Reportage der taz zu den Hitzewellen in China im Juni und Juli. China ist von der globalen Erhitzung besonders betroffen. Eine Studie ergibt, dass sich die Temperatur seit 1900 alle zehn Jahre um 0,16° erhöht hat. Zu den wirtschaftlichen Folgen gehören Ernte Einbrüche und strommangel wegen der Überlastung der Netze in den Hitzeperioden.

https://taz.de/Andauernde-Hitze-in-China/!5947385/

Studie der Staatlichen Wetterbehörde zu dem Klimaveränderungen in China:

• Second great separation
  • Industrial Revolution
    • The early enclosure movement during the 1600s
      • separated people into farmers and non-farmers
      • https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.parliament.uk%2Fabout%2Fliving-heritage%2Ftransformingsociety%2Ftowncountry%2Flandscape%2Foverview%2Fenclosingland%2F&group=vnpq69nW
    • Prior to the enclosures, land was held in common for public use, not owned by individuals.
    • The rise of capitalism also occurred during this time.
      • Adam Smith wrote his landmark book, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776.
      • Land was privatized so the most efficient use of land could be determined
        • by market competition rather than
        • community consensus.
      • Labor then also had to be ​“commodified,” or bought and sold,
        • so non-farmers could work for wages and buy food and the other necessities of life they had been getting from the land.
      • With reliance on working for wages, buying, and selling
        • the necessity for personal relationships were diminished.
      • With the diminished necessity for personal relationships,
        • the social cohesion within families, communities and society began to diminish as well.
    • The persistence of chronic poverty and malnutrition, even during times of tremendous economic growth and individual wealth, are direct consequences of a growing sense of disconnectedness from each other that was nourished by the industrial era of economic development.

copied from Universe Today, except the title is invented.

Location of Altar of Zeus (again).

Location of the Temple of Zeus

Location of Altar of Zeus

Workshop of Pheidias

Describes the altar of Zeus

Description of the temple of Zeus

Describes the events that were used to please the Gods. Also, how the events were spread apart

This is a description of the statue of struggle.

There are 443 works by 74 authors in the Great Books of the Western World. All of them are printed in their entirety except for Aquinas, Kepler and Fourier.

Robert Hutchins takes sole responsibility for the final decision on the selection for the books which appear in The Great Books of the Western World series.

One wonders what sort of advice he may have sought out or received with respect to a much broader diversity of topics and writers with respect to his own time. I reminded a bit of the article The 102 Great Ideas (Life, 1948) which highlights a more progressive stance with respect to women and feminism in the examples used.

See: LIFE. “The 102 Great Ideas: Scholars Complete a Monumental Catalog.” January 26, 1948. Https://books.google.com/books?id=p0gEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA92&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=2#v=onepage&q&f=false. Google Books.

It feels odd that people wouldn't understand their own traditions, but it obviously happens. Information overload can obviously heavily afflict societies toward forgetting their traditions and the formation of new traditions, particularly in non-oral traditions which focus more on written texts which can more easily be ignored (not read) and then later replaced with seemingly newer traditions.

Take for example the resurgence of note taking ideas circa 2014-2020 which completely disregarded the prior histories, particularly in lieu of new technologies for doing them.

As a means of focusing on Western Culture, the editors here have highlighted some of the most important thoughts for encapsulating and influencing their current and future cultures.

How do oral traditions embrace the idea of the "Great Conversation"?

Two of the driving reasons behind the Great Books project were improvement of both education and democracy.

The democracy portion was likely prompted by the second Red Scare from ~1947-1957 which had profound effects on America. Published in 1952, this series would have considered it closely and it's interesting they included Marx in the thinkers at the end of the series.

disappearance [of education] as an...

there's also disappearance of context of what has gone before

A great admission to make upfront in such a massive endeavor which one hopes to shape the future.

What does this mean for ars excerpendi writ large? Particularly when it may apply to hundreds of thousands?

• Mo Gawdat shares about the death of his son

• Alphago
  • first version took months of Google UK software developers to program. It won the world Go championship.
  • Alphago Master played itself without ever watching a human player. It beat the first Alphago version after 3 days of playing itself.
  • In 21 days, it beat Alphago version one a thousand to zero.

• three boundaries that industry should have abided by but have been violated:
  • don't put them on the open internet until you solve the control problem
  • don't teach them to code because that enables them to learn and develop on their own
  • Don't allow other AI's prompting them, other AI agents working with them

• Title
  • Mo Gawdat Warns the Dangers of AI Are "Happening As We Speak"
• Author
  • Piers Morgan Uncensored

In Indien, Japan und den USA folgen Starkregenfälle auf die Hitzenwellen der vergangenen Wochen. Mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit wurden sie durch die globale Erhitzung verstärkt.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/en-inde-au-japon-aux-etats-unis-des-pluies-torrentielles-et-parfois-mortelles-20230710_NDQXL5QUENE2NPNYJER32YOE2E/

Nope (re: offline). You're confusing "browser-based" and "Web-based" (sort of the way people confuse statically typed" versus strongly typed*). They're different. You can have a fully offline browser-based interface. Most common browsers are every bit as amenable as being used as simple document viewers as Preview.app or Microsoft Word is. The browser's native file format is just a different sort—not DOCX, and not PDF (although lots of browsers can do PDF, too; you can't write apps in PDF, though—at least not in the subset supported by typical browsers). Instead of Office macros written in VBA, browsers support scripting offline documents in JS just like online documents. You can run your offline programs using the browser runtime, unless they're written to expect otherwise.

Überflutungen und Erdrutsche haben in Japan mindestens sechs Todesopfer gefordert. Auf der Insel wurden die stärksten Regenfälle der aufgezeichneten Geschichte beobachtet https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/11/heaviest-rain-ever-causes-deadly-floods-and-landslides-in-japan

Der Guardian stellt Videos von Überflutungen zusammen, zu denen es in den letzten Tagen in den USA, in China, in Indien, in Spanien und anderen Teilen der Welt gekommen ist. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/video/2023/jul/11/extreme-flooding-across-world-summer-video-report

Der Nordwesten der USA ist von einer Serie von Überflutungen nach starken Regenfällen betroffen. Gleichzeitig werden für verschiedene Teile der USA Hitzewellen vorausgesagt https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/10/us-weather-floods-heatwave-climate-crisis-alerts

• Title
  • Three levels of the symbolosphere
• Authors
  • Mark Burgin and John H. Schumann

• Abstract

  • This paper attempts to understand the coexistence of the
    • material and
    • non-material
  • aspects of our lives.
  • By synthesizing ideas about
    • structures,
    • physical entities,
    • mental phenomena, and
    • symbolic relations,
  • we argue that
    • the nonmaterial can emerge from the material, and
    • then the nonmaterial may mediate the production of material entities.
  • Finally, this cycle is applied to notions of creativity and invention.

• Comment

  • the authors are situated in materialism that explains non-materialism as an epi-phenomena

• knowing how to suffer, allows you to suffer less, having understanding and compassion (see my idea on madness, understanding it, knowing how to be mad)
• we always run away from suffering (like avoiding to face the dragon)
• using technology, like tv, to run away from suffering (see my idea on media controlling attention), also other coping like eating etc.
• embrace and face suffering (facing the dragon), understanding will arise, you become compassionate (that will heal you), because you understand that other people suffer (see idea on not having enemies, understanding others, looking not only at yourself, but others)
• (see above) now you want to help others
• practice of looking into one owns suffering, and then looking at others suffering (thinking of self, then others, see idea)

• Restraint is exercised by End of Life Doulas - it's like counseling
• Asking open-ended questions is ok.

• Three components of End of Life Doula Training

  • Imagine you have three months left to live
  • Practice deep, active listening -Legacy projects in the here and now

• Comment

  • these could be used as Mortality Salience BEing Journeys

• Title
  • An end-of-life doula’s advice on how to make the most of your time on earth
    • Life is short. Here’s how to cherish every day of it.

• Author

  • Rachel Friedman

• Description

  • Story on an end-of-life Doula's journey to become an end-of-life doula, and how that enriched her life

• insight

• there is a transcendental need for reason as the vehicle of itself undermining

  • the only way to understand that
    • reason isn't self-justifying
    • there is knowledge that transcends reason
  • is to use reason to reach a stage where you think reason might need to be abandoned,
    • reason becomes most necessary
  • Understanding the limits of reason requires reason
    • that is the essence of Madhyamaka

• comment

  • when reason is turned upon itself, when consciousness studies itself, that is where paradoxes emerge - at the limits of thought and the limits of conceptualization

• David Hume
  • in the section of the treatise of human nature on skepticism
  • https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4705

In einem - leider kostenpflichtigen, aber über Blende zugänglichen - Interview äußert sich die britische Klimaforscherin Helen Hewitt zu den Rekordtemperaturen, die in den letzten Monaten in den Weltmeeren gemessen worden, und zum Rückgang des antarktischen Meereises. Sie weist darauf hin, dass noch unverstanden ist, wie es genau zu den großen Anomalien gekommen ist. Die obersten zwei Meter der Ozeane nehmen 90% der zusätzlichen Energie auf, die durch die von Menschen imitierten Treibhausgase im Erdsystem bleibt.

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artikel/wissen/klimakrise-daten-ozeane-e370703/?reduced=true

Aus 20 chinesischen Städte werden Überflutungen gemeldet, 11 der 31 chinesischen Provinzregierungen stellen sich auf weitere Extremwetter-Ereignisse ein. Die Überflutungen zu Beginn der Monsoon-Saison folgen auf eine Hitzewelle mit Rekordtemperaturen. Zu Überflutungen kam es auch in anderen ostasiatischen Ländern. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world/asia/china-asia-flooding-building-collapse.html

Some authors who have written about translations.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress/194730263

Hawk Sugano used a Correct Indexcard Dock (C-153DF) box for some of his index card practice.

This is the first time I've seen someone use the phrase "ghost note" to mean a future implied note which could be created by using wiki syntax [[*]] which in some systems like Obsidian or WikiMedia creates a (red) link which one could click on to create that note.

via u/THX-Eleven38 at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/14ox2tw/what_is_the_proper_way_to_create_a_moc_note_from/

To achieve goals, raise the floor, FOCUS on removing bottlenecks. Also create constraints by Schwerpunkt (primary objective), contrary to common wisdom, constraint actually gives freedom, it prevents analysis paralysis.

Worth adding to the list of oblique strategies...

related to methods of proof: direct proofs by day, contradiction by night

Changing methods of approach to problems

via khimtan at https://www.instagram.com/p/CpkJHCfJnyW/

It's been a while since this was asked, but in case folks stumbling across it are interested, there are a few useful examples and resources: - Original Pile of Index Cards set up: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hawkexpress/albums/72157594200490122/ (Be sure to click on some of the example card photos which have descriptions of set up/use.) - 43 tabs: https://web.archive.org/web/20110714192833/http://pileofindexcards.org/wiki/index.php?title=43Tabs_System - Lifehacker Article: https://lifehacker.com/the-pile-of-index-cards-system-efficiently-organizes-ta-1599093089 - Uncluterer: https://web.archive.org/web/20140708133632/http://unclutterer.com/2014/06/17/the-pile-of-index-cards-poic-system/ - Some historical systems (esp. Memindex which preceded the PoIC): https://boffosocko.com/2023/03/09/the-memindex-method-an-early-precursor-of-the-memex-hipster-pda-43-folders-gtd-basb-and-bullet-journal-systems/

• comment
  • we need to have a Deep Humanity dive on
    • quality of life vs quantity of life
    • if we acknowledge and face our mortality,
      • how would that change the QUALITY of our life?

• Herbert Spencer fully developed Digby's concept into the modern concept of functional integration
  • Spencer introduced the term "survival of the fittest"
  • ‘He tried to unite complex new findings about metabolism and organismic development with evolution and the seeming correspondence of organisms to their environments.
    • In The Principles of Biology (1864), Spencer wrote
      • a biological individual is one in which
      • the interdependence of the parts allows it to function and
      • respond to environmental change as a whole.
    • That is: ‘any concrete whole having a structure which enables it,
      • when placed in appropriate conditions,
  • to continuously adjust its internal relations to external relations, - so as to maintain the equilibrium of its functions.’

In der Liberation bezweifelt der Architekt Albert Levi, dass der Plan der Stadt Paris für die Klimaanpassung ausreichend sein wird, um eine unerträgliche Erhitzung und insbesondere die Bildung von Urbanen Hitze-Inseln zu verhindern. Geplant sind 60 Hektar zusätzlicher grünräume, die Entsiegelung von 30 bis 65% aller Parzellen, ein Verbot von Hochhäusern und des Fans von Bäumen. Levi kritisiert, dass die Verdichtungspolitik der vergangenen Jahre nicht gestoppt wird und eine Intensivierung des Tourismus geplant ist. Der Artikel verweist auf wichtige Dokumente zur Vorbereitung der Klimaanpassung in Paris. https://www.liberation.fr/idees-et-debats/tribunes/paris-face-au-rechauffement-climatique-mauvais-plan-20230630_FEFN6PDVJJCXJK2NYAFIE2YZFU/

Die globale Erhitzung wird in Gebirgsregionen zu mehr Niederschlägen und zu mehr Starkregenfällen führen. Einer neuen Studie zerfolge führt jedes Grad Erwärmung in hohen Lagen zu durchschnittlich 15% mehr Regen.

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000176687/regen-in-den-bergen-wi

Studie: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06092-7

Der Europäische Rechnungshof bezweifelt in einem neuen, alarmierenden Gutachten, dass die EU ihre Klimaziele bis 2030 erreichen wird. So sei die Finanzierung der Dekarbonisierung, vor allem in der Privatwirtschaft, nicht gesichert.

https://taz.de/Rechnungshof-schlaegt-Alarm/!5942983/

Pressaussendung zum Bericht des Europäischen Rechnungshofs: https://www.eca.europa.eu/en/news/NEWS-SR-2023-18

When it comes to thinking, the Zettelkasten solves an important issue which is the problem of scope, which is impossible at the current moment in mindmapping software such as Concepts.

Mainly, Zettelkasten allows you gain a birds-eye holistic view of a topic, branch, or line of thought, while allowing you to at the same time also gain a microscopic view of an "atomic" idea within that thought-stream, therefore creating virtually infinite zoom-in and zoom-out capability. This is very, very, beneficial to the process of deep thinking and intellectual work.

Die Rauchwolken der riesigen Waldbrände in Kanada bedrohen zum zweiten Mal die Gesundheit der Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner großer Teil der USA. In vielen Städten erreicht der Air Quality Index Werte von über 200. Ab 100 sind Menschen mit Atmwegsbeschwerden akut gefährdet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/canada-wildfire-smoke-air-quality-midwest.html

One) Successful men realize that the most important decision in their life is the woman they choose, because outside of work, this is what they'll be spending most time on. The woman must understand the man's grand ambition, and support them with it. (Cf. Flow & The Intellectual Life as well). Women should be chosen on personality, not looks. Looks fade (attraction as well), personality "stays".

Two) Everyone deserves an opinion but not everyone deserves a say. Charlie Munger sums this up right: "I don't ever allow myself to have [express] an opinion about anything that I don't know the opponent side's argument better than they do." Or Marcus Aurelius, who says: "The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject." In short: Only state your opinion when you can back it up!; knowledge and experience. The same goes for judging opinion (and advice) from others.

Three) Successful people buy assets when the money is enough. Assets > Luxury. (See also: Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki). Only buy glamor and other "interests" once your assets are there to secure your financial success.

Four) Be pragmatic. Do what's practical, not what is "sexy". Notice inefficiencies and solve them. The entrepreneurial mindset.

Five) The morning sets the tone for the rest of the days. Time is subjective, waking up early doesn't matter as much as waking up later. It depends on the person. Someone who wakes up at 10am can be as successful as someone who wakes up at 6am. Instead, what defines success, is a highly effective morning routine.

Six) The less you talk, the more you listen. Talking less means less mistakes. In addition, the less you talk, the more people will listen when you do speak. It puts extra weight on your message. Listening means analysis and learning.

Seven) Pick the right opportunity at the right time. Pick the right vehicle. Do the right things in the right order! The advice "don't do what someone says, do what they do" is bullshit, as you can't do what someone is able to do after ten years of experience.

Eight) Discipline > Motivation. Motivation, like Dr. Sung says, fluctuates and is multifactorial dependent... When you are lead by motivation you will not be as productive. Don't rely on chance. Rely on what is stable.

Nine) Once a good career has been made, buy A1 assets and hold on to them to secure a financially successful future.

Ten) Just because you won, you are not a winner. Being a winner is a continuous process, it means always learning and reflecting as well as introspecting. Don't overvalue individual wins but do celebrate them when appropriate.

Eleven) Build good relationships with the banks early on. At times you need loans to fund certain ventures, when having a good relation with them, this will be significantly easier. Understand finance as early as possible. Read finance books.

Twelve) Keep the circle small. Acquintances can be many, but real close relationships should be kept small. Choose your friends wisely. "You become the average of the five people you spend most time with." Privacy is important. Only tell the most deep secrets to the Inner Circle, to avoid overcomplication.

Thirteen) Assume that everything is your fault. Responsibility. It leads to learning. It requires reflection and introspection. It leads to Dr. Benjamin Hardy's statement: "Nothing happens to you, everything happens for you."

Fourteen) Work like new money, but act like your old money. Combine the hunger of the new with the wisdom of the old.

Fifteen) Assume that you can't change the world, but slightly influence it. It prevents disappointments and gives a right mindset. Do everything (that has your ambition) with an insane drive. Aim to hit the stars. To become the best of the best.

Sixteen) Private victories lead to public victories. The solid maxim is the following: "The bigger the public victory, the more private victories went into it." Work in private. Social media doesn't need to known the struggle. Let your results talk for you. This is also why you should never compare yourself to others, but rather to your own past self.

Seventeen) After extreme experience, the most complicated task will look elegant and effortless. Unconscious competence.

https://dp.la/

ep 20:

• 1:28:00 meaning of life: remembering that there is a greater purpose, reminding yourself (not forgetting)

Die Oberfläche des Nordatlantik ist 23,9°, die der Weltmeere insgesamt 20,9° warm. Diese Temperaturrekorde übertreffen auch die bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Prognosen deutlich. Sie werden dramatische Folgen für die Biodiversität, Extremwetter-Ereignisse und das Abschmelzen des Meereises haben. Ausführlicher Bericht der Libération zur Erwärmung der Ozeane und zu marinen Hitzewellen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/pendant-que-locean-se-consume-20230623_M2PIQOI535BPRCGPITA6THMD44/

Der Rauch der kanadischen Waldbrände führt in Montréal zu dichtem Smog. Am Wochenende hatte Montréal die schlechteste Luftqualität der Welt. In der Provinz Québec gibt es zur Zeit 81 aktive Waldbrände, von denen 27 außer Kontrolle sind. Seit Januar sind in Kanada 7,4 Millionen Hektar Wald verbrannt. Von den 470 aktiven Waldbränden im gesamten Land sind 244 außer Kontrolle. . https://www.liberation.fr/international/amerique/montreal-suffoque-sous-un-nuage-de-fumee-du-aux-incendies-qui-ravagent-le-quebec-20230626_T62FG5AXQ5GBTHKE7RTFRTDKNI/

Wow, I didn't know there was a song with "Idyll" in the Last Samurai. (this is big coindence, because I am writing an essay on Tennyson's Idylls of the King)

Folgen der Hitzewellen für die marinen Ökosysteme im Mittelmeerresearcher: Jean-Pierre Gattuso

Ausführlicher Bericht des Guardian – mit sehr guter Visualisierung – über die rasche Zunahme mariner Hitzewellen in den Gewässern um Neuseeland. Diese Hitzewellen bedrohen die Biodiversität. Die Zunahme ihrer Häufigkeit und ihrer Ausdehnung übertrifft die bisherigen wissenschaftlichen Voraussagen erheblich und besorgt die Wissenschaftler:innen, die sie erforschen, noch mehr als andere Signale der Klimakatastrophe. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2023/may/13/are-new-zealands-marine-heatwaves-a-warning-to-the-world

Die Temperaturen des Atlantik zwischen Island und Afrika liegen im Augenblick bis zu 5 Grad über dem Normalwert. Eine marine Hitzewelle dieses Ausmaßes wurde in dieser Region noch nie beobachtet. Sie wird gravierende Konsequenzen für die Biodiversität haben. Eine vergleichbare Hitzewelle im Mittelmeer führte 2022 zu einem Massensterben bei ca 50 Tier und Pflanzenarten in den oberen 50 Metern des Meeres.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/vagues-de-chaleur-dans-locean-pourquoi-parle-t-on-de-canicule-marine-20230622_SF42MLHQGZECZEVI2LADP5QB5A/vari

https://danallosso.substack.com/p/some-thoughts-on-teaching-history

22:30 Differing environments/context matters. So before giving tricks, hacks, etc. realise that you function within a different environment.

Historicity is a historical sibling to this: periods have different environments, and thus don't apply 1 on 1.

But we can still learn from other other people & periods?

How to learn the art of memory (quick)

Can the zettelkasten method be a means of fixing/helping with this problem of facts versus creativity in a programmatic way?

experience’ (1916: 101).

To improve society, ingrain a fear of the Lord. Don't deceive thyself.

Henry Grabar schillert in einem neuen Buch ausführlich die Folgen des parkens für amerikanische Städte. In den USA wird mehr Fläche für das Parken als für das wohnen verwendet. Allein um Houston in Texas herum wurde in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine Fläche, die dem Land Belgien entspricht, versiegelt. Die verkehrsemissionen sind der größte Teil des enormen amerikanischen treibhausgasausstoßes. Das Buch behandelt gründlich alle Aspekte des Themas und stellt Alternativen vor.https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/26/paved-paradise-book-americans-cars-climate-crisis

Reportage über Produktion und Nutzung von grünem Wasserstoff in Spanien. Eines der Probleme – abgesehen von den hohen Produktionskosten – ist der Wassermangel im Landesinneren. Das ohnehin knappe Wasser wird im Moment für die Landwirtschaft gebraucht, so dass es fraglich ist, wann Spanien grünen Wasserstoff in andere europäische Länder exportieren kann.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/wasserstoff-spanien-100.html

Für die beunruhigende Temperatursteigerung im Nordatlantik gibt es noch keine zufriedenstellende Erklärung. Sie kann u.a. mit dem Rückgang von Aerosolen und Veränderungen der Zirkulation zu tun haben. Es ist möglich, dass auch sie ein Effekt der globalen Erhitzung ist, die bereits zu Rekordtemperaturen der Ozeane geführt hat. Ebenfalls beunruhigend und unverstanden ist das Schmelzen des antarktischen Meereises, das mit anderen Anomalien in Verbindung stehen könnte.

https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/le-rechauffement-de-locean-atlantique-est-inedit-20230615_VL4R3QGTDZDA7FRR7ZG4NYJ27I/

See also:

Google Docs is one of the best ways to make content to put on the Web.

https://crussell.ichi.city/food/inauguration/

It's my contention that this is a matter of people misusing the URL (and the Web, generally); Web pages should not be expected to "update" any more than you expect the pages of a book or magazine or a journal article to be self-updating.

We have taken the original vision of the Web -- an elaborately cross-referenced information space whose references can be mechanically dereferenced -- and rather than treating the material as imbued with a more convenient digital access method and keeping in place the well-understood practices surrounding printed copies, we compromised the entire project by treating it as a sui generis medium. This was a huge mistake.

This can be solved by re-centering our conception of what URLs really are: citations. The resources on the other sides of a list of citations should not change. To the extent that anything ever does appear to change, it happens in the form of new editions. When new editions come out, nobody goes around snapping up the old copies and replacing it for no charge with the most recent one while holding the older copies hostage for a price (or completely inaccessible no matter the price).

so this passage explicitly mentions "external beauty", BUT if we're to consider beauty in its truest essence, then i wonder if this statement is a bad thing. after all, beauty is essentially harmony and balance (which explains why individuals with symmetrical features are considered attractive). all of us strive for beauty, but in doing so, we may lose what makes us unique because beauty favors uniformity.

this is fascinating to me because uniformity adheres to a standard, which is important for regulating randomness (opposite of this is pattern and we LOVE patterns because it is discernible which means it is safer), and fostering a shared understanding of the world. and this shared understanding of our world is really important to us as humanity. this is how we evolve together. this collective perception only happens through that concept of beauty (or form and structure, harmony and balance).

nowadays, we shifted and value individualism more. this excessive individualism has promoted different perspectives on the world which contributes to conflicts. ultimately, extremes on both ends of the spectrum (uniformity or individualism) are detrimental, so striking this balance between them is crucial for progress and unity among people.

• quote

  • "it's actually daunting chilling even
    • to see how this book,
      • which is really about conservative white evangelicals in the United States
      • I'm an American historian
    • how much it is resonating with people around the world right now
      • in ways that that should be alarming"
  • Author
    • Kristin Kobes Du Mez

• Comment

  • the viral and rapid global spread of evangelical christianity
    • is coupled with an equal spread of corrosive patriarchy and authoritarianism
  • The global spread of authoritarianism is linked to the global spread of Evangelical Christianity
  • This is an important observation which begs a global response

• Jesus and John Wayne
  • Book cover of Spanish Edition here:
    • https://www.amazon.com/Jes%C3%BAs-John-Wayne-Kristin-Kobes/dp/8412619889
  • Jesus nailed to a cross made of guns

• Evangelical ministries are a carrier of the United States pathological nationalistic meme
  • It rides on the back of their spreading of gospel
  • Gospels have a mission not only to spread Christianity
    • but also a corrosive, polarizing, patriarchal form of politics to:
      • Russia
      • Hungary
      • Brazil
      • Many African countries
      • and many more
  • This creates a bizarre form of unity, even when countries are at war with each other!

AI has recently become such a big thing in our lives today. For a while I was seeing chatgpt and snapchat AI all over the media. I feel like people ask these sites stupid questions that they already know the answer too because they don't want to take a few minutes to think about the answer. I found a website stating how many people use AI and not surprisingly, it shows that 27% of Americans say they use it several times a day. I can't imagine how many people use it per year.

This reminds me of the article "Wikipedia and the Death of an Expert" how there are also so many volunteers running the wikipedia page. I inserted an article that mentions how many active editors there are on wikipedia so we can really compare the similarities in contributors.

This is a very useful but underutilized property. It allows you to e.g. announce in advance that a resource will exist at some point in the future, and thereby effectively receive "updates" to the linking document without requiring changes to the document itself.

Another good jumping off point for why document mutability should be considered harmful. https://hypothes.is/a/N_gPAAmQEe6kvXNEm10s7w

I'll go further and say that, wrt the original goals of the Web—and the principles we should continue to strive for today, despite widespread practice otherwise—Modification (should be) Considered Harmful.

Git has the right idea. Hypermedia collections should also be append-only (not different resources masquerading under the same name).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568150/

Based on having watched the documentary Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work and the depictions of Rivers' card index in the film and using her hands and a lateral file for scale, her cards seem to have been 3 x 5" index cards.

cross reference: https://hypothes.is/a/RvLTZjCQEe2uuaNwpTBNuA

Die Waldbrände in Kanada haben im ersten Halbjahr 2023 mehr weit vernichtet als im gesamten bisherigen Rekordjahr 2021. Die Rauchwolken haben inzwischen die norwegische Küste erreicht. Die Brände haben inzwischen 90 Millionen zusätzliches CO2 imitiert. Die Vibration berichtet ausführlich über die Zusammensetzung des rauchs und die damit verbundenen Gesundheitsrisiken.

Die sogenannte Keeling-kurve, die das Ansteigen des CO2-Gehalts der Erdatmosphäre darstellt, erreichte Ende Mai mit 424,64 ppm einen neuen Höchstwert. Ähnlich hohe Werte hat es in den letzten 10 Millionen Jahren der Erdgeschichte nicht gegeben.

Durch die Erwärmung sinkt die Menge an CO2, die tropischen Regenwälder aufnehmen. Dieser Feedback-Mechanismus wird von vielen Klimamodellen nicht berücksichtigt. Eine neue Studie zeigt, dass er- wir die zunehmenden Waldbrände - dafür sorgen könnte, dass die globale Erhitzung noch schneller voranschreitet als bisher angenommen.

Ruß Wolken von kanadischen Waldbränden haben über drei Tage an der US-Ostküste den Himmel verdeckt. In New York würde die weltweit schlechteste Luftqualität festgestellt. Die globale Erhitzung wird dafür sorgen, dass es in Zukunft regelmäßig zu solchen Entwicklungen kommt.

To avoid the Raiders of the Lost Ark problem, Melissa Rivers donated her mother's joke collection to the National Comedy Center so it would be on display and accessible. The New York-based museum is also home to the archives of George Carlin and Carl Reiner.

Hey Naomi! I must say your insights and reminders here are powerful!

To address your question, I really do believe that the gospel of Jesus Christ is a message of good news. While we learn from the scriptures that the gospel is the gospel of repentance ("teach nothing but repentance" - Doctrine and Covenants 6:9, 11:9) , it essentially just means that we focus on preaching the gospel "which is the gospel of repentance and salvation through the mercy, grace and merits of the Lord Jesus Christ." That is good news: that there is salvation, mercy and grace for all mankind!

• Lately, I feel that I've been surrounded by numerous deaths and illnesses in past two years. Grief has really taught me the impermanence of everything in our fallen world. But the more prominent feeling I've been getting is how lovely it is that I possess the knowledge of the plan of salvation. It brings me great comfort our parting in this life is not the end. This mortality is only a fleeting moment in our eternal lives.

This is Elder Hugo Montoya in his talk, The Eternal Principle of Love:

On the third day He was resurrected. The tomb is empty; He stands at the right hand of His Father. They hope we will choose to keep our covenants and return to Their presence. This second estate is not our final estate; we do not belong to this earthly home, but rather we are eternal beings living temporary experiences.

• Another thing the gospel of Jesus Christ has taught me is that our time here on Earth is to become the person who we will become for eternity. When we meet Jesus Christ in His second coming and face the final judgment, the essence of who we are in that moment will shape our eternal existence. This understanding holds immense power in that each day the Lord gives me another chance to live and be with my family, I choose to improve upon myself, to surpass the person I was yesterday, so that one day, I may reach a state of self-acceptance, forgiveness for my flaws, love for all my cherished ones in the manner that Jesus loves them, and a deep sense of peace and comfort in the presence of my Heavenly Father.

https://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/supported/nrp

What sort of tutoring was this?! At 8 hours a day for the entire month this cost comes down to $18/hour!!!

More likely 2.5 hours a day on workdays would still net out at $90/hour and even this would have to be quackery of the highest magnitude.

source for claim in final sentence?

This is a painful statement to be said by an educator, a word whose root means to "lead out".

Many developed countries have national curricula and specific teacher-training standards, but the United States does not. Instead decisions on curricular and standards are created and enforced at the state and local levels, often by politically elected figures including governors, mayors, superintendents, and school boards.

This leaves early education in the United States open to a much greater sway of political influence. This can be seen in examples of Texas attempting to legislate the display the ten commandments in school classrooms in 2023, reading science being neglected in the adoption of Culkins' Units of Study curriculum, and other footballs like the supposed suppression of critical race theory in right leaning states.

Calkins' Units of Study curriculum has been estimated to be used by nearly 25% of the 67,000 elementary schools in the United States in 2023.

Columbia University Teachers College education professor Lucy Calkins, a leader of the "balanced literacy" teaching philosophy in reading, has been influential in how millions of children have been learning to read for decades.

a couple things:

• as social creatures, human beings rely on establishing relationships with those around us. our existence begins within families, through the union of a mother and a father, and this pattern repeats throughout generations

• these communal relationships form the foundation for unity, creating a shared purpose and principles. any discord within these relationships can result in separation

• death serves as the most explicit form of separation: firstly, physical death separates the body from the spirit, and finally, spiritual death represents the separation of men from god.

• another explicit instance of separation found in the scriptures is the scattering of Israel. our current work involves gathering israel, which requires severing our ties with our brothers and sisters across the globe. this gathering process is vital in building the zion we are commanded to establish before the second coming of christ

[[the church is one body]]

"1 Corinthians 12:12-14 emphasizes the idea that all individuals, regardless of their background or status, are united as one body through the Spirit of Christ. Paul teaches the importance of unity and care for one another within this body to avoid any divisions or schisms. It also emphasizes the interconnectedness of all individuals within the body, such that if one member suffers, all members suffer, and if one member is honored, all members rejoice." - The Doctrine of Belonging - Elder D. Todd Christofferson

i wonder then what the true essence of studying the signs of the second coming of jesus christ if it isn't to merely pinpoint the exact date and time, but rather to inspire us to prepare in the present, to draw closer to him, so that we may have no regrets when the day arrives

• a powerful reminder that the second coming of jesus christ is a joyous occasion, which is why it's symbolized by a marriage feast:

"there's a marriage coming! It's gonna be great!" - dr. camille f. olson (https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vGHSOKivLW2MkDLwecsH2?si=73ef0cee0a3c47c8)

• the prominence of the message of repentance stems from the fact that the gospel of jesus christ is a gospel of salvation brought upon by repentance, which is closely tied to humility. our recognition of our own nothingness leads us to rely on the boundless everythingness of our god to be perfected one day. (Doctrine and Covenants 6:9, 11:9, Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual 11)

[[say nothing but repentance]]

• this sheds a light on how the church becomes a unified entity, encompassing not only shared objectives and principles, but also a profound sense of interconnectedness on an emotional level. [[emotions allow us to make decisions]]

• elder d todd christofferson instructs that a sense of belonging arises not only from being a member of a group but also from the acts of service and sacrifices made for others

• such a complex and tightly-knit community can only be established when it is driven by a higher purpose. when too much emphasis is placed on personal needs and comfort, it can impede the sense of belonging that arises from contributing to a cause greater than oneself

[[much of our belonging comes from our contributions]]

At 9¢/card these are very expensive in comparison to bulk cards which usually can be found for 1-2¢/card. The difference however is in the luxuriousness of the silky smooth texture. Whether you're writing with your favorite fountain pen or a carefully chosen pencil. I don't know if these are the same brand of Bristol cards that Vladimir Nabokov used for his writing, but one could easily image him using such lovely material.

These provide a very smooth writing experience for fountain pens, gel pens and pencils. I particularly love the way my Tennessee Reds and Blackwing 602s glide over their surface. In comparison to some Japanese stationery, I'd put these cards somewhere between tsuru tsuru (slippery) and sara sara (smooth). If you're looking for a toothier paper, you'll definitely want to look elsewhere. They take fountain pens pretty well with no feathering or ghosting. My juiciest fountain pen dries in about 15 seconds, while a drier extra fine is dry in about 7 seconds, so it may take some care not to smear ink if you're on the messier end of the spectrum.

Pencil erases reasonably well, though there may be some minimal residual ghosting here. At 205 gsm, they've got a satisfying thickness unseen in most index cards and one is unlikely to rip or crinkle them when erasing. They're also thick enough that the wettest Sharpie won't bleed much less ghost through. You have to hold a card up to a backlight to see the appearance of any ghosting through it and even then, not well.

For the sticklers used to using standard 4 x 6" index cards, one should take note that the dimensions of these are slightly shorter in both dimensions—they're closer to 3.94" x 5.91". This means that you might have to take some care that while flipping through mixed company of cards your Exacompta can potentially hide between larger imperial sized cards. They're also close to, but not quite A6 in size either (105 x 148.5 mm or 4.1 x 5.8 inches).