the Nairobi-Washington vision for which Ruto is a stand-in is insufficient for fostering prosperity across the South—where debt-stressed countries with soaring joblessness are imposing class war austerity and privatization, amid Western intransigence in delivering touted financial architecture reforms.
for Nairobi-Washington vision - critique
Kenya’s new bond issued in March has an interest rate of 10.375 percent—vastly higher than the 6.875 percent ten-year bond that it helped to replace.
for - stats - Kenya IMF debt
None of these are within the control of the Kenyan government—which is not to say that poor governance and corruption has not contributed to the crisis.
for - Kenya - polycrisis - austerity - climate crisis plus poor governance
Europe should build its foreign policy on a coordinated response to the climate question.
for - post-colonial Africa Europe clean energy security - US-Europe fracture - opportunity - europe-africa development
for - book - The Biology of Desire - 2015 - Marc Lewis - from - youtube - How the Meaning Crisis is related to the Drug Crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
> for - addiction - neuroscience - Marc Lewis - from - youtube - meaning crisis and drug crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
treatment works by
> for - addiction - treatment - recovery - reconnecting - empowerment to sense of future self - striatum to prefrontal cortex - self to the social world
what you're doing basically is reconnecting the striatum that's empowerment with the prefrontal cortex you're reconnecting the motivational engine with a bridge of the ship and that's happening in the brain and uh it has to happen in the mind
> for - addiction - recovery - brain model - reconnecting - striatum - motivation to - prefrontal cortex - bridge of the ship
that's what professionals and family members and Friends and Lovers and lots of other people can do help them think about where they come from and where they're going to you put those two things together and that's the magic uh formula
> for - addiction - recovery - family support - help addicted person build an affirming, honest and aspiring narrative - where they came from - where they arrived at now - where they are going towards
how do we help addicts feel empowered rather than disempowered which is a potent antidote to Ego fatigue to feel empowered I can do it okay and I think that we need to help them own other goals
> for - addiction - recovery - how to help addicts - empower - replace drug use with other goals - help expand - from eternal now to - painful past - uncertain future
that's what you have to that's what you have to capture you have to capture that motivation that sense of ownership okay that's really empowerment
> for - addiction - recovery - ownership of other meaningful goals
bphen
> for - to - addiction - treatment - baclofen - https://hyp.is/1_FbVPXgEe-UUP_kbyJxQg/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC293465/
there is room for overlap there is a gray area there are disease like aspects of addiction it's that part is true
> for - addiction - some overlap with disease
the disease model fails addicts
> for - addiction - disease model fails addicts - turns them into patient - therefore creates powerlessness - which is a primary reason leading to replase
there's a number of studies that show um I know of two and three of them one about alcohol one of methamphetamine that shows that belief in the disease model itself is a predictor of relapse
> for - addiction - belief in the disease model - correlated to relapse
the thing they have in common is the idea that addiction is for good that it's it's a fundamental flaw it's an essential characteristic of the person and it's not going to go away it's chronic
> for - addiction - claim - addiction is permanent
hese rehab facilities the these addiction treatment centers they they they CL 85% of them in the US are based on the disease model 85% and an almost overlapping 85% uses 12-step methods as their primary primary uh um uh intervention method well you know that's hard to actually figure out because medicine is this and 12 steps has very little to do with medicine it's kind of based on a religious orientation
> for - stats - addiction - rehab centers - 85% are based on disease model - and 85% use a religious oriented 12 step program
what disease model Advocates say is that this reduces stigma and shame and you know and contempt and guilt and all that stuff because if you have a disease well you shouldn't be blamed right so it's supposed to make you feel better
> for - addiction - disease model rationale
conventional rehab programs have very poor success rates usually people relapse anywhere from 2 to 10 times it's you know it's a re revolving door phenomenon
> for - stats - addiction - rehab relapse - 2 to 10 times - addiction - rehab - revolving door
the disease model of addiction isn't just wrong it's also harmful
> for - addiction - failure of rehabilitation is proof of the wrong model - the disease model - quote - the disease model of addiction is not only wrong, but harmful - Marc Lewis
recovery now and talk about how this happens because for each of the people in my book they actually did find a way out of addiction as people generally do
> for - addiction - quote - Recovery - most people find a way out of addiction - Marc Lewis
the book I tell the story of Five addicts um one is a heroin addict one's a meth addict one was addicted to pharmaceutical uh opiates um the fourth one was a British man who was an alcoholic very serious alcoholic and the fifth one was an eating disordered person
> for - book - The Biology of Desire - Why Addiction is not a Disease - 2015 Marc Lewis - https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files4/2a48405faa052ec2b4e0c56a79e001ca.pdf
so that's the model
> for - addiction model - Marc Lewis - addiction diagram
> summary - Marc gives a good summary of everything - prefrontal cortex in control of judgment - striatum in charge of - attraction - desire - craving - midbrain - dopamine system - dopamine goes to the striatum and sets up localized feedback cycle so crave more - then the striatum becomes hyperactivated in the presence of cues - then you get that mechanism of now appeal - that narrowing of attraction to the immediate reward and - the loss of everything else - the other stuff falls off the radar - then the connection between - the prefrontal cortex and - the striatum starts to become compromised - resulting in ego fatigue - The prefrontal cortex simply becomes less effective at control
I do some counseling with uh with with addicts over over uh Skype
> for - Marc Lewis - remote addiction counseling
just take all that pressure off so that you're not making that kind of Demand on the system and rather start to think about what's going on in your life and what's going on in your past and what's going on and what does this drug or substance do for you and that's the way to start to change how the system functions
> for - addiction - reappraisal takes pressure off suppression - look at deeper root causes
uppressing those impulses saying no isn't what works what works is to reappraise the situation to think about well if you take this as a parallel think about what your addiction is about think about why
> for - addiction - suppression - doesn't work - reappraisal does
there are cues everywhere
> for - addiction - cues everywhere - trigger dopamine system - impulse control is difficult
success rate in AA is 5 to 8%
> for - stats - AA - success rate - 8% - ego fatigue
addicts have a really hard time with that an extremely hard time because they have to suppress control inhibit their impulses for hours at a time days at a time weeks at a time
> for - addiction - hard time controlling impulses - ego fatigue
what I'm saying right um become more impulsive more compulsive and and so forth and that's really I think parallels what we see when we see the loss of a connection between the striatum and the prefrontal cortex in addiction
> for - adjacency - TMS - disconnection - addiction
TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation
> for - definition - TMS - Transcranial magnetic stimulation
you never hear people say Let's get high next week right just you're not going to hear that let's get high next Tuesday no so let's get high now tonight today
> for - quote - addiction - delay discounting - you never hear people say Let's get high next week. You're not going to hear "let's get high next Tuesday. No, let's get high now, tonight, today." - Marc Lewis
there's an immediate goal which seems worth a lot more than the long-term goal and so you blow it off whether you're going to be out of money out of whether your girlfriend's going to leave you whether you're going to get in trouble with the cops whether you're going lose your job those are future events and all you can really think about is whether or not I'm going to get high tonight
> for - adjacency - delay discount - addiction
dopamine focuses attention on the immediate goal and that produces craving and it's the immediacy that's the issue so all mammals have delay discounting
> for - definition - delay discounting - also explains climate crisis and fossil fuels - adjacency - delay discounting - dopamine - craving
why is it so hard to stop and there's three points
> for - addiction why it's hard to stop - addiction - 3 reasons why it's hard to stop - strong attraction repetitive behavior - leads to deep learning - now appeal - delayed discounting - ego fatigue - loss of control
you do that time after after time day after day week after week month after month and that's development that's development that's the development of a habit of a very intense habit an emotional habit a strong strongly uh um compelling habit but it is it is still a habit it's a learned habit
> for - addiction - diagram - development of a strong habit
the proposition that drugs cause addiction has to be completely wrong
> for - addiction - drugs do not cause addiction
that little yellow spot is the region in the brain that shows a reduction in synaptic density for people who spend more time on the internet and go back to the brain picture that I showed you before for heroin coke and alcohol addicts it's exactly the same spot
> for - addiction - behavioral addiction - substance addiction - degrades same part of the brain
all the brain changes that people associate with substance abuse you find them in gambling porn sex addiction uh and uh uh binge eating disorder and obesity
> for - addiction - substance addiction and behavioral addiction produce the same results
Psychotherapy changes the brain
> for - psychotherapy changes the brain
default mode Network
> for - definition - default mode network - neuroscience - meditation
when you fall in love there are all kinds of changes to the brain there's increased dopamine to the striatum
> for - love - as a form of addiction
London cab drivers have a hippocampus that's part of the brand in charge of uh of memory certain kinds of memory which is uh 20% more dense or more heavy than normal people why because they have to learn the location of like thousands tens of thousands of streets
> for - formation of deep habits change the brain - example - London cab drivers - 20% heavier hippocampus
addiction is sort of a a kind of skill um the addict's brain learns to efficiently identify and aim Behavior
> for - addiction - is a skill
with tobacco it's 25 years
> for - stats - addiction - tobacco - average duration - 25 years
alcohol it's 15 years
> for - stats - addiction - alcohol - average duration - 15 years
with marijuana if you smoke it compulsively it's six years
> for - stats - addiction - marijuana - average duration - 6 years
with cocaine the average duration of an addiction is four years
> for - stats - addiction - cocaine - average duration - 4 years
not everybody knows that but the majority of addicts for any kind of substance and even heroin end up quitting
> for - addiction - unknown fact - most addicts quit
within one year or so the curve the the line um crosses the non-addicted average Baseline
> for - addiction - abstinence - one year - crosses non-addictive baseline
there's increasing growth and increasing synapses in new regions that are closely related and they're probably very much involved in self-regulation impulse control because that's what people need to learn when they stop taking drugs
> for - addiction - abstinence - impulse control
abstinence from from Coke alcohol and heroin you get um you get an increase in gr matter volume in very similar areas
> for - addiction - abstinence - synaptic growth - in a year, returns to baseline
think about addiction um in terms of synaptic pruning then this decrement in in prefrontal in in the density of synapses in certain prefrontal areas
> for - addiction - synaptic pruning of prefrontal cortex
that's what pruning is for is to make the brain more efficient so that it focuses so that several the really important Pathways become uh entrenched um they become melinated
> for - synaptic pruning - purpose
the big picture in development um but development and learning are actually very similar they're almost almost synonymous and they simply involve two processes two mechanisms one is synaptic growth and one is synaptic pruning you get a proliferation of synapsis or synaptogenesis and then you get pruning of synapsis which I just showed you and the balance of those two mechanisms is development in in the brain
> for - brain development - synaptic growth and synaptic pruning
synaptic pruning
> for - definition - synaptic pruning
losing synaptic density they're losing synapsis they're not brain cells
> for - addiction - graph - years of use vs loss of synaptic connections
for - Marc Lewis homepage - from - youtube - How the Meaning Crisis is related to the Drug Crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
> for - youtube - How a lack of meaning is related to addictions - John Vervaeke - adjacency - meaning crisis - drug crisis - to - https://hyp.is/lbhlkPXjEe-iDwuHl7WbVA/memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/ - https://youtube.com/@marclewis4311?si=PVIjpKucPaairaa6 - Marc Lewis - John Vervaeke - Youtube - The neuroscience of addiction - Marc Lewis - https://hyp.is/wT54xPXMEe-qats6vf2VqQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOSD9rTVuWc
Mark Lewis
for - baclofen - addiction treatment - from - youtube - the neuroscience of addiction - Marc Lewis - https://hyp.is/EYFXIPXhEe-17zPgaBSmzA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOSD9rTVuWc
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with the Trump anomic budget cutting funding to Farms to snap with the closing of usaid well it means that rural communities are going to go hungry and these small to midsize Farms that are already struggling are going to go bankrupt and then they're going to be forced to sell for pennies on the dollar to huge investment firms under trumponomics ma andpa Family Farms are going to be wiped out rural communities are going to go hungry and billionaires are going to be walking away counting the cash
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for - biodiversity and climate crisis
Annotate
for - Tim - Social Systems Lab
Mohamed Bouazizi
for - article - Al Jazeera - Arab Spring - history - Mohamed Bouazizi - Ali Bouazizi
for - climate crisis - salps - ocean climate mitigation
for - futures study - multi-level perspective - MLP
for - comment - post - LinkedIn - Jon Alexander
for - book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - Chapter 2 - Education in Catastrophic Times - 2024
for - book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - Chapter 3 - Reflecting on Collapse - 2024
for - book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - Chapter 4 - Experimental Pedagogics - 2024
for - book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - Chapter 6 - Learning, Loving, Living in Times of Collapse - 2024
for - book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - Chapter 5 - Imiperfect Solidarities - 2024
for - book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - introduction - 2024
for book - Pedagogies of Collapse - Ginie Servant-Miklos - Chapter 1 - Collapse, Climate and Capitalism - 2024
by the 1970s the FCC called the doctrine the “single most important requirement of operation in the public interest – the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license.
for - Fairness Doctrine - FCC - most important requirement - Ronald Reagan library
I wanted to explain that to you
Summary - Great video illustrating - good communication in a polarized political environment - history of fake news - - how Reagan's elimination of the Fairness doctrine set in motion - conservative talk radio - Fox News, etc - normalized - rural propaganda, - fake news - alternative facts and - misinformation
Musk’s assault is aligned with a new vision inspiring the billionaire technology oligarchy backing Trump: the Dark Enlightenment ideology, inspired by transhumanist eugenics and scientific racism, which envisages national democracies being smashed and refashioned into a patchwork of authoritarian structures subservient to transnational techno-capital.
for - quote - Dark Enlightenment - Silicon Valley Neo-Reactionary - Nafeez Ahmed - 2025, Feb
quote - Dark Enlightement - Silicon Valley Neo-Reactionary - Nafeez Ahmed - Musk’s assault is aligned with a new vision inspiring the billionaire technology oligarchy backing Trump: the Dark Enlightenment ideology, inspired by - transhumanist eugenics and - scientific racism, - which envisages national democracies being - smashed and - refashioned into a patchwork of authoritarian structures subservient to transnational techno-capital.
How is this happening?
for - history - progress trap - Wikipedia - Daniel O'Leary - Ronald Wright - Walter Von Kramer - Der Spiegel
tools such as GenAI have begun to lead human actors to increasingly treat technologies as social actors... Humans perceive social cues in technology, which may trigger the (mis)application of interaction scripts learned from human interaction.
for - AI - as extreme human echo chamber - Jonathan Boymal - AI
for - search - Brave - reagan abolishes media fairness doctrine law - https://www.google.com/search?q=reagan+abolishes+media+fairness+doctrine+law&sca_esv=2e69544fa688a049&biw=1920&bih=951&sxsrf=AHTn8zo1I0-wVztwUUFJ4gP-uEqySL3T_A%3A1739512294133&ei=5tmuZ5vuB-WJhbIP0N7K2AI&ved=0ahUKEwib-f6ivMKLAxXlREEAHVCvEisQ4dUDCBI&uact=5&oq=reagan+abolishes+media+fairness+doctrine+law&gs_lp=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&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - from - Youtube - Luke Beasley - SHOCK: Trump Voter LOSING EVERYTHING Because of Trump, Posts THIS! - 2025, Feb 145
interesting results returned - The Ghost of the F.C.C. Fairness Doctrine in the " by Ian Klein The FCC Fairness Doctrine required that all major broadcasting outlets spend equal time covering both sides of all controversial issues of national importance. The Fairness Doctrine remained the standard for decades before it stopped being enforced during the Reagan administration, and was - https://hyp.is/TWb98uqdEe-6KbN9-DbjWw/repository.uclawsf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1809&context=hastings_comm_ent_law_journal
Enemy of the People: The Ghost of the F.C.C. Fairness Doctrine inthe Age of Alternative Factsthe Age of Alternative FactsIan KleinFollow this and additional works at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journalPart of the Communications Law Commons, Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and theIntellectual Property Law CommonsRecommended CitationRecommended CitationIan Klein,Enemy of the People: The Ghost of the F.C.C. Fairness Doctrine in the Age of Alternative Facts,42 HASTINGS COMM. & ENT. L.J. 45 (2020).Available at: https://repository.uchastings.edu/hastings_comm_ent_law_journal/vol42/iss1/4This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. Ithas been accepted for inclusion in Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal by an authorized editorof UC Hastings Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact wangangela@uchastings.edu.
for - Law Journal - Fairness Doctrine - fake news - alternative facts - paper - Enemy of the People: The Ghost of the F.C.C. Fairness Doctrine in the Age of Alternative Facts Ian Klein - 2020 - from - interesting search results returned
Trump’s vow to exert U.S. authority over Gaza gives groups like ISIS a major boost and puts Americans in the crosshairs, Pape said
for - Trump - Gaza - ammunition for Jihad - article - NBC - Trump's Gaza comment hand Jihadist terrorist a "rallying cry" - 2025, Feb 7
Annotate
for - Curtis Yarvin - critique - from - article - Byline Times - Elon Musk - https://hyp.is/DgWYiueMEe-G1jNnlM9BGg/bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-hijacking-republicans-to-control-entire-us-government/
summary - a good critique of how Curtis Yarvin's arguments are misformed - It's important to understand these misshaped ideas as the far right has uncritically embraced these in support of their confirmation bias
for - from - post - LinkedIn - Nafeez Ahmed - Elon Musk - https://hyp.is/_3M0vOeLEe-RSrfue1zbFw/www.linkedin.com/posts/nafeezahmed_silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-activity-7293760025632620544-fw9w/ - article - Byline Times - Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government - Nafeez Ahmed - 2025, Feb 7 - to Curtis Yarvin - critique - https://hyp.is/XsnCyOegEe-P3ytMaKH6fQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xPF_SLZIPg
democracy itself.
for - definition - Dark Enlightenment - anti-democratic internet movement
accuses Elon Musk of attempting to spearhead a private hostile takeover of the US Government on behalf of an extremist anti-democracy philosophy known as the ‘neo-reactionary’ movement, by effectively hijacking the Republican Party.
for - definition - silicon valley neo-reactionary movement
for - post - LinkedIn - Nafeez Ahmed - Elon Musk is a Trojan horse in Republican Party - Story in Byline Times from Silicon Valley Whistleblowers - to Byline Times - Silicon Valley Whistleblowers - Elon Musk - https://hyp.is/DgWYiueMEe-G1jNnlM9BGg/bylinetimes.com/2025/02/07/silicon-valley-whistleblowers-warn-elon-musk-hijacking-republicans-to-control-entire-us-government/ - Byline Times - Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government - Nafeez Ahmed
I am not the only one looking for comparisons between our time and Weimar Germany. And there are disturbing parallels.
for - comparison - 2025 Trump 2.0 vs Weimar Germany
comparison - 2025 Trump 2.0 vs Weimar Germany - time fo incredible creativity - time of great diversity - small force of hate and separation became emboldened - those in the center became too willing to cede ground - did not push back enough - First
Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany, author Harald Jahner
for - book - Vertigo: The Rise and Fall fo Weimar Germany - Harald Jahner
Wasteland: A World in Permanent Crisis by Robert D. Kaplan
for - book - Wasteland: A World in Permanent Crisis - Robert D. Kaplan
“[Weimar]… Yes, we all know how it ends. But its participants… could have no idea what was in store for them. Will we be any the wiser? I ask because Weimar now beckons us. But, not at all in the way we think. We think about Weimar only in terms of the weakening of American democracy. While we should really think about it in terms of the world."
for - Charlie Angus - quoting Robert D. Kaplan - Weimar moment - SOURCE - Substack article - Weimar and the Super Bowl - Trump 2.0 - Weimar republic - rise of Hitler - Charlie Angus - 2025, Feb 7
Comment - This is a very appropriate quote as it is not just a national threat, but a global one - Steve Bannon and others have been criss-crossing the globe priming other far-right movements - It is also the case that most people are underestimating the slippery slope we are sliding down, - just as the people supporting Hitler at the time of Hitler's ascendency were not aware that he was going to cause a genocide - Would these people have gone along with Hitler if they knew in the early days what we now know?
for - Substack article - Weimar and the Super Bowl - Trump 2.0 - Weimar republic - rise of Hitler - Charlie Angus - 2025, Feb 7
for - from - post - LinkedIn - Guido Palazzo - on Elon Musk and Accelerationism - https://hyp.is/laDhyOXtEe-BbR-zV7xadQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/guidopalazzo-_civilizations-did-rise-when-they-built-up-activity-7292962891819855874-fq2T/
summary - This is a good article that explains the rational behind a number of Silicon Valley actors such as Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Sam Altman and others who subscribe to a toxic and dystopian mix of: - Longterminism - Libertarianism - Accelerationism - In order to understand the actions of the tech bros, it is key to understand their modus operandi
As fervent believers in Longterminism, the Silicon Valley elites are not interested in the current multiple crises of our societies. On the contrary, through their social media platforms, Zuckerberg and Musk even instigate further polarization. Climate change, inequality, erosion of democracy – who cares? What counts is the far away future, not the present. Their greatest fear is not the collapse of our climate or the mass extinction of animals – they are haunted by the nightmare of AI taking over control. This would spoil their homo deus party. AI in control doesn’t need humans anymore.
for - biggest worry of silicon valley longterminists - AI takeover, not climate crisis - SOURCE - article - Guido Palazzo
To destabilize the current society and accelerate the fall of liberalism, some Silicon Valley protagonists like Peter Thiel finance extreme rightwing media and actors.
for - quote - To destabilize the current society and accelerate the fall of liberalism, some Silicon Valley protagonists like Peter Thiel finance extreme rightwing media and actors - SOURCE - article - Guido Palazzo
Longterminism has its own research institute in Oxford and is financially supported by Thiel, Bezos, Musk and other relevant libertarians.
for - longterminism - libertarianism - to - Guardian article - ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute - 2024, Apr 28. - Future of Life Institute closes down! - https://hyp.is/R3wU4uYEEe-MwW8DKwDeoQ/www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/28/nick-bostrom-controversial-future-of-humanity-institute-closure-longtermism-affective-altruism
Two technologies are crucial to achieve this wonderful future: rockets to leave this eventually-dying planet and AI merger with the human brain.
for - longterminism - 2 fundamental technologies - rockets and AI
The new narrative of Silicon Valley is called Longterminism
for - silicon valley - latest religion - longterminism
comment - Interesting that in sustainability, shortermism of the market is seen as a handicap to addressing the polycrisis
Technodeterminism, is how Jonathan Taplin recently critically labeled this approach,26 which parallels the fervent belief of early Fascism in the power of technology: Cars, trains, machines of all kind that drive us at an accelerating speed into an entirely new world – one of our own creation. In Silicon Valley, rockets replace the cars
for - silicon valley - technodeterminism - Jonathan Taplin
In Silicon Valley, they believe in Homo Deus, the reinvention of a new species, half human, half machine.
for - silicon valley - homo deus - half human-half machine
Ayn Rand praised selfishness as the central value of a free society.
for - Ayn Rand - selfishness - article - Guido Palazzo
comment - Ayn Rand was myopic because she only focused on one side of the - self / other gestalt - individual / collective gestalt
Life is a war and only the strongest warriors will survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford.
for - quote - Life is a war and only the strongest warriors survive. Compassion with the weak is a luxury, which neither Fascists nor Libertarians can afford. - article - Guido Palazzo
comment - This is a self-fulfilling prophecy that models one aspect of life - the fact that living beings must compete for resources with other living beings to survive - It ignores the other side, the cooperative and altruistic side - It ignores the intertwingledness of self and other - the individual / collective gestalts - It ignores the fundamental altruism of the mother in assuring their own survival in the world - the mOTHER, the Most significant OTHER
The world of Silicon Valley is a world of the strong in which there is no place for the weak. It is ruled by zero-sum meritocracy.
for - silicon valley - zero sum meritocracy
The Führerprinzip is the idea of the absolute leader who demands absolute obedience from followers.
for - definition - Fuhrerprinzip - silicon valley
reality distortion field
for - silicon valley - reality distortion field
Fake it till you make it.
for - Fake it till you make it
Mussolini promised a return to the golden Age of Augustus in which the Roman warriors subdued the world and Italy as the natural heir of the Roman empire would revive that powerful empire.
for - Mussolini's dream
for - Guardian article - ‘Eugenics on steroids’: the toxic and contested legacy of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute - 2024, Apr 28. - longterminism - Future of Life Institute - had no future - from Guido Palazzo - article - From Übermensch to Uber-man - https://hyp.is/LuxHUOYCEe-m1JsgFH7ABQ/guidopalazzo.com/from-ubermensch-to-uber-man/
this is the return of Fascism
for - to - article - Guido Palazzo - https://hyp.is/caPG0uXtEe-4FBPATjP7AA/guidopalazzo.com/from-ubermensch-to-uber-man/
“We believe in accelerationism – the conscious and deliberate propulsion of technological development – to ensure the fulfillment of the Law of Accelerating Returns. To ensure the techno-capital upward spiral continues forever.” Marc Andreessen writes this in his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”. "Democracy and freedom are incompatible", Peter Thiel concurs.
for - silicon valley accelerationism - Marc Andreessen - Techno-optimist manifesto - Elon Musk - accelerationism - LinkedIn post - Elon Musk - accelerationism
for - about page - Guido Palazzo - business ethics
for - planetary boundaries - history - planetary boundaries - visualization - earth system boundaries - history - doughnut economics - history
it's very simple you know the tea party was the president of trump every Financial collapse or every financial crisis you've had I think worldwide has some sort of reaction to it in 2008 and and the financial crisis and collapse of 2008 brought on by the established order
for - adjacency - tea party - Trump - Steve Bannon interview
Despite Koch’s calls for unity, his political contributions largely favored GOP candidates in the 2020 election cycle, with $2.8 million donated to Republicans and just $221,000 for Democratic candidates, the Journal reported.
for - Charles Koch - regrets of fueling partisan politics - hypocrisy
comment - actions, or in this case, lack of action, speaks louder than words
he reflects on what he called the divisiveness of his partisan politics. “Boy, did we screw up!” he writes in the book. “What a mess!”
for - Charles Koch - Koch Brothers - regrets of fueling partisan politics
after funding conservative causes, he is turning his attention to issues like poverty, addiction, gang violence, homelessness and recidivism.
for - Charles Koch - funding
Comment - but no funding for climate change of course, no change of heart there!
for - speech - occupy
this dude shut down the scam police he just shut down the the number one agency that cracks down on scams he just handcuffed them completely they can't do anything if you were going to run a scam where you and all your Robber Baron buddies made an extra 10 billion bucks by betting on a market crash cuz Trump caused a temporary market crash
for - potential Trump scam - intentional market crash from Tariffs - Scott Bessent suspends scam police
how do we know this this all wasn't planned that Trump and all of the Maga robber barons in communication hey I'm going to say I'm going to do tariffs I'm going to announce that I did tariffs they're probably going to retaliate and then at the last minute I'm going back off from it but there's going to be a market crash bet on the market to crash and make billions of dollars right now in the short term real quick over one day's work
for - Trump scam - short the market - make billions in a day
for - film cosmic zoom
for - urban farming - wicking bed tutorial
for - Trump - Hitler - generals
for - Project 2025 - Trump - Hitler - Atlantic article - Atlantic article - How Hitler dismantled democracy in 53 days
“The big joke on democracy,” he observed, “is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction.”
for - Project 2025 - Trump - Hitler - Atlantic article - quote - Joseph Goebbels - quote - The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the means to its own destruction" - Not actually from Joseph Goebbels. He said something similiar though: - We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.
to - misquote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikiquote.org%2Fwiki%2FJoseph_Goebbels&group=world
The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to its own destruction. Appears to actually be written by Hans Schwarz van Berk in a chapter introduction for a 1935 compilation of Der Angriff articles by Goebbels
for - quote - misquote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy
We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.
for - quote - Joseph Goebbels - weakness of democracy - We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. - If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem... - We are coming neither as friends or neutrals. - We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.
for - adjacency - occupy - trump - article - Occupy is not the reason why Trump won
Kara Segal
for - occupy - organizer - occupy wallstreet organizer - Kara Siegel
There was a lot of conversation at the time around a leaderless movement. But I know at least in the activist scene in New York, what we talked about was building leader-full movements, about the idea that we don't want to step away from power, but instead, as people with a vision for the future of America, we want to step into power.
for - occupy - leaderless vs leader-full movement
I remember being in discussions with various Occupy people at various sites, in which I would say, "Well, what's the next political move?" Or, "How do we, or how are you thinking about structuring this?" Or, "What's the strategy?" and there would be silence, there's no strategy.
for - quote - occupy movement - occupy wallstreet - no strategy - Robert Reich
If it had merged in some possible manner with the Occupy movement, and if the Tea Party movement hadn't been co-opted by big money, by the Koch Brothers, by others in the Republican right, maybe we could have seen the beginnings of almost a third party movement in America
for - quote - Robert Reich - tea party - occupy
They were also outraged on the right. And that outrage on the right took the form of the Tea Party movement. What amazed me at the time, Kara, was that the Tea Party movement and the Occupy movement used such similar language. They talked about crony capitalism, corporate welfare. They didn't want a big government and big corporations colluding against everyone else.
for - similiarities - tea party - occupy
One of the biggest lessons of the Occupy movement was that you can't only have a demonstration. Demonstrations are great. Demonstrations are important to bring attention to certain critical issues. But if you lack mobilization and organization and a political strategy, then you're just basically engaging in a performative act. You're indulging in a performance. You aren't really changing the course of history.
for - key insight - occupy movement - occupy wallstreet - key insight - Robert Reich - 10 year anniversary
When we think about why it happened, my assessment is the financial crisis, the Wall Street bailout really catapulted a lot of energy and a lot of outrage because the banks got bailed out, a lot of people -- millions of people -- lost their jobs, their homes, their savings, and not a single CEO of any big Wall Street bank went to jail, and people were outraged.
for - occupy movement - occupy wallstrreet - reason why it happened - 2008 financial bailout
adjacency - occupy wall street - Donald Trump
for - adjacency - occupy wall street - Donald Trump
I didn't really feel comfortable being too tied to an external platform regardless of how warmly I feel for substack it just didn't really sit right with me to have so much of my content sit somewhere else than on my website
for - Indyweb dev - autonomy - substack critique - Youtube
for - Trump economic crash - hedge funds shorting
Elon Musk ‘spiraled’ after being booed at comedy show, locked himself in office: author
for - Elon Musk - mental breakdown
for - whole system change - Andrew Gaines
Joel Pollak
for - Trump enabler - Cape Town born Joel Pollack - Daily Maverick
for - Trump - South African broligarch connection - Daily Maverick
for - Youtube - BBC - animal communication - cats
for - Youtube - umwelt - cat
for - umwelt - dogs - Youtube - dog umwelt
Cognition is just one aspect of being human.
for - comment - post - LinkedIn - Bayo - AI
for - from - search - Google - etymology intention - https://hyp.is/O_UfRN-4Ee-f4h-9EXrI_g/www.google.com/search?q=intention+etymology&oq=intention+etymology&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEIMzkxNmowajmoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - question - intention and stretching out
comment - from Latin intentionem (nominative intentio) "a stretching out, straining, exertion, effort; attention," noun of action from intendere "to turn one's attention," literally "to stretch out" - I'm not sure that - the "stretching towards" of attention and - the "stretching out" of intention - conveys a clear relationship between them - I understand the "stretching towards" of attention but don't get the sense of "stretching out" as it applies to intention - I think of energy and purpose but stretching out doesn't seem aligned to it
question - intention - as stretching out - I don't understand how intention can be described as stretching out. I understand it as having a goal or purpose - Stretching out is perhaps alluding to a FUTURE action - to get hold of something you don't presently have so you are stretching out - Perhaps more of a literal hand movement - stretching out your hand to get something you don't currently have - whereas stretching towards is alluding more to something in the present, although it seems they can both be used interchangeably for reaching for an object not currently in your possession: - the baby stretched his hand towards the apple - the baby stretched out his hands to grasp the apple
for - self-link - search - Google - etymology intention - https://www.google.com/search?q=intention+etymology&oq=intention+etymology&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEIMzkxNmowajmoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - from - Attending to attention and intention - https://hyp.is/y1yngN-2Ee-p7FOv7T1xYg/polgovpro.blog/2023/10/04/attending-to-attention-and-intention/ - to - search - Google - interesting results returned - Etymology of intention by etymonline "purpose, design, aim or object; will, wish, desire, that which is intended," from Old French entencion "intent, purpose, aspiration; will; thought" (12c.) - https://hyp.is/a4BPLN-4Ee-bMXPjdlQfYQ/www.etymonline.com/word/intention
for - Attending to attention and intention - from - search - Google - interesting results returned - word similiarity attention intention - https://hyp.is/efl1Et-2Ee-plyeK0BERqA/www.google.com/seairch?q=word+similiarity+attention+intention&oq=word+similiarity+attention+intention&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEIOTYwNmowajSoAgCwAgE&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 - to - search - Google - etymology intention - comment - Nice diagram showing attention and intention - I learned etymological relationship - attention is stretching towards ( an object) - intention is stretching out - because I did not understand "stretch out", it triggered a search for - "etymology intention"
for - from - Telegram discussion with Gyuri - IndyWiki channel - 2025, Jan 31 - search - Google - word similiarity attention intention - to - search - Google - interesting results returned - word similiarity attention intention - Attending to Attention and Intention Etymonline advises that words like tend, attend, intend, attenuate, obtain, retain, sustain, extend, -
Homonculus
for - sensory homunculus - motor homunculus - distorted hand nerves on body diagram - penfield diagram
for - Bayo writing about writing
for - from - MIT Press Direct - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History - to - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - https://hyp.is/3XW2ct8mEe-Fj79NfLEaZQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNHW4otoJQ
there's all sorts of things we have only the Diest understanding of at present about the nature of people and what it means to be a being and what it means to have a self we don't understand those things very well and they're becoming crucial to understand because we're now creating beings so this is a kind of philosophical perhaps even spiritual crisis as well as a practical one absolutely yes
for - quote - youtube - interview - Geoffrey Hinton - AI - spiritual crisis - AI - Geoffrey Hinton - self - spiritual crisis
quote - AI - spiritual crisis - We only have the dimmest understanding of, at present the nature of people and what it means to have a self - We don't understand those things very well and they're becoming crucial to understand because we're now creating beings - (interviewer: so this is becoming a philosophical, perhaps even spiritual crisis as a practical one) - Absolutely, yes
these people already will have on very high incomes they'll have very high carbon Footprints and what they are often is unable to do is to see the way that they are living their lives as been deeply embedded in the problem
for - carbon inequality - Kevin Anderson
Poincare anticipated the frustration of an important group of would-be computer users when he said, "The question is not, 'What is the answer?' The question is, 'What is the question?'"
for - Poincare - AI question - SOURCE - paper - Man-Computer Symbiosis - J.C.R. Licklider - 1960 - referred by - Gyuri
for - paper - Man-Computer Symbiosis - J.C.R. Licklider - 1960 - referred by - Gyuri
Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness
for - fallacy of misplaced concreteness
for - from - MIT Press Direct - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History - to - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - https://hyp.is/3XW2ct8mEe-Fj79NfLEaZQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwNHW4otoJQ
three simplifying strategies
for - three simplifying strategies
three simplifying strategies - MATHEMATICS / QUANTIFICATION - counting - When you count a series of objects, there is an underlying assumption of a simplification and abstraction of reality that eliminates all the variability that is present in real systems in nature - This is especially true in biology - To count "objects you are making the assumption that the similarities between them are what matters and you can ignore the differences that are usually there - So in applying the most basic ideas of mathematics, counting, we are already making a big assumption that abstracts away a lot of natural variability - statistics - once again, a lot of variability is simply bypassed - - - REDUCTION - studying a part of a living system in isolation of the living system - in vitro instead of - in vivo - We reduce the number of natural variables by restricting to an artificial lab environment - Processes can work well within the non-natural, highly constrained test environment but the results may not match with the same process in the natural environment when all the natural variability is present - ANALOGIES / METAPHORS
haptic realism
for - haptic realism - definition - Mazviita Chirmuuta - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
definition - haptic realism - Mazviita Chirimuuta - While mainstream scientific realism suggests that if a scientific theory is mature and supported by strong empirical evidence, then that scientific representation can be taken as the literal truth of how things exactly are. - In contrast, haptic realism, as the name "haptic" suggests, holds that the observer (human agent) through human touching / sensing of the aspect of nature studied plays an important role in contributing to the scientific representation. - In other words, the observer cannot simply be ignored and scientific truth has a kind of built-in degree of constructivism and relativism that depends on the perspectival frame of the observer - The many processes that occur when scientists are generating their theories creates simplifying models that strip away the complexities of reality but can be characterized by one perspective view - The scientist is situated and has his/her own unique - Lebenswelt (lifeworld), - perspective - instrumentation - narrative - to the observation and theoretical construction of the measured / observed data - But this is only one of many potential constructions - In this sense, haptic realism considers that the "objective" scientific reality is a partnership between - that which is observed - the modality of observing (instrumentation, techniques) - the linguistic words and constructed narratives using those words
there will be multiple ways that you can strip away complexity that give you different perspectives on that one same Target system
for - quote - on haptic realism - there are multiple ways that you can strip away complexity that give you different perspectives on that one same target system - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
there is no fundamental objectivity because the scientist is always bring bringing um its his or her interests uh and perspective and Tool making and strategies and these in in essence mold their questions into the questions that they can answer because they need to be able to mold them and so there is no objective uh window into reality in that in that case no scientific realism
for - quote - there is no fundamental objectivity because the scientist is always bringing his or her own interests, perspectives, toolmaking and strategies and these in essence mold their questions that they can answer - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
that doesn't mean that science transcends if you like the human standpoint and we see things with a God's eye view if that's what we mean by objective then I would say no it's not objective
for - quote - It doesn't mean that science transcends, if you like the human standpoint and we see things with a God's eye view. If that's what we mean by objective then I would say no, it's not objective - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar
M. Chirimuuta
for - from - Chapter 9 of book - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/Ne0vsN8TEe-0gKfJ_-CHFQ/watermark.silverchair.com/c008400_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAA1AwggNMBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggM9MIIDOQIBADCCAzIGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMQiuxj5ADRMKA_9kUAgEQgIIDA4n2hqWRY4iDrmrcDrCx6YjsLiXeoqGBMrezs_kymEj3y1Jqh_UlW5WfGUNhBfTC5IpUGikuqBzjC9_UepW_n-SIy8wOnvMB8W08sihzohH-Dzof0oothB7tfYDAZJe04dVrYtUetmqDpi53kj_LaU6h3UNR9ZZpc8KFqtL_0IGhnMT8wvJiknRHbD-SXDTiVAFAzRGKqckrbrrm4KDfIjCpbBRa1QaRVoTIgo0Kwp4J8Mb9KNA0czcYDBkL4vjLBNZY-a0VdIJlYAzbyHeLOtugVKGmq1Lfu8K1zMNEi6HMthJDxRx9Kmv3Jbgy0hi7_dcwkURYj4VuBDU24DihiwMlXYgkl3uAop9jwd-fvlbExhBUD_FoR4kmq4iegAr62meXal4dvA2BwJIv_zISyqP3ez4LEZZpGp1r3OCq1bK4r-ono7w0h3VOCkBXq2BWUy4lb2Norec7yGcWxYLf3bvMJyxxRVKjcpV4us6IlDg6bLE5a2YCp9uh8vdZC_YjH-bkHUnxIapqN4D1iCvRUhtG9mvlnx4PBPZPUSTKEf9AxvVOp2nST27YGVUbKU8Qq6J6y5hD7vhTqx9-YjinBxOw2FH_hVL1ZgDSpO-glVzORMJRI1WYUz_w7Kfc3eG3OBVB6amY7_FULAqhtICn_N1Xao-hAFAkfIEk0MMQd0XkGIMtsRKUL_5Rhzw_kGnHMnWFCCVdlt1LKGvkDqo_0kxYB1aKEUiykx8nsmZOksso2VCRTXBhBMcsrDmOpBM4zKPpbi0qfRwPEJmQ2JkhNoVFhSJvdmJ8yoAd4ZH6i--LohA_TCmrD-wE6hjCDrmm9VbwYqyLXslzulCS_9IQBG9k_jMZ5doqutYbJs6UrpWHcYqKeT0HKbzPWGp3uMmDTvs-YUyUkmwTxH7GTlaNC5eUJ64sQt7-GhcqbPq30Pe5tLvX2ztPyln1uiuH9GBY_RiXWR2JMmYz46Kue3Iu35mJCKpfNWTO-z41USYMNMMjlB0jgsUGT0BzedInF9UvZ31M9Q - to - pdf of book - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024
for - from - search - Google - fallacy of misplaced concreteness - search results of interest - 2025, Jan 30 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History - to - The Brain Abstracted: Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience - M. Chirimuuta - 2024 - https://hyp.is/oeRL9t8REe-06ZvevM0y8g/direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5741/The-Brain-AbstractedSimplification-in-the-History
for - Youtube - book review - Reviewing "The Brain Abstracted - Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" - M. Chirimuuta - Youtube channel: Philosophy of Psychiatric Diagnoses - 2025 Jan 23
I think the book is fantastic I'm now going to outlined review of a book and then at the end briefly point out some potential implications for psychiatric diagnosis and neurodiversity
for - implications of book "The Brain Abstracted" for neurodiversity - SOURCE - Youtube - book review - Reviewing "The Brain Abstracted - Simplification in the History and Philosophy of Neuroscience" - M. Chirimuuta - Youtube channel: Philosophy of Psychiatric Diagnoses - 2025 Jan 23
for - search - Google - fallacy of misplaced concreteness - https://www.google.com/search?q=fallacy+of+misplaced+concreteness&oq=fallacy+of+misplaced+concreteness&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEINzg3NGowajSoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
search - Google - fallacy of misplaced concreteness - results returned of interest
to - 9 Revisiting the Fallacy of Misplaced Concreteness - Massachusetts Institute of Technology - 04 Mar 2024 — The fallacy of misplaced concrete- ness is the mistake of taking the abstractions of science for concrete real ity, confusing the model with the ...34 pages - https://hyp.is/I9g9qN8REe-CZd895yhK0Q/www.google.com/search?q=fallacy+of+misplaced+concreteness&oq=fallacy+of+misplaced+concreteness&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQLhhA0gEINzg3NGowajSoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
for - Youtube -Right way to eat sugar - No inflammation - health - diet - how to minimize insulin spike when eating sugar - Dr. Anshul Gupta M.D. 2024 Nov
summary - combine with protein or good faats to slow down sugar release - exercise 15 minutes after eating sugar - eat in the morning, not the evening - eat small portions - stevia and monkfruit are the only sugar substitutes
he is the most powerful person in the world himself he is the elite of all Elites so this elitist cabal if there were one he'd be a part of it right and and that's what breaks down their framework If there really were this deep state globalist cabal
for - youtube - Trump's Epstein Problem just got much worse! - polycrisis - misinformation - conspiracy theory - inconsistency with Trump now in power - If Deep State cabal existed and had all this power, why allow Trump to win? - Luke Beasley - 2025, Jan 30
the greatest risk is always the bio like biow weapons
for - AI - progress trap - Youtube - bioweapons is not the only threat. Nano technology and many others can be turned into weapons of mass destruction - RDeepSeek R1 just caught up with OpenAIs o1 - There is no moat@ What does this mean? - David Shapiro - 2025, Jan 29
for - YouTube - Deep seek - techno-feudalism - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 28
for - adjacency - progress trap - mafia - intentional fires - Italy - complexity - CNN - How the Mafia is weaponizing wildfires - 2025,Jan 27
for - Youtube - Kristen Dickson - Faircompanies - Building ecovillage of storm-proof homes made of bone-like biomaterial - 2025, Dec - to - geoship - https://hyp.is/HfHcQNwaEe-LrXvZOCcq-w/www.geoship.is/about
for - from - Youtube - Kristen Dickson - Faircompanies - Building ecovillage of storm-proof homes made of bone-like biomaterial - 2025, Dec - https://hyp.is/7OKzctwZEe--NB_5Jtj24A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELihrjm7ffk
for - book - Burnout from Humans: A little book about AI that is not really about AI - Aiden Cinnamon Tea & Dorothy Ladybugboss - 2024
for - Johari Window
for - visualization - internet routing - IPv4 vs IPv6 - to 2023 - The Opte Project
On the path we were on, the sludge had been thickening even under Democratic administrations. There were fundamental systemic flaws that remained unaddressed. Inequalities have continued to widen. Corruption and bribery have worsened. We were on the way to losing our democracy without even knowing it. But, as a friend put it, authoritarian forces have been building for years, “like the pus in an ugly boil,” she said. The only way we work up enough outrage to lance it is for the boil to get so big and ugly that it disgusts all of us.
for - metaphor - Trump second term - blatant oligarchy - lancing the boil - SOURCE - Youtube - Hope in Spite of Trump - Robert Reich - 2025, Jan 20
for - annotate - David Bohm interview
for - Youtube - Buzzfeed video - Blind until 36 & Seeing myself for the first time - This is that story - Olivia Durant - 2022 - constructed perception of reality - SOURCE - Youtube - Buzzfeed video - Blind until 36 & Seeing myself for the first time - This is that story - Olivia Durant - 2022 // - Summary - This is a video about a woman who was almost 100% blind since birth and had her eyesight restored as an adult - It is an example of a case study that can shed light on how aspects of our sensory reality that we take for granted are constructed from years of conditioning in chiildhood //
planetarization
for - definition - planetarization (of human culture) - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17
there is really a world civilization today, and it’s crisis is a crisis for every culture that lives in it and with it.
for - world civilization - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17
Polish macro-historian Felix Koneczny predated Samuel Huntingon’s famous “Clash of Civilizations”,
for - Clash of civilisations - Felix Koneczny predated Samuel Huntingon - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17
creative minorities
for - definition - creative minorities - Arnold Toynbee, author of The Study of History - groups capable of inspiring action among the larger, less-educated, and less-visionary masses - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17
Think of how unproven axioms are necessary to make a rational mathematics possible. This is what, anthropologically and historically speaking, religion and spirituality originally provided, the minimal unspoken premises of societal
for - comparison - axioms of mathematics - religious axioms for society - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17
for - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17
what we want in our bodies is a mind melt of cells that cells forget about their own little ego and start identifying with a larger Collective of the organ and the way cells do that is through bioelectricity it is what Michael Levan calls a cognitive glue
for - multi-scale competency architecture - groups of individuals coalesce into an individual at a higher level - SOURCE - Youtube - Bioelectric fields: A Paradigm Shift in Biology - Michael Levin - 2025, Jan
for - youtube - CNN - oligarchy - tech bosses sucking up to Trump
system reflexivity
for - definition - system reflexivity (Moore et al., 2018) - the capacity to see the complexity and mobilize the agency in a system, while deeply engaging with diversity across multiple scales - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
individual reflexivity is rarely traced through to a collective influence on the broader transdisciplinary research process
for - adjacency - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
adjacency - between - individual reflexivity is rarely traced to a collective influence - Indyweb provenance - adjacency relationship - Indyweb provenance can allow granular tracing of individual contributions to collective knowledge work - so can assist in the use of reflexivity in transdisciplinary work
Reflexivity has been explored on a collective societal level, for example through Ulrich Beck's work on reflexive modernization wherein the unintended consequences of simple modernity motivate a reflexive turn across society, including to science itself: ‘science itself is deconstructed by means of science’
for - further research - Ulrich Beck's research on unintended consequences of simple modernity - SOURCE - paper - Reflexivity as a transformative capacity for sustainability science: introducing a critical systems approach - Lazurko et al. - 2025, Jan 10
this leads to the undermining of every aspect of the nation-state: the welfare state; the power of the legal system; the national economy; the corporatist systems that connected one with the other; and the parliamentary democracy that governed the whole.
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// - comment - reflexive modernization appears to be a very good description of the world right now in 2025 //
So what is the central meaning of the word ‘reflexive’ in ‘reflexive moderniz- ation’? 4 ‘Reflexive’ does not mean that people today lead a more conscious life. On the contrary. ‘Reflexive’ signifies not an ‘increase of mastery and consciousness, but a heightened awareness that mastery is impossible’ (Latour, 2003).
for - definition - reflexive (in reflexive modernity) - not more conscious but increased awareness that mastery is impossible - SOURCE - paper - The Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme - Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss and Christoph Lau - 2003