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Hospicing Modernity - reading notes
APA: Machado de Oliveira, Vanessa. (2021). _Hospicing modernity : facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism_. North Atlantic Books. Link: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL25457087W/Hospicing_Modernity pages 115-117: > ... What [...]

Ernst Fraenkel - The Dual State
APA: Fraenkel, E. (1941). _The dual state: A contribution to the theory of dictatorship_ (E. A. Shils, Trans.; with E. Lowenstein & K. Knorr). Oxford University Press. Link: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13142/mode/2up page xiii: > [...]

Peter Newton 1973 The Work Group Within the Organization - excerpts
Peter M. Newton and Daniel J. Levinson Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Medical School PSYCHIATRY, Vol. 36, May 1973, pp. 115-142. Citation: Newton, P. M., & Levinson, D. J. (1973). The work group within the organization: A sociopsychological [...]

2021-08-25 Beth Sawin on slowing down
Dr. Elizabeth Sawin (@bethsawin): What if that longing of yours to slow down isn't only your personal exhaustion but also your contribution to collective wisdom and a deep knowing about what's needed in this moment? Donella Meadows said it pretty [...]

worrying about AI
2024-10-14: /- when human intelligence is reduced to machine intelligence, or vice-versa, then perhaps there will be worries for all of us / /- one current musing: whatever is happening inside an AI or LLM system that we are referring to as [...]