Complicated conversations - Tactics for dealing with conspiracy theorists

The season is upon us, which means you’ll likely be gathering with family members and friends to share a holiday meal, but that can also mean sharing some dubious claim someone has seen on the internet.  So we’d like to offer you a couple of tactics to use over the holidays to counter those claims you might face from your wacky relatives or friends — and to keep the peace. Moon landing Let’s start with a conspiracy theory that is very common. Ever since NASA sent men to the ...

How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

My cousin Galaxy’s baby fell out of a two-story window and survived. They called the baby a miracle child like they called my brother a miracle child when he was thrown from a motorcycle only to live. Some Fulani clans insist the universe was created from a single drop of milk, out of which came blindness, sleep, pride, worry, and death: all the natural nemeses of men. Gizo, a trickster spider, employs clever deceptions in pursuit of prey or easy profit. If you hear a noise late one nig...

Personhood in Classical Indian Philosophy - RSS

[New Entry by Monima Chadha on January 3, 2022.] Selves and persons are often used as synonyms in contemporary philosophy, and sometimes also in the history of Western philosophy. This is almost never the case in classical Indian philosophical traditions. The Sanskrit term 'ātman' properly translated as self stands for whatever it is that is the essence of individual humans (manuṣya) or the psychophysical complex (pudgala) which includes the mind, body and sense organs. There is di...

The Illusion Of Decentralisation - HXA7241

The Illusion Of Decentralisation Harrison Ainsworth http://www.hxa.name hxa7241+articles (ατ) googlemail (dοτ) com 2015-01-18 Decentralisation is not really what we want. 1000 words (5 minutes) Decentralisation gives individuals power to decide and act. But to act coherently there must always be something over which individuals do not have choice. That is the defining problem: the two things people want are opposed. Everyone wants freedom, with...

Rule breakers and systems makers: Lessons in disruption from Thomas Tuchel

‘Disruption’ is a key idea for entrepreneurs seeking to forge new business models that capture new markets. Yet, the paradox of disruption is that the rule-breakers have to become systems-makers. And the critical difference between sustainable success and failure, for those who create novel strategies, is that they must be flexible enough to change again. Thomas Tuchel, the former manager of leading football clubs like Mainz05 in Germany and PSG in France, is a great example. He’s now bee...

JB - Jeder Baum - Every tree

See translation of Jeder Baum It means I’m German ‘every tree’. Interesting to me as a possible reference to or intertext with James Bond and the other jb inquiries of mine. -zas 6 Dec 2021

Ophthalmite (definition) by Webster 1913 - Everything2.com

Ophthalmite (definition) See all of Ophthalmite, no other writeups in this node. Oph*thal"mite (?), n. [Gr. the eye.] Zool. An eyestalk; the organ which bears the compound eyes of decapod Crustacea. © Webster 1913. link viewEpicenter You have 1 C! and 50 votes left today. server time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 8:51:03 your time Tuesday, September 22, 2020 at 4:51:03Current User PollChatterbox(r) 2020-09-13@20:41 (9.7 y) Cool Man Eddie says Hey, Chord just cool...

Finding Our Bearings with Art

Finding Our Bearings with Art Nowadays people believe that scientists exist to instruct them, poets and musicians to delight them. That these have something to teach them does not occur to them. – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen We have come some way from the days when a stone torso fixed a poet and lead him to speak of its gaze, one that saw, even read him head to toe. For many if not most, it is now the reader or viewer or listener that sets the terms of such encounters, a...

Storium — Storium AI Alpha

Storium — Storium AI Alpha Become a Storium AI alpha tester! In partnership with computer science researchers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Storium is participating in academic research about machine learning and AI-assisted storytelling. We hope that someday this research will enable us to make useful and fun improvements to Storium, making it both easier to play and even more creatively fulfilling! As a first step towards that goal, we are launching an alpha ...

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How Jung’s collective unconscious inspired Alcoholics Anonymous

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RESAW - Studying the Web in Web Archives

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Back to the roots of ARPANET and Internet History with Alexandre Serres

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Mass psychogenic illness - Wikipedia

Home Random Nearby Log in Settings About Wikipedia Disclaimers Open main menu Search Mass psychogenic illness EditWatch this pageRead in another language Mass psychogenic illness (MPI), also called mass sociogenic illness, mass psychogenic ...