Once I lived in a world called the ‘real world’
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Once I lived in a world called the ‘real world’
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TraceMonkey
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Our Single Intent
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for - article - The Atlantic - Trump staff security breach - Yemen attack plans - shared on Signal
Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago
for - meme - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago - Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - 50,000 years - Richard Heinberg 10,000 years - quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg
Comparison - meme - Ronald Wright - Richard Heinberg - Richard uses the 10,000 year figure while Ronald Wright uses 50,000 years. - Who is more accurate? Check with anthropologist.
Quote - Today’s humans are biologically the same as people who lived 10,000 years ago -Richard Heinberg
New idea - Deep Humanity communication - comparison modern be ancient - I like Heinberg's articulation. It's good to use in my own communication. - Perform a detailed comparison of - world view - mental models - behaviour and habits - between - ancestors from 10,000 / 50,000 years ago - modern humans
for - article - evolution of modernity - article - Resilience - evolution of modernity - author - Richard Heinberg - polycrisis - post carbon institute
Summary - A well thought out overview of hotter outer species arrived at our polycrisis in modernity
for - book - grassroots economics - Will Ruddick
turn any job – whether in marketing, HR, finance, operations, or beyond – into a climate job.
for - meme - turn any job into a climate job - project drawdown - leverage point - idling resources
for - doughnut economics - interactive diagram - adjacency - epiphany - combine sankey diagram and interactive doughnut diagram at all scales - biomimicry model - circulatory system - fractal splitting
adjacency - between - epiphany - combine - sankey diagram - interactive doughnut diagram - biomimicry model - circulatory system - fractal splitting - multi-scale competency architecture - adjacency relationship - Just as our body's circulatory system is fractal at multiple scales, resource flows through the doughnut could be represented in the same way - Sankey diagram at multiple scale can be a biomimicry of fractal geometry of circulatory system of resource flows in doughnut economies - biomimicry
for - planetary boundaries - doughnut economies - downscaling
for - Connectathon - 2025 - contact - Marc White - via - Kim Chapple
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Jury delivers verdict finding Greenpeace entities liable for more than US$660 million in Energy Transfer SLAPP trial
for - disadvantages of centralized activism - Greenpeace 660 million liability
Arendt’s warning is clear: if we do not think, we risk becoming complicit in the world’s failures.
for - embodied philosophy - Deep Humanity - philosophy - Hannah Arendt
Serbia is such an important player in this part of the world. And this isn't the first round of student protests. They played a big role in the 1990s as well.
for - question - Serbia - student protests - how to avoid making the same mistake? - People make the same mistake, - big protests give opportunity for the next authoritarian leader to game representative democracy - Something must be done fundamentally differently to prevent this from happening in the future
Serbia is quite important not only because of what happened in the 90s, but also at the moment. It's one of the biggest economies in the Western Balkans.
for - Serbia - student protests - spreading in the Balkans
let's go back to direct democracy. They organize something called plenary sessions. These are kind of like, students assemblies where every faculty has its own assembly. They come together, they bring questions, decisions, and they vote. And everyone has a chance to participate.
for - direct democracy - Serbia - student protests
for - youtube - Al Jazeera - student protests - Serbia - direct democracy
for - REM - Ripple Effect Mapping - like SRG mapping
for - inner development goals - controversy - The Nordic secret - Lene Rachel Andersen
for - ripple effect mapping - adjacency - ripple effect mapping - Stop Reset Go mapping
for - inequality - US
for - climate and biodiversity crisis - rewilding and afforestation of abandoned farmland - paper - title - rewilding abandoned farmland has greater sustainabilitty benefits than afforestation
Commons Economies in ActionMutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems
for - book - Sacred civics - ch 16 - Commons Economies in Action - Mutualizing Urban Provisioning Systems - Michel Bauwens - Jose Ramos - Ron Kranjc
for - cities - urban planning - book - sacred civics - contributors - Michel Bauwens - Jose Ramos - downscaled planetary boundaries - cross-scaled earth system boundaries
summary - click on the chapter hyperlinks to see the annotations for each chapter
for - Deep Humanity - BEing journey - Cheetah Tiger - Invariant computing - Anirban Bandyopadhyay - to - youtube - Invariant computing - Cheetah Tiger - https://hyp.is/h7z0tAP5EfCS3iMd_SL98w/www.youtube.com/watch?v=84anPBYbP4s
for - invariant computing - Anirban Bandyopadhyay - Cheetah video - from - post - LinkedIn - Yvon Brousseau - Cheetah video post - https://hyp.is/3ISgVgP4EfCgvdN-KBpWLw/www.linkedin.com/posts/yvonbrousseau_invariant-computing-cheetah-video-activity-7305953865831526400-zLmL/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
for - post - LinkedIn - Emma Holten - book - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - to - book - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - https://hyp.is/ftgm4AP3EfC7MJfb8gJevg/www.penguin.co.uk/books/468871/deficit-by-holten-emma/9780753561461
If we cannot properly value the things that matter, how can we build a better future?
for - book - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - quote - If we cannot properly value the things that matter, how can we build a better future? - Emma Holten - from - post - LinkedIn - Emma Holten - Deficit - How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World - https://hyp.is/7KpQOgP3EfCRe5dZ352aJQ/www.linkedin.com/posts/emma-holten_i-feel-a-little-bit-ashamed-almost-because-activity-7307688971705159682-zeZ0/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
for - book - Deficit - How feminist economics can change our world - author - Emma Holten
Oxfam’s new climate report
for to - Oxfam report - Carbon Inequality kills - https://hyp.is/AwEIYgP2EfCxcWvHdtbEhA/policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/carbon-inequality-kills-why-curbing-the-excessive-emissions-of-an-elite-few-can-621656/
for - carbon inequality - stats - carbon inequality
if everyone began emitting as much carbon as those in the top 1%, the remaining carbon budget would be gone in fewer than five months
for - carbon inequality - stats - carbon inequality - 5 months in our carbon budget - if everyone emitted like the top 1% - source - Oxfam - Carbon Inequality kills - 2024
if everyone emitted carbon at the same rate as the luxury transport emissions of 50 of the world’s richest billionaires, the remaining carbon budget would be gone in two days
for - carbon inequality - stats - carbon inequality - 2 days of our carbon budget - if everyone emitted transportation emissions of 50 richest billionaires - source - Oxfam - Carbon Inequality kills - 2024
for - carbon inequality - report - Oxfam - carbon inequality kills - 2024 - from - London School of Economics blog - Billionaire plutocrats are driving the climate crisis - https://hyp.is/QOvgOgP1EfCx4Lto0mV-kQ/blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities/2024/11/19/billionaire-pollutocrats-are-driving-the-climate-crisis/
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BeChange: Sustainability education and leadership development : Assessing the links between inner development and outer change for transformation
for - climate crisis - bridging inner and outer transformation - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - paper link - BeChange: Sustanability education and leadership development: Assessing the links between inner developoment and outer change for transformation - to - paper - BeChange: Sustanability education and leadership development: Assessing the links between inner developoment and outer change for transformation - This paper is in Swedish and requires translation. - https://hyp.is/4SfZlAPjEfCsqg_enwDOfg/www.iiiee.lu.se/gustav-osberg/publication/d0067af4-fc92-4c15-80e4-0d91bc4aa9d1
At the intersection of mind and climate change : integrating inner dimensions of climate change into policymaking and practice
for - Christine Wamsler - homepage - paper link - At the intersection of mind and climate change: Integrating inner dimesions of climate change into policymaking and practice - to - paper - At the intersection of mind and climate change: Integrating inner dimesions of climate change into policymaking and practice -
for - Christine Wamsler - Lund University - homepage - from - youtube - Mindfulness World Community - Awareness, Care and Sustainability for Our Earth - https://hyp.is/GCUJ1APHEfCcr_vvv3lAFw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTUc_0GroGM
to - paper - An Interdisciplinary Model to Foster Existential Resilience and Transformation
to - paper - Engaging high-income earners in climate action : Policy insights from survey experiments
to - paper - Revolutionising sustainability leadership and education : addressing the human dimension to support flourishing, culture and system transformation
to - The System Within : Addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems change
research areas - sustainable cities - collaborative governance - city-citizen collaboration - citizen participation - sustainability and wellbeing - sustainability transformation - inner development goals - inner transformation - inner transition - existential sustainability
for - climate crisis - bridging inner and outer transformation - paper - BeChange: Sustainability education and leadership development : Assessing the links between inner development and outer change for transformation - from - Christine Walsmer - homepage - paper link - BeChange: Sustainability education and leadership development : Assessing the links between inner development and outer change for transformation - https://hyp.is/-YsLUAPjEfCKqv-67o8QzA/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
for - climate crisis - bridging inner and outer transformation - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - paper link - At the intersection of mind and climate change: Integrating inner dimesions of climate change into policymaking and practice - https://hyp.is/AGENggPiEfCc4N-mPYLDqg/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
for - sustainability - bridging inner and outer transformation - Deep Humanity - bridging interior and exterior transformation - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
for - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler - sustainability - bridging inner and outer transformation - Club of Rome report - The system within - addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and system transformation - Earth4all report - The system within - addressing the inner dimensions of sustainability and systems transformation - Deep Humanity - interior and exterior transformation
for - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
for - carbon inequality - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
for - sustainability - bridging inner and outer transformation - paper - title - An Interdisciplinary Model to Foster Existential Resilience and Transformation - from - Christine Wamsler - homepage - Lund University - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
Christine
for - presentation - Christine Wamsler - to - Christine Wamsler homepage - https://hyp.is/XgmNsgPHEfCBOPszkHcE3Q/www.lucsus.lu.se/christine-wamsler
if we want to achieve transformation what is crucial is that we work across four different levels and that would be Behavior change culture change system change and also work at the level of mindsets
for - leverage point - activate 4 different levels - behavior change - cultural change - system change - mindset
we have no idea what the nature of thought is and even less no idea about the nature of awareness which is so much bigger than thought and is more like the universe itself because it's boundless it has no Center no periphery it's like space but it's that knows
for - meme - awareness - space that knows
the reconnection report um this recent Club of Rome publication a report on the human dimension of the green deal
for - report - Club of Rome - Reconnection report
the education tree for inner audit transformation
for - education tree for inner and outer transformation - useful tool for sustainability course design
four essential pieces
for - education tree - 4 sections - how to engage - how we get to know - how we see the world - how to ensure quality education for deep understanding -
mindfulness can support all five clusters of transformative capacities
for - question - what are the 5 clusters of transformative capacity? - question - what research paper discusses the 5 clusters?
it explains in more detail how inner and outer change processes are interconnected
for - adjacency - linkage between inner and outer change - Deep Humanity HIT and SET
the model indicates that there is what we call a sustainability Continuum that is a link between our inner and outer ecology
for - adjacency - sustainability continuum - link between inner and outer ecology - Deep Humanity inner / outer diagram
mindfulness supports what we call Triple well-being that is personal Collective and planetary well-being
for - definition - triple wellbeing
definition - triple well being - wellbeing that is personal, collective and planetary
related research has also shown that human inner Dimensions which include our individual and Collective beliefs values worldviews and Associated inner capacities are deep Leverage points for Change
for - leverage points - to - paper - Leverage Points - places to intervene in a system - Donella Meadows - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdonellameadows.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuserfiles%2FLeverage_Points.pdf&group=world
story of Separation
for - story of separation - to - article - the 3 Great Separations that unravelled us from connection to earth and each other - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Finthesetimes.com%2Farticle%2Findustrial-agricultural-revolution-planet-earth-david-korten&group=world - to - article - An ethics of wild mind - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Femergencemagazine.org%2Finterview%2Fan-ethics-of-wild-mind%2F&group=world
for - inner development for sustainability - existential sustainability - adjacency - mindfulness - inner development goals- sustainabililty - individual / collective gestalt - Deep Humanity - Prof. Christine Wamsler
definition - existential sustainability / inner development for sustainability - the science that studies the interface between inner development, behavior, culture and system transformation
in recent years a new field has emerged that looks at the interface between inner development Behavior culture and system transformation this new field is called inner transformation for sustainability or existential sustainability
for - definition - inner development for sustainability - existential sustainability
we're hoping to facilitate the mindfulness field to meet this uh growing demand for inner outer transformation approaches
for - adjacency - inner / outer development approach - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt
the aim of this particular event is to review the evidence for how mindfulness supports sustainability
for - adjacency - mindfulness - sustainability - climate action - inner development goals - SDGs - individual / collective gestalt
adjacency - between - mindfulness - sustainability - climate action - inner development goals - SDGs - individual / collective gestalt - adjacency relationship - mindfulness is to sustainability and climate action - as inner development goals are to SDGS and - as individual is to the collective gestalt
By sacred we mean unique, intrinsically worthy of respect and dignity, relational, life-giving and sustaining, and defiant of commodification.
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definition - sacred - While acceptable, I don't think this definition fails to sufficiently capture the essence of the word "sacred" for the purposes of the Deep Humanity praxis, where it plays a central role. - For Deep Humanity, we define the sacred as the intrinsic state of reality that is - a fundamental aspect of every aspect of phenomena and - transcends all attempts to describe it because it is intrinsic to all human aspects as well, including thought and language - is the source of all wonder and awe. - is the source of inspiration, creativity and healing - is intrinsic to every human and nonhuman living / dying being - is the nondual, unifying force between - individuals of our species - our entire species - and the rest of nature
some Indigenous activists criticize urban commons initiatives, groups, and advocates for not acknowledging the Indigenous homelands/treaty lands that the commons occur upon, or consulting with contemporary treaty holders.
for - problems between - commons - indigenous peoples
problems - between - commons - indigenous peoples - problem relationship - commons need to acknowledge the situatedness of contemporary society as a result of centuries of - genocide, - colonialism, - enslavement and - extractionism - We build today's commons recognizing that it is situated in a contemporary modernity built upon the mass suffering of indigenous peoples, who are the original practitioners of many of the principles advocated by commons practice - As such, lip service cannot simply be paid but the indigenous community must be included in commoning processes as a minimum form of reconciliation of persisting structural inequalities
No one can precisely define or measure justice, democracy, security, freedom, truth, or love, or any value.
for - quagmire - measurement of the sacred is impossible
breaking up the system of massive private ownership and wealth accumulation in the hands of a few.
for - ? - is there a viable alternative to private land ownership which can be implemented rapidly?
t is not true that leaving finance to the market will arrange everything well, as the past 40 years have shown. The market systemically misprices things by way of improper discounting of the future, false externalities and many other predatory miscalculations, which have led to gross inequality and biosphere destruction. And yet right now it’s the way of the world, the law of the land. Capital invests in the highest rate of return, that’s what the market requires.
for - quote - why we shouldn't trust only markets - Kim Stanley Robinson
often people believe that the dominant economic system is value-free or value-neutral, which dismisses the central role of genocide, slavery, and colonialism in its evolution over the past five hundred years or so
for - dominant economic system - not value neutral - situated on history of colonialism, slavery, genocide, extractionism
At the heart of current societal crises is the Western addiction to a certain worldview of globalism that stands in opposition to the global solidarity, or internationalism, that flows from common-good or pluriversal worldviews.
for - globalism vs global solidarity
several assumptions that have become part of the societal DNA of modern/colonial economic and political systems
for - sacred civics - 3 current assumptions - ownership - corporations - sovereignty
Shifting to a sacred civics requires at least three transformations
for - sacred civics 3 transformations - values - wisdom - commons
By definition, the notion “sacred” defies conventional measurement which tends to reduce value to financialization. It is critical to develop alternative ways of gauging advancement toward a sacred civics and to establish proxies for assessment.
for - reconciling - sacred - with financial value
anthropologist Arturo Escobar evokes the Zapatista Movement’s notion of “a world where many worlds fit” and draws out principles for transition (re)design that support the idea of partially connected but radically different worlds, that would relocalize and communalize social life, and enable autopoiesis (self-creation of living systems).
for - pluriverse - harmonious diversity
Afrofuturism
for - definition - Afrofuturism - example - Wakanda
The Seven Sacred Teachings (also called Grandmother/Grandfather Teachings
for - the 7 sacred teachings - the seven sacred teachings - grandmother / grandfather teachings
City building, according to a sacred civics, is transformational work, as it recognizes the persistent paradigms of colonialism5 and imperialism
for - adjacency - cities - imperialism - colonialism - inequality - perpetuation
adjacency - between - cities - imperialism - colonialism - inequality - perpetuation - adjacency relationship - Large cities have structural inequality baked into them through centuries of legacy practices. - The urban spatial planning of cities are centuries-old patterns that perpetuate intergenerationally - In broad strokes, the centuries of exploitation, extractivism and colonial genocide of the global north upon the global south created the great structural wealth of cities in the global north, and the great structural poverty of cities of the global south - As colonialism receded and global south countries attained autonomy, they were left with deep scars of inequality, exasperated by the IMF and the World Bank, keeping them trapped in cycles of debt - Global north cities also suffered a local north / local south phenomena as well as global industrial capitalism made inequality democratic around the globe - Due to the effect of integenerational wealth and intergenerational poverty inheritance, it is exceedingly difficult to make structural changes in the current political-social-economic system.
where local residents shape what the city can become
for - adjacency - civics - local agency
adjacency - between - civics and - local agency - adjacency relationship - Exactly what is the threshold of participation and governance by local community members? - There is an entire spectrum of participation - In a representative democracy, participation is usually quite low
Civics in this book means “of the city,
for - definition - civics
definition - civics - I think this definition is too restrictive and would expand it to apply to any community
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Sacred Civics movement
for - definition - sacred civics movement
for - post - LilnkedIn - individual / collective gestalt - diagram
Why do we need “individual action” (now more than ever) when what we REALLY need is “systems change?”
for - post - LinkedIn - individual change vs system change - Deep Humanity individual / collective gestalt and climate action
comment - individual / collective gestalt would be helpful framing to sort out this confusion
for - commented - post - LinkedIn - book - The Molecule of More
for - Great Separations, Three Great Separations, alienation, alienation - industrial revolution, John Ikerd, 3 separation - from - Post Capital Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - Title - The Three “Great Separations” that Unravelled Our Connection to Earth and Each Other - Author - John Kkerd
from - story of separation - Post Capitalist Philanthropy Webinar 1 - Alnoor Ladha - Lynn Murphy - 2023 - https://hyp.is/kSvpDre2Ee-CsF-EO4pwTg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk6F4IlEbAk
It is likely that Trump and Musk are seeking to crash the US economy to cause a Depression. This will allow transnational wealth holders — the billionaire class — to buy up “distressed assets” in the US for cheap.
for - to - largest wealth transfer in US history - bankrupt farms - pennies on the dollar - https://hyp.is/rXHfUgHPEfC5s2-peCc-5Q/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg4E3Py8OT4
We don’t know how to shift our focus from these narrow self-interest or entrepeurial goals to building a truly collaborative, collective and, in some sense, anonymous project for humanity’s future.
for - adjacency - Trump totalitarianism threat - shifting - from individualism - to collectivism - native american genocide - to - native american genocide - https://hyp.is/k-wdTAHDEfC5o3MaWCAlmw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8ddjSbnzS4
adjacency - between - Trump totalitarianism threat - shift - from individualism - to collectivism - native american genocide - adjacency relationship - The shift now required from individualism to collectivism is going to be difficult - The anglo-american model of society adopted by the US is one of individualism - The theft of land and genocide of native americans is based on destroying thousands of years of their cultural norms of collectivism and assimilating them into a foreign culture of individualism
for - adjacency - US farm bankruptcy - land grab - billionaires - adjacency - largest wealth transfer in history - US farmers bankruptcy - billionaire purchase pennies on the dollar
overall the destruction of Native American cultures was the destruction of collectivism or the idea that Community is more important than the individual in a collectivist Society resources are typically owned by society as a whole or collectively collectivism went against the anglo-american tradition of individualism or the idea that the individual is more important than the community
for - native american genocide - anglo-american individualism replaced indigenous collectivism - comparison - individualism vs collectivism - youtube - cultural genocide of native americans
summary - This is a very informative summary of the European settler induced genocide of United States Native Americans
for - cultural genocide - native americans - theft of America
Between 1776 and the present, the United States seized some 1.5 billion acres from North America’s native peoples
for - stats - early US settlers seized 1.5 billion acres of land starting from 1776
for - native american genocide - native american dispossession - america - stolen land - Canada - stolen land - United States - stolen land - article - Aeon - america - stolen land - Claudio Saunt - Richard B. Russell - book - unworthy republic - to - native american - land theft map - https://hyp.is/gy_kHgHKEfCtFTd69ZN7lg/usg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=eb6ca76e008543a89349ff2517db47e6
for - native american - land dispossession map - native american - land theft map - from - article - Aeon - Invasion of America - https://hyp.is/Agq6LAHEEfClVpv6KqG3mQ/aeon.co/essays/how-were-1-5-billion-acres-of-land-so-rapidly-stolen
before the internet it was impossible really I mean getting coring people into town halls regularly that would have been a hard thing to do anyway online made a bit easier but now with aii we can actually all engage with each other AI can be used to harvest the opinions of millions of people at the same time and distill those opinions into a consensus that might be agreeable to the vast majority
for - claim - AI for a new type of democracy? - progress trap - AI - future democracy
the original system of democracy that was set up in Athens wasn't a representative democracy actually involved everybody getting together in the town hall and making decisions together
for - democracy in Athens - town hall
the only participation we have in our democracy is one vote one button every four years and that's it and then you leave them you Congressional people and your your um you know presidents Etc just to get on with things that's no longer fit for purpose
for - representative democracy is no longer fit for purpose
for - representative democracy is no longer for for purpose
for - Canada could troll Us policy - annex Alaska
for - adjacency - commons - funding. - how to communities can become self-sustaining - Will Ruddick - community economics - adjacency - funding the commons - Will Ruddick - Michel Bauwens - cosmolocal Summary - Will Ruddick articulates a way to use money more wisely that follows the " teach a man to fish" cliche in order to build self-sustaining communities - To mobilize a global transition requires careful analysis at multiple scales - employing cosmolocal strategy would accelerate and make Ruddick's proposal more resilient
even if and when we don’t have enough money or have no money at all, we can still do it—because commitments, not money, fill the gap.
for - money is only a proxy for resources
buying freedom within a broken system,
for - meme - buying freedom within a broken system
Imagine taking those $5 million and using it to seed a commons-based system—a commitment pool. Here’s how it could work:
for - strategy - economical self-sustaining commons-based community - Will Ruddick
seed commitment pools
for - definition - seed commitment pool - structural inequality - escaping
legal freedom is not the same as economic autonomy. After slavery, formerly enslaved communities were still trapped—by debt peonage, sharecropping, economic exclusion, and lack of land and resources. Money alone at the time couldn’t buy them trust, care, or independence from systems designed to keep them dependent.
for - quote - structural inequality - example - structural inequality
It becomes possible
for - universal ledger - necessary but not sufficient
comment - traumatized humans who succeed to become the next generation of abusers will always game any system design
if you wanna eat bread even this kind of bread you need to exercise you know how much the average Swiss walks in a day they walk 9,000 steps every day look at your health app you should be walking at least 9,000 steps if you want to eat any kind of bread
for - stats - health - eating bread - 9000 steps a day - to - step calculator - https://www.omnicalculator.com/sports/steps-to-km - approximately 7km walk each day
for - YouTube - health - diet - stats - health - 9000 steps a day - bread
when you constantly Supply your body with animal protein it never fully switches on its recycling system this doesn't mean you need to become vegetarian but considering having a few meat-free days each week might actually help help boost your body's natural cleaning process
for - adjacency - autophagy - transition to planet based diet - validation for flexitarian diet - TP cafe
for - article - Rolling Stones - Unfair US Ukraine Minerals deal
for - Indyweb dev - Dan Ingalls - Lively Kernel
for - russia-ukraine war - geopolitical analysis - Trump's strategy with Putin - to end the cold war
summary - He doesn't offer any explanation of what will become of Ukraine if Trump gets his way
$80 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90 percent of Americans to the richest 1 percent over the past 50 years
for - stats - inequality - US - past 50 years - wealth redistribution - $80 trillion from bottom 90% - to top 1%
Donald knows that having minders or handlers or sycophants circling him isn't going to to contain his worsening psychopathologies or his worsening inability to have any kind of impulse control at all
for - quote - Donald Trump psychopathology - Mary Trump
for - Trump Zelensky Oval Office fiasco - analysis from Mary Trump
Summary - Mary Trump gives an insightful and thoughtful explanation of the psychopathology behind Donald Trump's immense insecurity streaming from his own childhood abuse from his father - Having a man in a position off power with this level of deeply unresolved psychopathology is incredibly dangerous for humanity
yes I do think there is something about his reaction that needs to be analyzed and explained not simply in the context of my family psychological history but in regards to uh the ways in which Donald's multifarious uh pathologies are having an impact not simply on his inner workings uh or on whom he surrounds himself with but the rest of the country and the world
for - Trump Zelensky Oval Office fiasco - analysis from Mary Trump
'When we asked people on the door what they would change about politics, a lot said “get rid of the migrants”. But we didn’t stop at that and move on, we kept asking to find out why people felt that way. ‘At the end of every conversation, it was always social or economic problems — people can’t pay their rent or can’t pay for their kids’ football club. What they’re really concerned about is the decline of their communities.’
for - depolarizing politics - by listening - DH - depolarizing politics - LinkedIn post - depolarizing politics - to - article - how to win back working class by listening - https://hyp.is/9eRGVPmuEe-PDbs--ct4ow/tribunemag.co.uk/2025/03/neukolln-dreaming
for - applying Deep Humanity - to politics - German politician - how to win back the working class - from - LinkedIn post - how to win back the working class by listening - https://hyp.is/tNXrDvmuEe-KLr-D3J1kyw/www.linkedin.com/posts/jaimearredondo_neuk%C3%B6lln-dreaming-activity-7302967458137591808--TA1/?rcm=ACoAACc5MHMBii80wYJJmFqll3Aw-nvAjvI52uI
> - youtube - 5 Whys - youtube - Root cause analysis
Globalization, rather than unite the world has split societies asunder: creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
for - quote - Trump is the backlash to globalization
quote - globalization - Trump is the result - Robert Kaplan - Globalization, - rather than unite the world - has split societies asunder: - creating a wine-sipping, somewhat wealthy and sophisticated class which is swept into the wonders of the wider world, and - an embittered working class that cannot compete as well. - It is from that embittered class that authoritarian populism gets its followers. - What we are seeing is the backlash to globalization.
I do not feel Trump is a fascist or a neofascist. He cannot be compared with people like Hitler and Mussolini. His crimes are simply not in their league.
for - comparison - Trump - Hitler - Mussolini comment - Hitler and Mussolini didn't commit atrocities early on in their careers. - Trump is busy deconstructing democracy. Give him a chance. He may soon evolve into one.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 is especially revealing: It demonstrates how a people can challenge a regime with one goal in mind, and get the opposite result, a far worse tyranny. I have a feeling that many of those who voted for President Trump will at the end of the day be very unhappy with the result. Radical populism such as Trumpism often ends badly.
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2025 marks the culmination of a strategy methodically constructed over nearly a century. Far from the singular genius-entrepreneur he claims to embody, Trump appears instead as tool of the same Corporate elites that have driven this conservative ascendence since its inception.
for - 100 year history of Trumpism - quote - 2025 is culmination of 100 years
for - article - Counterpunch - Trump and the Conservative U.S. Counter-Revolution
I have adopted a no-GPT approach here because I believe in smaller open source models. I am using the fantastic Mistral 7B Openorca instruct and Zephyr models. These models can be set up locally with Ollama.
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for - Indyweb dev - open source AI - text to graph - from - search - image - google - AI that converts text into a visual graph - https://hyp.is/KgvS6PmIEe-MjXf4MH6SEw/www.google.com/search?sca_esv=341cca66a365eff2&sxsrf=AHTn8zoosJtp__9BMEtm0tjBeXg5RsHEYA:1741154769127&q=AI+that+converts+text+into+visual+graph&udm=2&fbs=ABzOT_CWdhQLP1FcmU5B0fn3xuWpA-dk4wpBWOGsoR7DG5zJBjLjqIC1CYKD9D-DQAQS3Z598VAVBnbpHrmLO7c8q4i2ZQ3WKhKg1rxAlIRezVxw9ZI3fNkoov5wiKn-GvUteZdk9svexd1aCPnH__Uc8IUgdpyeAhJShdjgtFBxiTTC_0C5wxBAriPcxIadyznLaqGpGzbn_4WepT8N6bRG3HQLK-jPDg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju5oz8ovKLAxW6WkEAHaSVN98QtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1 - to - example - open source AI - convert text to graph - https://hyp.is/UpySXvmKEe-l2j8bl-F6jg/rahulnyk.github.io/knowledge_graph/
https://rahulnyk.github.io/knowledge_graph/
for - Indyweb dev - text to graph - open source AI - convert text to graph - adjacency - infranodus - to - AI program to convert text into visual graph
for - Indyweb dev - open source AI - text to graph - open source AI - text to graph - from - article - Medium - How to Convert Any Text Into a Graph of Concepts - https://hyp.is/vu53YvmIEe-DuHvXodWFAA/medium.com/towards-data-science/how-to-convert-any-text-into-a-graph-of-concepts-110844f22a1a
for - search - Google - image - AI that converts text into any visual graph - https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=341cca66a365eff2&sxsrf=AHTn8zoosJtp__9BMEtm0tjBeXg5RsHEYA:1741154769127&q=AI+that+converts+text+into+visual+graph&udm=2&fbs=ABzOT_CWdhQLP1FcmU5B0fn3xuWpA-dk4wpBWOGsoR7DG5zJBjLjqIC1CYKD9D-DQAQS3Z598VAVBnbpHrmLO7c8q4i2ZQ3WKhKg1rxAlIRezVxw9ZI3fNkoov5wiKn-GvUteZdk9svexd1aCPnH__Uc8IUgdpyeAhJShdjgtFBxiTTC_0C5wxBAriPcxIadyznLaqGpGzbn_4WepT8N6bRG3HQLK-jPDg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwju5oz8ovKLAxW6WkEAHaSVN98QtKgLegQIEhAB&biw=1920&bih=911&dpr=1
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for - from - article - Phenomenalworld - Europe enters its Metal Era - https://hyp.is/vBE-dvgREe-WRPdVs42tuA/www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/europe-enters-its-metal-era/
the Nairobi-Washington vision for which Ruto is a stand-in is insufficient for fostering prosperity across the South—where debt-stressed countries with soaring joblessness are imposing class war austerity and privatization, amid Western intransigence in delivering touted financial architecture reforms.
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Kenya’s new bond issued in March has an interest rate of 10.375 percent—vastly higher than the 6.875 percent ten-year bond that it helped to replace.
for - stats - Kenya IMF debt
None of these are within the control of the Kenyan government—which is not to say that poor governance and corruption has not contributed to the crisis.
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It has so far shown little appetite for wide-ranging reforms of the Bretton Woods Institutions that cripple climate and development spending in the global south.
for - adjacency - remove Bretton Woods - for development in Africa - to - article - phenomenal world - Nairobi-Washington vision - https://hyp.is/VXcTDvgUEe-gqDM3RpIkzA/www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-view-from-nairobi-washington/
Europe should build its foreign policy on a coordinated response to the climate question.
for - post-colonial Africa Europe clean energy security - US-Europe fracture - opportunity - europe-africa development
for - book - The Biology of Desire - 2015 - Marc Lewis - from - youtube - How the Meaning Crisis is related to the Drug Crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
> for - addiction - neuroscience - Marc Lewis - from - youtube - meaning crisis and drug crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
treatment works by
> for - addiction - treatment - recovery - reconnecting - empowerment to sense of future self - striatum to prefrontal cortex - self to the social world
what you're doing basically is reconnecting the striatum that's empowerment with the prefrontal cortex you're reconnecting the motivational engine with a bridge of the ship and that's happening in the brain and uh it has to happen in the mind
> for - addiction - recovery - brain model - reconnecting - striatum - motivation to - prefrontal cortex - bridge of the ship
that's what professionals and family members and Friends and Lovers and lots of other people can do help them think about where they come from and where they're going to you put those two things together and that's the magic uh formula
> for - addiction - recovery - family support - help addicted person build an affirming, honest and aspiring narrative - where they came from - where they arrived at now - where they are going towards
how do we help addicts feel empowered rather than disempowered which is a potent antidote to Ego fatigue to feel empowered I can do it okay and I think that we need to help them own other goals
> for - addiction - recovery - how to help addicts - empower - replace drug use with other goals - help expand - from eternal now to - painful past - uncertain future
that's what you have to that's what you have to capture you have to capture that motivation that sense of ownership okay that's really empowerment
> for - addiction - recovery - ownership of other meaningful goals
bphen
> for - to - addiction - treatment - baclofen - https://hyp.is/1_FbVPXgEe-UUP_kbyJxQg/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC293465/
there is room for overlap there is a gray area there are disease like aspects of addiction it's that part is true
> for - addiction - some overlap with disease
the disease model fails addicts
> for - addiction - disease model fails addicts - turns them into patient - therefore creates powerlessness - which is a primary reason leading to replase
there's a number of studies that show um I know of two and three of them one about alcohol one of methamphetamine that shows that belief in the disease model itself is a predictor of relapse
> for - addiction - belief in the disease model - correlated to relapse
the thing they have in common is the idea that addiction is for good that it's it's a fundamental flaw it's an essential characteristic of the person and it's not going to go away it's chronic
> for - addiction - claim - addiction is permanent
hese rehab facilities the these addiction treatment centers they they they CL 85% of them in the US are based on the disease model 85% and an almost overlapping 85% uses 12-step methods as their primary primary uh um uh intervention method well you know that's hard to actually figure out because medicine is this and 12 steps has very little to do with medicine it's kind of based on a religious orientation
> for - stats - addiction - rehab centers - 85% are based on disease model - and 85% use a religious oriented 12 step program
what disease model Advocates say is that this reduces stigma and shame and you know and contempt and guilt and all that stuff because if you have a disease well you shouldn't be blamed right so it's supposed to make you feel better
> for - addiction - disease model rationale
conventional rehab programs have very poor success rates usually people relapse anywhere from 2 to 10 times it's you know it's a re revolving door phenomenon
> for - stats - addiction - rehab relapse - 2 to 10 times - addiction - rehab - revolving door
the disease model of addiction isn't just wrong it's also harmful
> for - addiction - failure of rehabilitation is proof of the wrong model - the disease model - quote - the disease model of addiction is not only wrong, but harmful - Marc Lewis
recovery now and talk about how this happens because for each of the people in my book they actually did find a way out of addiction as people generally do
> for - addiction - quote - Recovery - most people find a way out of addiction - Marc Lewis
the book I tell the story of Five addicts um one is a heroin addict one's a meth addict one was addicted to pharmaceutical uh opiates um the fourth one was a British man who was an alcoholic very serious alcoholic and the fifth one was an eating disordered person
> for - book - The Biology of Desire - Why Addiction is not a Disease - 2015 Marc Lewis - https://dl.icdst.org/pdfs/files4/2a48405faa052ec2b4e0c56a79e001ca.pdf
so that's the model
> for - addiction model - Marc Lewis - addiction diagram
> summary - Marc gives a good summary of everything - prefrontal cortex in control of judgment - striatum in charge of - attraction - desire - craving - midbrain - dopamine system - dopamine goes to the striatum and sets up localized feedback cycle so crave more - then the striatum becomes hyperactivated in the presence of cues - then you get that mechanism of now appeal - that narrowing of attraction to the immediate reward and - the loss of everything else - the other stuff falls off the radar - then the connection between - the prefrontal cortex and - the striatum starts to become compromised - resulting in ego fatigue - The prefrontal cortex simply becomes less effective at control
I do some counseling with uh with with addicts over over uh Skype
> for - Marc Lewis - remote addiction counseling
just take all that pressure off so that you're not making that kind of Demand on the system and rather start to think about what's going on in your life and what's going on in your past and what's going on and what does this drug or substance do for you and that's the way to start to change how the system functions
> for - addiction - reappraisal takes pressure off suppression - look at deeper root causes
uppressing those impulses saying no isn't what works what works is to reappraise the situation to think about well if you take this as a parallel think about what your addiction is about think about why
> for - addiction - suppression - doesn't work - reappraisal does
there are cues everywhere
> for - addiction - cues everywhere - trigger dopamine system - impulse control is difficult
success rate in AA is 5 to 8%
> for - stats - AA - success rate - 8% - ego fatigue
addicts have a really hard time with that an extremely hard time because they have to suppress control inhibit their impulses for hours at a time days at a time weeks at a time
> for - addiction - hard time controlling impulses - ego fatigue
what I'm saying right um become more impulsive more compulsive and and so forth and that's really I think parallels what we see when we see the loss of a connection between the striatum and the prefrontal cortex in addiction
> for - adjacency - TMS - disconnection - addiction
TMS transcranial magnetic stimulation
> for - definition - TMS - Transcranial magnetic stimulation
you never hear people say Let's get high next week right just you're not going to hear that let's get high next Tuesday no so let's get high now tonight today
> for - quote - addiction - delay discounting - you never hear people say Let's get high next week. You're not going to hear "let's get high next Tuesday. No, let's get high now, tonight, today." - Marc Lewis
there's an immediate goal which seems worth a lot more than the long-term goal and so you blow it off whether you're going to be out of money out of whether your girlfriend's going to leave you whether you're going to get in trouble with the cops whether you're going lose your job those are future events and all you can really think about is whether or not I'm going to get high tonight
> for - adjacency - delay discount - addiction
dopamine focuses attention on the immediate goal and that produces craving and it's the immediacy that's the issue so all mammals have delay discounting
> for - definition - delay discounting - also explains climate crisis and fossil fuels - adjacency - delay discounting - dopamine - craving
why is it so hard to stop and there's three points
> for - addiction why it's hard to stop - addiction - 3 reasons why it's hard to stop - strong attraction repetitive behavior - leads to deep learning - now appeal - delayed discounting - ego fatigue - loss of control
you do that time after after time day after day week after week month after month and that's development that's development that's the development of a habit of a very intense habit an emotional habit a strong strongly uh um compelling habit but it is it is still a habit it's a learned habit
> for - addiction - diagram - development of a strong habit
the proposition that drugs cause addiction has to be completely wrong
> for - addiction - drugs do not cause addiction
that little yellow spot is the region in the brain that shows a reduction in synaptic density for people who spend more time on the internet and go back to the brain picture that I showed you before for heroin coke and alcohol addicts it's exactly the same spot
> for - addiction - behavioral addiction - substance addiction - degrades same part of the brain
all the brain changes that people associate with substance abuse you find them in gambling porn sex addiction uh and uh uh binge eating disorder and obesity
> for - addiction - substance addiction and behavioral addiction produce the same results
Psychotherapy changes the brain
> for - psychotherapy changes the brain
default mode Network
> for - definition - default mode network - neuroscience - meditation
when you fall in love there are all kinds of changes to the brain there's increased dopamine to the striatum
> for - love - as a form of addiction
London cab drivers have a hippocampus that's part of the brand in charge of uh of memory certain kinds of memory which is uh 20% more dense or more heavy than normal people why because they have to learn the location of like thousands tens of thousands of streets
> for - formation of deep habits change the brain - example - London cab drivers - 20% heavier hippocampus
addiction is sort of a a kind of skill um the addict's brain learns to efficiently identify and aim Behavior
> for - addiction - is a skill
with tobacco it's 25 years
> for - stats - addiction - tobacco - average duration - 25 years
alcohol it's 15 years
> for - stats - addiction - alcohol - average duration - 15 years
with marijuana if you smoke it compulsively it's six years
> for - stats - addiction - marijuana - average duration - 6 years
with cocaine the average duration of an addiction is four years
> for - stats - addiction - cocaine - average duration - 4 years
not everybody knows that but the majority of addicts for any kind of substance and even heroin end up quitting
> for - addiction - unknown fact - most addicts quit
within one year or so the curve the the line um crosses the non-addicted average Baseline
> for - addiction - abstinence - one year - crosses non-addictive baseline
there's increasing growth and increasing synapses in new regions that are closely related and they're probably very much involved in self-regulation impulse control because that's what people need to learn when they stop taking drugs
> for - addiction - abstinence - impulse control
abstinence from from Coke alcohol and heroin you get um you get an increase in gr matter volume in very similar areas
> for - addiction - abstinence - synaptic growth - in a year, returns to baseline
think about addiction um in terms of synaptic pruning then this decrement in in prefrontal in in the density of synapses in certain prefrontal areas
> for - addiction - synaptic pruning of prefrontal cortex
that's what pruning is for is to make the brain more efficient so that it focuses so that several the really important Pathways become uh entrenched um they become melinated
> for - synaptic pruning - purpose
the big picture in development um but development and learning are actually very similar they're almost almost synonymous and they simply involve two processes two mechanisms one is synaptic growth and one is synaptic pruning you get a proliferation of synapsis or synaptogenesis and then you get pruning of synapsis which I just showed you and the balance of those two mechanisms is development in in the brain
> for - brain development - synaptic growth and synaptic pruning
synaptic pruning
> for - definition - synaptic pruning
losing synaptic density they're losing synapsis they're not brain cells
> for - addiction - graph - years of use vs loss of synaptic connections
for - Marc Lewis homepage - from - youtube - How the Meaning Crisis is related to the Drug Crisis - John Vervaeke - https://hyp.is/DcNL3PW7Ee-Qq6P6Ct5-YQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-c2E5FB5Z4
> for - youtube - How a lack of meaning is related to addictions - John Vervaeke - adjacency - meaning crisis - drug crisis - to - https://hyp.is/lbhlkPXjEe-iDwuHl7WbVA/memoirsofanaddictedbrain.com/ - https://youtube.com/@marclewis4311?si=PVIjpKucPaairaa6 - Marc Lewis - John Vervaeke - Youtube - The neuroscience of addiction - Marc Lewis - https://hyp.is/wT54xPXMEe-qats6vf2VqQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOSD9rTVuWc
Mark Lewis
for - baclofen - addiction treatment - from - youtube - the neuroscience of addiction - Marc Lewis - https://hyp.is/EYFXIPXhEe-17zPgaBSmzA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOSD9rTVuWc
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with the Trump anomic budget cutting funding to Farms to snap with the closing of usaid well it means that rural communities are going to go hungry and these small to midsize Farms that are already struggling are going to go bankrupt and then they're going to be forced to sell for pennies on the dollar to huge investment firms under trumponomics ma andpa Family Farms are going to be wiped out rural communities are going to go hungry and billionaires are going to be walking away counting the cash
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Mohamed Bouazizi
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