Oh gracious I haven't tried to look at Twitter for a while and it is like 1000 weird video ads and I can't even... How are you all doing here?
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Going to go out on a limb and mention my Limicon gathering here for the niche of people that appeals to. The Practice of Belonging on Tuesday 3/26 at 11am PT. Hit me up if you are not going to Limicon and I will share the link directly. @Malcolm_Ocean @awarenesss @AskYatharth
Such a cool idea to offer grants to encourage personal experiments.
I’m turning 34 today!
Letting go of linear goals has changed my life. To celebrate my birthday, I’m giving away $3400 to help 4 people become scientists of their own life.
Tell me about an experiment you want to run, where $850 would help make it happen.
Maybe it’s a video essay, a podcast miniseries, an indie research paper, a series of illustrations, a conference…
This could allow you to take some time off work, cover travel costs, purchase supplies, etc.
To maximize positive impact, there would ideally be some form of artifact people can consume at scale.
This is my first time doing something like this so i’m probably missing things – feel free to ask questions :)
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The US is not immune from becoming a corruption-driven dictatorship. Social media platforms only increase the possibility by putting our attention on performance not the hard work of working together.
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I love being alive and celebrate the aliveness of others but I have a weird feeling about people whose business is themselves?
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"It’s about supplication and sacrifice and humility, when you go to these mountains. It’s not so much a celebration of oneself, but the eradication of one’s self-consciousness. ... on these walks you lose yourself, you become a vessel of energy in harmony...” RIP JS, I loved you
Breaking News: Remains found in California have been identified as those of the British actor Julian Sands, who went missing in January after going hiking. The cause of death remained under investigation “pending further test results,” officials said. nyti.ms/3CLW9zz
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Today, instead of deciding whether the decision is right or wrong, how about optimizing for weird?
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My chaotic heart and mind received this with so much welcome and delight. Radical unknowing. forthewild.world/listen/dr-b…
Liberation can not co-exist with "I gotta get mine" - it's not about getting access to systems of domination, it's about divesting from the tools of oppression, including the ones in our own minds.
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It’s not just the homogeneity but the system behind it that generally valorizes extraction, power-over, monopolism, and devalues empathy, compassion, and listening. AI that enforces those values won’t serve us, even those of us who are promoting the system itself.
I am very concerned about the future of AI. Not because of the risk of rogue machines taking over. But because of the homogeneous, one dimensional group of men who are currently involved in advancing the technology.
Concerned AI researcher 24/n
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