What would it be like to become an instant expert in any skill or subject?

The brain is just 3 pounds of tapioca pudding playing video games in a dark room. How easily what we perceive can be fooled and deceived.

How is this changed via augmented cyber interfaces?

https://old.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1qxxx7p/does_anyone_know_what_kind_of_typewriter_this_is/

See also:<br /> - https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/cp3gnl/my_new_favorite_typist_matthew_mcconaughey_in/ - https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/hhrqhk/what_typewriter_is_this_from_the_movie_the_beach/<br /> - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/27/movies/the-beach-bum-review.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1qr703r/identification_help_needed/

for - progress trap - AI - hackers - hack the AI constitution

for - this essay is about the negative impacts of powerful AI

for - AI - status - writing most of the code at Anthropic

for - future human - Michael Levin - the 6 million dollar man!

"black bird fly...in to the the light of a dark black night"<br /> —Duane Jensen, as typed on a 1949 Smith-Corona Clipper S/N: #5C 101511 which, like a phoenix from the ashes, he'd brought back to life.

RIP Duane.

Youtube offers a "light version" and a "dark version" which I tried both to see their levels of contrast to the foreground/videos. I personally found the light version to be easier to view the videos and location of the search bar. However, the dark version is a less harsh option on the eyes and Youtube also applied the contrasting colour to all words to ensure ease of reading.

We ran high-level US civil war simulations. Minnesota is exactly how they start<br /> by [[Claire Finkelstein]] in The Guardian<br /> accessed on 2026-01-21T10:07:26

The Gospel of Wealth<br /> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gospel_of_Wealth

https://www.americanyawp.com/reader/

What is the general history of oval-shaped architecture? Is there an explicit link between the Oval shape of the complex at Ibgal, the temple (or house) of Inanna in Lagash and the oval office at the White House?

Keep in mind that modern knowledge of large portions of the Ancient Near East only surfaced after the 1800s, so the tradition would have required intermediaries from the ANE into other cultures to be passed down to the building of the White House in 1792.

Statement in support of Graeber and Wengrow's thesis in The Dawn of Everything, though predating it.

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Transcripts communicate as they are intended to. MCs communicate in a different way, for a different audience.

Corporate Personhood<br /> by [[Dan Allosso]] in MakingHistory<br /> accessed on 2026-01-05T16:51:28

Presumably (is there a way to check), Luhmann gave this lecture while he was teaching from 1965-68 in his position at the Sozialforschungsstelle an der Universität Münster (Social Research Centre of the University of Münster).

22:48 "It's the gravitas of the situation that I see, that frustrates me that other people don't see it. I have been "preparing" intentionally since Hurricane Katrina, but I grew up on a farm in upstate New York. I know how to hunt. I know how to butcher animals. I know how to grow food. I know row crops and gardens. I know foraging in the woods. I know how to fish and where to get water from. And I understand how to move in a rural environment, not just the topographical terrain, but the human terrain as well. Been doing that my whole life. One could say, I've been prepared for this by the hand of the Most High my whole life. And I I see it. I see it coming. And it... while I would love to be wrong, it bothers me that others who do see it, or pay lip service to seeing it, don't take it as seriously as they should."

preach. there is too much demoralization everywhere.

1952+ Newsroom at The Masters featuring dozens of Royal HH typewriters.

via https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1205955487563562&set=a.527768838715567

this is also a meditation on the paradox between "liberals on the outside" ("leftism") ("liberals in name only") and "conservatives on the inside".<br /> the paradox between overt liberal flags / symbols / rhetoric / talks and secret conservative politics / strategies / actions

When users are treated like a commodity by powers that be, there is a concentration on making apps "usable" and "universal" in order to avoid "churn"

https://annoying.one/

for - youtube - interview - Michael Levin - Where biology goes off the rails

for - planaria tail regenerates head - not all information is contained in the brain

for - progress trap - AI as legal person (US Corporation) - richest person in the world could be an AI

for - public good - being eroded

• SRG comment - public good being eroded - reference
• to - the Volcker Shock - Anna Bocca - How the Rich took over the Economy
  • https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAV0bkTHui8
  • Anna explains how all this privatization began in the video

for

• SRG comment - this is also explained in Anna Bocca's video
• to - the Volcker Shock - Anna Bocca - How the Rich took over the Economy
  • https://via.hypothes.is/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAV0bkTHui8

for - AI - ponzi scheme - keep the progress narrative alive - while everything else is falling apart

for - history - progress - Francis Fukuyama - liberalism won - calling the bluff

for - history - progress - secular golden age promise - can procastinate by pushing it forward to the next generation

for - observation - anti-science blowback

• SRG comment- anti- science blowback - competing narratives now out in the open, gaining momentum

for - youtube - Planet Critical interview - Samuel Miller MacDonald - The Myth of Progress

• SRG comment - interview - The Myth of Progress - Samuel Miller McDonald
  • Samuel summarizes key points from his research and book:
    • Progress: Humanity's Worst Idea
  • He discusses
    • what progress should be,
    • why it is so vital, and
    • how little time we really have to achieve

for - Medium article - cogress - Part 1 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - definition - cogress - to - Medium article cogress - Part 2 - progress trap - James Gien Wong - https://hyp.is/t8FhpDGAEfC4J7f0NEFujg/medium.com/@gien_SRG/human-cogress-part-2-d6fd075a55c7 - to - Stop Reset Go hypothesis annotations - progress trap - Ronald Wright - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=ronald+wright - General - https://jonudell.info/h/facet/?max=100&expanded=true&user=stopresetgo&exactTagSearch=true&any=progress+trap - from - youtube - Planet Critical interview - Samuel Miller MacDonald - The Myth of Progress - https://hyp.is/r-hmFtjKEfCd8odATbINbA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhmWEDkZUQ

for - book - A Short History of Progress (2004) - author - Ronald Wright - progress trap - Ronald Wright - A Short History of Progress (2004) - to - movie - Surviving Progress (2011) - https://hyp.is/sRPYJtjLEfCwuDdwG2xNnw/www.nfb.ca/film/surviving-progress/ - to - book - Progress: A History of Humanity's Worst Idea - from - youtube - Planet Critical interview - Samuel Miller MacDonald - The Myth of Progress - https://hyp.is/r-hmFtjKEfCd8odATbINbA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhmWEDkZUQ

for - progress traps - movie - Surviving Progress (2011) - from - book - A Short History of Progress (2004) - https://hyp.is/93k5CtjLEfC1UpPEi59BHA/archive.org/details/shorthistoryofpr0000wrig - from - youtube - Planet Critical interview - Samuel Miller MacDonald - The Myth of Progress - https://hyp.is/r-hmFtjKEfCd8odATbINbA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEhmWEDkZUQ

for - youtube - How the rich took over the economy - from - youtube - interview - Thomas Piketty - can't blame the top, so demonize the bottom - https://hyp.is/10dTvtheEfC_-8OXfzSTJA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeZoNTJgBZs

• SRG comment - A great explainer video of how the Volcker Shock started the whole chain reaction of modern day wealth inequality - to Thatcher and Reagan down to Trump

for - economic history - Volcker Shock - 2 political allies - Thatcher (1979) and Reagan (1980) came to power - cast taxes, social programs and regulation as the bogeyman

• SRG comment - Reagan and Thatcher policies - advocating for inequality - against the sacred

for - economic history - Volcker Shock - IMF Structural adjustment program - privatize public assets, - cut spending of welfare, - austerity across the board - deregulation, - open domestic markets to foreign corporations, - remove protection of local businesses and workers - IMF - a deal with the devil

for - inequality - Thomas Piketty - opinion - middle class can't get tax relief from the elites - so they take it out on those below them - to - youtube - economic history - what started the chain reaction of modern day inequality - https://hyp.is/SIBPoNjHEfCxI8N7cC7ntw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAV0bkTHui8

for - paper - The emergence of egalitarianism in a model of early human societies (2017) - author - Guillaume Calmettes - James N. Weiss

• paper - Human socio-cultural evolution in light of evolutionary transitions: introduction to the theme issue (2023)
• author
  • Yohay Carmel
  • Ayelet Shavit
  • Ehud Lamm
  • Eors Szathmary

for - paper - Characteristic processes of human evolution caused the Anthropocene and may obstruct its global solutions (2023) - author - Timothy M. Waring - Zachary T. Wood - Eörs Szathmáry

SRG comment - validation that cultural evolution must make a dramatic shift because - the patterns of cultural evolution that brought human civilization to modernity and the Anthropocene - could end up destroying it - progress trap - cultural evolution - patterns of existing cultural evolution and progress could be our ultimate progress trap

for - cultural evolution - futures - cannot be like the past

for - cultural evolution - futures - directional change<br /> - our species must alter longstanding patterns of cultural evolution to avoid - environmental disaster and - escalating between-group competition

• SRG comment - validation for cultural change from traditional patterns that brought us to the anthropocene

for - cell intelligence - the cell knowns when to divide - it won't divide until all replication errors have been fixed

for - key insight - cell replication AND function of proteins are both dependent on the living cell. Neither follow from DNA alone - Denis Noble

for - book - What is Life? Schrodinger - formulated the idea behind the central dogma of molecular biology

for - definition - The central dogma of molecular biology \ - our genes generate proteins - proteins form bodily structures - everything within our body can therefore be predicted from the level of the DNA

for - definition - the teological sin - biological systems aren't suppose to have agency!

for - unpack - microbiome as the target for / product of evolution

for - trivia - microbiome - 100x more genetic information here than our other body cells -meme - most of the genetic information inside you is not really you

for - The Human Microbiome Project - progress trap - antibiotics - severely disrupts the microbiome (Human Microbiome Project)

for - relationship - agriculture - is the parent - of global capitalism - It (global capitalism) is an elaboration of the agricultural system. - Surplus and expansion and - profound, almost mechanistic, interdependency in material life, and - duality in the human relationship to the more-than-human world - became the order of the day beginning with grain agriculture. - The basic structure and dynamic of the agricultural system were subsequently extended with elaborations that have eventually led to global capitalism.

for comparison - agriculture - capitalism - one is the parent, the other is the uncontrolled offspring

for - quote - the basic elements of the superorganism are not cells and tissues but closely cooperating animals - E.O. Wilson & Holldobler

for - book - Hierarchy in the Forest - shared struggle against inequality - the most important part of human heritage, intelligence and history - SRG comment - recognizing the sacred in all beings - adjacent to Michel Bauwens and the oscillation of the commons - to - book - publisher's page - Hierarchy in the Forest - The Evolution of Egalitarianism - 2001 - Christopher Boehm - https://hyp.is/_w4TEtZoEfCcjmPIvOEOaQ/www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674006911

for - to - book - Goliath's Curse: the History and Future of Societal Collapse - Luke Kemp

for - citizen assemblies & juries - lead to better governance outcomes - can save the world

for - wicked problems - feedback between nodes is the priority - wicked problems - SRG comment - feedback between nodes - indicates progress traps COLLECCT ecosystem design

for - neuroscience - of obedience - Emily Casper - book - the neuroscience of (dis)obedience

for - definition - anthropocene - rejection of the term - it was rejected on dogmatic grounds, not on the evidence provided

for - quote - holocene - should have at least 50 during the last ice age

for - bending the curve vs net zero

comment - it depends on how you define "bend the curve" - I think many actually include achieving net zero in bending the curve

for - social sciences paper - The Climate of History - 2009 - species wide perspective of writing history

for - stats - pollution - plastic - US - 50,000 coastal landfill sites that could be eroded into the ocean

for - book - Hierarchy in the Forest - The Evolution of Egaliterian Behavior - author - Christopher Boehm - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift

for - book - Goliath's curse - author - Luke Kemp - SRG comment - a naughty social superorganism! - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift - https://hyp.is/a1E9ZtQ4EfCEQs_6Hskbmw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggpzwSI1qY

for - climate crisis - politics - the power of young people - James Hansen

for - James Hansen - youtube - The truth about global warming

Transcript

2:47 We do not have to wait 10 years to conclude that we have reached 1.5 Degrees of warming. Satelllite data shows that earth is strongly out of energy balance.

3:09 An important factor is that IPCC's best estimate of climate sensitivity is a substantial underestimate. I will show that tomorrow in several independent ways.

3:28 Climate sensitivity is probably between 4 and 5 degrees Celcius for doubled CO2 rather than 3 degrees

4:28 What we witness now is scientific reticence on steroids, perhaps because IPCC was granted the position of supreme authority

4:43 But in science, supreme authority is not granted to anyone. Galileo proved that.

4:55 An example of expert herd mentality is the response to our global warming acceleration paper which Annie was coauthor on. The next day, these experts condemned our paper in the media.

5:26 Not one of them discussed the physics in our paper or explained what was wrong. Instead there were ad hominem remarks.

5:51 What could the media do They dropped the paper.

for - comparison - energy - China will become the world's first electrostate - The US is doubling down as a leading petrostate

for - stats - population - 1900 - 1.5 billion people on the planet

for - museum - science - display - planetary health - from - youtube - The Anthropocene Paradigm Shift - Nov 2025 - https://hyp.is/Ot-UntOhEfCX__eQaqeb2Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ggpzwSI1qY

see also: https://hypothes.is/a/GWE5OG2EEe6kL6Ni1VcN9g

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4857-ginny-said-mr-weasley-flabbergasted-haven-t-i-taught-you-anything

https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/people/marianna-leszczyk

Photo with at least 93 countable boxes visible...

"Intertwined with its concern over ethnicity and religion, the Orange Order presented an ideal of nationalism that differed from the conceptions being presented by other competing forces in Canada. While other Canadian thinkers of the early-twentieth century began to conceive of the Canadian nation as part of a North American tradition, along with the United States, or as a “northern nation” that, through the crucible of Arctic winters, broke with both the United States and Europe, the Orange Order celebrated Canada’s past and highlighted the accomplishments of the British in North America. As the Order saw it, the devotion of the Loyalists and the rise of an Anglophone hegemony in North America were foundational to Canada’s existence, and both owed their authority to British identity. Indeed, as Scott See points out with regard to the Orange Order’s Loyalism of the nineteenth century,

The Orange Order served as a form of connective tissue to link the Old World with the New. It was a complex blend of full-throated dedication to the Empire and unswerving support for Britain’s imperial endeavors, as well as an indigenous pronouncement of colonial identity in North America that applauded the British connection, yet strove to articulate a distinct identity of Britishness. (See Citation2014, 182)"

SPECIFIC BRITISH IDENTITY -> EMPHASIZES THIS AS OPPOSED TO NORTH AMERICAN IDENTITY CURRENTS LIKE AMERICANISM

Flag is connection between Canadians and the British Empire. Again, empty identity though. " “the Flag of our Empire, upon which the sun never sets is the outward and visible emblem of our loyalty to the great British Commonwealth, of which Canada is an integral part” (“Forms” Citation1937). This strain of thought resembled the ideas of imperialists like Stephen Leacock, who before World War I had advocated for greater Canadian participation in British imperial ventures as a means of sharing in the military victories won overseas and the spread of Anglo-Saxon civilization."

for - definition - epistemia - when linguistic plausibility starts replacing verification and the form of knowledge substitutes for the labor of knowing - to - paper - The simulation of judgment in LLMs - https://hyp.is/2DatBM05EfCy-DM_S__1kg/www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2518443122

for - book - The Anxious Generation

for - movie - the social dilemma

for - futures - the internet - possible world

for - definition - under the hood bias

for - governance - failure - no adults in the room

for - AI - Deep Humanity - the sacred

for - book - The Last Economy - about how to build human symbiosis - an engineering manual for building Future Three: Human Symbiosis

for - definition - The Great Fragmentation - An AI future in which nation states compete with each other for AI resources and create AI silos. - This is already happening.

for - big ag envied the tepary bean

for - threat to colonialism - banned the bean

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Declaration_of_the_Independence_of_Cyberspace

for - greening the desert

for - greening the desert

for - youtube - AI will end Capitalism - interview - Emad Mostaque - book - The Last Economy - to - book - The Last Economy - https://hyp.is/JGCVHsgrEfCKpkua_vRoBw/webstatics.ii.inc/The%20Last%20Economy.pdf

https://thesession.org/

Creative writing can be incredibly important for self-expression and emotional intelligence. Without properly exploring different ways to write creatively, students may struggle to properly express such things.

More studies into modern adolescent literacy practices can lead to higher engagement and appreciation within literary contexts and motivate students to properly and effectively apply the knowledge they gain inside and outside of academic spaces.

What many people who brush fan fiction off as irrelevant tend to ignore is the vast understanding of a pre-existing setting needed to contextualize the writings made, as well as the effort and organization required to properly build off of such settings.

Writing, for many, tends to be most rewarding when you can share it with someone. To show others your ability to express thoughts, emotions, and ideas through your use of language is helpful in gaining confidence and experience, and this is even more true when you receive direct criticism as well.

See Adolescents' Anime Inspired "Fanfiction" for more in depth explanation. Much of the current school curriculum does not include more creative, personal subject matter, which has the possibility to make students feel less interested in class.

reported incoming fire from North Vietnamese ships in the Gulf of Tonkin

for - people-centered - always link back to the original - in a people-centered architecture, every important idea is automatically linked back to the individual who originated the idea.

for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post - The 2025 state of the climate report - https://hyp.is/lPJTusSfEfCeLIMW445BRg/www.linkedin.com/posts/drscottkelly_climatechange-sustainability-energy-activity-7391036539549409280-K2Fa/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI

for - paper - The 2025 state of the climate report: a planet on the brink - from - LinkedIn post -

for - LinkedIn post - 2025 State of the Climate Report - to - The 2025 State of the Climate Report - https://hyp.is/fFyTOMSfEfC2PIPR2ti4gg/academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biaf149/8303627

for - language - linguistic normalization - different phrases with the same meaning - different syntax, similar semantics - adjacency - language - syntax permutation explosion

for - MAGA base - when the old economy dies, they will be looking for defenders of the working class - adjacency - corporation to cooperation - MAGA base

https://www.instageram.com/prof.johnfriedman/

The Pencil Pages<br /> by [[Doug Martin]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T09:27:11

for - language - nondual - as the reference system

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

for - language - learning for the first time - vocal learning circuit - like birds

for - Beautiful Mind Learning Labs - Question - Is it the same as Hummingbird Learning Labs? - adjacency - education - neuroscience - Beau Lotto

for - article - newspaper- book - The Inheritors - William Golding - from - LinkedIn article - Was Language Humanity's First AI? Golding's Forgotten Masterpiece - https://hyp.is/HKRN2rrTEfCvLMto-7f5EQ/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze/

summary - good review of William Golding's book "The Inheritors"

for - quote - Whatever we inherit from the fortunate, we have taken from the defeated - T.S. Eliot - question - What does it mean?

for - book - The Inheritors - its achievement

for - question - novel - The Inheritors - how does the old man tell a story when there is no language yet?

for - adjacency - pre-lingustic - smell - sight - Gedanken - novel - The Inheritors

for - mortality salience - of a species! - adjacency - novel - The Inheritors - mortality salience - birth of language - BEing journey - Gosh, a movie should be made of this!

for - Gedanken - novel - The Inheritors - imagine language coming into existence! - This would indeed be a most profound moment in our species history! - question - what would this mean from a spiritual enlightenment perspective?

for - BEing journey - novel - The Inheritors - novel - The Inheritors - strange things happen to your sense of reality as you read

for - novel - The Inheritor - special quality to the writing

for - adjacency - BEing journey - The Inheritors - like a strange dream

for - to - article - newspaper - book - The Inheritors - https://hyp.is/1GD8ErrSEfCZHg-bToHIBQ/www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/an-ancient-imagination-ben-okri-on-the-inheritors-by-william-golding-1.4717259

for - adjacency - language - is the first AI

for - book - The Inheritor - storyline - Neanderthal experience of the first early Homo Sapiens and of language

for - book - Lord of the Flies - The Inheritors - William Golding

for - adjacency - Deep Humanity - language - The Inheritor

for - book - The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976)

for - book - The Inheritors - William Golding - to - LinkedIn article - The Inheritors - https://hyp.is/PS13cLmnEfCpw39_5R3t-A/www.linkedin.com/pulse/language-humanitys-first-ai-goldings-forgotten-willy-de-backer-xffze/

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for - definition - city - stats - cities - 10,000 in the world

for - quote - stop trying to boil the ocean - COVID where impacts concentrate

for - youtube - Tucker Carlson - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretense - fighting drug problem - from - youtube - The Young Turks - Trump regime change in Venezuela - false pretence - fighting drug problem -

https://discord.com/channels/639936208734126107/639938983220215828/1131197256691875881

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel S5, E2

Down All the Days (2013 Mix)<br /> by [[ThePoguesOfficial]] on YouTube accessed on 2025-10-23T08:36:17

typewriter plays a central role in the story

via Darren Herschler-Henry's book