food co-op
for - TOCA food co-op
food co-op
for - TOCA food co-op
Tohono Odom Community Action
for - definition - TOCA - Tohono Oldom Community Action group - in 1996, started collecting ancient seed lines from elders who had saved them
You couldn't patent it. You couldn't modify it genetically. You couldn't sell expensive fertilizer alongside it
for - big ag - couldn't control tepary bean - needed no fertilizer - couldn't patent it couldn't modify genetically
The temper had everything big agriculture claimed to want. high yield, drought resistance, natural soil recovery.
for - big ag envied the tepary bean
Agricultural journals labeled it unsuitable for commercial production. Even while research papers praised its climate strength, in simpler terms, it wasn't profitable and profit beat survival every time.
for - big ag - couldn't control tepary bean - so deemed it unsuitable for production
The temper gave 20 to 25% protein, resisted pests naturally, and needed one-third the water.
for - stats - ag - tepary bean - 25% protein - resists pest - use 33% of the water other crops use
Alive and well after four centuries of erasia
for - agriculture - tepary bean - DR Howard Scott - 1974
emporary beans were labor inensive. Their pods matured at different times and had to be picked by hand. If you waited too long, the pods would shatter, spilling the beans onto the ground.
for - agriculture - tepary bean - mechanization issues? - investigate - mechanization issues - tepary beans
Those European crops failed during long droughts while the tery could have kept them alive.
for - progress trap - colonialism - wheat instead of tepary beans
A Jesuit journal from 1694 described the crop as too wild to control. That line says everything. A plant that grew without irrigation, without ownership, without dependence was a threat to the colonial order.
for - threat to colonialism - banned the bean
Temporary beans contain protease inhibitors that inhibit the growth of certain cancer cells
for - health - anti cancer bean
for - health - super food - tepary bean - high protein bean - more than beef - draught resistant crops
In regions where rainfall was just 3 in annually, the temporary bean still produced.
for - stats - agriculture - 3 inches annual rain - bean still produced
tapawi.
for - definition - tapawi
for - South African supplier - tepary bean
A drone is able to detect the moth. Also, to see how it's flying and with it wings, propellers will just, will just crush, actually, the moth
for - pest control - mini drone - propeller crushes moth
150
for - stats - water footprint - cup of coffee - 150 litres of water
open field situation in Spain, then you will, uh, end up at the end of the growing season with four kilograms per square meter. If you do this in a high tech greenhouse in the Netherlands at the moment, you will end up with 80 kilograms
for - comparison - food production - open field vs greenhouse - 4 kg / sq. meter - open field - 80 kg / sq. meter and 25% of open field water.- greenhouse
for - greenhouse - food production - Netherlands - world leaders - Agrosphere integration
for - health - cancer - sugar - fasting - switchover - syntax - adjacency - old - adjacency - health - cancer - sugar - fasting - new - health cancer - sugar - fasting - warburg effect
summary - cancer is addicted to sugar - normal cells can switch to using fat instead of sugar - changing metabolic environment changes the food supply that cancer cells depend on - controlling metabolism is just as important as drugs target cancer - definition - metabolic switching - when cells switch from using glucose to ketones for energy source - oxidative stress destroys cancer cells - when pushed into a fasting state, cancer cells are stressed
for - greening the desert
for - 3D printed earth building - WASP 3D printing
for - greening the desert
a broad fork, which is a wide implement that has spikes in it with long handles, and you push it into the ground and pull it backwards, and it loosens up the soil without uh inverting it or or turning it over
for - agrosphere bedder - idea
for - desert - permaculture - greening desert
for - desert - permaculture - greening desert
for - seawater farming - regenerative seawater agriculture
for - growing crops using seawater
for - youtube - China - desert seafood
highly recommend this book.
for - to - book - radical abundance -
Public-Common Partnerships
for - public-common partnership
transitions
for - transition
from - Emad Mostaque - youtube - AI will end Capitalism - https://hyp.is/2Jr22MgqEfCAWOeGZuM7JQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQThHCB_aec
The Thousand-Day Window
for - definition - 1,000 day window - definition - thousand day window
to - interesting results returned - Intelligent Internet Whitepaper - Emad Mostaque The Intelligent Internet is designed to exchange value, data, and compute with existing blockchains and web services while safeguarding its own consensus and ... - https://hyp.is/5YwE7sgrEfC1HoNVXEmmvw/ii.inc/web/whitepaper
for - youtube - AI will end Capitalism - interview - Emad Mostaque - book - The Last Economy - to - book - The Last Economy - https://hyp.is/JGCVHsgrEfCKpkua_vRoBw/webstatics.ii.inc/The%20Last%20Economy.pdf
What do Saudi Arabia, Japan, and the Cayman Islands all have in common?
for - adjacency -Trump - Cayman Islands - Japan - financial crisis
for - youtube - MediasTouch - US macroeconomics - explanation - Trump - financial crisis - explanation - Bessent panic
summary - Max provides a clear explanation of the dire financial crisis that the Trump administration is causing
for - urban metabolism - open source - urban metabolism - metabolism of cities
for - adjacency - WIkipedia - AI
Always link back to originals to keep curiosity alive.
for - people-centered - always link back to the original - in a people-centered architecture, every important idea is automatically linked back to the individual who originated the idea.
for - Degrees of Urbanization - definition - city
for - definition - city - degree of urbanization
a network operative embedded within the scientific community, academia, intelligence sectors, and elite governance.
for - LinkedIn post - Jeffrey Epstein - network operative
for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post - The 2025 state of the climate report - https://hyp.is/lPJTusSfEfCeLIMW445BRg/www.linkedin.com/posts/drscottkelly_climatechange-sustainability-energy-activity-7391036539549409280-K2Fa/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink
for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post -
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝗼𝘂𝘁,
for - LinkedIn post - 2025 State of the Climate Report - to - The 2025 State of the Climate Report - https://hyp.is/fFyTOMSfEfC2PIPR2ti4gg/academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627
pluralistic ignorance
for - definition - pluralistic ignorance - climate crisis
for - language - linguistic normalization - different phrases with the same meaning - different syntax, similar semantics - adjacency - language - syntax permutation explosion
for - example - innercom
for - 6 degrees of separation - interbrain - missed this one in Fellowship group, but found it anyways! - adjacency - Nick - Interbrain
maximize the asymmetry in agency which is achieved by strengthening one's own while weakening that of the opponent
for - adjacency - war - interbrain - self/other gestalt - dualism
no
for - Indyweb dev - typo - now, not "no"
IndyVers/Web/Net
for - Indyweb dev - recommendation - definition - Indyweb, Indyverse, Indynet - you should really properly define each of these to avoid confusion
The record of what Canada did during World War II is astounding. And that's what we need to confront the climate crisis
for - comparison - climate crisis - need war time mobilization - like WWIi Canadian mobilization
for - YouTube - interview - David Suzuki - climate crisis
when that base looks for solutions, they can't find a bunch of glib corporatists in fancy suits with flashy smiles. They have to see authentic hardcrable defenders of the working class and hear ideas that speak to them, not at them.
for - MAGA base - when the old economy dies, they will be looking for defenders of the working class - adjacency - corporation to cooperation - MAGA base
civilian labor corps
for - definition - civilian labor corp - future of work - there will have to be new labor pools in the economy that free market has ignored to date - caretakers for the elderly - climate adaptation - affordable housing
come January this is all coming tumbling down
for - prediction - US economy - after January - quantitative easing
Giovani Ari who observed that mature capitalist economies move from manufacturing to services to financialization before decline.
- economics - mature economies - manufacturing to service to finance then decline
- US economy - in decline
Even before this Trump administration, the top 10% of the country is responsible for 50%
for - stats - elites - top 10% - responsible for 50% of consumer spending
the prime age rate is still very high. It's around 83%. That's the one that the so-called market follows. It's built into every hedge fund, every money market, every asset manager analysis. It's also the one that economists and policy makers care about
for - definition - prime age rate - an important rate to follow for economics
twothirds of US workers now report living paycheck to paycheck
for -stats - US economy - 66% live paycheck to paycheck
More than a quarter of the labor force now does gig jobs, says the workers lab at Johns Hopkins.
for - stats - US economy - 25% is gig economy
for - Trump - Venuzuela invasion - President of Colombia response
hat's who captures the bureaucracy. And that is why the system is sclerotic. That is why the system is slow and broken and unanswerable to the people and not even thinking about the people.
for - adjacency - Nick Fuentes - argument against Trump - anti - elite grievances - like socialist-leaning liberals - Fuentes argument against Trump have the same talking points as a liberal argument. - This shows that the same pain points of inequity are at the root of both the left and the right - the left are slow to recognize the same grievances are behind MAGA, and so have been ineffective in winning these voters back
for - COP 30 - Gavin Newsom
highlights - Gavin Newsom talks about importance of climate communications - mayor on the panel agrees
I don't usually use these terms. It is evil. It's an evil world
for - indictment of a world run by evil
I think it runs the world right now or it's on the brink of running the world because I think you see these kinds of characters elsewhere. This is not a simply an American phenomena.
for - indictment of a world run by evil
for - youtube - Michael Woolf interview - Epstein scandal
for - ecology - red crabs of Christmas island - progress trap - invasive species - biocontrol - ecological engineering - wasps - ants
for - health - David Sinclair - adjacency - belly fat - seed oils - chronic cellular inflammation - placebo - nocebo - thought triggered chronic cellular inflammation - adjacency - self image - inflammation - adjacency - life purpose - inflammation
summary - Learned a lot from this episode! - I've been reading that seed oils are not good for your health but David Sinclair's evidence-based arguments have really made a big impact on me. - I've got to eliminate seed oils from my diet. Avocado, Olive Oil and Coconut oil only from now on - The explanation of persistent belly fat being caused by the chronic cellular inflammation due to seed oils is eye opening - They are ubiqitious and still seen by the mainstream as healthy
Husserl's Epoche
for - Husserl - Epoche
for - BEing journey - Husserl - Epoche - Science
for - adjacency - Deep Humanity - mortality salience - immortality project - attachment to God
I'm trying to find ways to like actually Express and and be it like talk from our interbeing not just about it
for - quotation - language - talk from interbeing, not about it
this is what's gotten us into into well let's just call it the metac crisis
for - adjacency - language of separation - root of metacrisis
it's like it's like you know my thumb has agency and my pinky has agency but if we're if we're operating from a world in which it seems like you know the thumbs over here and the pinkies over here you know and we don't understand that actually they're all connected
for - metaphor - pinky and thumb - connectedness
we needed uh a different like a different underlying structure for language itself to be able to speak from the the Assumption of of our connectedness
for - key insight - language - need new language structure - to speak from connectedness - instead of separateness
what if we come from the assumption that that we're not separate how do we speak from not just about but how do we speak from that kind of of assumption
for - language - nondual - as the reference system
there's a lot of people talk talking about you know Oneness and interconnectedness um however the underlying cognitive structure and therefore um linguistic structure that we use is based in separation
for - language - speaking of non-duality - is itself dualistic
we can use both
for - language - new - integrate both mythic and western traditions - Lisa proposes a new language synthesis that adds polyvalent richness to our current English language
when you try to go for disambiguation like in scientific language that's when that richness gets lost
for - insight - language - disambiguation of scientific language - loses richness
for - youtube - interview - Layman Pascal - interviews - Lisa Maroski - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - BEing journey - language
Summary - Layman Pascal interviews Lisa Maroski, author of the book Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language in a wide-ranging conversation on contemporary language and how it could be transformed and transformative
the ridiculous overflow that comes from excessively simplified terminology might sometimes be human beings grasping for a a return to Mythic languaging
for - language - overcompressed - return to mythic language
there's a potential for overly simple terms and symbols to feel so packed with meaning that it seems like that's a solution to the meeting crisis
for - language - compression - solution to meaning crisis?
the oversimplification of contemporary language
for - language - twitter - oversimplification
Twitter you give you give people a 280 character limit and and um you know suddenly things people can't think in entire paragraphs anymore
for - language - twitter - can't think in paragraphs anymore
going back to Sanskrit and other indigenous languages understanding that sound creates form
for - language - ancient - sound creates form - question - language creates form - what is she exactly saying?
we all come to our expressions from our own perspective our own uh Origins our own traumas our own you know Fillin the blank um when we share them with others we have to make ourselves understood
for - key insight - language - sharing perspectival knowledge
we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time
for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall
vocal learning circuit
for - language - learning for the first time - vocal learning circuit - like birds
language attrition
for - from - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://hyp.is/Ywp_fr0cEfCqhMeAP0vCVw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language?&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1
Icono: a universal language that shows what it says
for - iconography - a language of icons - icono - a language of icons
for - search prompt 2 - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - https://www.google.com/search?q=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet%3F&sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&biw=1920&bih=911&sxsrf=AE3TifNnrlFbCZIFEvi7kVbRcf_q1qVnNw%3A1762660496627&ei=kBAQafKGJry_hbIP753R4QE&ved=0ahUKEwjyjouGluSQAxW8X0EAHe9ONBwQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet%3F&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAid2NhbiBhbiBhZHVsdCB3aG8gaGFzIGxlYXJuZWQgbGFuZ3VhZ2UgZXhwZXJpZW5jZSBwcmUtbGluZ3Vpc3RpYyByZWFsaXR5IGxpa2UgYW4gaW5mYW50IHdobyBoYXNuJ3QgbGVhcm5lZCBsYW5ndWFnZSB5ZXQ_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-K1A7IHCTItOC41Mi4xMbgHgcUBwgcHMzUuNDcuMsgHcQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp - from - search prompt 1 - can we unlearn language? - https://hyp.is/Ywp_fr0cEfCqhMeAP0vCVw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language?&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1 - to - search prompt 2 (AI) - can an adult who has learned language re-experience pre-linguistic phenomena like an infant with no language training? - https://hyp.is/m0c7ZL0jEfC8EH_WK3prmA/www.google.com/search?q=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+re-experience+pre-linguistic+phenomena+like+an+infant+with+no+language+training?&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRiPAjIHCAIQIRiPAtIBCTQzNzg4ajBqN6gCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&udm=50&ved=2ahUKEwjfrLqDm-SQAxWDZEEAHcxqJgkQ0NsOegQIAxAB&aep=10&ntc=1&mstk=AUtExfAG148GJu71_mSaBylQit3n4ElPnveGZNA48Lew3Cb_ksFUHUNmWfpC0RPR_YUGIdx34kaOmxS2Q-TjbflWDCi_AIdYJwXVWHn-PA6PZM5edEC6hmXJ8IVcMBAdBdsEGfwVMpoV_3y0aeW0rSNjOVKjxopBqXs3P1wI9-H6NXpFXGRfJ_QIY1qWOMeZy4apWuAzAUVusGq7ao0TctjiYF3gyxqZzhsG5ZtmTsXLxKjo0qoPwqb4D-0K-uW-xjkyJj0Bi45UPFKl-Iyabi3lHKg4udEo-3N4doJozVNoXSrymPSQbr2tdWcxw93FzdAhMU9QZPnl89Ty1w&csuir=1&mtid=WBYQaYfuHYKphbIPzYmKiAs
for - from - search prompt 2 - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - https://hyp.is/mCyiOr0iEfCIKdv78XDi9w/www.google.com/search?q=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet?&sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&biw=1920&bih=911&sxsrf=AE3TifNnrlFbCZIFEvi7kVbRcf_q1qVnNw:1762660496627&ei=kBAQafKGJry_hbIP753R4QE&ved=0ahUKEwjyjouGluSQAxW8X0EAHe9ONBwQ4dUDCBA&uact=5&oq=can+an+adult+who+has+learned+language+experience+pre-linguistic+reality+like+an+infant+who+hasn%27t+learned+language+yet?&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAid2NhbiBhbiBhZHVsdCB3aG8gaGFzIGxlYXJuZWQgbGFuZ3VhZ2UgZXhwZXJpZW5jZSBwcmUtbGluZ3Vpc3RpYyByZWFsaXR5IGxpa2UgYW4gaW5mYW50IHdobyBoYXNuJ3QgbGVhcm5lZCBsYW5ndWFnZSB5ZXQ_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-K1A7IHCTItOC41Mi4xMbgHgcUBwgcHMzUuNDcuMsgHcQ&sclient=gws-wiz-serp
for - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language%3F&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1 search results returned - interesting - to - article - Can You Unlearn A Language? - IFLScience It's definitely possible to lose fluency in your native language, but research suggests you're unlikely to forget it altogether. - https://hyp.is/MdiWar0dEfC4ajvO0fJCkA/www.iflscience.com/can-you-unlearn-a-language-70874 - from - Linkedin post - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/pIMO8rzIEfCPtcvbQ8nTxg/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7392196128005537792/
new search prompt - This prompt did not give me the results I was looking for - Need to refine the prompt - Can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? - to - new search prompt - can an adult who has learned language experience pre-linguistic reality like an infant who hasn't learned language yet? -
for - language - unlearn - language attrition - language - unlearn - new prompt
summary - language unlearn - new prompt - I didn't really find what I was looking for in following my Google search for "Can we unlearn language?" - Almost all the results returned are about how an unintended consequence of learning a second language is forgetting our first one, a process called "language attrition" - However, I'm more interested in what it would be like to see reality WITHOUT a language. - Since I'm asking the question as an adult who has already learned a language or two, I posed the question "Can we unlearn language?" - However, I'm not interested in it from the perspective of a second language user perse, I'm interested in whether it is possible to re-experience the infant's experience of NOT HAVING ANY LANGUAGE TRAINING AT ALL. - I have to search with this prompt instead
What is language attrition?
for - language - unlearn - language attrition
for - to - search - Google - Can we unlearn language? - https://hyp.is/Ywp_fr0cEfCqhMeAP0vCVw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=869baca48da28adf&sxsrf=AE3TifMGTNfpTekWWBdYUA96_PTLS9T00A:1762658867809&q=can+we+unlearn+language?&source=lnms&fbs=AIIjpHxU7SXXniUZfeShr2fp4giZ1Y6MJ25_tmWITc7uy4KIegmO5mMVANqcM7XWkBOa06dn2D9OWgTLQfUrJnETgD74qUQptjqPDfDBCgB_1tdfH756Z_Nlqlxc3Q5-U62E4zbEgz3Bv4TeLBDlGAR4oTnCgPSGyUcrDpa-WGo5oBqtSD7gSHPGUp_5zEroXiCGNNDET4dcNOyctuaGGv2d44kI9rmR9w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4_LP9j-SQAxVYXUEAHVT8FfMQ0pQJegQIDhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1
Your brain is incredible at pattern recognitionBut this superpower has a dark side:Once you see a pattern, it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it.You become trapped in your own mental models.
for - adjacency - learning - unlearning - ritual - language - BEing journey - question - Could we apply ritual to unlearn language? - quote - Your brain is incredible at pattern recognition. But this superpower has a dark side: - Once you see a pattern, it becomes incredibly hard to "unsee" it. - You become trapped in your own mental models - John Vervaeke
adjacency - learning - unlearning - ritual - language - BEing journey - Could we apply ritual to break the pattern of language? This could be an interesting BEing journey!
for - exposed - billionaires - funding MAGA - Rockbridge Network
for - BEing journey - Octopus communication - music
for - Progress trap - AI - low trust society
for - BEing journey - medical - portable brain and body scan
10 tests that are grounded in decades of psychology and neuroscience research
for - neuroscience - 10 tests - LinkedIn post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - neuroscience - to - Lab of Misfits - 10 tests - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto
for - Lab of Misfits - neuroscience - Beau Lotto - from - Linkedin post - Beau Lotto - 10 tests - https://hyp.is/7YqrerxxEfCuEIeI8IcHTg/www.linkedin.com/posts/beau-lotto_who-am-i-humans-have-probably-been-asking-activity-7232008275641163779--zxp/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
for - Beautiful Mind Learning Labs - Question - Is it the same as Hummingbird Learning Labs? - adjacency - education - neuroscience - Beau Lotto
for - Hummingbird Learning Lab - Curriculum
Hummingbird Learning Lab
for - Hummingbird Learning Lab - adjacency - education - neuroscience - Beau Lotto - LinkedIn post - to - Hummingbird Learning Lab - https://hyp.is/_TIP_LxvEfCHr5-_sncjrw/www.hummingbirdlearninglab.com/
for - adjacency - education - neuroscience-based - Beau Lotto - from - LinkedIn - post - Beau Lotto - Hummingbird Learning Lab - https://hyp.is/flcHpLxwEfCNAPNxZT2PJg/www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7330906080341831680/
for - BEing journey - awe - Beau Lotto
for - BEing journey - linguistic - language - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language
non-conscious cognition
for - definition - non-conscious cognition - adjacency - non-conscious cognition - Michael Levin - goal seeking activity - adjacency - Michael Levin - N. Katherine Hayles
planetary cognitive ecology.
for - definition - planetary cognitive ecology
Hayles is more interested in cognitive hybridisation – a cognition that is distributed through “dynamic cognitive flows between human, animal and machine
for - definition - cognitive hybridisation - a cognition that is distributed through dynamic cognitive flows between human, animal and machine - - N. Katherine Hayles
How We Became Posthuman (1999)
for - book - How we became posthuman
technogenesis
for - definition - technogenesis - the continuous reciprocal causality between human bodies and technics - N. Katherine Hayles - adjacency - technology - language - human evolution - Deep Humanity - Technology does have a huge impact on human evolution - As the book The Inheritors demonstrates, language is perhaps the most far-reaching human technology of all and it affects our evolution in profound ways
In the case of digital technologies, the acceleration and intensification of information flows affects faculties such as attention, even in their non-conscious processes
for - adjacency - digital technologies - language - cognition - technology does play an important role in our evolution
for - from - LinkedIn post - Was Language Humanity's First AI? Golding's Forgotten Masterpiece - https://hyp.is/KLNvfrm3EfCqGUsWw6uuNg/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze
any description made by an observer is part of that which is being described
for - quote - language - inherent circularity this harmonious whole is also incomprehensible, -since any description made by an observer - is part of that which is being described.
Katherine Hayles' concept of "distributed cognition"
for - definition - distributed cognition - to - article - N. Katherine Hayles: “We need a more comprehensive view of cognition” - https://hyp.is/Jc98ArsHEfClKP-8MkzNoA/lab.cccb.org/en/katherine-hayles-we-need-a-more-comprehensive-view-of-cognition/ -
Ben Okri notes in his brilliant analysis:
for - to - article - newspaper - book - The Inheritors - https://hyp.is/1GD8ErrSEfCZHg-bToHIBQ/www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/an-ancient-imagination-ben-okri-on-the-inheritors-by-william-golding-1.4717259
began with language itself.
for - adjacency - language - is the first AI
the exact transition from embodied to symbolic consciousness.
for - transition - from embodied to symbolic consciousness
when Homo sapiens develop symbolic languag
for - quote - symbolic language - when Homo sapiens develop symbolic language, - they create something unprecedented: - a cognitive technology that augments and fundamentally alters how consciousness itself operates
The Neanderthals share collective consciousness through direct "picture-sharing,"
for - ❓- what does he mean by "picture sharing"?
pre-linguistic thought
for - adjacency - pre-linguistic thought - book - novel
imagines the fateful encounter between the last Neanderthals and early Homo sapiens, told entirely from the Neanderthal perspective.
for - book - The Inheritor - storyline - Neanderthal experience of the first early Homo Sapiens and of language
Lord of the Flies
for - book - Lord of the Flies - The Inheritors - William Golding
humanity's original cognitive transformation when symbolic language first rewired consciousness itself.
for - adjacency - Deep Humanity - language - The Inheritor
for - from - LinkedIn article - Has language trapped humanity? - https://hyp.is/54ZYgrmmEfC5Oft3Op2Hiw/www.linkedin.com/pulse/has-language-trapped-humanity-willy-de-backer-vvwoe/
for - article - newspaper- book - The Inheritors - William Golding - from - LinkedIn article - Was Language Humanity's First AI? Golding's Forgotten Masterpiece - https://hyp.is/HKRN2rrTEfCvLMto-7f5EQ/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze/
summary - good review of William Golding's book "The Inheritors"
Golding intuits the spirituality of Neanderthals
for - Neanderthal sympathy
‘The people’ are ill-equipped for survival
for - comparison - neanderthal vs homo sapien - ‘The people’ (neanderthals) are ill-equipped for survival, not having - the complexity of thought required to manipulate the material world. - They are doomed by - their lack of innovation, - their inability to create. -‘The new people’ (homo sapiens) - are creative, - they are makers and - have will and guile.
Whatever we inherit from the fortunateWe have taken from the defeated
for - quote - Whatever we inherit from the fortunate, we have taken from the defeated - T.S. Eliot - question - What does it mean?
The author is on the side of the Neanderthals. They are the underdog, the gentle people, destroyed by Homo sapiens.
for - comparison - neanderthal vs homo sapien - the bad guys won! unfortunately!
atavism
for - definition - atavism - Atavism is the reappearance of an ancestral trait in an individual after it has been absent for several generations. - Nice word!
o fashion a story around this encounter so that it radiates forward to our times is the true achievement of this work.
for - book - The Inheritors - its achievement
That question mark, standing for a question that the mind asks without words and cannot answer, is a stroke of genius.
for - quote - Lok's ear spoke to Lok. "?" - ah, now I get it! I had to read the context before I could understand what the significance of "?" is!
the old man tells them the stories of a paradisiacal time
for - question - novel - The Inheritors - how does the old man tell a story when there is no language yet?
They are not makers. They are.
for quote - human BEing vs human DOing - They are not makers. They are.- The Inheritors
Their sense of smell is so keen that it amounts to an elevated form of reading: ‘He performed miracles of perception in the cavern of his nose.’
for - adjacency - pre-lingustic - smell - sight - Gedanken - novel - The Inheritors
It is a tragic tale about the death of an older species. But it is also an incipient tale about those who survive them, those who inherit the earth.
for - mortality salience - of a species! - adjacency - novel - The Inheritors - mortality salience - birth of language - BEing journey - Gosh, a movie should be made of this!
We carry in our worlds that flourish Our worlds that have failed.
for - quote - We carry in our worlds that flourish Our worlds that have failed - Christopher Okigbo - Is modernity flourishing, on the back of a brutalized colonized world of the past? - Will post modernity flourish, on the back of a modernity that destroyed the biosphere?
The novel is the seeing of a new world, a transitional moment in the life of the earth.
for - Gedanken - novel - The Inheritors - imagine language coming into existence! - This would indeed be a most profound moment in our species history! - question - what would this mean from a spiritual enlightenment perspective?
Strange things happen to your sense of reality as you read.
for - BEing journey - novel - The Inheritors - novel - The Inheritors - strange things happen to your sense of reality as you read
There is a special quality to the writing.
for - novel - The Inheritor - special quality to the writing
The novel itself is like a strange dream. To read it is to feel as if a dimension of consciousness were missing
for - adjacency - BEing journey - The Inheritors - like a strange dream
A profound crisis provokes a deep examination. The urge to reach that far back in history is itself a sign of how deep the crisis was that provoked it.
for - quote - profound crisis provokes deep examination - A profound crisis provokes a deep examination. - The urge to reach that far back in history - is itself a sign of how deep the crisis was that provoked it. - Ben Okri
it is important to ask where we have come from. But to understand how we got here, it is important to understand the thinking that has led us here, the deep roots of our nature.
for - quote - deep roots of human nature
Eighty percent of the world’s problems involve old men who are afraid of death and insignificance - and who won’t let go
for - quote - mortality salience - Barack Obama - unpack - quote - mortality salience
for - article - LinkedIn - Has Language trapped humanity? - pre linguistic reality
Summary - very interesting exploration of our pre linguistic life - We modern humans spend most of our lives in the symbolosphere. - It is so ubiquitous that we don't even know it's relative and not absolute, like fish that don't know there's such a thing as water - until they are pulled out of it - Feral children are the ones who have been pulled out of the ocean of language, but they suffer a fate that none of us, from our conditioned language perspective would want to suffer - So how do we, who are deeply conditioned into language look at our situation of being so deeply conditioned? Is there life after (and before) language?
Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-
for - research further - Approximately 3,000 years ago, humans did not possess self-consciousness as we understand it today. - They operated through a divided mind: <br /> - one part spoke, experienced as divine command, and - another obeyed. Language did not describe consciousness. It created it.
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
for - book - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)
William Golding’s The Inheritors
for - book - The Inheritors - William Golding - to - LinkedIn article - The Inheritors - https://hyp.is/PS13cLmnEfCpw39_5R3t-A/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze/
Language trapped us tens of thousands of years ago, fundamentally altering our minds.
for - language - origins - adjacency - language - AI
for - definition - city - definition degree of urbanization - UN Statistical Commission report 2020 - from - there are 10,000 cities on planet Earth - https://hyp.is/91Rx7LgAEfCT6ytaqg9C9Q/nextcity.org/urbanist-news/there-are-10000-cities-on-planet-earth-half-didnt-exist-40-years-ago
summary - This 2020 report was commissioned by the UN Statisticial Commission to develop a robust, standardized definition of cities, towns and rural communities (villages) to aid in international comparison of human settlements
Grid cell classification
for - definition - degree of urbanization - definition - grid cell classification - definition - urban centre - definition - dense urban cluster - definition - semi-dense urban cluster - definition suburban or peri-urban cells - definition - rural cluster - definition - low density rural grid cells - definition - very low density rural grid cells
Schematic overview of the degree of urbanisation classification
for - degree of urbanization - diagram
The degree of urbanisationclassification defines cities, towns and semi-dense areas, and rural areas.
for - definition - degree of urbanization - a UN Statistical Commission classification that standardizes the definition of city, town and semi-dense areas, and rural areas - definition - city - definition - town - definition - rural area
for - definition - city - towns and cities - to - UN Statistical Commission Report - https://hyp.is/Y4mBcrgGEfCKeB-o1NPMjA/unstats.un.org/UNSDWebsite/statcom/session_52/documents/BG-4a-DEGURBA_Manual-E.pdf
summary - A new definition of cities settles an outstanding ambiguity in urban planning - what is the definition of a city? - Defined as a location with minimum population of 50,000 and population density of 1,500 people / square kilometers, it turns out there are 10,000 cities on the planet, and 48% of humanity lives in cities. - 25% of humanity lives in towns, which are future cities
roughly 20 percent of cities in the world are shrinking
for - stats - cities - 20% of cities are shrinking
In Egypt, places listed as rural agricultural settlements on official maps are actually cities as large as 275,000, but making the official change puts the government on the hook for everything from schools to courthouses.
for - example - practical reasons for not naming a settlement a city - Egypt
new definition, which defines a city as a contiguous geographic area with at least 50,000 inhabitants at an average population density of 1,500 people per square kilometer
for - definition - city - a geographic area with - at least 50,000 inhabitants - an average population density of 1,500 people/square kilometer - stats - 25% of people live in towns - 48 % of people live in cities - 25% of people live in villages - towns and cities
towns, moreover, are the cities of the future
for - towns and cities - towns are the cities of the future
Gregory Scruggs about his reporting on a count that puts the world’s total number of cities at 10,000
for - definition - city - stats - cities - 10,000 in the world
Stop trying to boil the ocean. Focus where impact concentrates.
for - quote - stop trying to boil the ocean - COVID where impacts concentrate
The 80/20 Rule Is the Missing Lever
for - adjacency - carbon emissions - 80/20 rule - Psreto
for - climate crisis - YouTube - coral reef planetary boundary exceeded
summary - breached first planetary boundary - coral reefs - referred to a book about climate psychology worth checking out - also referred to a game called planet crafter and a biodiversity group called planet wild
Planet Wild is a community of nearly 15,000 people who collectively every month fund a new carefully selected project to protect
for - planetary boundary - biodiversity loss - planet wild
taking time at the moment to process and stay sane has meant playing a lot of a game called Planet Crafter
for - climate crisis - game - planet crafter - why not craft a game for collective action?
that's an unhelpful binary
for - climate crisis - unhelpful binary - tell the right story
George Marshall wrote a book called Don't Even Think About It talks about why our brains are uniquely poorly wired to deal with climate change because of various psychological biases.
for - hyperobject - climate change - book - Don't even think about it - George Marshall - why our brains are uniquely wired to ignore climate crisis
for - youtube - MSNBC - book - 1929 - Great Depression - book - 1929
summary - A panel discussion about the parallels between the Great Depression of 1929 and the AI bubble today
for - to - youtube - Tucker Carlson - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretense - fighting drug problem - https://hyp.is/s-qthLcIEfCyey-n6NKEKw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pc4xNqa9NM
for - youtube - Tucker Carlson - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretense - fighting drug problem - from - youtube - The Young Turks - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretence - fighting drug problem -
there are a lot of people making money off of people being sick and that's what we have to recognize.
for - adjacency - crony capitalism - drug addiction
an intimate relationship with drugs, Tucker, it was almost impossible for me to remove myself.
for - drug addiction - intimate relationship with drugs
out of the hundreds of people that I served in that industry, I only know two that got clean and sober
for - drug addiction - almost impossible to do it alone
for Trump corruption - inauguration bribes
hile today, films that focus on activism are common, back then, such movies were outliers and not typically successful at the box office.
for - Social change media - Participant Media - question - Did the success of Participant Media lead to its own obsolescence?
for - SRG Corporation2CO-OPeration program - worker-owned cooperatives - Apis & Heritage - inequality reduction - via worker-owned cooperatives
summary - Apis & Heritage is a unique US private equity firm that has established an investment fund called "The Legacy Fund" which is used to facilitate Employee-Led BuyOut (ELBO). Studies show the enormous potential for reducing inequality and it is an issue that receives rare bipartisan political support in the US. The "Silver Tsunami" describes 3 million small business owners likely to retire in 2035. Together, their businesses account for $10 trillion in assets. Apis & Heritage helps faciliate a smooth transition for owners to sell to their employees, increasing their net worth by as much as 10x by the time they retire.
This is perhaps the most viable and vital public policy tool we have to help lift regular working Americans up and to restore the American Dream
.> for - quote - worker-owned cooperatives - Michael Brownrigg
We need to be sure employee ownership becomes a movement
for - Apis & Heritage - champions of worker-owned cooperative movement
employee ownership; it’s a rare bipartisan issue
for - worker-owned cooperatives - rare bipartisan support
Aspen Institute,
for - stats - 2022 - US worker-owned cooperative potential - about 140,000 firms - employing around 33 million workers - would have been suitable candidates for ESOP employee buyouts, - nearly 1.1 million firms - employing over 25 million workers - [are] suitable candidates for cooperative employee buyouts. - Collectively, these firms accounted for roughly $25 trillion in total revenues. - Aspen Institute
The team believes there is ample opportunity for more players to join the ecosystem
for - worker-owned cooperative - opportunities
sees his time at work as an investment in his future—not just a paycheck
for - worker-owned cooperative - attitude shift - from paycheck - to investment in future
becoming owners has shifted employees’ mindsets toward greater accountability for their own success.
for - worker-owned cooperatives - attitude shift - more responsibility
process
for - Apis & Heritage Legacy Fund employee buyout process - Apis & Heritage values the enterprise and offers seller fair price for their life work - Once purchased, they transfer the company's assets to a trust - Using private debt capital, they finance a portion of that transaction. - The trust administers the ESOP - The seller has full liquidity upfront and can retire immediately, The Legacy Fund saves seller from having to manage the complex process of selling to employees. - ESOP is a retirement account for the new employee-owhers. - After 5 years, each employee become vested, with new share allocations made each year.based on wages as a percentage of total payroll - If value of business grows, so do employee share value. - When employee-owner is ready to retire, they sell back the shares based on current valuation - new employee-owners receive training from Democracy at Work Institute (DAWI) - The trust repays debt from initial transaction on behalf of the business to Apis & Heritage and its investors who make an attractive return -
research by the Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing
for - stats - comparison - savings - worker-owned cooperative employee vs non - Rutgers - average median-earnings household - 17K - worker-owned cooperative - 165K
Legacy Fund
for - definition - Legacy Fund - Apis & Heritage fund that converts small businesses to worker-owned cooperatives - identify well run businesses that can deliver financial returns via interest and principal repayment. - target businesses with low- and middle-income hourly workers in industries: - construction, - manufacturing, - in-home care - uplifting everyday, hardworking Americans. - Deliver - competitive, - risk-adjusted returns - with rates in the low- to mid-teens - that are comparable to traditional investments for this asset class.
silver tsunami
for - definition - sliver tsunami
There are 3 million small businesses
for - stats - small businesses - USA - 3 million - 10 trillion in assets - 11 million baby boomers retiring by 2035 - US - worker-owned cooperatives - potential
employee-led buyout (ELBO)
for - definition - Employee Led Buyout (ELBO)
When we talk about radical change, it's more than window dressing in the status quo. It means
for - MTN - UNFR - whole system change - US
for - example - youtube - racial profiling - cop tries to frame judge - 30 million lawsuit - racial profiling - judge
for - US Republican governance failure - blue states provide welfare to red states - youtube - Dave Pakman - blue states vs red states - The US survives Trump's mismanagement because the US is a welfare state in which the blue states, with far better social policies is forced to bail out the tax-friendly red states - The red states keep choosing the same dysfunctional policies, and keep having to get bailed out by the blue states - In this sense, the federal government is being exploited to keep red states doing the same thing