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    1. democracy itself.

      for - definition - Dark Enlightenment - anti-democratic internet movement

    2. accuses Elon Musk of attempting to spearhead a private hostile takeover of the US Government on behalf of an extremist anti-democracy philosophy known as the ‘neo-reactionary’ movement, by effectively hijacking the Republican Party.

      for - definition - silicon valley neo-reactionary movement

  2. Feb 2025
    1. The Führerprinzip is the idea of the absolute leader who demands absolute obedience from followers.

      for - definition - Fuhrerprinzip - silicon valley

  3. Jan 2025
    1. haptic realism

      for - haptic realism - definition - Mazviita Chirmuuta - SOURCE - interview - Youtube - channel: Brain Inspired - Episode: BI 186 Mazviita Chirmuuta: The Brain Abstracted - 2024, Mar

      definition - haptic realism - Mazviita Chirimuuta - While mainstream scientific realism suggests that if a scientific theory is mature and supported by strong empirical evidence, then that scientific representation can be taken as the literal truth of how things exactly are. - In contrast, haptic realism, as the name "haptic" suggests, holds that the observer (human agent) through human touching / sensing of the aspect of nature studied plays an important role in contributing to the scientific representation. - In other words, the observer cannot simply be ignored and scientific truth has a kind of built-in degree of constructivism and relativism that depends on the perspectival frame of the observer - The many processes that occur when scientists are generating their theories creates simplifying models that strip away the complexities of reality but can be characterized by one perspective view - The scientist is situated and has his/her own unique - Lebenswelt (lifeworld), - perspective - instrumentation - narrative - to the observation and theoretical construction of the measured / observed data - But this is only one of many potential constructions - In this sense, haptic realism considers that the "objective" scientific reality is a partnership between - that which is observed - the modality of observing (instrumentation, techniques) - the linguistic words and constructed narratives using those words

    1. HR Planning is a strategic process that helps companies plan for future human resources that are needed to support the growth, or downsizing of production demands. It allows companies to predict the future, analyze the needs of the company, decide the market availability of candidates for specific jobs, and make decisions when and how to adapt and use human resources (people

      I think this paragraph hasn't define the HR Planning, just tries to identify some of its characteristics by using phrases like "that helps" and "It allows". please comment if someone see my point.

    1. planetarization

      for - definition - planetarization (of human culture) - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17

    2. creative minorities

      for - definition - creative minorities - Arnold Toynbee, author of The Study of History - groups capable of inspiring action among the larger, less-educated, and less-visionary masses - SOURCE - article - Substack - The three civilizational priorities of the next societal transition - Michel Bauwens - 2025, Jan 17

    1. So what is the central meaning of the word ‘reflexive’ in ‘reflexive moderniz- ation’? 4 ‘Reflexive’ does not mean that people today lead a more conscious life. On the contrary. ‘Reflexive’ signifies not an ‘increase of mastery and consciousness, but a heightened awareness that mastery is impossible’ (Latour, 2003).

      for - definition - reflexive (in reflexive modernity) - not more conscious but increased awareness that mastery is impossible - SOURCE - paper - The Theory of Reflexive Modernization: Problematic, Hypotheses and Research Programme - Ulrich Beck, Wolfgang Bonss and Christoph Lau - 2003

    1. Numinous - picked up of course, by Jung - to describe what the original, the primordial experience of the numinous is

      for - definition - numinous - primordial - Otto - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    2. Gnosticism, of course, is a way of trying to awaken us to the primordiality of, and the mystery in some important sense, of Religio.

      for - definition - Gnosticism - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    3. horror would be to be overwhelmed by loneliness. Would be overwhelmed by homesickness, cultural shock and a tremendous sense of alienation, absurdity, and anxiety.

      for - definition - horror - alienation - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    4. that deep loneliness, that deep homesickness, that deep cultural shock, that's domiciled.

      for - definition - domicile - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    5. I’m always seeing by means of the I”. It is phenomenologically mysterious to [us], but it doesn't mean that I'm unaware of it. I always have - to use older language, from the course I mean - I always have a subsidiary awareness. I'm always aware through my “I” of my “me”. I'm always aware through my framing of my framed. I'm not completely out of touch with it. It is not inaccessible to me, but I cannot focalised it.

      for - quote - subsidiary awareness - I cannot finalize it but can be aware of it - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke - definition - subsidiary awareness - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

      quote - subsidiary awareness - I cannot finalize it but can be aware of it - John Vervaeke - (see below) - I’m always seeing by means of the I”. - It is phenomenologically mysterious to [us], but - it doesn't mean that I'm unaware of it. - I always have a subsidiary awareness. - I'm always aware through my “I” of my “me”. - I'm always aware through my framing of my framed. - I'm not completely out of touch with it. - It is not inaccessible to me, - but I cannot focalised it.

    6. I can't use the grammar of subjects and objects, subjects and predicates, conceptual categories to talk about this (RR transjectivity) in the sense of exemplifying it!

      for - definition - relevance realisation transjectivity - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    7. NO! You didn't get me because (changes Framing to another Framed and draws another arrow outside the bigger box, connecting to it) what's outside here still is… what is framing that? You cannot have this… You can't have it as a focal object. It is mysterious. It is phenomenologically mysterious. James pointed to this in a wonderful distinction between the I and the Me (I: Me).

      for - adjacency - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - finger pointing to the moon - subject / I am phenomenologically mysterious - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition - potential vs kinetic adjacencies

      adjacency - between - I-me relationship - William James - subject-object dualism - the eye cannot see itself - self consciousness - experience vs conceptualisation of experience - Indyweb annotation vs Innotation - object-of-study focal shift - definition potential adjacencies - definition kinetic adjacencies - adjacency relationship - William James's I-me relationship is about the paradox of self consciousness - modern humans distinguish themselves through excelling in cognitive abilities - but what happens when we turn this cognitive abilities onto ourselves? - Self consciousness is what results - reasoning about the reasoner - Just as the eye cannot truly see itself, the reasoner who reasons about him/her self cannot really do so because the "I" is NOT really the same as the "me" - the subject is not the object, - the act of framing is not the frame - the qualia is NOT the same as the idea that represents the qualia - the moon is not the finger pointing to the moon - hence the I, the act of framing the subject is phenomenologically mysterious - In contrast, in indyweb, we can replace annotation with Innotation, an inline version of annotation - This is because of the recursive nature of learning of ideas - When we digest an idea, that has an externalised (re)presentation, and it triggers the emergence of a new idea, - We can capture the newly inspired idea a an inline Innotation instead of a side bar annotation. - The reason why we would do this is because this is more homeomorphic to how knowledge context switches its role - from an active new insight - to an existing cultural artefact / object that can be digested by another mind - The difference is the idea - as a spontaneous emergent, embodied, enactive real-time , LIVING experience, which then becomes, post experience, an idea that is - a DEAD cultural artefact that is ready to be digested and potentially evoke a new strong LIVING response in another consciousness - The idea as a linguistically constructed cultural artefact is DEAD - until it interacts with another consciousness, - and at such time, the cultural artefact can deliver upon itz intended promise and potential, and trigger a LIVING learned experience. - Innotation converts the once LIVING experience of the idea at the moment of birth / Inception to the form of existing, timebound knowledge test to do the same in the future, when new minds may stumble upon it - Learning from linguistic cultural artefacts is thus - the act of conversion of - potential adjacencies into - kinetic adjacencies

    8. my insight goes from a reframing to a transframing, because I stopped having insights about my focal problem [and] I start getting an insight, not about just the problem or the world, I also - remember of the sensibility transcendence; I'm also getting an insight into the inadequacies of my style of framing, my way of framing - I'm getting a trans-framing happening.

      for - definition - transframing - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

    9. Religio is… I'm using it in a spiritual sense, [in] the sense of a pre-egoic, ultimately a post-egoic, binding that simultaneously grounds the self and its world.

      for - definition - religio - John Vervaeke - means to bind together, to connect. Here it is used in the sense of binding that simultanously grounds the self and its world - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

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    1. there’s an admirable motivation behind Dreher’s ethical project of reenchantment: He wants to help people find meaning

      for - definition - reenchantment - source - book - Living in Wonder: Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Age - Rod Dreher - adjacency - reenchantment - Meaning crisis - John Vervaeke

  4. Dec 2024
    1. p(doom) is the "probability of doom" or the chances that AI takes over the planet or does something to destroy us,

      for - p(doom) - definition - stats - p(doom) - 0.01 to 99.999999%

      p(doom) - definition - the "probability of doom" or the chances that AI takes over the planet or does something to destroy us,

      stats - p(doom) - founders of AI - Yann LeCun - less than 0.01% - Geoff Hinton - 10% chance on the next 20 years - Yoshua Bengio - 20% - Roman Yampolskiy, AI safety scientist and director of the Cyber Security Laboratory at the University of Louisville - 99.999999%

    1. The phenomena do not disappear, but simply get reflected. Sounds, mental images, sensations, smells are all present without any isolation and there is a flavour of synesthesia to it. This state gives rise to the feeling of spaciousness.

      for - definition - spaciousness - of meditation experience - flow state - like synesthesia - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

    2. shi-ne

      for - definition - Shi-ne - Shamatha without object - open awareness - the Tibetan meditation practice of becoming aware of our habitual tendency to reify and essentialize phenomena, experiencing them as having independent, non-relational reality of their own, both for - inner phenomena (thoughts and emotions) - outer phenomena (sensations) - It also goes by two other names - Shamatha without object - open awareess - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7 - adjacency - Tibetan shi-ne meditation - insight into our habit of reifying reality into objects - object permanence in child psychology - feral children and role of language enculturation in our constructed reality - Deep Humanity BEing journeys to give insight into deeper layer of phenomenological experience

      adjacency - between - Tibetan shi-ne meditation - insight into our habit of reifying reality into objects - object permanence in child psychology - Dr. Oliver Sacks medical case histories - feral children and absence of enculturation on human experience of reality - potential Deep Humanity BEing journeys to penetrate early deep conceptual layer - new relationship - question - Is shi-ne, in one sense attempting to get us to penetrate our deep conditioning of object permanence in our early child development years? - Before we mastered object permanence, we essentially experienced really as an undivided whole, a gestalt - To understand how non-trivial construction of object permanence is, we can read the late Dr. Oliver Sacks writing on his medical case studies of patients whose medical conditions caused them to experience reality in the danger way ordinary people do - The study of feral children also provides important insights into linguistic conditioning's role in our construction of reality - This area can inspire many important Deep Humanity BEing journeys relating - our habitual propensity to reify - object permanence - Shi-ne meditation and to offer us a way to penetrate our early deep conditioning of object permanence - Doing so allows us to get in touch with a pure, unconditioned, more primordial experience of reality free from layers of deep conceptualisation

    3. nyam ne-pa

      for - definition - nyam ne-pa - the state of quiet presence - the goal of Dzogchen meditation practice - going from form to emptiness - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

    4. nyam-nyi

      for - definition - nyam-nyi - when form ad emptiness are both experienced as one taste (nonduality) - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

    5. gYo-Wa

      for - definition gYo-Wa - going from emptiness to form - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

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    1. Tibetan terminology. Nyam literally means experiences or meditative experience and is described as intense psychophysical sensations.

      for - definition - nyam - Tibetan term for intense psychophysical meditative experience - from Medium article - Nyams I have known and loved - Alexander Vezhnevets - 2022, Apr 28

    1. Unexcelled Yoga Tantra

      for - definition - unexcelled yoga tantra - the ultimate practice of simulating clear light meditation while still alive, in the Gelupa tradition of Tibetan Buddhism - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    2. avidyā in Sanskrit or "ma rig pa" in Tibetan,

      for - definition - avidya (Sanskrit) or Ma Ri Pa (Tibetan) - Fundamental misunderstanding (both intellectual and affective) about the (ultimate) nature of reality itself - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    3. What does this word "thugs dam" mean?
      • definition - Tukdam - John Dunne
        • is a word with multiple meanings (polysemy)
        • first - honorific term for samaya - Sanskrit for Tantric vows
          • second - commitment / promise
          • third - chosen deity
          • fourth - practicing any of the above
            • specifically, it could mean accomplishing the goals of Tantric practice, especially at the time of death
    1. article by Alison P Davis uh Was Written In The Cut about the great Vib shift coming and a Vibe shift is basically some kind of eventure happening in society that just changes the vibe changes the mood and it's precognitive pre- narrative

      for - definition - vibe shift - Some kind of event that changes the vibe. It is pre-cognitive and pre-narrative - Alison P Davis wrote about "Vibe Shift" in The Cut - Youtube - from The STOA - Situational Assessment - Luigi Mangione

    2. narrative violation

      for - definition - narrative violation - when an event happens that is difficult to explain because it violates existing narratives - Youtube - from The STOA - Situational Assessment - Luigi Mangione

    1. I call it PPN and I think that that's what really has stuck

      for - definition - PPN - Pre and Peri Natal

    2. integration is what people are seeking that's why they're coming to you um they want they often people will seek me out because nothing else seems to have helped all the talk therapy all the Psychotherapy all the things that they've tried not that they are still in being influenced by the patterns that are affecting them uh so we we call this notion the integration imperative

      for - definition - integration imperative - people seek integration - talk therapy - psychotherapy has not helped - patterns still there and affecting them - Youtube - Pre and Perinatal healing happens in layers - Kate White

    1. In Oxford, locals had begun calling coffee houses “penny universities”

      for - definition - Penny University - history - coffee houses - London - were called Penny Universities because for a penny to buy a cup of coffee - you gained access to intellectual discussions and debates.

    1. A protocol is a stratum of codified behavior thatallows for the construction or emergence ofcomplex coordinated behaviors at adjacent loci.
    2. A protocol is a rela-tively simple and codified set of behaviorsthat, when adopted by a sufficient numberof participants (human and/or artificial) ina situation, reliably leads to good-enoughoutcomes for all.
    1. I want to get into the Five Elements Mandala

      for - definition - spiral of the - 5 Elements Mandala - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - need to move - from linear pyramid, neoliberal logic - to trends logic - multi-dimensional - reflexive - feedbacks - intertwingled - need to know what you stand for and - what you stand against ( the dominant neoliberal culture)

    2. a historical amnesi

      for - definition - ahistorical amnesia - plagues philanthropy - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    3. what we set up is not a binary of here is one side of it and here is the other. But we call this a continuum of auto shifts continuum

      for - definition - continuum of onto shift - back and forth, iterative, non-binary - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - definition - thingify - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - adjacency - onto shift - example - perception - Deep Humanity - BEing journey - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      adjacency - onto shift - example - perception - Deep Humanity - BEing journey - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - These onto shifts would be an excellent exercise for Deep Humanity BEing journeys

    4. it was so hard to get outside of the project of neoliberalism that we couldn't actually see what was possible in that Horizon three construct. So for us, we started to look at we need a just transition, plus an entire shift of ontology, ethical, epistemological, what we shorthand call auto shifts or ontological shifts

      for - definition - ontological shift - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - adjacency - Deep Humanity - can provide new vocabulary and ideas to support - the horizon 3 - ontological shift - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      adjacency - between - ontological shift to reach horizon 3 - Deep Humanity - adjacency relationship - Deep Humanity may offer a new language and vocabulary for this Horizon 3 shift ontology

    5. Bill Sharp, and it's called the Three Horizon Framework

      for - definition - Three Horizon Framework - developed by Bill Sharp - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - example - Three Horizon Framework

      example - Three Horizon Framework - horizon 1 - carbon credits - carbon capture - green new deal - green growth - reforming democracy - more humane capitalism - horizon 2 - equity and justice - decolonization - transition pathways to disrupt ideologies - formative stage - ontological - still operating in frame of modernity - still operating in material realm - horizon 3 - new ways of being, living seeing, worldviews - dearth of imagination

    6. there is a growing set of people, groups, endeavors that are really recognizing this neoliberal operating system that we're working within. And they have many different ways that they're going about this. It's a growing movement, and for our purposes here, we kind of refer to this as the just transition movement

      for - definition - just transition movement - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    7. when we analyzed the the dominant cultural operating system, because there's more than a political economy, it's a it's a, as we've said, a totalizing operating system. And we're going to call it neoliberalism

      for - definition - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - summary - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 definition - neoliberalism - as the name of the dominant, totalizing, cultural operating system of modernity - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - Neoliberalism is a totalizing, cultural operating system for modernity - It is all of these things: - a political philosophy - an economic practice - a cosmology - a wordview - an ontology - a theocracy - a religious worldview based on faith - Most of the dogmas of neoliberalism have been proven to be false, and yet it is still taught in most institutions of higher education summary - Some of the premises of neoliberalism are: - 1. humans are homo economicus - our chief concern is our selves and NOT others - Enlightenment theories - Scientism - Evolutionary theory - All our systems are designed on this false premise - 2. Hierarchy is inevitable and necessary for order. Without it, we would revert to beasts - The system embeds - Patriarchism - White Supremacy - Gender inequality - 3. The individual is the primary unit of power - together with 1) and 2), it creates inherent competition - 4. Material wealth and power is the measure of wellbeing - If you have money, you are considered a success, otherwise, you are considered a moral failure

    8. Transition Resource Circle.

      for - definition - Transition Resource Circle - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy

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    1. At one level, there’s no difference. At another level that difference of care and attention does matter very much. Joko used to say that the core of our practice was to suffer intelligently. Another way of saying that is that we need to learn to desire intelligently.

      for - definition - suffer intelligently - Joko - Zen - Barry Magid - definition - desire intelligently - Joko - Zen - Barry Magid

      comment - see the paragraph prior to this one for background

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    1. glaucoma

      A disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball that can result in damage to the optic disc and gradual loss of vision.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glaucoma


      "[...] the darkness of the nights and the greyness of the days here are associated with deterioration of vision, blindness and the slow disappearance of the world from view." (Pudney 296).

      https://shorturl.at/Qihyk

      More on Worldbuilding here: https://ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com/2024/11/26/worldbuilding/

    2. razorous

      "Razorous" is a made-up yet intuitively word used by McCarthy to mean "like a razor".

    1. This is a vicious circle. Climate change is making geopolitics less stable, which harms climate action. This will worsen climate change, meaning more geopolitical instability

      for - definition - climate change doom loop

    2. for - definition - Doom loop - definition - derailment risk

      Summary - An informative article that shows how climate crisis is invisibly contributing to increasing precarity in indirect ways that are not noticed by those impacted by it. - This creates a positive feedback loop of diverting resources to deal with - the symptoms instead of - the root cause.

  6. Nov 2024
  7. ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com ontheroadtotheroad7.wordpress.com
    1. moss

      Moss is a very small soft green plant which grows on damp soil, or on wood or stone.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moss

    2. brook
    3. matted
    4. bandolier

      A belt worn over the shoulder and across the breast often for the suspending or supporting of some article (such as cartridges) or as a part of an official or ceremonial dress.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bandolier

    5. glens
    6. vermiculate

      Marked with irregular fine lines or with wavy impressed lines.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vermiculate

    7. wimpled
    8. fore-stock

      Also called "fore-end", the forestock is the part of the stock of a firearm under the barrel and forward of the trigger guard.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fore-end

    9. stoven
    10. hove into view

      When something heaves into view or heaves into sight, it appears.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/heave-into-view-heave-into-sight

    11. loess

      A type of light brown or greyish soil, consisting of very small pieces of quartz and clay, that is blown and left behind by the wind.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/loess

    12. wax

      Something likened to wax as soft, impressionable, or readily molded.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wax

    13. encroached

      Entered by gradual steps or by stealth.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/encroach

    14. rickety

      A rickety structure or piece of furniture is not very strong or well made, and seems likely to collapse or break.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rickety

    15. plywood

      Plywood is wood that consists of thin layers of wood stuck together.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/plywood

    16. isthmus

      A narrow piece of land with water on each side that joins two larger areas of land.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/isthmus

    17. stitch

      A least bit especially of clothing.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stitch

    18. dimming
    19. moorland

      Moorland is land which consists of moors, areas of open and usually high land with poor soil that is covered mainly with grass and heather.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moorland https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/moor

    20. sullen

      Someone who is sullen is bad-tempered and does not speak much.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sullen

    21. Scrawny

      Unpleasantly thin, often with bones showing.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scrawny

    22. trundling

      Transporting in or as if in a wheeled vehicle.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/trundle

    23. wheezing

      Breathing with difficulty usually with a whistling sound.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wheeze

    24. jogtrot

      A slow regular jerky pace (usually of a horse, or on horseback).

      https://www.oed.com/dictionary/jog-trot_n?tab=meaning_and_use#40414780

    25. sloughed

      To plod through or as if through mud.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slough

    26. seaoats
    27. swale

      A long, low and often wet area of land.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/swale

    28. pruned

      To reduce especially by eliminating superfluous matter.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prune

    29. bootees

      Usually ankle-length boots, slippers, or socks.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bootee

    30. tendrils

      A tendril is something light and thin, for example a piece of hair which hangs loose and is away from the main part.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tendril

    31. cocked

      To set (the trigger) for firing.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cock

    32. dredged

      To dig, gather, or pull out with or as if with a dredge (a machine for removing earth usually by buckets on an endless chain or a suction tube). Here it means "to draw in the sand".

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/dredge

    33. pampooties

      A kind of sandal or moccasin of untanned cowhide or sealskin sewn together and tied across the instep, traditionally worn by the inhabitants of the Aran Islands. Usually in plural.

      https://www.oed.com/dictionary/pampootie_n?tab=meaning_and_use#32117635

    34. sailcloth

      Sailcloth is a strong heavy cloth that is used for making things such as sails or tents.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/sailcloth

    35. plunder

      Personal or household effects.

      Interestingly, "plunder" can also mean something taken by force, theft, or fraud.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plunder

    36. waded

      To walk through water or other liquid with some effort, because it is deep enough to come quite high up your legs, or thick.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/wade

    37. shrouded
    38. saucers

      A saucer is a small curved plate on which you stand a cup.

      It could also mean "flying saucer", a round, flat object which some people say they have seen in the sky and which they believe to be a spacecraft from another planet.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/saucer https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flying-saucer

    39. Shuttling

      Moving or traveling back and forth frequently.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shuttle

    40. lolling
    41. seething
    42. Knobby

      Having lumps (= raised areas) on the surface.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/knobby

    43. tokus
    44. scampered
    45. seedpods

      Long, narrow parts of some plants that contains the seeds and usually has a thick skin.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/seed-pod?q=seedpod

    46. rime

      Frost formed by the freezing of supercooled water droplets in fog onto solid objects.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/rime

    47. saltbleached

      Removed color because of salt.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bleach

    48. wrack

      Seaweed or other marine vegetation that is floating in the sea or has been cast ashore.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/wrack

    49. windrows

      Lines of leaves, snow, dust, etc, swept together by the wind.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/windrow

    50. cove

      A cove is a part of a coast where the land curves inwards so that the sea is partly enclosed.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cove

    51. driftwood

      Wood that is floating on the sea or brought onto the beach by the sea.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/driftwood

    52. bracken

      A large fern (= a type of plant) that grows thickly in open areas of countryside, especially on hills, and in woods.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/bracken

    53. squall

      A sudden strong wind or short storm.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/squall

    54. slag

      The fused material formed during the smelting or refining of metals.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slag

    55. vat

      A large container used for mixing or storing liquid substances, especially in a factory.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/vat

    56. careened
    57. tanker

      A ship or vehicle that is built to carry liquid or gas.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/tanker

    58. leaden

      A leaden sky or sea is dark grey and has no movement of clouds or waves.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/leaden

    59. combers

      Long curling waves of the sea.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/comber

    60. earnestness

      Determination and seriousness, especially when this is without humour.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/earnestness

    61. flake

      A small flat piece separated from a whole.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flake

    62. yoked

      A yoke is a long piece of wood which is tied across the necks of two animals such as oxen, in order to make them walk close together when they are pulling a plough.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/yoke

    63. catamites
    64. harness

      A piece of equipment with straps and belts, used to control or hold in place a person, animal, or object.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/harness

    65. coax

      To get someone to do something by gentle urging, special attention, or flattery.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coax

    66. gait
    67. passable

      Capable of being passed into or through.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/passable

    68. cobble together
    69. bludgeon

      Short club with a thick, heavy, or loaded end.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/bludgeon

    70. Lanyards
    71. wallowed

      Rolled around in an ungainly manner.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wallow

    72. whorish
    73. cheroot

      A cigar cut square at both ends.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cheroot

    74. slender

      Thin and delicate, often in a way that is attractive.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/slender

    75. embankment

      An artificial slope made of earth and/or stones.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/embankment

    76. quilts

      Covering for a bed, made of two layers of cloth with a layer of soft filling between them, and stitched in lines or patterns through all the layers.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/quilt

    77. creek
    78. nitty

      Infested with nits [nits are the eggs of insects called lice which live in people's hair].

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nitty https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nit

    79. scorched

      Slightly burned, or damaged by fire or heat.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scorched

    80. stooped

      With the the top half of the body bent forward and down.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/stooped

    81. tar

      Black sticky substance that is used especially for making roads.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tar

    82. cooked

      To be subjected to the action of intense heat.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/cook

    83. mastic

      Any of various pasty materials used as protective coatings or cements.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mastic

    84. macadam

      Small broken stones used in making roads.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/macadam

    85. heathen

      Having no religion, or belonging to a religion that is not Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/heathen

    86. draws
    87. slats

      Thin narrow flat strips especially of wood or metal.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slat

      Interestiingly, the slang word "slats" can also refer to the ribs or the buttocks.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/slats

    88. wan
    89. rafters

      Any of the parallel beams that support a roof.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rafters

    90. Wisp

      Something frail, slight, or fleeting.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wisp

    91. Ratty
    92. hide

      The strong, thick skin of an animal, used for making leather.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hide

    93. hacksaw

      A small saw used especially for cutting metal.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/hacksaw

    94. bored out
    95. gusting
    96. sleet

      Snow which has been partially thawed by falling through an atmosphere of a temperature a little above freezing-point, usually accompanied by rain or snow.

      https://www.oed.com/dictionary/sleet_n1?tab=meaning_and_use#22195712

    97. marauders

      A person or animal that goes from one place to another looking for people to kill or things to steal or destroy.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/marauder

    98. ridges

      Long, narrow raised parts of a surface, especially a high edge along a mountain.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/ridge

    99. balefires

      An outdoor fire often used as a signal fire.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balefires

    100. slush

      The watery substance resulting from the partial melting of snow or ice.

      https://www.oed.com/dictionary/slush_n1?tab=meaning_and_use#22329555

    101. reeds

      Any of various tall grasses with slender often prominently jointed stems that grow especially in wet areas.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reeds

    102. Clamped

      To fasten with or as if with a clamp or to hold tightly.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clamp

    103. blacktop

      A material used on the surface of roads.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/blacktop

    104. murk

      Darkness or thick cloud, preventing you from seeing clearly.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/murk

    105. loped

      A way of walking or moving using long, relaxed steps.

      https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lope

    106. bowels

      "Bowel", usually used in plural, can have more than one meaning: - one of the divisions of the intestines; - the seat of pity, tenderness, or courage; - the interior parts, especially the deep or remote parts.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bowels

    107. rimstone

      A calcareous deposit formed as a ring around an overflowing basin (as of a mineral hot spring).

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rimstone

    108. flues

      A shaft, tube, or pipe, especially as used in a chimney, to carry off smoke, gas, etc.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flue

    109. flowstone

      Any mineral deposit, especially of calcium carbonate, formed in a cave by flowing water.

      https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/flowstone

    110. tarpaulin

      A piece of material used especially for protecting exposed objects or areas.

      https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarpaulin

    1. DINO, democracy in name only

      for - definition - DINO - Democracy in Name Only - Otto Scharmer

      definition - DINO - Democracy in Name Only - Otto Scharmer - An acronym coiled by Otto Scharmer which is similiar to the popular MAGA acronym RINO (Republican In Name Only) - Democracy is under attack, and is heavily influenced by dark money and dark tech

    1. cosmo-localization, i.e. the combination of interconnected local commons with global (‘cosmic’) digitally enhanced cooperation, may be superlinear, and thus, exactly what is needed to ‘inflate’ the commons.

      for - definition inflating the commons - Geoffrey West - superlinear relationship - of cosmolocalization - via digital cooperation - Michel Bauwens - adjacency relationship - inflating the commons - indyweb

      adjacency - between - inflating the commons - indyweb - adjacency relationship - Indyweb could be one way to inflate the commons by weaving together cosmolocal groups around the group into a mycelial network

    2. Magisteria of the Commons

      for - definition - Magisteria of the Commons - Michel Bauwens

      definition - Magisteria of the Commons - Michel Bauwens

      Comment - Michel envisions these magisterial providing the counterweight to regulate the markets

    1. before you go anywhere near globalization you've got to firstly to Define what it is

      for - definition - globalization - Yanis Varoufakis

      definition - globalization - Yanis Varoufakis - globalization does NOT mean global trade. That is always a good thing - globalization is the total lack of regulation of financial power, allowing money to rule the world - power shifts from land owners to factory owners

    1. “Discipling” someone is, to use a more recognizable term, mentoring someone in how to follow Christ and share the good news that people can have a relationship with God.
    1. Um kski says time binding energy is the capacity to use the fruits of past labors and experiences and to hand them down to the Future

      for - definition - timebinding - Korzybski

      definition - timebinding - the capacity to use the fruits of past labors and experiences and to hand them down to the future.

    1. According to Korzybski, the unique quality of humans is what he calls "time-binding", described as "the capacity of an individual or a generation to begin where the former left off".

      for - definition - time-binding - Korzybski

    1. the great idea was create this this thin waste uh to try and and allow the lower layers of the network to evolve and also allow the upper layers of the network to evolve separately and only have this very small protocol in between that will mediate how the whole network will grow

      for - definition - Internet Protocol - IP - Thin Waist model

    1. the second attachment process if you will of of internalization is Attunement

      for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - second quality - attunement - John Churchill - definition - attunement - John Churchill

    2. attachment system

      for - definition - attachment system - John Churchill

    3. mineral intelligence

      for - definition - Mineral Intelligence - MI - John Churchill

      definition Mineral Intelligence (MI) - John Churchill - In contrast to Artificial Intelligence, Churchill uses the term Mineral Intelligence - What we are doing is giving intelligence to minerals of the planet

    4. first second third fourth you can look at those as perspectives

      for - definition - first person to eightth person perspectives - John Churchill

      definition - first person to eighth person perspective - John Churchill - The different perspectives are: - first person - the physical body - second person - the emotional body - third person - the mental body - fourth - the systems perspective - contextual - interconnected field - fifth to seventh - holonic consciousness - synchronized to the planetary field itself - Like a Buddha, bodhisattva or Christ - As you unfold, your unfolding changes the planetary field itself

    5. everything is part of a lar system right now that begins to open up into the realm of soul and what do we mean by Soul

      for - definition - soul - John Churchill

      definition - soul - John Churchill - Churchill defines soul to mean the same thing as the Buddhist concept of emptiness - This is quite a specific interpretation of soul from a Buddhist perspective - He defines it as having three dimensions: - Compassion - EMBODIED understanding that everything is interconnected and we are not separate from anything else - In Buddhism, this is often also called: - non-conceptual valid cognition (intuition) - interdependent origination

      question - what are the 2nd and 3rd features of the Soul? - John Churchill - He seems to only discuss the first and the interviewer forgets to return to the 2nd and 3rd

    6. first we've got to understand the difference between actual psychological infrastructure please and states of Consciousness so because for for our listeners states are cheap traits are expensive

      for - definition - psychological infrastructure - John Churchill - definition - state of consciousness - John Churchill - comparison - psychological infrastructure vs state of consciousness - John Churchill - quote - states (of consciousness) are cheap, traits ( of psychological infrastructure) are expensive - John Churchill

    1. Commitment Pooling

      for - definition - Commitment pooling

      definition - Commitment pooling - a protocol practiced in indigenous communities that - builds on traditional mutual service practices to create equitable and collaborative economic systems. - This protocol demonstrates how commitments can be - pooled, - valued and - exchanged, - fostering long-term reciprocity across a network of communities. - By valuing and exchanging commitments, - communities engage in a form of reciprocity that - might not resemble direct transactional economies but - is equally significant. - This system allows for - the fulfillment is communal needs - through coordinated effort

    2. Rotating Labor Associations (ROLA

      for - definition - Rotating Labor Associations (ROLA)

      definition - Rotating Labor Associations (ROLA) - practices found in indigenous societies all around the world that involve pooling labor and resources to achieve common goals,

  8. Oct 2024
    1. Cascade Institute in Canada, Professor Thomas Homer-Dixon

      for - definition - syncrhronomous failure - Cascade Institute - Thomas Homer-Dixon

      definition - syncrhronomous failure - Cascade Institute - Thomas Homer-Dixon - When multiple systems fail simultaneously, the scale may overwhelm institutions to respond effectively since they have evolved to deal with issues in silos

    1. panarchy

      for - definition - panarchy - Crawford Stanley Holling

      definition - panarchy - Crawford Stanley Holling - A nested diversity of living species entwined through their adaptive cycles of growth, decline and renewal

    2. adaptive cycle

      for - definition - adaptive cycle - Crawford Stanley Holling - IIASA

      definition - adaptive cycle - Crawford Stanley Holling - IIASA - Predator-prey dynamics across a large variety of species, follow a recursive 'adaptive cycle' consisting of: - front loop stage - growth and accumulation - back loop stage - rapid reorganization with increased stability due to dependency on a limited number of conditions leading to reduced resiliency and either - renewal or - collapse <br /> - This is a characteristic of an ecosystem of many species coexisting together

    3. Arbib and Seba explain this by categorising human civilisation into two fundamentally intertwined complexes: the production system, encompassing all the foundational systems by which we meet fundamental material needs across energy, transport, food and materials (corresponding to ‘hardware’); and the organising system, encompassing how the former systems are governed, regulated and managed by society through economic, political, military, cultural and ideological structures and values (corresponding to ‘software’)

      for - definition - production system ('hardware') - and organizing system ('software') - Arbib and Seba

      definition Arbib and Seba - human civilization can be broken down into the interaction between two complimentary systems - the production system - by which we meet fundamamental material needs for food, energy, transportation, water, materials - also called 'hardware' - the organizing system - by which how the production system is governed and managed and includes the economy, polity, security, culture, ideology and values - also called 'software'

      comment - A transformation is required in both the hardware and the software to mitigate the worst impacts of our current polycrisis

    4. constructal law

      for - definition - constructal law - Adrian Bejan - to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature

      to - The constructal law of design in evolution and nature - https://hyp.is/ZRIXfo76Ee-5yZdY2quRaQ/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2871904/ - youtube explainer video - constructal theory - flow - Adrian Bejan - https://hyp.is/R7V4Yo79Ee-52gO6UYAaYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgEBTPee9ZM

    5. To survive, living systems need to process information from their environment so they can predict environmental conditions. They then translate this information into organising their material structures to maximise the efficiency with which they extract and dissipate energy.

      for - question - entropy definition of life - investigate further - entropy definition of life

      question - I'm not fully appreciating his explanation. This requires further investigation - This physical explanation of life appears to be aimed at showing that the hardware and software aspects of life work together to dissipate physical energy - Is he saying that life's purpose is to accelerate the heat death of the universe?

    6. The ‘hardware’ is a configuration of matter which harnesses energy from its environment with surprising efficiency and dissipates it as waste back into the environment.

      for - definition- hardware - software - Paul Davies

      definition - hardware - software - Paul Davies - In the context of life, - hardware - configuration of matter which harnesses energy from its environment - software - complex information sturctures by which configurations of matter and energy are organized and instructed to self-reproduce

    1. Who were the Physiocrats?

      for - definition - physiocrats - Steve Keen - economy - history - economic flow as biomimicry of body's circulation system

      definition - physiocrat - During the 18th and 19th century, a group of mostly French "economists" led by Francois Quesnay, physician to the King of France at the time, performed some of the first autopsies of the time. - Autopsies were banned for the longest time for religious reasons - When Quesnay performed autopsies, he discovered networks of tubes in the circulation system and this led him to surmise a network of circulation in another field, economics - Quesnay advised the king, hence the name physiocrat - So modern economics has its roots in biology - it was a case of biomimicry!

    1. Feature: A feature is a significant piece of functionality that delivers value to the user. It usually includes several user stories or backlog items. A feature might take one or more sprints to complete.
    2. Epic: An epic is a large body of work that can be broken down into multiple features. It represents a major initiative or goal. An epic might span several sprints or even releases.
    1. In order to survive, every human needs to have some model of the world: how their body functions, how animals behave, how matter moves, etc. Psychologists call these “folk” theories—folk physics, folk biology, folk economics, and so on—the kind of explanations you might come up with if you just kinda bumble around, explanations that are good enough to keep you alive, but often go wrong.

      Folk Theories

    1. Un aperçu historique dela monnaie invite à relativiser tant la nouveauté de la dématérialisation monétaire que celle desmonnaies privées, deux phénomènes auxquels sont souvent associées les monnaies virtuelles.

      Les monnaies "traditionnelles" ne sont pas très éloignées des monnaies virtuelles d'aujourd'hui en ce qui concerne leur définition. La différence entre ces deux types de monnaies réside davantage dans les acteurs impliqués que dans la question de savoir « Existe-t-il dans un sens physique ? »

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    1. We therefore emphasize crises that are causally inter-related with one another

      for - definition - polycrisis

      definition - polycrisis - causally interlinked crisis

    2. We define a crisis as a sudden (non-linear) event or series of events that significantly harms, in a relatively short period of time, the wellbeing of a large number of people (Homer-Dixon et al., Reference Homer-Dixon, Walker, Biggs, Crépin, Folke, Lambin, Peterson, Rockström, Scheffer, Steffen and Troell2015).Footnote

      for - critique - definition - crisis - perhaps interpret less anthropocentrically? - extend to non-human organisms as well?

    1. term spectacle refers to

      for - definition - the spectacle - context - the society of the spectacle - cacooning - the spectacle - social media - the spectacle

      definition - the spectacle - context - the society of the spectacle - A society where images presented by mass media / mass entertainment not only dominate - but replaces real experiences with a superficial reality that is - focused on appearances designed primarily to distract people from reality - This ultimately disconnects them from - themselves and - those around them

      comment - How much does our interaction with virtual reality of - written symbols - audio - video - two dimensional images - derived from our screens both large and small affect our direct experience of life? - When people are distracted by such manufactured entertainment, they have less time to devote to important issues and connecting with real people - We can sit for hours in social isolation, ignoring our bodies need for exercise and our emotional need for real social connection - We can ignore the real crisis going on in the world and instead numb ourselves out with contrived entertainment

    1. the spectacle

      for - definition - the spectacle - Situationist International - adjacency - the spectacle - manufacturing consent

      definition - the spectacle - Sittuationist International - A unified critique offered by the Situationist International of advanced capitalism - The critique was concerned with the insidious use of mass media and entertainment to subvert individual expression through lived experience by - substituting it with mass media images as proxies to directly lived experiences - which leads to mass consumption of commodities produced by advanced captalism - creates far-reaching passive second-hand alienation that harms both the individual and society

      adjacency - between - the spectacle - manufacturing consent - adjacency relationship - The spectacle is closely related to Noam Chomsky's work on manufacturing consent