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Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it and grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.
Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.
Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Timestamps produced by a vector clock take the most amount of space compared to other well-known clock designs. The space complexity is O(n). A vector timestamp tracks the id of a node and the last known event id from that node. Therefore, if there are n nodes in the system, the timestamp would be an n-tuple.
Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems
Giridhar Manepalli
Futures researcher Jamais Cascio has described a "pink collar future" - while other forms of human work and labor might be replaced by computers or technology, caregiving, which has historically been gendered, won't be.
How Infrastructure Works
Deb Chachra
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