United States
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Currency be damned (cross post)
I’m not saying I am great with money. I could be more frugal. But as a whole the population of the Unites States is financially illiterate, to such a drastic...
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I do not like a recent poem (cross-posted)
I do not like the poem “state house fairground,” even though I know it is quite good. I cannot tell you why I do not like it. I know intellectually...
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Cross-post from tilley.solar for re-emphasis – open access, open culture, open learning, anti-thought leaders, anti-careerism, new hope, the beginning of a new community
If you are going to make a definitive statement, one you are willing to double down on, please explicate. You may not realize that you have a teachable moment. Take...
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I woke about 10 pm and God is here. We talked about poetry.
God, presenting Himself as male, said He likes this poem, even though I refer to God in how She presented Herself as female, for quite some time. (God has presented...
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This is not a good time to start writing a new book
This is not a good time to start writing a new book. You have already invested so much time and resources on the book you were already writing. Now, with...
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(cross-posting) Note: Continuing humanities teaching and research after the discontinuation of grants
I do not think individual humanities work needs to stop with the removal of grants. Yes, clearly communities and community culture will be hurt. However, individuals can continue privately, to...
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Another Note: On the Theory of Monetized Empathy
I was reading “The Dialectics of Ecology and Ecological Civilization” (Requires a subscription at the time of this post, but will be public next week) and the author cites Global...
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Note: An observation
For every instant expert on tariffs there you will find someone who has been devoted to blind capitalism this whole time and will continue to be so. Capitalism abounds.
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Note: Idealism in an Era of Consequences
Attempting to maintain a frame of optimistic idealism seems rather heroic in this age of absolute consequences. It is not that the idea of contemplating utopia serves only as denialism...
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Collective Ethical Patience and Problem Solving in a Capitalist Society (Part II)
Ethical patience, as I wrote about from the perspective of science fiction, is not an abstraction. It does indeed go against everything we were taught about the civil rights movement....