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- Climate change is costing us dearly, and it’s only getting worse. I feel so intensely frustrated, largely because the preventative actions we could have taken were not mysterious to us: invest in renewables, transition from greenhouse gas-emitting energy generation, and put a price on carbon. We’re finally making some progress on green energy, than... See more
from America’s Carbon Bill Is Coming Due
- They are born, then put in a box; they go home to live in a box; they study by ticking boxes; they go to what is called 'work' in a box, where they sit in their cubicle box; they drive to the grocery store in a box to buy food in a box; they go to the gym in a box to sit in a box; they talk about thinking 'outside the box'; and when they die they a... See more
You might think that bootlicking of this sort is just how you do business in China. But here’s the interesting twist—TikTok doesn’t exist in China.
A similar app, called Douyin, is available in China. TikTok is only for outsiders. And they love it. TikTok has more than 1.5 billion users worldwide.
from Where Did TikTok Come From? by Ted Gioia
- There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.
-H Thurmanfrom (1) Home / Twitter
- "Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new."
(Ursula K. Le Guin)from Tweet by Vidhika Bansal
- The morning before he died in the final year of his seventies, he drafted a poem containing these lines:
You can’t tell when strange things with meaning
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will happen. I’m [still] here writing it down
just the way it was. “You don’t have to
prove anything,” my mother said. “Just be ready
for what God sends.” I listened and put my hand
out in the sun again.from Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective by Maria Popova
I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.
from Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight
To put it simply, if we are going to let corporations be “persons” and afford them special privileges and protections due to that personhood, then it makes sense to make our natural resources legal persons as well.
Corporations depend on these natural resources, and we have done a poor job as humanity of protecting these natural resources from abuse
... See morefrom What if We Gave Nature Legal Rights? by Matt Orsagh from Degrowth is the Answer
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand
outside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
from The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel by Ursula K. Le Guin