My Dad’s 2-Ingredient Upgrade for the Most Flavorful Bacon | The Kitchn

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Métropolitiques: BIOREGIONALISME

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✪ The Rise of Trusted Personal Human Filters - #59

" The Rise of Trusted Personal Human Filters - #59
Humans as taste engines, not content machines. How experts design themselves to become recommended filters.

ROBIN GOOD
DEC 10, 2025

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Last Tuesday, I needed to find a new note-taking app with some unique features. I didn’t open Google. I didn’t ask ChatGPT. I went straight to Jeremy Caplan’s Wonder Tools, searched and found what I was looking for.

This is not a rare happening. When I want to stay updated with new AI tools, startups, business models and communities, I go to Greg Isenberg Youtube channel and I always come out with a positive outlook and new stuff I didn’t know before.

When I need to understand P2P commons-based new governance experiments, I check Michel Bauwens’ latest. When I’m hunting for beauty in everyday moments, I scroll through Sami Youkilis’ Instagram.

These people have become something more valuable than any other standard content creator in my life.

They’ve become personal human filters, the trusted humans whose taste and judgment I’ve loaded into my permanent discovery stack.

I don’t follow them. I don’t just read them. I basically filter the infinity of content, news and tools through them.

That’s why I am entertaining the idea that we are likely moving from platform algorithms to personal human filters."

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A Conclusive Overview (Part III) - O.G. Rose

"If “the map is indestructible” is correct, we cannot necessarily overturn ideologies or basically anything by opposing it; we must operate “within it” and change the conditions of possibility within, or otherwise we will end up like say Oedipa or “Byron the Bulb.” Throughout O.G. Rose, we have emphasized “changing the conditions of possibility,” and a hope of this book (and The True Isn’t the Rational more generally) is to justify this strategy. The patience and “faithful presence” of this strategy is justified by this trilogy, or so is the hope. There are bad ideas which can be destroyed with logical argument, but then I would argue these were never really “maps,” just notions and passing inclinations. A real map is indestructible, and so it can only be altered within it. Hence, we must work to be “faithfully present” to change “conditions of possibility” within somehow. Nothing else is sufficient. “The map is indestructible.”"

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InfoFi Explained: How the Fusion of AI and Finance Is Creating a New Digital Economy | by Oracle Of Preferences ZK (OOPZ) | Medium

"InfoFi flips this model by enabling:

Direct monetization of your digital contributions
Sovereign ownership of your personal data
Continuous earnings as your information creates value over time
This isn’t just fair, it’s transformational for billions of internet users who have been digital sharecroppers for decades."

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The Left’s Project Has Just Begun | Compact

"Today’s burgeoning left, which is concentrated in the big metro centers and college towns, reflects, and has taken to extremes, the cultural stances of the people who live there. The DSA, for instance, doesn’t just support a wink-wink-nod position on border security, but it supports open borders; it backs some version of defunding the police; it supports “gender-affirming care” for minors and reparations for the descendants of slavery. It favors the rapid phasing out of fossil fuels. These positions are not merely impolitic. Except for, with some qualification, the case of climate change, these positions are simply wrong-headed. Open borders, for instance, would threaten the wages of unskilled workers and make unionization difficult, if not impossible.

The democratic socialists and left-wing progressives who have gotten elected have steered clear of the most extreme stances, but as Sanders’s own trajectory on immigration from skeptic in 2016 to booster in 2020 demonstrates, they still end up with positions that put them at odds with much of the electorate. If the left wants to expand its reach beyond what could be called “greater Brooklyn,” it will have to rethink its insularity on cultural issues. 

Of course, so, too, will its counterpart on the populist right. If the left is saddled with defunding the police or open borders, the populist right has limited its appeal by its opposition or grudging support for government healthcare and childcare programs, its opposition to abortion, and its unforgiving stance against long-settled law-abiding illegal immigrants and genuine asylum seekers. It also has had to contend with the anti-semitism and racism of the extremists in its midst. 

Whether either left or right can transcend its own cultural and social limitations will depend on whether leaders arise who can craft a politics that does so. In the last century, Franklin Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan were able to do that for their fractious following. Trump is unlikely to succeed in doing the same. His version of populism is corroded by corruption and cultural extremism as well as by compromise with market liberalism. The battle will begin after he leaves office. The populist right will have a head start, but it is far too early to write off the left."

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Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value: Whitehead, Barfield, and Our Crisis of Perception (transcript) – Footnotes2Plato

"I am going to be discussing some ideas from one of Owen Barfield’s essays, “Where Is Fancy Bred?,” about the nature of imagination, and linking them to Whitehead’s protest against the bifurcation of nature and his sense that imagination is of profound philosophical significance as a way of knowing—as a means of contacting a deeper layer of reality than our physical senses might otherwise allow. I will begin by talking about Whitehead’s account, in Science and the Modern World, of what he calls the “enfeeblement of thought” in modernity, a weakening that results from this bifurcation of nature and from the dualism whereby mind and matter are separated and everything valuable—all qualities—is removed from the natural world, which is left bare, mute, lifeless, and dead."

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Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value

"Coleridge on Imagination and Fancy
In Biographia Literaria, Coleridge famously distinguishes between primary imagination, secondary imagination, and fancy:

“The Imagination I consider either as primary, or secondary. The primary Imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I AM.

The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the primary in the kind of its agency, and differing only in degree and in the mode of its operation. It dissolves, diffuses, dissipates, in order to recreate; or where this process is rendered impossible, yet still at all events it struggles to idealize and to unify. It is essentially vital, even as all objects (as objects) are essentially fixed and dead.”

Primary imagination, for Coleridge, is our participation in the creative activity of the divine “I AM” and is responsible for the fact that we can perceive anything at all. Secondary imagination is the conscious echo of that same power, operating with and through our will. It is the power to dissolve and recreate, to idealize and unify.

In contrast, “fancy” is what corresponds to a merely mechanistic and representational understanding of the mind: a shuffling and recombination of sensory data, what Hume and Locke describe when they say there is nothing in the mind that was not first in the senses. Fancy rearranges the already given. Imagination, in the Coleridgean sense, participates in the giving of what is given.

If we read Coleridge through Whitehead, primary imagination corresponds to the primordial creativity at the heart of the world, what Whitehead would call the primordial nature of God. Secondary imagination corresponds to our conscious participation in that creativity. Fancy, meanwhile, fits the role of a purely representational model of mind restricted to the sense-bound intellect.

What Coleridge, Barfield, Steiner, Goethe, and Whitehead are all saying is that imagination is not mere fancy. It is not just a brain mechanism limited to recombining sensory impressions. Rather, imagination is the way the deeper creative ground of the cosmos becomes conscious of itself in and through us. What we experience consciously as imagination is the same formative power that grows plants, shapes bones, and ignites the stars."

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How You Can Put Holonomic Thinking Into Practice Successfully – The Organisational Learning and HR Perspective | Transition Consciousness

"Holonomics is not a new methodology, and neither is it a tool. It is an expansion of consciousness which allows to see more, see the whole organisation. In order to implement holonomic thinking across a whole organisation, we therefore need to rethink how we implement communications activities and training sessions.

My own company Holonomics Education uses four key techniques which are dialogue, story telling, gamification and experiential learning to take whole organisations from a traditional mindset to a transformational mindset."

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Vlaamse gevangenisarts waarschuwt: ‘Geef géén extra geld aan gevangenissen’

"Verbrugghe: Mijn pleidooi is: geef zeker geen extra geld aan gevangenissen, want daarmee behaalt justitie geen enkele van de beoogde doelstellingen. En stop het zeker niet in extra gebouwen, waarvan internationaal bewezen is dat die alleen maar meer mensen in de gevangenis zullen doen belanden. Of, nog erger, in het oplappen van oude gevangenissen, waardoor we geld door ramen en deuren smijten. Een deel van het budget zou kunnen worden gebruikt voor de overheveling van de gezondheidszorg naar het departement Volksgezondheid. Investeer dat miljard dus liever in sociaal beleid, huisvesting en gezondheidszorg.

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