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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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We did not find strong evidence to suggest that climate, climatic fluctuations, rainfall, or vegetation over the last 1.5 million years, influenced the size of animals hunted and consumed by humans. Rather, mean body size declined linearly on a backdrop of multiple glacial-interglacial cycles. New human lineages subsisted on smaller prey than their predecessors and used more advanced tools to cope with hunting smaller prey. We suggest that hominins were likely the leading cause of Pleistocene
The evidence suggests that humans were responsible for extirpating the largest prey fauna at the time, resulting in intergenerational decline in prey fauna body mass.
This early finding has implications for modern human behavior. In fact, it explains our tendency to overshoot resources until we extirpate them is not a new behavior but one that dates back millions of years. The implications for our current polycrisis suggests we are dealing with an entrenched behavior that may be difficult to change and that technology has amplified our ability to mine natural resources, extirpating them at a faster rate. From this perspective, the Anthropocene can be seen as a logical result of an ever decreasing extirpation rate brought about by increasing efficacy of technological tools for resource extraction.
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Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of hunting down the body size distributionAuthor links open overlay panelJacobDembitzeraRanBarkaibMikiBen-DorbShaiMeiriac
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Ronald Wright: Can We Still Dodge the Progress Trap? Author of 2004’s ‘A Short History of Progress’ issues a progress report.
Title: Ronald Wright: Can We Still Dodge the Progress Trap? Author of 2004’s ‘A Short History of Progress’ issues a progress report.
Ronald Wright is the author of the 2004 "A Short History of Progress" and popularized the term "Progress Trap" in the Martin Scroses 2011 documentary based on Wright's book, called "Surviving Progress". Earlier Reesarcher's such as Dan O'Leary investigated this idea in earlier works such as "Escaping the Progress Trap http://www.progresstrap.org/content/escaping-progress-trap-book
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Each of the transitions has been a progress trap, and every escape into a new way of life has relied on more energy and more information. The authors note that civilizations can collapse, but not into a previous way of life. Farmers don’t go back to hunting and gathering; they desert their kings, priests, and cities and go back to small-scale farming. When the first global society of the early 1900s collapsed after the First World War, countries reverted to tariffs and relatively small-scale capitalism — and large-scale wars. If the Trump regime has its way, we’ll see a similar reversion. But Lewis and Maslin note that each transition arrives faster than the previous one, and a fifth transition could be upon us very soon. The Great Acceleration is accelerating. In the past 40 years, we have digitized 500 times the information coded biologically in the human species. We consume more energy than ever before, and our demand for it will increase by 48 per cent between 2012 and 2040. More people are travelling and exchanging more information. Accelerating into a wall? The authors argue that “The simultaneous rapid increases in the number of people, level of energy provision and quantity of information being generated, driven by the positive feedback loops of reinvestment of profit, and ever-growing scientific knowledge, suggest that our current mode of living is the least probable of our three future options. Such rapid, radical changes suggest that a collapse or a switch to a new mode of living is more likely.” If We Can’t Stop Hothouse Earth, We’d Better Learn to Live on It read more Climate change, Lewis and Maslin say, makes collapse look likely. Violent weather events create food shortages, population displacements, rebuilding costs, and economic dislocation as global supply chains break down. The problem for the Anthropocene, they argue, is “how to equalize resource consumption across the world within sustainable environmental limits.” This involves moving much faster to renewable energy sources and leaving the damn fossil fuels in the ground. It also involves carbon capture and sequestration, on a far greater scale than was accomplished by the destruction of the American indigenous civilizations. So we might plant new forests and burn their wood for energy while trapping and burying the carbon dioxide emissions.
Each transition is accompanied by a progress trap and each successive collapse has taken a shorter amount of time. This coming collapse may be much broader and deeper due to our impacts on the entire global climate system, not just one local part of it.
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Can Humanity Get Out of Its Latest ‘Progress Trap’? A review of ‘The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene.’
Title: Can Humanity Get Out of Its Latest ‘Progress Trap’? A review of ‘The Human Planet: How We Created the Anthropocene.’
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific
Title: Non-uniform tropical forest responses to the ‘Columbian Exchange’ in the Neotropics and Asia-Pacific
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- Jun 2022
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admrayner.medium.com admrayner.medium.com
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Within a cage of fixed boundaries
The difference between the named and the nameless is the difference between the finite and the infinite and this inherent gap is the reason why our civilization is in the mess it is today Out of the illusion of progress built on the idea that nature is neatly separated and parceled along the lines of our preconceptions comes the nonconformity of nature its refusal to be trapped in a straightjacket The infinite refuses to be bound by the finite
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besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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(a) What are the key levers and leverage points in social systems that might drive transformative change towards sustainability? (b) How are these derived from and perceived within and across academic literatures and in practice? (c) How might the levers and leverage points work together?
Key questions are asked and the nexus approach of looking at the entire gestalt, consisting of many moving parts and their feedbacks is critical for avoiding and mitigating unintended consequences, also known as progress traps.
Bringing this to a global public space to create engagement is critical to create a groundswell. The public must understand that leverage points offer us our greatest hope. Once they understand them, everyone can help to identify and participate in leverage points.
Collectively mapping them and their many feedbacks in a global, open source map - an open knowledge commons (OKC) or open wisdom commons (OWC) for system change will drive global participation.
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It is also clear that interventions in pursuit of just a few goals risk having negative effects on others and missing opportunities to realize synergies and manage trade-offs (Palomo et al., 2019; Singh et al., 2018; Tallis et al., 2018). Examples abound: mitigating climate change via geoengineering could threaten other sustainability targets via unequal distribution of costs and international conflict (Gregory, Satterfield, & Hasell, 2016; Keith, 2000). Similarly, intensive food production poses risks to biodiversity (Beckmann et al., 2019), fuels nutrient run-off that can trigger marine hypoxic zones and associated fisheries losses (Donner & Kucharik, 2008) and demands so much water that hydrological cycles and freshwater ecosystems can be undermined (Davis et al., 2015). Given such interacting effects, how might interventions address a broader suite of sustainability goals?
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European farmland could be biggest global reservoir of microplastics, study suggests
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Sewage sludge is commonly used on agricultural land as a sustainable and renewable source of fertiliser throughout European countries, in part due to EU directives that promote the diverting of sewage sludge away from landfill and incineration and towards energy production and agriculture.
This EU directive led to the spread of the unintended consequence.
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“Our results highlight the magnitude of the problem across European soils and suggest that the practice of spreading sludge on agricultural land could potentially make them one of the largest global reservoirs of microplastic pollution,”
Classic progress trap.
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the team estimate that microplastics removed from raw sewage at wastewater treatment plants go on to make up roughly 1% of the weight of sewage sludge, which is commonly used as a fertiliser on farms across Europe.
This case illustrates the potential unintended consequences from attempting to do good.
This is a classic example of how progress traps occur.
Capturing nutrients in waste water closes a nutrient waste loop and seems a good example of applying circular economy thinking.
HOWEVER, at the time the decision was made to process sewage sludge into fertilizer ignored the relationship of sludge to microplastics was unknown or insufficiently explored. After the decision was made, the practice was adopted across many countries in the EU. After years of practice, the new knowledge reveals that there has been years of silent microplastic contamination. To fix the solution will require another solution, perhaps even more complex..
This illustrates the danger of applying circular economy techniques when the waste stream is not fully characterized.
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- May 2022
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www.usmcu.edu www.usmcu.edu
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A stretch target set for the second half of the twenty-first century is for it to be a time in which humanity has gained knowledge, experience, and confidence in dealing with an entangled security environment and coexisting with the hyperthreat. The collective global effort and learning during phases 1–4 will have allowed ingenious solutions for interdependence to emerge. It will be a time of flourishing invention and inspiration.
A critical part of Deep Humanity is the elucidation of progress traps, the unintended consequences of progress. There is an urgent need to advocate for an entirely new human science discipline on progress traps. The reason is because the polycrisis can be seen and critically explained from a progress trap lens.
Progress traps emerge from the unbridgeable gap between finite, reductionist human knowledge and the fractally infinite patterns of the universe and reality, which exists at all scales and dimensions.
The failure to gain a system level understanding of this has led to the premature global scaling of technologies whose unintended consequences emerged after global markets have been established, causing a conflict of interest between biospheric wellbeing and individual profit.
A systematic study or progress traps has rich data to draw from. Ever since the Industrial Revolution, there has been good records of scientific ideas, their associated engineering and technological exploitation and subsequent news media reports of their phase-delayed unintended consequences. Applying AI and a big data scientometric approach can yield patterns in which progress traps emerge. From this, our scientific-technological-industrial-capitalist framework can be modified to include improved regulatory mechanisms based on progress trap research that can systematically grade the risk factors of any new technology. Such risk categorization can result in technologies that require different time scales and aggregate knowledge understanding before they can be fully commercialized with time scale grades ranging from years to decades and even centuries.
All future technology innovations must past through these systematic, evidence-based regulatory barriers before they can be introduced into widespread commercial use.
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- Apr 2022
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twitter.com twitter.com
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ReconfigBehSci on Twitter: ‘RT @euronews: COVID-19 vaccine rollout: How do countries in Europe compare? Https://t.co/SsFXS0L8mi’ / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved 29 March 2021, from https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1376440206505676807
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- Mar 2022
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rusi.org rusi.org
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Putin ignores what happened when Ukrainians and Russians lived in separate states – actually for a longer period than when they lived together.
Putin is bending historical facts to fit his idealistic claims. Which means his goal is implementing that static ideal of a strong Russia, not adapting it to allow for progress.
That takes us back to before the scientific revolution.
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www.economist.com www.economist.com
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- Cultural change is a choice, not purely defined by historical trends (e.g. "war is inevitable").
- For one of the first times in history, we see war not as a way to make progress. Intellectual progress can't be conquered like raw resources can. Global cooperation is worth more than a bigger country.
- But this is again subject to our choice. If Russia's war is successful, we will see more wars (since it will be a viable method for political change). It's not just about preventing atrocities in Ukraine.
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docdrop.org docdrop.org
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the war in Ukraine now, it’s not a natural disaster. It’s a man-made disaster, and a single man. It's not the Russian people who want this war. There's really just a single person who, by his decisions, created this tragedy.
Technology is an amplifier and as Ronald Wright observed so presciently, our rapid cultural evolution has created advanced cognition in humans, and is like allowing modern software to run on 50,000 year old hardware. Amidst the exponential rate of technological development, biological evolution cannot keep up. So our propensity for violence, with more and more powerful technological weapons at our disposal has resulted in one man, Putin, having the capability to destroy an entire civilization with the press of one finger.
Unless we can understand this, we will not resolve the predicament civilization finds itself in.
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- Feb 2022
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www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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In her 2021 book "Bet on Yourself," which features a foreword by Schmidt, Hiatt lays out the two key ways she "up-leveled" her career."First I have prioritized finding a manager who is modeling the career path I want to take and embodies the leadership qualities I want to possess," she wrote. "Second, I have chosen roles that surround me with top quality people and a depth of opportunities to grow with them."
Look at their life and how it can bring opportunities and then if you will be exposed and streched.
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For a dream career, prioritize who you work with over everything else.
Very interresting that we find it here as well as with Paul that had to check how Timoteus were doing before moving on, because who you work with is more important than what you do.
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www.thedriftmag.com www.thedriftmag.com
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Amid seemingly intractable problems here on Earth, a vision of the future can resemble a life raft, and in the absence of viable alternatives, substanceless promises of space travel, crypto-utopias, and eternal life in the cloud may become the only things to look forward to.
Is that a bad thing, to have something to look forward to? It implies that new technological inventions are the only way to make progress, but it is undeniably progress. Not everyone will hold this view, and no one should force it upon you. So why are people constantly criticing "techno-utopia" views instead of creating and moving towards their own visions of the future?
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- Jan 2022
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www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
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https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/07/we-need-new-science-progress/594946/
I can't help but think about comparative anthropology here. The definition of progress is an important one as what may be perceived as progress by one group of people may not be judged so by another.
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Organizations as varied as Y Combinator, MIT’s Radiation Lab, and ARPA have astonishing track records in catalyzing progress far beyond their confines.
Are they really the ones pushing the progress and innovating, or are they benefiting from filtering out only the highest level potential producers and simply supporting them?
Would we get more overall benefit from raising the level of the ocean so that all boats rise instead of a select few?
Another example, how was Hungary able to produce so many Nobel Prize winners?
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In an era where funding for good projects can be hard to come by, or is even endangered, we must affirmatively make the case for the study of how to improve human well-being. This possibility is a fundamental reason why the American public is interested in supporting the pursuit of knowledge, and rightly so.
Keep in mind that they're asking this in an anti-science and post-fact political climate. Is progress studies the real end goal, or do we need political solutions? Better communication solutions? Better education solutions? Instead? First?
Are they addressing the correct question/problem here?
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Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson have called for an “applied history” movement, to better draw lessons from history and apply them to real-world problems, including through the advising of political leaders.
What about applied anthropology as well?
Knowledge of progress doesn't mean that it will be applied properly (at all) as the result of politics. This is one of the areas where applied anthropology would be interesting. Its also where a larger group determination of progress is important.
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Along these lines, the world would benefit from an organized effort to understand how we should identify and train brilliant young people, how the most effective small groups exchange and share ideas, which incentives should exist for all sorts of participants in innovative ecosystems (including scientists, entrepreneurs, managers, and engineers), how much different organizations differ in productivity (and the drivers of those differences), how scientists should be selected and funded, and many other related issues besides.
These are usually incredibly political questions that aren't always done logically.
See for example Malcolm Gladwell's podcast episode My Little Hundred Million.
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By “progress,” we mean the combination of economic, technological, scientific, cultural, and organizational advancement that has transformed our lives and raised standards of living over the past couple of centuries.
Is progress necessarily teleological? What differentiates it from simple change? What is the measure(s) that indicates progress?
One's present context is always going to dictate whether or not an innovation should be considered progress.
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The spider web system was, in fact, a work in progress; the resulting hypertext was designed to be open-ended.
One's lifetime of notes could be thought of as a hypertext work in progress that is designed to be open-ended.
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- Dec 2021
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www.nature.com www.nature.com
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Replicating scientific results is tough—But essential. (2021). Nature, 600(7889), 359–360. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-03736-4
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- Nov 2021
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beforewegoblog.com beforewegoblog.com
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partial victories as the world is moved toward, not to, a better state, ending with (re)construction underway and the world changing, not changed.
David Louis Edelman's Jump 225 had a wonderful expression that punctuated it regularly, "May you be ever moving towards perfection," which this resonates with.
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bugs.launchpad.net bugs.launchpad.net
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This is actively being worked on - for those interested you can follow the progress in https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/pull/10836
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- Oct 2021
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twitter.com twitter.com
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John Roberts on Twitter: “154k booster 💉reported today in 🏴, bringing the total to 1.58m, out of 4.56m. So that’s another 3m eligible for a jab as soon as they can be scheduled in. 1/ https://t.co/tw1JmrOiUo” / Twitter. (n.d.). Retrieved October 15, 2021, from https://twitter.com/john_actuary/status/1445785517774176262
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Nicholas, J., & Evershed, N. (n.d.). Covid-19 vaccine Australia rollout tracker by state: total number of people and per cent vaccinated, daily vaccine doses and rate of progress. The Guardian. Retrieved September 20, 2021, from https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/datablog/ng-interactive/2021/sep/20/covid-19-vaccine-rollout-australia-vaccination-rate-progress-how-many-people-vaccinated-percent-tracker-australian-states-number-total-daily-live-data-stats-updates-news-schedule-tracking-chart-percentage-new-cases-today
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COVID-19 vaccine - King County. (n.d.). Retrieved March 2, 2021, from https://www.kingcounty.gov/depts/health/covid-19/vaccine.aspx
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- Sep 2021
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www.vox.com www.vox.com
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This is the other huge important theme, which is that technology alone does not lead to a better world. It can only lead to a better world in the context of good moral and social systems. One thing that I do deeply believe is that our scientific and material technology has raced ahead of our moral and social technology. We need some catch-up growth in moral and social technology.
There is another even greater theme this article has not touched on, progress traps. Climate change is a direct result of the unintended consequences of progress, a pretty major impact.
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- Aug 2021
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64k.space 64k.space
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Second, that you see more and more laptops running things like i3 and dwm than back in 2010 -- and these tools haven't gotten any better in these ten years.
vim tools/plugins on the other hand have gotten supremely powerful & weird & awesome.
i actually really love this point. there's some semi-interesting things happening with Wayland desktops, some changes, but overall i think most Linux users have kind of subsisted in semi-stasis. and we don't need top down change, from our WMs, but we should be "growing-in" to our environments, getting better, and we i think the collaboration & exploration is still very sparse, few charts or maps or guides come out. the "here be dragons" edge has a lot of healthy exploration deep into it, but it's very lone territory, the charts rare & hard to understand, hard to follow. there's some radical elements of success & exploration, but there are so few enduring wayfinding systems, so little communalizing of exploration or growth.
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- Jun 2021
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github.com github.com
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Happy Third Birthday #24728!
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osf.io osf.io
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Deviri, D. (2021). From the ivory tower to the public square: Strategies to restore public trust in science. MetaArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31222/osf.io/w3frb
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msudenver.instructure.com msudenver.instructure.com
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To Mrs. SAVILLE, England. St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17--. YOU will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings
"Frankenstein" does not begin in the way we expect. This seems pedestrian and boring. What you might not realize is just how clever this ruse is and how much information is packed into the very beginning.
The epistolary aspect introduces a frame narrative. The letters belonging to Margaret Walton Saville give us the story of her brother Robert Walton. Walton conveys to her (and us) the story of Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein's narrative yields the story of the Creature. The Creature's story includes the story of Safie and the De Lacey family.
The outer "frame" belongs to Margaret Walton Saville -- notice that these are the same letters, or "initials," (M. W. S.) as Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
Notice as well the place and the date. You may not know it but St. Petersburgh is like Las Vegas, Brasilia, or Dubai. It is an out of the way place, not particularly hospitable to humans, where a major city was artificially created. It was originally a swamp but the leaders decided to create a major, new city as an exemplary modern metropolis (and center of culture).
This is a leading theme of the Enlightenment and the book: the dream of the artificial and planned, which is entirely new.
Notice also that the book is squarely set in the eighteenth century, in the Enlightenment.
Note, as well, that December 11 should strike one as a time of winter darkness and not at all propitious for an arctic expedition.
Lastly, we have the first intimation of the lively controversy (in this book and elsewhere) between men and women: female domesticity (and due caution) versus male ambition and the drive for adventure.
To me this shows just how artfully constructed this text actually is, right from the start. Which reveals it to be not boring.
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- May 2021
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gutenberg.net.au gutenberg.net.au
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there has been no progress of a material kind.
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Covid One Year Ago. (2021, January 20). If you’d like to see longer and more detailed items which don’t fit on twitter, please join us on substack! Https://t.co/EqsIDz91p6 [Tweet]. @YearCovid. https://twitter.com/YearCovid/status/1351898525693460483
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- Mar 2021
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gitlab.gnome.org gitlab.gnome.org
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Sorry you’re surprised. Issues are filed at about a rate of 1 per day against GLib. Merge requests at a rate of about 1 per 2 days. Each issue or merge request takes a minimum of about 30 minutes (across at least 2 people) to analyse, put together a fix, test it, review it, fix it, review it and merge it. I’d estimate the average is closer to 3 hours than 30 minutes. Even at the fastest rate, it would take 3 working months to clear the backlog of ~1000 issues. I get a small proportion of my working time to spend on GLib (not full time).
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Age of a ticket is completely irrelevant as anyone can request anything but the number of developers is limited. If you'd like to see something implemented, please consider providing a patch. Thanks!
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Sorry if I sounded rude. I am using Gnome on a daily basis and am highly appreciating all the work anyone has put into it. I was just surprised when I found an AskUbuntu post from 2010 linking to this bug.
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Wow 14 years. I still keep stumbling over this issue...
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github.com github.com
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Progress is slow though. I want to change how assets are loaded, the current implementation of "pipelines" is challenging to work with.
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There's no release of sprockets 4 so there's nothing to revert. Master branch is a WIP. I would recommend using Sprockets 3.
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Still broken, @cannikin. Nobody's on board to investigate, much less fix it. Please do dig in
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release 0.0.1 after around 5 years.
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trailblazer.to trailblazer.to
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It almost feels unreal finishing up this release post. It’s been so long!
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After around 3 years of silence, Trailblazer is back with its 2.1 release.
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- Feb 2021
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trailblazer.to trailblazer.to
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To tell you the truth, the new tracing feature was the original reason why I decided to write 2.1 and make you sit and wait in agony for years. Nevertheless, tracing is simply blowing my mind. I can’t count how many hours and angering rushs of adrenaline I’ve saved since the introduction of the wtf? method and its helpful higher-level stack trace.
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github.com github.com
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Take 3, Previously attempted in 2012 (#8189) and 2015 (#19709). This new version uses ActiveModel Attributes API.
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Another recent attempt: #35246
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www.infoworld.com www.infoworld.com
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This column and last month's article are about design. Design, by nature, is a series of trade-offs. Every choice has a good and bad side, and you make your choice in the context of overall criteria defined by necessity. Good and bad are not absolutes, however. A good decision in one context might be bad in another.
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discourse.ubuntu.com discourse.ubuntu.com
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Progress is made of compromises, this implies that we have to consider not only disadvantages, but also the advantages. Advantages do very clearly outweigh disadvantages. This doesn’t mean it perfect, or that work shouldn’t continue to minimize and reduce the disadvantages, but just considering disadvantages is not the correct way.
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- Dec 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Ross, L. (2020). How Intellectual Communities Progress. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/k6yux
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- Oct 2020
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www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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Linux Memory Management at Scale
"we had to build a complete and compliant operating system in order to perform resource control reliably"
epic real-talk. the only people on the planet who seemed to have tamed linux for workloads. controlling memory. taming io. being on the bleeding edge, it turns out, is almost entirely about forward-progress. what can we reclaim?
- oomd for memory protection
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https://facebookmicrosites.github.io/cgroup2/docs/fbtax-results.html
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instead of closing immediately, could we discuss some syntaxes that might work? I'm hardly an expert, so I'm not sure I can propose a syntax, but I can try to get the ball rolling:
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But maybe this PR should still be merged until he finds time for that?
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Sorry this sat for so long!
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Sometimes answering a single question can be very time consuming (such as setting up a benchmark), but discussions tend to stall out if concerns don't get thoroughly addressed.
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One of the most successful began with a simple exercise aimed at helping the leaders to define their three highest priorities. Then we took them through a structured exercise including delving into their calendars to assess whether they were using their time to best advantage, including setting aside time for renewal. This process prompted them to examine more consciously why they were working in self-defeating ways. We also developed an online site where leaders agreed to regularly share their progress on prioritizing, as well as any feelings of resistance that were arising, and how they managed them. Their work is ongoing, but among the most common feelings people reported were liberation and relief. Their worst fears failed to materialize
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www.indiebound.org www.indiebound.org
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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another | IndieBound.org. (n.d.). Retrieved August 26, 2020, from https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780262043809
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- Jul 2020
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Stathoulopoulos, K. (2020, March 17). Orion: An open-source tool for the science of science. Medium. https://medium.com/@kstathou/orion-an-open-source-tool-for-the-science-of-science-4259935f91d4
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Perrott, D. (2020, May 26). Is Applied Behavioural Science reaching a Local Maximum? Medium. https://medium.com/@DavePerrott/is-applied-behavioural-science-reaching-a-local-maximum-538b536f7e7d
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The date, time and place are scheduled according to when/where we can reserve Matz's time.
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Problem is, everyone's busy, so it can be days or even weeks before even a small PR is merged. So I'm stashing my stuff here as I write it. I'll still try to keep the PRs in motion, to gradually get some of this merged.
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- Jun 2020
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Bayer, J. (2020). Technology habits: Progress, problems, and prospects [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ft6am
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jamanetwork.com jamanetwork.com
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Berwick, D. M. (2020). Choices for the “New Normal.” JAMA. https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2020.6949
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www.covidexitstrategy.org www.covidexitstrategy.org
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How We Reopen Safely—Covidexitstrategy.org. (n.d.). Retrieved June 17, 2020, from https://www.covidexitstrategy.org/
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ourworldindata.org ourworldindata.org
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Is the world making progress against the pandemic? We built the chart to answer this question. (n.d.). Our World in Data. Retrieved June 11, 2020, from https://ourworldindata.org/epi-curve-covid-19
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Cohen, P. N. (2020, June 8). Talk: How we know: COVID-19, preprints, and the information ecosystem. SocOpen: Home of SocArXiv. https://socopen.org/2020/06/08/talk-how-we-know-covid-19-preprints-and-the-information-ecosystem/
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correspondent, J. H. N. of E. (2020, June 2). Decade of progress in tackling pupil disadvantage “wiped out.” The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/jun/03/decade-of-progress-tackling-uk-pupil-disadvantage-wiped-out-coronavirus-school-closures
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This argument is reinforced by the fact that, at the individual level, we meet many brilliant people who are fascinated by (and often working on) tools for thought, but who nonetheless seem to be making slow progress.
Ideas have sex: the trouble in a dramatically increasing landscape of information that we've experienced over the last century alone is that the combinatoric interactions of all the ideas is also much slower, so the progress on this front may seem to slow while the body of knowledge and interactions is continually growing. This might make for an interesting graph.
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Forscher, P. S., Wagenmakers, E.-J., DeBruine, L. M., Coles, N. A., Silan, M. A., & IJzerman, H. (2020). A Manifesto for Team Science [Preprint]. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2mdxh
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phylogenomics.blogspot.com phylogenomics.blogspot.com
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The Tree of Life: Stop deifying “peer review” of journal publications: (2012, February 4). The Tree of Life. https://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2012/02/stop-deifying-peer-review-of-journal.html
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- Mar 2020
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Using fear of losing your "streak" as a motivation
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github.com github.com
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kevinmontrose.com kevinmontrose.com
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The value of uninterrupted time to devote to development is hard to overstate, and if I continue I won’t have that. So I couldn’t expect to be nearly as productive, which makes the whole thing less attractive — I’m one of those people who derives a lot of enjoyment from making tangible progress.
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Progressis a forwardmarch,drawingotherkindsof timeinto itsrhythms.Withoutthat drivingbeat,we mightnoticeothertemporalpatterns.Eachlivingthingremakesthe worldthroughseasonalpulsesof growth,lifetimereproductivepatterns,and geographiesof expan-sion. Withina givenspecies,too, thereare multipletime-makingprojects,as organismsenlisteachotherand coordinatein makinglandscapes.(Theregrowthof the cutoverCascadesand Hiroshima’sradioecologyeachshowus multispeciestimemaking.)The curiosityI] advocatefol-lowssuchmultipletemporalities,revitalizingdescriptionand imagina-tion.Thisis not a simpleempiricism,in whichthe worldinventsitsowncategories.Instead,agnosticaboutwherewe are going,we mightlookfor whathas beenignoredbecauseit neverfit the timeline ofprogress.
Again, using "progress" as a term to describe humanity's need to move forward, to grow economically, Tsing questions whether our perspective on progress is a good one. In this passage she's saying that humans are so drawn to this concept of progress that they fail to recognise other forms of progress such as the one that the natural world takes. It makes the natural resource into a thing that can be used rather than respected when its own form of progress is undermined by our capitalistic one.
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This is the first of many times "progress" is mentioned. I think the first thing we think of when we hear progress is a positive connotation, the feeling of moving forward. However, Tsing uses "progress" in a sort of satyrical way. Her argument is that the industrial capitalist definition of progress is actually moving humanity backwards because it involves ruining our planet in the process.
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not-yetness is the space that allows for emergence
Collaboration requires a space where the answer isn't yet decided, doesn't it?
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process and product
Discuss work-in-progress as a valid publication.
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creating obscurities through disputation,
lol @ this.
"creating obscurities through disputation" sounds an awful lot like "broadening the knowledge base of humanity." Arguing toward ever more precise ideas and their articulations is the driving force of the Enlightenment.
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build regular feedback loops
Once you realize that you have a bias, you can try one of the suggested methods to counteract it. In this case, to get a realistic view of our progress towards goals, the suggestion is to build feedback loops into our routine.
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Perpetual progress is a strong statement of the transhumanist commitment to seek “more intelligence, wisdom, and effectiveness, an open-ended lifespan, and the removal of political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits to continuing development. Perpetually overcoming constraints on our progress and possibilities as individuals, as organizations, and as a species. Growing in healthy directions without bound.”
What stands out to me here is the efforts to which they went in defining the "constraints" on their pursuit of perpetual progress; specifically, they describe these constraints as "...political, cultural, biological, and psychological limits....". While I had earlier viewed religion as transhumanism's biggest constraint, this description makes me pause - the 'constraints' currently being referred to, such as our divisive political system, deeply embedded cultural practices, psychological issues stemming from society, and our ever-fragile health all now seem to be worthy nemeses to the transhumanist commitment.
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prosum-ers
A person who influences the purchase of a product; they don't only consume it, they convince others to buy it by consuming it themselves. e.g. a you-tuber who is sent clothing, wears that clothing in a video, and then links it in their video as a product for purchase and gets money for it.
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engagements2017-18.as.virginia.edu engagements2017-18.as.virginia.edu
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And, in general, to observe with intelligence & faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.
Again, I find it important to note the emphasis placed by the founders on encouraging social intelligence as well as academic intelligence. The University was not meant solely as an institution of book-learnin', but also one of character development. Still, this sentiment is rather ironic in the face of UVA's history, but I prefer to look at it from the perspective of self-betterment. The social relations of the university are certainly included in "all the social situations under which [the student] shall be placed," so change can be made from the inside, especially with the advent of student self-governance.
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kadist.org kadist.org
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[unlike linear] nonlinear temporality is a feminist proposal to resist liberal individualistic modes of doing politics. Organizing politically in a nonlinear temporality involves creating situationist feminist politics; nonlinear activism is one that does not construct origins but mobilizes different political consciousness and creates many subject positions.
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that to secure Ourselves where we are, we must tread with awfull reverence in the footsteps of Our fathers
This University was founded by one of the "fathers", at a time when the revolution was not the country's history, but part of one's personal past. The ideals of the founding fathers were ingrained in the people at this time, so it makes perfect sense that the commissioners would want to align themselves with their ideas of liberty and equality. However the word choice is kind of strange. The way it's worded makes it seem as if the commissioners had not purposefully aligned themselves with the founders, their university would not survive. This university seems to have been founded with great consideration to the government- not how one may want it to be. If a university and government are tied together, how can things change and progress? -Tessa
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www.politico.com www.politico.com
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Americans for Medical Progress
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www.facebook.com www.facebook.com
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Americans for Medical Progress
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- Mar 2017
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tachesdesens.blogspot.com tachesdesens.blogspot.com
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The words of one of my students, one of my fellow learners helped me continue. Those words, some of them, are translated here in this post Nagasaki mon amour.
There is no going back. We must go forward.
The key issues concern the data collection/policing of our conversations.
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While naloxone will not solve the underlying problems of the opioid epidemic, we are speeding to review new formulations that will ultimately save lives that might otherwise be lost to drug addiction and overdose.”
Developing this life saving drug will help more than harm
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www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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hence many studies showing little or no progress for third-generation Mexican immigrants, said Stephen J.
wow...
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- Aug 2016
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teaching.lfhanley.net teaching.lfhanley.net
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From my car passing under the stars,
There is definitely progress: the speaker describes 'out of bus ride' on the 2nd stanza but in the 5th last stanza he is cruising, chillin' under the stars in his own car.
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- Jul 2016
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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Which isn’t that clear from an outside perspective. It often sounds a bit like some form of Left-leaning perspective, in a French tradition («La Gauche»), but it’s also predicated on a fairly neoliberal notion of progress.
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What about extensions for other browsers? We’re working on that. The next supported browser is likely to be Firefox.
I'm writing this note in... Safari!
I thought hypothes.is could only work with the Chrome applet.
Still looking for a way to use hypothes.is from a tablet.
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let's create world peace one.
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Nice article. Along with discussing imitation vs innovation and cult of creativity, can provide another level to discussion of progress.
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CalDAV, and webcal (.ics) calendars
Finally a good calendar alternative to Thunderbird/Lightning!
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It seeks a new realm and another channel for its activity, and it finds this in myth and in art generally.
the stimulus for progress inventiveness
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