Sirnesto

@sirnesto

Believer in a bright future for humanity. Alarmed at current trajectories. Dad building the plane while flying it. PKM nerd.

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"but we also have the advantage of … we don’t have to be full of shit. We’re not actually a surveillance company. I’m not trying to pretend Facebook is good. I don’t have to toe a party line that is divorced from reality. And we aren’t Big Tech." (Andrew Deck, Signal President Meredith Whittaker on Resisting Government Threats to Privacy)

The Supreme Court just made a massive power grab it will come to regret

vox.com

“As climactic change begins to affect long-range strategic planning for human survival, as the Earth's stocks of pelagic food fish plummet, as dry-land aquifers are drained, we can easily believe we've been shortsighted in a loss of intimacy with place, in largely ignoring the impact geography has on our daily lives.” Barry Lopez from embrace

Why note-taking apps don’t make us smarter

Casey Newton theverge.com

Philosophy of PKM

The progressive movement is someone who spends every day hammering onto a nail,” Sean told me during one of our conversations, “and someone comes up and says, ‘You f---ing idiot, that’s a screw.’

Philosophy of PKM

The Questions That Will Get Me Through the Pandemic

John Dickerson theatlantic.com

“You can do it like it’s a great weight, or you can do it like it’s part of the dance.”

– Ram Dass

Tina Roth Eisenberg • Part of The Dance

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You have to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or... See more

No Part Of Yourself Is Unworthy.

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” George Orwell from 1984