Tardi-porn - Hypsibius dujardini
Tardi-porn - Hypsibius dujardini
Mainstream media is a comedy show, what is there not to love? (more info here)
Western society has nearly completely lost the infrastructure that could support complex thinking - thread by Samo Burja
- A culture open to voicing accurate observations about itself. Every capable thinker voices these early in life before they learn better, if this disqualifies them, the culture cannot support original thinkers.
- Viable economic niches. Academia is much too contested. Silicon Valley allows for some original thinking, but the thinking isn't what provides returns.
- Viable social niches. Trust fund kids don't have a leisured class that values thought they could join. The role of public intellectual is extinct, it is possible to be a popularizer. Comparable to say Polybius.
- Viable knowledge succession. Deep mentoring is considered unfair, threatening or cult-like. The assumption is always that the most recent experts have the best information in a field.
Silk Road Adventures
In 1935 the British Consul Eric Teichman leaves his post in Beijing and sets out for Chinese Turkestan, before returning to England through India. His journey from Beijing to India lasts for four months. He crosses Suiyuan by train and travels through Inner and Outer Mongolia, the Gobi desert, Hami, Urumchi, Turfan, and Karashar on a motor truck, from Kashgar to Gilgit on horseback and on foot, and finally takes a plane to Delhi. Some great photographs taken during this journey from Hunza are to be found in book. (via)
Our New Climate Plan: Plant a Tree!...
A contemporary portrait of Li Daochun (李道纯) (late 13th cent.), a Yuan-Dynasty Daoist master of the Quanzhen (全真) school and author of "The Book of Balance and Harmony“ (中和集)
Monna Vanna - Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882) painting the Mysterious Alexa Wilding
Hans Selye on Attitude and Stress - Energy (Qi) Follows Intention (Yi)
Jeff Bezos owns Amazon and the Washington Post. He made 200 billion dollars on the pandemic so far. All of that health passport data is going to be hosted on Amazon AWS.
A recent Washington Post Headline:
A recent Amazon AWS Headline:
In the meantime, Rockefeller Foundation & World Economic Forum bring you "CommonPass" and many related projects, such as "Digital ID coming to Finland, Germany, and Mexico"
All built on the Covid House of Cards
A Hegelian Dialectic Masterclass
So don't forget: Jeff Bezos owns Amazon and the Washington Post. He made 200 billion dollars on the pandemic so far. All of that health passport data is going to be hosted on Amazon AWS.
This twitter thread by Jeff Jarvis nicely summarizes one line of criticism of the non-fungible token idea:
"Finally starting to understand NFTs--and what is wrong with them. The NFT doubles down on the worst of copyright, the property metaphor, & tries to impose old ideas of scarcity & exclusion on the digital realm, where both are obsolete.
Copyright, born w/1710's Statute of Anne, was supposed to support creators & learning. In truth, it made creation a tradable asset so creators could sell & publishers could own it. NFTs want to do that with digital: turn the ephemerality of digital into a market in permanence. BTW, news was not included in US or English copyright because it was ephemeral. Since then, from the AP's "hot news" doctrine to Murdoch's Oz law, news proprietors have tried to declare news as property. Doesn't work because news is knowledge.
NFTs & DAOs, like copyright, see creation as a product (which can be owned & kept from others & thus sold). Instead, look at creativity as an act, which may leave artifacts (stories, pictures) but can inspire more creation & collaboration, sharing & criticism -- if it's open.
If we shift from creativity as property (who owns it?) to activity (who joins in it?) then we see many acts to encourage: inspiring, creating, collaborating, performing, remixing, sharing/promoting.
In thinking how to replace copyright (and we should), let us start our thinking with benefit to the culture rather than with trying to recreate the worst of copyright. What the net enables is collaborative creativity. How do we support *that*?"
Astrology for People who don't like Astrology: The Fear & Greed Index
#SE #NeuroScience #Narrative #Culture #Magic #Economics #Comedy
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