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Inner listening, recognition, acknowledgment, and compassion are the roots of recovery and, in this case, recovery from our addiction to thinking. These fundamental processes lay the ground for transformation. Once we’ve recognized the truth of what’s happening in our mind, acknowledged what we’re doing to ourselves, and offered ourselves compassion for our own experience, we can then play with a variety of different contemplations and practices.
Can't Stop Thinking
Nancy Colier and Stephan Bodian
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
Knowing and *living* are different. And right now, the mere idea of "knowing" is winning out, when it's hilariously insufficient to do anything effective or meaningful or good. The internet and many voices using it would have us convinced that because there's so much to know and because someone else knows more and because a software tool can tell you things it "knows," then all of that should cause you to sit down, shut up, stop feeling confident in what you've done or seen or felt. Because what's your life in the face of infinite knowledge?
Turns out, everything.
The Best Response to AI Slop, Infinite Advice, and Online Noise Is From Robin Williams
jayacunzo.com
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