- Sep 2023
-
www.frontiersin.org www.frontiersin.org
-
- for: nonduality, non-duality, duality, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, explanatory gap, relativistic theory of consciousness, human INTERbeing, human INTERbeCOMing, Deep Humanity, DH
- title: A Relativistic Theory of Consciousness
- author: Nir Lahav, Zahariah A. Neemeh
-
date: May 12, 2022
-
abstract
- In recent decades, the scientific study of consciousness has significantly increased our understanding of this elusive phenomenon.
- Yet, despite critical development in our understanding of the functional side of consciousness, we still lack a fundamental theory regarding its phenomenal aspect.
- There is an “explanatory gap” between
- our scientific knowledge of functional consciousness and
- its “subjective,” phenomenal aspects,
- referred to as the “hard problem” of consciousness.
- The phenomenal aspect of consciousness is the first-person answer to “what it’s like” question, and
- it has thus far proved recalcitrant to direct scientific investigation.
- Naturalistic dualists argue that it is composed of a primitive, private, non-reductive element of reality that is independent from the functional and physical aspects of consciousness.
- Illusionists, on the other hand, argue that it is merely a cognitive illusion, and that all that exists are ultimately physical, non-phenomenal properties.
- We contend that both the dualist and illusionist positions are flawed because they tacitly assume consciousness to be an absolute property that doesn’t depend on the observer.
- We develop a conceptual and a mathematical argument for a relativistic theory of consciousness in which
- a system either has or doesn’t have phenomenal consciousness with respect to some observer.
- Phenomenal consciousness is neither private nor delusional, just relativistic.
- In the frame of reference of the cognitive system, it will be observable (first-person perspective) and
- in other frame of reference it will not (third-person perspective).
- These two cognitive frames of reference are both correct,
- just as in the case of
- an observer that claims to be at rest
- while another will claim that the observer has constant velocity.
- just as in the case of
- Given that consciousness is a relativistic phenomenon, neither observer position can be privileged,
- as they both describe the same underlying reality.
- Based on relativistic phenomena in physics
- we developed a mathematical formalization for consciousness which bridges the explanatory gap and dissolves the hard problem.
- Given that the first-person cognitive frame of reference also offers legitimate observations on consciousness,
- we conclude by arguing that philosophers can usefully contribute to the science of consciousness by collaborating with neuroscientists to explore the neural basis of phenomenal structures.
-
comment
- This is a promising approach to solving the hard problem of consciosness
-
Phenomenal consciousness is only seemingly private because in order to measure it one needs to be in the appropriate cognitive frame of reference. It is not a simple transformation to change from a third-person cognitive frame of reference to the first-person frame, but in principle it can be done, and hence phenomenal consciousness isn’t private anymore.
- for: relativistic theory of consciousness, question, question - shifting cognitive frames
- question
- How is this transformation done?
-
-
hypothes.is hypothes.is
-
"Surrendering" by Ocean Vuong
-
He moved into United State when he was age of five. He first came to United State when he started kindergarten. Seven of them live in the apartment one bedroom and bathroom to share the whole. He learned ABC song and alphabet. He knows the ABC that he forgot the letter is M comes before N.
-
He went to the library since he was on the recess. He was in the library hiding from the bully. The bully just came in the library doing the slight frame and soft voice in front of the kid where he sit. He left the library, he walked to the middle of the schoolyard started calling him the pansy and fairy. He knows the American flag that he recognize on the microphone against the backdrop.
-
Tags
- Weeks earlier, I’d been in the library. It was where I would hide during recess. Otherwise, because of my slight frame and soft voice, the boys would call me “pansy” and “fairy” and pull my shorts around my ankles in the middle of the schoolyard. I sat on the floor beside a tape player. From a box of cassettes, I chose one labelled “Great American Speeches.” I picked it because of the illustration, a microphone against a backdrop of the American flag. I picked it because the American flag was one of the few symbols I recognized.
- My family immigrated to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1990, when I was two. We lived, all seven of us, in a one-bedroom apartment in Hartford, Connecticut, and I spent my first five years in America surrounded, inundated, by the Vietnamese language. When I entered kindergarten, I was, in a sense, immigrating all over again, except this time into English. Like any American child, I quickly learned my ABCs, thanks to the age-old melody (one I still sing rapidly to myself when I forget whether “M” comes before “N”). Within a few years, I had become fluent—but only in speech, not in the written word.
Annotators
URL
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
Aspects of melody
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
The three main categories of tonal melodic composition for the Grade 6 examination are:Examples 45 to 54d below fall into the first of these categories. Here is the opening 12-barsentence of a Bourrée movement written by Handel:VIOLIN Handel: Organ Concerto, Op.7 No.1 (Bourrée)Allegro , : 47]Bb major: IbF major: IVb vii° I iib Ib vii°b =IBb major: I IV Ic Vv vi‘Consult AB Guide, Part II, Chapter 22, for more information on instrumental writing. There are many good bookson the subject and at this stage you could not do better than to read Gordon Jacob’s Orchestral Technique (OxfordUniversity Press, available as a paperback). You should try to listen to as much music as you can while followingthe printed score. It does not matter whether the music is ‘live’ or recorded, as long as you appreciate that reading
-
-
gothamist.com gothamist.com
-
Gould, Jessica. “Teachers College, Columbia U. Dissolves Program behind Literacy Curriculum Used in NYC Public Schools.” Gothamist, September 8, 2023. https://gothamist.com/news/columbia-university-dissolves-program-behind-literacy-curriculum-used-in-nyc-public-schools.
The Teachers College of Columbia University has shut down the Lucy Calkins Units of Study literacy program.
Missing from the story is more emphasis on not only the social costs, which they touch on, but the tremendous financial (sunk) cost to the system by not only adopting it but enriching Calkins and the institution (in a position of trust) which benefitted from having sold it.
-
-
-
The dualism of scientific materialism and its one-person psychologies are arguably complicit in much of the psychological and social damage we are now recognising.
-
for: dualism, dualism - psychology, unintended consequences, unintended consequences - dualism in psychology, progress trap, progress trap - dualism in psychology
-
paraphrase
- The dualism of scientific materialism gives rise to one-person psychologies
- and are arguably complicit in much of the psychological and social damage we are now recognising.
- For instance, a good deal of the historical denial of the role of psychological and social trauma has been traced
- back to the Freudian model’s almost exclusive focus on the internal world;
- the actual impact of others and society has been, as a result, relatively ignored.
- back to the Freudian model’s almost exclusive focus on the internal world;
- Modern psychiatry, which accepts the same philosophical model but changes the level of explanation, is just as culpable.
- Likewise CBT, with its focus on dysfunctional thought patterns and rational remedies administered from the outside, also follows the same misguided philosophy.
- The dualism of scientific materialism gives rise to one-person psychologies
-
question
- what are concrete ways this has caused harm?
- future work
- perform literature review on case studies where Winnicott's approach has been a more constructive therapeutic one
-
Tags
- unintended consequences
- question
- Cartesian dualism
- progress trap
- future work
- dualism
- progress trap - dualism in psychology
- unintended consequences - dualism in psychology
- future work - advantages of Winnicott's approach
- question - harm from dualism in psychology
- dualism - psychology
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
-
Recent work has revealed several new and significant aspects of the dynamics of theory change. First, statistical information, information about the probabilistic contingencies between events, plays a particularly important role in theory-formation both in science and in childhood. In the last fifteen years we’ve discovered the power of early statistical learning.
The data of the past is congruent with the current psychological trends that face the education system of today. Developmentalists have charted how children construct and revise intuitive theories. In turn, a variety of theories have developed because of the greater use of statistical information that supports probabilistic contingencies that help to better inform us of causal models and their distinctive cognitive functions. These studies investigate the physical, psychological, and social domains. In the case of intuitive psychology, or "theory of mind," developmentalism has traced a progression from an early understanding of emotion and action to an understanding of intentions and simple aspects of perception, to an understanding of knowledge vs. ignorance, and finally to a representational and then an interpretive theory of mind.
The mechanisms by which life evolved—from chemical beginnings to cognizing human beings—are central to understanding the psychological basis of learning. We are the product of an evolutionary process and it is the mechanisms inherent in this process that offer the most probable explanations to how we think and learn.
Bada, & Olusegun, S. (2015). Constructivism Learning Theory : A Paradigm for Teaching and Learning.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
Wills, Garry. “After 54 Great Books, 102 Great Ideas, Now—Count Them !—Three Revolutions.” The New York Times, June 13, 1971, sec. BR. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/06/13/archives/the-common-sense-of-politics-by-mortimer-j-adler-265-pp-new-york.html
It's not super obvious from the digitized context (text), but this review is in relation to The Common Sense of Politics (1971) by Mortimer J. Adler.
Wills criticizes Adler and his take in the book as well as the general enterprise of the Great Books of the Western World.
There seem to be interesting sparks here in the turn of the Republican party in the early 70s moving into the coming Reagan era.
-
Woodrow Wil son insisted that the League of Na tions’ enabling document be called a Covenant to show its parentage.
Here the Covenant referring to that given by God to the Jews.
-
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
-
01:00 being present within & without, “in both worlds”
See idea on “master of both worlds” (Campbell) & extending oneself to the heavens & earth (Miyamoto Musashi)
-
-
-
proof of effort: How can teachers know that students have done the work?
Hypothes.is is an example of a tool which shows reading effort.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
-
Amazon has become a marketplace for AI-produced tomes that are being passed off as having been written by humans, with travel books among the popular categories for fake work.
-
-
medium.com medium.com
-
Jarvis, Jeff. “Moving On.” Medium. Whither News? (blog), September 2023. https://medium.com/whither-news/moving-on-4eecb1c76ce3.
Jeff Jarvis looking back briefly on his history at CUNY's Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. An interesting snapshot of some of the pedagogical changes and programs over almost 20 years.
-
Since arriving at the school, I have said to each class that I am too old to change journalism. Instead, I would watch and try to help students take on that responsibility.
-
-
www.derstandard.de www.derstandard.de
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Zu den vielen negativen Folgen von Hitzewellen gehört, dass sie die Luftqualität verschlechtern. Die World Meteorological Organisation zeigt in ihrem Bericht über Luftqualität und Klima 2022 u.a., dass die Hitzewellen des Jahres zu sehr viel mehr Waldbränden und zu einem bedeutend höheren Anteil an Sahara-Staub in der Luft einiger Regionen führten.
-
-
delong.typepad.com delong.typepad.com
-
RECOMMENDED READING LIST
Compare this list to what ultimately became the Great Books of the Western World in 1952. Lots more 20th century writing on it to begin...
-
Although not all of the books listed are "great" in any of the commonly accepted meanings of the term, all of them will reward you for the effort you make to read them.
This book was published originally in 1940 and apparently the Great Books of the Western World was hatched in 1943, so this book isn't necessarily a stepping stone to pitching/selling those, though obviously it informs the ideas which led up to its creation.
Note that it is roughly contemporaneous to his article a year later:
Adler, Mortimer J. “How to Mark a Book.” Saturday Review of Literature, July 6, 1941.<br /> https://stevenson.ucsc.edu/academics/stevenson-college-core-courses/how-to-mark-a-book-1.pdf
-
How to Use a Dictionary
Surely this won't include the idea of John McPhee's Draft #4 use of a dictionary?
-
-
-
Timson printing press at Edwards Brothers Malloy in Ann Arbor, one of only three locations in the United States that meet Library of America’s rigorous production standards. [All LOA books are now printed at Edwards Brothers Malloy.]
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
www.librarything.com www.librarything.com
-
As I’d mentioned, the problem is not with the first printing, when our usual press run ranges from 7,000 to 15,000 copies, but with subsequent printings of a many of our titles. In many cases, a few years after a title’s initial publication, a three- to five-year supply can be as low as 500 copies. The cost to set up the book (called “make-ready” in the industry) is so high that the printing/binding cost per book is far more than most readers would be willing to pay. To “break even” on some of these titles, we’d have to charge $100 or more in bookstores, which would decrease sales even further. As it is, we subsidize those volumes with donations and with sales of other books.
https://www.librarything.com/topic/286378
LOAs first print runs are in the 7,000 - 15,000 copy range. Often after initial publication the stock for a 3-5 year supply is about 500 copies.
-
-
www.librarything.com www.librarything.com
-
DCloyceSmithEdited: Mar 23, 2010, 12:22 pm It's a closely held secret: There is in fact no scheme to the color scheme. I can't speak for my predecessors, but I've "chosen" the colors for the last ten years, and the primary considerations have been (1) break up the colors for contiguous authors/titles when the volumes are alphabetized on the shelf (and try to keep additional tan volumes away from all those Henry James volumes), and (2) balance the collection as a whole. A couple of times, an author's son or daughter has specifically requested a cloth color, and of course I'll accommodate their decision. (And sometimes, the colors do pick themselves, like green cloth for the American Earth volume.)For the record, here are the color breakdowns through the Emerson volumes (not including the Twain Anthology and the Lincoln Anthology, when we used unique colors):Red -- 52 Blue -- 51 Green -- 48 Tan -- 50 (counting the Franklin as 2 volumes)David
https://www.librarything.com/topic/87541
No real rhyme or reason for Library of America book covers.
-
-
a16z.simplecast.com a16z.simplecast.com
-
https://a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/a-true-second-brain-xrODaBD2
Recommended by Michael Grossman
-
-
-
David Pickerell's son in law works here.
-
-
alltechishuman.org alltechishuman.org
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
-
Movies as portraying limited existence, but sometimes “signs” of consciousness
- In my opinion, well made movies, show a lot of signs of consciousness. See, for example, LOTR, with the rhoririm charge where there is a collective consciousness forming, or the scene in which Shanks stops Akainu.
-
-
phys.org phys.org
-
Die Anzahl tropischer Stürme, die sich schnell intensivieren, bevor sie das Land erreichen, hat sich in den letzten 40 Jahren verdreifacht. Der Hurrikan Itdlia hat möglicherweise am schnellsten von allen bisher bekannten Stürmen verstärkt, weil er seine Energie aus extrem warmem Wasser bezieht. Diese Verstärkung lässt sich der globalen Erhitzung zu schreiben, auch wenn die Zahl der Stürme durch sie nicht zunimmt. https://phys.org/news/2023-08-idalia-potent-intensely-rocket-fuel.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter via La Repubblica
-
-
www.derstandard.de www.derstandard.de
-
Wegen Starkregen und Überschwemmungen wurde in vielen Regionen Spaniens die Alarmstufe Rot ausgerufen, vereinzelt kam es zu Ausgangssperren. https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000185403/ausgehverbot-f252r-10000-wegen-unwetter-in-spanien-zwei-tote
-
-
github.com github.com
-
Should any one stumble upon this issue @tenderlove reverted commit a8bf129 in a71350c which is in v5.0.0.beta1 and later.
-
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vww7JLcrJl4
8:05 - 16:20 GTD - Capture - Clarify - What is it? - Is it actionable? What is the action? - Is it a project? - Batching - Reflect - Review over lists/calendars daily/weekly - Engage
17:30 They use the phrase "atomic" paper based index cards, so they've been infected by the idea of "atomic notes" from somewhere, though it seems as if he's pitching that he's "invented" his card system as if from scratch.
19:45 He mentions potentially using both sides of the card, against the usual (long term) advice.
20:00 Analogizes his cards as ballerinas which work together, but each have their own personalities and function within the ballet
He's using a leather cover for Moleskine pocket notebook and Manufactum A7 index cards, as well as a box
Sections of his box: - to erase - inbox - next actions - projects (3 categories of projects) - someday - to delegate - tickler (by month and by day; 12 months and 31 days) - blank cards
Mentions erasing cards as he finishes them rather than archiving them.
Inspiration by How to Take Smart Notes by Ahrens
Recommends one item per card to make things easier and more actionable; also improves focus versus having a longer list. (28:00)
Portability
Sustainable (he erases)
High quality textile experience
The ability to shift between associative modes and sequential modes seems to work well with such a system.
They distinguish between atomic notes and "stellar" notes. Stellar being longer lists or more dense notes/outlines/etc.
Project cards<br /> titles and project numbers (for reference) Project numbers in the top right with a P and/or M below it for<br /> - P for paper<br /> - M for email data<br /> - D for digital files which helps him find reference materials
Weekly review with all cards out on the table
Expansion pack includes: - action - calendar - waiting
Search was quick and easy, but had to carry his box back and forth to work.
Stopping doing it because he was losing the history (by erasing it). Moving to notebook and he likes fountain pens. He likes the calendar portion in his notebook.
He tried it out for the sake of experiment.
In the paper world things are more present and "in your face" versus digital formats where things can disappear.
-
- Aug 2023
-
iopscience.iop.org iopscience.iop.org
-
the systemwide optimum population cohort for the climate action interventions is a community (P4) of 10 000 persons
-
for: cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, leverage point
-
stats
- 10000 to 1 million is optimum size
- question: investigate rationale
-
-
We suggest that prioritizing the analyzed climate actions between community and urban scales, where global and local converge, can help catalyze and enhance individual, household and local practices, and support national and international policies and finances for rapid sustainability transformations.
- for: cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, leverage point
- key finding
- suitable cohorts and cohort ranges for rapidly deploying climate and sustainability actions between a single individual and the globally projected ∼ 10 billion persons by 2050 is:
- community scale between 10k and 100k
-
- for: cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, downscaled planetary boundaries, leverage point
- title: Powers of 10: seeking 'sweet spots' for rapid climate and sustainability actions between individual and global scales
-
-
forum.zettelkasten.de forum.zettelkasten.de
-
Personally I often used #type/sketchnote and #type/question. But I will spend a little time and effort to build up an improved architecture for tagging.
reply to Edmund at https://forum.zettelkasten.de/discussion/comment/18550/#Comment_18550
@Edmund since I don't do such a thing myself, I'm curious what sort of affordance your #type/NoteName tagging provides you with (especially if you're using more than just those two)? Do you use them regularly for search or filtering, and if so for what reason? How does it help?
To me it look likes extra metadata/work, but without a lot of direct long term value in exchange. Does doing this for long periods of time provide you with outsized emergent value of some sort that's not easy to see from the start?
-
-
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
-
Michael Grossman
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
In finance, the greater fool theory suggests that one can sometimes make money through the purchase of overvalued assets — items with a purchase price drastically exceeding the intrinsic value — if those assets can later be resold at an even higher price.
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
-
zesty.ca zesty.ca
-
http://zesty.ca/<br /> Ka-Ping Yee
-
-
www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com
-
The graph shows that ecological awareness does in fact lowers the footprint of high income consumption. They may shift from meat to plant based diet or fly less. Yet, they still consume more, fly more, travel more, buy more items, larger homes, larger cars etc. etc. This problem is why policies that promote circular-responsible-organic-whatever products will not deliver to targets.
- for: sustainable consumption, individual change, impact of environmental awareness, Custora
- comment
- individual consumption choices have an impact, but far from enough
- system change is also required on policy and structural level
- voluntarily reducing our income could be one way
-
-
eekim.com eekim.com
-
Purple is a small suite of quickly hacked tools inspired by Doug Engelbart's attempt to bootstrap the addressing features of his Augment system onto HTML pages. Its purpose is simple: produce HTML documents that can be addressed at the paragraph level. It does this by automatically creating name anchors with static and hierarchical addresses at the beginning of each text node, and by displaying these addresses as links at the end of each text node. 1A (02)
Purple is a suite of tools from 2001 that allow one to create numbered addresses/anchors at the paragraph level of a digital document.
Link: Dave Winer's site still has support for purple numbers.
-
-
Local file Local file
-
On October 14, 1066, on a ridge 10 miles northwest of the village of Hastings, Williamof Normandy defeated Harold Godwinson in a contest for the English throne.
-
FAMILY TREE
-
Paxton, Jennifer. 1066: The Year That Changed Everything. The Great Courses 30070. Chantilly, VA: The Teaching Company, 2020.
Annotation url: urn:x-pdf:95025ce10247406db3d649a9a17fded0
Search annotations: https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?user=chrisaldrich&max=100&exactTagSearch=true&expanded=true&addQuoteContext=true&url=urn%3Ax-pdf%3A95025ce10247406db3d649a9a17fded0
-
-
www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be www.stes-apes.med.ulg.ac.be
-
Craig, R. T. (1999). Communication Theory as a Field. Communication Theory, 119-161
-
-
journals.sagepub.com journals.sagepub.com
-
Aguinis, H. and Matthew A. Cronin. (2022). "It's the Theory, Stupid." Organizational Psychology Review Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/20413866221080629
-
the number one and most important reason why research is meaningful and makes a useful and valuable contribution is theory.
-
(1) Why is theory so critical and for whom? (2) What does a good theory look like? (3) What does it mean to have too much or too many theories? (4) When don’t we need a theory? (5) How does falsification work with theory? and (6) Is good theory compatible with current publication pressures?
This is six question to understand the state of art of a theory
-
-
americanhistory.si.edu americanhistory.si.edu
-
While most of the joke cards are simply index cards with a joke typed on, others are more complicated. Some cards have strips of paper glued to them with longer jokes on those papers. Some cards have entire letter-size sheets of paper containing long jokes stapled to the cards. Some cards have comic strips, cut from the newspaper, glued to the cards. Other cards are not even cards but are just pieces of printer paper with jokes scribbled on them. These irregular cards were not stable enough to be sent through the feed scanner and had to be scanned one-by-one using a flatbed scanner, which slowed my progress.
Not only a short description of the broad standard form of cards in Phyllis Diller's gag file, but also an enumeration of some of the non-standard cards, many of which are specified because of the issues which they presented in scanning/digitizing for transcription.
-
-
sourcebooks.fordham.edu sourcebooks.fordham.edu
-
https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/courcon1.asp
Medieval Sourcebook: Robert de Courçon: Statutes for the University of Paris, 1215 The basic course was in the arts. Of the other faculties theology was best represented at Paris, law at Bologna, and medicine at Salerno. Robert de Courçon's statutes lay down the course in arts and enumerate the books to be studied. Students were expect to be able to teach as well as learn.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
In der tasmanischen See südlich von Australien könnte es Prognosen zufolge im kommenden Sommer eine Hitzewelle mit Temperaturanomalien geben, die alle bisherigen Messergebnisse bei weitem übertreffen. Es werden schwere Schädigungen der Ökosysteme befürchtet. Die Tangwälder in diesem Gebiet sind bereits zu 95% zerstört.
-
-
www.repubblica.it www.repubblica.it
-
Wegen extremer Regenfällen und Überschwemmungen wurde in mehreren norditalienischen Regionen die Alarmstufe orange ausgelöst. Besonders betroffen war Genua wo in einer Stunde 8 cm Regen fielen.
-
-
-
Die Bücher waren undsind noch heute zum Teil nach seinem Prinzip der »gutenNachbarschaft« geordnet und folgten ausdrücklich seinensubjektiven Forschungsinteressen.
Warburg's zettelkasten does not appear to be a simple bibliographic classification system according to Steiner. He indicates that the books in Warburg's library are arranged according to Warburg's idea of »guten Nachbarschaft« or "good neighborliness" whereby they followed his subjective interests an ordering that is reflected in the labels of his note boxes and various tabs which subsection notes within them.
-
-
danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
-
Remember ChatGPT? It is going to do to the white collar world what robotics and offshoring did to blue collar America. So maybe this isn't the best time to be abandoning the Humanities to focus on vocational training?
This is one of the things that doesn't seem to be being explored enough presently, or at least I'm not seeing it outside of the SAG and WGA strikes where it seems to be a side issue rather than a primary issue.
-
-
web.mit.edu web.mit.edu
-
A good theory explains, predicts, and delights!
-
Sutton and Staw (1995) enlist parts of an article that are not theory that are: references, data, list of variables or constructs, diagrams, hypotheses or prediction (p. 372-377):
-
Sutton, Robert I; Staw, Barry M. (1995). What Theory is Not. Administrative Science Quarterly; Sep 1995; 40, 3; ABI/INFORM Global pg. 371 Retrieved from https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Doctoral_Resources/Sutton_Staw_What%20theory%20is%20not.pdf
-
-
philarchive.org philarchive.org
-
published article can be cited as below:
Sacha Golob (2019) A New Theory of Stupidity, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 27:4, 562-580, DOI: 10.1080/09672559.2019.1632372
-
-
www.derstandard.at www.derstandard.at
-
Zehntausende von Haushalten waren und sind in der Steiermark und in Kärnten von den Überflutungen Anfang August betroffen. Standard-Reportage aus dem Gebiet, bei der deutlich wird, dass viele der Bewohner:Innen die zukünftigen Risiken durch die globale Erhitzung nicht realistisch einschätzen
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
An vier Tagen in Folge wurden in Frankreich Rekordtemperaturen in der Zeit nach dem 15 August festgestellt. Bisher kam es in Frankreich nur früher im Jahr zu Hitzewellen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/nouveau-record-de-chaleur-jeudi-a-ete-la-journee-la-plus-chaude-en-france-apres-un-15-aout-20230825_MLDK6LB43VEKZK7WOBERLAQWZ4/
-
-
github.com github.com
-
https://github.com/kzwa/PhyllisDillerGagFile
Librarian Kate Zwaard of the Library of Congress has a GitHub repo of Phyllis Diller's Gag File.
-
-
americanhistory.si.edu americanhistory.si.edu
-
Other comedians have maintained their material in joke files, among them Bob Hope, whose file is in the collections at the Library of Congress.
-
-
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
-
on Aug. 12, the National Museum of American History is giving the artifact pristine treatment.WpGet the full experience.Choose your planArrowRight"Have You Heard the One . . . ? The Phyllis Diller Gag File" is an exhibition of the beige cabinet in the quiet Albert H. Small Documents Gallery.
The National Museum of American History debuted Phyllis Diller's gag file on August 12, 2011 in the Albert H. Small Documents Gallery in an exhibition entitled "Have you Hard the One...? The Phyllis Diller Gag File."
see also: press release https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/national-museum-american-history-showcases-life-and-laughs-phyllis-diller
-
-
www.independent.co.uk www.independent.co.uk
-
According to The Guinness Book of World Records, each time Phyllis Diller exploded onto a nightclub floor, she notched up 12 laughs per minute, twice as many as her mentor Bob ("Rapid Robert") Hope.
-
-
www.npr.org www.npr.org
-
Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people seem bright until they speak.
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Eine Welle extremer Hitze hat in Frankreich dazu geführt, dass in 49 Départments die Alarmstufe „orange“ und in mehreren die Alarmstufe „rot“ ausgerufen wurde. An vielen Orten wurden Rekordtemperaturen gemessen. In einigen Gebieten herrschte schon vorher extreme Trockenheit. Hitze und Trockenheit gefährden u.a. die Kühlwasserversorgung der französischen Atomkraftwerke.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Waldbrände haben 2023 in Kanada bisher mit 1,4 Milliarden Hektar eine Fläche von der Größe Griechenlands zerstört. Ein Attributionsstudie für die Brände in Québec ergibt, dass sie durch die globale Erhitzung mindestens doppelt so wahrscheinlich wurden wir ohne sie, und dass die Temperaturen, die die Brände begünstigten, 20% höher waren als vor der Verbrennung fossiler Energieträger. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/22/climate-change-canada-wildfires-twice-as-likely
-
-
www.dtsheffler.com www.dtsheffler.com
-
https://www.dtsheffler.com/blog/2014-07-21-two-goals-of-note-taking/ archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20220528093415/https://www.dtsheffler.com/blog/2014-07-21-two-goals-of-note-taking/
ᔥ[[abramdemski]] in The Zettelkasten Method (accessed:: 2023-08-25 12:00:07)
-
-
www.lesswrong.com www.lesswrong.com
-
In fact, it might be good if you make your first cards messy and unimportant, just to make sure you don’t feel like everything has to be nicely organized and highly significant.
Making things messy from the start as advice for getting started.
I've seen this before in other settings, particularly in starting new notebooks. Some have suggested scrawling on the first page to get over the idea of perfection in a virgin notebook. I also think I've seen Ton Ziijlstra mention that his dad would ding every new car to get over the new feeling and fear of damaging it. Get the damage out of the way so you can just move on.
The fact that a notebook is damaged, messy, or used for the smallest things may be one of the benefits of a wastebook. It averts the internal need some may find for perfection in their nice notebooks or work materials.
-
However, I strongly recommend trying out Zettelkasten on actual note-cards, even if you end up implementing it on a computer. There’s something good about the note-card version that I don’t fully understand.
Another advising to use the analog method for learning even if one is going to switch to a digital zettelkasten.
He uses the word "good" here while others may have potentially used the word "magic", but writing in a space that values critical thinking, he would have been taken to task for having done so. In any case he's not able to put his finger on the inherent value of analog over digital.
-
-
www.derstandard.de www.derstandard.de
-
Die Waldbrände in Alexandroupolis an der griechisch-türkischen Grenze sind die größten der Geschichte der EU. inzwischen sind 73.000 Hektar verbrannt. Das entspricht der Fläche der Stadt Hamburg. Auch andere Teile Griechenlands sind von Waldbränden betroffen.
-
-
aisel.aisnet.org aisel.aisnet.org
-
Do you know if I'm real? An experiment to benchmark human recognition of AI-generated faces
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
-
Imagine the younger generation studying great books andlearning the liberal arts. Imagine an adult population con-tinuing to turn to the same sources of strength, inspiration,and communication. We could talk to one another then. Weshould be even better specialists than we are today because wecould understand the history of our specialty and its relationto all the others. We would be better citizens and better men.We might turn out to be the nucleus of the world community.
Is the cohesive nature of Hutchins and Adler's enterprise for the humanities and the Great Conversation, part of the kernel of the rise of interdisciplinarity seen in the early 2000s onward in academia (and possibly industry).
Certainly large portions are the result of uber-specialization, particularly in spaces which have concatenated and have allowed people to specialize in multiple areas to create new combinatorial creative possibilities.
-
I should like to add that specialization, instead of makingthe Great Conversation irrelevant, makes it more pertinentthan ever. Specialization makes it harder to carry on anykind of conversation; but this calls for greater effort, not theabandonment of the attempt.
The dramatic increase in economic specialization of humanity driven by the Industrial Revolution has many benefits to societies, but it also has detrimental effects when the core knowledge and shared base of the society is lost.
Certainly individuals have a greater reliance on specialists for future outcomes (think about the specialization of areas like climate science which can have destructive outcomes on all of humanity or public health outcomes with respect to vaccines and specialized health care delivery), but they also need to have a common base of knowledge/culture and the ability to think critically for themselves to be able to effect necessary changes, particularly when the pace of those changes is more rapid than humans have generally been evolved to accept them.
-
Do science, technology, industrialization, and specializa-tion render the Great Conversation irrelevant?
-
In general the professors of the humanities and the socialsciences and history, fascinated by the marvels of experi-mental natural science, were overpowered by the idea thatsimilar marvels could be produced in their own fields by theuse of the same methods. They also seemed convinced thatany results obtained in these fields by any other methods werenot worth achieving. This automatically ruled out writerspreviously thought great who had had the misfortune to livebefore the method of empirical natural science had reachedits present predominance and who had never thought ofapplying it to problems and subject matters outside the rangeof empirical natural science.
Hutchins indicates that part of the fall of the humanities was the result of the rise of the scientific method and experimental science. In wanting fields from the humanities—like social sciences and history—to be a part of this new scientific paradigm, professors completely reframed their paradigms in a more scientific mode and thereby erased the progenitors and ideas in these fields for newer material which replaced the old which was now viewed as "less than" in the new paradigms. This same sort of erasure of Indigenous knowledges was also similarly effected as they were also seen as "less than" from the perspective of the new scientific regime.
One might also suggest that some of it was the result of the acceleration of life brought on by the invention of writing, literacy, and the spread of the printing press making for larger swaths of knowledge to be more immediately available.
-
Even before mechanization had gone as far as it has now,one factor prevented vocational training, or any other formof ad hoc instruction, from accomplishing what was expectedof it, and that factor was the mobility of the Americanpopulation. This was a mobility of every kind —in space, inoccupation, and in economic position.
-
Undoubtedly the first task of the statesman in such countriesis to raise the standard of living to such a point that thepeople may be freed from economic slavery and given thetime to get the education appropriate to free men.
A bulk of America was stuck in a form of economic slavery in the 1950s. See description of rural Texans in Robert Caro's LBJ biography for additional context --- washing/scrubbing, carrying water, farming, etc. without electricity in comparison to their fellow Americans who did have it.
In the 21st century there is a different form of economic slavery imposed by working to live and a culture of consumption and living on overextended credit.
Consider also the comedic story of the capitalist and the rural fisherman and the ways they chose to live their lives.
-
If leisure and political power requirethis education, everybody in America now requires it, andeverybody where democracy and industrialization penetratewill ultimately require it. If the people are not capable ofacquiring this education, they should be deprived of politicalpower and probably of leisure. Their uneducated politicalpower is dangerous, and their uneducated leisure is degrad-ing and will be dangerous. If the people are incapable ofachieving the education that responsible democratic citizen-ship demands, then democracy is doomed, Aristotle rightlycondemned the mass of mankind to natural slavery, and thesooner we set about reversing the trend toward democracythe better it will be for the world.
This is an extreme statement which bundles together a lot without direct evidence.
Written in an era in which there was a lot of pro-Democracy and anti-Communist discussion, Hutchins is making an almost religious statement here which binds education and democracy in the ways in which the Catholic church bound education and religion in scholasticism. While scholasticism may have had benefits, it also caused a variety of ills which took centuries to unwind into the Enlightenment.
Why can't we separate education from democracy? Can't education of this sort live in other polities? Hasn't it? Does critical education necessarily lead to democracy?
What does the explorable solution space of admixtures of critical reasoning and education look like with respect to various forms of government? Could a well-educated population thrive under collectivism or socialism?
The definition of "natural slavery" here is contingent and requires lots of context, particularly of the ways in which Aristotle used it versus our current understanding of chattel slavery.
-
This set of books is offered not merely as an object uponwhich leisure may be expended, but also as a means to thehumanization of work through understanding.16
Purpose of the Great Books of the Western World
-
Democracy and Education was written before the assemblyline had achieved its dominant position in the industrialworld and before mechanization had depopulated the farmsof America.
Interesting history and possible solutions.
Dewey on the humanization of work front running the dramatic changes of and in work in an industrial age?
Note here the potential coupling of democracy and education as dovetailing ideas rather than separate ideas which can be used simultaneously. We should take care here not to end up with potential baggage that could result in society and culture the way scholasticism combined education and religion in the middle ages onward.
-
A pro-gram of social reform cannot be achieved through the educa-tional system unless it is one that the society is prepared toaccept. The educational system is the society's attempt toperpetuate itself and its own ideals.
Current day book banners (2022-2023) wouldn't agree here.
-
The chief exponent of the view that times have changedand that our conception of the best education must changewith them is that most misunderstood of all philosophers ofeducation, John Dewey.
Hutchins indicates that John Dewey was misunderstood as a philosopher of education.
Tags
- mobility problems
- The Great Conversation
- interdisciplinary research
- open questions
- sociology of education
- Mortimer J. Adler
- industrialization
- legislating thought
- economic specialization
- slavery
- specialization
- Great Books of the Western World
- Industrial Revolution
- book bans
- Democracy and Education
- legislating behavior
- rapid changes
- combinatorial creativity
- cultural heritage
- evolution
- resurgence of the humanities
- erasure
- death of the humanities
- scholasticism
- philosophy of education
- quotes
- trust
- chattel slavery
- scientism
- education policy
- interdisciplinary studies
- eudaimonia
- economic mobility
- mobility of location
- economics
- standard of living
- natural slavery
- John Dewey
- Great Books
- knowledge specialization
- cultural erasure
- analogies
- economic slavery
- Democracy
- humanities
- indigenous cultures
- humanizing work
- indigenous knowledge
- human resources
- separation of concerns
- Robert Maynard Hutchins
- understanding
- social reforms
- social mobility
- the commons
Annotators
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Die marine Hitzewelle im Sommer gefährdet die Existenz des Korallenriff vor der Südspitze Floridas. In einer großangelegeten Rettungsaktion versucht man, wenigstens einzelne Exemplare der vom Aussterben bedrohten Korallenarten zu retten. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/canicule-marine-en-floride-il-nest-pas-trop-tard-pour-sauver-les-coraux-mais-il-est-essentiel-dagir-rapidement-20230815_567SKZH3VBGMZBTL2LNKMST2UU/
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Über den nördlichen Teilen des Great Barrier Reefs würden die heißesten Temperaturen seit 1985 gemessen. Die Hitzewelle könnte eine zweite große Korallenbleiche nach der letztjährigen auslösen.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Seit Ende Juni wird im Ozean vor der nordaustralischen Küste eine marine Hitzewelle festgestellt. Sie betrifft etwas eine Million Quadratkilometer. Negative Auswirkungen auf das Great Barrier Reef und auf die Fischpopulationen werden befürchtet. Das Ereignis bestätig den Trend zu immer mehr und immer längeren Hitzewellen in den Gewässern um Australien. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/22/marine-heatwave-in-north-east-queensland-sets-off-alarm-over-health-of-great-barrier-reef
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
www.pewresearch.org www.pewresearch.org
-
Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations. There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s physical and mental health. Some of my colleagues (and myself as well) are also looking at social behaviors, and how those behaviors not only impact one’s health but also how innovations spread through one’s social network.
- for: quote, quote - Jason Hong, quote - health apps, health care app, idea spread through social network, mental health app, physical health app, transform app
- quote
- paraphrase
- Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations.
-There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s
- physical and
- mental health.
- Some of my colleagues (and myself as well) are also looking at
- social behaviors, and how those behaviors
- not only impact one’s health but also
- how innovations spread through one’s social network.
- social behaviors, and how those behaviors
- Health care is an area that will likely see many innovations.
-There are already multiple research prototypes underway looking at monitoring of one’s
-
So far, smart city systems are being set up to appropriate and commercialize individual and community data. So far, communities are not waking up to the realization that a capacity they need is being stolen from them before they have it.”
- for: smart cities, doughnut cities, cosmolocal, downscaled planetary boundaries, cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries, TPF, community data, local data, open data, community data ownership, quote, quote - Garth Graham, quote - community owned data
- quote
- paraphrase
- Innovation in the creation and sustainability of social institutions acts predominantly at the local level.
- In the Internet of Things, for those capacities to emerge in smart cities, communities need the capacity to own and analyse the data created that models what they are experiencing.
- Local data needs to be seen as a common, pool resource.
- Where that occurs, communities will have the capacity to learn or innovate their way forward.
- So far, smart city systems are being set up to appropriate and commercialize individual and community data.
- So far, communities are not waking up to the realization that a capacity they need is being stolen from them before they have it.
- author: Garth Graham
- leader of Telecommunities Canada
-
We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now. It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives. We will see significant changes in areas like privacy, data protection, algorithm and architecture design guidelines, and platform accountability, etc. which should reduce the pervasiveness of misinformation, hate and visceral content over the internet.
- for: quote, quote - Prateek Raj, quote - internet regulation, quote - reducing misinformation, fake news, indyweb - support
- quote
- We lived in a relatively unregulated digital world until now.
- It was great until the public realized that a few companies wield too much power today in our lives.
- We will see significant changes in areas like
- privacy,
- data protection,
- algorithm and
- architecture design guidelines, and
- platform accountability, etc.
- which should reduce the pervasiveness of
- misinformation,
- hate and visceral content
- over the internet.
- These steps will also reduce the power wielded by digital giants.
- Beyond these immediate effects, it is difficult to say if these social innovations will create a more participative and healthy society.
- These broader effects are driven by deeper underlying factors, like
- history,
- diversity,
- cohesiveness and
- social capital, and also
- political climate and
- institutions.
- In other words,
- just as digital world is shaping the physical world,
- physical world shapes our digital world as well.
- author: Prateek Raj
- assistant professor in strategy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Tags
- community data ownership
- Indyweb - support
- downscaling planetary boundaries
- quote health apps
- transform app
- doughnut cities
- quote
- localization
- physical health app
- mental health app
- cross-scale translation of earth system boundaries
- data protection
- quote - Jason Hong
- TPF
- privacy
- cosmolocal
- community data
- open data
- quote Garth Graham
- quote - community data ownership
- smart cities
- Garth Graham
- quote - physical world shaping online world
- Telecommunities Canada
- quote - future of internet
- quote - Prateek Raj
- quote - spread of idea through social network
Annotators
URL
-
-
drive.google.com drive.google.com
-
meatballwiki.org meatballwiki.org
-
http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/InterWiki
InterWiki is the idea of having one unified Wiki system distributed across many servers.
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
www.ancient-origins.net www.ancient-origins.net
-
he "Old Man of La Chapelle", for example, is the name given to the remains of a Neanderthal who lived 56,000 years ago, found buried in the limestone bedrock of a small cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in France in 1908.
- for: life expectancy - ancestors - example
- example
- paraphrase
- The "Old Man of La Chapelle", is the name given to the remains of a Neanderthal who lived 56,000 years ago,
- found buried in the limestone bedrock of a small cave near La Chapelle-aux-Saints, in France in 1908.
- He was found to have had arthritis, bone regrowth along the gums where he lost several teeth.
- The "Old Man of La Chapelle", is the name given to the remains of a Neanderthal who lived 56,000 years ago,
-
-
www.attorneyatwork.com www.attorneyatwork.com
-
magic of index cards
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
About ten years ago, a massive breakthrough happened in genomic research technology. A method appeared which is called NGS, next generation sequencing, and this method significantly cuts time and costs of any genomic research. For example, have you ever heard about the Human Genome Project? It was quite a popular topic for science fiction some time ago. 00:03:10 This project launched in 1990 with the goal to decrypt all genomic information in a human organism. At that time, with the technology of the time, it took ten years and three billion dollars to reach the goals of this project. With NGS, all of that can be done in just one day at the cost of 15,000 dollars.
- for: progress trap, cumulative cultural evolution, gene-culture co-evolution, speed of cultural evolution, human genome project
- paraphrase
- the human genome project took 10 years and cost 3 billion dollars
- with NGS technology, 10 years later, the same job takes 1 day and costs $15,000 dollars
-
-
danallosso.substack.com danallosso.substack.com
-
Science must find for every effect a single cause. The historian is rarely faced with the same requirement.Historians have the advantage of being able to live with explanatory ambiguity that would be unacceptable in science.
-
These revolutions appear invisible in the history of science, Kuhn explained, because each successive generation learns science through the lens of the current paradigm.
As a result of Kuhn's scientific revolutions perspective, historians of science will need to uncover the frameworks and lenses by which prior generations saw the world to be able to see the world the same way. This will allow them to better piece together histories
How is this related to the ways that experts don't appreciate their own knowledge when trying to teach newcomers their subjects? What is the word/phrase for this effect?
-
-
ryan2point0.wordpress.com ryan2point0.wordpress.com
-
After reading my previous post Let’s get rid of the instructors!,
do we need intsructors?
-
-
link.springer.com link.springer.com
-
While the proximate mechanisms of these anthropogenic changes are well studied (e.g., climate change, biodiversity loss, population growth), the evolutionary causality of these anthropogenic changes have been largely ignored.
- for: climate change - evolutionary causes, cultural evolution - unsustainability, unsustainability
- definition: Anthroecological theory (AET)
- This theory proposes that the ultimate cause of anthropogenic environmental change is multi-level selection for niche construction and ecosystem engineering
-
-
for: gene culture coevolution, carrying capacity, unsustainability, overshoot, cultural evolution, progress trap
-
Title: The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability
-
Author: Brian F. Snyder
-
Abstract
- Summary
- Paraphrase
- Anthropogenic changes are accelerating and threaten the future of life on earth.
- While the proximate mechanisms of these anthropogenic changes are well studied
- climate change,
- biodiversity loss,
- population growth
- the evolutionary causality of these anthropogenic changes have been largely ignored.
- Anthroecological theory (AET) proposes that the ultimate cause of anthropogenic environmental change is
- multi-level selection for niche construction and ecosystem engineering.
- Here, we integrate this theory with
- Lotka’s Maximum Power Principle
- and propose a model linking
- energy extraction from the environment with
- genetic, technological and cultural evolution
- to increase human ecosystem carrying capacity.
- Carrying capacity is partially determined by energetic factors such as
- the net energy a population can acquire from its environment and
- the efficiency of conversion from energy input to offspring output.
- These factors are under Darwinian genetic selection
- in all species,
- but in humans, they are also determined by
- technology and
- culture.
- If there is genetic or non-genetic heritable variation in
- the ability of an individual or social group
- to increase its carrying capacity,
- then we hypothesize that - selection or cultural evolution will act - to increase carrying capacity.
- Furthermore, if this evolution of carrying capacity occurs
- faster than the biotic components of the ecological system can respond via their own evolution,
- then we hypothesize that unsustainable ecological changes will result.
-
Tags
- quote - evolutionary causes of climate crisis
- progress trap - cultural evolution
- niche construction
- AET
- The genetic and cultural evolution of unsustainability
- Brian F Snyder
- quote - climate change - evolutionary cause
- evolution of the anthropocene
- cultural evolution - unsustainability
- gene-culture coevolution
- evolution of polycrisis
- progress trap
- cumulative cultural evolution
- Anthroecological theory
- conscious cumulative cultural evolution
- human niche construction
- unsustainability
- evolution of our polycrisis
Annotators
URL
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Rome_(Mommsen)
What was Mommsen's historical method?
-
-
jillianhess.substack.com jillianhess.substack.com
-
www.outsideonline.com www.outsideonline.com
-
Goats Scale Dam, World Demands to Know Why
Goats climbing dams whaaaat :D
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Auf der Insel Maui in Hawaii haben Feuer einen großen Teil der alten Stadt Lahaina zerstört und über 50 Menschenleben gefordert (Update 15. 8.: mindestens 93 Tote). Eine lang anhaltende Trockenheit hat das Ausbrechen der Feuer an verschiedenen Teilen der Insel erleichtert, Stürme in der Folge des Orkans Dora haben sie verbreitet. In ihrem Ausmaß wird die Katastrophe mit dem Camp Fire verglichen dass 2018 die kalifornische Stadt Paradise zerstörte. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/10/hawaii-fire-kills-people-lahaina-town-maui
-
-
-
Auf Z. Hausfather gestützt, wird festgestellt, dass sich die Temperaturerhöhung des Nordatlantik nicht durch die Ursachen wie weniger Saharastaub und Schiffs-Aerosole allein erklären lässt, sondern sie auf den anthropogenen Klimawandel zurückzuführen ist. Infografiken:<br /> - Temperaturanomalie Ozeanoberflächen, - Durchschnittstemperatur der Ozeanoberfläche, - Prognosen Temperaturentwicklung der Ozeane vs. beobachteten Werten - Energieaufnahme der Ozeane.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/03/climate/ocean-temperatures-heat-earth.html
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Eine Schlammlawine hat in der nordwestchinesischen Stadt Xi'an 21 Menschen getötet. Sie geht auf Regenfälle in der Folge des Taifuns und späteren tropischen Sturms Khanun zurück, der auch in anderen Teilen Chinas zu schweren Überschwemmungen führte. Vor Khanun hatten der Taifun Doksuri und Regengebiete in Verbindung mit den HItzewellen des Sommers Überflutungen verursacht. https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2023/aug/13/death-toll-from-mudslide-in-xian-region-of-china-rises
-
-
news.ycombinator.com news.ycombinator.com
-
I think I get what you're saying but I have some difficulty moving past the fact that you're claiming it doesn't need to be a website because it would be sufficient if it was a bunch of hosted markup documents that link to each other.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
archive.org archive.org
-
https://archive.org/details/pentagonpapersde00beac/page/n1/mode/2up
Daniel Ellsberg's personal copy of the Pentagon Papers with handwritten annotations.
Full Daniel Ellsberg collection of scanned documents from his home: https://archive.org/details/danielellsberg?tab=collection
-
-
stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
-
Since this is the first search result of 'rails gcs cors' issue, I want to say that the sample file in guide guides.rubyonrails.org/… is different from OP's.
-
-
bonpote.com bonpote.com
-
And where the artists take part in a fantasy of overconsumptionThe place where artists play a distinctive role, exactly like high-level sports athletes, is in the propagation of a certain fantasy.
- for: W2W, carbon inequality, carbon footprint - 1%, carbon emissions - 1%, luxury advertising, luxury advertising contracts, carbon emissions - luxury goods
- key insight
- the elites are often the main popularizers, influencers and propagandists of the fantasy of overconsumption
- culture of overconsumption
- such elites have a close tie to the luxury industry via large advertising contracts
- Media posts critical of the carbon air travel emissions of famous DJ named DJ Snake offers a prime example of a common attitude of privilege and self-righteousness found amongst a number of elites
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
I do want to point out one more really significant implication here which is how it affects our experience of time
- for: the lack project, sense of lack, the reality project, sense of self, sense of self and lack, poverty mentality, sense of time, living in the future, living in the present, human DOing, human BEing
- key insight
- we construct different types of experiences of time, depending on the degree of sense of lack we experience
- it means the difference between
- living in the present
- living in the future
- paraphrase
- it's the nature of lack projects insofar as we become preoccupied with them
- that they tend to be future oriented naturally
- I mean the whole idea of a lack project or a reality project is right here right now is not good enough
- because I feel this sense of inadequacy this sense of lack
- but in the future when I have what I think I need
- when I'm rich enough or
- when I'm famous enough or
- my body is perfect enough or whatever
- when I have all this then everything will be okay
- and what of course that does is that future orientation traps Us in linear time in a way that tends to devalue the way we experience the world and ourselves in the world right here and now
- it treats the now as a means to some better ends
- Now isn't good enough
- but when I have what I think I need everything is going to be just great
- So many of the spiritual Traditions taught
- especially the mystics and the Zen Masters
- they end up talking about what is sometimes called
- the Eternal now
- or the Eternal present - a different way of experiencing the now
- As long as the present is a means to some better end
- this future when I'm gonna be okay
- then the present is experienced as
- a series of Nows that fall away
- as we reach for that future
- but if we're not actually needing to get somewhere that's better in the future
- it's possible to experience the here and now
- as lacking nothing and myself in the here and now
- as lacking nothing
- it's possible to experience the present as something that doesn't arise and doesn't fall away
-
t the irony of course is that if this desire if this craving for money if this lack project and we could also call it reality project because another 00:13:08 way to talk about all this is to say that we don't feel real enough and we're looking for that which somehow will make us feel more real more complete more whole right 00:13:20 because whatever the lack project may be it is looking for out something outside that's going to secure this sense of self-insight the tragedy of the whole process of 00:13:32 course is that it doesn't matter how much money you earn it's never going to be enough because what we're dealing with is just a symptom and not the core problem
- for: the lack project, the reality project, sense of lack, sense of self, poverty mentality, polylcrisis, polycrisis - root
- paraphrase
- the irony is that
- if this desire
- if this craving for money
- if this lack project and
- we could also call it reality project
- because another way to talk about all this is to say that we don't feel real enough and we're looking for that which somehow will make us feel more real more complete more whole
- because whatever the lack project may be it is looking for out something outside
- that's going to secure this sense of self-inside
- the tragedy of the whole process is that it doesn't matter how much money you earn
- it's never going to be enough
- because what we're dealing with is just a symptom and not the core problem
- the irony is that
- key insight
- the lack project is at the root of our polycrisis
-
if you ask about things like lack projects or reality projects on the individual level you know I was talking 00:32:01 about how the separation is a delusion it's uncomfortable we become preoccupied with trying to find something out here that'll fill up our sense of lack and you know we can Wonder is there 00:32:13 something comparable at the civilizational level and frankly I think that there is I think that it is our Collective preoccupation with progress
- for: progress trap, sense of lack, the lack project, collective lack project, individual lack project
- key insight
- progress, and the shadow side, the progress trap
- is the collective lack project, that corresponds to the individual's lack project
-
there's 00:08:43 nothing there that could be secured and here's the important point I think we experienced that we experience it as a sense of lack 00:08:58 that is to say the sense that something is wrong with me something is missing something isn't quite right I'm not good enough and the reality is I think all of us to 00:09:14 some degree have some sense of that some sense of lack even though we might ignore it or cover it up there's there's some sense of that but because it's mostly sort of unconscious in the sense that we don't 00:09:29 really know where it comes from
- for: sense of lack, sense of self, sense of self and sense of lack, human condition, poverty mentality, alienation, separation, emptiness, emptiness of emptiness, W2W, inequality
- key insight
- sense of self is equivalent to
- sense of lack
- duality
- disconnection
- alienation
- separation
- solidification - the opposite of emptiness
- sense of self is equivalent to
- comment
- this sense of lack that is intrinsically associated with the sense of self is perhaps the deepest root of our unhappiness
- this is a key insight for sharing for both those who have too much (the 1%) as well as those who are so materially impoverished and deprived that they are forced to adopt survivalist strategies to stay alive, and if successful, take on a hard edge to survivalism, over-appreciating materialism
- the same mistake is committed on both end of the disparity spectrum, both groups are still under the illusion that that sense of lack can be filled
Tags
- sense of lack
- W2W
- progress trap - the lack project
- emptiness of empitness
- sense of lack
- key insight
- collective lack project
- the lack project
- alienation
- human condition
- carbon inequality
- polycrisis - root
- sense of self and lack
- living in the present
- sense of self
- the reality project
- progress
- duality
- separation
- progress trap
- living in the future
- roots of polycrisis
- individual lack project
- sense of time
- poverty mentality
- emptiness
Annotators
URL
-
-
drive.google.com drive.google.com
-
highlights the dire financial circumstances of the poorest individuals, who resort to high-interest loans as a survival strategy. This phenomenon reflects the interplay between human decision-making and development policy. The decision to take such loans, driven by immediate needs, illustrates how cognitive biases and limited options impact choices. From a policy perspective, addressing this issue requires understanding these behavioral nuances and crafting interventions that provide sustainable alternatives, fostering financial inclusion and breaking the cycle of high-interest debt.
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Auf Hawaii haben Feuer viele Häuser zerstört und sechs Menschenleben gefordert. Sie sind an verschiedenen Stellen der Insel Maui ausgebrochen und übertrafen nach dem Eindruck der Betroffenen alles bisher bekannte. Eine lang anhaltende Trockenheit hat das Ausbrechen der Feuer erleichtert, Stürme in der Folge des Orkans Dora haben sie verbreitet. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/09/hawaii-fires-maui-hurricane
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Eine Winter-Hitzewelle hat in den Anden zu Temperaturen bis zu 37° geführt. Der vergangene Dienstag war in Chile vermutlich der wärmste Wintertag seit 72 Jahren. Befürchtet wird, dass sich dadurch Dürren intensivieren. Die ersten sechs Monate des Jahres waren in ganz Südamerika ungewöhnlich warm und an vielen Stellen niederschlagsarm. Die Hitze wird sich im Lauf des Jahres voraussichtlich unter El Niño-Einwirkung verstärken. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/06/winter-heatwave-andes-sign-things-come-scientists-warn
-
-
www.repubblica.it www.repubblica.it
-
Extreme Regenfälle haben Überschwemmungen in großen Teilen Sloweniens und den angrenzenden Gebieten in Österreich und Kroatien ausgelöst. In wenigen Stunden fiel so viel Regen wie sonst im ganzen Monat August. In größeren Gebieten wurden die Stromversorgung und der Zugverkehr unterbrochen. https://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2023/08/04/news/maltempo_slovenia_allerta_esondazioni_fiume_isonzo-410030605/?ref=search
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Die Durchschnittstemperatur der Ozeane erreichte Anfang August mit 20,96° (Daten des europäischen Wetter-Service Copernicus) einen neuen Rekord. Ein Teil der Temperatursteigerung dürfte auf den sich aufbauenden El Niño zurückgehen.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/oceans-hit-highest-ever-recorded-temperature
BBC-Grafik:
-
-
stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
-
I make a file named: app/models/active_storage/attachment.rb. Because it's in your project it takes loading precedence over the Gem version. Then inside we load the Gem version, and then monkeypatch it using class_eval: active_storage_gem_path = Gem::Specification.find_by_name('activestorage').gem_dir require "#{active_storage_gem_path}/app/models/active_storage/attachment" ActiveStorage::Attachment.class_eval do acts_as_taggable on: :tags end The slightly nasty part is locating the original file, since we can't find it normally because our new file takes precedence. This is not necessary in production, so you could put a if Rails.env.production? around it if you like I think.
-
-
howtosavetheworld.ca howtosavetheworld.ca
-
At the same time, our whole sense of community has been lost as the requirement of modern societies rely on us living in anonymous neighbourhoods with people we don’t know or share much of anything in common. Who are these representatives presuming to represent anymore anyway?
- for: community, loss of community, alienation, separation, anonymous neighborhoods, representative democracy, unrepresentative democracy, together alone
- adjacency
- community
- representative democracy
- anonymous neighborhoods
- comment
- makes me think of this article:
- I've long felt that modernity has hollowed out the original meaning of "community"
- quote
- modernity has hollowed out the word community
- author
- James Gien Wong
- Stop Reset Go
-
-
www.public.law www.public.law
-
Law is code that belongs to all of us
-
-
www.edge.org www.edge.org
-
- for cultural evolution, speed of cultural evolution, cumulative cultural evolution, progress trap, Freeman Dyson,
- comment
- Freeman Dyson opines that cultural evolution of humans now determines the genetic fate of all species on the planet
- and gives a warning of how human cumulative cultural evolution now has the potential to threaten, via genetic sciences to play God over biology itself -reference
- Musician Yoyo Ma quotes Freeman:
- https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2F2fBmGXqHvk8%2F&group=world
- Freeman Dyson opines that cultural evolution of humans now determines the genetic fate of all species on the planet
-
To preserve our wildlife as nature evolved it, the machinery of biological evolution must be protected from the homogenizing effects of cultural evolution.
- for: cultural evolution, cumulative cultural evolution, speed of cultural evolution, progress trap, Freeman Dyson, Anthropocene
- comment
- while Freeman spoke to the direct dangers of genetic engineering,
- he neglected to point out the broader threat of progress itself, which has already placed our species in the position
- of playing God with the evolution of many species on the planet already, via the enormous impacts of organized human activity - ie. the Anthropocene
- he neglected to point out the broader threat of progress itself, which has already placed our species in the position
- while Freeman spoke to the direct dangers of genetic engineering,
-
The story that they are telling is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago, when the driving force of evolution changed from biology to culture, and the direction changed from diversification to unification of species. The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.
- for: cumulative cultural evolution, speed of cultural evolution
- paraphrase
- The story that they are telling
- is of a grand transition that occurred about fifty thousand years ago,
- when the driving force of evolution changed
- from biology
- to culture,
- and the direction changed
- from diversification
- to unification of species.
- The understanding of this story can perhaps help us to deal more wisely with our responsibilities as stewards of our planet.
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
In Kanada sind insgesamt 1000 Waldbrände aktiv, von denen 624 nicht unter Kontrolle stehen. Bisher sind 12,3 Millionen Hektar abgebrannt – das ist mehr als die Fläche Österreichs oder Portugals. In Neu-Schottland kam es in den letzten Tagen außerdem zu extremen Regenfällen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/feux-hors-de-controle-12-millions-dhectares-detruits-mort-dun-pompier-le-point-sur-les-incendies-au-canada-20230730_JPZA6I4VAZAU5DFLDDPYCK4TEM/
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Bei den Waldbränden im Mittelmeerraum bedroht nicht nur das Feuer selbst die dort lebenden Tiere. Viele verhungern in den auf einen Brand folgenden Wochen. Für die Artenvielfalt sind die Brände bisher nicht so gefährlich wie Pestizide und andere Umweltfaktoren, die in den letzten 30 Jahren zum Rückgang der Insekten um 75% und der Vögel um zwei Drittel geführt haben. Wiederholte Brände schaden vor allem dem Boden. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/incendies-en-mediterranee-prise-au-piege-des-flammes-la-faune-locale-suffoque-20230728_GPVMDAUVA5C2PNNKCNDDEJGTBQ/
-
-
-
Der Brite Jim Skea wurde zum neuen Vorsitzenden des IPCC gewählt. In einem Spiegel-Interview wiederholte er das Statement, dass das Überschreiten des 1,5°-Ziels nicht das Ende der Menschheit bedeute. Skea bezog sich auf die Aussage des IPCC, dass das 1,5° Ziel nur nach einem zeitweisen Überschreiten durch Entfernung von CO<sub>2</sub> aus der Atmosphäre erreicht werden kann. Er betonte wiederum, dass jedes Zehntelgrad weniger Temperaturerhöhung von enormer Relevanz ist. https://taz.de/15-Grad-Ziel-in-Klimadebatte/!5948023/
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Der frühere Taifun Doksuri hat in Peking die schlimmsten Regenfälle und Überschwemmungen seit Beginn der Aufzeichnungen verursacht. Auch andere Teile Chinas sind von Extremwetter betroffen. So wurden in der Nachbarprovinz Hebei 800 000 Menschen wegen der Überschwemmungen evakuiert..https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/02/beijing-reports-heaviest-rain-140-years-china-g20-climate-talks
-
-
-
Wegen „noch nie da gewesener Hitze“ wurde im Iran für Mittwoch und Donnerstag dieser Woche Feiertage ausgerufen, an denen das gesamte öffentliche Leben ruht. Die Folgen der Klimakrise werden im Iran durch Raubbau an den Süßwasser Ressourcen und ein überlastetes Stromnetz verschlimmert https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/01/world/middleeast/iran-heat-shutdown.html
-
-
stephanus.tlg.uci.edu stephanus.tlg.uci.edu
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. The TLG was founded in 1972 by Marianne McDonald (a graduate student at the time and now a professor of theater and classics at the University of California, San Diego) with the goal to create a comprehensive digital collection of all surviving texts written in Greek from antiquity to the present era.
-
-
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
-
Participation in a religious community generally correlates with better health outcomes and longer life, higher financial generosity, and more stable families—all of which are desperately needed in a nation with rising rates of loneliness, mental illness, and alcohol and drug dependency.
It's really saying something that in paragraph 2 the "sell" for religion is the health and social benefits and outcomes rather than the love or support of god(s)!
-
-
-
Der Earth Overshoot Day 2023 wurde in diesem Jahr fünf Tage später als im Vorjahr erreicht, was aber größtenteils auf eine veränderte Berechnungsmethode zurückzuführen ist. Insgesamt verbraucht die Menschheit nach dem Berechnungen des Global FootprintNnetwork 1,75 mal so viel regenerierbare Ressourcen als pro Jahr zur Verfügung stehen. https://taz.de/Erdueberlastungstag/!5951934/
-
-
www.theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com
-
Barzun, Jacques. “The Great Books.” The Atlantic, December 1952. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1952/12/the-great-books/642341/.
Barzun heaps praise on Great Books of the Western World with some criticism of what it is also missing. He finds more than a few superlative words for the majesty of the Syntopicon.
-
I he fact is that there arc some three thousand subheadings. So persons who feel that an official ceiling of 102 ideas would cramp their style can breathe freely.
According to Jacques Barzun (and possibly written in the volumes itself), while the Syntopicon has 102 ideas, there are "some three thousand subheadings."
-
It is not quite a five-foot shelf: 1 make it four feet eight-and-a-half — standard railroad gauge.
the five-foot shelf reference is to the Harvard Classics competitor
-
-
www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
-
I like their simplicity and cloth texture, but family members seem to think that my 1952 set of The Great Books of the Western World are a bit on the "dreary looking side" compared with the more colorful books in our home library. (It says something that the 12 year old thinks my yellow Springer graduate math texts are more inviting...) Has anyone else had this problem and solved it with custom printed dust jackets?
- Has anyone seen them for sale?
- Made their own?
- Interested in commissioning some as a bigger group?
- Used a third-party company to design and print something?
In doing something like this for fun, I might hope that the younger kids in the house might show more interest in some more lively/colorful custom covers.
I'm partially tempted to use a classical painting as a display across the spines (a la Juniper Books collections) perhaps using:
- The School of Athens by Raphael
- The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David
Other thoughts? suggestions?
Syndication link: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicalEducation/comments/15gv2cz/custom_dust_jackets_for_the_great_books_of_the/
-
-
stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
-
The Mailer is not the right place for business logic. When you use Sidekiq than your Job object should do the check before actually calling the Mailer.
-
-
stackoverflow.com stackoverflow.com
-
The Mailer, IMHO, is the wrong place for this logic. The mailer should do nothing but format and send messages. The logic to decide whether or not to send should be within the calling block of code.
-
-
meta.wikimedia.org meta.wikimedia.org
-
-
twitter.com twitter.com
-
https://twitter.com/TheGreenLineTO
Local storytelling creating identity.
Suggested by Aram Zucker-Scharff
-
-
www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
-
Why is the index card half full?
reply to u/ManuelRodriguez331 at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/15ehcy5/why_is_the_index_card_half_full/
There has been debate about the length of notes on slips since the invention of slips and it shows no signs of coming to broad consensus other than everyone will have their personal opinion.
If you feel that A6 is is too big then go down a step in size to A7. One of the benefits of the DIN A standard is that you can take the next larger card size and fold it exactly in half to have the next size smaller. This makes it easier to scale up the size of your cards if you prefer most of them to be smaller to save space, just take care not to allow larger folded cards to "taco" smaller cards in a way they're likely to get lost. If you really needed more space, you could easily use an A1 or A2 and fold it down to fit inside of your collection! (Sadly 4x6 and 3x5 cards don't have this affordance.)
Fortunately there are a variety of available sizes, so you can choose what works best for yourself. Historically some chose large 5x8", 6x9", or even larger "slips". Some have also used different sizes for different functions. For example some use 3x5 for bibliographic cards and 4x6 for day-to-day ideas. I've seen stacked wooden card catalog furniture that had space for 3x5, 4x6, and 8.5x11 in separate drawers within the same cabinet. Some manufacturers even made their furniture modular to make this sort of mixed use even easier.
One of the broadly used pieces of advice that does go back centuries is to use "cards of the same size" (within a particular use case). This consensus is arrived at to help users from losing smaller cards between larger/taller cards. Cards of varying sizes, even small ones, are also much more difficult to sort through. Slight of hand magicians will be aware of the fact that shaving small fractions of length off of playing cards is an easy way of not only marking them, but of executing a variety of clever shuffling illusions as well as finding some of them very quickly by feel behind the back. Analog zettelkasten users will only discover that smaller, shorter cards are nearly guaranteed to become lost among the taller cards. It's for this reason that I would never recommend one to mix 4x6, A6, or even the very closely cut Exacompta Bristol cards, which are neither 4x6 nor A6!
I once took digital notes and printed them on paper and then cut them up to fit the size of the individual notes to save on space and paper. I can report that doing this was a painfully miserable experience and positively would NOT recommend doing this for smaller projects much less lifelong ones. Perhaps this could be the sort of chaos someone out there might actually manage to thrive within, but I suspect it would be a very rare individual.
As for digital spacing, you may win out a bit here for "saving" paper space, but you're also still spending on storage costs in electronic formatting which historically doesn't have the longevity of physical formats. Digital also doesn't offer the ease of use of laying cards out on a desktop and very quickly reordering them for subsequent uses.
There are always tradeoffs, one just need be aware of them to guide choices for either how they want to work or how they might work best.
Personally, I use 4x6" cards because I often write longer paragraphs on them. Through experimentation I found that I would end up using two or more 3x5 cards more often than I would have had mostly blank 4x6 cards and used that to help drive my choice. I also find myself revisiting old cards and adding to them (short follow ups, links to other cards, or other metadata) and 3x5 wouldn't allow that as easily.
As ever, YMMV...
See also: [[note lengths]] and/or [[note size]].
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
In Portugal hat zum zweiten Mal in wenigen Jahren ein Waldbrand den Naturpark von Sintra-Cascais in der Nähe von Lissabon getroffen. Die häufigen Waldbrände bedrohen die Biodiversität und gefährden endemische Arten.,https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/forets-incendiees-au-portugal-le-probleme-cest-la-repetition-et-le-laps-de-temps-entre-deux-feux-20230730_E3V3WVUZSVCALNCENQBJYEY7HM/
-
- Jul 2023
-
www.reddit.com www.reddit.com
-
I have been using the Outline of Knowledge (OoK) which Adler developed for the Propædia volume of the 15th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica (orig. publ. 1974) as my way of indexing knowledge (there is a blog series describing this). I am now working on Part 7 of the series, which is concerned with porting from a card-based analogue system to a digital computer-based form, using the insights gained from having done so via the analogue approach initially.It appears as though the final version of the OoK which ever appeared was in 2010, and is archived at The Internet Archive.I am interested in whether anyone has continued using the OoK or has expanded upon it in any formalised or systematic way. I have made my own mods to it, of course, as it is several decades old and could bear with some revision. But I am not aware of any organisation or group that may already be doing this, including the Britannica itself (which seems a shame, if it is the case).Does anyone know of any such efforts?
reply to u/TheVoroscope at https://www.reddit.com/r/antinet/comments/va2s09/comment/jtwqhd7/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
u/TheVoroscope, the only things I've seen on it are the original and what you've written. I suspect anything current will be quite niche and would require searching in the areas of academic journal articles or at the level of graduate studies within the library sciences where you might find something. Simon Winchester had a section on the rise and downfall of the Encyclopedia Britannica in his most recent book Knowing What We Know (2023) which has a brief mention of the Propædia, but it was broadly described as a $32 million dollar bomb that ended the Encyclopedia. I would suspect that the last printings in 2010 and 2012 were probably the last more as a result of the rise of internet usage than they were the form and function of the Propædia itself though.
-
-
scheerpost.com scheerpost.com
-
- for: inequality, 1%, elites, carbon inequality, leverage point, leverage point - climate change, oxfam
- quote
- Richest 1% Took 2/3rds of Global Wealth Since 2020
- Richest 1% increased wealth in 2020 and 2021 twice as much as 99% of Population Earned
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
It does not make sense for one species to command most of the energy flow through the ecosystems of which it is a part. That's a very destabilizing situation. And the wise species would do everything possible to reestablish some kind of balanced energy and material throughput. If we don't do that, again, 01:15:52 I keep harping on this, people hate me for it, but we will go down
- for: anthropomorphism, apex species
- quote
- it does not make sense for one species to command most of the energy flow through the ecosystems which it is part of. That's a very destabilizing situation and the wise species would do everything possible to reestablish some kind of balanced energy material throughput.
-
-
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
-
I regret that the ideal of a home or family library has pretty much vanished along with door-to-door encyclopedia salesmen and sets of the “Great Books of the Western World.”
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Die meteorologischen Daten ergeben, dass dieser Juli der wärmste der bekannten Geschichte ist - mit einem Abstand zu anderen Juli-Monaten, der Klimawissenschaftler:innen erstaunt. Für UN-Generalsekretär Gutteres hat die „Ära des globalen Kochens" begonnen. Forscher:innen und NGOs wiesen darauf hin, dass eine Begrenzung der Erhitzung auf 1,5° noch möglich ist, dass aber neue fossile Projekte vorangetrieben werden, die eindeutig mit dem 1,5°-Ziel unvereinbar sind.
Tags
- expert: Marina Romanello
- topic: attribution
- NGO: Destination Zero
- expert: Joyce Kimutai
- expert: Friederike Otto
- expert: Karsten Haustein
- expert: Zeke Hausfather
- process: increasing risk of heatwaves
- institution: Lancet Countdown
- process: global heating
- time: 3023-07
- expert: Catherine Abreu
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Die Hitze im Süden und Unwetter im Norden Italiens haben mehrere Tote gefordert. Viele Menschen mussten vor den Waldbränden in Sizilien fliehen. Am Montag wurden in Palermo 47°C gemessen, an anderen Orten in Süditalien waren sie noch höher. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/25/italy-wildfires-palermo-temperatures-sicily-airport-heatwave
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Im Meer bei Florida wurde eine Oberflächentemperatur von 38,43°C gemessen – möglicherweise ein neuer globaler Rekord. Der Bericht des Guardian geht auf andere marine Hitzewellen und Studien über ihre Zunahme ein. Nach Daten der amerikanischen Wetterbehörde NOAA wurden in diesem Jahr schon im April, Mai und Juni Rekorde bei der Oberflächentemperatur der Ozeane gebrochen. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/25/florida-ocean-temperatures-hot-tub-extreme-weather
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Koordiniert von der Heritage Foundation wurde ein umfassender Plan für die ersten sechs Monate einer republikanischen Präsidentschaft erarbeitet. Er würde eine Regulierung der Energiepolitik und Dekarbonisierungsmaßnahmen durch die Bundesregierung sowie die Durchsetzung von Umweltbestimmungen unmöglich machen. Die Heritage Foundation hatte entscheidenden Einfluss auf frühere republikanische Regierungen. Viele US-Politiker werden von der Fossilindustrie mitfinanziert.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
In einem Video gibt der Guardian einen Überblick über die Waldbrände die überall im Mittelmeerraum ausgebrochen sind. Besonders stark betroffen sind außer den europäischen Mittelmeerländern Algerien und Syrien. https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2023/jul/27/ring-of-fire-encircles-mediterranean-amid-record-breaking-heatwave-video
-
-
-
Mit 28,7 Grad erreichte die Temperatur an der Oberfläche des Mittelmeers einen neuen Rekord, der noch von den Copernicusdaten bestätigt werden muss. taz-Bericht zu den Hitzewellen im Mittelmeerraum. https://taz.de/Bedrohung-fuer-Wirtschaft-und-Umwelt/!5951343/
-
-
welikia.org welikia.org
-
Muir Web
- for Indra's Net of Jewels, progress trap
- definition
- Muir Web
- A diagram that shows all the relationships between species of a particular ecological habitat
- Muir Web
-
-
canadiancor.com canadiancor.com
-
The concept of the purity of science should be abandoned.
- for: progress trap, abstraction
- comment
- we do not recognize the power of abstraction
- through it, we begin to construct Indra's Net of Jewels, one jewel (idea) at a time
- but each jewel (idea) that we construct is just a little knowledge, and as Dan observes, a little knowledge, compared to the endless knowledge reflected in any jewel is dangerous.
- this then, is our dangerous predicament - we base technology on incomplete jewels of Indra's net
- as we know from mathematics, when the finite meets the infinite, it can never win
- comment
- for: progress trap, abstraction
-
-
Local file Local file
-
The attack did nothing to dimRussell’s reputation; he returned home, acquired more fame, amodest income, a mistress, and later an Italian countess for a wife,won a knighthood and was invited initially into a social circle thatincluded the Prince of Wales, though he fell out with them aftercomplaining privately about the depravity of some of the circle’smembers.
Even in William Howard Russell's day, the Prince of Wales kept some dodgy company.
-
There’s the power of the press for you.
Quote from Evelyn Waugh's satire Scoop from section on Wenlock Jakes "creating" a revolution.
-
Does he actually touch on the idea of "modern magic" explicitly? He talks about modern technology, but does he frame it as "magic"?
-
-
docdrop.org docdrop.org
-
Abraham Wald
- example
- survivorship bias
- Abraham Wald was a statistican who was tasked by the Allied war effort with understanding how to make the Allied war planes function better.
- And he was presented with a series of airplanes that had bullet holes throughout them as they had gone from bombing runs over Nazi Germany.
- And he looked at them, and he saw that there were
- holes in the wings,
- holes in the tail,
- holes in the nose of the plane.
- And the general said to him, you know, "Based on your statistical expertise, where should we put extra armor?
- Where should we reinforce the plane?"
- And most of the people thought they should put them where the bullet holes were.
- Abraham Wald took one look at this, and he said, "If you put armor over the places where the holes are,
- you're going to make the planes get shot down more."
- Because the reality was the places that didn't have bullet holes were the most crucial.
- The places that had been shot in
- the fuselage,
- the middle of the plane where the engine was,
- those were in Germany, they didn't survive,
- they were wrecks.
- So they never made it back to be analyzed.
- So survivorship bias is a bias where we look at the wrong kinds of data because we only look at what survived.
- survivorship bias
- example
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
The "Dokkōdō" (Japanese: 獨行道) ("The Path of Aloneness", "The Way to Go Forth Alone", or "The Way of Walking Alone") is a short work written by Miyamoto Musashi a week before he died in 1645. It consists of 21 precepts. "Dokkodo" was largely composed on the occasion of Musashi giving away his possessions in preparation for death, and was dedicated to his favorite disciple, Terao Magonojō (to whom the earlier Go rin no sho [The Book of Five Rings] had also been dedicated), who took them to heart. "Dokkōdō" expresses a stringent, honest, and ascetic view of life.
The work of Musashi, Dokkodo, is the Japanese for "The way of walking alone", which I like most as a translation.
-
-
civil.colorado.edu civil.colorado.edu
-
Science is not described by thefalsification standard, as Popper recognized and argued.4 In fact, deductive falsification isimpossible in nearly every scientific context. In this section, I review two reasons for thisimpossibility.(1) Hypotheses are not models. The relations among hypotheses and different kinds ofmodels are complex. Many models correspond to the same hypothesis, and manyhypotheses correspond to a single model. This makes strict falsification impossible.(2) Measurement matters. Even when we think the data falsify a model, another ob-server will debate our methods and measures. They don’t trust the data. Sometimesthey are right.For both of these reasons, deductive falsification never works. The scientific method cannotbe reduced to a statistical procedure, and so our statistical methods should not pretend.
Seems consistent with how Popper used the terms [[falsification]] and [[falsifiability]] noted here
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
Popper 1983, Introduction 1982: "We must distinguish two meanings of the expressions falsifiable and falsifiability:"1) Falsifiable as a logical-technical term, in the sense of the demarcation criterion of falsifiability. This purely logical concept — falsifiable in principle, one might say — rests on a logical relation between the theory in question and the class of basic statements (or the potential falsifiers described by them)."2) Falsifiable in the sense that the theory in question can definitively or conclusively or demonstrably be falsified ("demonstrably falsifiable")."I have always stressed that even a theory which is obviously falsifiable in the first sense is never falsifiable in this second sense. (For this reason I have used the expression falsifiable as a rule only in the first, technical sense. In the second sense, I have as a rule spoken not of falsifiability but rather of falsification and of its problems)."
A passage from [[Karl Popper]] about how he distinguishes between [[falsifiability]] and [[falsification]].
Popper's "falsification" seems related to [[Imre Lakatos]]'s notion that a [[research programme]] has a [[hard core]]
of central theses that are deemed irrefutable—or, at least, refutation-resistant—by methodological fiat. (Musgrave & Pigden 2021, SEP article linked below)
Also, what Popper calls "falsifiable"/"falsifiability" is similar to Lakatos's
[[protective belt]] of [[auxiliary hypotheses]] which has to bear the brunt of tests and gets adjusted and re-adjusted, or even completely replaced, to defend the thus-hardened core. (FMSRP: 48)
[[Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes]]
There's seems to be a curious reversal between Popper & Lakatos. The theoretical component for Lakatos (ie, the "hard core") can't be falsified, whereas the theoretical component for Popper (ie, something being "falsifiable in principle") is a
purely logical concept … [that] rests on a logical relation between the theory in question and the class of basic statements (or the potential falsifiers described by them). (Popper 1982, from passage above)
A crucial difference between Lakatos & Popper is that for Lakatos
A research programme can be falsifiable (in some senses) but unscientific and scientific but unfalsifiable. (Musgrave & Pigden 2021, SEP article linked below)
This seems in direct conflict with one of Popper's views that falsifiability can serve as a [[demarcation criterion]] for what is scientific and non-scientific.
Cf. 2.2 of "Imre Lakatos" on SEP
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
"Data models for different systems are arbitrarily different. The result of this is that complex interfaces are required between systems that share data. These interfaces can account for between 25-70% of the cost of current systems".
-
-
academic.oup.com academic.oup.com
-
Information sharing in a hybrid workplace: understanding the role of ease-of-use perceptions of communication technologies in advice-seeking relationship maintenance
-
-
www.oxfam.org www.oxfam.org
-
- Oxfam inequality report
- Report name
- Survival of the Richest
- Date
- Jan 2023
- Key findings
- the richest 1% earned nearly 2/3 of all new wealth worth $42 trillion created since 2020
- the remaining 99% earned the remaining 1/3
-
-
www.washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com
-
Die Washington Post stellt ausführlicher und mit einer guten Animation Dimiensionen und Funktion des Hitzedoms dar, der das Wetter in den südlichen USA seit Wochen bestimmt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/21/us-heat-wave-heat-dome-climate/
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Der Chef des europäischen Wetterdienstes Copernicus, Jean-Noël Thépaut, bestätigt, dass es sich bei den derzeitigen Hitzewellen um außerordentliche Phänomene handelt. Dabei verstärken sich Effekte der globalen Erhitzung wechselseitig. Noch nicht verstanden, aber besorgniserregend seien die Erhitzung des Nordatlantik und die Abnahme des antarktischen Meereises. In den vergangenen Jahren hat vermutlich das La Niña-Phänomen das Ausmaß der globalen Erhitzung verdeckt. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/en-europe-le-puissant-dome-de-chaleur-va-durer-au-moins-jusquau-26-juillet-20230720_GRZXH5FIQ5EYLBZ4CB7U2L2VUY/
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Eine Sedimentprobe aus Grönland belegt, das vor 400.000 Jahren 20-70% der Eiskappe geschmolzen waren. Dieser Abschmelzvorgang erhöhte den Meeresspiegel um 1,4 bis 5,5m. Genauere Analysen und weitere Untersuchungen versprechen Aufschlüsse darüber, um wieviel der Meeresspiegel noch in diesem Jahrhundert aufgrund der globalen Erhitzung ansteigen wird. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/pourquoi-la-fonte-des-glaces-du-groenland-il-y-a-400-000-ans-nous-concerne-20230721_ZVQ7A45HLVHZLDB5JTFOR5EEEY/
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.derstandard.de www.derstandard.de
-
-
Flow, Christian. 125 Jahre Thesaurus linguae Latinae - Vortrag. Mp3. Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2019. https://badw.de/die-akademie/presse/podcast/podcast-details/detail/125-jahre-thesaurus-linguae-latinae-vortrag.html.
-
-
www.theclimatebrink.com www.theclimatebrink.com
-
www.youtube.com www.youtube.comYouTube1
-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY
Lots of controversy over this music video this past week or so.
In addition to some of the double entendre meanings of "we take care of our own", I'm most appalled about the tacit support of the mythology that small towns are "good" and large cities are "bad" (or otherwise scary, crime-ridden, or dangerous).
What are the crime statistics per capita about the safety of small versus large?
Availability bias of violence and crime in the big cities are overly sampled by most media (newspapers, radio, and television). This video plays heavily into this bias.
There's also an opposing availability bias going on with respect to the positive aspects of small communities "taking care of their own" when in general, from an institutional perspective small towns are patently not taking care of each other or when they do its very selective and/or in-crowd based rather than across the board.
Note also that all the news clips and chyrons are from Fox News in this piece.
Alternately where are the musicians singing about and focusing on the positive aspects of cities and their cultures.
-
-
www.repubblica.it www.repubblica.it
-
In Italien hat die aktuelle Hitzewelle an vielen Orten zu neuen Rekordtemperaturen geführt. In Kalabrien wurden schon morgens um 8:30 Uhr 38°C gemessen. In Norditalien und in Kroatien kam es außerdem zu schweren Unwettern mit Hagelschlag. Die hohen Temperaturen werden den ganzen Juli anhalten. https://www.repubblica.it/cronaca/2023/07/21/news/previsioni_meteo_oggi_21_luglio_2023-408474746/?ref=RHLF-BG-I408498960-P9-S1-F
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Die Libération gibt einen Überblick über die Länder, die gerade von Hitzewellen betroffen sind. Dabei übertreffen oft sowohl die Höhe der Temperatur wie die Länge der Hitzeperiode ältere Rekorde: Spanien, Griechenland, Italien, Kanada, die USA und China.
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
Der vergangene Juni war der heisseste seit dem Beginn globaler Temperaturaufzeichnungen 1850, wie die Daten der amerikanischen Wetterbehörde NOAA zeigen. Europäischen Copernicus-Daten zufolge waren die beiden ersten Juliwochen mit hoher Wahrscheinlichkeit die wärmsten der aufgezeichneten menschlichen Geschichte. Der Hitzedom, der die Temperaturen über Mexiko und den südlichen USA in die Höhe treibt, wurde ersten wissenschaftlichen Einschätzungen zufolge durch die globlale Erhitzung 5mal wahrscheinlicher und ca 2.8° wärmer. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/climate/hottest-june-in-history-noaa.html
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Hitzewellen bedrohen durch ihre zunehmende Zahl und Intensität das globale Ernährungssystem. Der Guardian hat Experten zu den Folgen von Hitzewellen am Land und in den Ozeanen für die Ernährungssicherheit befragt. Hitzewellen haben dramatische Auswirkungen etwa auf die Erträge von Nutzpflanzen und auf Lebensbedingungen von Fischen. Die Folgen sind im Detail oft nur unzureichend erforscht. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/21/rampant-heatwaves-threaten-food-security-of-entire-planet-scientists-warn
-
-
en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
-
In the West, the primary impact of the idea has been on literature rather than science: "stream of consciousness as a narrative mode" means writing in a way that attempts to portray the moment-to-moment thoughts and experiences of a character. This technique perhaps had its beginnings in the monologues of Shakespeare's plays and reached its fullest development in the novels of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf, although it has also been used by many other noted writers.[184]
Using stream of consciousness for writing, as a narrative form (for me, this portrays more authenticity, maybe even a way to communicate inspirations as it first strook the person, without filter).
-
-
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
-
- Title
- ‘Out of time’: Temperature records topple around the world
- Source
- Title
-
-
www.thelancet.com www.thelancet.com
-
- Title
- Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey
- Authors
- Hickman et al.
- Date
- Dec 31, 2021
- Source
- Title
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Auch das westliche Mittelmeerbecken ist wieder von einer Hitzewelle betroffen. In der Nähe der Straße von Gibraltar liegen die Temperaturen 4° über dem langjährigen Durchschnitt, an den spanischen Küsten insgesamt im Durchschnitt um 2.2°.So hohe Temperaturen wurden dort bisher nie gemessen. An der französischen Küste und in der Adrial beträt die Temperatur-Anomalie bis zu 4°. Die immer intensiven Hitzewellen zerstören komplette Ökosysteme. Dabei stellte die Hitzewell von 2021 einen Wendepunkt dar, der die marinen Ökosysteme radikal veränderte. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/biodiversite/canicule-marine-dans-la-mediterranee-la-biodiversite-brule-a-petit-feu-20230719_SEECAPX7NRHFFCCZXEBYVKNLJQ/?redirected=1
Tags
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.derstandard.at www.derstandard.at
-
In Spanien führt eine Hitzewelle, die von wärmer Luft aus Nordafrika ausgelöst wird, zu Temperaturen von bis zu 44 Grad. Vorangegangen war vor zwei Wochen eine Hitzewelle mit ähnlich hohen Temperaturen.
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Viele Regionen der USA sind von Extremwetterer betroffen. Ca. ein Drittel der Bevölkerung lebt in Regionen, für gesunfheitsgefährliche Hitzewellen vorausgesagt würden, wobei die hohen Temperaturen z.T. schon seit Wochen anhalten. In einer Reihe von Bundesstaaten drohen Stürme und Überschwemmungen. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/13/more-extreme-weather-across-us
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Über 100 Menschen sind in den vergangenen Tagen in Nordindien an den Folgen einer Hitzewelle mit Rekordtemperaturen gestorben. Eine Studie der World Weather attribution hat ergeben, dass die Hitzewelle in Indien im April durch die globale Erhitzung um 30% wahrscheinlicher geworden ist. Wenn sich die Erhitzung fortsetzt werden große Teile Indiens, wie eine weitere neulich veröffentlichte Studie ergibt, für Menschen potenziell unbewohnbar werden.
-
-
www.derstandard.at www.derstandard.at
-
An der Rekordhitze im südlichen Nordamerika sind in Mexiko schon über 100, in den USA mehr als zehn Menschen gestorben. https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000177162/zahlreiche-hitzetote-in-mexiko-und-usa
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Die Erhitzung durch Treibhausgase führt zu einer Steigerung von häuslicher und sexueller Gewalt. Eine in Indien Nepal und Pakistan durchgeführte Studie ergibt dass ein Grad Temperaturerhöhung zu etwa 6% mehr Gewalttaten gegen Frauen führt. Hitze führt zu Störungen in der Lebensmittelversorgung, Schäden an der Infrastruktur und dem Zwang, sich mehr in geschlossenen Räumen aufzuhalten Punkt damit vergrößert sich der Stress in Familien besonders betroffen sind Menschen mit niedrigem Einkommen und im ländlichen Gebieten. Untersuchungen zeigen das auch der hitzestress selbst die Bereitschaft zur Gewalt vergrößert. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/28/climate-crisis-linked-to-rising-domestic-violence-in-south-asia-study-finds
-
-
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
-
Die Hitzewelle in den USA und Mexiko hält an. Die Temperaturen erreichen an manchen Orten mehr als 50°. In den USA gelten Hitzewarnungen für 44 Millionen Menschen. Die hohen Temperaturen sind Folge eines Hitzedoms, der durch den Jetstream an seinem Ort gehalten wird.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/24/texas-heatwave-high-temperatures-power
-
-
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
-
Eine Hitzewelle mit Rekordtemperaturen in Texas und Umgebung dürfte sich in den kommenden Tagen noch verstärken. Die New York Times hat berechnet, dass am Freitag ca 33 Millionen amerikanerinnen und Amerikaner Temperaturen ausgesetzt waren, die für die Gesundheit gefährlich sind. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/23/us/texas-heat-wave.html
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
In Peking und den acht chinesischen Provinzhauptstädten wurden in den vergangenen Tagen Rekordtemperaturen gemessen.
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Sibirien macht gerade die schlimmste Hitzewelle der aufgezeichneten Geschichte durch. Im Juni wurden Temperaturen von über 40 Grad erreicht. damit droht sich das Abschmelzen des Permafrosts – durch die Freisetzung von Methan ein sich selbst verstärkender Prozess – zu beschleunigen. https://www.liberation.fr/environnement/climat/siberie-avec-40-c-la-region-connait-la-pire-vague-de-chaleur-de-son-histoire-20230611_QONTZ25VFRASJMR6UT44HXDO7A/
Tags
- institution: Météo France
- process: increasing risk of wildfires
- topic: attribution
- topic: climate feedback
- institution: Copernicus
- process: melting of permafrost
- institution: World Weather Attribution
- expert: Omar Baddour
- process: increasing risk of heatwaves
- region: Siberia
- institution: WMO
- expert: Samantha Burgess
- expert: Maximiliano Herrera
Annotators
URL
-
-
www.liberation.fr www.liberation.fr
-
Im Shanghai wurden gerade die höchsten Mal-Temperaturen seit 100 Jahren gemessen. Durch die globale Erhitzung hat sich dort das Risiko von Hitzewellen um das 30-fache vergrößert. https://www.liberation.fr/international/asie-pacifique/shanghai-vit-sa-journee-de-mai-la-plus-chaude-depuis-100-ans-20230529_BSLABFO2XFGQFPVX3REPGSDB5A/
-