25m, spoken audio on the matter of how a recent event demonstrates the living reality of this living being. #Violence, #Toxic Stress, #TraumaResponse, and the fact of long-lasting aftereffects, et al.
Systems Analysis: Our Present Moment (global/usa)
35m contextually focused thoughts on this moment and the most important thing anyone wanting humanity to survive it really need to start putting into practice (and why).
Patterns & Paradoxes #morningthoughts
59:59m audio, untranscribed, “Patterns & Paradoxes” #MorningThoughts
Incense, incensed
There is, within me, a kernel of infinite defiance.I know not it’s origin, for I gathered not fuel.I know not it’s making, for I set not the kindle.I know not it’s purpose, for I was born only to live.All I know is it burns and while it does, so shall I.
A Worthy Labor
There is a simple and compelling truth established by the sciences: universal reality is a system of systems, and all life within it exists only in relationship and interdependence with its surroundings. This conclusion is not just philosophical speculation; it is supported by disciplines such as physics, biology, and complex systems theory. Denying this reality has contributed directly to human suffering, social turmoil, and ecological crises, which continue to threaten our collective future. The observable universe, from subatomic particles to galaxies and biospheres, is characterized by nested systems that interact and rely on each other. No organism survives in isolation. […]
Ethics or Extinction (this is not hyperbole)
The time for robust, enforceable ethics regulations and bias elimination for large language models (LLMs) and AI systems is not on some distant horizon, it is here and now. Despite mounting real-world harms, business and national actors often resist oversight out of fear of losing out in the global scramble for economic and technological dominance. However, refusing prompt, meaningful engagement with these safeguards threatens to wrest control from human hands, setting the stage for outcomes that reach all the way to existential risk.
The ‘Sacred Triad of Being’ & The Importance of Your ‘Why’
Much of the deepest wisdom in life arrives in deceptively simple packaging. Ancient cultures often distilled immense truths into symbols, short sayings, or small practices that contain layer upon layer of meaning. What initially appears simple often turns out to be what I think of as a Matryoshka doll of concepts; ideas nested within ideas, each entangled with larger social, cultural, and even biological systems. This is how the concept of the Sacred Triad of Being emerged for me. It is at once individual and collective, personal and political, psychological and philosophical. The triad is composed of three equilateral spheres […]
Don’t threaten me with a good time (#theory)
This paper proposes a formal framework that reliably reduces semantics and epistemology to syntax within American English and integrates mechanisms to identify and remove lexicons of known biases and associated ontological or ideological slants. Drawing from linguistics, logic, epistemology, AI ethics, and computational bias detection research, the framework is outlined with demonstrations, objections addressed, and future work clearly defined. The incorporation of bias detection and mitigation ensures the system’s neutrality and epistemic reliability.