MargaretC
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MargaretC
TraumaZone 2022
filmsforaction.orgPreviously unused archival footage of the Soviet Union and Russia from the BBC's Moscow bureau was unearthed and digitised by a BBC employee, Phil Goodwin.[1] Adam Curtis appeared to be the only person within the BBC interested in using the footage.[2] In a departure from his usual style, Curtis opted not to use voiceovers or non-diegetic music, with the only commentary made via on-screen captions.[3][2] Curtis, in a piece in The Guardian, explained this choice was because the footage was "so strong that I didn’t want to intrude pointlessly, but rather let viewers simply experience what was happening".[4] In an interview with Meduza, Curtis stated that Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace served as an inspiration for him as "it appeals to my collage mind".[5]
The best problems to chase are those that exist in the future. Pattern-breaking ideas are less about conjuring up the next big thing for tomorrow and more about genuinely understanding tomorrow’s problems before others are exposed to them.
Mike Maples • 🔮 Living in the future
Mental Health and Self-Help, Personal Growth & Psychology
an empathetic and practical guide to improving and maintaining mental well-being. It offers bite-sized, actionable advice and coping strategies for anxiety, depression, unexpected setbacks, a lack of self-confidence, and more.
To the extent that people do use AI tools for real work, it is often through something like an application copilot. These are all built to offer a “safe” way to use AI at work, and as such are often very limited compared to what a frontier model can do.
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
“That’s my thought too. Let’s take a break from the future. I’m sure it will still be there when we get back.”
How We Became a Techno-Optimist Family
As one example, I showed that Claude can get remarkably far as an entirely automated entrepreneur with the prompt: think step-by-step. generate 20 ideas for an app aimed at HR professionals. then evaluate and pick the best one that would make a good visual app. build a playable prototype of that. interview me as a potential customer about the... See more
Ethan Mollick • Confronting Impossible Futures
From Brave New Films, Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs & Prisons follows the transformative stories of former gang members as they share their childhood mental and physical abuse, growing up in the gang lifestyle, and the hope they have found at Homeboy Industries, the largest gang intervention, rehabilitation and re-entry program in the world.... See more
Homeboy Industries • Healing Trauma: Beyond Gangs & Prisons
With a bucket list that includes basically every country on this planet, how do you decide which one to go to next? How can you possibly choose when there’s such an overload of possibilities and offers? Are you going to go by what you have been recommended? Do you pick a place you’ve read or heard about? Or simply one that is warm and sunny and... See more