Xoiiku
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Begin with a sip of fair trade, shade-grown, and organic hot chocolate, enjoyed with gratitude, in the context of music that resonates with the topic you're writing about. Inhale.
Noise-canceling headphones. Phone on silent. Occasional yoga breaks. Rest the eyes. Focus the mind. Exhale.
Write.
Noise-canceling headphones. Phone on silent. Occasional yoga breaks. Rest the eyes. Focus the mind. Exhale.
Write.
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November 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Begin with a sip of fair trade, shade-grown, and organic hot chocolate, enjoyed with gratitude, in the context of music that resonates with the topic you're writing about. Inhale.
Noise-canceling headphones. Phone on silent. Occasional yoga breaks. Rest the eyes. Focus the mind. Exhale.
Write.
Noise-canceling headphones. Phone on silent. Occasional yoga breaks. Rest the eyes. Focus the mind. Exhale.
Write.
I think part of the trouble is that most people merely believe in their own and each other's decency, but all too rarely check the impacts of their choices against reality, or assess their behaviors from the perspective of the "other".
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Two things I’m confident are robustly positive in the face of epistemic and moral uncertainty:
1) Naturalistic “evidence & reason” understanding of reality
2) Sentiocentric “compassion for all sentient beings” moral scope.
1) Naturalistic “evidence & reason” understanding of reality
2) Sentiocentric “compassion for all sentient beings” moral scope.
November 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I think part of the trouble is that most people merely believe in their own and each other's decency, but all too rarely check the impacts of their choices against reality, or assess their behaviors from the perspective of the "other".
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We are the forces rigging our economy and polluting our planet.
The aggregate of our individual choices, unexamined beliefs, and personal preferences creates the status quo that those in power profit from and extract resources to produce.
We are undermining our democracy.
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The aggregate of our individual choices, unexamined beliefs, and personal preferences creates the status quo that those in power profit from and extract resources to produce.
We are undermining our democracy.
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Capitalism and colonialism are, in a word, bad. Not only are they abject failures of imagination, but are built upon cynical worldviews bereft of compassion, empathy, and basic decency.
That said, if your analysis of the problems in the world ends there, study more history.
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That said, if your analysis of the problems in the world ends there, study more history.
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Monocausotaxophilia won't solve for ecocide.
Environmental degradation has been happening all across the world prior to capitalism... due to unsustainable agriculture, inefficient cooking methods, avarice, status... Misdiagnose the problems, and the activism derived from it will continue to fail.
Environmental degradation has been happening all across the world prior to capitalism... due to unsustainable agriculture, inefficient cooking methods, avarice, status... Misdiagnose the problems, and the activism derived from it will continue to fail.
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We are the forces rigging our economy and polluting our planet.
The aggregate of our individual choices, unexamined beliefs, and personal preferences creates the status quo that those in power profit from and extract resources to produce.
We are undermining our democracy.
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The aggregate of our individual choices, unexamined beliefs, and personal preferences creates the status quo that those in power profit from and extract resources to produce.
We are undermining our democracy.
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This is a nice sentiment, but there are many rotten laws and norms; abiding by those is neither kind nor decent.
Although the rot at the top is more evident, it isn't just a derivative of wealth or power. There is a systemic lack of empathy, awareness, and integrity.
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Although the rot at the top is more evident, it isn't just a derivative of wealth or power. There is a systemic lack of empathy, awareness, and integrity.
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Water (5/5): Lawns
"Last but not least, 30 to 60 percent of urban fresh water is used on lawns. Most of this water is also wasted due to poor timing and application."
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"Last but not least, 30 to 60 percent of urban fresh water is used on lawns. Most of this water is also wasted due to poor timing and application."
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The Problem of Lawns
In the United States, lawns are so ubiquitous that they seem to be almost a basic human right. That’s a serious problem, given the enormous resources that our North American lawn-fetish consumes.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is a nice sentiment, but there are many rotten laws and norms; abiding by those is neither kind nor decent.
Although the rot at the top is more evident, it isn't just a derivative of wealth or power. There is a systemic lack of empathy, awareness, and integrity.
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Although the rot at the top is more evident, it isn't just a derivative of wealth or power. There is a systemic lack of empathy, awareness, and integrity.
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Although I might be a bit biased, I think your art is awesome and I'm stoked with the illustrations you created for my book. 😃
November 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Although I might be a bit biased, I think your art is awesome and I'm stoked with the illustrations you created for my book. 😃
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I've been asked whether Algernon Goldfish might have done it. While he was just the kind of fishy character who might have attempted a crime on this scale, he was struck off the register after I wrote the article, which left him floundering. At the time he was almost the only operator who had been.
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
I've been asked whether Algernon Goldfish might have done it. While he was just the kind of fishy character who might have attempted a crime on this scale, he was struck off the register after I wrote the article, which left him floundering. At the time he was almost the only operator who had been.
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It's the cow, not the how. Always has been. Always will be.
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The Comforting Lie of Climate-Friendly Meat
The industry insists that meat’s problems can be solved with technical fixes. We’ve seen this before.
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November 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM
It's the cow, not the how. Always has been. Always will be.
newrepublic.com/article/1775...
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"There was no golden age of public knowledge, no moment at which the information most people received was largely unbiased and accurate."
As such, let's help everyone become far less susceptible to believing misinformation by improving their epistemology.
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As such, let's help everyone become far less susceptible to believing misinformation by improving their epistemology.
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Yep #EpistemologyMatters, but it's sorely neglected. Just caring others and about the world isn't enough. You also need to understand the world well. Using evidence and reason is the best way.
That's why the #Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings."
That's why the #Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings."
November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"There was no golden age of public knowledge, no moment at which the information most people received was largely unbiased and accurate."
As such, let's help everyone become far less susceptible to believing misinformation by improving their epistemology.
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As such, let's help everyone become far less susceptible to believing misinformation by improving their epistemology.
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November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
"As such, the plan called for clarifying the conundrums of culture." - OOO Otherwise Elsewhere
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"Although there are many technologies that could make the transitions easier, the core problems are not matters of technological deficiency, but those of cultural maturity and individual integrity." - OOO Otherwise Elsewhere
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Although anthropogenically accelerated climate change is actually a symptom of the most challenging problem — the myriad conundrums of culture which exacerbate rather than alleviate the value action gaps — focusing on climate solutions good place to start unraveling those Gordian knots. #whyclimate
November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
"As such, the plan called for clarifying the conundrums of culture." - OOO Otherwise Elsewhere
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"All of the math checked out and was based on robust multidisciplinary life cycle analyses. His proposed alternatives were ecologically and ethically coherent, without breaking any known laws of physics or relying on wishful thinking." - OOO Otherwise Elsewhere
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Critical concepts for constructive conversations about agriculture (1/3): Ecological efficiency.
"Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next."
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"Ecological efficiency describes the efficiency with which energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next."
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Ecological efficiency - Wikipedia
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November 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
"All of the math checked out and was based on robust multidisciplinary life cycle analyses. His proposed alternatives were ecologically and ethically coherent, without breaking any known laws of physics or relying on wishful thinking." - OOO Otherwise Elsewhere
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