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John Schinnerer

It's not girls and women ruining everything, of course.

"Hasn’t education has always required the ability to be quiet and attentive for long periods? And hasn’t it always demanded skills like…

Oct 26

Oct 26

John Schinnerer

There's more than a few of these bogus accounts doing this.

I get these phishing 'responses' every so often on comments I post. There are various clues that it's a scam.

Jan 21

Jan 21

John Schinnerer

"It’s up to you, the worker, to take action for yourself moving forward."

That about sums up the cultural norms we're dealing with here. The powers that be don't give a rip about you, worker-person. So better take…

Jan 6

Jan 6

John Schinnerer

Most of the nations with more 'freedom' (per Heritage Foundation standards anyhow) than the USA…

The 'social' in "social democracy" refers to 'society'. A society's ultimate wealth comes from systemic social health, which these nations…

Dec 25, 2023

Dec 25, 2023

John Schinnerer

True costs of large scale toxic tech never 'plummet', or even decrease.

Our crippled and toxic excuse for "economics" doesn't count those costs. But that deadly bill will come due - is already coming due …

Nov 19, 2023

Nov 19, 2023

John Schinnerer

There are a lot of comments here saying this EV assessment is incorrect and "the numbers are…

Problem is - those "readily available" numbers exclude most or all of the messy details along the way that are required to produce and use…

Nov 12, 2023

Nov 12, 2023

John Schinnerer

A belief that aboriginal/indigenous societies were 'simple' blinds us to the brilliance of their…

We have plenty of examples to look to - and, doing so may require more humility than contemporary adolescent society can muster.

Oct 20, 2023

Oct 20, 2023

John Schinnerer

Robert A. Heinlein explored AIs and socio-political leadership in 1966, in "The Moon Is A Harsh…

So actually a reversal - imagined nearly six decades ago - of the current fear of AIs taking over and enslaving humans. In this story, an…

Sep 6, 2023

Sep 6, 2023

John Schinnerer

Weinberger is cited here thusly: "But now the medium of our daily experiences — the internet — has…

Capacity, perhaps. Connections - to what? For whom, when? Engine, not a chance. The 'engines' we build are all about monetizing the…

Apr 21, 2023

Apr 21, 2023

John Schinnerer

It's so often the questions we ask that are our biggest 'problems'.

The limited system defined for consideration produces both "climate crisis" and "poverty" and thus insures a conflict of interest. In other…

Apr 13, 2023

Apr 13, 2023

John Schinnerer

John Schinnerer

A generalist in a hyper-specialized society. "How we do what we do is who we are becoming." - Humberto Maturana

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