True Anomaly’s Post

If you have time over the next week, this could be the most important video you watch. If you're not a troll, interested in The Truth (what I call truth, aka "Jason's Big T" from one of my PhD podcast guests on organizational behavior), and seek a deeper level of vision if not understanding of what's going on, you owe it to yourself to check this interview out. The kind of culture we are in here in the United States...the reason our politics is the way it is...wild reveals on the state of science and funding here that (surprise) aren't in our best interests. Not conspiracy theories. Facts. I first ran into Eric Weinstein in his commentary on the Epstein affair. He had actually met the man in a funding discussion--go track down that anecdote if you want a picture of what Jeffrey Epstein was like in person. A weirdo. Bouncing a young girl staffer on his knee while meeting applicants for academic funding at either end of a long table in a dining room. This time around: I had had no idea there was a problem with string theory. I studied physics and Chaos Theory years and years ago and can have a basic discussion about it. But over the past few years I haven't kept up. Could misdirection in science truly be holding us back? (See below, seems possible to me). I did know about the restriction and automatic "Top Secret" stamp applied to any discussions in America about nuclear science related to atomic explosions. That's right: doodle on a napkin and an obscure piece of legislation makes that immediately Top Secret and you a lawbreaker. I've also known that for about 20 years there was a stop in development of electronic warfare technology in the US. Why?? Ariel blitzkreig is the USA's #1 weapon. Why would we stall on creating further advantages in that area? (I'm a member of the Association of Old Crows, not just some clueless bystander). I have had personal experience with trolls who never met or interacted with me, calling up past employers posing as recruiters and trying to find 'dirt' (and people who knew me really didn't care, saying, "Oh, you must have done something to piss them off!" -- no, never met them...or were sucked in, even "internet friends" who hadn't met me in person yet but had interacted with me to a level I thought would be aware what was said was fake.) No, I was simply someone with a little fame on the internet a dozen years ago. How do we operate in an environment where criticism isn't really criticism, it's character assassination? Where you cannot get hysterical back at them but somehow must defend yourself or die? This discussion went many places I was not expecting. It explored topics I didn't know were or hadn't defined specifically as problem points for our society. I strongly recommend you listen. Do you have to accept what's said here? Nope. But I believe you should here it and be aware of it and add it to your repitoire. https://lnkd.in/eb_jsvga

Our culture has atomized: We’re all on our own with our phones, laptops, and digital media experiences. No one knows what everyone else is seeing. In some ways, these technologies have caused a shattering of culture, and we can’t seem to agree about our perceptions of the world, says philosopher and neuroscientist Sam Harris. To combat this, we need to secure some semblance of human wellbeing. What makes that an increasing challenge is the political fragmentation and extremism born from our engagement with new technologies. We’re witnessing a zero-sum contest between those of us who want to maintain open societies and those who increasingly want to build closed, belligerent ones that make it impossible to share space. We have to become more intelligent to deal with these threats without losing the values we seek to defend. That’s why dogmatism is an intellectual sin, and overcoming it is key to building a better future for us all, says Harris. https://lnkd.in/eP9qaq5X

https://lnkd.in/emBAfKCD Excellent!! To create a better world we need to humanize humankind again. The question is: how do we do that? Very interesting what David Brooks shares in his chat.

Caring for humans thinking for the future ?

WISDOM SERIES with Dee Brisan: Really important to listen to:

A short snippet of my delightful conversation with Marai Kiele - on SPACE!

These are the people and ideas that will shape the future. https://lnkd.in/etwh6qm6 This is a ~30 minute talk by Rafael Kaufmann, Pranav Gupta, and Jacob Taylor.

When small minds handle big numbers, the outcome is dangerous. When big minds handle small numbers, the outcome is cute. When big minds handle big numbers, the outcome is magic.

Google & Meta function as extensions of the US Intelligence Community. With Jacqueline Lopour, Google's Head of Trust & Safety, and Aaron Berman, Meta's Head of Elections Content/Misinformation Policy, both being career CIA officers, it underscores the CIA's substantial control over online censorship. Why is this CIA-Big Tech revolving door, where career CIA officers wield power to censor & decide what misinformation is, purposefully suppressed in the broader conversation about censorship? Why are career CIA officers like Jacqueline Lopour & Nick Rossmann, who both have a history of spreading misinformation & promoting the RussiaGate conspiracy theory, now in senior roles in Trust & Safety at Google, deciding what is misinformation & overseeing content moderation? The cumulative number of former Intelligence Community personnel hired by Meta & Google since 2018 is staggering. Before 2018, there were only a handful. Here are the combined hires by both companies: CIA-36 FBI-68 NSA-44 DHS/CISA-68 State Dept-86 DOD-121