Whitman’s Redwoods
i bow
to James Stephens who once did chant
the first and last duty of humankind:
to dance.
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To Counter AI Risk, We Must Develop an Integrated Intelligence
The recent explosion in the stunning power of artificial intelligence is likely to transform virtually every domain of human life in the near future, with effects that no-one can yet predict.
Solstice thoughts: night and day
It is my hope that we do not have many more summer solstices that pass largely unheralded. It is my belief that this aberrant time will, indeed, pass and there will be holy days again.
Crazy Town: Episode 78. The Surest Paths to a Hard Collapse: The Delusional Doctrines of the Phalse Prophethood (Season Wrap-up)
Asher, Rob, and Jason explore the lessons and dangers of the brotherhood of Phalse Prophets and consider better ways to achieve a sustainable and equitable society.
We Are Living Through a Paradigm Shift in Our Understanding of Human Evolution
There’s every indication that a better understanding of ourselves strengthens humanity as a whole and makes connection and cooperation more possible.
On Juneteenth, lessons from the past can guide our climate future
Just as MLK Day is a day of service, let’s make Juneteenth “Heritage Day” – a call to action to reclaim, and celebrate our legacy and cooperative traditions, and to strengthen the bonds of collective struggle and community resilience – past, present and future — that we share.
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 105 Laura Oldanie
Laura Oldanie is a green living and money coach who blogs at Rich & Resilient Living, where she explores money and lifestyle choices for a regenerative future. She answers the question of “What Could Possibly Go Right?”
Crazy Town: Episode 77. The Elon Musk Episode about Elon Musk Brought to You by Elon Musk
Meet Elon Musk, the Muskian mogul who Elon Musks his way to the pinnacle of Muskitude.
If You’re Driving Off a Cliff, Do You Need a Faster Car?
Either we recover collective wisdom faster than our machines can develop artificial executive intelligence, or it’ll likely be game over.
Are we missing something about the coming population decline?
As predictions about world population decline proliferate, the causes almost never include the toxic chemicals that are dramatically undermining human fertility worldwide.
‘The Collapse of Complex Societies’
Looking to civilisations of the past from our existence today, clearly history does not precisely repeat itself; but it certainly rhymes.
Military bloat and empire as a way of life
Williams was the dean of what came to be known as the revisionist school of U.S. history that penetrated the myth of American exceptionalism with the facts of history, that the U.S. was an empire from its colonial roots, and behaved much as any other empire.
