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies to conduct his business. The investigation involved a team of agents from various federal agencies, including the DEA, FBI, and IRS, who worked together to gather evidence and track down Jin's associates in the US. One of these associates, Bin Wang, was arrested in 2017 and later sentenced to six years in prison. The team discovered that Jin was using a company in Tonga to ship his packages, and that he was offering a wide range of synthetic opioids, including carfentanil and U-48800. As the investigation continued, the team found that Jin's operation was linked to numerous death cases across the US, and that he was using his websites to sell drugs to customers in the US. The team eventually identified Jin as Fujing Zheng, a 35-year-old man from Shanghai, and his father, Guanghua Zheng, who was 62. The Zhengs were found to be operating a sophisticated online drug trafficking operation, using encrypted communications and cryptocurrencies to conduct their business. Despite the evidence gathered, the Chinese government refused to extradite the Zhengs to the US, citing a lack of evidence. The US government eventually indicted the Zhengs and shut down their websites, but they remain at large in China. The investigation highlighted the challenges of combating online drug trafficking, particularly when it involves foreign nationals and jurisdictions.
deal to distribute fentanyl in China, which marked the beginning of China's ability to produce fentanyl.
"With Republicans every accusation is a confession."<br /> 05:02
The figure of the grieving mother is a collectivity, with women characterized as part of a population of mothers with a collective experience of loss. Their dissent is practiced through invocations of a dead or imperiled soldier child, who signifies the claim to associative military masculinity. In contrast, the perspective of the returning veteran is grounded in individual experience. The film depicts women as caregivers, with their dissenting subjecthood derived from their relationships with men.
this narrative of personal growth and triumph is complicated by the fact that Tomas's newfound power and authority are rooted in traditional masculine ideals. The film ultimately suggests that the military peace movement is shaped by masculinized privilege, which can be both productive and limiting.
Cathy and wife Brie, are affected by his injury and how they perform a disruptive reiteration of military masculinity through their care for him.
ement simultaneously targets and reinforces military authority, with masculine privilege producing hierarchies within experiences, truth claims, and dissenting subjecthoods. The article suggests that women's dissenting subjecthood is produced out of relational invocations of military masculinity, which limits their dissenting capacity and reinforces gendered relations of power.
the challenge is for men to become personally and collectively reflective about masculine privilege without taking the lead in activism or intellectual discussions. The goal is to achieve a mutually understood analysis and a truly respectful partnership between women and men in peace movements, with a feminist analysis of violence and war being understood and accepted.
men's fear of being feminized and their investment in patriarchal privilege can inhibit anti-patriarchal thinking and profeminist activism, and that collective action and support are necessary for creating change.
Feminist anti-nuclear activism is distinct from women's anti-nuclear activism, as it explicitly challenges women's subordination to men
British anti-militarism, feminist and queer politics are often marginalized or separated from anti-militarist concerns, with many activists failing to recognize the importance of challenging patriarchal and heterosexist norms within their own movements.
Globalization, rather than unite the world has split societies asunder: creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
for - quote - Trump is the backlash to globalization
quote - globalization - Trump is the result - Robert Kaplan - Globalization, - rather than unite the world - has split societies asunder: - creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and - an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. - It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. - What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
2025 marks the culmination of a strategy methodically constructed over nearly a century. Far from the singular genius-entrepreneur he claims to embody, Trump appears instead as tool of the same Corporate elites that have driven this conservative ascendence since its inception.
for - 100 year history of Trumpism - quote - 2025 is culmination of 100 years
for - book - The Biology of Desire - 2015 - Marc Lewis - from - youtube - How the Meaning Crisis is related to the Drug Crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
for - Marc Lewis homepage - from - youtube - How the Meaning Crisis is related to the Drug Crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
the thing they have in common is the idea that addiction is for good that it's it's a fundamental flaw it's an essential characteristic of the person and it's not going to go away it's chronic
> for - addiction - claim - addiction is permanent
the disease model of addiction isn't just wrong it's also harmful
> for - addiction - failure of rehabilitation is proof of the wrong model - the disease model - quote - the disease model of addiction is not only wrong, but harmful - Marc Lewis
the book I tell the story of Five addicts um one is a heroin addict one's a meth addict one was addicted to pharmaceutical uh opiates um the fourth one was a British man who was an alcoholic very serious alcoholic and the fifth one was an eating disordered person
> for - book - The Biology of Desire - Why Addiction is not a Disease - 2015 Marc Lewis - https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files4/2a48405faa052ec2b4e0c56a79e001ca.pdf
there are cues everywhere
> for - addiction - cues everywhere - trigger dopamine system - impulse control is difficult
addiction is sort of a a kind of skill um the addict's brain learns to efficiently identify and aim Behavior
> for - addiction - is a skill
what's more important from the perspective of a software architect is why a particular implementation or approach was chosen over its alternatives. A common way to document decisions like this is to use architecture decision records, ideally stored in source control with or near the application(s) impacted by the decision.
Why is more important than how
Everything is a trade-off
Private militias have provided criminal groups with greater mobility and fighting power, enabling them to engage in large-scale violence and seek control of criminal markets and territories beyond their home towns. The Mexican case highlights the need for democratic elites to reform authoritarian judicial and security institutions and to punish state agents who protected organized crime, in order to prevent the intertwining of democratic politics and the criminal underworld.
efectors from the state judicial police
The spread of subnational party alternation in states with drug trafficking routes and the proliferation of private militias led to the outbreak of intercartel wars. The development of private militias allowed cartels to contest their rivals' control over drug trafficking territories, leading to largescale criminal violence.
the state judicial police in Mexico became the main repressive force against political dissidents, and also gained the upper hand in providing informal protection to drug cartels.
In Mexico, the transition from authoritarian rule to democracy did not introduce major security-sector reforms, making the expansion of OCGs and the outbreak of large-scale criminal violence more probable. Subnational political alternation, particularly the variation in party alternation across subnational regions, can also contribute to the outbreak of criminal wars. The structure of informal networks of government protection for criminals forged during the authoritarian period is crucial in understanding this link.
political alternation and the rotation of parties in state gubernatorial power undermined the informal networks of protection that had facilitated the cartels' operations under one-party rule. Without protection, cartels created their own private militias to defend themselves from rival groups and incoming opposition authorities.
The Peña Nieto administration in Mexico proposed a government commission to spend $9 billion to combat drug violence in the most violent municipalities. The plan included longer school days, drug-addiction treatment programs, and public-works projects. The administration also focused on disrupting street gangs and criminals hired by cartels, rather than targeting top drug traffickers. However, despite initial gains, violence in rural Mexico surged again by 2017 due to Mexican cartels' increased involvement in the heroin market and the boom in methamphetamine production.
orrupt agents have been found to be in the pay of cartels, waving tons of drugs and unauthorized immigrants across the border in return for millions of dollars. By 2018, it was estimated that corrupt agents made up around 1 to 5 percent of the CBP's 60,000-strong workforce.
The US government provided funding and training to the Mexican government to fight the cartels, but the efforts were criticized for being ineffective and corrupt. The Mérida Initiative, a $2.3 billion plan, was launched to help Mexico confront threats to its national security, but much of the money went to private US contractor corporations. Corruption was a significant problem, with cartel gunmen killing over 2,200 policemen, 200 soldiers, and scores of federal officials. The cartels also infiltrated the government, with many officials being bribed or working directly for the cartels. The drug trade was linked to Mexico's incomplete transition to democracy, and the cartels took over essential local and regional administrative functions in many regions.
naloa Cartel, in particular, was successful in cooperating with the authorities, using informants to snitch on their enemies and leaking information to the US and Mexican agents.
The Mexican and US authorities employed a "divide and conquer" strategy in their drug war efforts, which involved exploiting existing divisions between trafficking groups and creating new ones. This tactic led to catastrophic consequences, including the deaths of many people who got in the way or were killed as suspected informants.
"narco-democracy" was characterized by a gradual and uneven takeover of the state by drug traffickers, with the taxed becoming the tax collectors.
In return, they received protection, with local cops blocking roads to allow cocaine-packed planes to land, federal cops lifting roadblocks to allow smugglers' trucks to pass through, and generals giving traffickers warnings about imminent raids.
Traffickers also paid off members of leading political families, including President Salinas's brother Raúl.
This "state capture" involved massive bribes, with estimates suggesting that traffickers spent nearly $500 million on corrupting state authorities per year.
nearly 80 years, the Mexican authorities had protected drug traffickers from prosecution, but this arrangement began to break down in the 1990s. The increased profits from drug trafficking and the decline of state power put the narcos in control, and they took over running the country's drug protection rackets.
elationship between drug traffickers and the Mexican authorities changed, with the power dynamics shifting in favor of the narcos.
For many of us, Ethnic Studies is our lifeline. Ethnic Studies saved us. Ethnic Studies is home. And we are not scared easily. We know too well how precious our curricula and classrooms can be and we will not be intimidated nor silenced. We understand that too much is at stake.
Powerful words and quote of what ES is and who we are inside of this discipline
That’s why it’s no accident that Ethnic Studies became the first and only legislatively backed general education requirement in California.
Legislation regarding ES
Everything is a Remix by [[Kirby Ferguson]]
#> 1 OpenAlex Only 12427
damn the wrapper I made only finds around 1685 hits, I wonder if it is to do with the type of search?
api_endpoint <- oa_query(
entity = "works",
title_and_abstract.search = search_string,
from_publication_date = from_date,
to_publication_date = to_date
)
Life is a war and only the strongest warriors will survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford.
for - quote - Life is a war and only the strongest warriors survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford. - article - Guido Palazzo
comment - This is a self-fulfilling prophecy that models one aspect of life - the fact that living beings must compete for resources with other living beings to survive - It ignores the other side, the cooperative and altruistic side - It ignores the intertwingledness of self and other - the individual / collective gestalts - It ignores the fundamental altruism of the mother in assuring their own survival in the world - the mOTHER, the Most significant OTHER
Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a procedure in which magnetic pulses are applied to the brain of a living person with the goal of temporarily and safely deactivating a small brain region. The p
TMS is a simulation to determine issues resulting in speecific parts of the brain, and finding which ones.
US government also responded by developing the "kingpin strategy," which aimed to "decapitate" the cartels by targeting their leaders for execution or capture.
misconception of the trade being run by a few massive, price-fixing 'cartels'.
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for - adjacency - occupy - trump - article - Occupy is not the reason why Trump won
Society is living together in groups as families, tribes, communities, which it involves the notion that the members of it are interacting with one another.
Poincare anticipated the frustration of an important group of would-be computer users when he said, "The question is not, 'What is the answer?' The question is, 'What is the question?'"
for - Poincare - AI question - SOURCE - paper - Man-Computer Symbiosis - J.C.R. Licklider - 1960 - referred by - Gyuri
the greatest risk is always the bio like biow weapons
for - AI - progress trap - Youtube - bioweapons is not the only threat. Nano technology and many others can be turned into weapons of mass destruction - RDeepSeek R1 just caught up with OpenAIs o1 - There is no moat@ What does this mean? - David Shapiro - 2025, Jan 29
for - adjacency - progress trap - mafia - intentional fires - Italy - complexity - CNN - How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires - 2025,Jan 27
My Grading Philosophy Equity in education is a core belief for me, and I do my best to ensure students have the most equitable experience they can with me.As current and future teachers, we all must think about how best to support each of our students and their learning processes.Grades are often the least meaningful part of your learning process. I want the content, conversations, and experiences among students to be the highest priority. A growing body of research indicates that traditional grading works best for people who’ve learned how to “do school.” Letter grades alone don’t tell me or you enough about what you’ve learned. They also disadvantage many students.The class aims to give you more voice and choice in your grades. It considers that we all have different educational goals and various responsibilities that pull at our time. This will not lower my expectations for the students in this class or my belief in what you can learn. The focus will be on integrating your learning into your professional life. I will look for self-reflection, deep thinking, and the accuracy of your content knowledge. Please immerse yourself in the content from this class and apply it to your work with children. I want you to enjoy the class and learning. Less focus on grades and more on feedback will lessen stress and promote more engagement with the materials. I hope you will engage with the feedback from me and your classmates to nurture crucial skills that can be used across all your courses and in your careers.
Prof. Taylor, the part I have seclected above is almost my educational philosophy, I deeply agree with it and will practice it in my future career. You are my role model and example, I am so lucky to be your student. Thank you.
for - book - Burnout from Humans: A little book about AI that is not really about AI - Aiden Cinnamon Tea & Dorothy Ladybugboss - 2024
A single kill by drone, for example, involves anywhere from 100 to 200 people
threat that drone warfare involves hypermasculine killing machines (Masters 2005; Manjikian 2014) or that it entrenches the distinction between “our” space and “their” space (Gregory 2011), either of which would make violence easier
Narrative offers a way to access bodily experiences, such as those of killing with or dying by drones,6 that are otherwise “impossible to reproduce” by those who live them (Wibben 2011, 44)
This can involve studying the experiences of bodies coded as women, gay, or of color in flying drones.
HR Planning is a strategic process that helps companies plan for future human resources that are needed to support the growth, or downsizing of production demands. It allows companies to predict the future, analyze the needs of the company, decide the market availability of candidates for specific jobs, and make decisions when and how to adapt and use human resources (people
I think this paragraph hasn't define the HR Planning, just tries to identify some of its characteristics by using phrases like "that helps" and "It allows". please comment if someone see my point.
for - Youtube - Buzzfeed video - Blind until 36 & Seeing myself for the first time - This is that story - Olivia Durant - 2022 - constructed perception of reality - SOURCE - Youtube - Buzzfeed video - Blind until 36 & Seeing myself for the first time - This is that story - Olivia Durant - 2022 // - Summary - This is a video about a woman who was almost 100% blind since birth and had her eyesight restored as an adult - It is an example of a case study that can shed light on how aspects of our sensory reality that we take for granted are constructed from years of conditioning in chiildhood //
individual reflexivity is rarely traced through to a collective influence on the broader transdisciplinary research process
for - adjacency - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
adjacency - between - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - adjacency relationship - Indyweb provenance can allow granular tracing of individual contributions to collective knowledge work - so can assist in the use of reflexivity in transdisciplinary work
So what is the central meaning of the word ‘reflexive’ in ‘reflexive moderniz- ation’? 4 ‘Reflexive’ does not mean that people today lead a more conscious life. On the contrary. ‘Reflexive’ signifies not an ‘increase of mastery and consciousness, but a heightened awareness that mastery is impossible’ (Latour, 2003).
for - definition - reflexive (in reflexive modernity) - not more conscious but increased awareness that mastery is impossible - SOURCE - paper - The Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme - Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss and Christoph Lau - 2003
Fundamentally, I think Web3 is mainly an exit strategy for privileged layers of society. First of all, people within capital will see the system is not doing well and they want to do arbitrage between nation-states.
for - quote - Web3 is mainly an exit (escape) strategy for privileged layers of society - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2
A shared car association, every shared car replaces 9 to 13 private cars for the same amount of travel freedom, point to point. You don't lose any freedom like you would in public transport. It's just like a neighborhood shares a dozen cars. 95% of the cars are in the garage at any time.
for - example - efficacy of mutualisation - transportation - cars - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2 - stats - mutualisation - transportation - cars - 1 car can replace 13 - car is parked most of the time - 10% of existing cars doubles our requirement - SOURCE - Youtube Ma Earth channel interview - Devcon 2024 - Cosmo Local Commoning with Web 3 - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 2
What we do when we go into a sacred setting, is we play with Meta-… We have psycho-technologies - and I'll come back and give a [-] clear definition as we work that out, of a psycho-technology - but we have psycho-technologies that allow us to do this serious play with sacredness so that we are constantly being homed against horror.
for - in other words - going nto a sacred setting - is a counter force to alienation - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
if you go to another culture and you don't go through the participatory transformation, right? If you don’t, and you're just experiencing culture shock - domicide - the agent arena relationship isn't in place! Then none of those other meaning systems can work for you. There'll be absurd. They won't make sense. That's what he means by it being a Meta-Meaning system.
for - adjacency - culture shock - example of domicide - when the agent-arena relationship is not in place - participatory knowing - meta-meaning system - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
to reflect upon, to celebrate and enact Religio is to fundamentally enhance our agency, the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us?
for - quote - to make significant, to reflect upon, to celebrate and enact Religio is to fundamentally enhance our agency, the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us? - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
quote - to make significant, to reflect upon, to celebrate and enact Religio is to fundamentally enhance our agency, the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us? - John Vervaeke - (see below) - And we do this, I would argue, - for the very good reason that - to make significant, - to reflect upon, - to celebrate and enact Religio - is to fundamentally - enhance our agency, - the disclosure of the world and our connectedness to it. - And what else could be more valuable to us? What else could be more valuable to us?
The machinery of Relevance Realization is in that sense, deeply phenomenologically mysterious to me.
for - quote - the machinery of relevance realisation is deeply phenomenologically mysterious to me - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
Relevance Realization is taking place at a level fundamentally deeper than the level of belief.
for - Relevance realization is pre-conceptual - it takes place at a level deeper than the level of beliefs - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke - to - YouTube conversation - Micheal Levin, John Vervaeke, Gregg Henrique - 2024 // ,- comment - In light of studying a John's concept of relevance realisation now, - after partially annotating the - Micheal Levin, - John Vervaeke, - Gregg Henrique - YouTube conversation, I should return to that annotation to - finish it and - take a more critical look for comparison between - Micheal Levin's goal oriented behaviour definition of life that drives and expanding cognitive light cone and - John Vervaeke's relevance realisation
to - YouTube conversation - Micheal Levin, John Vervaeke, Gregg Henrique - 2024 - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DrAlmzRTbGDE&group=world
book on Wonder (called “Wonder: From Emotion To Spirituality”
for - book - Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality - Robert Fuller - argues how central wonder is
Religio is… I'm using it in a spiritual sense, [in] the sense of a pre-egoic, ultimately a post-egoic, binding that simultaneously grounds the self and its world.
for - definition - religio - John Vervaeke - means to bind together, to connect. Here it is used in the sense of binding that simultanously grounds the self and its world - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
Relevance Realization is Pre-Egoic. By the time you have ‘you’ in a ‘commonsensically’, obviated world of meaningful objects and situations, Relevance Realization has already done a tremendous, tremendous amount of work.
for - quote - Relevance realization is pre-egoic - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke
quote - Relevance realization is pre-egoic - John Vervaeke - (see below) - Relevance Realization is Pre-Egoic. - By the time you have ‘you’ in a ‘commonsensically’, obviated world of meaningful objects and situations, - Relevance Realization has already done a tremendous, tremendous amount of work.
“Disenchantment is killing us and destroying our civilization,” Dreher writes
for - quote - Disenchantment is killing us and destroying civilization - Rob Dreher - source - book - Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age - Rod Dreher