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  1. Jul 2025
    1. The Proposal: Possible upstreaming into GNOME The Problem: Why we need this in GNOME Installation: For those wanting to install this on their distribution The Solution: Shared Features: Behaviors shared between stacking and auto-tiling modes Floating Mode: Behaviors specific to the floating mode Tiling Mode: Behaviors specific to the auto-tiling mode Developers: Guide for getting started with development
    1. The Point of a College Education by [[C-SPAN]]

      Orson Welles quote about so many of him and so few of you at a lecture to 3-4 people in a snow storm.

      statistics about the drops in humanities (~42:00)

      consumerist spirit in higher education (45:00)

      student evaluations (47:00)

      education is a buyer's market now instead of a seller's as it had been in past generations

      grade inflation

      consumerism with respect to feminism and women's studies, gay and lesbian studies, multiculturalism in higher education

      radical education as "going to the root"

      in short, "let us entertain you" as consumerist education

      "The job o education is never finished."

      The hidden point of a University of Chicago education: Be an artist, be a scientist, be a statesman, be a teacher of artists, scientists, or statesmen.

    1. Philip, Rey (Editor)1 Show affiliations 1. Theory of Ontological Consciousness Project Description This interdisciplinary essay explores a forgotten hypothesis at the intersection of physics, philosophy, and fiction: that consciousness is not a byproduct of matter, but its ontological foundation. Tracing this idea from Heraclitus and Plato to Schrödinger and Penrose, the article integrates metaphysical traditions with quantum models and critiques of materialist reductionism. It introduces the Theory of Ontological Consciousness (TOC) — a literary-philosophical framework proposing ψ̂–Φ interactions as the generative basis of spacetime and form. The essay also reinterprets empirical anomalies, such as those documented by the Global Consciousness Project, as potential signatures of an underlying field of universal consciousness.  For more on the Theory of Ontological Consciousness, visit www.toc-reality.org and follow new updates via Medium    -   https://medium.com/@philiprey.org

      Philip, Rey (Editor)1 Description This interdisciplinary essay explores a forgotten hypothesis at the intersection of physics, philosophy, and fiction: that consciousness is not a byproduct of matter, but its ontological foundation. Tracing this idea from Heraclitus and Plato to Schrödinger and Penrose, the article integrates metaphysical traditions with quantum models and critiques of materialist reductionism. It introduces the Theory of Ontological Consciousness (TOC) — a literary-philosophical framework proposing ψ̂–Φ interactions as the generative basis of spacetime and form. The essay also reinterprets empirical anomalies, such as those documented by the Global Consciousness Project, as potential signatures of an underlying field of universal consciousness. For more on the Theory of Ontological Consciousness, visit www.toc-reality.org and follow new updates via Medium - https://medium.com/@philiprey.org

  2. Jun 2025
    1. learning is is a is a free gift from uh the mathematics of networks

      for - myth - learning is a property of nervous systems - Michael Levin - salience - high - learning is a property of molecular networks - adjacency - learning - myth - molecular networks - it is a primitive property of molecular networks<br /> - patterns of learning such as habituation, pavlovian response, etc are observable in molecular network - This is a pretty profound claim - learning isn't even a property of the biotic world!

    2. it has a different representation of what to do if it gets injured in the future. It's a latent memory. It doesn't do anything until it gets injured. It just sits there and you would have no idea that it's there by looking at the at the anatomy. But if it's get if it gets injured, this is what its idea of a correct worm.

      for - adjacency - stored latent memory of future morphology - can be altered - Michael Levin - potential progress trap

    3. we used a very high level um uh commu communication that this build an I here and like any good intelligence it has a multiscale hierarchical control where it took care of all of the downstream molecular um details.

      for - example - importance of multiscale hierarchical intelligence and control - Michael Levin - high level instruction is issued and the multiscale structure ensures that all the lower level details are executed - like a software function call

      new plexmark - person assigned to each comment in multiplayer conversational environment - have a way to - detect then - discriminate and finally - tag - each sequentially different conversant' s comments in the conversation - This will help with Indyweb provenance by attributing the person with each sentence

    4. we try to understand the large scale um utility of of the of these patterns.

      for - quote - we try to understand the large scale utility of these patterns - Michael Levin - implicit and embodied demonstration - of higher scale intelligence - communicating with - lower scale of intelligence

      quote - we try to understand the large scale utility of these patterns - Michael Levin - This is an implicit demonstration or embodied demonstration of interscale communication - The higher level agent (Michael Levin's consciousness) - is attempting to understand the functioning of his own lower scale intelligence

    1. for - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar - to - book - Brain Abstracted https://hyp.is/Pk3pylG9EfCJA-ent0tk-g/watermark.silverchair.com/book_9780262378628.pdf?token=AQECAHi208BE49Ooan9kkhW_Ercy7Dm3ZL_9Cf3qfKAc485ysgAAAygwggMkBgkqhkiG9w0BBwagggMVMIIDEQIBADCCAwoGCSqGSIb3DQEHATAeBglghkgBZQMEAS4wEQQMix-FIpy8sXHtTbl9AgEQgIIC20RZIlS1yaYHB2ymjcscJUN46IGDRankNDC3fCPGeuff7MJ6ZcjlCyNRQpGDkd5wZ1HO6ekLFmAxDsOGnaz_3SLpDgkqXGRWVLn7Y1cDpcZ3TQV_nQBTX4Fcj3iYzdmqq2kFoxlqaPOts563eydXLxsCIa7S8FbSBhqdvQgCg1lk0QBImp-SyWKLV5scbXV0FaAbRJmJeFCUKfANHsGfnSVzKvDWx77_lTh__SzxgxAqC74SKR4361Fy2I287u5plBQJwOXqbypumMnJIg_wiTzmhit6OLZhfoXMd84w5sYsCl7gnicPcWi48HzbqxD6WQyIjfNJRG2fBxJTMfq5ORFRVB7Cyfj0qhHG_9y0bxlsF9H5xNbRHyBfpttmxiPpikfi5y2j2FSu4PF4qtzQME_wtqJepiy_6cIA8PHX117aCQRHW2o4BJYq1WkERZcQta7-mNR8vDFUwV0dV3wDJazXVVG3sHhxjR1AyI8edOrM_00Og8-HUCtsNuzv_Swks1T3QsYMgwkCSX6u8RIPUbSEbzfcOXLN_KQy23lRf_zmCjRaj9EyxOPul9t0qADWkhwxlnlZ477xtPz7ePqYfCTLId5aMdSYHVBw-aYL874blz4mbgz-BXpjfni0pNpeAePVVQWRC16k6xpDHtyOpVix4nb8-SazTQuQEKRBLQgmmf76Z_oVmAtuG_Cnex0cM8G-GATTlL7hq_v7E0X5UQfnLli1tu7KHI9qY68ymaSKZXHhII5u3rQ6z7XtJxLDsEAEc9LiMRb-pC7ssE_BI6C37_6G1SvZBp0A3FKjIJ57tjM6Oku3mmvoCLDBs7DxoGMPn-EWEwDXBwGQXYOfkVUC66K-qRXp7hG8YCtztv_4CL5HxynskORGznC1y0B0IvBxCVHkWgMuBKgLOPOTzzMZVU32XZVdXy_WdKuw02k6nUhbMvH0TOvKZv1QLWypzMU0HlWuPbGttUX6

    1. Following Mill

      for - example - partial truth of each of - traditional - modern - postmodern worldview - traditional worldview - affirms - transcendental divine - sense of higher purpose - importance of social solidarity / national sovereignty - denies - this worldly - the individuall - modern worldview - affirms - reality - material - physical - objective - logic and reasoning - democracy / free speech - denial - immaterial - subjective and inner space - post-modern worldview - affirms - reality as constructed - inclusiveness - denial - reality as - material - physical - objective - agency of the individual - universal values and realities

    2. when there’s no truth or value, it makes sense to opt for what is most gratifying in the moment or of greatest service to the self (or ego).

      for - adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness

      adjacency - postmodernism - post-truth - Buddhist problem of nilhism - emptiness - This is the warning that Buddhist teachers have warned about to their students, who have an incomplete "understanding" of emptiness - If nothing is solid or real, and there is no right or wrong, then the student can mistakenly fall into nilhism and do harm - If the concept of harm is construed as part of dualism but dualism is the illusion to be penetrated, then again there is the danger of falling into post-truth where nothing matters and anarchy reins. - In Buddhist philosophy, the concept of "appearance-emptiness" shows that there is still some reality, just not what we originally thought

    3. immigration flows, especially from lower-income countries, changed the ethnic makeup of advanced industrial societies.

      for - adjacency - immigration - diversity of traditional worldviews

      adjacency - immigration - diversity of traditional worldviews - This is another level of perspectival differences - Within the traditional worldview, modernity has, via - transportation technology - communication technology - made possible rapid mixing of traditional worldviews that had previously been geographically isolated - The modern worldview has thus impacted traditional worlldviews in profound ways

    4. World views create worlds

      for - quote - worldviews create worlds - Richard Tarnas

      observation - worldviews are invisible hyperobjects, w - we employ logical induction to infer them from a pattern we observe - from many visible behaviors

    1. every layer of the modern computing landscape has been built upon the assumption that users are passive recipients rather than active co-creators. What we need instead are computing systems that invite every user to gradually become a creator.

      Is "creator" the right word here? There's lots of software that falls outside of what is the subject of this paper that enables creators. Indeed, it has been a common refrain in criticisms of the FOSS movement that for the types of software that creatives need and/or simply desire to use the proprietary apps tend to have no equals.

    1. Panel Debate: Urban Development in an Era of Geopolitical Change BLOXHUB

      Annorations - live youtube event - Urban dev in era of geopolitical change - https://www.youtube.com/live/555ncdksVO0

      Notes - Bloxhub is a consulting company working on the frontiers - panel debate with - Michela Magas (Director of Research and Innovation at the Industry Commons Foundation), - Helle Søholt (CEO, Gehl Architects) & - Indy Johar (Executive Director, Dark Matter Labs). Moderator is Andrew Dubber.

      IJ - don't have copper infrastructure to electrify everything - we can only building 144,000 homes in all of EU but UK alone wants to build 350,000 homes - service and management processes that built our cities are no longer viable - probably looking at 3 Deg C GMT - 5 deg C higher on land - 8 deg C higher in city - if food prices are too high, the social contract is broken - we are living in a bubble of the idea of the city that is outdated - geoBIOLOGICAL factors - how radical can we get? - incremental change is not enough - what is the radical re-imagination required? - AI - 1-on-1 with energy, cognitive inequality = energy inequality = AI inequality - How do we operate in a post-labor economy? - Human economy is radically different - Need to operate between the philosophy and the technical

      HS - polycrisis - addressing it is challenging - people are talking about the positive outcome - EU countries coming together - I'm spokesperson for new architecture policy of Denmark - cultural, planning and housing minister all meeting - unprecedented - Using what we already have: - idling resources of empty buildings - Urban nature / biodiversity - More urban green - re-imagine the future EU city - energy transition - localized - Inclusiveness - Bloxhub advocates the Copenhagen model - On US side, 1/3 of our revenues are from US - public sector - real estate dev - 25% of US malls closing down - philanthropy - recently, due to Trump govt policies: - 5 projects closed due to DEI - climate action plans in jeopardy

      MM - translating philosophy into technology as per IJ but also - translating morality into technology - New European Bauhaus High Level Round Table - 18 experts - value mapping - justice is high priority - Quote - Alan X - Unless ideas are massaged into reality, they evaporate - Ecosystem Living

      discussion HS - Copenhagen is the most livable city in the world now - but will it be the most resilient? - We need to think extremely long term - but we are searching for a new model - The infrastructure-led approach is not going to be enough to deal with the social and political crisis - We at Gail are searching for a more problem or culture led approach

      IJ - Walked past a beautiful piece of jewelry but behind that visible beauty is invisible violence - Copenhagen as most livable city, is backed by invisible high carbon intensity - Have to think about the systems in which our human system exist within - There's a shadow behind a wellbeing city - We need a new theory of abundance - Regenerative supply chains - required but are difficult - If we consider externalities, we have to multiply by 10x - The future is not just infrastructure but multiple portfolios - City must go from representation to participation - perspective shift - from austerity to abundance - Edo period of Japan was already a circular economy - Need to construct the new politics of abundance and abundance economy is based on intangibles

      MM - joining together many small groups is important

      ? What's the next steps?

      HS - THere is innovation capacity at a neighborhood level - We need to find ways to give agency to citizens - Locating intermediate organizations to lead the way

      IJ - Look at the shadow, don't run away from it - Book - In praise of shadow

      MM - cities give us a template to look into public commons - state owned on one side, corporate on the other - public commons

    1. The belief isbecoming more and more widespread that, ifthings are to get done, the respon-sible authorities mustbe freed from the fettersof democratic procedure.

      Is this how the Republican Party died in America with Trump? They created an unwinnable culture war in hopes of splitting voters and ultimately caused gridlock in the house and senate. As a result, we "need" a dictator (in Trump) to get anything done.

    1. It’s clear how relevant Hayek’s warnings remain today. Economic freedom—unlike in the 1980s and ’90s—is in retreat. Faith in “industrial policy” has come to dominate in China, the U.S. and Europe. At the same time, intellectual freedom is under threat as proponents of a woke ideology strive to politicize all of life. Mathematics is now considered “racist” by some, while freedom of speech is under threat. Opponents of economic freedom often oppose intellectual freedom as well.
  3. May 2025
    1. In contrast to the idea ofrequisite variety, Luhmann argued that ‘‘the system doesnot have the capacity to connect a state of its own toeverything that happens in the environment and to juxta-pose one of its own operations to every environmentaloccurrence...

      law of requisite variety

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    1. Screenwriters, Directors, Actors, and playwrights * Woody Allen Olympia SM3 * Julie Andrews IBM Selectric I * Paul Auster: Olympia SM9 * Ingrid Bergman: Smith-Corona Skyriter * Ray Bradbury: Underwood (No. 5?), Royal KMM * Marlon Brando: Royal Arrow or Aristocrat * Bertolt Brecht: Erika * Richard Brooks: Royal KMM, Royal Portable (30s or 40s) * Mikhail Bulgakov: Olympia 8 * George Burns: Royal HH * Stephen J. Cannell: IBM Selectric II or III * Johnny Carson: Royal KMM (or maybe a KMG), Olivetti Lettera 22 * Paddy Chayefsky: Underwood Standard Model 6, Royal HH, Olympia SG3 * Francis Ford Coppola: Olivetti Lettera 32 * Norman Corwin: Flattop Corona, Royal KMM * Noel Coward: Royal KH, Imperial Standard, Olivetti-Underwood Studio 44 * Michael Crichton: Olympia electric, IBM Selectric I * Bing Crosby: Corona 3, 1920s Royal portable * Bette Davis: Remington Noiseless portable * Joe Eszterhas: Olivetti Lettera 35 * Douglas Fairbanks: Underwood 5 * Federico Fellini: Olivetti Studio 44 * Jodie Foster: Olivetti Lettera 35 * Stephen Fry: Hermes 3000 * Greta Garbo: Olympia SM 7 * William Gibson: Hermes 2000 * William Goldman: Olympia SM9, Olympia SM9, Hermes Baby, Olympia Traveller<br /> Matt Groening: Hermes Rocket<br /> Oscar Hammerstein II: Royal portable * Tom Hanks: Smith-Corona Clipper, Hermes 2000, Hermes 3000<br /> Katherine Hepburn: Royal De Luxe * Alfred Hitchcock: '30s black Underwood Champion portable * John Hughes (director): Olympia SM3 * Eric Idle: Adler J3 * Elia Kazan: Royal KMG, Royal HH<br /> Buster Keaton: Blickensderfer no. 5 * Grace Kelly: Remington Super-Riter * Stanley Kubrick: IBM Model C, Adler Tippa S * Ring Lardner: L. C. Smith * Stan Lee: Remington noiseless portable, Olympia SG1 * Ernest Lehman: Royal Electress * David Letterman: Royal Empress * David Mamet: Smith-Corona portable, Olympia SM4, Olympia SM9, IBM Selectric * Terrence McNally: Olympia SG3 * Arthur Miller: Smith-Corona portable in the late '30s50s Smith; -Corona Silent Super; Royal KMG * Henry Miller: Underwood * F. W. Murnau: Remington portable no. 2 * David Niven: Royal Quiet DeLuxe, 1940s * Christopher Nolan: 1940s (?) Royal portable * Conan O'Brien: Royal 10 * Clifford Odets (1962): Royal Quiet DeLuxe, ca. 1957 * Louis Pollack (screenwriter): Royal desktop * Mario Puzo: Royal HH * Carl Reiner: Royal KMG, 1950s Smith-Corona Silent * Gene Roddenberry: IBM Selectric I, IBM Selectric II or III, Panasonic * Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers): 1930s Royal portable (Model O?), Royal KMG * Rod Serling: Royal KMG * George Bernard Shaw: Bar-Lock; Remington portable no. 1; Smith Premier (Remington); Remington Noiseless Portable * Sam Shepard: '60s Hermes 3000, Olympia SM9 * Neil Simon: Olympia SM9 * Steven Spielberg: Smith-Corona Coronamatic 2200 * John Millington Synge: Blickensderfer #5 * Shirley Temple: white Student (Bing variant), white Underwood Champion portable, white Remington portable no. 5 or similar * David Thewlis: Olympia SM9 * James Thurber: Underwood no. 5 * Dalton Trumbo: Underwood, Royal KHM, IBM A or B * John Waters: ca. 1950 Underwood, IBM A or B * Orson Welles: 1926 woodgrain Underwood portable, ’30s Underwood Noiseless Portable, Smith-Corona (?) * Tennessee Williams: Remington portable no. 2, 1936 Corona Junior, mid-1940s Corona Sterling, Royal KMM, Hermes Baby, Olivetti Studio 44, Remington portable #5 flat top, Remington Standard M, Olympia SM8

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    1. Almost everyone who sees Mulholland Drive (2001) notes that the first part of thefilm makes a good deal of sense—at least for a David Lynch movie. In contrast tothe beginnings of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) or Lost Highway (1997),the opening of Mulholland Drive is relatively straightforward

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    1. Software does not need dusting, waxing, or cleaning.  It often does have faults that do need attention, but this is not maintenance, but repair.  Repair is fixing something that has been broken by tinkering with it, or something that has been broken all along.  Conversely, as the environment around software changes, energy must be expended to keep it current.  This is not maintenance; holding steady to prevent decline.
    1. these people do have political and spiritual values, but they are not uniform but pluralist, these are not in fact, spiritual movements, or spirit-centric movements. They are in effect people attempting to reinvent how we produce value, in different ways, whether they are urban commoners, rural permaculturists, or neo-nomadic crypto nomads.

      for - adjacency - new ways of creating and distributing value - not spiritual movements - example - Indyweb - LCE - Deep Humanity - metacrisis / polycrisis singularity

      adjacency - between - new ways of creating and distributing value - not spiritual movements perse - examples - Indyweb - LCE - Deep Humanity - metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - adjacency relationship - Reflecting on a few of the major projects I'm working and collaborating on there is another permutation in which ideas that are considered "spiritual" are being integrated into the foundational design of technical production and distribution systems - The Indyweb web 3 / web 4 people-centered, interpersonal information ecosystem is founded on the Eastern principle of Shunyata (Emptiness), and its two pillars: - change and - intertwingledness - which in turn corelate to biology via: - evolution and - ecology - The Living Cities Earth (LCE) project is founded on integral theory framework - Deep Humanity emerged out of observation that the historic inability of spiritual and material integration, - what might be here called the hard and soft metamemes - may be leading us into a metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - and that their integration now may be what is required to stave off the worst impacts of the fast approaching metacrisis / polycrisis singularity - Observations of the social dynamics of many small commons-leaning groups I've been involved with shows me that the deep cultural conditioning of the previous hard and soft metameme systems are extremely difficult to uproot and the soft metameme conditioning ends up poisoning collaborations

    1. This is a new technology, people (read: businesses) want to take advantage of it. They are often ignorant, or simply too busy to learn to harnass it themselves. Many of them will pay you to weave their way on the web. html programming is one of the most lucrative, and most facile consulting jobs in the computing industry. Setting up basic web sites is not at all hard to do, panicked businesses looking to build their tolllane on the infoway will pay you unprecedented piles of cash for no more than a day's labour.
    1. Am 14.05.2025 kündigte die NGO Milieudefensie eine neue Klimaklage gegen Shell an, um die Inbetriebnahme von 700 geplanten Öl- und Gasfeldern zu verhindern. Die Emissionen dieser Felder würden 5,2 Milliarden Tonnen CO₂ betragen, etwa 36 Mal so viel wie die der Niederlande. Eine Studie zeigt, dass Shells Emissionen weiterhin steigen. Seit 2021 hat Shell Investitionen in 32 neue Öl- und Gasfelder beschlossen. Ein Gerichtsurteil von 2021 verlangte von Shell eine Reduzierung der Emissionen um 45 % bis 2030, doch ein Berufungsurteil von 2024 hob diese konkrete Vorgabe auf. Shell hat vier Wochen Zeit, auf die neue Klage zu reagieren. [Zusammenfassung mit Mistral generiert] https://taz.de/Neue-Klimaklage-in-den-Niederlanden/!6087879/

    1. Am 14.05.2025 zeigte eine französische Studie mit 15.000 Teilnehmern, dass Männer 26 % mehr Treibhausgase ausstoßen als Frauen, hauptsächlich durch höheren Fleischkonsum und Autonutzung. Nach Kontrolle sozioökonomischer Faktoren beträgt der Unterschied 18 %. Der Konsum von rotem Fleisch und das Autofahren erklären fast den gesamten verbleibenden Unterschied von 6,5-9,5 %. Traditionelle Geschlechternormen, die Männlichkeit mit Fleischkonsum und Autofahren verbinden, spielen eine bedeutende Rolle. Frauen zeigen mehr Besorgnis über die Klimakrise, was zu klimafreundlicherem Verhalten führen könnte. [Zusammenfassung mit Mistral generiert] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/14/car-use-and-meat-consumption-drive-emissions-gender-gap-research-suggests

    1. The old form must bedestroyed (to a greater or lesser extent in different circumstances) to allow for

      for - eating - life - death - incorporation of the other - example - kleinian dynamics - eating - life sustaining - coexists with - life taking - life = death - you must die so that I may live - When I eat you or you eat me, - You transform what was once a part of my body into your body, taking from me what you need, and getting rid of the rest - So in essence, we destroy others so that part of them can become part of us and vice versa

    2. Karl Abel’s book Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

      for - timebinding - Karl Abel - Sigmund Freud - Gebser - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words] - language construction - book - Gegensinnder Urworte [The Antithetical Meaning of Primal Words]

    3. consider to be polarities. Differentiation of the poles of a polarity into separateconcepts, then, would emerge after the underlying form of experience (thetraversing of terrain or the passage of time, or, simply, ongoingness of expe-rience of a cyclical nature) was noticed and exploited for some purpose, suchas safety or ease. For example, it is easier moving through the forest by day,and it is cooler moving through the desert at night. There was survival valuein distinguishing different aspects of unified experience.

      for - key insight - language - emergence of polarity - evolutionary fitness

    4. vocal communication. Indeed, we learn to use language before we understandlanguage, as exemplified by a friend’s 2-year-old grandson who adeptly appliedwords he had heard his parents say and demanded that “someone change myfucking diaper!” We learn to understand language before we learn to questionlanguage. Rarely do we learn to question language itself.

      for - key insight - language - unanswerable questions of the experienced language user - we learn to apply language long before we know what it is.

      analysis - Language allows us to ask questions about our reality, but there are certain questions that are intrinsically unanswerable - As an experienced language user, we cannot know what our experience of reality would be like had we not learned a language

    5. The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of

      for - quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - adjacency - Jung on diversity and unity - Deep Humanity tree metaphor

      quote - Carl Jung - diversity and ground of all being - The creation of unity by a magical procedure meant the possibility of effecting a union with the world - not with the world of multiplicity as we see it but - with a potential world, - the eternal Ground of all empirical being, <br /> - just as the self is the ground and origin of the individual personality - past, - present, and - future

      comment - Deep Humanity strives for the same union of unity and diversity via a tree metaphor, a journey - from the diversity of multiplicity of branches of the tree - back to the common trunk of the tree

    6. Jean Gebser (1905–1973), a German-born, naturalized Swiss citizen, is bestknown for his magnum opus The Ever-Present Origin

      for - book - The Ever-Present Origin - Jean Gebser - to - youtube - The Integral Way of Jean Gebser with Jeremy Johnson - https://hyp.is/gnHv-izuEfCCBZObkKymvw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXf2jtl0ndc

      comment - I hadn't heard of Gebser before and found this chapter difficult to understand - I found a good introductory video on Geber's work, especially the 5 stages and their meaning - Click on the youtube link above for a good introduction to Gebser's ideas

    7. ivein paradox might be uncomfortable, even terrifying, at first, given our culturalabhorrence of it. To recategorize that which our current category structureconsiders an “object” (e.g., a tree, rock, or your computer) as a subject-object,we need to revise deeply held assumptions, beliefs, and ways of relating toall types of “others.” For example, we will need to understand the implicitassumption that, when I refer to “that X” (e.g., you, or that tree, or eventhat book), I am referring to an expanded sense of myself as subject-object.

      for - gestalt switch - nondual language - deorient ourselves - true nature of mind practice - language shift - for this to work requires a gestalt switch paradigm shift - it goes beyond intellectual and requires full immersion, not to - re-orient ourselves, but to - de-orient ourselves

    8. polar regions. The melting of sea ice and ice sheets is not palpable to most.” 201Climate change is invisible when we consider ourselves separate from Gaia

      for - adjacency - hyperobject - language of separation - new trailmark format - adjacency

      adjacency - hyperobject -- language of separation - There is another related reason that many people do not value climate crisis - these concepts are hyperobjects - objects so large that they are beyond the scope of evolutionarily evolved salience - language evolved within humans to deal with environmental events that were salient to our immediate survival - the climate crisis is steeped in complex science and applies to the entire planet, something that humans were never evolved to cognitively apprehend

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    1. Though now in the deepest of his life’s trenches, God is still with Joseph (Genesis 39:21). His fellow inmates, Pharaoh’s former butler and his former baker, both dream symbolic dreams, and Joseph’s skills as a dream-interpreter are put to use. He predicts that the butler will be exonerated in three days and restored to Pharaoh’s service, and that the baker will be put to death. Joseph’s interpretations come true.

      The fate of Joseph, in the Hebrew text the Book of Genesis, chapters 37 to 50, is that of rising from slavery and imprisonment to power, a journey shaped by constant divine intervention from God. Joseph's life is somewhat governed by divine agency. While serving prison time, Joseph accurately interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's former cupbearer and his baker, predicting that the former cupbearer would be restored to his old position and that the baker would die. This is explained by God's presence with him (Genesis 39:21). To his phenomenal guidance to power in the court of Pharaoh, ‘his divine gift’ enables this rise. (https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-story-of-joseph/, accessed 5/10/25). On the other hand, Ferdowsi shapes the Persian hero’s destiny as entirely a product of ethical struggle and human choices in Shahnameh with no gods. CC BY-NC-ND

    1. We're at the point in humanity's development of computing infrastructure where the source code for program texts (e.g. a module definition) should be rich text and not just ASCII/UTF-8.

      Forget that I said "rich text" for a moment and pretend that I was just narrowly talking about the inclusion of, say, graphical diagrams in source code comments.

      Could we do this today? Answer: yes.

      "Sure, you could define a format, but what should it look like? You're going to have to deal with lots of competing proposals for how to actually encode those documents, right?" Answer: no, not really. We have a ubiquitous, widely supported format that is capable of encoding this and more: HTML.

      Now consider what else we could do with that power. Consider a TypeScript alternative that works not by inserting inline type annotations into the program text, but instead by encoding the type of a given identifier via the HTML class attribute.

      Now consider program parametrization where a module includes multiple options for the way that you use it, and you configure it as the programmer by opening up the module definition in your program editor, gesturing at the thing it is that you want to concretely specify, selecting one of those options, and have the program text for the module react accordingly—without erasing or severing the mechanism for configuration, so if another programmer wants to change the module parameters to satisfy some future need—or lift that module from your source tree and use it in another one for a completely different program—then they can reconfigure it with the same mechanism that you used.

    1. What if your sense of self, your seeing, your feeling, your very intelligibility as a “someone” are not possessions within a worldview, but part of an accommodation process issued from it, co-conditioned, emergent, and entangled?

      for - quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - critique - worldview - Bayo - new trailmark - analysis

      quote - Sense of Self - worldview - Bayo - What if, instead, worldviews are - not views from worlds - but the ways worlds come into view? - What if your sense of self, - your seeing, - your feeling, - your very intelligibility as a “someone” - are not possessions within a worldview, - but part of an accommodation process issued from it, - co-conditioned, - emergent, and - entangled?

      analysis - Bayo juxtapositions - the normative subject/object dualistic view of a Self having an experience with objects with - a nondualistic view in which self and other, subject and object are two sides of the same seamless coin - The aggregate experience of "many diverse appearances" is imputed to be a "self" that is having these many diverse experiences of appearances - rather than apprehending the totality as an unbroken continuum<br /> - Are we not imaginative enough to break our deep conditioning of Self and other / subject and object and experience the totality of phenomena, instead imputing a self? - The individual "self" is indeed a compelling story because the biological individual inherently - has a distinct, and identifiable though dynamic boundary with its environment - has been bestowed with the evolutionary trait of instinct for survival - and therefore prioritizes securing resources required for its biological continuation - To see beyond this pyscho/physical appearance requires a high level of integration

    2. for - source - Donna Nelham - @Fellowship of the Commons Telegram group zoom meeting - 2025, May 6 - article - Linkedin - Bayo Akomolafe - I am against "worldview" - to - article - Substack Annik De Witt - Toxic Polarization is killing us. A new worldview can save us - https://hyp.is/OChhXCvdEfC0MEOwIi_joA/annickdewitt.substack.com/p/toxic-polarization-is-killing-us

    1. Recall Hegel's unam­biguous celebration of the absolute power of Understanding from his Fore­word to the Phenomenology: 'The action of separating the elements is the exercise of the fo rce of Understanding, the most astonishing and greatest of all powers, or rather the absolute power.'

      El acto de separar los elementos es el ejercicio de la fuerza del entendimiento

    2. It is not that, after the abstraction of Reason has done its mortifyingjob with its fIXed categories or notional determi­nations, speculative 'concrete universality' somehow returns us to the fresh greenness ofLife; rather, once we pass from empirical reality

      Abstraction of Reason

    1. science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that

      for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning

      comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have

    1. Am 2. Mai 2025 reichte die Trump-Regierung Klagen gegen Vermont und New York ein, um deren "Climate Superfund"-Gesetze zu blockieren. Diese Gesetze sollen Ölfirmen zur Deckung von von ihnen verursachten Folgekosten der Klimakrise zwingen. Vermonts Gesetz, das erste seiner Art, wurde 2024 verabschiedet. New Yorks Gesetz fordert 75 Milliarden US-Dollar über 25 Jahre. West Virginia und 23 weitere Bundesstaaten unterstützen die Klagen, da sie die Gesetze als illegal und schädlich für die Energiebranche betrachten. [Zusammenfassung mit Mistral generiert und leicht überarbeitet] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/climate/climate-superfund-law-vermont-new-york-lawsuits.html

    1. To attempt an answer demands one radically reimagine one’s relationship to machines, the value of time, and the purpose of writing. Maybe there would be no typewriter and life would be governed by a different conception of the clock. Maybe the clock would only tell the time and not dictate how one should live in it. Maybe nothing would take too much time. Maybe no dream would be out of time.
    1. Der Artikel diskutiert die Notwendigkeit von Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) zur Erreichung der Klimaneutralität. Aktuell werden weltweit etwa 2,2 Gigatonnen CO₂ pro Jahr entnommen, hauptsächlich durch Aufforstung. Neue Technologien wie Direct Air Capture (DAC) sind noch wenig verbreitet, machen nur ein Promille aus. Um die Pariser Klimaziele zu erreichen, müsste die CO₂-Entnahme bis 2050 auf 7 bis 9 Gigatonnen pro Jahr steigen. Deutschland plant, bis 2045 klimaneutral zu werden, und benötigt dafür eine nationale CDR-Strategie. Derzeit kostet die Entnahme einer Tonne CO₂ mit neuen Methoden 100 Mal mehr als die Vermeidung einer Tonne Emissionen. 27 Staaten und die EU haben Vorschläge zur Ausweitung von CDR bis 2050 gemacht. [Zusammenfassung generiert mit Mistral] https://www.zeit.de/wissen/umwelt/2024-06/carbon-dioxide-removal-co2-entnahme-klimaneutralitaet-entwicklung

    1. Drei führende Klimawissenschaftler kritisieren die Illusion der "Net Zero-Politiken", die darauf setzen, das 1,5°-Ziel durch die Entfernung von CO2 aus der Atmosphäre zu erreichen. Sie werfen vielen ihrer KollegInnen vor, unrealistischen Konzepten nicht offen entgegenzutreten, um ihren politischen Einfluss nicht zu verlieren. Sie kritisieren auch die bisherigen Integrated Assessment Models des Weltklimarats, die von der Voraussetzung ausgehen würde, die Klimakatastrophe ließe sich mit marktwirtschaftlichen Mitteln beheben und fordern auf, deutlich zu sagen, dass sich eine Erhitzung der Erde auf 3 und mehr Grad nicht durch kleine Schritte, sondern nur durch einen Bruch mit dem bisherigen Wirtschaftssystem erreichen lässt.

      Anstatt uns unseren Zweifeln zu stellen, beschlossen wir Wissenschaftler, immer aufwändigere Fantasiewelten zu konstruieren, in denen wir sicher wären. Der Preis, den wir für unsere Feigheit zahlen mussten: Wir mussten den Mund halten über die immer größer werdende Absurdität der geforderten Kohlendioxid-Entfernung im planetarischen Maßstab.

      Greta Thunberg hat diesen Aufsatz als einen wichtigsten und informativsten Texte zur Klima- und ökologischen Krise bezeichnet.

      Climate scientists: concept of net zero is a dangerous trap. Thread von Greta dazu auf Twitter: https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1385869663188492290

    1. Eine Studie zeigt, dass das Kraftwerk Drax in North Yorkshire trotz Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) bis in die 2050er Jahre die CO₂-Emissionen erhöhen wird. Die intensive Waldnutzung zur Gewinnung von Holzpellets in den USA reduziert die Kohlenstoffspeicher in Wäldern für mindestens 25 Jahre. Selbst mit CCS-Technologie bleiben die Emissionen über Jahrzehnte hoch, was die Klimakrise verschärft. Kritiker bezweifeln Drax' Behauptung, "klimaneutral" zu sein, und fordern eine Neubewertung der staatlichen Unterstützung für Biomasse-Energie. [Zusammenfassung generiert mit Mistral] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/04/drax-will-keep-raising-carbon-emission-levels-until-2050s-study-says

    1. Die Studie des Potsdam-Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung zeigt, dass Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) theoretisch bis 2050 jährlich 7,5 Milliarden Tonnen CO₂ entfernen könnte. Allerdings würde dies die planetaren Belastungsgrenzen stark überschreiten, insbesondere in Bezug auf Stickstoffeintrag, Süßwasserverbrauch, Entwaldung und Biosphärenintegrität. Unter Berücksichtigung dieser Grenzen reduziert sich das Potenzial auf nur 200 Millionen Tonnen CO₂ jährlich. Die Studie betont die Notwendigkeit, neben der CO₂-Bilanz auch andere ökologische Faktoren zu berücksichtigen und schlägt vor, durch weniger Fleischkonsum Flächen für Klimaplantagen freizumachen. [Zusammenfassung generiert mit Mistral]

      https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000257365/kein-platz-fuer-klimaplantagen

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    1. Assumptions: Implicit and ExplicitIn our inquiry into language, this is a fundamental paradox we need toacknowledge: it is impossible to write about the implicit assumptions of ourlanguage system without simultaneously invoking those very assumptions.

      for - adjacency / insight - language - circularity of - paradox

      adjacency / insight - between - language - circularity - adjacency relationship - I've always strongly felt this inherent paradox of investigating language, that - by invoking language to investigate language, we are already trapped in a circular argument

    2. s I examine my sofawith a deeper perception, I come to an energy phenomenon that is not auniversal presence or force and not just an accumulation of characteristicsand energies from outside itself but one that has its own particular unique,internally coherent and integrated organization. This is where I experiencethe sofa as something living, not in a biological way but in an energetic way.5

      for - question - sensing the energy of inanimate objects - I'm not sure what she means or how she does this?

    3. Spatiosubobjectivity pertains to the commingling or fusion of subject, object, andspace.35 Rosen characterizes it as a dynamic process, or dialectical interplay, oneevident even at microdimensions. It is not an amalgamated “thing.” It is notlike me or you in a box with some other people or things. Rather, it embodiesthe inherent paradoxical movement of Möbial and Kleinian surfaces.

      for - definition - spatiosubobjectivity - Steven M. Rosen - a dynamic fusion of subject, object and space as a unified psychophysical reality - adjacency - Llisa's experience - spatiosubobjeectivity - Tibetan true nature of mind teaching - Deep Humanity BEing journey - spatiosubobjectivity BEing journey to induce a gestalt switch - to - wikipedia - Steven M. Rosen - https://hyp.is/twLEciIKEfCh2fulOW4D8A/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_M._Rosen - to - homepage - Steven M. Rosen at CUNY - https://hyp.is/48yh8CJxEfCReN_MXjnJ4w/embodyingcyberspace.com/

      adjacency - between - Lisa's experience - spatiosubobjectivity - Tibetan True Nature of Mind - adjacency relationship - Lisa's experience and the word "spatiosubobjectivity" that it led to remind me of Tibetan teachings on the true nature of mind - It says essentially the same thing, that the totality of phenomena is the true nature of mind. That is, - the subject (inner) - the intervening space, and - the objects (outer) - together constitute the true nature of mind

    4. Both roots and lungs internalize elements from the environment that arenecessary for life.Perhaps tree : earth :: humans : air. Is one of the lessons the coronavirustaught us that we are connected to each other through air, through the verysubstance that seems to enable us to perceive our “separateness?”

      for - similarity - other examples - See David Suzuki story of connectedness - https://hyp.is/wX0a4hIVEfCMFXfYYI59ag/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtUMM8SDws - including Harlow Shapley story about connectedness through air - https://hyp.is/D2oQhhIZEfCsoYcIvR8Ang/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wtUMM8SDws

    5. Although humans and Earth seem to be noncontiguous,perhaps we are contiguous in a way that we have not yet learned to perceive.

      for - 3 types of psychological separation / othering - definition - multi-scale biotic compositional separation - individual multi-cellular human psychologically separated from individual living cells within the same human's body - definition - social separation - individual human psychologically separated from other individual humans - definition - biotic / abiotic separation - individual human psychologically separated from the environment

    6. Given differentcircumstances, we all have the possibility of being X, whatever X is.

      for - similarity - Deep Humanity - principle of Empathy

      similarity - Deep Humanity - principle of Empathy - This is similar to Deep Humanity principle of Empathy, which holds that the degree of empathy we can develop - depends on our ability to experience and imagine the conditions of the other - Almost every one of us is capable of both the greatest good and the greatest evil, depending on the circumstances we developed under - In a very real sense, the great diversity of human behavior we see enacted in the world and our lives is a reflection of the great diversity of circumstances people can find themselves in - Some Deep Humanity empathy BEing Journeys can be crafted leveraging awareness of the life circumstances of the other

    1. Theupholstery and the rugs muffle her but we can hear her clearly despite that.The tension between her lack of control and her attempt to suppress it ishorrible. It's like a fart in church.

      Serena Joy's muffling cries symbolise the real comparative and biologically sinful nature of the act, that everyone else is awkwardly yet restraining to ignore. The "fart in church" really indicates a biological necessity, a response to a strict and man-made construct such as the church.

    2. . We have learned to see the world in gasps.

      This line sums up their power in the form of little rebellions. More specifically, this sums up OFFRED's POWER. Offred's disjunction in terms of time matches closely with her blinders. Though she was never able to 1) escape from her past, 2) record her story continuously (as per the historical notes) she gained power by these bite-sized and disjointed "gasps" in order to share her female voice

    1. Die Tat interview die Politologin Sonja Tiges zur Antikrimapolitik der Trampadministration in ihren ersten 100 Tagen. Tielges betont unter anderem, dass die Trumpregierung eine Energiedominanz anstrebt und andere Länder dazu drängt, das fossile Modell beizubehalten. Möglicherweise strebe China eine Gegenposition an, unter anderem verändere sich die Bereitschaft klimafinanzend zur Verfügung zu stellen in China.

      https://taz.de/Wissenschaftlerin-zur-US-Klimapolitik/!6081981/

    1. Bei einem virtuellen Gipfel der Vereinten Nationen zur Klimakrise haben sich Hina, D.E.U., D.A. sehr anstatten die afrikanische Union Brasilien und die Koalition der kleinen Inselstaden zur Energiewände und einer Internationalen Klamot-Gavernans bekannt. Der chinesische Staatschef Schie, der was selten ist, an dem Treffen teilnahmen, verwies darauf, dass China die inzwischen größte Infrastruktur für erneuerbare Energie entwickelt hat, einschließlich der dazu gehörrenden Liefer. Einst du sie sich dazu gehörenden Lieferketten. Die Teilnehmer starten werden ihre nationalen Reduktionsstrategien rechtzeitig vor der Kopf 30 erstellen. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/23/un-chief-no-group-or-government-can-stop-clean-energy-future

    1. In the body, the awareness of absence, of the hole in one’s individual being, can metamorphose into a cognizance of the paradoxical (w)holeness of a larger being, the flesh of the world. The crux of the matter is holding the paradox. As long as I proceed from the ego, I will continue my flight from paradox. So “I” must proceed from the ego’s empty core, from the hole in the “I” that can bring (w)holeness.

      for - key insight - transformation - from sense of lack - to wholeness - adjacency - sense of lack - ego's empty core

      adjacency - between - sense of lack - ego's empty core - adjacency relationship - This is a very pith statement: - In the body, the awareness of - absence, - of the hole in one’s individual being, - can metamorphose into a cognizance of - the paradoxical (w)holeness of a larger being, - the flesh of the world. -The crux of the matter is holding the paradox. - As long as I proceed from the ego, - I will continue my flight from paradox. - So “I” must proceed from the ego’s empty core, - from the hole in the “I” that can bring (w)holeness.

    2. Thus my addictive quest for “absolute clarity,” which is at bottom a quest for a clarification of my being that can never really be achieved.

      for - new meme - addictive quest for absolute clarity - This is an instance of what David Loy calls the intrinsic sense of lack in modernity that needs to be filled, but can never be - sense of lack - David Loy - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8

    3. One moment you’re flying high and everything is as clear as it can be. You’re experiencing a surge of unadulterated pleasure, a burst of sheer delight. But then, all of a sudden, the situation flips and you’re down in the dumps feeling the nagging necessity for another game, another sweet, another hit, another shot.

      for - adjacency - cyber ghosts - hungry ghosts - the hunger is temporarily satisfied, but the hunger pangs start again - cycling in samsara - consumerism - David Loy - inability for consumerism to fill our sense of lack - https://hyp.is/WuaFQCKZEfCFA-eSTwduzg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRA4cUCid8

    4. I believe the digital age simply makes obvious the virtual nature of what we have long taken as reality, so that now, its lack of genuine substance is no longer deniable. And this is what drives us into addiction. For, no virtual substance, no one-sidedly artificial affirmation or negation, can fill in for the paradoxical actuality of our fleshly being.

      for - question - lack of genuine substance drives us into addiction - need more clarity on this

    1. f you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things you're ripping me off you're ripping me off you're ripping me off i'm running a trade deficit that is the level of understanding of the president of the United States

      for - quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs

      quote - Trump's misunderstanding of trade deficit and tariffs - Jeffrey Sachs - If you take your credit card and you go shopping and you run up a large credit card debt you're running a trade deficit with all those shops - Now it would be pretty strange if you then blamed all the shop owners for having sold you all those things - "you're ripping me off, i'm running a trade deficit!" - That is the level of understanding of the president of the United States!

    1. A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth introduces Geoffrey’s oeuvre to first-time readers and provides a synthesis of current scholarship, all while offer-ing new readings of his work. This volume also seeks to bring Celtic studiesand Galfridian studies into closer dialogue, especially given the importanceof Wales to Geoffrey and his work. To that end, many of the essays are writtenby specialists in Welsh history and literature, whose voices have at times beenhard to discern in the general din of Galfridian scholarship. We have also askedcontributors to focus on all of Geoffrey’s work, and not merely the Arthuriansections. Geoffrey has been well-served by Arthurian scholarship, and we haveno desire to replicate many of the excellent recent studies in that field.7 Instead,we hope a holistic approach to his work will reveal subtleties often overlookedin scholarship that concentrates primarily on the Arthurian portions.

      A fairly concise statement of the aims of this book

    2. Geoffrey included the PM in his next work, the De gestis Britonum(“On the Deeds of the Britons”, hereafter abbreviated DGB). He had finishedthis work by January 1139 at the latest, when Henry of Huntingdon reports hisastonishment at finding a copy at the abbey of Le Bec.3 The count of survivingmedieval manuscripts of the DGB is now 225, making Geoffrey one of the mostwidely-read secular authors from medieval Britain.4
    3. third and final extant work is the Vita Merlini (“The Life of Merlin”, hereafterabbreviated VM), completed around 1150 and extant in only four independentmanuscripts.6 Written in dactylic hexameter, this poem recounts how MerlinSilvester goes mad after battle and retires to the woods to live; this enigmaticand difficult work seems to be deeply in touch with Welsh literature, thoughits ultimate sources are unknown.
    4. Until recently, Geoffrey’s history was called the Historia regum Britanniae(“The History of the Kings of Britain”), but Michael D. Reeve’s textual studyhas confirmed that the title used in the earliest manuscripts, and by Geoffreyhimself, was the De gestis Britonum.5 After much debate among contributors,this volume begins the lugubrious process of using the original title in place ofthe received one.
    1. as we get closer to superintelligence, it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, if not as a WMD in and of itself. Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.

      for - quote - AGI - Weapon of Mass Destruction

      quote - As we get closer to superintelligence, - it will be seen more and more as an enabler and driver of - weapon of mass destruction (WMD) capabilities, - if not as a WMD in and of itself. - Direct calls for a “Manhattan Project for AGI” are already starting.

    1. 2024 verzeichnete die zwölf bis ihr heißesten Monate in Europa. Über 400.000 Menschen waren direkt von den Folgen von Extremwetterereignissen betroffen. Über 30% der Flussgebiete In über 30% der Flussgebiete gab es schwere Überschwemme. Ausmaß und Erhezung, Ausmaß und Folgen der Erhezung in Europa werden systematisch in dem Berichtsteht auf Sie klimat 2024 erfasst, der von Copernicus und der WMU veröffentlicht wurde. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/15/europe-storms-floods-and-wildfires-in-2024-affected-more-than-400000

    1. I had the Android Emulator in my laptop, which I used to install the application, add our insurance information and figure out where to go. Just to be safe, I also ordered an Android phone to be delivered to me while I went to the hospital, where I used my iPhone's hotspot to set it up and show all the insurance information to the hospital staff.

      If only there were some sort of highly accessible information system that was designed to make resources available from anywhere in the world without any higher requirement besides relatively simple and ubiquitous client software. Developers might then not be compelled to churn out bespoke programs that effectively lock up the data (and prevent it from being referenced, viewed, and kept within arm's reach of the people that are its intended consumers).

    1. In 2023, the reported global installed capacity of FPVwas 2.55 GWp and practical potential electricity generationfrom FPV might be able to produce up to 9434 TWh year−1with 30% array coverage on >100,000 reservoirs.

      This sentence provides a global overview of floating solar installations and the number of reservoirs, grounding the research in a broader spatial context.

    2. The ponds used in this study havealmost no watershed and are not connected to a stream orriver, thus limiting inputs of organic matter and nutrients fromoutside the ecosystem

      This sentence describes the unique hydrological features of the study pond, highlighting the specific local setting of the research.

    3. Sustainability trade-offs of FPV in aquatic ecosystems aredriven by a range of interactive factors, and the goal of net-zeroemissions is affected by biogeochemical processes on land andin water.

      Saying that land and water-based biogeochemical processes affect sustainability and net-zero goals reflects broader environmental systems science.

    4. Shifts in primaryproducer abundance and dominance following FPV installationmight influence GHG cycling in several ways, including byaltering rates of photosynthesis and CO2 uptake,51,52 loading oforganic matter to the sediment,29 and mixing and stratificationdynamics.

      This sentence is grounded in ecological biogeochemistry, since it connects changes in primary producers to shifts in greenhouse gas cycling.

    5. Changes in sediment and watercolumn respiration also will be reflected in water column GHGdynamics (e.g., increased concentrations of CO2 and CH4following panel installation) and air−water GHG ex-change.

      The idea that sediment and water column respiration influence gas concentrations comes from well-established knowledge in lake ecology and physical biogeochemistry.

    6. The sum of GHG effectsassociated with FPV can be represented by air−water GHGexchange that integrates GHG dynamics taking place withinthe waterbody

      Explaining greenhouse gas behavior in water bodies through air-water exchange is based on biogeochemical science — it's a key part of how we understand these systems.

    7. GHG emissions associated with water-use change duringand after FPV installation require different considerations andaccounting than for terrestrial PV

      This sentence draws from knowledge in aquatic ecosystems and Earth system science, since it looks at how FPV installations might change water use and affect greenhouse gas emissions

    8. following FPV deployment, ponds with FPV becamecolder than ponds without and tended to have more uniformtemperatures throughout the water column (Figure S1).

      They’re considering how this particular site reacts to temperature changes, based on local physical and chemical conditions. That shows good awareness of the place-based context

    9. We can combine the average difference in GHG emissions inponds with and without FPV determined here with apreviously published annual GHG budget for the Cornell

      The data comes from a specific site, so it’s clearly grounded in a real place, not just theory.

    10. Ebullitive CH4 emissions were onaverage nearly twice as high in ponds with FPV (0.21 ± 0.04mmol CH4 m−2 h−1) compared to ponds without FPV (0.11 ±0.02 mmol CH4 m−2 h−1) following FPV installation (p =0.031; Figure 5).

      The increase in CH₄ ebullition is based on existing knowledge of methane production mechanisms in ecosystems.

    11. Gas transfer velocities (i.e., k600values) in the FPV-covered center of ponds were 4 times lowerfor CO2 (1.27 ± 0.18 cm h−1) and 3 times lower for CH4 (1.42± 0.59 cm h−1) than open pond centers in ponds without FPV(5.42 ± 2.23 and 4.25 ± 1.22 cm h−1 for CO2 and CH4respectively; Table S3), though these differences were notstatistically significant (p = 0.157 for k600CO2 and p = 0.107 fork600CH4), most likely due to the relatively small sample size.

      The concept of gas transfer velocity reflects the theoretical knowledge framework regarding GHG exchange between the atmosphere and aquatic systems.

    12. wind speed was determinedby correcting wind speed data from the Ithaca-Tompkinsweather station (NOAA Station WBAN-94761), which islocated ∼2 km from the experimental ponds, using a previouslyestablished correction factor.

      This refers to the spatial distance information used to apply external weather data to the pond experiment site.

    13. We sampled 16 ponds at theCornell Experimental Ponds Facility in Ithaca, NY, USA, insummer 2022 to identify six ponds that were most similarbased on the plant community, temperature, dissolved oxygen,pH, conductivity, dissolved nutrients, and dissolved GHGconcentration

      Geographic information such as the specific location of the study site and the number of ponds is included.