talk about Futures in the plural because it is always about Choice
for - futures - plural to indicate choice of possible realities
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
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
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/
for - US debt - who owns it?
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.
for - definition - sacred
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
for - open source habitat - One Community Ranch - open source
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.
for - quote - radical populism ends badly
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.
for - open source AI
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
search - google - image - AI that converts text into visual graph - interesting results returned - to - article - Medium - How to convert any text into a graph of concepts -
for - adjacency - recession - carbon emissions
for - plastic recycling - plastic upcycling - plastic pollution
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.
for Nairobi-Washington vision - critique
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.
for - Kenya - polycrisis - austerity - climate crisis plus poor governance
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
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