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A concept you should know about:

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Continuing our exploration of the material basis of (human) life, i.e. the Thermodynamics section of our wiki at

wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Category:Therm…

2 short quotes to set the stage:

'Thresholds and Allocations are the new supply and demand in an age of scarcity. Without them, true

Quote of the Day, May 22, 2024:

* Non-extractive commons producers are the new political subject

'The 'potentially progressive political subject-in-itself is rather formed by all those whose labour produces the commons, but does not control, expropriate and dispossess the

* Evidence for the Negative Historical Social Effects of Technological Progress

wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Evidence_for_t…

Aki Ito:

'Acemoglu and Restrepo, casting around for more empirical evidence, zeroed in on robots. What they found was stunning: Since 1990, the introduction of every

From the P2P Foundation wiki's article vault about civilizational analysis:

* Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia , wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Europe_as_the_…

* Evidence for an Increasing Egalitarian Tendency in Human Evolution , wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Evidence_for_a…

* Evidence for the Negative

We have Egalitarian bodies and minds, argues Camilla Power.

wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Evidence_for_a…

An example, our Cooperative Eyes:

'Perhaps the hallmark of our egalitarian nature is seen in the design of our eyes. We are the only one of well over 200 primate species to have evolved eyes

* Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia. By Glenn Diesen. Journal of Eurasian Studies, Vol 12, Issue 1, 2021

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

'Will increased economic connectivity on the Eurasian supercontinent convert Europe into the western peninsula of Greater Eurasia?

Huge milestone ..... simply whoa ..... 🤯
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* Factchecking the factcheckers: NewsGuard

propagandainfocus.com/who-guards-new…

'NewsGuard is the name both of a company and its product. One set of questions, accordingly, concerns the general purposes of the company and the people who have set it up, and these are briefly introduced in

* Stackable and Alternative Credentials Go Mainstream

insidehighered.com/podcasts/key-p…

'This week’s episode of The Key explores whether the emergence of shorter-term and alternative credentials pose a threat—or offer salvation—to traditional colleges and universities.'

* Searching for the universal language:

'Khlebnikov experimented with the Russian language, drawing upon its roots to invent huge numbers of neologisms, and finding significance in the shapes and sounds of individual letters of Cyrillic. Along with Kruchenykh, he originated

* Peer-to-Peer Rights Fund Established to Defend Open-Source Bitcoin Developers

tftc.io/p2p-rights-fun…

'The P2P Rights Fund launches to defend non-custodial Bitcoin developers, starting with the case involving Samourai Wallet's founders.'

Michel Bauwens Unlikely. The US wanted to cut off Europe from Russia. That's mission accomplished. Nothing is to be gained from sending in NATO. But the West has made some inexplicable decisions regarding Ukraine, so one never knows.

* Roy Heidelberg on the Difference Between the Commons and the Public Sphere

David Bollier:

'In his essay in this issue, Roy L. Heidelberg astutely dissects “the incompatibility of the commons and the public” (Heidelberg, 2024). While there is a tendency in modern life to

Michel Bauwens Non-rational choices such as which numerical base to use or whether to use negative numbers?
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#ImageToText #a11y #genAI #FOSS

Generative AI can be a wonderful tool for accessibility for persons with disabilities.

A very original take on female subjectivity:

'the mask of feminity is the essence of feminity'

* Zupančič: Woman Does Not Exist

youtu.be/Gzrj0GJ1S34?si… via YouTube

Legendary troll. Robert F. Kennedy Jr just bought $24k in $GME using money he got from suing Monsanto…

There is truly only one pro-crypto, pro-financial freedom, anti-Wall Street collusion, pro-on-chain government transparency candidate for president.