a life well-lived is a life taken seriously with curiousity cultivated about the right things
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a life well-lived is a life taken seriously with curiousity cultivated about the right things
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First principles and practical solutions regarding personal data storage
Hi all, I’m really looking for some help. I need to create a reliable system of backing up and data storage. I’m not tech-savvy (will work on that when it’s a priority in my life, which it definitely can’t be right now) and I’m asking this community because it’s forward-thinking and aligns with my values. There are...
The Intelligent Plant: The Development, and Controversy, of Plant Neurobiology (michaelpollan.com)
Plants react to and communicate with their environment in sometimes surprising ways that enhance their survival in changing conditions. Does this constitute intelligence? Can you have intelligence without a brain? What do we owe plants? Maybe a little overlong and meandering but important piece. It’s a decade old so I wonder...
Considerations on which houseplant to start with
So, obviously, a beginner wants to start with a hardy plant, and I guess a cheap one, and one suited for the conditions the houseplant will be living in, and one they like the look of. But my intention with this hobby is to become more connected with my environment, not to exploit it in the way most convenient for me. I want to...
Do you think/feel that you are living well? Happily? Embodying your values and dreams? If so, how did this happen?
Hope and Contradictions: My Year in Rojava (March 2024) (web.archive.org)
First of all, the publication’s website counts every time you view a page as a new article being read, so if you view the original and not the archived version you’ll just get locked out after refreshing it three times....
Matthew Olzmann, "Letter To The Person Who Carved His Initials Into The Oldest Living Longleaf Pine In North America". (lemmy.world)
What's your juicy work drama that you just want to tell us about?
Bitwarden F-Droid Build v2024.3.2 Removes Trackers
Exciting news! Trackers being built into the Bitwarden F-Droid app for who knows how long have been removed...
Bookwyrm
Are people using Bookwyrm? Who are some people to follow on Bookwyrm?
TIL that in England, the highest rates of loneliness are among those under the age of 25 (www.youtube.com)
How do you read novels?
These past few months I’ve come back to reading novels for the first time, really, since I was a kid. I just read them an alternative to scrolling, though, so I don’t really pay much attention. When I sit down to watch a film, I try to make sure my mind is clear, my environment is undistracting, and I try to watch...
Any alternative to in-browser full-page translations besides Google?
Especially on an android browser like Mull (especially) or DDG.
“It’s like if they had a cow and a giraffe make a baby": The Accidental Creation of a Hybrid Fish (web.archive.org)
Their mothers were Russian sturgeons—large carnivores with creamy bellies, short, rounded snouts, and green, dragon-like scales. Their fathers were American paddlefish—smooth-skinned filter feeders with sensitive, elongated snouts. “Sturddlefish,” as these hybrids were nicknamed after researchers in Hungary announced...
Assessing how to move outside of a program
I’m here seeking advice from those further along in their fitness journey than I am about the mental aspect of fitness as well as about some concrete knowledge. I’m a beginner and in the past I’ve had a lot of success in staying pretty consistent. 90% of anything is showing up. A golden rule for beginners is find an...
Antiwork outside of the anglosphere
I feel like any young person I speak to who is plugged into the English-speaking world will at least have encountered anti-work discourse. I’ve heard of people lying flat in China and nearby countries. Is there comparable discussion going on in your language? What does it look like?
“Barbarians”, Bronzes, and the Legendary Capital of Ancient Vietnam (www.youtube.com)
Vietnamese lore tells us that over two thousand years ago the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam was home to powerful indigenous kingdoms, fortified capitals, and exquisite bronze craftsmanship. In contrast, the neighboring Chinese Han Empire claimed the region was inhabited by unsophisticated “barbarians” in need of...
Works which theorise pastoralism?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12700881 because I don’t think lemmy is alive enough yet to have a separate questions community. if mods object to my posting a question instead of content here, pls feel free to remove....
Where do people make friends online today?
For better or for worse, while growing up my social life was mostly online: gaia online, livejournal, deviantart, tumblr, and many others. I’ve heard of social media interaction be described as social junk food & even as I want to defend the many genuine, meaningful online relationships I had, I’m sympathetic: of course...
Theorising pastoralism
All right so I’m not super well-read in this area but I did a scattershot self-guided reading trying to understand early ancient Mesopotamia in my undergrad. Of the dozens (and dozens and dozens…) of sources I consulted the most interesting was a short article by a woman (I think in the handbook of ancient near eastern...
Isolated for six months, scientists in Antarctica began to develop their own accent (www.bbc.com)
What’s It like to Be a Giant Sequoia Tree? (www.youtube.com)
An art collective that creates immersive multimedia pieces about non-human subjectivity. I’m posting the TED talk bc when I looked, noting they had online seemed to be designed for online consumption, it’s all exhibits. I hope one day they make work intended to be consumed at home and not just in a few galleries a world...
Life 2.0 - children of engineers / Життя 2.0 - діти інженерів (February 2024) (www.youtube.com)
What was a poem that made you fall in love with poetry? How did you find it?
DAE find the attitude of most pet-owners to be more repulsive than that of most meat-eaters
I’m in a pretty vegan-friendly country with a long tradition of plant-based eating. Most people eat meat, but they are basically sympathetic to every meat-free argument: ethical, environmental, health. They sometimes do an awkward little shuffle & apologise for eating meat in front of me or say they’re part-time vegetarians...