Tuesday, December 03, 2024

Have hope - we're not there yet...

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Another clear eyed article on our current political climate that I'm saving in this post to look up later.   Trump Will Overplay His Han...

The End of Democratic Delusions

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I think George Packer's writing in the current Atlantic Magazine provides a good overview and historical perspective on our current time...
Friday, November 29, 2024

MindBlog's Brain Hacks

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Introspective awareness and modulation of both ancient and more recently evolved aspects of our cognition: Brain Hack #1 -The reptilian brai...
Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Half a century of quantitative cultural evolution

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The latest PNAS issue has a fascinating open source section on quantitative studies of recent cultural evolution . 
Monday, November 25, 2024

Amazing.....the AI effect: Nearly 1 Billion Threats a Day

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I have to pass on this piece from today's WSJ.  Makes me increasingly wonder when all of my financial savings held in electronic form in...
Friday, November 22, 2024

The election is over. How do we feel now?

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I host a monthly discussion group in Austin TX, The Austin Rainbow Forum , that meets at 2 pm on the first Sunday of every month to consider...

Our looming civil unrest is predicted by Turchin's historical model.

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I recommend you have a look at Graeme Wood's article on the writing and thoughts of Peter Turchin, who has developed a model based on t...
Sunday, September 29, 2024

Tokens of sanity

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-Being a calm space in which nothing can hurry -An animal body that pretends to be human -Dissociating from the word cloud and...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Networks of connectivity are the battleground of the future.

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From Nathan Gardels, editor of Noema Magazine: " From Mass To Distributed Weapons Of Destruction " :  The recent lethal attacks at...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

A caustic review of Yuval Harari's "Nexus"

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I pass on the very cogent opinions of Dominic Green, fellow of the Royal Historical Society, that appeared in the Sept. 13 issue of the Wall...