Ontological Shock - The state of being forced to question one's worldview.
Ontological Shock - The state of being forced to question one's worldview.
Welcome my friend, I have awaited you. Sit, relax and enjoy some tea. The time is now, the place is here. Our journey has begun. What we seek is seeking us.
Photo from the Mount Hakusan Biosphere Reserve in Japan, where the guiding principle is "Coexistence between nature and human society".
Subscriber City: What happens when you need an app to access anything (reallifemag)
"Apps merge the need to isolate with a celebration of convenience, as though having our access to the world mediated by tech companies were the silver lining" ... "Once consumers were trapped in the garden, lured in by ease of use and escape from the chaos of the open web, platforms could treat users however they wanted to" ... "In the emerging subscriber city, segregation will be obscured by a screen-thin veil of convenience and optimization"
Ted Kaczynski on Politics and Technology
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Gold Diggers
The Great Firewall of America is turning out to be even more comedic then the Chinese one. The President of the United States is currently censored in his own country - by Twitter & many others. The aspirational freedom of speech narrative of the west is collapsing.
Pope Francis prays for good AI
"We pray that the progress of robotics and artificial intelligence may always serve humankind," reads Francis' intention for November.
Seven out of ten workers in the German meat industry are precariously employed
The data from the federal government speak for themselves: the majority of workers in the meat industry are neither permanently employed nor well paid. And the number of employees from abroad is growing.
#Comment: An industry which very frequently treats animals like garbage, inevitable can't & won't care about it's employees or customers either. It's a ticking time bomb.
International collaboration reveals China's carbon balance (phys.org)
An international team of researchers has compiled and verified newly available data on the country's CO2 sink, and, for the first time, they have quantitatively estimated the effect of China's carbon mitigation efforts.
Large Chinese land carbon sink estimated from atmospheric carbon dioxide data (Nature)
Climate change: China's forest carbon uptake 'underestimated' (BBC)
The Great Reset for Dummies - Where do we go from here? - by Tessa Lena
Silence is Bliss
#Comment: Just about now, the majority of people around the world most be longing for a long break from the USA - that 4.23% of the global population which has been disproportional dominating all channels for decades with their entertaining but often very noisy and violent show. Life on planet earth with out Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Madison Avenue, Wallstreet, K-Street and the military industrial swamp on the main-stage will inevitably be much more quiet - but hey, silence is bliss. از سکوت لذت ببر! - 享受安静! - наслаждайся тишиной! - चुप्पी का मज़ा लो! - 静寂を楽しんでください!Genieße die Stille!
The Pauli effect or Pauli's Device Corollary is the supposed tendency of technical equipment to encounter critical failure in the presence of certain people. The term was coined after mysterious anecdotal stories involving Austrian theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli, describing numerous instances in which demonstrations involving equipment suffered technical problems only when he was present.
Single bitcoin transaction resource need/emissions (via)
Clearest example of that digital and sustainability transformation have to be co-designed.
What do Microsoft really think about open-source? Is Microsoft attempting to centralise open-source through "Embrace, extend, and finally extinguish" tactics which they are known for?
#Comment: Github, via extension of its owner Microsoft, is owned by some of the most regressive, monopolistic, oligarchic/kleptocratic, big-finance forces on the planet - the likes of Blackrock, Berkshire, Gates, etc. It is very much in their interest to centralize and control open source/free software (free as in freedom), and they have a track record of doing just that. To say it more poignantly: Microsoft is a direct driver of perverse wealth inequality, endless wars and centralisation of power which effectively destroys any resemblance of democracy everywhere. Behind the clean corporate facade, they are just yet another mafia.
Saturn
OM was originally instigated by Ho Chi Zen, of the Erisian Liberation Front, who is the same person but not the same individual as Lord Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, author of The Honest Book of Truth. The guiding philosophy is that originally proposed in The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by von Neumann and Morgenstern: namely, that the only strategy which an opponent cannot predict is a random strategy. The foundation had already been laid by the late Malaclypse the Younger, K.S.C., when he proclaimed, "We Discordians must all stick apart." This radical decentralization of all Discordian enterprises created a built-in random factor even before Operation Mindfuck was proposed. To this day, neither Ho Chi Zen himself nor any other Discordian apostle knows for sure who is or is not involved in any phase of Operation Mindfuck or what activities they are or are not involved in as part of that project. Thus, the outsider is immediately trapped in a double-bind: the only safe assumption is that anything a Discordian does is somehow related to OM, but, since this leads directly to paranoia, this is not a "safe" assumption after all, and the "risky" hypothesis that whatever the Discordians are doing is harmless may be "safer" in the long run, perhaps. Every aspect of OM follows, or accentuates, this double-bind.