Tag: General

[under construction] h/t to Isaiah Hardy for getting me thinking about this

Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy 19th & 21st Surgeon General of the United States Vice Admiral, United States Public Health Service

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Ursula Le Guin (2005): A Rant About “Technology”.

The Corruption of the Best: On Ivan Illich

Further exploration of the Möbius Strip

Michael Sacasas (2024): The Enclosure of the Human Psyche.

Anne Phelan (2005): On Discernment: The Wisdom of Practice and the Practice of Wisdom in Teacher Education

Zimmerman et al. (1998): A Complexity Science Primer: What is Complexity Science and Why Should I Learn About It?

Carl Leggo (2005): Pedagogy of the Heart: Ruminations on Living Poetically

Parker Palmer (1993): To Know as We Are Known: A Spirituality of Education.

David Autor (2024): AI Could Actually Help Rebuild The Middle Class

Naloxone (pronounced na-LOX-own) is a fast-acting medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of opioid overdoses, also called an opioid poisoning. [source] Header image: Darryl Dick/The Canadian Press (Sept 27, 2024) Naloxone, AED’s to be added to Richmond schools, facilities https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/naloxone-aeds-to-be-added-to-richmond-schools-facilities-9578590 DTES support worker says recovery-oriented approach needs to replace harm reduction (Feb 18, 2025) https://globalnews.ca/news/11023517/dtes-support-worker-recovery-oriented-approach-replace-harm-reduction/(Sept […]

Yuval Noah Harari (2024): Nexus

Kahlil Gibran (1926): Sand and Foam

Clarke & Robertson (2001): Insight into “questionable” research practices

“Our Only Imperative is to Achieve”

Thomas Poetter (2024): Book launch

David White (2014): On Hiding

Metcalfe (2023): Social Media, AI, and the Battle for Your Brain

The 2004 CBC Massey Lectures, “A Short History of Progress”

My notes on “AI”, better referred to as AGI

” First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.”

Header image: ﻼF photograph The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University (Daniel A. Bell, 2023)https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691247120/the-dean-of-shandong “Surely a full life involves serving the public in some capacity” “Confucius himself was asked for one saying that would destroy the state, and he responded “if a ruler is deficient and no one contradicted […]

Michael Sacasas (2024): How to make sense of techno-optimist manifestos, the Open Ai/Altman affair, EA/e-acc movements, and the general sense of cultural stagnation

World maps

Background and favourite excerpts