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I took notes on Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz’s post-election discussion of their Fairshake pro-crypto Pac and the coming Trump presidency about two months ago, but set them aside and other topics took precedence. Given the rising craziness in the crypto space around the inauguration, I thought it was a...
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6 days ago
In this morning’s video I somehow missed the fact that the inauguration coincides with MLK Day, which is an interesting sync with the “melanin as optical material” lens. I’m going to drop a few links to old blog posts that touch on the YMCA and “out of school time learning”...
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9 days ago
In this video I draw connections between Gestalt theory and organizational development as applied to digital groupthink in the context of Christiana Figueres, a leader in the development of carbon trading, who trained at the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. As a young woman, she attended Swarthmore College, a Quaker institution....
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10 days ago
What will come of large language models when they mirror unsettled psyches defined by religious hero complexes into the cloud? We do ourselves and future generations a profound disservice when we choose not to make time to comprehend and interrogate how emerging technologies and narrative flows are being deployed to...
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13 days ago
This is a video I posted yesterday. And a follow up to clarify certain points. Sorry, I guess the youtube AI choose the “hands up” screenshot for the preview image. I do talk a lot with my hands. Here is a link to Joseph Gonzalez’s blog post on emergent information...
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17 days ago
We don’t always get to choose what happens during the course of our lives, but we DO get to choose how we incorporate the unexpected into our stories. Here’s to seeing the value of complementary energies that keep this “reality” going even during times when the mixture makes us queasy....
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26 days ago
This movie outing was a post-Thanksgiving indulgence for a gal who rarely goes out. After seeing it, I empathize with principled, strong Elphaba and can’t help but picture her waif counterpart, queen bee Galinda (Glinda), as having a bright post-Shiz University career as a savvy but manipulative social impact investor....
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1 month ago
With the lens I have been using (harnessed consciousness through Web3 token engineering, perhaps for the purposes of individual and group consensus divination) the ideas I am talking about in this video and the beginning of the previous one are actually quite important. If you want to write me off...
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1 month ago
Today’s “Black Friday” video is shared below. To skip forward to my analysis of the Solari Report’s recent short on “Bitcoin Billionaires” go to timestamp 25 minutes. But the first part is kind of fun if you want to take some time to think about how we think, alone and...
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1 month ago
Because I need to head out to dig the last of my garden beds before frost sets in, I am making a rather fragmented placeholder post to hold links I recently shared with online colleagues. I’m going to use this as a reference for my future self, but perhaps others...
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2 months ago
Was LBJ’s Great Society “social safety net” a spiderweb from its initial conception? Elizabeth Hinton’s book, “From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime” offers insights into the history of government welfare in the United States and an assessment that it provided the foundation for an expansive police...
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2 months ago
There’s a gentle rain coming down tonight, and I’m enjoying the soothing sounds of it in my cozy sunroom. I feel like I’m stealing time here. This space is enclosed by rickety old metal windows, and with the drafts and lack of insulation, I expect it will be off-limits in...
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2 months ago
About Wrench In the Gears
Wrench In the Gears is published by Allison Hawver McDowell, a researcher, writer, speaker, and activist from Philadelphia, focused on elucidating the broad and far-reaching implications of society’s shift toward a ‘fourth industrial revolution’ (4IR) via the nonprofit industrial complex and pay-for-success financial systems, how it is shaping and re-defining everything from culture, education, the environment, down to humanity itself.