Tao, Terence. “What Is Good Mathematics?,” February 13, 2007. http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0702396.

Variations of this can also be applied to other fields, like history. What makes good history, good historians, good history teachers, etc.?

"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."

for - definition - epistemia - when linguistic plausibility starts replacing verification and the form of knowledge substitutes for the labor of knowing - to - paper - The simulation of judgment in LLMs - https://hyp.is/2DatBM05EfCy-DM_S__1kg/www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122

for - quote - EO Wilson - pace of technology - compare - quotes - EO Wilson - Ronald Wright

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for - book - In Praise of Scribes - Author Johannes Trithemius - history - progress - technology - printing press

"Verily" means a matter of truth. In this line, Guenevere is asserting her honestly to Sir Gauwaine, yet he still continues to doubt his queen's statement. Afterword, Guenevere's tone has then shifted from firm and confident to resigned.

This refers to the mannerisms and politeness that men in the Victorian era must uphold towards women. Victorian men must be pleasant and pleased women; however, at this scene, Morris uses Sir Guawaine and Mellyagraunce as a contrast to that ideal. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/427127

https://blogs.baylor.edu/19crs/2017/06/28/textual-revisions-and-constructed-narratives-in-elizabeth-barretts-the-cry-of-the-children/#:~:text=The%20first%20published%20version%20of%20Elizabeth%20Barrett,of%20signs%20of%20human%20or%20divine%20mercy**

This article has photos of the book, the poem, and images from the survey of children working in mines relating to "Cry of The Children".

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YdWLxoHYR1E

This video shows how close, cramp, and claustrophobic the mines would be. Also, the ground is sometimes lined with rails, other times consists purely of mud and even imbedded with large rocks. This little clip is an attempt to let the readers see the harsh conditions the children working in mines had to deal with daily.

Elizabeth Browning was friends and frequent correspondent with Richard Hengist Horne. RH Horne was the assistant commissioner to an inquiry that reported the "Physical & Moral Conditions of the Children and Young Persons Employed in Mines and Manufacture." The horrific conditions that Horne related to EBB spurred her to write "Cry of the Children" (Robertson).

The deliberate refrain of "young" nature and the emphasized double "young, young children" point out the irony and tragedy of how life shouldn't be for these children. While nature frolic and play, the human children are weeping bitterly. In fact, some poems in the Victorian period use this juxtaposition of the free natural world versus the state of the oppressive poor. Thomas Hood's "Song of the Shirt" has these lines: "Oh! but to breathe the breath Of the cowslip and primrose sweet--- With the sky above my head, And the grass beneath my feet". Gerald Massey wrote in "Cry of the Unemployed": "Heaven droppeth down with manna still in many a golden shower, And feeds the leaves with fragrant breath, with silver dew, the flower; There's honeyed fruit for bee and bird, with bloom laughs out the tree". Nature is plentiful, beautiful, and free while humans suffer from hunger and fetters of their working class.

Although the working class had very little of worldly goods, its family unit was quite close. One main reason was they had to share a small space as living quarters. Another reason was children often working alongside their parents. All the children were viewed as a potential source of income so the family strived together as a unit to make ends meet. The close knit working class family was a sharp contrast to the wealthy Victorians. Usually their children were left in care of nannies or governesses. The higher echelon of society had little time to spare for their kids yet had high expectations of them. Even Winston Churchill said he could recall every hug he ever had from his mother.

The difference between the classes here is not immediately discernible for modern readers with just the line describing children leaning on their mothers. In Victorian England, the rich and middle-class did not handle their own children.

Check out https://victorianchildren.org/victorian-child-labor/ for more interesting facts.

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for - stats - water footprint - cup of coffee - 150 litres of water

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace

Royal KMM basic introduction

Looks like a post-war standard Royal KMM, sometimes best known as the machine used by Jessica Fletcher in the TV show Murder She Wrote (as well as the upcoming Jamie Lee Curtis reboot.)

Richard Polt has you covered for the manual and some repair manuals/information.

Some contemporaneous videos on use and maintenance may help.

As for ribbon replacement, try this video. The spools for the standard Royal typewriters (Ten, H, KH, KHM, KMM, KMG, RP, HH, FP, Empress, 440, 660, etc.) have a custom metal mechanism for their auto-reverse. The spools are known as the T1 (which is the same as General Ribbon part # T1-77B , T1-77BR, and Nu-Kote B64.) If winding on 1/2 inch wide universal ribbon onto them, remove the eyelette which isn't needed and may interfere with the auto reverse. If necessary, Ribbons Unlimited carries these spools or you can get them (and ribbon) from a local typewriter repair shop.

Ribbon purveyors: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-faq.html#q1. I prefer Baco and Fine Line for their spectacular pricing and quality.

Other known historical users of the Royal KMM:

• John Ashbery
• Russell Baker
• Ray Bradbury
• Richard Brautigan
• Richard Brooks
• Pearl S. Buck
• Johnny Carson (or possibly KMG)
• Norman Corwin
• Frank Herbert
• Helen Keller
• Murray Kempton
• Ken Kesey
• George Washington Lee
• Harper Lee
• Ursula K. LeGuin
• David McCullough
• Margaret Mead
• Dorothy Paraker
• Grantland Rice
• Georges Simenon
• Christina Stead
• Tom Wolfe

The problem with this page is that the author is playing fast and loose with the words "parser" and "parsing". It's also not totally honest (or is yet again confused) about e.g. what the IETF RFCs say about parsing high precision numbers.

Creative writing can be incredibly important for self-expression and emotional intelligence. Without properly exploring different ways to write creatively, students may struggle to properly express such things.

More studies into modern adolescent literacy practices can lead to higher engagement and appreciation within literary contexts and motivate students to properly and effectively apply the knowledge they gain inside and outside of academic spaces.

What many people who brush fan fiction off as irrelevant tend to ignore is the vast understanding of a pre-existing setting needed to contextualize the writings made, as well as the effort and organization required to properly build off of such settings.

Writing, for many, tends to be most rewarding when you can share it with someone. To show others your ability to express thoughts, emotions, and ideas through your use of language is helpful in gaining confidence and experience, and this is even more true when you receive direct criticism as well.

See Adolescents' Anime Inspired "Fanfiction" for more in depth explanation. Much of the current school curriculum does not include more creative, personal subject matter, which has the possibility to make students feel less interested in class.

As more young people spend more time online, they are developing new ways to express themselves linguistically.

for - urban metabolism - open source - urban metabolism - metabolism of cities

to appease antiwar sentiment by promising to phase out the draft, train South Vietnamese forces to assume more responsibility for the war effort, and gradually withdraw American troops.

Location > Name of Village > U.S. troops had raped and/or massacred hundreds of civilians

reported incoming fire from North Vietnamese ships in the Gulf of Tonkin

The US established the Republic of Vietnam > Vietnam divided into North and South

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for - definition - city - degree of urbanization

for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post - The 2025 state of the climate report - https://hyp.is/lPJTusSfEfCeLIMW445BRg/www.linkedin.com/posts/drscottkelly_climatechange-sustainability-energy-activity-7391036539549409280-K2Fa/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post -

for - LinkedIn post - 2025 State of the Climate Report - to - The 2025 State of the Climate Report - https://hyp.is/fFyTOMSfEfC2PIPR2ti4gg/academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627

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for - 6 degrees of separation - interbrain - missed this one in Fellowship group, but found it anyways! - adjacency - Nick - Interbrain

for - MAGA base - when the old economy dies, they will be looking for defenders of the working class - adjacency - corporation to cooperation - MAGA base

for - definition - civilian labor corp - future of work - there will have to be new labor pools in the economy that free market has ignored to date - caretakers for the elderly - climate adaptation - affordable housing

for - stats - elites - top 10% - responsible for 50% of consumer spending

for - Trump - Venuzuela invasion - President of Colombia response

for - indictment of a world run by evil

for - indictment of a world run by evil

https://www.instageram.com/prof.johnfriedman/

for - ecology - red crabs of Christmas island - progress trap - invasive species - biocontrol - ecological engineering - wasps - ants

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ou3svd/just_toured_the_museum_of_printing_in_haverhill/

Museum of Printing in Haverhill, MA has a section of typewriters.

for - adjacency - language of separation - root of metacrisis

for - key insight - language - need new language structure - to speak from connectedness - instead of separateness

for - language - speaking of non-duality - is itself dualistic

for - insight - language - disambiguation of scientific language - loses richness

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 - iconography - a language of icons - icono - a language of icons

for - neuroscience - 10 tests - LinkedIn post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - neuroscience - to - Lab of Misfits - 10 tests - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto

for - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto - from - Linkedin post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - https://hyp.is/7YqrerxxEfCuEIeI8IcHTg/www.linkedin.com/posts/beau-lotto_who-am-i-humans-have-probably-been-asking-activity-7232008275641163779--zxp/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - definition - distributed cognition - to - article - N. Katherine Hayles: “We need a more comprehensive view of cognition” - https://hyp.is/Jc98ArsHEfClKP-8MkzNoA/lab.cccb.org/en/katherine-hayles-we-need-a-more-comprehensive-view-of-cognition/ -

for - book - Lord of the Flies - The Inheritors - William Golding

for - mortality salience - of a species! - adjacency - novel - The Inheritors - mortality salience - birth of language - BEing journey - Gosh, a movie should be made of this!

for - BEing journey - novel - The Inheritors - novel - The Inheritors - strange things happen to your sense of reality as you read

for - quote - deep roots of human nature

for - book - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

Page xxxv (b), Section 5: Page Sections

for - definition - city - definition degree of urbanization - UN Statistical Commission report 2020 - from - there are 10,000 cities on planet Earth - https://hyp.is/91Rx7LgAEfCT6ytaqg9C9Q/nextcity.org/urbanist-news/there-are-10000-cities-on-planet-earth-half-didnt-exist-40-years-ago

summary - This 2020 report was commissioned by the UN Statisticial Commission to develop a robust, standardized definition of cities, towns and rural communities (villages) to aid in international comparison of human settlements

for - definition - degree of urbanization - definition - grid cell classification - definition - urban centre - definition - dense urban cluster - definition - semi-dense urban cluster - definition suburban or peri-urban cells - definition - rural cluster - definition - low density rural grid cells - definition - very low density rural grid cells

for - degree of urbanization - diagram

for - definition - degree of urbanization - a UN Statistical Commission classification that standardizes the definition of city, town and semi-dense areas, and rural areas - definition - city - definition - town - definition - rural area

for - stats - cities - 20% of cities are shrinking

for - definition - city - a geographic area with - at least 50,000 inhabitants - an average population density of 1,500 people/square kilometer - stats - 25% of people live in towns - 48 % of people live in cities - 25% of people live in villages - towns and cities

• according to this new definition, which standardizes the definition of city that has, hitherto been quite varied, 48% of humanity lives in cities (2015)

for - Apis & Heritage - champions of worker-owned cooperative movement

Katie Nolan Destroys UNC’S Mike Lombardi Over His 'Cute' Typewriter Video<br /> by [[Stephen Douglas]] for Sports Illustrated<br /> accessed on 2025-10-30T13:53:59

Known historical users of the Royal KMM:<br /> - John Ashbery<br /> - Russell Baker - Ray Bradbury - Richard Brautigan - Richard Brooks - Pearl S. Buck<br /> - Johnny Carson (or possibly KMG) - Norman Corwin<br /> - Frank Herbert<br /> - Helen Keller<br /> - Murray Kempton<br /> - Ken Kesey<br /> - George Washington Lee - Harper Lee<br /> - Ursula K. LeGuin - David McCullough<br /> - Margaret Mead<br /> - Dorothy Paraker<br /> - Grantland Rice<br /> - Georges Simenon<br /> - Christina Stead<br /> - Tom Wolfe

Smith-Corona Electra users:<br /> - Joyce Carol Oates - Electra 220<br /> - William Styron - Electra 210 - Robert Caro - Electra 210 (New York Times) - Allen Ginsberg - Electra - Truman Capote - Electra 110

How the Trump administration is dramatically reshaping education in America<br /> by [[John Yang]] of PBS at PBS News Weekend accessed on 2025-10-22T12:01:15

Interview with Jennifer Smith Richards of ProPublica

Anti-DEI, Anti-CRT bills

UPDATED Watch Woody Allen's Interview with Bill Maher: "Sunset Boulevard" (the Movie) is "Fun Junk," "Streetcar" is "Perfect" - Showbiz411<br /> by [[Roger Friedman]]<br /> accessed on 2025-10-22T10:20:51

The message is pretty clear: start with why A value proposition.

The amount of money you can ask for something is primarily a function of perception (perceived value), and relative availability.

As such, the optimal cost for something is more of a psychological subjective function than an objective algorithmic process.

This obviously leaves aside the philosophical dimension of ethics.

for - unexpected finding - hippocampus - active for imagining future instead of remembering past

for - claim - Mental Time Travel into the past and future are instantiations of one simulation system

for - paper - title - Mental Time Travel? A Neurocognitive Model of Event Simulation - author - Donna Rose Addis - adjacency - memory - imagination - the same - from - paper - https://hyp.is/0Fb6NqdjEfCyTTddI20_aQ/www.dovepress.com/memory-sleep-dreams-and-consciousness-a-perspective-based-on-the-memor-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-NSS

summary - memory and imagination are proposed as fundamentally the same process. - It is the ‘mental’ rendering of experience that is the most fundamental function of this simulation system enabling humans to - re-experience the past, - pre-experience the future, and - comprehend the complexities of the present.

for - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - must be integrated within a unified subjectivity for experience to be coherent - unapack - MToC - unpack - Memory Theory of Consciousness - temporally extended, multimodal representations - multiple sense inputs associated with an event - We could think about it from the perspective of Thousand Brain Theory and cortical columns integrating sense inputs - Do these create memory structures? - Those memory structures must be salient to goal-seeking activity, especially for fitness and survival of the organism

question - memory - evolution - goal-seeking - Is it possible that consciousness emerged early on in our species evolutionary history in the context of memories of multimodal sensory structures that help us achieve goal-seeking activity? - Then extra affordances of memory and consciousness could have evolved and diversified into a wide variety of non-traditional goal-seeking behaviors.

for - paper - title - Memory, Sleep, Dreams, and Consciousness: A Perspective Based on the Memory Theory of Consciousness - author - Andrew E. Budson, Ken A Paller - adjacency - memories - sleep - dreams - Memory Theory of Consciousness - MToC

summary - The authors present a theory of dreaming and sleep that I resonate with, that sleep is a time in which the brain performs unconscious processing of memories, consolidating them by taking advantage of consciousnesss down time to perform massive parallel processing to connect memories together. - dreams are seen as a small conscious byproduct of the massive parallel processing task, and their meaning may have value depending on how we interpret them.

for - key insight - similarity of waking and dream state - How can - wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while - comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? - The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that - gives us dreams - gives us waking experiences of reality. - In other words, our brains do not need incoming sensory input to produce realistic experiences. - Our waking experiences are the way that they are - not because of sensory input but - because of the functional capabilities of the human brain. -The MToC argues that the functional capability that produces our experience of reality, whether - we are awake - or asleep, - is the explicit memory system. - During sleep, we speculate that our brains are simply carrying on with functioning - akin to what happens when we are awake. - The typical modes of action of the human brain persist across wake and sleep. - While we are awake, our brains are producing a stream of experiences of being in the world, punctuated by thoughts. - While we are asleep, without the tremendous barrage of sensory input to constrain experience, perhaps our brains tend to return to these waking habits, - producing a stream of experiences in the world punctuated by thoughts.

for - definition - Multiple Drafts theory of consciousness - - Daniel Dennett

for - MToC claim - purpose of consciousness - same as - purpose of memory - understand the present - imagine possible futures - plan accordingly - adjacency - MToC - memory - consciousness

for - like - Donald Hoffman's Interface Theory of Perception - ITP - to - Mental Time Travel (MTT) - https://hyp.is/wqV4gKdkEfCRZGPrIOjeOA/utoronto.scholaris.ca/server/api/core/bitstreams/3232f1fb-ed19-4614-9dd5-648c4d443629/content

for - adjacency - memory - perception - no boundary - Hinze Hogendoorn - to - - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - Donald Hoffman

for - adjacency - Memory Theory of Consciousness - author's study of - Kant - Critique of Pure Reason

for - definition - Memory Theory of Consciousness (MToC) - The very awareness we have of sensory analysis, of perception, is based on the operation of this memory system. - In other words, the sensory information that constitutes an event is assembled at encoding and consequently can be remembered later.

for - research claim - dreaming - byproduct of sleep-based memory consolidation - adjacency - dreaming - sleep-based consolidation

This poke at "fancy" bookplates is a rhetorical call back to those who would attempt to weakly show only physical and not intellectual ownership by "pasting his bookplate inside the cover."

Adler creates a very specific and subtle definition of ownership as it applies to books.

It's not too dissimilar to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's idea of ownership or love of people. "Unique to me in all the world"

Many have spoken of "books as wallpaper" or "intellectual furniture", but here Mortimer J. Adler goes beyond owning them solely as material culture, but turning them into intellectual and personal culture.

When they sit upon the shelf after being intellectually owned, they can serve as a mnemonic touchstone, which is a method of supercharging their value as lowly "decorative wallpaper", and instead making them living active, intellectual wallpaper.

for - language - Wordbank - children's vocabulary - from - article - Atlantic - The Mystery of Babies’ First Words - https://hyp.is/OKsHnqU-EfCLelsZRWUhxw/www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2019/04/babies-first-words-babbling-or-actual-language/588289/

for - language - first words of babies

for - definition - constitutive view of language

for - language philosophy - book - The Language Animal - Charles Taylor - language philosophy - book - Sources of the Self

for - source - telegram channel - Michael Lennon - Forms of Life, forms of mind - Michael Levin and Hananel Hazan-led weekly symposium exploring platonic space - from - youtube - interview - Michael Levin - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/H727RKOrEfC5IAN-dmo5uw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwOJ9PWcPmo

for - multi-scale competency architecture - extend hierarchy of human body to society - continuation of levels - human being as cell in social superorganism - adjacency - multi-scale competency architecture - social superorganism

Objective correlative -> images of death, deserted land and barren ideologies repressent Eliot's emotions about modernity and the crisis of spirituality

• alliteration -> facades again (link to Rhapsody, Preludes and Prufrock

synecdoche: disembodied -> window to the soul (links to Rhapsody, Prufrock and Preludes) --> repeated idea of eyes and what they can and cannot see

Hell: biblical allusion -> death of spirituality (metonymy) (link to prufrock)

synecdoche -> deconstructed vision of humanity

Objective correlative -> images of death, deserted land and barren ideologies repressent Eliot's emotions about modernity and the crisis of sspirituality

• alliteration -> facades again (link to Rhapsody, Preludes and Prufrock

synecdoche: disembodied -> window to the soul (links to Rhapsody, Prufrock and Preludes) --> repeated idea of eyes and what they can and cannot see

Hell: biblical allusion -> death of spirituality (metonymy) (link to prufrock)

synecdoche -> deconstructed vision of humanity

Introduction: AI is now recently everywhere but we still need humans

reply to u/peachaphrodite at https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1nwu77s/sears_scholar_specific_letters_are_faint/

Issue with light imprints on a, w, q, etc.

Are you a touch typist or a two finger hunt-and-peck typist?

Solely based on the letters, I'll guess there's nothing wrong with the machine and that you're a newer touch typist whose two weakest fingers on your non-dominant hand just need some exercise to get a better imprint. I'd guess the same happens to your z and x as well, but you use them less. Practice typing about your "qwaze axes and saws" a few times a day for a week to improve your finger strength and technique.

If you're a hunt-and-peck person, then your typebars may need some gentle forming/fine adjustment using some specialist tools to give better imprints. Those letters on the ends of the segment more often go out of alignment than others. If this is the case, try: https://site.xavier.edu/polt/typewriters/tw-repair.html

我也好不喜歡常常看到那種毫無脈絡就突如其來的一句感嘆

所謂 theory of mind，竟然並非人人都有

i found this via https://www.thefp.com/p/i-founded-wikipedia-heres-how-to

i need a premium account to comment on that article, so let me post my comment here

Once upon a time, there was an institution that was trusted by the public as an impartial and reliable source of information. Then things changed. The institution still claimed to be impartial. Its leaders still repeated the same mantras about the truth and trustworthiness, but the information it provided grew steadily more ideological. The change became impossible to ignore—and the public started to ask: Does this institution deserve our trust?

If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it could describe so many of the institutions that we once relied on to bring us information. In fact, it might just be the story of our times. This crisis of trustworthiness is the skeleton key to understanding so much of the turbulence and disorder in public life today.

It’s certainly the story of The New York Times, NPR, and countless other media organizations. It’s the story of all too many institutions in medicine and public health.

It’s also the story of Wikipedia.

probably the biggest example of this story is the catholic church...

Wikipedia has an article titled “Yahweh.” I am a Christian, and I consider Yahweh to be the name of my God.

the religion of Christianity started as a small group of rebels, but then (as the group became larger) this opposition ("trend") was integrated into the empire, and from then on, it was just another controlled opposition, publicly giving hope to the small people (slaves), but privately controlled by the empire.

"you have owners. they own you." -- george carlin

There are two common types of blocks that I object to: the partisan and the petty.

my wikipedia account (Milahu) was permabanned in year 2024, because i have "insulted" other editors (i called them "stupid"), and the ban log says "Apparently he has no desire to contribute to the encyclopedia" in other words "he is just a troll", because their definition of "contribute" is "he follows our orders"

here is my edit, which was later removed as "vandalism"

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Diskussion:Liste_von_Justizirrt%C3%BCmern_in_der_deutschen_Rechtsprechung&oldid=240510827#Michael_Ballweg

translation:

Michael Ballweg was innocently held in pretrial detention for 279 days, apparently for political reasons, because Michael Ballweg was an organizer of the Querdenker protests against the coronavirus dictatorship. As a pretext for the pretrial detention, the prosecutor constructed a “flight risk,” but the confiscation of valuables and the pretrial detention obviously served as an attack against the Querdenker protests.

See also: Michael Ballweg#Strafprozess (where, unfortunately, only mainstream sources are cited, which protect the regime with their opinion journalism).

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But I'll spare myself the edit in the article, because also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure. (Hate me cos im honest.)

[...]

The fact that Wikipedia only allows sources to be cited that have been approved by the Ministry of Truth only confirms my statement that “also Wikipedia is ruled by idiots who abuse their power like any centralized structure.”

my radically simple analysis of all these problems is that "all large organizations are evil", so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large".

the same analysis applies to "our" culture in general: every "too large" state automatically devolves into this disgusting "dictatorship of pacifism", always followed by overpopulation, degeneration, and collapse.

a similar observation was made by the youtuber Tilman Knechtel in his slogan "Trau keinem Promi" (trust no celebrities), because there is a "magic line" when people become "too famous" (too large), then they are offered a choice: either they "sell their soul" (become a controlled opposition) and work for the empire (give false hope to the slaves), or they continue their real opposition and get sabotaged and punished by the empire.

so the actual problem here is that wikipedia is "too large"

see also: The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

so the obvious solution is some peer-to-peer network, but as they say, "peer-to-peer is hard"... (what they actually mean by that is, most of our problems are not technical but social problems.)

two building blocks for such a peer-to-peer network are: tribalism = efficient teamwork in tribes of 150 people (https://github.com/milahu/alchi), and a generic voting and tagging system (https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp/blob/main/doc/2025-09-04.generic-tagging-and-voting-system.md#prompt-1)

i am collecting possible solutions in my p2p-killerapp repo: https://github.com/milahu/p2p-killerapp

i am documenting abuse of power in my hate-maintainers repo: https://github.com/milahu/hate-maintainers-censored (more people should do that!)

for - health - insulin doctor - youtube - diary of a CEO

You have to love the analogy of General Montgomery to chromosomes here and the duplication of information.

Everyone knows the general direction they're moving, though the information in soldiers is different in form and function versus chromosomes which aren't conscious.

What happens when a soldier is captured and questioned though? How does that effect strategy and does it outweigh the effects of a commander dying and their next in command being able to quickly take over? or of the individual soldier presented by a difficulty, but able to make a decision because they know where the general might direct them for the outcome the general desired?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie%27s_law

It wouldn't be until almost a decade later that Delbruck, Golomb, et al. would be using math on the topic.

was this possibly the inspiration of Cathy O'Neill's book title?

historical evidence of the scientific shift from Newtonian clockwork physics into an underlying statical mechanical one

Archive / online catalogue - Typewritermuseum<br /> accessed on 2025-09-22T15:36:11

"settlement"?

Known historical users of the Remington Quiet-Riter:

• Hermann Hesse
• Halldór Laxness
• Martha Gellhorn
• Jack Lemmon's character in Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)

https://angelineboulley.com/about-angeline-boulley.html

Recommended to me by Deb Pearson as one of her favorite writers on 2025-09-14

https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10162194238069678/

Alice Denham, novelist and 1956 Playboy Playmate. She eventually wrote a memoir called “Sleeping With Bad Boys” about her life in the 50s/60s NYC literary scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwSTSs7zLIo&t=41s James Patterson uses a Triumph Perfekt from the early 1950s

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Tengo que verlo. Necesito verlo.

Exposure, networking and mentorship...these are three huge opportunities for post-secondary institutions to strategically embrace. These are key indicators of success outcomes and higher ed has a competitive advantage, especially in-person and residential campuses.

From what I understood of the theory is about how people see themselves on who they want to be, and how they feel about that difference such as self image and to find out who they wanna be and even with their self esteem

ChatGPT makes writing easier and more of a cleaner look, especially for people who aren’t native English speakers. But it also makes people worry and start thinking to themselves like “Is this really my work?” or “Am I cheating?” It can be helpful, but also very stressful to one.

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

https://www.todlippy.com/writing/interviews/bad-day-black-rock

for - consciousness, AI, Alex Gomez- Marin, neuroscience, hard problem of consciousness, nonmaterialism, materialism - progress trap - transhumanism - AI - war on conciousness

Summary - Alex advocates - for a nonmaterialist perspective on consciousness and argues - that there is an urgency to educate the public on this perspective - due to the transhumanist agenda that could threaten the future of humanity - He argues that the problem of whether consciousness is best explained by materialism or not is central to resolving the threat posed by the direction AI takes - In this regard, he interprets that the very words that David Chalmers chose to articulate the Hard Problem of Consciousness reveals the assumption of a materialist reference frame. - He used a legal metaphor too illustrate his point: - When a lawyer poses three question "how did you kill that person" - the question is entrapping the accused . It already contains the assumption of guilt. - I would characterize his role as a scientist who practices authentic seeker of wisdom - will learn from a young child if they have something valuable to teach and - will help educate a senior if they have something to learn - The efficacy of timebinding depends on authenticity and is harmed by dogma

for - social impact of science - This kind of authentic science education that reaches people takes science out of its ivory tower - and makes it relevant to the masses - We probably wouldn't have a climate crisis if scientists had consistently reached out to lay people but we failed there and allowed climate denialists to promote their agenda with greater efficacy

for - quote - the worst kind of pseudoscience is this kind of dogmatic scientism

for - citation - book - Patrick Harpur - Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - to - book Daimonic Reality: A field guide to the otherworld - Patrick Harpur - adjacency - realm between fact and fiction - Donald Hoffman interview - Deep Humanity - self / other gestalt - the Indyweb - physiosphere - symbolosphere - this is exactly the intetwingledness of - the subject and the object - consciousness and phenomenal reality - Deep Humanity - the individual / collective gestalt - the self / other gestalt - symbolosphere / physiosphere - to - Youtube - The Diary of a CEO - Donald Hoffman interview - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DW0vTZrZny6A&group=world - internet Archive - https://hyp.is/egkk-IvhEfCpxyM0mIOqLA/archive.org/details/daimonicrealityf0000harp - Patrick Harpur - book webpage - https://hyp.is/1iPUDovhEfC4PStyYJoYnQ/www.harpur.org/x1Daimonic.htm

for - citation - book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - to book - The Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Shoshana Zuboff - https://hyp.is/W4il7ovIEfCh30P8h49-Hg/www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56791