evolution ofthe term “woman” reveals that the “wo” affix was not simply an addition to“man.” The linguist John McWhorter explained that “the word ‘woman’ didnot begin as a reference to a ‘wo-’ kind of man or male person. In Old English
for - etymology - woman - quite interesting to know the history of woman and that at one time, "man" actually meant both sexes.
The Unfolding of Language, Guy Deutscher describes the evolution oflanguage
for - follow up - book - The Unfolding of Language - to - internet archive - The Unfolding of Language - https://hyp.is/UksPQBtgEfCEqneUXW_HOA/archive.org/details/guy-deutscher-the-unfolding-of-language-an-evolutionary-tour-of-mankinds-greatest-invention
Why isthere no systematic way to integrate opposites in Western languages?
for - question - language - nonduality
The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
for - internet archive - book - The Unfolding of Language: An Evolutionary Tour of Mankind's Greatest Invention
for - conlanger - language creator - from - book - Embracing Paradox, Evolving Language - homepage - David J. Peterson
for - youtube - Trump tariffs - analysis - Jeffrey Sachs
Summary - Jeffrey Sachs provides very good analysis of Trump's tariffs and its consequences
If a dollar is valued at a lower level, then there will be specific sectors of the American economy that may be more competitive on global markets. Right. But everyone is hurt by a weaker dollar because also all of us in the United States are paid in dollars.
for - weaker US dollar tradeoffs - lower cost for foreign buyers BUT higher cost for domestic US consumers
there are people in the Trump administration orbit who actually view the dollar's role as the world's reserve currency, as bad for the U.S. economy, not an exorbitant privilege, but something that undermines our export competitiveness
for - adjacency - US reserve currency - Some in Trump admin see it as a bad thing - question - Does Trump admin want to intentionally devalue US dollar and US reserve currency status?
comment - They want to devalue the US dollar so that US goods are more competitive - lower cost
the lion's share of American federal outlays every year are in things like Medicare, Social Security, entitlement programs that Americans rely on. Yeah, I think Elon Musk has brought that to attention many times over the last couple of months when talking doge
for - balancing the budget - Doge - cutting the US deficit - Doge - US deficit - mostly due to medicare and social security
Treasury yields have gone up as the dollar's value has actually weakened as normally you'd expect as Treasury yields go up, that the dollar would strengthen because there would be more demand for American assets.
for - why - increase in treasury yields normally strengthens US Dollar - Gemini AI gives a good explanation - Yes, it's generally expected that when U.S. Treasury yields increase, the value of the US dollar will strengthen. - This is because higher yields attract more foreign investment, increasing demand for the dollar to purchase those assets. - Higher yields ( higher interest rate) mean more attractive returns: - When Treasury yields rise, the returns on U.S. government bonds become more appealing to investors, both domestic and foreign. - Increased demand for US dollars: - As investors from other countries seek to buy these higher-yielding U.S. assets, they need to first convert their local currencies into US dollars to make the purchase. - This increased demand for dollars strengthens its value. - Safe-haven status: - During times of economic uncertainty, investors often flock to safe-haven assets like U.S. Treasuries. This further boosts the demand for the US dollar, as it is the currency used to hold these assets. - Currency Valuation - A strong currency indicates a healthy economy and can attract more foreign investment. This creates a positive feedback loop, as a stronger dollar can further boost investor confidence and lead to even higher demand for US assets.
The way that we plug that deficit, the way that we we finance the spending that doesn't come from American taxpayers is through issuing debt that then is in the form of U.S. Treasuries.
for - US treasury bonds - balances 7% annual budget deficit
the flip side of a trade deficit is that we have, you know, financial asset financing that's coming into the United States. Right? We have other countries who are investing in American assets. Right. So that is, you know, why you need a you know, the current account in the capital account have to balance out a current account deficit will mean a capital account surplus. Right?
for - investigate - flip side of trade deficit is financial surplus
Explain that. Carry that out for people who would be like, I'm not making the connection because I think so much of what's happened in the last week and a half, we have to understand how this all connects,
for - question - clarify for the audience how the US dollar as reserve currency, the decrease in demand for US treasury bonds and the US national debt are related to Trump's tariffs?
comment - The interviewer asks a great question on behalf of the audience as she understands that a lot of people don't understand the significance of Trump's tariff on the US national debt, treasury bonds and the US reserve currency. - She asks him to connect the dots and reveal the salient adjacencies
what would it mean for the dollar to lose its position as the world's reserve currency?
for - question - what would it mean for the dollar to lose its position as the world's reserve currency? - answer - if nobody buys US treasury bonds because it is no longer seen as a safe haven, and even begin liquidating them, then they can no longer compensate for the annual interest payment of the US national debt - The US would be forced to actually balance its budget
he dollar as role as the world's reserve currency is necessary for the way that we run our political economy,
for - impacts - of US dollar losing role as world reserve currency - can no longer fund US deficit and must balance the budget - lose geopolitical leverage of sanctions
real concerns that the dollar may be losing some of its safe haven status.
for - US dollar - losing safe haven status - de-dollarization - selling off US treasury bonds
America is something like 10% of global trade and 90% of foreign exchange transactions involve the dollar. So the dollar is being used in transactions that have nothing to do with U.S. goods being traded from one country to another.
for - quote - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange - stats - US reserve currency - used for 10% of global trade - and 90% of foreign exchange
everything being dollar denominated, that means in order to transact right, it's got to go through dollars. And basically we have control over dollar denominated assets and those points throughout the financial system.
for - explanation - sanctions - chokepoints - US reserve currency
explanation - sanctions - chokepoints - US reserve currency - If a country is sanctioned, it means that they can no longer use the US dollar for trading for goods (like weapons) - If a sanction country tries to buy a weapon, then it must transact with US dollars because that is the currency everyone uses to trade with - Either that country has enough paper US dollars to trade, or they must do it electronically - However, if the country is sanctioned, those US dollar transactions are monitored by the US government and will be disallowed - So it is the electronic means of surveillance of US dollar transactions which make sanctions effective
the US financial system is the most important choke point in the global economy
for - chokepoint - US financial system is most important - example - chokepoint - US sanctions
Choke Points
for - book - Choke Points - author - Edward Fishman - to - youtube search - Edward Fishman Chokepoint - https://hyp.is/F-UD3hqSEfCR80u-O1akrQ/www.youtube.com/
for - adjacency - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs - youtube - Bloomberg - Trump presses China to Make Tariff Offer to Calm Trade War
adjacency between - US reserve currency - treasury bonds - US national debt - Trump tariffs
Summary - Professor Edward Fishman gives a very good explanation about the relationship between the US national debt, treasury bonds, US reserve currency and the Trump tariffs. - Watching youtubes on these topics recently has been quite enlightening and primed me for this video - I really appreciated the interviewer asking the question on behalf of the viewers
for - youtube search - Edward Fishman - Chokepoint - from - youtube - Bloomberg podcast - Edward Fishman interview - https://hyp.is/8b1HCBqQEfC6rq8Li2CsRw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjDC9tEYFIA
for - history - reserve currencies
for - explainer video - US national debt - treasury bonds - youtube - US national debt - A good explainer video on the US national debt and treasury bonds
for - Cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bill Baue - Medium - article- cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - Bill Baue - adjacency - cross scale translation of earth system boundaries - global thresholds and allocations
canadians have a different expression for American farmers welfare recipients
for - Trump - farmer vote - welfare recipients
Really had a laugh at the farmers that think that they produce the best quality and have the strictest regulations
for - US agriculture - food quality - poor - but US farmers in a bubble - silos - effects of - US agriculture
for - SRG complexity mapping and sensemaking
SRG - This format of on-the-ground interviews along with feedback is good to map using SRG mapping tool
It's amazing how this farmer sees the demands that other people make with regards to climate change and renewables as demands from other people when climate change will hit farmers and already does harder than anyone they should be demanding it from themselves not feel like it's being forced upon them by others
for - climate change - agriculture - farmers attitudes - responsibility
the main reason consumers are buying the cheapest food rather than the best healthiest is because they are not being paid a living wage
for - inequality - oligarchy - effects on consumerist habits - buying the cheapest - suggestion - migrate from corporation to cooperation model - private company to cooperative - new meme - corporation to cooperation
they need to regulate big egg just as they need to regulate big pharma big insurance etc
for - oligarchy - Trump supports big ag over small ag
big egg indust industry
for - stats - big ag takes 30% of profits - small farmers take 5%
also voted to deport their workers lol yeah farmers as a whole voting Republican voted with an anti-migrant um workforce they voted to literally deport their own workforce work sources so again how is that helping them it's not
for - US agriculture - politics - farmers voted to deport their own workers
for - mayor system - China - responsible for rapid change
A conclusion I came to is that these men feel like most people (including the “mass media”) don’t take the time—or have no interest in taking the time—to understand them or where they come from.
for - liberal woman dates conservative men - they feel unheard
they still felt like they were getting left behind. Many of their ideologies seemed to be built on this perceived rejection and a desire to revert back to how “things used to be.”
for - MAGA men - rejection - dream of the old days
It became clear to me that he truly loved Trump not just because he identified with Trump the politician but because he identified with Trump the person being considered “bad” by progressive standards.
for - cosmopolitan magazine - liberal woman dated conservative MAGA men - insight
insight - Interesting insight about how deeply he identified with Trump on a personal level, He projected all the criticism Trump receives as his own.
He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.
for - quote - liberal woman dated conservative men - He clearly had no idea he was out with someone he once threatened to kill.
I went to dinner with a man who had sent me death threats
for - liberal woman dating conservative MAGA men - dating a man who sent her death threats. Wow.
From May to November, I would match with a total of 60 men across a wide conservative spectrum
for - stats - liberal dated 60 conservative, MAGA men in a year
I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned
for - from - youtube - CNN - This woman dated only far-right men for a year. "They were so insecure" - https://hyp.is/hb0ylhkbEfClNFdGidxvdA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=92iotrec96g
This is Vera Papa Sova. She spent the last year dating far right men in New York City for a story for cosmopolitan magazine. They're the most insecure men I've ever sat down with. It was really difficult to have some of these days because they were so insecure, because they don't really know who they are, and they don't know how to figure that out.
for - quote - manosphere - most insecure men I've ever sat down with - Vera Papisova - Cosmopolitan magazine - news - liberal dating conservative men for a year - youtube - CNN - This woman dated only far-right men for a year. "They were so insecure" - to - Cosmopolitan magazine - article - Vera Papisova - I Spent Nearly a Year on a Conservative Dating App as a Liberal—Here’s What I Learned - https://hyp.is/HNRDRBkdEfCBit8g4X4cAg/www.cosmopolitan.com/sex-love/a63679179/political-beliefs-dating-app-experiment/
for - undercover report - manosphere - insecure-osphere - cnn report - undercover in the manosphere
for - Trump tariffs - youtube - CNN - Orgy of corruption
for - dimensionality reduction - UMAP - SRG mapping tool
for - t-SNE - youtube - t-SNE - high dimensionality space
for - t-SNE - youtube - t-SNE explanation - high dimensionality space - dimensional reduction
open sourcing all of this as part of TensorFlow so that anyone can use these tools to explore their data.
for - tensorflow - data visualization of words - question - tensorflow - for SRG tool?
for - data visualization - words in high dimensional space - Google tensorflow - open source data visualization - of words
words are treated as high-dimensional data points.
for - words - high dimensionality data points
for - chalmers university - digital twin cities centre - from - youtube - urban data visualization using mixed reality - https://hyp.is/ptvO5BexEfC063-4BZXD-A/www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN2_TJ1ZYhQ
for - doughnut economics - digital twin cities - planetary boundaries - urban planning - chalmers university - digital twin cities
for - mixed reality 3d graph data visualization - skyrails - gelphi
for - Ripple Effect Mapping - youtube - Ripple Effect Mapping - like - SRG mapping
for - youtube - The New Denialism - Kevin Anderson 2025 - climate crisis 2025
adjacency between - Kevin Anderson - true scale of required decarbonization - climate justice - colonialism justice - polycrisis - intersection of climate and colonialism justice - social constructs - Douglas Rushkoff on Weirdness - understanding Deep social construction - Oliver Sacks - Deep Humanity - BEing Journeys - 2 level tree structure - MAGA shallow socially constructed story - stops at birth of the US but before colonialism - omit the story of the genocide and enslavement of indigenous genocide on two continents - in the Americas and Africa - myth of "money buys happiness" - new story - true happiness does not depend on any material
adjacency relationship
Summary - Kevin explains the true scale of decarbonization required - It is basically the same argument he has been making for decades but updated for 2025
SSI: our dystopian nightmare
for - SSI: our dystopian nightmare - progress trap
move fast and break things
for - adjacency - Move fast and break things - progress trap - antonym of "Move fast and break things" - "Move slow and make things"
As Buckminster Fuller anticipated in ‘I Seem to be a Verb’[23] ... who I am encompasses a constant flux of informational diffusion and intermixing, interfacial constructions and experiences, continuously revised narratives, arrangings and organizings.[24]
for - human INTERbeCOMing (etymology) - Deep Humanity evolution of this term: - Human being (noun) to - Human INTERbeing (still a noun - relational - Thich Nhat Hahn) to - Human INTERbeCOMing (verb process - Deep Humanity)
Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492
for - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - authors - Alexander Koch - Chris Brierley - Mark Maslin - Simon L. Lewis - adjacency - genocide - native americans - colonialism - Little Ice Age - adjacency - great dying - little ice age - colonialism - from - youtube - The death of 55 million indigenous people after colonization - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DYlDdzj1nx3U&group=world - The Great Dying - Little Ice Age
for - Trump tariffs - How much pain? - article How much pain will new tariffs bring - and for how long? - author - Justin Wolfers
for - youtube - carbon inequality - Tax the Rich - Kevin Anderson - wealth2well - Deep Humanity - Deep Education
question - decarbonization - redistribution - is there any research with concrete decarbonization rates that are just across the entire class spectrum?
wealth2wellth - Deep Humanity Wealth2Wellth program advocates Deep education of the elites to voluntarily share their economic and carbon wealth with the 99%
Thomas Mo's Maxim that silence silence means consent
for - quote - Silence means consent - Thomas Moore - context - fossil fuels
for - colonialism - impacts - Americas - little ice age - cause - genocide of indigenous people in 17th century - abandoned fields - stats - colonialism - genocide - 55 million people - cooling of planet - MAGA - How to make the Americas great again - colonialism - justice - to - paper - Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 - https://hyp.is/fHnyIBL3EfCpcmfnGW26DA/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261
comment - The MAGA movement needs to deeply reflect on this - They claim national pride but do not go further back in history than the establishment of the United States - They need to recognize how the US was established on genocide in order to live in cultural truth - This reality creates a contradiction to their entire theme of white national power - It makes the elimination of DEI hypocritical as indigenous peoples have a far more legitimate claim than they do
for - futuring - Maarten Hajer - youtube - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - to - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/pCJ_iA42EfC_9C-RJoo6wQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826
comment - meme - Gien - past - present - future - quote - Gien - past - present - future - When the future becomes the present, - memories will remind us of imaginations in presents past
they also run scenarios they run the SSP scenarios and now it's very interesting to look into what is allowed into these scenarios how they construct the political in this in these scenarios
for - to - Wikipedia - Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - https://hyp.is/2PTbRA_3EfCinhc0DATxiQ/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared_Socioeconomic_Pathways
science defines the future in environmental politics
for - quote - science defines the future in environmental politics - Maarten Hajer
why is it that Extinction Rebellion where predominantly young people and actually all older people are so concerned that they take to the street and lie down that that is met with violence why is that well I think because they they strike a nerve of something about the inaction of the political that that there needs to be police it needs to be taken off as illegitimate
for - example - dramaturgy of environmental politics - excludes Extinction Rebellion - illegitimate
in environmental politics you see a confinement of the political and and the confinement is that it is created in a theater in which ecological modernization still is the language
for - dramaturgy of environmental politics - confined in a theatre of ecological modernization
Dermatology of the environmental political is problematic in itself because it is a confined space in which particular Futures can be legitimately brought to the fore and others are excluded
for - key insight - dramaturgy of environmental science - biased to some futures and excludes others
political dramaturgies
for - political dramaturgies
dramaturgical analysis
for - definition - dramaturgy - invoking drama for presenting the self in different context - dramaturgical analysis - to - Wikipedia - dramaturgy - https://hyp.is/5ueHGA_0EfCaiB8s4MiYfQ/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramaturgy_(sociology)
the point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative
for - meme - futuring - connect - present facts - to - future fictions - quote - The point of futuring is that you need to connect facts and fictions because that is how this these future Visions become socially performative - Maarten Hajer
if you imagine a banker I mean how would a banker choose whether or not to give a loan to to an entrepreneur without having what against Becker school a fictional expectation
for - example - futures - bankers give loans based on fictional future story of the loanee
talk about Futures in the plural because it is always about Choice
for - futures - plural to indicate choice of possible realities
it is an activity so futuring makes the future into a verb so the what we study is how you future how you are actively working on on Futures
for - futuring - a verb - actively working towards a specific future
featuring I would then argue is the attempt to shape the space for action by identifying and circulating images of the future a process by which relationship between past present and future are enacted
for - definition - futuring - the attempt to shape the space for action by identifying and circulating images of the future (in the present) - a process by which relationship between past, present and future are enacted - Maarten Hajer
the imaginary is a sort of collectively held image of a possible future
for - definition - the imaginary - a collectively held image of a possible future
the future is obviously a strange topic to study right it is not there so how can you study it so that's but you can of course because it's very active in terms of the images of the future in the present and these can be studied empirically we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the in the present
for - quote - the future is a strange topic - we cannot study the future but we can study claims about the future in the present - Maarten Hajer
there's a particular paper in which we try to position our work on futuring in the social theoretical journals which is just to test whether it would hold whether people would accept that you can make sense of the future
for to - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/pCJ_iA42EfC_9C-RJoo6wQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826
for - youtube - Ecology or Economics? - David Suzuki - humans and nature - nondual relationship - humans and nature - intertwingled
Summary - David Suzuki gives a great talk on the relationship between ecology ad economy - In particular, the standout for me is the story of intertwingledness and nonseparation he learned from the Haida people. - See the annotations below to find the part of the talk when he has the epiphany that we are not separated from nature, and he learns this from the Haida people's nondual relationship with nature
What is it that delivers the air that we can breathe? Guess what? It's all the green things on the planet. Surely that should-- does that have a value in our economic system? Guess what? Economists call that an externality. And what I found out is, they don't care about that. It's considered so vast it's irrelevant to our economy.
for - quote - air is a resource so vast has no value in the economy - David Suzuki
the challenge is to reduce our circle within that planet. We've got to reduce and get back down to a size that makes sense. And within that circle, which is us, is a much smaller circle, which is the economy. That should be the way that we look at it. The biosphere, our species, and the economy,
for - economy is within ecology - David Suzuki
if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. And those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.
for - quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki
quote - intertwingledness of living beings and the earth - David Suzuki - if you're going to talk about a shift in our paradigm, it is to recognize what indigenous people have always known, - that we are created out of the elements of Mother Earth. - and those should be our greatest responsibility, to protect them for ourselves and the rest of life on Earth.
We are animals. And as animals, our most important need is a breath of air. Without air for more than three or four minutes, you're either brain damaged or dead. So surely to goodness, air ought to be, as a society, our highest priority. The protection of the quality of air should come before anything else. We are water. Go without water for more than a few days, you're dead. Have to drink contaminated water, you're sick. So surely, water, like air, should be one of our society's highest priorities. And we are created out of the food that we eat. So protecting the soil that gives us our food should be one of our highest priorities. And protecting the photosynthetic capacity of the planet is in our highest self-interest.
for - quote - we are animals - protect - air - water - food - David Suzuki
We want air to be free, and we forget what a sacred substance it is.
for - the sacred - example - air - David Suzuki
There's this wonderful thought exercise Harlow Shapley, an American astronomer, did many years ago. He said, what happens to one breath of air?
for - BEing Journey - argon gas - Gedanken - thought experiment - Harlow Shapley - intertwingledness - David Suzuki
Think about what is the most important thing that we needed the moment every one of us left our mother's body. Well, of course, it was a breath of air. That first breath was to announce our arrival on the planet and inflate our lungs. And from that moment on to the last breath you take before you die, you need air 15 to 40 times a minute.
for - example - intertwingledness - nonduality - non-separation - story of breathing air - David Suzuki
There is no environment out there and we are here. We are literally created by the elements that come from what they call Mother Earth. And Mother Earth isn't some poetic or metaphoric way of speaking. They mean it literally.
for - example - individual / collective gestalt - Haida story - example - self / other gestalt - Haida story
What Guujaaw was saying was, we Haida don't end at our skin or our fingertips. To be Haida means to be connected to the land, that the air, the water, the trees, the fish, the birds, all of that is what makes us Haida. The land embodies our history, our culture. The very reason why Haida are on this earth is told to them by their connection with the land. Destroy those elements, and you destroy what it is to be Haida.
for - quote - story of non-separation - intertwingledness - nonduality - Haida Gwaii - David Suzuki
quote - story of non-separation - intertwingledness - nonduality - Haida Gwaii - David Suzuki - What Guujaaw was saying was: - We Haida don't end at our skin or our fingertips. - To be Haida means to be connected to - the land, - the air, - the water, - the trees, - the fish, - the birds, - all of that is what makes us Haida. - The land embodies our history, our culture. - The very reason why Haida are on this earth is told to them by their connection with the land. - Destroy those elements, and you destroy what it is to be Haida.
I believe that we've framed the problem the wrong way. And for me, the big change happened in the late 1970s, when I became aware that there was a battle raging in our westernmost archipelago, what were once called the Queen Charlotte Islands, but are now called Haida Gwaii.
for - progress trap - turning point - David Suzuki - Haida Gwaii
Geoengineering is about the human arrogance that we have screwed up the atmosphere so bad that we're now going to take over for nature, and we're going to engineer the atmosphere so that it doesn't create more catastrophic climate change
for - progress trap - geoengineering - David Suzuki
We need technology, much of it to solve the problems that we've created with technology in the first place. But since our ignorance is so vast, how could we possibly develop new technologies that wouldn't in turn create more technologies-- more difficulties that we hadn't anticipated? And you see it in spades right now.
for - progress trap - David Suzuki
by the time Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, we knew there were ramifications we didn't-- couldn't have anticipated, the most amazing being biomagnification. When eagles began to disappear in the United States, scientists tracked it down to the fact that DDT sprayed at low concentrations would be amplified up the food chain. So by the time you get to the fatty glands and the fat tissue and the shell glands of birds and the breasts of women, DDT was concentrated hundreds of thousands of times beyond what we had sprayed it at. By the 1960s, women's breast milk was considered too toxic to feed to babies.
for - progress trap - DDT - David Suzuki
Who would have imagined that high up above the Earth, CFCs would be hit by ultraviolet light, breaking off chlorine free radicals, which scavenge ozone. Nobody could have anticipated that consequence when we began to use it.
for - progress trap - CFC's - David Suzuki
we gave the man who discovered the insecticidal properties of DDT, Paul Muller, he got a Nobel Prize for it in 1948
for - history - DDT - inventor received Nobel Prize
proposals to drill for oil in Hecate Strait between Haida Gwaii and the mainland
for - David Suzuki - oil drilling proposal - Hecate Straits - Haida Gwaii
one result of the objections to Amchitka was the birth of Greenpeace in Vancouver. Greenpeace was a made in Canada organization that I'm very proud to say has exploded and become a force around the world.
for - Greenpeace - origin story - David Suzuki
she said is, yeah, you scientists are clever. You can make powerful compounds like DDT, but you don't know enough to anticipate all of the consequences. Because, first of all, the lab is not a replica of the real world. The lab is an artifact, something that has very little to do with the real world out there. In the real world, everything is connected to everything else, and we don't know enough to anticipate the effects of what we do with our powerful technologies.
for - quote - progress trap - David Suzuki - quote - Indra's net of jewels - David Suzuki
quote - progress trap - David Suzuki - What she (Rachel Carson) said is, - Yeah, you scientists are clever. You can make powerful compounds like DDT, but you don't know enough to anticipate all of the consequences. - Because the lab is not a replica of the real world. The lab is an artifact, something that has very little to do with the real world out there. - In the real world, everything is connected to everything else, and we don't know enough to anticipate the effects of what we do with our powerful technologies.
in 1962, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. And you cannot-- the young people in the audience cannot imagine the impact of that book, which was all about the unexpected effects of pesticides.
for - progress trap - Rachel Carson - Silent Spring - book - pesticides
I'm a banana. I'm yellow on the outside. I'm white on the inside.
for - banana - David Suzuki
my exhortation to my fellow elders is get the hell off the golf course or the couch and get on with the most important part of your lives.
for - quote - retirement - David Suzuki - idling resource - elders
for - Team Human - Weirdness - Trump - Douglas Rushkoff - Team Human - Weirdness
Summary - Rushkoff provides good reasons why we should question the social constructs we accept as absolute truths all around us - He brings up the possibility that the Trump government and all the florry of surrounding chaotic activity may be an indicator of the end of 4 centuries of a pathological social construct that has alienated most of humanity
THE PROBLEM IS, RON VARA DOESN'T EXIST. HE NEVER HAS. THE ECONOMICS EXPERT THAT PETER NAVARRO HAS LONG CITED TO EXPLAIN WHY HE'S SO GUNG HO ON TARIFFS. THIS PERSON, RON VARA, IS A MADE UP PERSON. HE IS A FICTIONAL PERSON. PETER NAVARRO INVENTED RON VARA AS HIS EXPERT SOURCE, SO HE COULD QUOTE THIS EXPERT SOURCE OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN HIS CRACKPOT BOOKS. WHO IS RON VERA? RON VERA IS AN ANAGRAM OF NAVARRO, WHICH IS HIS LAST NAME.
for - Trump Tariff's - based on Ron Vara
If an American President, head of the Green Party of the USA, were elected with a mandate to slash emissions
for - Trump tariffs - lowering carbon emissions?
for - from Global Regeneration CoLab - Wasabi Network - Regneration pollination zoom speed dating - April 4, 2025
wealthier countries owe US$36 trillion to African countries in climate debt
for - stats - climate justice - climate debt - Global North owes Global South 36 trillion USD
The Action Aid report calculates that rich countries achieved up to 70% of their economic growth by using more than their fair share of the climate budget.
for - report - Action Aid - climate justice - stats - 70% of economic growth of global North - unequal carbon budget
atmospheric appropriation
for - definition - atmospheric appropriation
for - climate justice - Africa - article - The Conversation - Wealthy nations owe climate debt to Africa - funds that could help cities grow - author - Astrid R.N. Haas
climate debt
for - definition - climate debt
China, however, can be expected to return fire. Already it has halted imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the US for 40 days – a move attributed to trade tensions. This may seem like good news for emissions reduction. However, China, like all other nations, needs energy. With less gas from the US, it may resort to burning more coal – which generates more CO₂ when burnt than gas.
for - adjacency - tariff - substitution - coal for LNG - higher carbon emissions
supply of components and materials vital to the energy transition was disrupted.
for - adjacency - economic slowdown - renewable energy - supply chain shortages
The COVID experience provides a cautionary tale. The unstable economic outlook and higher interest rates meant banks were more cautious about financing some renewable energy projects. And according to the International Energy Agency, small to medium-sized businesses became more reluctant to invest in renewable energy applications such as heat pumps and solar panels.
for - adjacency - economic slowdown - COVID - less investment in renewables
nations focus on making goods where they have a competitive advantage – in other words, where they can manufacture the item more cheaply than other nations can. That includes making them using less energy, or creating fewer carbon emissions. If the US insists on manufacturing everything it needs domestically, we can expect many of those goods to be more emissions-intensive than if they were imported.
for - adjacency - higher carbon emissions - made in US
In the short-term, any decline is likely to have a positive impact on emissions reduction. We saw this effect during the COVID-19 pandemic, when global production and trade fell.
for -adjacency - economic slowdown - carbon emissions - Trump tariffs
The move has prompted fears of a global economic slowdown. This might seem like a positive for the climate, because greenhouse gas emissions are closely tied to economic growth. However, in the long term, the trade war is bad news for global efforts to cut emissions. It is likely to lead to more energy-intensive goods produced in the US, and dampen international investment in renewable energy projects.
for - carbon emission impacts of Trump tariffs
for - climate crisis - impacts of Trump tariffs - carbon emission impacts of Trump tariffs
comment - I'm surprised that not one analyst has commented on the potential slowdown of a possible recession due to lower consumer activity due to the tariffs - Remember the significant lowering of carbon emissions during COVID? - Of course it wouldn't be durable and carbon emissions could rise after Trump and tariffs may no longer be in place but now is a good time to strategize how to decarbonize strategically
BREAKING: Copenhagen plans to burn 4,464,760 tons of CO₂ – voluntarily.
for - progress trap - construction - Denmark
for - Wikipedia - SSP - Wikipedia - Shared Socioeconomic Pathways - from - youtube - Maarten Hajer - On how the imagined future becomes socially performative - https://hyp.is/8mXOWA_3EfCXhe8CC1TpwA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_zS6Hc0LM
for - Wikipedia - dramaturgy - from - youtube - Maarten Hajer - Techniques of futuring - On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/5DP6_A_zEfC90FvH6DzXOw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_zS6Hc0LM
Particular expert-based claims about the climate future, for example, rely on an epistemic trust in numbers (Ezrahi, 1990; Porter, 1996) and computer models that solidified over decades (Edwards, 1996, 2010).
for - climate futures - based on numbers - alienate a large percentage of the population - become ineffective
climate futures imagined through climate modelling travel sequentially between the desks of expert communities and the IPCC, into the political sphere of the UNFCCC – leading to particular, often narrowly technocratized, imaginaries about possible climate futures (Oomen, 2019; Swyngedouw, 2011).
for - example - imagined futures - failure of puersuasiveness of climate models
material organization and access to anticipatory tools such as integrated assessment models also play an important part in the scripting and staging of futuring performances – as do the bodily competences of the practitioners.
for - futuring - different strokes for different folks - quantitative presentations of climate futures is ineffective for an audience that cannot appreciate it - the choice of how to present the future is therefore critical to produce a desirable response
Analysing how a ToF discursively presents the future, in what genre and using what narrative structure, helps to understand how it enables different audiences to engage with the future and in what ways this reinforces, consolidates or transforms an imaginative space of possibilities for action.
for - futuring - different strokes for different folks
Back-casting exercises that start from an imagined desirable future derive part of their imaginative authority from pre-existing notions of plausibility, but they may also draw from notions about the value of democratic participation.
for - futures - backcasting
Quantitative presentations of the future, such as most climate models, speak to what Porter (1996) calls a ‘trust in numbers’ and an assumption of ‘scientific rigor’ and rationality.
for - futures - quantitative presentations
This article, then, has three aims.
for - futuring - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - from - collective imagination toolkit https://hyp.is/i3N9KA_DEfCsXivEzv3w5A/www.collectiveimagination.tools/ - purpose of the paper - how images of the future gain performative traction - objectives: how images of the future gain performative traction: - present insights and weaknesses of leading social-theoretical futures work - fill some gaps by - imagining the future via - social practices - performance of reality // question- what does this mean?// - develop performative understanding of futuring via - dramaturgical analysis that investigates ow actors - actively bring the future into the present through performance of particular: - narratives - settings - configurations
Summary - This is a very insightful paper on futuring and how activity in the present realizes imagined fictions, which don't yet exist, and bring them into being in our (future) present - One thing to note is that there is a huge swath of human activity not explicitly discussed which is intrinsically futuring, and that is the birth of any new idea in general, including scientific, mathematical and technological. - Human progress is the sum total of countless individual futuring projects that imagine some fictitious, nonexistent idea and work to incrementally bring it into existence.
Practices mediate, curate, create and enact imaginations of possible futures in the same ways that they create our lived-in reality.
for - key insight - practicing performative futuring
for - Maartin Hajer - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - from - youtube -Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/uGfbNA40EfCrf5usD4aRoA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch_zS6Hc0LM - to - youtube - participatory community-scale futuring - Town Anywhere - Ruth Ben-Tovim - https://hyp.is/5okY9A8sEfCdoWsQtK2CSg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbErfM3mLxE - https://hyp.is/HHE2wg8tEfCVkK-dln3oYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRvhY4S94ic
summary - This a a paper that frames design and innovation, - among the most ubiquitous and important of all human activities - as a branch of futuring - Design and innovation bring something new into existence - That which is designed - is that which is imagined - is that which is not yet real - is that which is therefore a fiction - Innovation brings the fictional and imagined into reality through mobilizing and coordinating social behavior that realizes the imagined future. - This is especially critical as our species needs to rapidly imagine and bring about an aspirational future that mitigates our existential polycrisis
Affective relationships with the future are performative because they provide actions in the present with meaning, especially when combined with expectations about (the effect of such actions on) the future.
for - to - youtube - Town Anywhere - Ruth Ben-Tovim - https://hyp.is/5okY9A8sEfCdoWsQtK2CSg/www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbErfM3mLxE - https://hyp.is/HHE2wg8tEfCVkK-dln3oYQ/www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRvhY4S94ic
The Anthropology of the Future, there are at least six types of affective relationships with the future: anticipation, expectation, speculation, potentiality, hope and destiny – with utopias and dystopias as particularly powerful affective motivators (Moore, 1966; Sliwinski, 2016).
for - book - The Anthropology of the Future - Bryant and Knight (2019) - affective relationships with the future - anticipation - expectation - speculation - potentiality - hope - destiny
Affect regulates another aspect of the performative relationship between past, present and future. Where the performativity of expectations relies on credibility, on being believed and expected, affect relies on (a form of) emotive investment.
for - adjacency - imagined futures - affect - performative - expectations - credibility - emotive investment
adjacency - between - affect - imagined futures - performative - expectations - credibility - emotive investment - adjacency relationship - This sentence is a highly integral and convergent one that brings together many important adjacent ideas - Affect (emotions) is important because if we are emotionally invested in a story of an imagined future, it gives it credibility
credibility provides a ‘prospective structure’ (van Lente & Rip, 1998) that shapes actors’ orientations for action (Beckert & Bronk, 2018; Hedgecoe & Martin, 2003; MacKenzie & Millo, 2003).
for - credibility of imagined future - shapes actor's orientations for action
the sociology of expectations
for - sociology of expectations - provide structure and legitimation - attract interest and investment
making the future like Judith Butler’s famous observations about gender: ‘real only to the extent that it is performed’ (Butler, 1988, p. 527)
for - quote - the future - performance - real only to the extent that it is performed - Butler, 1988, p. 527
‘the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present’ (Tutton, 2017, p. 483)
for - quote - the future - the future is real in so far as social actors produce representations of the future which have an effect on others’ actions in the present - Tutton, 2017, p. 483
for - collective imagination toolkit - to - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/go?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.sagepub.com%2Fdoi%2Ffull%2F10.1177%2F1368431020988826&group=world
rue wealth
for - true wealth - wellth - Nate Hagens- Great Simplification - Kristine Tompkins - conservation
From Inner Work to Global Impact
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - From Inner Work to Global Impact - Stop Reset Go Deep Humanity / cosmolocal - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Building Citizen-Led Movements - solution - watch one live and the other recorded
meeting notes - see below
ANNIKA: - inner work helps us stay sane dealing with the chaos in our work - healing is not fixing - hope is a muscle, go to the "hope gym" - not just personal but collective
EDWIN: - inner WORK - constant, continuous work - how do you scale these things? Is it wrong term to use? Mechanistic? - how do we move to global impact? We don't know yet
LOUISE - inner work saved my - orientate inside away from trauma architecture - colonized and colonizer energies - they longed to be in union - be with all parts of myself - allow alchemy on the outside to the inside - liberate myself from my trauma structures and unfold myself - we cannot be a restorer unless we do that inner work - systeming - verbalizing / articulating it - we are all actors in creating the system - question - where am i systeming from? - answer - I am an interbeing - Am i systeming from the interbeing space or the trauma architecture space? - Where am I seeding from? What energy do I put into my work? - system is not concrete and fixed but fluid - fielding - bringing different human fields together - I can work with hatred and rage on the inside and transmute it so that I don't add to it on the outside
JOHN: - stuck systems and lens of trauma can help us get unstock - 70% of people have experienced trauma - trauma is part of the human experience - people make up systems - so traumatized people makes traumatized systems - fight, flight and freeze happens at both levels - at system level, its fractally similiar - disembodied from wisdom - in state of survival and fear - fixing things - until we deal with the trauma in the people, we will continue to have traumatized systems - More work won't help if it's coming from traumatized people
EDWIN - incremental change - something holding us back - built upon these traumas - Economic metrics are out of touch with how the trauma affects systems - Journey - awareness first, then understanding and inner transformation and finally change - Discussion with funders - most are still stuck in old paradigm of metrics, audits, etc - this comes with trauma because we have no trust on who is on the other side - a big part of the system is built on mistrust, creates more gaps between us - need to become anti-fragile
ANNIKA - Funders have lack of trust because inner work hasn't been done on both sides - As a funder, we really try to create a space of trust - Think of the language we use to be inclusive - How do we make inner work a part of the operating system of how we work? - We looked at 500 mental health organizations over the years - It's so urgent now that we align our work
EDWIN - We have a lot of half-formed thoughts - It's very complex and nobody has cracked it - We have a phrase at Axum that we move at the speed of trust - To do something different, they need to trust you - When I think of the discussions I've had with heads of states and CEOs, these meaningful inner ideas are not often brought up
LAURA - When there's no trust, even if there is no danger, the trauma is still brought up - We need to shift our lens on trauma and become aware of when trauma emerges - quote - inner condition of the intervener determines the success of intervention - Bill O'Brien
LOUISE - I work a lot with nervous system and body system - We need small changes in our nervous system - If I try to do something big, I can re-traumatize myself - We also have a collective nervous system - Restore love to all parts of your system first - Make friends with trees to seed actions from union
JOHN - Become aware of my own trauma triggers - When we see an outsized reaction, we can guess that person is undergoing personal trauma - A settled body settles bodies - If we are calm, it helps calm others
LAURA - Feel where we don't feel grounded, where we shame ourselves, feel compassion there
QUESTIONS - See below
mushrooms and ayuahuasca - is it helpful?
A lot of women forget the feminine energy to climb the ladder and get sick?
backlash - feels like white men were being pushed to do work they weren't ready to do so now reclaiming their comfortable traumatized space
how early do we start to teach this knowledge?
How do organizations hold space for the enormous trauma that the US govt is manufacturing. We need to build this practice into organizations to help deal with the onslaight
Youth are so hungry for being in the presence of others who are wise, compassionate. We can't move faster than the speed of trust but it needs to become accessible.
ANSWERS - See below
LOUISE - Organizations have a huge role to play at this time - We want to reconfigure and transform the trauma - Deep forming teams in organizations to help transform - Trauma fields want to come through human nervous systems to transform - We are both feminine and masculine and the masculine wounding is very important and needs to find the feminine - We cannot go away by ourselves to heal from patriarchy, colonialism energies
ANNIKA - In terms of how we fund, can we fund differently? We need to fund these spaces
EDWIN - I sit on board of Wellbeing project - changemakers go through burnout - how do we prevent this and create a container that can sustain them? - Weve brought 20,000 people in summits who have affected 3 million people. Please come to the Hurts summit in Czec and Wellbeing project - When pendulum swings back from individual space, we should be like a spiral
JOHN - In systems change spaces, trauma is seldom spoken of. - Systems work will not work if we ignore trauma - This is critical
LOUISE - Arundhati Roy - Another world is not only possible but is on its way. On a quiet day, I can hear it breathing.
for - Town Anywhere - Ruth Ben-Tovim - from - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/zorBdg8sEfCiHm-Z970wbQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826
for - Ruth Ben-Tovim - Town Anywhere - from - paper - Techniques of futuring: On how imagined futures become socially performative - https://hyp.is/zorBdg8sEfCiHm-Z970wbQ/journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1368431020988826
Studies of the future in terms of performativity explain how visions of the ‘future’ shape and coordinate social action in the present. This explanation comes in four distinct but closely related readings of performativity
for - performativity - definition
definition - performativity - In the context of futures studies, performativity explains how visions of the future shape and coordinate social action in the present that results in the construction of the future vision. - Performativity converts the fiction into the nonfiction, the imaginary into the real - There are four aspects to performativity: - sociology of expectations - sociologies of affect - collective imagination - material-semiotic approaches // question - what does this mean?//
for - from - Christina Bowens - Network Coordination Commons meeting - Dialogue on Convening Systems: What does it take? What does it look like on the ground?
for - event - Skoll World Forum 2025 - program page - inspiration - new idea - Indyweb dev - curate desilo'd global commons of events - that are topic-mapped in mindplex - link to a global, desilo'd schedule - new idea - use annotation to select events to attend - new Indyweb affordance - hypothesis annotation for program event selection - event program selection - 2025 - April 1 - 4 - Skoll World Forum
new idea - use annotation to select events to attend - demonstrate first use of this affordance on the annotation of this online event program
summary - A good resource rich with many ideas relevant to bottom-up, rapid whole system change
The Future of AI & Digital Innovation
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 4 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - The Future of AI & Digital Innovation - Stop Reset Go - Indyweb -- relevant to
Partnerships for the Planet
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 4 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Partnership for the Planet - Stop Reset Go - TPF - LCE - relevant to
From Eco-Grief to Climate Action
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - From Eco-Grief to Climate Action - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose - inner - Outer - Transformation - adjacency - mortality salience - ecogrief - terror management theory - Ernest Becker - Deep Humanity
Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social In
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Redefining Progress: New Frontiers for the Field of Social Innovation - Stop Reset Go - Progress traps - Cosmolocal production - commons - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose - adjacency - progress trap - Deep Humanity - Cosmolocal production - social innovation
The Future of Foreign Aid
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 12:30 - 1:45pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - The Future of Foreign Aid - Fellowship of the Sacred Commons - LCE - relevant to - funding the commons
Project Dandelion: Women, Food, and the Climate Future
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 1-4pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Project Dandelion: Women, Food and the Climate Future - Agrosphere Systems - relevant to
Delegate Led Discussion - Big Bet Philanthropy
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Big Bet Philanthropy - Stop Reset Go - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with - Project Dandelion
Delegate Led Discussion - Intergenerational Wisdom
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Intergenerational Wisdom - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with - Project Dandelion
Delegate Led Discussion - Local Leadership
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Local Leadership - Stop Reset Go - Cosmolocal Production - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with - Project Dandelion
Delegate Led Discussion - Strategies for Action and Care
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Delegate Led Discussion - Strategies for Action and Care in Closing Civic Space - Stop Reset Go - Indyweb autonomy - relevant to - event time conflict - with - Project Dandelion
Delegate Led Discussion - Tuning In: Music
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Delegate Led Discussion - Tuning In: Music, Deep Listening - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity BEing journeys - relevant to - event time conflict - with - Project Dandelion
Creative Tensions: Collaboration, Compromise, and Convict
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Creative Tension: Collaboration, Compromise and Conviction - Stop Reset Go - TPF - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Aligning Profit and Purpose
Aligning Profit and Purpose
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 3 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Aligning Profit and Purpose - new portmanteau - greentruthing - opposite of greenwashing - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - TPF - LCE - Greentruthing vs greenwashing - relevant to
Delegate Led Discussion - The Changing State of AI, Media
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - The Changing State of AI, Media - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go - TPF - Eric's project - Skoll's Participatory Media project - relevant to - adjacency - indyweb - Stop Reset Go - participatory news - participatory movie and tv show reviews - Eric's project - Skoll's Particiipatory Media - event time conflict - with - Leadership in Alien Times
adjacency - between - Skoll's Participatory Media project - Global Witness - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go's participatory news idea - Stop Reset Go's participatory movie and TV show review idea - Eric's media project - adjacency relationship - Participatory media via Indyweb and idea of participatory news and participatory movie and tv show reviews - might be good to partner with Skoll Foundation's Participatory Media group
Delegate Led Discussion - Fail Loud: Collaboration
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 2-3:15pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Fail Loud: Collaboration - Indyweb - Stop Reset Go - TPF - LCE - relevant to
Leadership in Alien Times
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 2-3:30pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Leadership in Alien Times - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - LCE - transition - relevant to - event time conflict - with Building Comfort with Discomfort - solution - watch one live and the other recorded
Comfort with Discomfort: Practices
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 2-3:30 pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Comfort with Discomfort: Practices for Lasting Social Change - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with - Leadership in Alien Times
Philanthropy at a Crossroads: Can We Fund
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Philanthropy at a Crossroads: Can we Fund at the Speed of Impacts? - Fellowship of the Sacred Commons - LCE - relevant to - event time conflict - with Building Citizen-led Movements - solution - watch one live and the other recorded - funding the commons
Building Citizen-Led Movements to Reshape Civic Life
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 10:30am-12pm GMT - Skoll World Forum - Building Citizen-ed Movements to Reshape Civic Life - Stop Reset Go - TPF - LCE - Building Citizen-Led Movements - relevant to
Transforming Crisis Response: Innovations for Lasting Peace
for - program event selection - 2025 - April 2 - 9-10am GMT - Skoll World Forum - Transformation Crisis Response - Stop Reset Go - Deep Humanity - Common Human Denominators - relevant to
for - question - is network coordination commons linked to GRC? - If not, it would be a good synergy
I’ve met a number of important people through GRC who have become central to my own project ecosystem.
for - join together vs join us - example - join together AND join us - instead of join together OR join us
Why Regenerative instead of Sustainable?
for - comparison - graphic - regeneration vs sustainability
many greenlandic people realized that we are most we are much much more worth than than we thought we were because we have always compared ourselves only with Denmark and Denmark and we have been living on the colony for the last 300 years under Denmark and we have been so how do you call it been seen as less worthy uh human beings and now someone else showing this interest is actually a huge wake up call
for - indigenous empowerment - Greenland - Trump
for - from Marco's group
for - from - zoom meeting - Building Multiscalar networks Mario Marais
for - from - zoom meeting - Building multiscalar networks - speaker - David Witzel - Global Regenerative CoLab
for - wiki - TESCREAL - adjacency - transhumanism - TESCREAL
for - MAP - Memetic Application Platform - Steve Melville - network of networks - a world that works for all
summary - MAP and Indyweb share people-centered architecture
the attention economy business model because they're basically using ever increasingly sophisticated techniques to try and capture my attention and hold me in their silo
for - adjacency - attention economy - NOT people-centered - competing apps - status quo internet - JOIN ME
I've got fragmented identity because each of these requires me to establish an identity
for - fragmented identity - example - NOT people-centered
Once I lived in a world called the ‘real world’
for - indyweb dev - test annotation
TraceMonkey
for - Indyweb dev - annotation test
Our Single Intent
for - Indyweb dev - annotation test
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
for - Connectathon - 2025 - contact
for - Indyweb dev - example - vulnerability of centralized activism
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