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The New Yorker
What if We Stopped Pretending the Climate Apocalypse Can Be Stopped?
The New Yorker
10 min · · To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it. · Shared by 212, including Stefano ₿Ξrnardi 🌲🏴, Joscha Bach, Brad Brooks, Philanthropy News Digest, Klaus Eck, oniropolis, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Matthias Lampe, Ray Monk, Thomas Power, Rico Grimm, Joanna J Bryson, @pam@jawns.club, Gregg Caruso, Katja Evertz, Prof Michael E. Mann, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Current Affairs, Fern, 𝖒𝖒𝖆𝖑𝖊𝖝
I don't think it can be stopped, either. So what do we do now? (I think Franzen is cancelled after this...)
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Aeon+Psyche
It’s impossible to see the world as it is, argues a cognitive neuroscientist
Aeon+Psyche
2 min · · Many scientists believe that natural selection brought our perception of reality into clearer and deeper focus, reasoning that growing more attuned to the outside world gave our ancestors an… · Shared by 142, including Anita Leirfall, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Faik Ersoy, Niklaus Gerber, Doug Sundheim, Gregg Caruso, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Ines Bieler, Rick Powell, Matthias Lampe, Vaughan Bell, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us)
I don't know how we should take this...
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Aeon+Psyche
Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief
Aeon+Psyche
10 min · · Consciousness is neither a spooky mystery nor an illusory belief. It’s a valid and causally efficacious biological reality · Shared by 207, including Anita Leirfall, Matthias Lampe, Rick Powell, Faik Ersoy, justin caouette, Massimo Pigliucci, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Dr Skye Cleary, Vaughan Bell, Marylin Delgado (@marylindelgado@zirk.us), Jennifer Hurst, Gregg Caruso, David Pearce
..but it's not the only perspective.
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The Spectator
We’ve just had the best decade in human history. Seriously
The Spectator
6 min · · Let nobody tell you that the second decade of the 21st century has been a bad time. We are living through the greatest improvement in human living standards in history. Extreme poverty has fallen… · Shared by 631, including Mike Maples, Jr, John Hagel, Jonathan Kogan, Jeff Atwood, Keith Rabois, Anand Sanwal, Jeff Richards, Fred Scharmen, Xose Alberte Cea, zooko❤ⓩ🛡🦓🦓🦓, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Naval, John Nosta, Sachin Rekhi, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Antonio Vieira Santos, John Carmack, Ryan Selkis 🪳, Michael Arrington 🏴☠️ 🛡️, Tim Soulo 🇺🇦
Have we? Depends on who the we is, I guess.
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GEN
My Semester With the Snowflakes
GEN
13+ min · · At 52, I was accepted to Yale as a freshman. The students I met there surprised me. · Shared by 215, including Dan Primack, Scott Shapiro, The Last Shitposter, Yale University, Anthony Hamelle, Jonathan Haidt, dj patil, Cindy Alvarez @cindyalvarez@mastodon.social, Daniel Mezick, Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Howard Getson, Kenneth Kalmer, Semil, Matthias Lampe, Larry Ferlazzo, Leo Polovets, Steven Sinofsky, Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine, Edward Tufte, Christian Fahrenbach, Scott McLeod
Written by a Retired Serviceman-combat wounded veteran and a self-professed conservative. What he learns about himself and about other Yale freshmen should give us hope.
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GEN
The Human Toll of the 2019 Media Apocalypse
GEN
15+ min · · More than 3,000 journalists lost their jobs this year. These are some of their stories. · Shared by 69, including Mathew Ingram, 👨🏻💻☕️, Rick Powell, Mac McCann, Steve Silberman, Christina Farr, Nieman Reports, Michelle Garrett, Kelsey D. Atherton, now available on Bluesky, Thomas Power
The state of journalism is worse than you think and not just for journalists.
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The Atlantic
Historians Clash With the 1619 Project
The Atlantic
14+ min · · A dispute between a small group of scholars and the authors of the The New York Times Magazine’s issue on slavery represents a fundamental disagreement over the trajectory of American society. · Shared by 68, including Matt Brennan, Antonio Vieira Santos, Jamil Smith جميل كريم, Rick Powell, Bjorn Larsen, TaylorLorenz.Substack.com, Jason Stanley, Mathew Ingram, R.NFT R “Ray” Wang 王瑞光 #1A #AI, Alice Wong 王美華, Jane
There are a number of posts and articles about the 1619 Project. So far from my reading, the nays have the best arguments.