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littlepawz · 6 months

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Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones.

But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture was a femur (thighbone) that had been broken and then healed. Mead explained that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, you die. You cannot run from danger, get to the river for a drink or hunt for food. You are meat for prowling beasts. No animal survives a broken leg long enough for the bone to heal.

A broken femur that has healed is evidence that someone has taken time to stay with the one who fell, has bound up the wound, has carried the person to safety and has tended the person through recovery. Helping someone else through difficulty is where civilization starts, Mead said."

We are at our best when we serve others. Be civilized.

~Ira Byock~

#Margaret Mead #civilization #first sign of civilization #caring for others #ancient history #anthropology #food for though #wow #protecting each other #worth a read

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reinekefoxart · 1 year

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“and it was burned as black as a coal….” - The Steadfast Tin Soldier - Christian Andersen

#severus snape #snape art #fanart #hans christian andersen #steadfast tin soldier #always found a lot of parallels in there #worth a read #happy early birthday Severus #maybe….#snily #maybe #snamione #you decide #I just draw..

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sixty-silver-wishes · 2 days

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misinformation_in_the_Israel–Hamas_war

#worth a read #wikipedia #palestine #israel #gaza

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oliveoomph · 1 year

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Erin Kellyman

I feel very similar to Jade, and I think the only thing that separates us is our environment.

[vanityfair]

#erin kellyman #actress #willow #jade claymore #vanity fair #interview #photoshoot #lovely interview #worth a read #edit by olive

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christinareedy-love · 2 months

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THIS ⬇️

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crazy-dog-lady-81 · 3 months

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For those of you who are fans of Gentleman Jack, are you aware of a book called Learned By Heart? It's by Emma Donohue and is about Anne Lister's time at school in York, where she met and had a relationship with a fellow pupil.

#gentleman jack #emma donoghue #anne lister #sapphic #lesbian literature #worth a read #suranne jones

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salty-ironstrange-shipper · 3 months

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Hello! How you doing? I don't know if you do this, but this is my favorite ironstrange blog and I'm freaking out because I can't find a fic I read once, and I was wondering if you could help me?

It was a time travel, where both Stephen and Tony travelled back, I don't remember how they first met, maybe a hospital? Idk. But they are seen together a lot during their rewrite of time and start fake dating at some point. Stephen has to recreate the car accident, too. I don't know if everything else I remember is from this fic or others, but if you could help? That would be lovely.

I'm sorry if you don't do this.

Happy new year ☆

That sounds familiar. Is it Ten times outta nine, I'm a hand grenade?

#ironstrange #incorrect-ironstrange #asks #which is an amazing fic btw #so even if it's not #worth a read

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tuxedosaiyan · 6 months

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after reading this short but great post that I found I want to share with you a really cool documentary on movie history focusing on black people and their portrayal through the years. the focus is on the horror genre, but its very interesting if you're a film buff or have interest in movies as a whole.

you can check if your streaming service of choice has it but yeah, something tells me this isn't the content you can easily find in there.

#cinema #worth a read #worth a watch #please suggest any documentaries like this to me

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ravenkings · 4 months

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"The ideology of Silicon Valley is clear: move fast and break things, scale at all costs, pump and dump. The lingering earth-flavored utopianism of the California Ideology softened the edge, and American two-party politics ensured at least a facade of responsibility, but both have largely fallen away over the past year.

I can point to Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, tech company layoffs, general societal Jokerfication post-Covid and the takeoff of generative AI as proximate causes, but the root cause is an unsustainable concentration of power among frustrated young men; more specifically, among engineers.1

C.P. Snow famously described the cleavage between The Two Cultures in Western society, between science and the humanities. In 1959, Snow observed the social supremacy of the humanities—his argument was that they needed to learn to understand the other culture, for the benefit of society.

But now the engineers are in charge. Universities are STEM departments and professional schools, with humanities a luxury curiosity. Television and now social media has devastated literary culture. We no longer believe in the rule of law or in liberalism more broadly.

So now they’re openly talking about Accelerationism, “effective accelerationism,” even, leaping into the gaping hole in vibe space left by the implosion of FTX/Effective Altruism. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has been pushing this for many months, and yesterday released

“The Techno-Optimist Manifesto”

The content is far too stupid to engage with; it takes 10x the effort to refute bullshit than to produce it. Instead, we should think about this document as post-textual. The medium is natural language, but what it encodes is not linear, conceptual reason but vibes. The concluding list of thinkers and fictional characters is simply a clout bomb.

This is a collection of tweets: pure discourse, responding to The Discourse that came before it. In contrast to the idea of individual agency at the heart of liberalism, there is no agency here: the writing is driven entirely by discourse and vibes. It is all implied by what came before it. None of means anything."

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"But Andreessen is more interested in the right hand of cybernetics—he specifically and repeatedly endorses the philosophy of Nick Land, the most famous proponent of Accelerationism. I can’t believe it’s come to this.

Thiel famously said that capitalism and democracy are incompatible, and chose the former.

Land’s Accelerationism says that (techno)capitalism and humanity are incompatible, and yet he still chose the former.3

So make no mistake. Accelerationism is terrorism.4 It violates what Ortega y Gasset calls “man’s most fundamental right...the right to continuity.” Technological accelerationism aims to eliminate the human and instantiate the world of the inhuman functionary. The current rate of change is already incompatible with human dignity, and they want to speed it up. From the manifesto:

We believe in accelerationism – the conscious and deliberate propulsion of technological development – to ensure the fulfillment of the Law of Accelerating Returns.

For people who valorize “The Scientific Method,” they don’t seem to understand what a “Law” is. If this is a Law of Nature, it’s odd that humans have to “fulfill” it. If it’s a human Law, who passed it? Can we overturn it?"

#worth a read #politics #technology #article

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accidentalharrie · 2 years

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#worth a read #olivia wilde #amber heard #meghan markle

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laughablelament · 7 months

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snooping through #eddiemox on AO3 and found my new favorite tag ever

And everything went black -sublightsleeper

#aew #ao3 #eddiemox #everyone go home #sublightsleeper wins #nifty fic too #worth a read #fic rec #aew rec

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pinkchunder · 5 months

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21/11/2023

#worth a read

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the-ephemeral-ethereal · 1 year

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It is our great fortune sometimes to misinterpret our destiny when it is revealed to us. We often accomplish our ends despite ourselves. We try to avoid the swamps and jungles, we seek frantically to escape the wilderness or the desert (one and the same), we attach ourselves to leaders, we worship the gods instead of the One and Only, we lose ourselves in the labyrinth, we fly to distant shores and speak with other tongues, adopt other customs, manners, conventions, but ever and always are we driven towards our true end, concealed from us till the last moment.

from The Books in My Life by Henry Miller

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triviareads · 2 years

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#bridgerton #worth a read #diversity in bridgerton

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flowersandspacestuff · 1 year

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May one taste leave you longing for more, so that if you find yourself some day to come across a copy of one of Kahlil Gibran's works you will be blessed with the spirit to impel you to read further on into his works of wonder.

#kahlil gibran #read this #book reccomendations #spiritual #poetry #poetry book #a tear and a smile #this was the first page i opened to when i found this book #may it find you too #book recs #poetry recs #beautiful book #beautiful poetry #an excerpt of kahlil gibran's a tear and a smile #worth a read #the prophet #the prophet speaks #truth #written with spirit

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obiwan · 1 year

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girl you can't just say it's your favorite tw fanfic and not drop the same for the rest of us good samaritans

SDFH it's not my favourite TW fanfic, it's just one of. It's called Play Crack The Sky, and I cherish it with all I have cause it's soooooo good. Imho.

#anonymous #answered #lmao i can't believe i'm talking abt tw fanfic in 2023 #it's a good one though #worth a read #anyway

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