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Comforting Thought: Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere – they’re in each other all along
The moment I heard my first love storyI started looking for you, not knowinghow blind that was.Lovers don’t finally meet somewhereThey’re in each other all along.-Rumi
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#InterestingThings: This week, a black kitty gives us lessons in #DataPrivacy, glowing and enchanted #fungi exist, a scrumptious lentil soup #recipe, a #retro vision of the #future, #drumnbass in #Madrid, why the #colour #orange is special and how to feel #loved
Book Review: The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater
Book Review: The Mind is Flat by Nick Chater | Forget all about the Freudian ID, Super-ego and Ego vying for your present attention. And forget about Jungian archetypes and stuff randomly bubbling up to the surface of your consciousness. According to Behavioural Psychologist Nick Chater – this doesn’t exist. Instead, what we all have is a flat mind!
Book Review: Tiny Gardens Everywhere by Kate Brown
This is an enormously important book about the history of gardening not as a placid recreational activity for the wealthy but as a practical form of survival, food security and resistance by working class people all over the world. Never has a book been more important as right now with the commodification of land and homes.
Ancient word of the day: Dægeseage
The ancient word of the day is Dægeseage. This is an old English word for daisy. The origin of Dægeseage is literally daisy or day’s eye. Which makes sense when you think about the quaint little flower and its tendency to follow the arc of the sun through the sky from dawn to dusk, soaking in as much light and goodness as possible.
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#InterestingThings: This week, #Baldzam: Ancient #Mayan jesters, beautiful #poetry about suffering and joy, 90s #trance, mystical #Japanese caves, unusual #toys of Japan, a #vegan teriyaki fried rice #recipe, Tutankhamun’s boats and more.
Wild woman quote: Give it all
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.” #AnnieDillard #writing #bookquote #bookstodon #creativity
Book Review: Conquistadora by Esmeralda Santiago
A novelised tour Puerto Rico’s colonial history from the perspective of a determined and yet unlikeable heroine and the people she enslaves for a sugar hacienda in the 19th Century. It could have been improved with more focus on the lives of the slaves.
Has anyone else noticed? time is moving faster
Is it just me or is anyone else noticing that time is moving faster?
#technology #AI #privacy #surveillance #humanrights #philosophy #LLMs
