420 entries from "Brazil"

Comprehensibility Index

[TV shows with subtitles and comic books use multiple channels which can maximize comprehension whereas 'pure' forms like radio, text, talk shows demand more comprehension to start.]

Comprehensibility Factors

[Shows that are understandable on mute have a strong visual context.]

[Comic books have visual cues that support the text.]

[Some stories have narratives that use predictable tropes, which are easier to grasp than improvised situations.]

[Certain shows are focused on a single domain whereas news can move freely between multiple.]

[Political dramas or technical lectures requires specific domain knowledge.]

[Overdubbed content can be simplified because things don't always translate.]

Domains

[Listening to a news broadcast has some shared language with conversation, but they require different skills and different vocabularies. Better to narrowly focus on one and move on after you master it.]

Islamic art

[There is a disputed theory that mistakes in geometric repetitions were intentionally made to show humility and how only God can produce perfection.]

Music

[The binary form of AABB provides enough variation to allow a dance to be extended indefinitely.]

[Recognize when nothing seems to be working and stop, wait, meditate, reboot. Don't force anything.]

The Dangers of Intellectualized Emotions

[Avoid using umbrella terms (like upset, overwhelmed, stressed, weird, okay) or metaphors (like soread too thin) and try to use plain language (sad, angry, frustrated, confused, scared, disappointed) to communicate emotions directly.]

[To eat healthy, it isn't enough to avoid unhealthy food, it is necessary to keep your home stocked with healthy alternatives. Make the right thing easy.]

Message from Beloved Osho on his Birthday

[Whatever exists is full of God. The green of the trees, the bark of a dog, a child laughing.]

[Asking 'where is God' is the wrong question because they cannot be indicated anywhere. Ask 'where God is not']

[God is reflected through you. If you are filled with love, then God is everywhere.]

[Use the things for which people pick on you as a base to rest into. Someone has an issue with your skin color? Relax into your skin. With your weirdness? Be boldly weird. With your insecurities? Be radically vulnerable.]

Five Things To Read Today About Female Sexuality

[The popular understanding of rape is a stranger in a dark alleyway, but in reality 90% of victims know their rapists.]

Self Partnering

[Self-partnering is learning to trust yourself and your body to guide you. Questioning our ability to make the right choices leaves the door open for others to disorient you (intentionally or not).]

[Go beyond consent, create a space where one can ask for what they want, move towards celebrating all requests and refusals.]

Love and Meditation, Yoga and Tantra

[Loneliness is a feeling of incompleteness, aloneness is the feeling that you are enough.]

[When lonely people meet, the misery is multiplied.]

[Real love is to help the other to be alone, to not need you.]

[Don't expect love, give it, without waiting for something in return.]

[Love the other not as a person but as a god, then instead of ordinary lust love becomes worship.]

[Loneliness is boredom with yourself, aloneness is bliss.]

[With the right approach, love makes you meditative and meditation makes you loving.]

[Finding meditation through love is Tantra. Finding love through meditation is Yoga.]

false collectives: fake activisim and social media

[Facebook's algorithm gives prominence to the 2% of Mother Jones that favours the GOP and Fox News making it seem like it's 50% of their content.]

WebMD, And The Tragedy Of Legible Expertise

[All drugs have infinite possible side effects.]

[Warning people too little might cause death and lawsuits. Warning people too much might cause avoidance that leads to death and lawsuits.]

[When institutional pressures force people to optimize for things that compromise the primary research, those with more resources might be worse at the job than those with less.]

There are no First World countries

Boris

[Trying to create something new makes it hard to predict what the 'goals' are in advance, they must be dynamic and respond to the environment.]

[Focus on the tradeoffs you are willing to make as opposed to concrete goals.]

[Autonomy is not about doing whatever you want: it's about being able to act in the moment using a deep understanding of current resources and constraints.]

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System

[A system with an unchecked positive loop will destroy itself.]

[The United States goverment's Toxic Release Inventory from 1986 required factories to report hazardous air emission publicly each year, which reduced emissions by forty percent over a few decades with no fines or determinations of 'safe' levels: information itself is valuable when it puts bad actors on a list they don't want to be on.]

R/WhiteHouseBets

[Trolling is about the reaction and not the content.]

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1. The white public's indifference to the well-being of people of colour ensures that any response to racist violence is minimized.
2. The media's white-centric perspective on domestic and foreign events and vilification of people of colour reinforces the first layer.
3. The trolls flip back and forth between jokes and seriousness, which provides plausible deniability.
4. The appeal of jokes by 3 can appeal widely to include a multiracial audience, thereby protecting the previous layers from accusations of racism.
5. Alt-media uses cover from 3 and 4 to shift from joking to serious.
6. Politicians legitimize extremist views from 5 and give them the force of law and policy.
7. Tokens are leveraged by 6 to delegitimize claims of oppression.
8. The hipster nazis present themselves as clean-shaven, well-educated, and reasonable rationalists to exploit faults in the Left's confrontation style.
9. White supremacist representation in law enforcement protects the interests of politicians while brutalizing freely.
10. Organized white nationalists use 8 to speak loudly and recruit disaffected youth to the cause.
11. Lone wolves feed on information from other layers, ready to enact ideological violence, but remain unconnected to anyone and are disavowed by others.
12. Decentralized troll farms artificially inflate the support of certain ideologies and undermine truth.
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