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The rise and fall of bitcoin, in terms of its original ambition, serves as a cautionary tale in the digital age—it reveals how ingenious innovations that might challenge power and the consolidation of capital become co-opted and colonised by capital.
In Digital We Trust
nature.com
If we want to appreciate the mystery of life, it is essential to evade the compulsion of our desires by understanding that there does not need to be anything else in our current situations. There is no greater feeling, state, or condition that we have to achieve. There is no lesser or more limited feeling, state, or condition that we have to be liberated from. This is it. And this poignancy is always here. We can give ourselves permission to experience it; to be right here with it. To be available to it. To be available to the mystery of life is to be free.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
It is easy for even the most genuine passion for justice to assume a punitive aspect: we don’t like to see people getting away with bad behavior. We want them to get what they deserve, and not to get what they don’t deserve. This attitude is more than understandable, but it can be hard to see whether it’s compatible with generosity.
Breaking Bread With the Dead
Alan Jacobs
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