This is a guest post by an IRL friend of mine who wishes to go by the pen name Matryoshka X—you can email him at matryoshka.x11@gmail.com with comments, criticisms, etc. I would also like to note that I have changed the domain name of the blog to www.secretorum.life (my previous domain, rogersbacon.substack.com, forwards to this address automatically now). I. Introduction Erik Hoel writes the following in reference to Roger’s Bacon’s ...
Screens - Mind Matters podcast episodeScreens - Mind Matters podcast episode ・ Apr 15, 2022Our obsession today with screens is often unintentionally taking us to places we regretWe use these windows into the world for hours every day, often unaware how intentional content creators and app designers are in shaping our decisions and forming harmful habits.Thankfully, we can begin to go from unintentional with our screen use to intentional flipping that imbalance back into our favor, reclaimin...
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...
"Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth." ~ Zeus didn’t say this. He didn’t care about the meek. When Zeus threw his thunderbolts, the meek would die with the evil. The thunderbolts of Zeus do not differentiate between the meek and the evil. The deceptions of Zeus are legendary. His sexual conquests, mostly through the use of deception, include: Hera, Aegina, Alcmene, Antiope, Callisto, Danae, Io, Nemesis, Europa, Ganymede, Leda, Metis, and other women of antiquity. There is no...
Clip source: Chronology of communication before electricity (idea) by legbagede - Everything2.com Chronology of communication before electricity (idea)See all of Chronology of communication before electricity, no other writeups in this node. See also :Chronology of Communication after electronics to 1998, A Chronology of Communication from electricity to electronics, A Convoluted History of Early Telecommunications. c. 20,000 B.C.- Cave painting is widespread in Eurasia. Etchings are fig...
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