Mary Martin
- if an animal
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s life is worth
living without having a point and without being meaningful in any of the usual senses, then
perhaps a human life can also be worth living without that.from Article
narrativists and
'Silent walking' is the new workout trend rooted in mindfulness | body ...
mindful walking- I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain i... See morefrom Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas by John Lysaker
Hope and Futures thinking
- Is it more important to reform existing social networks or to work to build new ones?
from 🐾 a Social Network Taxonomy. by Ethan Zuckerman
taxonomy.
Adopting a Tourism Model Focused on Regeneration Requires Rethinking KPIs - Rooted
well-being and
KPIs
- If e/acc is an attempt to rebrand tech zealotry as an apotheosis of moral goodness, it is also, as Silicon Valley grieves the realization that it is no longer seen as an unbridled force for good, a form of denial and bargaining—one last plea for salvation as the walls close in. If it happens to result in the end of humanity, so be it. As Land’s lat... See more
from Meet the Silicon Valley CEOs who say greed is good—even if it kills us all by Ali Breland
AI and
- ess Is Making Waves
from Mindfulness: The Surprising Business Model
Philosopher argues that mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations
pushback/signal cross- Unlike tearing down monuments to white supremacy in the American South, purging statistics of the ghosts of its eugenicist past is not a straightforward proposition.
from How Eugenics Shaped Statistics by Aubrey Clayton
eugenics and statistics
- we tell ourselves that humans do something clever or tactical because our brains have simulated that this course of action will produce favourable outcomes, but when we learn that ants do the same thing by enacting preprogrammed responses to pheromones, surely that doesn’t count.
from Chaos and cause by Abigail Desmond