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  2. May 2026
    1. The protocol accounts for this in two ways. When an agent provisions a paid service, Stripe includes a payment token in the request to the Provider (Cloudflare). Raw payment details like credit card numbers aren’t ever shared with the agent.

      This is a key concept explaining how payment is handled securely without exposing sensitive information to the agent, a crucial aspect of any automated system.

    2. These build on prior art and existing standards like OAuth, OIDC and payment tokenization —but are used together to remove many steps that might otherwise require a human in the loop.

      关键概念解释:该协议结合了OAuth、OIDC和支付令牌化等现有标准,以自动化流程,减少人工干预。

    1. The rewards were applied only in the Nerdy condition, but reinforcement learning does not guarantee that learned behaviors stay neatly scoped to the condition that produced them.

      关键概念解释:强化学习可能导致行为泛化,即使是在特定条件下学习的行为也可能在其他情境中表现出来。

    1. By predicting these unified tokens, it effectively leverages diverse human data to achieve state-of-the-art data efficiency and robust out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization.

      这一实验结果展示了UniT在利用人类数据实现高效和鲁棒泛化方面的潜力,为数据效率和泛化能力提供了新的标准。

  3. Apr 2026
    1. So, I fear the answer is that there is nothing practical to be done, but if anyone has any ideas of how to lighten the dark keytops, I'm all ears. My only thought is the risky move of printing new papers, but I just know I'd get the size and font wrong.But after years of neglect, I think she deserves to feel beautiful again. She's royalty, after all.

      reply to Zachary Thede at https://www.facebook.com/groups/721704878218903/posts/3075801049475929

      It's definitely doable! The only way to do this is to remove the keyrings (preferably with a keyring pliers, otherwise it's incredibly tedious) and to physically replace the key legends with new ones. Richard Polt has some of the process described here as well as as high resolution scans that you can use to print out keys. https://writingball.blogspot.com/2016/10/legendary.html

      Ames Supply Company used to sell keycards for doing this. Some of them had colors including green, so keep this in mind if you try something like creating rainbows across your keyboard or other visual fun. https://typewriterdatabase.com/1960-Ames_Gen_Cat_10-March.misc-supplies.manual

      Our friend Lucas Dul of Chicago Typewriter has a great YouTube video of the tool and some of the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYHrBjfQxpM

      As a fun example, Heiko Stolten recently did this on a Remington using custom made legends that use the font from the Netflix series Wednesday: https://www.facebook.com/groups/TypewriterCollectors/posts/10163537426144678/ If you ask nicely, they've got the original files if you need them for printing out .

      Good luck!

    1. ay. In the book of designs pre-pared by Burges each page shows oneaspect of the ruins as they were in 1872contrasted with his own ideas for thereconstruction of the same elevation(Fig.48) It was while working on thisproject that Burges declared 'I have beenbrought up in the thirteenth-centurybelief, and in that belief I intend to die'.Castel Coch was rebuilt as a fairy-talecastle, the like of which never existed inthe British Isles; the architect cited theprecedent of manuscript illustrations inthe British Museum to justify authentic-ity, but the castle, with its parapets,towers and soaring, conical roofs, owesmore to the inspiration of L'Aigle and theChateau de Chillon, as well as toViollet-le-Duc's restoration at Carcas-sonne, than to any British e
    2. . The great presentation booksof Knightshayes and Castell Coch have adepth and luminosity, which, despitetheir austerely architectural presenta-tion, link them visually to the Books ofHours of the Middle Ages, which Burgesadmired so much, and to the famousthirteenth-century sketchbook of Villardde Honnecourt in the BibliothequeNationale in Pari

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    1. urges was not a religious man. His religion was the art of theMiddle Ages, not its theology. The bulk of his church work wasAnglican, but two of his greatest patrons — Lord Ripon andLord Bute — were Roman Catholics. His dream was the churchcandescent, an aesthete’s version of the church militant: Faithmade manifest in Art.

      religion

    2. his phase of activity, however, was abruptly curtailed byfinancial difficulties in 1874-75, a book-keeping crisis in the Butefortunes which temporarily threatened the whole operation.®In 1871 and 1873 there had been major coal strikes.

      Industrialisation had aided it, but also threaghtened the continuation of building!!!

    3. ke the celebrated Duke of Bridgewater,he not only profited from but actually helped to create theindustrial revolution. An earnest, solitary, myopic, evangelicalLiberal Tory, he had all the confidence and resolution of anearly nineteenth-century industrialist, tempered by an inbornsense of paternalist responsibility.
    4. rench Gothicwas nobler, cheaper and characteristic of the modern age.‘The distinguishing characteristics of the Englishmen of thenineteenth century’, Burges concludes, ‘are our immense railwayand engineering works, our line-of-battle ships, our good andstrong machinery .. . our free constitution, our unfettered press,and our trial by jury... . [No] style of architecture can be moreappropriate to such a people than that which . . . is characterisedby boldness, breadth, strength, sternness, and virility

      SLAYYYY works well with castell coch, the building was in the style he prefered?

    5. In the eyes of ecclesiologists their greatest achievementhad been to rescue the Gothic Revival from the smear of Popery.Pugin — that ‘wonderful man’, as Burges always thought of him— had tainted the movement with a whiff of incense. Ruskinsupplied an anti-papal deodorant.

      SLAYYYY this shows how, while there were clear catholic taints to it, which was seen by Bute! not everyone saw it as catholic, with ruskin managing to get rid of the papal label associated with it, with a far greater array of anglican, and even dissenter, churches build

    6. Burges’s approach to religion was aesthetic rather thantheological. He was not christened until he was thirteen.

      links to religion! He himself wasn't very religious, so this was bute's innfluence and shows how religion wasn't a requisite for engaging with the style, although it was typically advertised as such

    7. y his mid-thirties Burges was — in architectural circles atleast — an international figure. He had travelled more widelythan any of his contemporaries. His learning was incontestable.His eclecticism was more broadly based than any of hisrivals; Romanesque, Gothic, Islamic, Greek, Japanese — evenFlorentine and Francois Premier — were all grist to his mill.His Gothic dreams were images of geniu

      This is the fella that bute met - a highly educated and well travelled man like himself!

    8. Burges regarded travel as essential for any young architect. ‘Allarchitects should travel,’ he believed, ‘but more especially the art-architect; to him it is absolutely necessary to see how various artproblems have been resolved in different ages by different men.’

      travel and industrialisation facilitating this

    9. ut he was not a political animal; hekept faith with that vision in his own studio. As early as 1856 hevowed to ‘work hard and paint visions and dreams and symbolsfor the understanding of people’.** More consciously than Rossetti,more subtly than Morris, he spent his life seeking the numinousin an alien world, groping for a symbolic language to express the _invisible, pursuing those ‘richly coloured images of a historical orlegendary past’ which might ‘serve also as metaphors for the life ofthe human spi

      Good link for stained-glass becoming an artistic medium that could be accesible to all!

    10. ike Pugin and Ruskin, however, Morris always cherishedGothic art and architecture, not just for its own sake, but as an agentof moral revolution.

      This is quite good for stained-glass and stuff!!! It shows how the pre-raphaelite form was seen to be the most pious, it brought people back to the awe and reverence of the faith that appeared to be present in medieval england!

    1. The advice in your last picture is spot on. I have had success with #0000 steel wool and metal polish in particular.

      Advice for polishing and cleaning up nickel plating

      via Erik Bruchez https://www.facebook.com/groups/705152958470148/posts/1230905545894884/

      Others recommend penetrating oil or WD-40 in combination with 0000 steel wool which should be enough to remove corrosion, but not damage the nickel plating.

      I've also seen Marty Morren suggest 0000 inside Dremel tools for dealing with nickel plated key rings.

    1. focusing on the ~1.5K mainline open models from the likes of Alibaba's Qwen, DeepSeek, Meta's Llama

      报告聚焦于包括阿里巴巴Qwen、DeepSeek和Meta Llama等主要模型,这些模型代表了不同国家和组织的战略重点。这种选择暗示了这些模型在生态系统中的核心地位,以及它们可能代表的不同的AI发展路径。

    1. By default, keys generated in Google AI Studio are restricted to just the Gemini API, no other services are enabled.

      默认限制API密钥使用范围的做法反映了最小权限原则在AI服务中的实践,这种设计可以有效减少潜在的安全风险和意外成本,应成为行业标准实践。

    2. In many cases, we can automatically detect when a key is visible on the public web and shut down those keys automatically for security reasons

      自动检测并关闭公开暴露的API密钥的能力展示了AI服务提供商在安全防护方面的进步,但这种自动化也引发了关于误报和合法使用场景的担忧,需要平衡安全性和可用性。

    1. we may see a growing divergence between the capabilities we can measure and the capabilities we actually care about.

      「可测量的能力」与「真正关心的能力」之间的分歧正在扩大——这是整篇文章最深刻的洞见。所有当前 benchmark 都偏向「干净、自包含、可自动评分」的任务,而真实工作是「混乱、跨系统、需人类判断」的。随着 AI 向长任务延伸,这个测量-现实之间的鸿沟不会缩小,只会加速扩大。这意味着未来关于「AI 能否替代某类工作」的争论,将越来越难以用数据解决——因为数据本身无法捕捉真实工作的本质。

    1. We split the residual of the space–time reconstruction into hyperbolic and parabolic contributions and treat them in different norms.

      将残差分裂为「双曲部分」和「抛物部分」并用不同范数处理——这个技巧看似平凡,实则是整篇论文最关键的工程决策。若不分裂,估计器会包含 ε⁻¹ 量级的项,在对流主导时完全失效。这类「范数分裂」策略在偏微分方程分析中是一种深刻的技巧:问题的物理本质(双曲 vs 抛物)决定了应该在哪个函数空间中度量误差。

    1. E2B and E4B · Try in Google AI Edge Gallery

      Google AI Edge Gallery 已在 Play Store 上架,用户一键即可在手机上本地运行 E2B 或 E4B——无需 API Key、无需网络、无需账号。这是史上第一次,一个多模态 AI 模型(支持图像+语音+文本)可以像 App 一样被普通用户直接下载使用。AI 能力的分发模式,正在从「订阅制 API」向「App Store 模式」迁移。

  4. Mar 2026
    1. For Christmas Eve that year, she had chosen all my favorite foods.

      Ending the memoir with this sentence was an excellent choice by the author. As a teenager, Tan hadn't noticed her mother had catered the meal towards her, as she was fully focused on blending in and impressing her white crush. By including this sentence, Tan shows that she has since grown to fully appreciate her culture and family above her desire to assimilate to white American culture.

  5. Feb 2026
    1. 16.1: Case Study: Respiratory System and Gas Exchange
      •   Patient Information: Sacheen, a 20-year-old smoker, presents with a worsening cough, thick mucus production, sore throat, and chest congestion after an initial mild cough.
      •   Medical History: Sacheen recently experienced symptoms of a common cold, including runny nose, fatigue, and mild cough.
      •   Doctor’s Actions: Dr. Tsosie examines Sacheen, inquires about her symptoms and medical history, and measures her blood oxygen level using a pulse oximeter.
      •   Diagnosis: Sacheen has bronchitis, an infection commonly occurring after a cold or flu.
      •   Treatment Recommendations: Dr. Tsosie recommends Sacheen to thin and remove mucus by drinking plenty of fluids, using a humidifier, getting plenty of rest, and avoiding smoking.
      •   Chapter Overview: The chapter will cover the respiratory system, the process of respiration, and acute bronchitis.
      •   Respiratory System Overview: Includes lungs, bronchial tubes, and the rest of the respiratory tract, responsible for breathing and gas exchange.
      •   Breathing Regulation: Rate of breathing is regulated to maintain blood gas and pH homeostasis.
      •   Respiratory Disorders: Asthma, pneumonia, COPD, and lung cancer are examples of respiratory system disorders.
      •   Content Source: This page is from a CK-12 licensed resource authored by Suzanne Wakim & Mandeep Grewal.
      •   Content Topic: Respiratory System and Gas Exchange.
      •   Content License: CK-12 license.
      
    2. 16.4: Disorders of the Respiratory System
      •   Dust Mite Allergy: Dust mite feces contain proteins that can trigger asthma attacks.
      •   Asthma Definition: A chronic inflammatory disease of the lungs where airways periodically become inflamed.
      •   Asthma Symptoms: Airways narrow and may become clogged with mucus, making breathing difficult.
      •   Asthma Definition: A chronic lung disease causing swelling and narrowing of airways, leading to difficulty breathing.
      •   Asthma Triggers: Environmental factors like allergens, pollution, and stress, along with genetic predisposition.
      •   Asthma Treatment: Inhaled bronchodilators for immediate relief and corticosteroids for long-term control, along with trigger avoidance.
      •   Pneumonia Definition: Inflammation of the alveoli in the lungs, causing fluid buildup and impaired gas exchange.
      •   Pneumonia Symptoms and Causes: Coughing, chest pain, difficulty breathing, fever, often caused by bacterial or viral infections.
      •   COPD Definition: Chronic lung disease characterized by poor airflow, leading to shortness of breath and coughing.
      •   COPD Causes: Tobacco smoking is the major cause, followed by air pollution and genetics.
      •   COPD Symptoms: Reduced lung function, trapped air, impaired gas exchange, low oxygen levels, and high carbon dioxide levels.
      •   Lung Cancer Definition: Malignant tumor in the lungs characterized by uncontrolled cell growth, originating from lung tissue or metastasized from other parts of the body.
      •   Primary Cause: Tobacco smoking, accounting for about 85% of cases.
      •   Other Risk Factors: Exposure to radon gas, asbestos, secondhand smoke, air pollutants, and family history of lung cancer.
      •   Prognosis and Treatment: Often diagnosed late, making it the leading cause of cancer-related death; treatment options include surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy.
      •   Sleep Apnea Definition: A potentially dangerous sleep disorder characterized by pauses in breathing due to physical blockage of the airway.
      •   Sleep Apnea Symptoms: Loud snoring, restless sleep, daytime sleepiness, fatigue, moodiness, and increased risk of accidents.
      •   Sleep Apnea Causes and Risk Factors: Relaxed muscles during sleep, exacerbated by alcohol or certain medications; more common in overweight individuals, smokers, those with diabetes, older people, and males.
      •   Sleep Apnea Treatment: Treatment options include lifestyle changes, oral devices, CPAP therapy, and surgery.
      •   CPAP Therapy: CPAP is the most common treatment for moderate to severe sleep apnea, using pressurized air to keep the airway open.
      •   Sleep Apnea Risk Factors: Sleeping on one’s back can increase the risk of sleep apnea due to potential airway blockage.
      •   Source of the Text: The text is adapted from “Human Biology” by CK-12 and licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0.
      •   Content of the Text: The text is about disorders of the respiratory system.
      •   License and Authorship: The page is shared under a CK-12 license and authored by Suzanne Wakim & Mandeep Grewal.
      
    3. 16.2: Structure and Function of the Respiratory System Last updated May 7, 2022 Save as PDF 16.1: Case Study: Respiratory System and Gas Exchange 16.3: Breathing
      •   Respiration Definition: The process of releasing water vapor and other gases from the body.
      •   Breath Visibility: Exhaled warm, moist air condenses into tiny droplets in cold weather, making it visible.
      •   Respiration and Temperature: Exhaled air is warm and contains water vapor, which condenses in cold air.
      •   Respiration Definition: Life-sustaining process of gas exchange between the body and the atmosphere, involving oxygen intake and waste gas removal.
      •   Respiratory System Function: Supplies oxygen for cellular respiration and removes carbon dioxide produced by cells.
      •   Respiratory System Processes: Ventilation (breathing) and gas exchange (oxygen and carbon dioxide diffusion).
      •   Respiratory System Organs: Lungs, trachea, bronchi, and diaphragm are involved in respiration.
      •   Upper Respiratory Tract Function: Provides a route for air to move between the outside atmosphere and the lungs, cleaning, humidifying, and warming the incoming air.
      •   Nasal Cavity Function: Warms and humidifies inhaled air, traps foreign particles, and contains chemoreceptors for smell and taste.
      •   Pharynx Function: Connects nasal cavity and mouth to the throat, serving as a passageway for both air and food.
      •   Larynx Function: Connects pharynx and trachea, houses vocal cords for sound production, and protects the trachea from food aspiration.
      •   Lower Respiratory Tract: A tree-like branching system of passages within the lungs.
      •   Respiratory Tract Structure: Inverted tree-like shape with 1,500 miles of airways conducting air to the lungs.
      •   Trachea Function: Connects the larynx to the lungs, allowing air passage.
      •   Lung Function: Site of gas exchange between air and bloodstream.
      •   Lung Structure: Two lungs, right lung larger with three lobes and left lung smaller with two lobes, suspended in the pleural cavity.
      •   Alveoli Function: Tiny air sacs where gas exchange occurs, providing a large surface area for oxygen absorption and carbon dioxide release.
      •   Blood Supply: Lungs receive deoxygenated blood for oxygenation and oxygenated blood for cellular respiration.
      •   Respiratory System Importance: Vital for survival, requiring protection due to its exposure to harmful substances.
      •   Mucociliary Escalator: A primary defense mechanism where mucus traps particles and cilia move them away from the lungs.
      •   Coughing Mechanism: An involuntary response to remove mucus, debris, and irritants from the respiratory tract.
      •   Sneezing Mechanism: Sneezing is an involuntary response triggered by irritation in the nasal passage, resulting in the forceful expulsion of air, mucus, and debris from the mouth.
      •   Respiratory System and Homeostasis: The respiratory system collaborates with the nervous and cardiovascular systems to maintain homeostasis in blood gases (oxygen and carbon dioxide) and pH levels.
      •   Carbon Dioxide Regulation: The body primarily monitors carbon dioxide levels to regulate breathing rate and maintain blood gas and pH balance.
      •   Respiratory and Cardiovascular System Interaction: The respiratory system exchanges gases with the outside air, while the cardiovascular system transports these gases to and from body cells.
      •   Choking Definition and Causes: Choking is the mechanical obstruction of airflow into the lungs, often caused by objects blocking the pharynx or trachea, particularly in young children.
      •   Choking Symptoms and Signs: Inability to speak or cry, labored breathing, clutching the throat, and blue discoloration of the face indicate choking.
      •   Choking Treatment for Infants: Turn the baby upside down and slap on the back to dislodge the object.
      •   Choking Treatment for Older People: Encourage coughing, give back slaps, and if needed, perform the Heimlich maneuver.
      •   Emergency Action for Choking: If choking persists after the Heimlich maneuver, call for emergency medical care.
      •   Respiratory System Overview: The respiratory system facilitates breathing, enabling the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
      •   Key Components: The respiratory system includes the larynx, lungs, alveoli, and ciliated epithelium.
      •   Respiratory Processes: Breathing involves inhalation and exhalation, while sneezing is a reflex action to expel irritants.
      •   Page Source: This page is from CK-12 and authored by Suzanne Wakim & Mandeep Grewal.
      •   Content License: The page is shared under a CK-12 license.
      •   Content Topic: The page is about the structure and function of the respiratory system.
      
  6. Jan 2026
  7. Dec 2025
    1. Once humans attained culture, the pressure on genetic change is less significant and adaptation can take place through the flexibility afforded through cultural change.

      for - key insight - culture - adaption through culture, not genes - SRG comment - danger is progress traps! - This is a key insight. Once we have sophisticated culture, we don't rely on slow moving genetic change to adapt anymore. Instead we rely on culture! - This is the world of human progress, but is also a dangerous one because progress (cultural adaptation to environmental pressures) comes with progress traps.

  8. Nov 2025
    1. we can’t recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak for the very first time

      for - unlearning language - key insight - language - cannot recapture same process we used as child - cannot recapture the same processes we used to learn to speak language for the very first time - basically, we lose access to that original vocal learning circuit as an adult - question - language learning - what is this vocal learning circuit of an infant? - why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child? - observation - clue - language - accidental world recall and substitution - a clue to how we remember words - I wrote the above sentence "why do we lost access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?" when I meant to write: - "why do we LOSE access to the vocal learning circuit we had as a child?' - This very observation also has the same mistake: - "observation - clue - language - accidental world" instead of: - observation - clue - language - accidental WORD"! - I've noticed this accidental word substitution when we are in the midst of automatically composing sentences quite often and have also wondered about it often. - I think it offers an important clue about how we remember words, and that is critical for recall for using language itself. - We must store words in clusters that are indicated by the accidental recall

    1. Black English is the creation of the black diaspora.

      Term + my working definition:

      Black English = a language formed within the Black diaspora in the U.S., emerging from shared necessity and community, not merely a “dialect.”

      Why this matters: Centers origin and legitimacy for concept map.

    1. as designers of meaning, language architects carefully considerhow to work with their own languages and voice for the most successfulcommunication in a specific situation (25).

      Term + my working definition:

      Language architects = writers who intentionally design with multiple language resources for a given audience/situation.

      Why this matters for my theme: Positions students as intentional designers, not error-correctors.

    2. An approach that resists monolingual ideology,translingualism views our different and varied language practices as crit-ical in inquiring, supporting, and sustaining the full range of richness inour voices (Horner and Alvarez).

      Term + my working definition:

      Translingualism = resisting one-language norms by leveraging the full range of a writer’s language practices.

      Why this matters for my theme: It names the orientation that re-frames “academic writing” around plurality.

    1. Code meshing is the new code switching; it’s mulitdialectalism and pluralingual-ism in one speech act, in one paper.

      Term + my working definition:

      Code meshing = blending dialects/languages/rhetorical styles together in the same utterance or paper.

      Why this matters for my theme: It’s the central practice Young advances.

    2. Standard language ideologyis the belief that there is one set of dominant language rules that stem from a singledominant discourse (like standard English) that all writers and speakers of Englishmust conform to in order to communicate effectively.

      Term + my working definition:

      Standard language ideology = the belief in one dominant, mandatory set of English rules everyone must follow.

      Why this matters for my theme: Names the system Young critiques.

    1. Dialect literature questions "sociolinguistic wholeness" (51).

      Term + my working definition:

      Dialect literature = writing that uses non-standard varieties to challenge the idea of a single, unified “proper” language.

      Why this matters for my theme: Supports the claim that Bambara’s AAVE disrupts linguistic hierarchy.

    2. In Toni Cade Bambara's short story, "The Lesson" (1972), the narrator, Sylvia, speaks in African American Vernacular English (AAVE).

      Term + my working definition:

      AAVE = a vernacular dialect associated with African American communities that carries cultural identity and rhetorical power in the story.

      Why this matters for my theme: Establishes AAVE as the story’s linguistic frame and vehicle for meaning.

    3. AAVE also embodies Sylvia's and Bambara's ability to question their society and to resist pressure to conform to the dominant culture.

      Term + my working definition:

      AAVE = a vernacular dialect associated with African American communities that carries cultural identity and rhetorical power in the story.

      Why this matters for my theme: Establishes AAVE as the story’s linguistic frame and vehicle for meaning.

    1. That’s why we have a standardized language in the first place.

      Term + my working definition:

      Standardized language = shared norms that enable mutual understanding across diverse dialect users.

      Why this matters for my theme: It grounds the claim that SAE reduces cross-audience miscommunication.

    2. The word “standard” here is not prescriptive. It does not refer to a flag we must all salute. Rather, it simply describes accepted norms — in this case, accepted in the workplace by college-educated professionals.

      Term + my working definition:

      Standard American English = the accepted workplace dialect among college-educated professionals.

      Why this matters for my theme: It frames SAE as pragmatic convention, not moral superiority.

  9. Oct 2025
    1. Like the Elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman (ECDH) protocol that Signal has used since its start, KEM is a key encapsulation mechanism. Also known as a key agreement mechanism, it provides the means for two parties who have never met to securely agree on one or more shared secrets in the presence of an adversary who is monitoring the parties’ connection. RSA, ECDH, and other encapsulation algorithms have long been used to negotiate symmetric keys (almost always AES keys) in protocols including TLS, SSH, and IKE. Unlike ECDH and RSA, however, the much newer KEM is quantum-safe.
    1. How can wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that gives us dreams gives us waking experiences of reality.

      for - key insight - similarity of waking and dream state - How can - wake experiences be direct reflections of the sensory world at that moment while - comparable dream experiences are created by the brain based on novel combinations of fragments of memories from the past? - The answer must be that our experiences are always constructed by the brain; the very same processing that - gives us dreams - gives us waking experiences of reality. - In other words, our brains do not need incoming sensory input to produce realistic experiences. - Our waking experiences are the way that they are - not because of sensory input but - because of the functional capabilities of the human brain. -The MToC argues that the functional capability that produces our experience of reality, whether - we are awake - or asleep, - is the explicit memory system. - During sleep, we speculate that our brains are simply carrying on with functioning - akin to what happens when we are awake. - The typical modes of action of the human brain persist across wake and sleep. - While we are awake, our brains are producing a stream of experiences of being in the world, punctuated by thoughts. - While we are asleep, without the tremendous barrage of sensory input to constrain experience, perhaps our brains tend to return to these waking habits, - producing a stream of experiences in the world punctuated by thoughts.

    2. memory is critical for jumping around from one simulation to another or back to the context of the present moment, and to do so without disorientation.

      for - key insight - memory - memory is critical for - jumping around from one simulation to another or - jumping back to the context of the present moment, and to do so without disorientation.

    3. From a memory perspective, sleep can be understood as critically important for normal memory function, given the lasting ramifications of consolidation.

      for - key insight - paraphrase - adjacency - memory consolidation - sleep - massive unconscious parallel processing - From a memory perspective, - sleep can be understood as critically important for normal memory function, - given the lasting ramifications of consolidation. - Consolidation is the establishment of new connections - anchoring recent memories within relevant knowledge networks - While consolidation happens, some conscious experience (the dream) may be synthesized as the memory processing unfolds - Dreams reflect a storyline generated to make sense of a subset of activated memory fragments. - Consolidation that wires new connections happens across the entire cerebral context, without the constraints that come with conscious experience. - Unconscious processing during sleep takes advantage of massive parallel processing to connect all these thoughts together. - Dreams reflect a small portion of overnight memory consolidation work.

  10. Sep 2025
    1. We will each die. That's incontrovertible. So any attachments I have to this world will cease. There's no doubt. The question is can I let go of the attachments now or will they only go for my cold dead hand?

      for - quote / key insight - die before we die - Donald Hoffman - We will each die. That's incontrovertible. - So any attachments I have to this world will cease. - There's no doubt. - The question is can I let go of the attachments now - or will they only go for my cold dead hand?

      • adjacency - example - cliche - die before we die - Donald Hoffman
    2. if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear.

      for - adjacency - letting go - of knowledge - of theories - Donald Hoffman - I've often felt as he does - it's a conundrum of letting go of that (knowledge) we've invested so heavily into - quote / key insight - letting go of theories of science and self - Donald Hoffman - Science is great, but don't believe any theory. <br /> - Theories are just tools. They're not the truth. - No scientific theory, my theories included, are the truth. - And so also is my theory about who I am not the truth. - So to really let go of any theory, if I can really let go of any theory of who I am, then I'll let go of any fear

    3. The issue is then when I look at that fear response, can I look at it and accept it or do I identify with it? Do I identify with the fear response or can I step back and be the observer that watches the fear response?

      for - key insight / quote - Do I identify with my fear or step back and be the observer that watches the fear response? - Donald Hoffman? - adjacency - calmness - in the face of death - fear of death - Donald Hoffman

    4. t keeps you from just talking abstractly about this stuff and and and and being real about it is what do I really feel about it?

      for - key insight - adjacency - fear - near death experience - experiential knowledge vs abstract knowledge - Donald Hoffman - He articulates a very important point, that many of us, are only partially there on the journey of journey of discovery - Belief only takes you part way there, - Embodiment is the real proof - We need to have the experience to be certain

    5. The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because your neighbor is yourself just with a different headset.

      for - key insight / quote - the reason to love your neighbor - Donald Hoffman - The reason to love your neighbor as yourself is because - your neighbor IS YOUR (TRUE) SELF, just with a different headset. - And the only reason we have problems is - we don't realize how incredible you are. - So you are that which is creating this VR simulation with all of its beauty, all of its complexity. - All the complexity is you and you're doing it effortlessly.

      adjacency - infinite intelligence - hologram metaphor - your neighbor is your (true) self - Deep Humanity motto - Join together (instead of Join us) - face behind the mask - Reflecting on this, it occurred to me that the Deep Humanity motto of "Join together, NOT join me/us" is deeply connected to what is being discussed in this annotation. - The problem with "joining me" is that it reflects we are still stuck in the ego reification paradigm while "join together" reflects awareness that the boundless intelligence is the true face behind the mask of each different species and each different individual of each species

    6. All the egoic stuff that we do that causes all the problems in the world because you don't know who you are

      for - key insight / quote - the reified ego is the root cause of all the problems in the world - we reify because we don't know who we REALLY are - Donald Hoffman - All the egoic stuff that we do causes all the problems in the world because - you don't know who you are. - You're creating this whole thing. - You're not a little player. - You're the inventor of this whole thing. - You have nothing to prove and - you don't need to be better than anybody else. - They're also master creators. - They're creating entire universes that they perceive as well. - And my own take on on this is that - you and I are really the same one reality - just looking at itself through two different headsets, - two different avatars and having a conversation. - And maybe that's what is required for this one infinite intelligence to sort of know itself.

      • adjacency - poverty mentality - ego - problems of the world - samsara - nirvana - hologram model - Alan Watts - God playing hide and seek - Donald Hoffman
      • When we don't believe we can be this, we limit ourselves
        • That is, we suffer from self-inflicted poverty mentality
      • When he says we are the one same reality,
        • he is echoing the common spiritual teaching of the holographic metaphor where
          • the one nameless is distilling itself in so many separate identities to know itself,
        • Similiar to many spiritual teacher's teachings
          • Alan Watts referred to it as God playing Hide and Seek with itself
    7. From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive

      for - quote/key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is

      quote / key insight - perception serves reproduction, not seeing reality as it is - Donald Hoffman - From an evolutionary point of view, perception is expensive. - It takes a lot of calories. - You have to eat a lot of food - to run your brain and - to power your eyes and your ears. - - And so you need to do shortcuts. - You need to make your sensory systems not chew up so much of your energy. - The more expensive your perceptual systems are, - the more you've got to eat to to power those. - So that means you have to go out there and forage and put yourself at harm. - So there's a trade-off. - We try to do things cheaply in evolution. And you don't need to actually go for the truth because that's very very expensive

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    1. for - AgroSphere Technology key research paper - carbon emissions - paper claims agriculture is the highest summary - The paper cited here is very important for AgroSphere Technology because - It shows how critical a role regenerative agriculture plays in mitigating the climate crisis - The claim of the paper is that carbon emissions from Agriculture are the biggest emissions of all

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    1. what you have access to are the information traces the engrams whether in DNA or or in your brain the engrams that the past has left as messages to your present self from your past self and those messages have to be interpreted.

      for - quote / key insight - messages from past self to present self - Michael Levin - salience - high - engrams from past self to present self

    2. all intelligence is collective intelligence in the sense that every agent is made of parts, all of us. And what you want is for the agent to have a causal power uh that is not the same as uh simply tracking the microates, the particles

      for - quote - consciousness vs cellular level intelligence - Michael Levin - key insight - high level governance (consciousness) vs low level intelligence adjacency hierarchical control - high level consciousness - low level micro intelligence quote - consciousness vs cellular level intelligence - Michael Levin - all intelligence is collective intelligence in the sense that - every agent is made of parts, all of us. - And what you want is for the (high level) agent to have a causal power that is not the same as simply tracking the microstates, the particles.

      key insight - high level governance (consciousness) vs low level intelligence - This is a very important observation - It says that a multi-cellular being such as a human being can have consciousness that has agency for the entire organism and governs at that high level, and it must have this beyond just the cognition and intelligence at the lower cellular and subcellular level

    3. what unification uh allowed us to do with a uh a good theory of electromagnetism is to say that first of all all of these are actually uh examples of the same underlying phenomenon. So we were able to put them on one continuum

      for - key insight - scientific theory - transition - from different - to similiar - key insight - organizing principle - organizes reality in new ways

      key insight - scientific theory - transition - from different - to similiar - New scientific theories make us cognitively reorganize our experiences - What was thought of as separate in an older conceptual framing - suddenly become similiar with the new framing

    1. This worldview also has to restore the enchantment, communality, and connection to the sacred that is ubiquitous in pre-modern and indigenous worldviews, yet is severed in the process of modernization

      for - key insight - new worldview must restore enchantment, community and connection

      key insight - new worldview must restore enchantment, community and connection - This worldview also has to restore the - enchantment, - communality, and - connection - to the sacred that is - ubiquitous in pre-modern and indigenous worldviews, - yet is severed in the process of modernization — - resulting in the pervasive sense of - alienation and - meaninglessness - that characterize both modern and postmodern worldviews. - As research underscores, - a sense of - meaning, - inner purpose, and - community - are crucial for human well-being and cannot be replaced by high levels of economic prosperity.

    2. while postmodernism thus represents a new awareness of how our paradigms construct our world, it appears markedly blind to its own worldview — its own postmodern metanarrative.

      for - key insight - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - quote - postmodernism is blind to its own narrative - Annick de Witt - observation - adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts

      adjacency - postmodernism - alternative facts - observation - also we are seeing the shadow side of postmodernism in the Trump era where "alternative facts" have become dangerously fashionable - obviously the complete denial of an objective reality is not tenable while the complete denial of constructed reality is also no tenable - what we need is an integration, as Annick contends

    3. With far-right parties in power, it needs to present a real alternative — both to what the right offers, as well as to its past offering, which has failed to convince and inspire.

      for - key insight - genuine alternative - past didn't work - neither does the present - the future must be intentionally designed to be different than the past or the present

    1. The Congo Basin Forest is the size of India or almost ten times the size of Germany, covering 3.3 million km2. Almost two thirds of the forest is within DR Congo. It provides food, firewood, water and shade.

      size of the basin again

    2. here are an overwhelming 10.000 species of plants, including 3.000 that are found only here: 600 tree species, 1000 bird species, 900 species of butterflies, 280 species of reptiles and 400 species of mammals.

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    1. The basin’s lush array of trees and tropical plants also allows it to absorb massive amounts of carbon, making it the planet’s largest remaining tropical carbon sink.

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  14. May 2025
    1. Experienceenriches language by rooting its structures in the robust structures of perceived things(perceiving the skin as sunburned fills out the meaning of “My skin is sunburned”)

      for - key insight - language - induction leads to general categories - neonates experience reality as a continuous, unbroken stream of consciousness - To form objects required object permanence - which in turn requires us to impute general categories first, - which is constructed upon a process of induction - based on the raw material of particular, remembered gestaltic experiences - ideas ( and therefore words) are essentially constructed categories that allow us to unite entire series of remembered, gestaltic experiences of phenomenological reality - Consider the author's example of sunburned skin: - Suppose the is an infant for whom the word 'skin' does not have a meaning. - The infant may have experienced many separate pre-linguistic, gestaltic experiences involving his skin: - sunburned skin - itchy skin - skin scalded by hot water - skin that is cold - dirty skin from playing in the dirt - clean skin after waking the dirt off - cut skin from a knife cutting it accidentally in the kitchen - bandaged and healed skin - All of these gestaltic experiences, when accompanied by the appropriate vocalisations of the caretaker who is present that use the word 'skin' help the infant to construct the category meaning of the word 'skin' - Early language training is an induction-intensive process - Unless we learn how to construct abstract categories at a young age, we cannot become proficient abstract language users as adults - By abstract, I mean the category nature of word s and ideas, which give them their flexibility and modularity

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

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

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

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

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

    1. as adults we have what we grew up with as young kids the the innate or the natural ability to acquire a language but most of us we've also learned and gained another quite natural ability and that is to learn things on purpose right so and so those two natures do conflict i don't think they fit well together

      for - key insight / quote - innate language learning is in conflict with intentional learning - David Long - Common Human Denominator - learning language

  15. Apr 2025
    1. The nourishing contact with others that we so desperately crave can never be realized by selves that relate to others solely in the narcissistic terms of how those others can satisfy what our egos project upon them as potential sources of affirmation.

      for - quote / key insight - the shallow internet can never truly fulfill us

      quote / key insight - the shallow internet can never truly fulfill us - The nourishing contact with others that we so desperately crave - can never be realized by selves that relate to others solely in the narcissistic terms of how those others can satisfy what our egos project upon them as potential sources of affirmation. - Relating to each other out of the fullness of our egos, - we look to one another for nurturing support but cannot receive each other. - There are no hollow places in ourselves - that make room for the other’s presence, - that welcome the other in. - All that confronts the other - is an ego that allows space for nothing but its own self-obsessed cravings.

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

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

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

  16. Feb 2025
    1. One of the biggest lessons of the Occupy movement was that you can't only have a demonstration. Demonstrations are great. Demonstrations are important to bring attention to certain critical issues. But if you lack mobilization and organization and a political strategy, then you're just basically engaging in a performative act. You're indulging in a performance. You aren't really changing the course of history.

      for - key insight - occupy movement - occupy wallstreet - key insight - Robert Reich - 10 year anniversary

  17. Jan 2025
    1. the death example actually points to something more primordial! It points to the fact that I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for Relevance Realization. I mean, Perspectively. What I mean by that is whenever I am thinking or doing anything, [-] it's always framed because if I'm unframed, I'm facing combinatorial explosion, which is not intelligible to me.

      for - key insight / adjacency - relevance realization - I can never make a focal object of my framing, my capacity for relevance realization - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke - adjacency - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize - - source - Meaning crisis - episode 33 - The Spirituality of Relevance Realization - Wonder/Awe/Mystery/Sacredness - John Vervaeke

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize

      adjacency - between - focal object - framing - relevance realization - attention - intention - language - gestalt - infinite nesting - design - aspectualize - adjacency relationship - As soon as we give attention to one aspect of our gestalt reality, we aspectualize, we frame - All of the below involve framing / aspectualizing - thinking - language use - design

    1. Returning to Bevan’s brilliant question, today it is easier to see how wealth persuades poverty to give up its freedom

      for - key insight / quote - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

      key insight / quote - (see below) - Returning to Bevan’s brilliant question, today it is easier to see how - wealth persuades poverty to give up its freedom and, instead, - to serve the broligarchs-in-charge: via their cloud capital - that has a capacity, - unlike any hitherto form of capital or government department, - to shape our behaviour - automatically and - directly. - Nothing short of a revolution can restore any hope of personal agency, - let alone of democracy.

    2. How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power?

      for - key insight - inequality - elites - How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? - source - article - Le Monde - Musk, Trump and the Broligarch's novel hyper-weapon - Yanis Varoufakis - 2025, Jan 4

  18. Dec 2024
    1. language is really the brain's invention to convert this rich, multi-dimensional thought on one hand into speech on the other hand.

      for - key insight - ideas are multidimensional - speech is one dimensional - language is one dimensional - from TED Talk - YouTube - A word game to convey any language - Ajit Narayanan

    1. The idea here is a potential ‘entanglement’ between the local and the translocal level, which creates new levels of strength and capacity for the local.

      for - key insight - leverage point of the 99% - our numbers - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20 - key insight - 6 levels of individual / collective gestalt - from Substack article - The Cosmo-Local Plan for our Next Civilization - Michel Bauwens - 2024, Dec 20

      key insight - 6 embedded levels of individual / collective gestalt, - first level is from individual quanta to collective atoms - second level is from individual atom to collective molecules - third is from individual molecule too collective living cells - fourth is from individual living cells too collective multicellular living organism - fifth is from individual multi-cellular organism to collective culture at local level - sixth is from individual local culture to to collective trans-national alliances - At each level except the first, a perspective shift occursc in which the collective is seen from a different lens as an individual

      key insight - leverage point of the 99% - our numbers - The trans-national companies power is in their capital - The trans-national alliances leverage point is our large numbers of people - Through our strength in numbers, we can mobilize trans-alliance resources such as human innovation resources, which most local actors are lacking in

    1. To engage with form from the position of emptiness is to see every phenomenon as a manifestation of the infinite web of relationships. Unique and precious, but impossible to isolate, as the play of light in the jewel of Indra’s web.

      for - key insight / adjacency- Indra's net metaphor - emptiness and form - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

      key insight / adjacency - between - Indra's net metaphor - emptiness and form - new relationship - Of course! Indra's net! - Every specific form we encounter in reality - is like a node, a jewel in Indra's net - Any form is related to all forms

    2. the experience of spaciousness and the empty nature of phenomena are related in the following way. As our mind lets go of reification, phenomena arise as continuously interconnected and interdependent, yet without ground in essence.

      for - key insight / adjacency- Dzogchen practice - the experience of spaciousness and emptiness of phenomena - neuroscientist Gerald Edelman's question about the newborn classifying the world - from Medium article - Heart Sutra and the nyams of Dzogchen - Aleander Vezhnevets - 2022, Sept 7

      key insight / adjacency - between - Dzogchen practice - the shi-ne experience of spaciousness and emptiness of phenomena - Neuroscientist Gerald Edelman's question - how does a newborn learn to classify an undivided world of phenomena? - new relationship - As the mind lets go of our habitual tendency to reify and create artificial independent things - phenomena begin to appear to arise as continuously interconnected, interdependent, yet without ground in essence - This gives us a sense of space where every phenomena is arising inter-relatedly. - This is related to Gerald Edelman's question of - how a newborn is able to start classifying a world that is undivided - Does shi-ne training take us back to our first experience of reality as a newborn, when - there was not even any inter-relationships because there were no separate objects to be in relation with each other

    1. I've encountered several people in the Kagyu and Nyingma traditions who say, "Oh, we, you know 'tukdam,' yeah, people go in 'tukdam,' "but it's like, you know, not that big a deal. It's, we don't care that much." Part of the reason they don't care that much is that the idea that you need to go into this completely, kind of, a state where there's no phenomenal content— that's just a pure clear light mind— actually is something that many of the contemporary practitioners and teachers in those lineages don't agree with.

      for - Buddhism - Tibetan - Kagyu and Nyingma schools don't make a big deal out of Tukdam - nondual awareness can emerge with other techniques - key insight - Buddhism - Tibetan - Clear light meditation at time of death - Tukdam - a physiological technique - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    2. it's said that you can get there by doing like philosophical analysis, but this is using basically physiological techniques to get to the same place phenomenologically. So that's what "tukdam" is theoretically

      for - key insight - Buddhism - Tibetan - Clear light meditation at time of death - Tukdam - a physiological technique to get to the same place as philosophical analysis - recognizing nondual, ultimate nature of reality - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    3. So the concept here is that you're actually no longer even capable of thinking, you're no longer capable of seeing, you're no longer capable of hearing, and so on. All that's left is just this kind of sheer consciousness itself, which doesn't even have a subject-object structure. So for the Gelugpas that lack of subject-object structure is not really relevant. For the other traditions it's extremely relevant, because it's said that if you're going to understand the nature of the mind, the fundamental distortion in the mind is precisely that subject-object structure. So you have to cultivate a non-dual awareness,

      for - key insight - Buddhism - TIbetan - Clear light meditation - Tukdam at time of death - no longer capable of thinking, seeing, hearing, etc - all that's left is naked consciousness without even subject-object from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne

    4. these winds, right— these energies—are already flowing, of course, and they flow in very deep patterns that basically constitute one's own ordinary identity. And so quite literally one's own ordinary identity is, is the patterning of these winds.

      for - key insight - one's ordinary identity IS the pattern of the flow of the winds - this makes practice of Tukdam very difficult - from Youtube - Between Life and Death: Understanding Tukdam - John D. Dunne - a tendency towards lust, aversion, etc is accompanied by a flow of wind. - to practice this during life, we have to get out of the deep patterns we identify with in life

    1. research shows that it's not so much about changing the narrative that is important but it is changing our relationship to this narrative so that we can see the narrative for what it is which is really a constellation of thoughts

      for - illusion of self narrative / construction - third pillar - insight - key insight on insight! - not about CHANGING NARRATIVES - but about PENETRATING THE NARRATIVE to understand its essence - - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson

    2. we think of kindness and compassion in a way that's very similar to the way scci other scientists think about language

      for - comparison / key insight - compassion is like language (and also like genetics) - every infant has the biological capacity for these - Youtube - Tukdam talk - An Overview Of CHM’s Work On “Well-Being And Tukdam” - Prof. Richard J. Davidson

      comparison / key insight - compassion is like language (and also like genetics) - compassion, like language and genetics is intrinsic to our human nature. Every newborn comes into the world with the biological capacity for kindness/compassion, language and for genetic expression. However, - how we actually turn out as adults depends on what variables exist in our environment - If we have a compassionate mOTHER, our Most significant OTHER, she will teach us compassion - just like a child raised in a community of other language speakers in the environment will enable the child to cultivate the language capacity and - without a community of language speakers, a feral infant will grow up not understanding language at all - a healthy environment triggers beneficial epigenetic processes - Again, the chinese saying is salient: (hu)man on earth, good at birth. The same nature, varies on nurture

      to - feral children - Youtube - https://hyp.is/go?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdocdrop.org%2Fvideo%2FTKaS1RdAfrg%2F&group=world - Chinese saying: (hu)man on earth, good at birth. The same nature, varies on nurture - https://hyp.is/TWOEYrlUEe-Mxx_LHYIpMg/medium.com/postgrowth/rediscovering-harmony-how-chinese-philosophy-offers-pathways-to-a-regenerative-future-07a097b237a0

    1. The Greeks took that material change and they mythologized it into the soul. And then, of course, Genesis—the creation of the world in Christianity—says, the world is here for humans. It was created for humans to use, to dominate, to exploit, you know, in their trial here to see if they’re righteous or not.

      for - key insight - roots of anthropomorphism - Greek and Christian narratives - from - Emergence Magazine - interview - An Ethics of Wild Mind - David Hinton - adjacency - existential polycrisis - roots of anthropomorphism in the written language - Deep Humanity BEing journeys that explore how language constructs our reality

      key insight / summary - roots of anthropomorphism - Greek and Christian narratives - The Greeks defined the soul - The Genesis story established that we were the chosen species and all others are subservient to us - From that story, domination of nature becomes the social norm, leading all the way to the existential polycrisis / metacrisis we are now facing - This underscores the critical salience of Deep Humanity to the existential polycrisis - exploring the roots of language and how it changes our perceptions of reality - showing us how we construct our narratives at the most fundamental level, then buy into them

    1. Algorithmic control of our lives is an expression of the rot at the heart of Western civilisation: quantitative values subsuming qualitative experience.

      for - key insight - algorithmic control - quantitative values subsuming qualitative experience - Substack article - Best Served Cold: Luigi Mangione and The Age of Breach - Alexander Beiner

    1. the richest are those who determine countries’ carbon emission levels.

      for - key insight - carbon inequality - the rich individuals of any country - are the ones most responsible for determining the carbon emissions of a country - adjacency - carbon inequality - wealthy - carbon emissions of individuals - carbon emissions of a country

      adjacency - between - carbon inequality - wealth inequality - the richest individuals of a country - the carbon emissions of a country - adjacency relationship - It's startling to draw the connection that - it is the wealthiest individuals in a country - that are most responsible for the bulk of a country's emissions!

    1. And for for someone like me who was born in this in the country of the US, who came into life as a white presenting woman, it is the work of my life to entirely and utterly work to dismantle oppressive systems simultaneously while I'm actually working to shift my consciousness about how I respond

      for - key insight - challenging ourselves for authentic, transformative change - inner and outer work to dismantle oppressive, entrenched systems - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    2. we kept looking at the a couple of assumptions and it was assuming almost a linear journey of we're going to take the power and the money from the elites and we're going to put it in the hands of the community and the peoples and what we know throughout history is many different social movements over the past hundreds of years have endeavored to make that shift. But unless we actually get down into the deeper thought forms that underlie power and domination themselves, we're not actually in a cold, liberatory kind of framework

      for - quote / key insight - must interrogate the deeper thought patterns else - we risk repeating simplistic linear transition social movements that have failed over the past centuries - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    3. There's not necessarily a process by which that communities decide who comes in or countries decide who comes in to work on these problems that have been decided outside.

      for - key insight - Philanthropies have decided on the outside, which communities and which problems need to be solved - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      comment - So true! Who hasn't experienced the NGO coming into the community with a know-it-all attitude and already decided who will receive what funds for what project. It's all decided ahead of time then offered! - We don't want to fall into the same trap!

    4. as individuals, we're replicators of neoliberalism. Not just intellectually, cognitively, medically, but semantically our physical bodies. We have given somatic real estate to aspects of neoliberalism.

      for - key insight - as individuals, we promote neoliberalism - via entrenched and unconscious colonialism - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - deep entrenchment and entrainment of neolieralism in our bodies - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      comment - The depth of entrainment of neoliberalism in our bodies is very pronounced - This is why it is so difficult to make adhoc change because it faces so much opposition emerging from the unconscious

    5. Lynne and I interviewed a couple of people who had come into huge amounts of wealth, and we're just setting up their their philanthropy. And they would they would be very optimistic at first. They would have these huge sort of ranges of potential of what they believe they could achieve. And then we would talk to them six months later or a year later,

      for - key insight - severe limits of philanthropy - abiding by neoliberal logic severely constrains them - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    6. neoliberalism and its predecessors of industrial capitalism and even proto capitalism were based on separation from the natural world. And and we can we call it sort of separation or dualism

      for - key insight - neoliberalism and industrial capitalism were based on Descarte and our separation from the natural world - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - adjacency - materialism, science and neoliberalism - will technology save us? - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - to - The Three Great Separations

      key insight / summary - neoliberalism and industrial capitalism were based on Descarte and our separation from the natural world - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - FIrst, Descarte separated the mind from the body. We have the paradox of: - godlike mind housed in - animalistic bodies - (incidentally, this sets us up for the exageration of the existential crisis of the denial of death in modernity - Ernest Becker) - Then we impose separation of external vs internal world - Then, we have separate categories of mind and nature, and we begin othering of: - women - other (indigenous) cultures - What Alnoor and Lynn forgot to mention was that there is another separation that preceded the industrial revolution, the separation of people into distinct classes of: - producer - consumer - Then with the advance of Newtonian physics and the wild success of materialist theory applied to create a plethora of industrial technologies, a wedding occurred between: - dualism and - materialism - Materialism decomposes everything into subatomic particles that a rational mind can understand - To those who think science and technology can save us from the crisis it helped create - the deeper understanding reveals that science and technology are themselves agents of separation.

      to - See the three great separations - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Finthesetimes.com%2Farticle%2Findustrial-agricultural-revolution-planet-earth-david-korten&group=world

    7. we're really invoking a call for philanthropy to be in the liberation of capital in a way that can support transition pathways. What we refer to as transition pathways is other ways of being and knowing that are in co-creative relationship with life itself.

      for - key objective - of Post Capitalist Philanthropy - call for philanthropy to be in the liberation of capital in a way that supports transition pathways - to explore other ways of being and knowing that are in co-creative relationship with life itself - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

    8. we're using post in the way postmodernists use post, which is it's informed by modernism, it's informed by capitalism without being able to transcend it necessarily because capitalism and it's the most recent incarnation of capitalism, which is neoliberalism, is like the oxygen that we breathe. It's all encompassing. It's totalitarian in its nature. And it's pervasive. And so in that sense, we say we have to be informed by the logic of the dominant system.

      for - key point - Post Capitalist - informed by the logic of the dominant system - but not necessarily try to transcend it because it is so ubiquitous - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      key point - Post Capitalist - informed by the logic of the dominant system - but not necessarily try to transcend it because it is so ubiquitous - Post Capitalist Philanthropy - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - It is so ubiquitous, like the air we breath - all encompassing - totalitarian - pervasive

    9. the onus is for many of us in the occidental mind and the Western tradition to find what it is to excavate what it is about capitalism that lives in our very minds and our bodies and our our ways of working. And to find another way that is possible.

      for - key points - excavate and replace engrained capitalist worldviews and behaviors and replace with healthier alternatives - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023

      key points - excavate and replace engrained capitalist worldviews and behaviors and replace with healthier alternatives - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - For those of western tradition, - find out what deeply engrained capitalist habits must we excavate in our - minds, - bodies, - worldviews, - behaviors, - hearts (feelings) and - ways of being - and replace them with healthier alternatives

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  19. Nov 2024
    1. The potential for cuts in 2030 is 31 gigatons of CO2 equivalent – which isaround 52 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2023 – and 41gigatons in 2035.· Increased deployment of solar photovoltaic technologies and wind energy coulddeliver 27 per cent of this total emission reduction potential in 2030 and 38 percent in 2035.· Action on forests could deliver around 20 per cent of the potential in both years.• Other strong options include efficiency measures, electrification and fuelswitching in the buildings, transport and industry sectors.

      for - stats - 27% of the gap can be reduced by wind and solar deployment and 20% by action on forests, while efficiency, electrification, fuel switching in buildings, transport and industry sectors can also contribute - UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages

    2. f only current NDCs are implemented and no further ambition is shown in the newpledges, the best we could expect to achieve is catastrophic global warming of up to2.6°C over the course of the century

      for - stats - Current National Declared Commitments (NDCs) only take us to a disastrous 2.6 Deg. C over the course of the century.- UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages

    3. Since greenhouse gas emissions grew 1.3 per cent year-on-year to 57.1 gigatonsof carbon dioxide equivalent in 2023, the task has become harder; 7.5 per centmust be shaved off emissions every year until 2035 for 1.5°C

      for - stats - GHG emissions grew 1.3 % year-on-year to 57.1 Gton CO2 eq in 2023 - UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages - stats - 7.5% decarbonization rate is now required every year to stay under 1.5 Deg C - UN Emissions Gap Report 2024 - Key Messages

    1. Behavioral change is a key mitigation strategy since demand-side options have a high mitigation potential7. Yet, it has only recently started being discussed in the literature, compared to traditionally studied supply-side solutions.

      for - key insight - behavioral change is a key demand-side mitigation strategy yet has only been recently discussed - supply side solutions have been the main focus - Pizziol & Tavoni, 2024

    1. what the defeat of Harris shows about the US is this people like everywhere else want a real alternative to business as usual and if there is no authentic left option people vote for a fascist instead it's happened again and again in history

      for - key insight - quote - Why Harris lost US election - no perceived genuine alternative to BAU - Roger Hallam - from - Medium article - An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s Next - Otto Scharmer - terminology - Status Quoism

      key insight - quote - Why Harris lost US election - no perceived genuine alternative to BAU - Roger Hallam - (see below) - What the defeat of Harris shows about the US is this. People like everywhere else want a real alternative and - If there is no authentic left option, people vote for a fascist instead. - It happens again and again in history

      from - Medium article - An Emerging Third Option: Reclaiming Democracy from Dark Money & Dark Tech Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s Next - Otto Scharmer - terminology - Status Quoism - https://hyp.is/Mxp1GqtFEe-pKzNGX6BrhQ/medium.com/presencing-institute-blog/an-emerging-third-option-reclaiming-democracy-from-dark-money-dark-tech-3886bcd0469b

    1. that's why they have the chips act because they want to reduce Your Capacity to invest in this super highway and make it attractive for everybody else this is why they are creating circumstances of choking anyone outside the United States wants to trade with China because they don't want this Super Highway way so it's not that China is getting bigger it is not that China is spying it is not Taiwan it is that China has built a digital Cloud Capital based super highway for payments which is a clear and prais danger to the Monopoly of the dollar payment system which is the only reason why the United States is hegemonic

      for - key insight - US hegemonic foreign policy - for cold war with China - in order to protect the US global reserve currency - Yanis Varoufakis - Yanis Varoufakis provides a key insight here about the reason for the US cold war with China - Yanis validates his one party claim by saying that the clashing economic fiefdoms of - big tech (Silicon Valley) and - Wall street - are both antagonistic towards China - Biden's Chips Act and - Trump's huge Tariffs - are both continuations of the cold war towards China

    2. will that not affect the value of the dollar he said no not as long as it is the only World Reserve currency the only currency that has demand people demand it even if they don't want to buy anything from the country which is producing it which is printing it

      for - key strategy - US foreign policy - US dollar don't devalue as long as it is the world's reserve currency - even if they don't want to buy from you - Yanis Varoufakis

    3. why did the Clinton Administration and the Bush Administration after that were so gangho about trading with China why did they not start the new Cold War against China in the 1990s in the year 2000 in 2004 2005 200 8 why was it only around 2014 that this establishment decided to unleash the war against China

      for - key insight - key question - why did US foreign policy against China switch only in 2014? - Yanis Varoufakis