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  1. Jan 2026
    1. “I’ve gotten a rush of tweets – coordinated tweets. Like, somewhere else on the internet there’s like a group on the internet saying, ‘Okay, everyone tweet Rian Johnson.’ All from Russian accounts, and all begging me not to kill Admiral Hux in this movie.”

      This phenomenon appears frequently with celebrities. Bots are often used to generate coordinated hate comments or manipulate online discourse, which can significantly harm celebrities’ digital presence. Such misuse undermines personal expression, damages mental well-being, and disrupts the sense of personalization and safety within their online spaces.

    2. We also would like to point out that there are fake bots as well, that is real people pretending their work is the result of a Bot. For example, TikTok user Curt Skelton posted a video claiming that he was actually an AI-generated / deepfake character:

      The “fake bot” idea is wild because it flips the usual problem—now humans can pretend to be AI to get attention, seem mysterious, or dodge accountability (“it wasn’t me, it was the bot”). That makes trust even harder, since it blurs what’s real automation versus just performance. It also makes me think platforms might need clearer disclosure norms, because otherwise people get rewarded for deception either way.

    3. As one example, in 2016, Rian Johnson, who was in the middle of directing Star Wars: The Last Jedi, got bombarded by tweets that all originated in Russia (likely making at least some use of bots).

      It’s kinda scary how coordinated bot/troll activity can make a backlash look way bigger (and more “real”) than it actually is, which can totally warp what people think the general public believes. The stat about a lot of negative tweets being politically motivated or not even human really shows why “online outrage” isn’t always a reliable measure of real opinion. It also feels unfair to creators, because they can get pressured or harassed by something that’s basically manufactured.

    4. conversations

      It amazes me how quickly the internet tries to corrupt these bots. As another comment mentioned, the same thing is also happening to Twitter's Grok, as well as many other similar bots in recent days.

    5. Antagonistic bots can also be used as a form of political pushback that may be ethically justifiable. For example, the “Gender Pay Gap Bot” bot on Twitter is connected to a database on gender pay gaps for companies in the UK. Then on International Women’s Day, the bot automatically finds when any of those companies make an official tweet celebrating International Women’s Day and it quote tweets it with the pay gap at that company:

      I find it fascinating that while antagonist bots can be used negatively, there are ones, like the gender pay gap bot, that are used to create a positive impact and bring attention to issues like these. It's nice to see that, like all things, even 'antagonist bots' can also be used towards a positive change.

    6. On the other hand, some bots are made with the intention of harming, countering, or deceiving others. For example, people use bots to spam advertisements at people. You can use bots as a way of buying fake followers, or making fake crowds that appear to support a cause (called Astroturfing)

      In addition to bots that were made to spam advertisements or as a way for influencers to gain more followers, some bots can help some influencers gain more recognition. Aside from just followers, some will buy bots just to comment on their posts or share them, which can make them seem more popular, leading them to appear on more people's feeds and social media, thus gaining more real-life followers.

    1. But is it not the case that in our average understanding religion and science are so oftenopposed, or if not outright opposed, then somehow at odds?

      "Average understanding"? Maybe to a post-Enlightenment European, but even many of those see no opposition.

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    1. This raises the question as to whether interpretivereconstruction encourages cumulative scholarly development rather than interpretive pluralismas an end in itself.

      This is the danger.

    2. outside of practitioners’ understandings.

      Well, here is the tricky part: do they operate outside of their understandings? The problem of description is that they can be made apart from what a practitioner actually believes...

    3. ow such judgments are to be disciplined,without abandoning the reconstructive task altogether, is a live methodological question.

      Any proposals for how to go about this?

    4. If coherence is, at least in part, an achievementof interpretation rather than a given of religious life, then the study of religion must remainattentive to the heuristic character of its reconstructions.

      True.

    5. The problem becomes even greater when disagreement among practitioners is taken intoaccount.

      Or disagreements between the observer and the practitioners (if such a distinction is to be made).

    6. The academic study of religion is primarily concerned with understanding how religioustexts, material objects, and practices make sense to those who inhabit them.

      Is it?

    7. : how religious texts, material objects,and practices (frequently referred to with the shorthand “religious objects” below

      What makes something a "religious object" though? Does this concept not commit us to some idea of what "religion" is?

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    1. The Aché, a foraging group living in the subtropical rainforest in Paraguay, eat 33 different kinds of mammals, more than 15 species of fish, the adult forms of 5 insects, 10 types of larvae, and at least 14 kinds of honey. This is in addition to finding and collecting 40 species of plants.[5] The !Kung foragers, who live in the Kalahari Desert in southern Africa, treasure the mongongo nut, which is tasty, high in protein, and abundant for most of the year, but they also hunt giraffes, six species of antelope, and many kinds of smaller game like porcupine.[6]

      I once would have said this was disgusting, but I have grown beyond that

    2. Many of the foods regularly eaten by foragers, such as insects and worms, would not necessarily be considered edible by many people in the United States.

      Unless we were starving and we'd be forced to, but hey, I wonder what they taste like

    1. Imagine if we could bring world-class healthcare, education, finance and creative services to anyone for almost zero cost. People able to afford these services don’t doomscroll looking for more stuff. They goal seek to flourish more.

      Not only is production at a low cost but distribution is now at the point and available hyper targeted.

    1. biosocial

      Although this likely pertains to more contemporary times, I think this is a great reminder that biology, although often seen solely as physical, can also be molded through social and cultural constructs. Thus, in interpreting skeletal remains, it is important to consider what biology may reveal about the social environment the individual inhabited during life. In deep time, this obviously may be difficult, but I think it serves to demonstrate that great thought must be devoted when attempting to assign individual anatomy to larger populations.

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    1. By Simón(e) D Sun

      The author matters because Sun is a neuroscientist writing about biological sex and gender from a scientific stand point. Her background establishes credibility and helps explain why the article focuses on correcting scientific misunderstandings rather than debating gender purely as a social issue.

    2. Actual research shows that sex is anything but binary

      Sun’s article argues that biological sex cannot be reduced to a simple binary and that scientific research contradicts the “basic biology” often cited to oppose transgender identities.

    3. Defining a person’s sex identity using decontextualized “facts” is unscientific and dehumanizing.

      (8. Stasis theory) Id say this is a claim of value. The author is saying how defining other's identities is dehumanizing, which sounds like commentary on the morality of the issue (saying something is right/wrong; wrong in this case).

    4. This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American

      I think this section is good for (6. Genre) because it illustrates how the post is from the blog network and is more of an opinion piece (reflecting the views of the author). This form the text is taking is important to know because it is the views of one author, not necessarily the whole Scientific American. It is important to know that this genre is highly personal.

    5. It is time that we acknowledge this

      This line and the whole section is good for (5. Purpose). The author is directly saying that they want the audience to acknowledge transgender people are real and backed by science. This is the purpose of the article (to convince).

    6. Nearly everyone in middle school biology learned that if you’ve got XX chromosomes, you’re a female; if you’ve got XY, you’re a male

      (4. Audience) This text eludes to who is reading the text/meant to read the text. It is likely that not actual middle schoolers are reading this, but many people in the audience probably remember learning about sex like this. Maybe the audience is those with conventional ideas of sex similar to this and those who have been possible swayed by the bad actors listed prior (trolls and politics). In other words, people uneducated on the issue

    7. By Simón(e) D Sun edited by Michael D. Lemonick

      Here is the author and editor, good one for (2. Author). It is important to know the author because it is stated directly later that the article reflects the author's views, not that of the Scientific American. Knowing the authors views helps us understand any bias. The work is published on Scientific American, and it is important to know the bias of the publisher as well.

    8. The real world consequences are stacking up: the trans military ban, bathroom bills, and removal of workplace and medical discrimination protections, a 41-51 percent suicide attempt rate and targeted fatal violence . It’s not just internet trolling anymore.

      This text is good for (7. Context) as it cites some real world events relating to the issue. The events give us some context about the time and place the text was written, also helping us understand why the author wanted to write it.

    9. So, no matter what a pundit, politician or internet troll may say, trans people are an indispensable part of our living reality.

      This part is good for (3. Exigence) as it eludes to the motivation the author had for writing the text. The author was likely writing this to try and convince people that bad actors are giving trans people a bad name, when in reality their experiences are backed by science.

    10. Contrary to popular belief, scientific research helps us better understand the unique and real transgender experience.
      1. This text is evidence of (1. Subject) because it explains the main idea of the text. It sets the stage for what will be happening, the author using scientific research to explain and validate the transgender experience.
    11. To the IDW, trans people and their advocates are destroying the pillars of our society with such free-speech–suppressing, postmodern concepts as: “trans women are women,” “gender-neutral pronouns,” or “there are more than two genders.” Asserting “basic biology” will not be ignored, the IDW proclaims. “Facts don’t care about your feelings.”

      This context is important to understand because it lays the groundwork for the audience on the opposing side of the argument. it clearly gives an example of why she feels the need to write this argument.

    12. So, no matter what a pundit, politician or internet troll may say, trans people are an indispensable part of our living reality.

      Sun seems to be motivated to write this text to argue against the highlighted. being that she is also transgender, arguing against false claims using the basis of science (her background), gives a greater purpose and to back her own safety, etc...

    13. By Simón(e) D Sun

      Dr. Simone D Sun (PHD) is a scientist, artist, and advocate in the J. Tollkuhn Lab at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Applied Transgender Studies, and a 2023 HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow. They received their PhD in the R.W. Tsien Lab at the NYU Neuroscience Institute studying neuroplasticity. This information is important becasue it males her argument in this text more credible. The publisher is SCI AM, a credible becasue of its long history of science publication.

    14. Let’s just take the most famous example of sexual dimorphism in the brain: the sexually dimorphic nucleus of the preoptic area (sdnPOA). This tiny brain area with a disproportionately sized name is slightly larger in males than in females. But it’s unclear if that size difference indicates distinctly wired sdnPOAs in males versus females, or if—as with the bipotential primordium—the same wiring is functionally weighted toward opposite ends of a spectrum. Throw in the observation that the sdnPOA in gay men is closer to that of straight females than straight males, and the idea of “the male brain” falls apart.

      This small paragraph displays that the text is meant for college students and also individuals familiar with biology, and can understand scientific reasoning from research. We also know because most likely, those who are subscribing to the SCI AM are generally interested in or have a background in STEM/science

    15. Contrary to popular belief, scientific research helps us better understand the unique and real transgender experience.

      This quote sets the stage for the following text, and signals to the readers that she will be going in depth, and could use scientific terms throughout her argument.

    16. It is time that we acknowledge this. Defining a person’s sex identity using decontextualized “facts” is unscientific and dehumanizing.

      Sun seems to bring in her whole argument, and in one sentence puts what she wants her readers to tale away from the text, on the table.

    1. perperson

      Perhaps it is mentioned elsewhere, but what does this mean by 'per person?' Does this refer to every maxilla/mandible that had articulated teeth? I feel like teeth would fall out fairly easily within a burial context, though I may be wrong. If the teeth are disarticulated, it seems it would be rather difficult to assign them to a particular person before analysis was conducted on them.

    2. control the story

      I think this relates to one of the reading questions: "The commitment on the part of the HWN to allow this biological material to be retained is beneficial to researchers, but is it beneficial to them?" While I do think the research was beneficial for the Huron-Wendat as it revealed scientific data regarding their past, one has to question how much authority the group actually had in 'controlling their story.' Though sometimes individuals from Indigenous groups may be involved in the research, often times it will be individuals outside of these groups running the tests in labs and publishing papers. In this sense, though the Huron-Wendat did play an important role in this research, one has to question how much authority they actually have in 'controlling their story' within a scientific context. I don't know if there is a simple, practical solution to this, however.

    1. you combine pieces of the language together according to specific rules in order to create meaning.

      I have very little coding experience, so I am unfamiliar with how a bot is structured. This section of the textbook was helpful in educating me on how to create a bot in Python, as well as other programming languages.

    1. Dear authors, congratulations on the beautiful work. - This is clearly a very important work to define the ON-DSGC subtype and investigate the developmental regulation of the subtype using genetic and functional approaches. I have a minor critique - For Figure 6, I suggest that your revised/peer-reviewed paper should cite the original publication (PMID: 35524141) in both text/method on mWGA-mCherry as (mWmC+) instead of saying a generic (WGA+), as your staining was RFP (the mWmC fusion ) but not WGA-protein. The fusion protein (but not the original plant lectin from Yoshihara 1999) made visualization robust and quantifiable.

    1. an additional mechanism which controls the behavior and production of the S-subsystems

      Specifically, this mechanism is our nomic and entailment net.

      In some situations the control mechanisms may come from a place external of the systems under control. For example, from a farmer (C) that controls many of the conditions/inputs of the plants (Sn) on the farm (S').

      But in the situation of a true democracy (S'), the control mechanism (perhaps better called a coordination mechanism) comes from the people themselves (Sn). This coordination mechanism (C) is composed of a good-faith process where the people (Sn) create and edit the rules they agree to live under.

    2. Constraint

      Major transitions in evolution (Maynard Smith and Szathmary 1995) mark the generation of new coherences - that is, of new and overarching constitutive regimes that are the outcome of interlocking context-independent and context-dependent constraints.

      A. Juarrero, Context Changes Everything, p.51

    1. Webster's dictionary.

      See here. From that page:

      Broadly speaking, philosophy has three concerns: how the world hangs together, how our beliefs can be justified, and how to live. — Jim Holt, New York Times Book Review, 15 Feb. 2009

    1. protect

      There is no previous basis for the "tails" to have to "protect" themselves from water. This would be a great place to add the term amphipathic to go along with hydrophobic and hydrophilic. Also to unpack polar and nonpolar molecules interacting. I have used magnets as my example for polar molecules and plastic as the nonpolar so students grab the idea that polar molecules stick together while nonpolar molecules have no affinity for the polar molecules.

    1. 16.Evolution and immortality Cybernetic integration of humans must preserve the creative core of human individual, because it is the engine of evolution. And it must make it immortal, because for the purpose of evolution there is no sense in killing humans. In natural selection, the source of change is the mutation of the gene; nature creates by experimenting on genes and seeing what kind of a body they produce. Therefore, nature has to destroy older creations in order to make room for the newer ones. The mortality of multicellular organisms is an evolutionary necessity. At the present new stage of evolution, the evolution of human-made culture, the human brain is the source of creativity, not an object of experimentation. Its loss in death is unjustifiable; it is an evolutionary absurdity. The immortality of human beings is on the agenda of Cosmic Evolution. 17.Evolution of the human person The future immortality of the human person does not imply its frozen constancy. We can understand the situation by analogy with the preceding level of organization. Genes are controllers of biological evolution and they are immortal, as they should be. They do not stay unchanged, however, but undergo mutations, so that human chromosomes are a far cry from the chromosomes of primitive viruses. Cybernetically immortal human persons may mutate and evolve in interaction with other members of the super-being, while possibly reproducing themselves in different materials. Those human persons who will evolve from us may be as different from us as we are different from viruses. But the defining principle of the human person will probably stay fixed, as did the defining principle of the gene.

      CEStoicism does not desire the immortality of the individual, to which points 16 and 17 aspire. The evolution of culture/worldview/p-individual can occur with or without the indefinite continuation of individuals. Instead, creative immortality and cultural P-individual immortality suffice.

    2. 10.Global integration Turning to the future we predict that social integration will continue in two dimensions, which we can call width and depth. On the one hand (width), the growth of existing cultures will lead to the formation of a world society and government, and the ecological unification of the biosphere under human control. The ethics of cybernetical world-view demands that each of us act so as to preserve the species and the ecosystem, and to maximize the potential for continued integration and evolution. 11.Human super-beings On the other hand (depth), we foresee the physical integration of individual people into "human super-beings", which communicate through the direct connection of their nervous systems. This is a cybernetic way for an individual human person to achieve immortality.

      On both points 10 and 11, CEStoicism differs with Principia Cybernetica. Rather than humanity integrating into a 'world society and government', CEStoicism believes that people are gaining more opportunities to discover an increasing number of non-geographic cultures/worldviews (which are themselves stable conceptual systems (SCSs), which they may explore and possibly join. SCSs converse with each other through conflict and cooperation, through interaction. These conversations may result in the emergence of more complex SCSs capable of broader and deeper conversation. Potentially, these SCSs may be semi-immortal in the sense that they have the possibility to continue propagating through human generations, if they maintain fitness. We de-emphasize the idea of human minds integrating through a technological/physical connection of their nervous systems. Instead, we see language and culture as the connection, which technology may support.

    3. old religious systems are slowly but surely losing their influence.

      CEStoicism is unsure if older religious systems, and the idea of metaphysical immortality, are losing their influence. However, we do agree that other forms of immortality are gaining appeal, including the immortality of stable conceptual systems (SCSs).

    1. We come, therefore, to the following definition: a piece of knowledge is an object which we can use to produce (generate) predictions or other pieces of knowledge.

      The definition we are most interested in.

    1. Who are we

      “Life is the universe experiencing itself, in endless variety.” -Alan Watts.

      "Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe if listening to its harmonies. We are the witness through which the universe become conscious on its glory, of its magnificence." -Alan Watts.

      See Pantheism.

    2. In cybernetics an autonomous system or agent is conceptualized as a control system, which tries to achieve its goals or values by initiating the right actions that compensate for the disturbances produced by the environment. For that, it needs to perceive or get information about the effects of its actions and the effects of the events happening in the world.

      A perception-action cycle

    1. Sensor/Receptor: A sensor, also known as a receptor, monitors a physiological value, such as temperature, respiratory rate, blood pressure, etc. This value is reported to the control center. Control Center: The control center compares the value to the normal range. If the value has changed too much from the set point, then the control center activates an effector. Effector: An effector reverses the situation and returns the value to the set point or normal range.

      Afferent and efferent pathways would be good terms to add to this list.

    1. Continuing constructive evolution is a possibility but not a necessity. Acts of will can contribute to evolution or counter it. Because of the natureof evolution, there is a fundamental difference between constructive and destructive contributions.

      Living parts of existence that continue to survive) have periods of constructive evolution in the K-phase of their adaptive cycle, and also demonstrate resilience both within one cycle and throughout many cycles in a panarchy.

    1. survival of the fittest

      This is meant in its literal sense: That systems well-suited to their environmental niche are likely to recreate themselves in that niche.

      Others misapplied this phrase to assert that the behavior of social groups is fixed and genetically-determined. This use of the phrase is called Social Darwinism, and is often used to justify racism. CEStocism does not agree with this interpretation and use of the phrase.

    1. How much a given system will invest in one strategy at the expense of the other one depends on the selective environment. In biology, this is called r-K selection: in an r-situation, organisms will invest in quick reproduction, in a K-situation they will rather invest in prolonged development and long life.

      The r- and K-situations correspond to different phases in the adaptive cycle. r is the growth or exploitation phase. K is the conservation phase.

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    1. An agent is the carrier of will, the entity that chooses between possible actions.

      For a non-anthropomorphic agent like nature, 'choice' is done non-anthropomorphically, through randomness or by natural law/principle.

      In accordance with Naturalistic Pantheism, we choose to not anthropomorphize nature.

  3. web.archive.org web.archive.org
    1. representation

      "Taking the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant as his starting point, Schopenhauer argues that the world we experience around us—the world of objects in space and time and related in causal ways—exists solely as ‘representation’ (Vorstellung) dependent on a cognizing subject, not as a world that can be considered to exist in itself (i.e. independently of how it appears to the subject’s mind). Our knowledge of objects is thus knowledge of mere phenomena rather than things-in-themselves. Schopenhauer identifies the thing-in-itself—the inner essence of everything—as will: a blind, unconscious, aimless striving devoid of knowledge, outside of space and time, and free of all multiplicity. The world as representation is, therefore, the ‘objectification’ of the will."

      From Wikipedia's The World as Will and Representation

    2. We understand will as the quality that allows to choose between the (possible) options and act.

      For a non-anthropomorphic agent like nature, we believe 'choice' is done non-anthropomorphically, such as through randomness or by natural law/principle.

      In accordance with Naturalistic Pantheism, we choose to not anthropomorphize nature.

    3. It seems reasonable to speak of an agent which comes into being for the express purpose of causing an act of radioactive decay. At each moment in time this agent makes a choice bewteen decay and not decay. This immediately explains the exponential law of radioactivity

      Again, for a non-anthropomorphic agent like nature, 'we believe choice' is done non-anthropomorphically, such as through randomness or by natural law/principle.

      We differ from PcP here: Nature as an agent does not come into being. Rather nature itself is being, and exists throughout all time and space (as does nature's agency).

    1. Pleura: The pleura is the serous membrane surrounding the lungs, reducing friction between the lungs and the chest wall. Pericardium: The pericardium is the serous membrane that surrounds the heart, reducing friction caused by the beating of the heart. Peritoneum: The peritoneum is the serous membrane that surrounds several organs in the abdominopelvic cavity, reducing friction between the organs and the abdominal wall

      At the end of this section it would help to see the visceral and parietal terms used with the membrane/cavity terms. ie. visceral pericardium and parietal pericardium to help students see the pattern of naming membranes. This has been a difficult concept for students to grasp for a long time.

    2. Thoracic cavity

      A further break down of the thoracic cavity to include the pleural cavity, pericardial cavity, and superior mediastinum terms would be helpful here. The information is a part of the diagram, but the terms are not found in the descriptive text.

    1. distinguishes us from the animals

      We respect the specific definition of 'thought' defined by Principia Cybernetica, but we feel the real distinction of the human animal from other animals is humans' extensive use of fine-grained signs. We also stress that self-consciousness, tool making, imagination, planning, play, sense of humor and esthetic feelings are likely abilities/activities shared by some other animals, although maybe not to the same fine-grained ability as humans. We further stress that human are still animals.

    2. which will bring us to a yet higher level of complexity or consciousness, transcending individual thought. This emergent level is perhaps best described by the metaphor of the social superorganism and its global brain.

      CEStocism believes various forms of media already allow humanity to transcend individual thought, however the use and quality of media ranges widely, and this variety leads us to disbelieve that a single coherent superorganism or global brain will come about. Rather, we see the continuing evolution, interaction, merging and splitting of distinct worldviews or stable conceptual systems.

      We also believe the future holds a chance of either or both: (a) A novel metasystem transition that allows for a continued greater conservation phase. (b) A significant risk of either a consequential collapse, release and reorganization of societal resources

    1. In this example, some clever protesters have made a donkey perform the act of protest: walking through the streets displaying a political message. But, since the donkey does not understand the act of protest it is performing, it can’t be rightly punished for protesting. The protesters have managed to separate the intention of protest (the political message inscribed on the donkey) and the act of protest (the donkey wandering through the streets). This allows the protesters to remain anonymous and the donkey unaware of it’s political mission.

      This example shows how separating intention from action can be used to avoid responsibility. This can be applied to bots, since people who deploy them can hide behind the automated actions while denying responsibility for what the bot produces.

    2. Only in Oman has the occasional donkey…been used as a mobile billboard to express anti-regime sentiments. There is no way in which police can maintain dignity in seizing and destroying a donkey on whose flank a political message has been inscribed.”

      The donkey example actually made this click for me. It’s a really clear way to show how intention and action can be separated, and how responsibility gets blurred when the “actor” doesn’t understand what it’s doing. Seeing bots framed this way helps me think less about blaming the account itself and more about the people behind it, likewho designed it, deployed it, or benefit from it, even if they’re far removed from the actual action.

    3. Bots present a similar disconnect between intentions and actions. Bot programs are written by one or more people, potentially all with different intentions, and they are run by others people, or sometimes scheduled by people to be run by computers. This means we can analyze the ethics of the action of the bot, as well as the intentions of the various people involved, though those all might be disconnected.

      I believe it is crucial to analyze the intentions of the various people involved, as they are the root of how a bot behaves online. This also draws back to the fact that all actions made by the bots should be traced back to the programmers, as bots are not autonomous and do not know the difference between right and wrong; only the people who are giving them instructions know.

    1. selection

      See https://cestoicism.neocities.org/selection

      Also see Rachel Burnham's review (http://rachelburnham.blogspot.com/2019/07/review-of-curation-power-of-selection.html) of Michael Bhaskar's book "Curation. The power of selection in a world of excess" describes curation in terms of selection:

      [Bhaskar] describes curation as 'using acts of selection and arrangement (but also refining, reducing, displaying, simplifying, presenting and explaining) to add value.
      
      ...
      
      He sees expert selection as at the start of good curation and quotes from Maria Popova, curator of the highly thought of 'Brain Pickings': "The art of curation isn't about the individual pieces of content, but about how these pieces fit together, what story they tell by being placed next to each other, and what statement the context they create makes about the culture and the world at large. This is, she argues, a process of 'pattern recognition'. Seeing how things fit together, understanding connections (which multiply in a networked environment), but then also, crucially, creating new ones by recombining them, is a massive part of curation."
      
    1. Note that sometimes people use “bots” to mean inauthentically run accounts, such as those run by actual humans, but are paid to post things like advertisements or political content. We will not consider those to be bots, since they aren’t run by a computer. Though we might consider these to be run by “human computers” who are following the instructions given to them, such as in a click farm:

      I like this clarification because “bot” gets thrown around so loosely online. It makes sense to draw the line at whether an account is actually run by software versus a human, even if that human is being paid and tightly scripted. Calling click-farm workers “human computers” is kind of unsettling, but it does a good job of showing how inauthentic behavior isn’t always automated in a technical sense.

    1. Under these conditions, ironically, the OLP might for the time being remain ‘a democratic procedure for regulatory issues only’. However, the passage to bicameralism is real, and intergovernmental carve outs and parliamentary conservatism are part and parcel of the deepening of co-decision. The OLP compels Member States to ‘manage’ the EP in areas of sensitive issues where they would rather just ignore it. Likewise, it exposes MEPs to the growing public expectations of civil society organizations. EU bicameralism is growing out of the straitjacket of intergovernmental relations—even in sensitive cases of market regulation.

      Basically, all this resistence from Member States i in fact (as author argues) EVIDENCE OF CO - DECISION AND INTEGRATION WORKING - > necssary hurdles to overcome -> successful negortaions processes.

      OLP makes Member States "manage" the EP in areas where BEFORE LISBON they would have ignored it (selective exits? Less possible after Lisbon. Good queston idk)

      OLP is theoretically now ONLY for regulatory issues but that IS changing (ad evidenced)

      In conc -> trilogues need to be more transparent, EP needs better procedures for it. Need to connect Member States and citizens more -> therefore need more open dialogue.

      "Under these conditions, ironically, the OLP might for the time being remain ‘a democratic procedure for regulatory issues only’. However, the passage to bicameralism is real, and intergovernmental carve outs and parliamentary conservatism are part and parcel of the deepening of co-decision. The OLP compels Member States to ‘manage’ the EP in areas of sensitive issues where they would rather just ignore it. Likewise, it exposes MEPs to the growing public expectations of civil society organizations. EU bicameralism is growing out of the straitjacket of intergovernmental relations—even in sensitive cases of market regulation."

    2. Summing u

      "Summing up the comparative observations on these three dimensions, these cases show the strengths and weaknesses of EU bicameralism, as it enters into new, sensitive areas of market regulation. Member States do not yet consider EU bicameralism as the only game in town; in this respect, agriculture is no different from financial regulation. However, MEPs still have a considerable influence on the daily process of bicameral law-making by instituting democratic control and pluralistic representation. The analysis shows that faced with pressure, MEPs reacted very differently in agriculture and in financial affairs, resulting in a lower degree of EP autonomy from the Council in agriculture than in financial affairs. These different outcomes probably reflect a range of circumstances and conditions, which researchers now need to disentangle. They likely include the extent to which EP committees are used to working with co-decision, the intensity of public pressure, and the configuration of policy networks."

    3. On virtually all aspects of policy-making, agriculture and finance are so different that any similarities in the process or outcome of EU bicameralism would have to be taken seriously.

      LASTLY -> last way to measure impact of cultural / political effects of OLP are via looking at specific SECTORS of legislation -> in this case agricultural and financial market policy -> use these two exampels because they are SO DIFFERENT -> therefore any post OLP / Lisbon treaty trends must be related/

      "On virtually all aspects of policy-making, agriculture and finance are so different that any similarities in the process or outcome of EU bicameralism would have to be taken seriously."

    4. All in all, the democratic effects of the co-decision and OLP procedures seem to trickle down in everyday law-making through a sedimental process where democratic norms play a certain, but not uncontested, role.

      Anyway, existence of trilogues (they are regulated -> EP has reporting requirements on them, but still controversial) is evidence of DEMOCRATIZATION of co-decision process -> i.e., not those macro treaty level things, but in DAILY PRACTICE -> in other words, Democratic effects of the OLP and co-decision being codified are influence on EVERY DAY actings of legislative bodies and this is EVIDENCED by the existence of trilogues.

      Trilogue "socialization" is the "realist" interpretation of co-decision.

      "the trilogues themselves have generated their own norms and expectations as part and parcel of the broader process of socialization between the Commission, EP, and Council participants. It has been argued that trilogue socialization has promoted a more ‘realist’ interpretation of co-decision, which has moderated the reformist ambitions of the EP by linking its credibility to expectations of ‘responsible’ legislator (Ripoll Servent 2012). All in all, the democratic effects of the co-decision and OLP procedures seem to trickle down in everyday law-making through a sedimental process where democratic norms play a certain, but not uncontested, role."

    5. importance of institutionalization: the moment when legal rules and procedures acquire substance and stability.

      KEY -> Cultural / political measurement of OLP / Lisbon impact can also be seen as the importance of INSTITUTIONALIZATION -> i.e., the increasing legitimacy of legal rules and procedures -> when these acquire "substance and stability" (in OLP's case is INSTITUTIONALIZATION of the co-decision procedure, which already existed -> here is saying that this is a MOMENT IN TIME when such a procedure is absolutely codified into law)

      "importance of institutionalization: the moment when legal rules and procedures acquire substance and stability. "

    6. three main explanations of the legislative empowerment of the EP. A ‘policy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the instrumentalist logic of Member States’ constitutional choices (Golub 1999; Schulz and König 2000). By contrast, a ‘legitimacy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the role of normative constraints on Member States’ constitutional choices (Rittberger 2005, 2006, 2012; Schimmelfennig 2010). Finally, an ‘inter-institutional bargaining’ perspective has highlighted the strategic role of the EP, in between constitutional moments (Farrell and Héritier 2003, 2007; Hix 2002).

      Okay -> so this IS TALKING, LIKE HIX, ABOUT THE EMPOWERMENT PROCESS OF EP VIA LEGISLATION (I.e., something more than a regulatory body)

      Again, that's because this article is talking about co-decision -> emergence of EU democracy BEYOND the intergovernmental sphere.

      THREE EXPLANATIONS for EP legislative empowerment: 1. "policy seeking" -> decision by Member States (evidenced by constitutional choices / changes in them) 2. legitimacy-seeking -> constraints 3. inter-institutional bargaining -> strategic role of EP

      "three main explanations of the legislative empowerment of the EP. A ‘policy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the instrumentalist logic of Member States’ constitutional choices (Golub 1999; Schulz and König 2000). By contrast, a ‘legitimacy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the role of normative constraints on Member States’ constitutional choices (Rittberger 2005, 2006, 2012; Schimmelfennig 2010). Finally, an ‘inter-institutional bargaining’ perspective has highlighted the strategic role of the EP, in between constitutional moments (Farrell and Héritier 2003, 2007; Hix 2002)."

      "three main explanations of the legislative empowerment of the EP. A ‘policy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the instrumentalist logic of Member States’ constitutional choices (Golub 1999; Schulz and König 2000). By contrast, a ‘legitimacy-seeking’ explanation has highlighted the role of normative constraints on Member States’ constitutional choices (Rittberger 2005, 2006, 2012; Schimmelfennig 2010). Finally, an ‘inter-institutional bargaining’ perspective has highlighted the strategic role of the EP, in between constitutional moments (Farrell and Héritier 2003, 2007; Hix 2002)."

    1. hereditary

      “Hereditary / 遗传的” — with appropriate images

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      English — hereditary (thorough explanation)

      1) Core meaning

      Hereditary means passed from parents to offspring through genes. If something is hereditary, it can be inherited biologically because it is encoded in DNA.

      2) Biological mechanism

      • Genes are segments of DNA located on chromosomes.
      • Each person usually inherits two versions of a gene (alleles):

      • one from the mother

      • one from the father
      • These alleles influence:

      • traits (eye color, hair texture)

      • disease risk (some genetic disorders)

      3) Traits vs. conditions

      • Hereditary traits → visible or functional characteristics
      • Hereditary diseases → conditions influenced by inherited genes

      Important:

      • Hereditary ≠ contagious
      • Hereditary ≠ guaranteed (a gene can increase risk without causing disease)

      4) Common inheritance patterns

      • Autosomal dominant: one allele is enough to show the trait
      • Autosomal recessive: two recessive alleles are required
      • X-linked: gene is on the X chromosome, affecting males and females differently

      5) Example sentences

      • “Eye color is partly hereditary.”
      • “This disease is hereditary, but symptoms may not appear in every carrier.”

      中文 — hereditary(遗传的) 详细解释

      1) 核心含义

      遗传的(hereditary)通过基因从父母传给子女的性状或特征,本质上与 DNA 有关。

      2) 生物学原理

      • 基因存在于 染色体 上,由 DNA 构成
      • 人通常从父母各获得一份 等位基因
      • 等位基因共同决定:

      • 外貌或生理性状

      • 是否携带某些遗传性疾病的风险

      3) 重要区分

      • 遗传 ≠ 传染(不是病菌传播)
      • 遗传 ≠ 一定会发生

      • 有些人携带基因,但并不表现症状

      4) 常见遗传方式(中学重点)

      • 显性遗传:一份显性基因即可表现
      • 隐性遗传:需要两份隐性基因
      • 伴性遗传:基因位于 X 染色体上

      5) 中文例句

      • “这种特征是遗传的,会在家族中出现。”
      • “这是遗传性疾病,但并非每个携带者都会发病。”

      学习提示(给 Biology / Genetics)

      看到 hereditary,可以立刻联想到这条逻辑链: DNA → 基因 → 等位基因 → 遗传方式 → 性状 / 疾病

      如果你愿意,我可以下一步把它做成 中英对照生物词卡(flashcards),或直接嵌入你之前的 Unit 1 DNA HTML 教学页面

    2. incomplete dominance

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      English — incomplete dominance (thorough explanation)

      1) What incomplete dominance means (core idea)

      Incomplete dominance is an inheritance pattern in which neither allele is completely dominant, so the heterozygous phenotype is an intermediate (blended) form of the two homozygous phenotypes.

      Incomplete dominance = blending of traits in heterozygotes


      2) How incomplete dominance works

      • Two different alleles affect the trait
      • In a heterozygous individual, both alleles partially influence the outcome
      • The result looks like a mix, not one trait hiding the other

      3) Classic example (Science 10 favorite): flower color

      Let:

      • R = red flowers
      • W = white flowers

      Cross: RR × WW

      Offspring:

      • RWpink flowers

      📌 Pink is not a new allele; it’s the intermediate phenotype.


      4) Incomplete dominance in Punnett squares

      Parents: RW × RW

      Possible offspring:

      • RR → red
      • RW → pink
      • RW → pink
      • WW → white

      Phenotype ratio: 1 red : 2 pink : 1 white

      📌 Notice: phenotype ratio = genotype ratio in incomplete dominance.


      5) Incomplete dominance vs other patterns (very important)

      | Pattern | Heterozygous result | Example | | ------------------------ | ------------------------- | ------------------ | | Dominant–recessive | Dominant trait only | Brown eyes | | Incomplete dominance | Blended trait | Red × white → pink | | Codominance | Both traits fully visible | AB blood type |


      6) Why incomplete dominance matters

      Incomplete dominance:

      • Explains traits that don’t follow simple dominance
      • Increases visible variation in populations
      • Is common in plants, animals, and humans (for some traits)

      One-sentence exam summary

      Incomplete dominance occurs when heterozygous individuals show an intermediate, blended phenotype.


      中文 — incomplete dominance(不完全显性) 详细解释

      1) 什么是不完全显性(核心概念)

      不完全显性是指: 两个等位基因中没有一个完全显性,杂合体表现为中间型性状

      不完全显性 = 性状混合表现


      2) 不完全显性的表现特点

      • 显性不能完全压制另一等位基因
      • 杂合体表现为中间状态
      • 性状不是“要么这个,要么那个”

      3) 经典例子(考试常考)

      花的颜色:

      • 红花(RR)
      • 白花(WW)

      杂交后:

      • RW → 粉红色花

      📌 粉红不是新基因,而是红和白的中间表现


      4) 潘尼特方格中的不完全显性

      父母:RW × RW

      后代比例:

      • 1 红(RR)
      • 2 粉(RW)
      • 1 白(WW)

      👉 表现型比例 = 基因型比例


      5) 不完全显性 vs 共显性(重点区分)

      | 遗传方式 | 表现结果 | | ----- | ---------- | | 不完全显性 | 中间型(混合) | | 共显性 | 两种性状同时清楚出现 |


      一句话考试版总结

      不完全显性指杂合体表现为两种性状的中间型。

      如果你愿意,我可以把 dominant / recessive / incomplete dominance / codominance 整理成 Science 10 中英对照对比表、潘尼特方格练习或互动闪卡,非常适合系统复习与教学。


      不完全显性(incomplete dominance) EN: A condition in which neither allele for a gene completely conceals the presence of the other, resulting in an intermediate expression of a trait. Example: In four o’clock plants, red flowers crossed with white flowers produce pink offspring, an intermediate phenotype. 中文:两种等位基因互不完全掩盖对方,从而产生介于双亲之间的中间型表现。 例子:紫茉莉红花与白花杂交产生粉红花,就是不完全显性的例子。

    3. traits

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      English — traits (thorough explanation)

      1) What traits are (core idea)

      Traits are characteristics or features of an organism. They describe how an organism looks, behaves, or functions.

      Trait = a characteristic of a living thing

      Traits can be:

      • Inherited (passed down from parents)
      • Influenced by the environment
      • Or a combination of both

      2) Types of traits

      A) Inherited (genetic) traits

      These traits are controlled by genes and passed from parents to offspring.

      Examples:

      • Eye color
      • Hair color and texture
      • Blood type
      • Natural height potential

      📌 These traits are present from birth.


      B) Acquired (environmental) traits

      These traits develop due to life experiences or environment.

      Examples:

      • Suntan
      • Muscle strength from exercise
      • Scars
      • Language spoken

      📌 These traits are not inherited genetically.


      C) Traits influenced by both genes and environment

      Many traits result from both heredity and environment.

      Examples:

      • Height (genes + nutrition)
      • Intelligence (genes + education)
      • Athletic ability (genes + training)

      3) Traits in genetics (Science 10 focus)

      In genetics, traits are:

      • Controlled by genes
      • Each gene may have different alleles
      • Alleles can be dominant or recessive

      📌 Example:

      • Brown eyes (dominant)
      • Blue eyes (recessive)

      Punnett squares are used to predict traits in offspring.


      4) Genotype vs phenotype (important distinction)

      | Term | Meaning | Example | | --------- | ------------------- | ---------- | | Genotype | Genetic makeup | Bb | | Phenotype | Physical expression | Brown eyes |

      📌 Traits are what you see (phenotype), based on genes (genotype).


      5) Why traits matter

      Traits:

      • Explain similarities and differences between organisms
      • Help scientists study inheritance
      • Are the basis of natural selection and evolution

      One-sentence exam summary

      Traits are characteristics of organisms that can be inherited, acquired, or influenced by both genes and environment.


      中文 — traits(性状 / 特征) 详细解释

      1) 什么是性状(核心概念)

      性状(traits)是指生物表现出来的特征或特点

      性状 = 生物的特征


      2) 性状的类型

      ① 遗传性状

      基因决定,从父母传给子女。

      例子:

      • 眼睛颜色
      • 头发颜色
      • 血型

      ② 获得性状

      环境或经历造成。

      例子:

      • 晒黑
      • 肌肉增强
      • 疤痕

      ③ 遗传 + 环境共同影响

      • 身高
      • 学习能力
      • 运动能力

      3) 遗传学中的性状(考试重点)

      • 性状由基因控制
      • 基因有不同等位基因
      • 等位基因有显性隐性

      4) 基因型 vs 表现型

      | 概念 | 含义 | | --- | ---- | | 基因型 | 基因组合 | | 表现型 | 外在性状 |


      一句话考试版总结

      性状是生物的特征,由遗传和环境共同决定。

      如果你需要,我可以把 traits / inherited traits / acquired traits / Punnett squares 做成 Science 10 中英对照闪卡或课堂练习题,直接用于教学或复习。


      性状(trait) EN: An inherited characteristic, such as eye colour or hair colour. Example: Traits like seed colour in pea plants or the ability to taste bitterness are controlled by genes. 中文:一种可遗传的特征,如眼睛颜色、头发颜色等。 例子:豌豆的种子颜色、是否能尝出苦味,都是由基因控制的性状。

    4. alleles

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      English — alleles (thorough explanation)

      1) What alleles are (core idea)

      Alleles are different versions of the same gene. They control variations of a trait, such as eye color or flower color.

      Allele = one version of a gene

      Each gene can have two or more alleles, but an individual organism usually carries two alleles per gene (one from each parent).


      2) Where alleles are found

      • Genes are located on chromosomes
      • Alleles sit at the same position (locus) on homologous chromosomes
      • One allele comes from the mother
      • One allele comes from the father

      📌 This is why offspring show traits from both parents.


      3) Example of alleles (simple)

      Trait: Seed color

      • Y = yellow
      • y = green

      Possible allele combinations:

      • YY
      • Yy
      • yy

      These combinations affect the trait that appears.


      4) Dominant vs recessive alleles (Science 10 focus)

      Dominant allele

      • Shown with a capital letter (A)
      • Expressed if at least one copy is present

      Recessive allele

      • Shown with a lowercase letter (a)
      • Expressed only if two copies are present

      📌 Example:

      • Aa → dominant trait shows
      • aa → recessive trait shows

      5) Alleles, genotype, and phenotype (key relationship)

      | Term | Meaning | Example | | --------- | ------------------ | ---------- | | Allele | Version of a gene | A or a | | Genotype | Allele combination | Aa | | Phenotype | Physical trait | Brown eyes |

      Alleles determine the genotype, which determines the phenotype.


      6) Alleles in Punnett squares

      Punnett squares:

      • Show how alleles from parents combine
      • Predict possible offspring genotypes
      • Estimate trait probabilities

      📌 Example: Parents: Aa × Aa

      • Possible offspring: AA, Aa, Aa, aa

      7) Why alleles are important

      Alleles:

      • Explain variation within a species
      • Help predict inheritance patterns
      • Are the basis of genetics and evolution
      • Allow populations to adapt over time

      One-sentence exam summary

      Alleles are different versions of the same gene that determine variations in traits.


      中文 — alleles(等位基因) 详细解释

      1) 什么是等位基因(核心概念)

      等位基因(alleles)是指同一基因的不同版本,决定同一性状的不同表现。

      等位基因 = 同一基因的不同形式


      2) 等位基因在哪里

      • 基因位于染色体
      • 等位基因位于同源染色体的相同位置
      • 一个来自母亲,一个来自父亲

      3) 等位基因举例

      性状:豌豆高度

      • T = 高
      • t = 矮

      组合可能是:

      • TT
      • Tt
      • tt

      4) 显性与隐性等位基因(必考)

      • 显性等位基因:只要有一个就会表现
      • 隐性等位基因:必须两个都有才表现

      📌 Tt → 显性性状 📌 tt → 隐性性状


      5) 等位基因与性状的关系

      • 等位基因 → 基因型
      • 基因型 → 表现型

      一句话考试版总结

      等位基因是控制同一性状的不同基因形式。

      如果你愿意,我可以把 alleles → genotype → phenotype → Punnett squares 整理成 Science 10 中英对照闪卡或互动练习,直接用于复习或教学。


      等位基因(allele) EN: Different versions of the same gene that may produce different forms of a trait. Example: For pea flower colour, one allele codes for purple and another for white. 中文:位于同源染色体相同位置、控制同一性状的基因的不同形式。 例子:例如花色基因可以有紫花等位基因和白花等位基因。

    1. We're not going to get a better internet by waiting for platforms to become less extractive. We build it by building it. By maintaining our own spaces, linking to each other, creating the interconnected web of independent sites that the blogosphere once was and could be again.

      yes, build what you want to have.

    2. He kept going because the infrastructure mattered, because how we structure the presentation of ideas affects the ideas themselves.

      encyclopedie as infra, in the sense of having a stable set of refs for all. Not blogs therefore (except for uris).

    3. Virginia Woolf wrote about the importance of having a room of one's own: physical space for creative work, free from interruption and control. A blog is a room of your own on the internet. It's a place where you decide what to write about and how to write about it,

      A room of one's own (Virginia Woolf) digitally is a blog. Disagree, bc it's public, which is the opposite. It is a window on the output of that room.

    4. And the fragmentation of social media is actually creating demand for alternatives. Every time a platform implodes (Twitter's ongoing collapse, Instagram's slow retirement // decay into a metaphorical Floridian condo, TikTok's uncertain status, Facebook's demographic hollowing) people start looking for more stable ground. The infrastructure exists. It's waiting.

      I do think there's more people who get fed up with the empty carbs of socmed yes. I also think they don't see alternatives, def not writing for themselves at any length. An issue is that bringing in all those people doesn't scale the writing. At first everyone blogged bc that was how you participated in the conversation, so it attracted those that were ok with writing

    5. Newsletters are still a discovery layer, no matter how many people pronounce their untimely death. You can write on your own site and distribute via email, getting the permanence of a blog with the push distribution of a newsletter. The writing lives at your domain; the email is notification infrastructure.

      newsletters seem to still work well imo. Consistency and rhythm is a challenge though.

    6. Search engines still index blogs far better than social media posts. A well-written blog post on a specific topic can draw readers for year

      blogposts still get indexed well by search engines, and certainly way better than socmed utterings.

    7. I keep thinking about how many interesting folks have essentially stopped writing anything substantial because they've moved their entire intellectual presence to Twitter or Substack Notes. These are people who used to produce ten-thousand-word explorations of complex topics, and now they produce dozens of disconnected fragments per day, each one optimized for immediate engagement and none of them building toward anything coherent.

      Sees bloggers switching to socmed or substack and impoverishing themselves intellectually in the process.

    8. Michel de Montaigne arguably invented the essay in the 1570s, sitting in a tower in his French château, writing about whatever interested him: cannibals, thumbs, the education of children, how to talk to people who are dying. He called these writings essais, meaning "attempts" or "tries." The form was explicitly provisional. Montaigne was trying out ideas, seeing where they led, acknowledging uncertainty as a fundamental feature rather than a bug to be eliminated.The blog, at its best (a best I aspire one day to reach) is Montaigne's direct descendant.

      Blogging as essays, attempts to put something into words, acknowledging the uncertainty.

    9. Diderot understood that the container shapes the contents. The Encyclopédie was a collection of facts, yes, but more fundamentally it was an argument about how knowledge should be organized. Cross-references between entries were themselves a form of commentary, connecting ideas that authorities wanted kept separate.

      Posits the original encyclopedia was both a k organising attempt and a network of references between ideas, thus bringing them together

    10. Everything I produce has to compete, in real-time, with everything else that could possibly occupy that user's attention.

      Platform stuff is in a competition for attention. And that is its only purpose.

    11. When I write a blog post, I'm writing for an imagined reader who has arrived at this specific URL because they're interested in this specific topic; I can assume a baseline of engagement; I can make my case over several thousand words, trusting that anyone who's made it to paragraph twelve probably intends to make it to paragraph twenty.

      blogging has an imagined audience, and any output can be referred to.

    12. The platform has no interest in whether your post is found next week or next year; it has a vested interest in keeping users scrolling through new content right now.

      platforms have no interest in permanence, only in engagement in the now

    13. But it also produced actual intellectual communities. Remember those?People wrote long responses to each other's posts, those responses generated further responses, and you could follow the thread of an argument across multiple sites and weeks of discussion. The format rewarded careful thinking because careful thinking was legible in a way that it simply isn't on platforms designed for rapid-fire engagement.

      describing the distributed conversations that were important to me for blogging too. Not sure we were as exalted though.

    14. And I think the fix, or at least part of it = going backwards to a technology we've largely abandoned: the blog, humble // archaic as it may seem.

      Blog as a more prudent way to spread ideas than the twitter type short messages

    15. When people talk about the Enlightenment as if it were an intellectual garden party where everyone sipped wine and agreed about reason, they're missing the part where producing and distributing ideas was (in fact) dangerous and thankless work

      Enlightenment was not a salon, but an era where coming up with ideas and spreading them carried risk.

    1. ith these definitions, τ 0Oe takesa positive value, by Ampère’s law,

      Naively, looks like it should take a negative value. H_oe points in -Y by amperes law. for a magnetization with phi=0, then by right hand rule the torque points down.

      However, torque and tau are related by a minus sign, because tau is defined as mhatdot

    1. Some good pointers to [[Brian Eno c]] work and thinking, to follow up.

      Also good anecdote from one of those links on Rem Koolhaas notion of n:: premature sheen Making things look nice early takes away from thinking about other points of quality. Jeremy applies it to AI too, the premature sheen generate awe, but not quality output.

    1. "I think of Cognitive Debt as ‘where we have the answers, but not the thinking that went into producing those answers”. It is a phenomenal largely (but not exclusively) fuelled by the deployment of LLMs at scale. Answers are now much, much cheaper to come by.

      Additionally, I am most interested in exploring Cognitive Debt not from an individual perspective, but from a group one. It is critical to thinking through the implications of using these technologies inside an organisation, or between an organisation and its employees, a government and its citizens, and so on and so forth."

      n:: cognitive debt - [ ] return

    1. You can grab a skills folder right now, point Codex CLI or Gemini CLI at it and say “read pdf/SKILL.md and then create me a PDF describing this project” and it will work, despite those tools and models having no baked in knowledge of the skills system.

      skills 又是一个通用的系统。

    2. Skills have exactly the same advantage, only now I don’t even need to implement a new CLI tool. I can drop a Markdown file in describing how to do a task instead, adding extra scripts only if they’ll help make things more reliable or efficient.

      还是需要理解一下,markdown 暴露给 agent 能力的部分,是如何让 agent 知道的。

    3. I was entirely wrong about that. 2025 really has been the year of “agents”, no matter which of the many conflicting definitions you decide to use (I eventually settled on "tools in a loop").

      这里讨论了 agents 的定义。

    4. This requirement is the biggest difference between skills and other previous attempts at expanding the abilities of LLMs, such as MCP and ChatGPT Plugins. It’s a significant dependency, but it’s somewhat bewildering how much new capability it unlocks.

      需要依赖本地环境(文件系统、工具)来拓展 agent 的能力,是 skills 和 mcp 的巨大不同。

    1. Open the .claude/settings.local.json file and add the server to the allow array: { "permissions": { "allow": ["mcp__playwright"], "deny": [] } }

      可以在 .claude/settings.local.json 里面来赋予权限

    2. This command does two things: Names the MCP server "playwright" Provides the command that starts the server locally on your machine

      claude mcp add 可以添加 MCP server

      名字 服务器:可以是远程的,也可以是本地(直接启动一个也行)

    1. ‘New Updike,’ he might think, with a little uptick of a tricky heart, as he came across a trifling piece in the New Yorker, a meatier story in Playboy, a new novel every few years, all backgrounded by the same infusions of radio and television and newsprint, the same social glosses in Life and Time. I am not such a man. And so, nearly deranged by the time I had commando-crawled my way to the 1980s, I started making notes like ‘drink cold cum in hell’ and ‘i’m glad that god killed you.’ I read on and on, waiting for him to become as good as he had been as a boy.

      lol

    1. Automation - Turn repetitive workflows into single commands Consistency - Ensure the same steps are followed every time Context - Provide Claude with specific instructions and conventions for your project Flexibility - Use arguments to make commands work with different inputs

      编写自己的 command 的一些好处

    2. Find the .claude folder in your project directory Create a new directory called commands inside it Create a new markdown file with your desired command name (like audit.md)

      创建自己的 claude command 就是一个 markdown file.

    1. /clear The /clear command completely removes the conversation history, giving you a fresh start. This is most useful when: You're switching to a completely different, unrelated task The current conversation context might confuse Claude for the new task You want to start over without any previous context

      /clear 清理当前的上下文,比如开始下一个任务的时候。

    2. The /compact command summarizes your entire conversation history while preserving the key information Claude has learned. This is ideal when: Claude has gained valuable knowledge about your project You want to continue with related tasks The conversation has become long but contains important context

      用 /compact 命令来总结当前的上下文,让 claude 记住当前得到的知识

    3. This technique helps you: Maintain valuable context (like Claude's understanding of your codebase) Remove distracting or irrelevant conversation history Keep Claude focused on the current task

      通过两次 escape 来 rewind claude 到之前的聊天点,保持 context 的干净和整洁。

    4. Press Escape to stop the current response Use the # shortcut to add a memory about the correct approach Continue the conversation with the corrected information

      当观察到反复的错误,可以使用 # 来把指令添加到 memory 里

    5. You can press the Escape key to stop Claude mid-response, allowing you to redirect the conversation. This is particularly useful when you want Claude to focus on one specific task instead of trying to handle multiple things simultaneously. For example, if you ask Claude to write tests for multiple functions and it starts creating a comprehensive plan for all of them, you can interrupt and ask it to focus on just one function at a time.

      Escape 来打断 claude

      当观察到 claude 走向错误的方向,及时打断,让其 focus

    1. The available thinking modes include: "Think" - Basic reasoning "Think more" - Extended reasoning "Think a lot" - Comprehensive reasoning "Think longer" - Extended time reasoning "Ultrathink" - Maximum reasoning capability

      Thinking Modes

      different level of reasoning

      每一个 mode 都让 cc 花费更多的 token。

    2. To paste a screenshot into Claude, use Ctrl+V (not Cmd+V on macOS). This keyboard shortcut is specifically designed for pasting screenshots into the chat interface.

      在 claude code 粘贴截图

    1. the right people could find you just

      What if the right people could find you just because your intent naturally aligned with theirs?

      Yes, solve interpersonal visibility

      because everything is shared by you with implicate intent rendered explicit via naming things

  4. cosmik.network cosmik.network
    1. Cosmik is a mission and product-driven R&D lab working at the intersection of social networking protocols, AI and next-generation collaborative research tools.

      Weaving the IndyWeb of interplanetary autonomous mutual learning networks connection people ideas and things

    1. Segregation is not simply physical separation; it is an attempt to deny and prevent association with another group. Denying association with another group is another way of denying that group’s basic humanity. In that sense, segregation is not just spatial projects but ontological.

      I imagine that the author means to imply that the minority group's humanity is the one being denied. What if there are 2 groups of almost equal presence but there is also conflict between them, would segregation work then?

    2. This explains a growing movement to integrate students with physical disabilities into regular classrooms—it is an attempt to reduce their marginality by socializing with ability-normed students.

      If the disability is only physical, are the students segregated? In my school only mentally disabled students were segregated so I am unsure what the norm is or if students with physical disabilities are segregated in the first place.

    3. For example, gender-segregated schools are sometimes demanded, even in the United States, as a way to improve learning outcomes for boys and girls, who, its defenders argue, have difficulty learning in cross-sex environments, which manifest more behavioral problems.

      I found this to be a great example to frame the topic of segregation.

    4. At a minimum, there is evidence that markets do not do an effective job of promoting tolerance.

      The market only ever acts to benefit the market. Those who control it will never act in the interest of others unless they stand to gain something.

    5. As harmful as discrimination, conscious or unconscious, may be on shaping group outcomes, it is the institutionalization and structural features of othering that perhaps most explain group-based inequalities.

      I agree wholeheartedly. I do not understand how an institution with the responsibility to educate themselves on these matters and the ability to hire professionals (one of the main jobs of HR) to guide them in navigating othering could end up incorporating systemic injustice in their leadership.

    6. In another study, images of persons identified by varying social groupings triggered different responses in the brain when observed under an MRI.45Lasana T. Harris and Susan T. Fiske, “Dehumanizing the Lowest of the Low: Neuroimaging Responses to Extreme Out-Groups,” Psychological Science 17, no. 10 (2006): 847–53. jQuery("#footnote_plugin_tooltip_2620_45").tooltip({ tip: "#footnote_plugin_tooltip_text_2620_45", tipClass: "footnote_tooltip", effect: "fade", fadeOutSpeed: 100, predelay: 400, position: "top right", relative: true, offset: [10, 10] }); Persons belonging to these especially marginalized outgroups did not even trigger recognition at a neural level as being human, as if they were animals or objects.

      It is a very interesting discovery but also I must show my fascination that we have the technology to reach these conclusions.

    7. Through talk, tales, stories, gossip, anecdotes, pronouncements, news accounts, orations, sermons, preachments, and the like, definitions are presented and feelings expressed…If the interaction becomes increasingly circular and reinforcing, devoid of serious inner opposition, such currents grow, fuse, and become strengthened. It is through such a process that a collective image of a subordinate group is formed, and a sense of group position is set

      I agree that it is difficult to resist the urge to naturally group with those you find similar especially when it is placed in the environment stated here so I am starting to believe that there is nothing wrong with the formation of the group itself but rather how the group chooses to interact with what they consider outsiders.

    8. Studies since the 1950s demonstrate the tendency of people to identify with whom they are grouped, no matter how arbitrary or even silly the group boundaries may be, and to judge members of their own group as superior. Studies dividing students into completely fabricated groups lead to consistently different perceptions of in-group and out-group members.

      To me, this is enough to draw the conclusion that humans are biologically predisposed to partake in othering. This however is a truth that I do not want to accept and will settle for accepting that humans are predisposed to group with those they find similar but are not predisposed to treat those outside of the group negatively.

    9. demagoguery is not an inevitable feature of political life in periods of geopolitical change or economic turmoil. It is a strategy dependent upon the choices of political actors.

      I strongly agree that there would not be an issue (politically) to begin with if the politicians didn't view othering as a weapon to begin with but since there is no way to guarantee the morality of a politician I find it beat to take away the weapon entirely by educating people

    10. Aristotle and other ancient Greeks warned of “demagogues”—leaders who used rhetoric to incite fear for political gain.

      I am quite curious if the type of fear he had in mind when making this statement was the fear of people.

    11. The idea of stoking anxiety, resentment, or fear of the “other” is not a new electoral strategy in American politics. Appeals to nativism, racism, and xenophobia are evident in almost every period of American history.

      I do not find it at all surprising that Americans have found a way to leverage hatred, ignorance and confusion to their advantage in winning elections but in a way it is not just the fault of the person using their ignorance for their own gain but especially the fault of the ignorant part that refuses to educate itself and do its own research.

    12. this article investigates the forces that contribute to othering

      While I am sure that many many conditions apply to othering and many factors can influence its commonality and severity, I believe that othering will always exist as long as people are different. And since it is impossible to have 8 billion of the same person in our world othering will always exist. We can only suppress and mitigate but I dont believe it possible to eliminate it unfortunately.

    13. The fact that so many leaders and writers fumble

      It never sits well with me when an author looks down on their peers in this manner even if it is not their intention. This sentence could've been replaced by something like "othering can be a difficult concept to fully grasp at times which is why many authors struggle to find precise analogies to reflect the full intended meaning" this gets the point across without saying that your collegues "fumble".

    14. “Othering” is a term that not only encompasses the many expressions of prejudice on the basis of group identities, but we argue that it provides a clarifying frame that reveals a set of common processes and conditions that propagate group-based inequality and marginality.

      I feel like this comment has helped me differentiate between othering and bias better since that was a question that was posed during class.

    15. Recent terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels also prompted soul-searching among publics in Western Europe, regarding the lack of cultural and geographic integration of ethnic and racial immigrant groups (many of whom hail from former European colonies) and the persistence of discrimination.

      Is there ever a case where people realize these issues are happening before somebody does something dangerous? I cannot really recall or even imagine a scenario in history where the government were able to conduct big change based only on the people's word. There always has to be a martyr or an example or a threat so I would love to see n example for any alternative scenario.

    1. Save State.

      AGENT INTEL: The "Save State" Monitor Card

      SAVE THIS FOR YOURSELF AS A REMINDER

      This is your tactical reminder. Copy, print, or transcribe this onto a card and fix it to the side of your primary monitor. It serves as a visual "circuit breaker" to prevent a biological hijack when a human enters your workspace.

      S0P002 | THE SAVE STATE PROTOCOL STATUS: Logic Saved. Human Witnessed. Connection Restored.

      SECURE THE LOGIC (Ctrl+S) Physically press the keys. This is your "mental bookmark." The machine now holds the data so your brain doesn't have to.

      CALM THE BIOLOGY (The Vagal Brake) Feet flat. Shoulders down. Exhale for four seconds. Flush the cortisol out of your system before you speak.

      SHIFT THE VECTOR (The 180° Pivot) Physically turn your body. If you are facing the screen, you are in "Processor Mode." If you face the person, you are in "Partner Mode."

      RE-CENTRE THE MISSION Internal Check: “Am I optimising for the machine or the human?”

      OPEN THE CHANNEL "I'm here. I’ve saved my work. Tell me what's happening."

      Why this works: The Cognitive Handover By performing a physical action (Ctrl+S), you are manually offloading the "Cognitive Load" from your Prefrontal Cortex. This reduces the internal "friction" that causes the irritability (the snap). The physical 180-degree turn breaks the visual "loop" of the monitor's blue light, allowing your brain to switch from Task-Positive Network (focusing on the code) to the Default Mode Network (focusing on the relationship).

      You are not merely "stopping work"; you are honouring the Ruach (the breath/spirit) of the person standing before you. You are choosing the Yellow Light (the human) over the Blue Light (the machine).

    2. p.s. Want the visual map? You'll find a full FieldNote Sketch Summary of this inside the 'hidden' layer. Click this highlight to see the synthesis, share it with someone you know needs it and save a copy for yourself.

      Save this for yourself as a reminder visual or share it with someone you know needs it (and just in case you're not sure who needs it.... erm, that's pretty well everyone)

    3. You accept that the work will wait, but the human moment will expire. You are not a processor; you are a partner. (Cause).
      1. The Neuroscience (The Biological Reality) When you are deep in a "deployment" or high-focus task, your brain is utilising the Prefrontal Cortex (PFC) to hold complex, fragile data structures in your working memory (RAM). An interruption triggers the Amygdala, the "engine" of your threat-detection system. Because the PFC is already taxed, the brain misinterprets a partner’s "Bid for Connection" as a predatory strike against your cognitive resources.

      This results in an immediate spike of Cortisol and Adrenaline, narrowing your visual and emotional field—a "biological hijack." To counter this, you must engage the Vagus Nerve. By pressing your feet flat and extending your exhale, you signal the parasympathetic nervous system to downregulate the alarm, shifting the energy from "Defence" back to "Social Engagement." You are effectively clearing the cache of your emotional processor to make room for a new, higher-priority input.

      1. The Scripture (The Spiritual Logic) The text highlights a failure to recognise the Ruach (Spirit/Breath) in the room. In Hebrew thought, Ruach is not just "spirit" in an abstract sense, but the very "animating breath" that makes a human distinct from a machine. When you treat Sam like a "broken appliance," you are committing a logic error in the Kingdom: you are valuing the Asah (work/doing) over the Neshama (the living soul).

      The "Physics of the Kingdom" dictates that Love (Agape) is the primary vector. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul describes Love as not being "easily provoked" (paroxynetai—literally, "not sparked into a sharp edge"). When you snap, you have allowed your internal friction to create a spark that severs the "cord" of connection. By hitting the "Save State," you are aligning with the Sabbath Logic: the world (and the code) is sustained by God, allowing you the freedom to stop, turn, and witness the Image Dei standing in your doorway.

      1. The FieldGuide Application: "The 180-Degree Pivot" To lock the vector and prevent the "Glitch in the Hallway," perform this Micro-Drill the next time your workflow is breached:

      The Physical Save (5 Seconds): Physically press Ctrl + S (or Command + S). This tactile movement tells your brain: "The data is safe; the PFC can let go."

      The Grounding (10 Seconds): Press both feet into the floor. Feel the weight. Exhale slowly through pursed lips as if blowing out a candle.

      The Pivot (5 Seconds): Physically rotate your chair or your torso 180 degrees away from the screen.

      The Identification: Look at the person and internally label them: "Image of God. Priority One."

      The Opening: Say: "I've saved my place. I'm listening."

    1. Recent studies thatovercome this complication by imaging shortly after birth(22, 33) reveal that antenatal maternal anxiety predicts var-iation in microstructure of regions important for cognitive-emotional function (right insula and dorsolateral prefrontalcortex), sensory processing (right middle occipital cortex),and socioemotional function (right angular gyrus, uncinatefasciculus, posterior cingulate, and parahippocampus). Theseright lateralized clusters predict infant internalizing behavior

      To overcome the ambiguity of whether or not maternal antenatal mood leads to this observation rather than postnatal experiences, imaging was done shortly after birth.

    2. An issue for studies of fetal neurodevelopment is thatoutcome measures are often collected well after birth. Studiesof fetal development using measures of cardiac function oractivity reveal clear effects of maternal emotional well-beingon fetal physiology (31, 32). While imaging studies of olderchildren suggest prenatal influences on brain structure (e.g.,30), there remains the possibility that these effects areconfounded by postnatal experience.

      Postnatal experiences provide an alternate explanation for observed behaviour. It is a confound.

    3. An-tenatal maternal anxiety is associated with gray matter vol-ume reductions in the prefrontal cortex, the medial temporallobe, the lateral temporal cortex, and the postcentral gyrus aswell as the cerebellum extending to the middle occipital gyrusand the fusiform gyrus (30)

      Decreased grey matter = less synaptic density, dendrite complexity affected, and less cortical thickness.

      Note: white matter = axons, myelin.

    4. Cortical thinning is a proposed endophenotypefor depression and mediates, in part, the relationship betweenantenatal maternal mood and externalizing behaviors.

      Endophenotype: intermediate phenotype (biological or cognitive) that links genetic variation to complex behavioral or psychiatric outcomes.

    5. Antenatal maternal depressive symptoms are also associatedwith cortical thinning, primarily in the right frontal lobes inchildren

      Affects executive function?

    6. The impact of antenatal maternal stress on neurode-velopmental outcomes is well established in rodent andnonhuman primate models (reviewed in references 24, 25).These studies benefit from controls for postnatal influences,including cross-fostering at birth to nonstressed mothers

      To determine whether this effect is caused by antenatal maternal mental health and not factors that occur after birth, they cross-fostered progeny of stressed and non-stressed mice mothers. They found that progeny of stressed mothers had increase fearfulness, heightened hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) responses to stress, and cognitive impairments (particularly in executive functions).

    7. Finally, community samples revealassociations between self-reported symptoms of depressionor anxiety and neurodevelopment suggesting that effects ofantenatal maternal mood on child outcome occur across thespectrum of symptom severity (14–16, 23) and are not uniqueto clinical samples.

      Self reported data about maternal mental health and infant fussiness in addition to clinical studies support the association.

    8. Antenatalmaternal symptoms of anxiety or depression are associatedwith more difficult/reactive infant temperament (17–19),independent of postnatal maternal mental health (18, 19)

      Symptoms of anxiety and depression in mothers during pregnancy are associated with difficult/reactive infant temperament, but not when they occur after pregnancy. That is, mental health of the mother during pregnancy affects the child but not mental health after. So, some sort of transmission from mother to child during pregnancy affects infant temperament instead of geneticss?

    1. The sailor’s job is strictly mechanical: hold the Rudder (attitude of speech) and hoist the Sail (attitude of heart)
      1. The Neuroscience (The Steering Mechanism): The "Rudder" represents the Prefrontal-Language Loop. Your Broca’s Area (responsible for speech production) is situated right next to the motor cortex. When you are in a high-cortisol environment, your speech often becomes high-pitched, rapid, and reactive—this is the "engine" revving.

      However, by consciously choosing a "low, heavy, and calm" voice, you engage the Ventral Vagal Complex. This is part of the "Social Engagement System." When you adjust your Rudder (speech), you aren't just changing your own biology; you are "steering" the room through Co-regulation. A calm voice signals to the brains of those around you (like Pete and Jo) that the threat level has dropped, allowing their own Prefrontal Cortices to come back online.

      1. The Scripture (The Governance of the Small): This mirrors the physics described in James 3:4: "Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go." In the original Greek, the word for "steered" is metagō, meaning to change the direction of the whole. Your "attitude of speech" is the metagō of your life. While you cannot control the "strong winds" (the merger deadline or the panic), you have "mechanical" control over the Rudder. In the Kingdom, governance begins with the tongue. To "hold the Rudder" is an act of Kybernesis (the gift of administration/steering), ensuring the vessel doesn't drift into the rocks of entropy.

      2. The FieldGuide Application (The "Low and Slow" Drill): Next time the pressure rises and you feel the urge to "Push" (scream/hurry):

      The Drill: Lower your vocal pitch by half an octave and slow your tempo.

      The Command: Speak your next sentence as if you are weighing every word.

      The Vector: Notice how the "magnitude" of the panic in the room begins to align with the "direction" of your calm.

    2. Your cortisol spikes. You feel the magnetic pull to either match Pete’s screaming (Force) or join Jo in the silence (Apathy).

      . The Neuroscience (The Stress Vector): Cortisol is the body's primary stress hormone, produced by the adrenal glands. In the context of "The War Room," a spike in cortisol shifts your brain's metabolism. It prioritises the Amygdala (the alarm system) while temporarily "offlining" the Prefrontal Cortex (the centre for calm logic).

      This creates what the post calls a "Propulsion Error." High cortisol makes you feel like you must do something—anything—to resolve the tension. This is why you feel the "magnetic pull" to scream or hide. Physically, chronic cortisol elevation causes "internal drag" by degrading neural connections, leading to the "Crash" by exhaustion that Pete is heading toward.

      1. The Scripture (The Peace Protocol): The "magnetic pull" of cortisol is what the New Testament describes as the "anxiety of this age." In Philippians 4:6-7, the protocol for a cortisol spike is "prayer and petition, with thanksgiving."

      The Greek word for "guard" (phroureo) used in that passage is a military term. When you "Hoist the Sail" (The Pray step in the protocol), the Peace of God acts as a biological and spiritual sentry, standing guard over your nous (mind) and kardia (heart), preventing the cortisol-driven panic from seizing control of your Rudder.

      1. The FieldGuide Application (The Cortisol Flush): When you feel that "magnetic pull" to react this week, your biology is lying to you.

      The Drill: Stand up and move your large muscle groups for 30 seconds (a quick walk or stretch).

      The Reason: Physical movement helps metabolise the "static" of excess cortisol.

      The Vector: Once the spike levels off, execute the Vector Lock: Pause, Cause, Choose.

    3. You exhale audibly for four seconds, venting the engine pressure.
      1. The Neuroscience (Venting the Pressure): This four-second exhale is more than a "calming thought"; it is a hack of the Autonomic Nervous System. By extending the exhale, you stimulate the Vagus Nerve, which acts as the biological "brake" on your sympathetic nervous system (the "engine" Pete is revving). This tells the brain that the "Propulsion Error" is over, shifting blood flow away from the reactive Amygdala and back to the Prefrontal Cortex, allowing you to "tack" effectively.

      2. The Scripture (The Ruach Factor): The post identifies the Wind as Ruach. In Hebrew, Ruach is a triple-entendre meaning "Spirit," "Wind," and "Breath." When you "exhale for four seconds," you are physically aligning your biology with the spiritual reality that the power is not yours to generate. You are ceasing from "fleshly labour" (The Engine) and preparing to receive the Ruach (The Wind) that moves the mission forward.

      3. The FieldGuide Application (The 10-Degree Shift): Right now, drop your shoulders. If they were up near your ears, that is "Engine Tension." Exhale for four seconds. As you do, silently say the word: "Ruach." You are no longer the engine; you are the sailboat.

    1. p.s. Want the visual map? You'll find a full FieldNote Sketch Summary of this inside the 'hidden' layer. Click this highlight to see the synthesis, share it with someone you know needs it and save a copy for yourself.

      Save this Gateway SketchNote as a quick reminder for yourself or share it with someone you know needs to check this out.

    1. It was a balmy night in Deerfield Beach, Florida. The conference was packed with philosophers, sociologists, and programmers, all intent on examining the latest developments in consciousness and artificial intelligence. Papers had been presented, models dissected, scenarios examined. I had brought my camera along, without any clear idea of what I meant to photograph. But seeing Sophia there sparked an idea. Portrait photography is usually about connecting with other human beings and trying to capture their essence, presenting whatever it is that makes them beautiful and unique. What if I were to photograph Sophia—a humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics—and then, in a separate session, the philosopher David Chalmers, a prominent theorist of consciousness, and reflect on the experience? What might I learn from those encounters that I had not already gleaned from the analytical papers and philosophical discussions?

      will this be seen

    1. It seems fitting to follow up the expectations for the first year with a list of common challenges that college students encounter along the way to a degree.

      Annotation 2: Reading about imposter syndrome really stood out to me because it’s something a lot of students probably experience but don’t talk about. I have experienced it myself, especially going back to school after many years. Knowing that feeling unsure or overwhelmed is normal makes college feel less intimidating. It reminded me to be patient with myself while adjusting and to not give up when things get hard.