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This is a great response, thank you for taking the time! My current interests vary more or less around philosophy of mind, metaphysics, technology (less technical and more about our relationship to it), and sociology. I do have some sources for these such Aeon, Nautilus, and a couple of others, but was curious what other people deem as well-written magazines. I'm taking a look at some of the ones you suggested, thank you.

Any magazines that you recommend?

I've had good luck using Tesseract [0] for scanned PDFs. If you're not CLI-inclined, there are several GUIs for it available [1]. I have had good luck downloading scanned PDFs from archive.org and running them through Tesseract.

Did not know about Calibre for this - I was relying on opening each search and searching it individually.

[0]: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract [1]: https://www.opait.com/tessstudio/

Mastodon doesn't need to "make" it or "happen". Mastodon is not out there trying to become _the thing_. It works exactly as expected for a segment of people. It may not be your cup of tea and that's fine! Good thing we can have both.

The whole point of Mastodon/Fediverse is that mastodon.social is not your sole option.

Unlike other platforms, you have a choice. You're in control of who to follow or block, and what to mute. There is no algorithmic timeline that surfaces unwanted content to you. You can hide the boosts (i.e retweets) of any account. You can simply default to follow accounts you're interested and rely entirely on your local timeline.

There are many Mastodon servers that are more niche, or at least less akin to Twitter/Mastodon.social. I originally made my account in mastodon.social but I'm in the process of moving to another server where the server timeline aligns more with what I'm looking for (though I can migrate my followers/followings, yay!). This server is also run cooperatively, which further aligns the interests and motives of everyone involved.

I'd say we need HN AND more Mastodon servers.

Not exactly an alternative to mainstream search engines, but Marginalia Search [0] has been trying for the non-commercial side of the web.

[0] https://search.marginalia.nu/

A beautiful read, thank you for sharing. May you and your partner be well.

This is not mentioned in the article, but upon learning about his prognosis Griffith worked on establishing an endowment to support the continued research on psychedelics and "secular spirituality and well-being".

I recommend watching Griffith's video message [0] where he talks about the research and reflects on his condition. I also recommend the conversation with Sam Harris that someone else shared in a comment.

[0]: https://griffithsfund.org/vision/

Honestly, not much! I also run PyCharm, Slack, Firefox, and other things. This does get the fans spinning from time to time but no so much to make it a complete deal breaker. When it happens I may open task manager and see what's up in case there's something odd going on.

As a counterpoint, I've had a 12-gen Framework (i7, 32GB RAM) for almost a year and half now. I use Docker on a daily basis (using Windows and WSL2) and it works fine for my development workloads.

Like other Intel laptops I've had, the fans do come on occasionally but not very often. I do have some qualms about this laptop but I'm happy with it and the tradeoffs I chose.

The assumption you're making here is that the Earth "heals", as if a wound has been inflicted. Likewise, that there is a "normal" level. In other words, that there is a prevailing state to which the system returns to, or must return to. I invite you to question that assumption first and foremost.

You must think of the Earth more as a process than a fixed thing. Thinking about this system in terms of feedback loops may be more helpful here.

Drastically increasing C02 levels affects several feedback loops in the system, essentially transitioning it to a state that is different to the current one.

As noted elsewhere in the comments, the Earth has gone through different eras in which the atmosphere had "high" and "low" levels of C02.

This is a great resource to get into Ivan Illich. The writing refers a lot to Illich's work, and there are a couple of episodes where it is discussed with people close to Illich. Quite related, I'd say!

The name, however, is a play of Illich's "Tools for Conviviality" and Jaques Ellul's "The Technological Society".

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> Of course, Bohm says, you can never truly plumb your own mind; any attempt to examine your thought changes it--just as the measurement of an electron alters its course. We cannot achieve final self-knowledge, Bohm seems to imply, any more we can achieve a final theory of physics.

I found Bohm through Krishnamurti, which is all I have to say about whatever bias I have on this subject. So, of course, I was nodding along as I read this article.

> Bohm hopes scientists will eventually move beyond mechanistic and even mathematical paradigms. “We have an assumption now that’s getting stronger and stronger that mathematics is the only way to deal with reality,” Bohm says. “Because it’s worked so well for a while, we’ve assumed that it has to be that way.”

Bohm's ideas on implicate order and his call to move past the mechanistic paradigm reminds me of E.F. Schumacher's critique on "materialistic scientism" and its limitations in the face of the unknown:

> Since the findings of science, on account of its methodical restriction and its systematic disregard of higher levels, never contain any evidence of the existence of such levels, the process is self-reinforcing: faith, instead of being taken as a guide leading the intellect to an understanding of the higher levels, is seen as opposing and rejecting the intellect and is therefore itself rejected.

I appreciate that Bohm opened a door for me into a subject which I was not intrinsically interested in, and I'm looking forward to what comes out of this conversation in the years ahead.

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I keep stumbling into this misconception of degrowth.

Your argument about the Sri Lankan and the Congolese is actually aligned with the degrowth movement. One of their key points is that economies of the global north should consume less so that the global south (e.g Sri Lanka and Congo) can continue to grow to support a baseline standard of living for their citizens. In other words, rebalancing the global "budget" - assuming the world actually cares to lift this people out of poverty.

I'm not the parent, but they've announced they've partnered with Cooler Master to release a case [0]. A while back they released drawings so you can 3D print one [1].

[0] https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case [1] https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard

"good" and "sociology" are surely carrying a lot of weight in that statement. What does "good" mean applied in this context?

I'm not sure I see the connection to sociology though, do yo mean behavioral economics?

Ubuntu 22.04 works flawlessly out of the box for me, assuming you've completed the setup guide provided by Framework.

Using it as my daily work computer.

A bit of a retorical question but isn't this a common source of contention between groups of people (across magnitudes of scale and means of information) throughout history?

That's a fair point, thanks for shedding light on it from a closer perspective.

Thank you for your contribution. I understand that viewing it from said perspective doesn't account for the complete picture. That said, I believe we can agree that both sides can be true simultaneously? Standard of living is improved and worsened in certain regards. OP and the reference I'm sharing discuss some of the negative impacts to local cultures.

The documentary "The Economics of Happiness" [1] deals with this subject but in the context of Ladakh. Specifically how the introduction of globalized culture introduced sentiments of poverty, unworthiness, cultural repression, and substance abuse within the Ladakh community.

[1] https://www.localfutures.org/programs/the-economics-of-happi...

Quite the opposite actually. "all of human history" spans at least 160,000 years and the inequality that you and the parent comment to are alluding to is a rather modern artifact.

I'm not trying to be pedantic, but this comment contributes to pernicious myths about the human condition. If you're interested in this subject I would recommend the book "The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

I didn't come up with the degrowth thesis myself but I will entertain the question even if you've answered it yourself.

The question doesn't really matter. Whether we want it or not, economics will ultimately be subject to the laws of physics. We cannot sustain infinite growth on a planet with finite resources and carrying capacity. We've known this as far back as 1966 when Kenneth Boulding touched on these ideas in his essay "The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" [0].

Holding the global north accountable for their footprint is to me one of sanest and most civilized pathways considering the ensuing implications of alternative scenarios.

[0] http://arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/THOC/Readings/Boul...

I'm halfway through "The Dawn of Everything" to understand the reference on heterodoxy associated to Graeber and Wengrow. What sort of pushback are you seeing?

I'm sorry but this is a misinterpretation of the degrowth thesis. The proponents behind degrowth (i.e Hickels, Kallis) are constantly correcting this misinterpretation. Degrowth stipulates that the global south actually needs to continue to grow to reach important indicators associated to the quality of life of their citizens.

According to them, the actual "degrowth" has to happen in the global north where economies are over-saturated [0]:

> We live in a world where poverty remains and those with unmet needs require more resources to satisfy them. We also live in an ecologically-constrained world struggling to cut emissions as fast as possible. In that context, by reducing consumption in the global North (and more generally for all of those who are over-consuming), one could free some of these resources for the people who need it the most. Ensuring basic needs and well-being for all necessarily implies limiting consumption in high-income regions and wealthy households in order to enable resource-poor countries and households to reach decent standards of living. In other words, degrowth in the global North is a prerequisite for sustainable development in the global South.

[0]: https://timotheeparrique.com/sufficiency-means-degrowth/

Thank you for sharing. I've had "Deschooling Society" in the backlog for some time now and this was a good foreword to some of Illich's ideas. This, however, is the first time I see someone mention a link between degrowth and Illich's vision. The connection makes sense at a glance, having also read some of the most outspoken degrowth proponents.

Not sure what's up with Pinboard but yesterday he published a new post on his personal blog so it looks like he is around.

I take TikTok is just an example and that this applies equally as well to other social media like Instagram/FB/Youtube? Or is there anything particularly notorious about TikTok?

I haven't used TikTok myself but I have observed others using it and it certainly feels a lot more fast-paced and saturated compared to Instagram (which for me already feels like that anyway).