https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh Shawnee chief, fought against the US in the War of 1812, united multiple tribes warning (correctly) that otherwise the white people would conquer them all
https://www.pbs.org/video/hokulea-star-of-gladness-xlses7/ Hokule’a was a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe, recreated in the 1970s, with a Hawaiian crew, which traveled 2500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti, proving that long distance navigation was possible with traditional Polynesian wayfinding methods (no instruments, just using the stars/sun/ocean swells etc)
https://sshawrichner.substack.com/p/there-is-no-healing-journey a rather skeptical view of “healing”. i’m not sure if I agree, but I suppose the author would know better than I what it’s like from the inside to go from being in a dramatically “bad place” psychologically (severe suicidality etc) to being in a “good place”. She’s interesting because she believes strongly in psychodynamic therapy concepts (i.e. psychoanalysis, the stuff descended from Freud), even as she’s skeptical of therapy itself. (I’ve also gone on a much smaller magnitude “healing journey”, but I mostly credit prescription antidepressants and general live-and-learn evolution, I am very suspicious of psychodynamic concepts, and one concept I do think is helpful is that a high level of baseline happiness is common and attainable.)
I haven’t investigated Gino myself, but this article (and many others) have sufficiently convinced me that there’s no real doubt about her guilt; the weird thing is that someone as illustrious as Lessig (founder of Creative Commons, staunch advocate of open-source software and reduced copyright restrictions, clerked for Posner and Scalia) would lend himself to her defense, and that he’d be foolish enough to think it proves anything that an AI prompted to defend her would obediently do so.
https://matter.xyz/ it’s an insult to our intelligence that this is called “Matter Neuroscience” (there’s nothing neuro about it), but it is an interesting idea; you get in-app points if people tag you in photos for bringing them joy. as someone who probably doesn’t socialize enough and never takes photos when I do, this would be a nice incentive to “make memories”.
links 7/10/26: https://roamresearch.com/#/app/srcpublic/page/07-10-2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tecumseh Shawnee chief, fought against the US in the War of 1812, united multiple tribes warning (correctly) that otherwise the white people would conquer them all
https://www.pbs.org/video/hokulea-star-of-gladness-xlses7/ Hokule’a was a traditional Polynesian voyaging canoe, recreated in the 1970s, with a Hawaiian crew, which traveled 2500 miles from Hawaii to Tahiti, proving that long distance navigation was possible with traditional Polynesian wayfinding methods (no instruments, just using the stars/sun/ocean swells etc)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronkonkoma,_New_York the name is an Algonquinian word for boundary fishing-lake
https://sshawrichner.substack.com/p/rich-girl-rehab-part-i an honest (paywalled) personal account of what it was like to be a seriously mentally ill teen in an inpatient facility
https://sshawrichner.substack.com/p/there-is-no-healing-journey a rather skeptical view of “healing”. i’m not sure if I agree, but I suppose the author would know better than I what it’s like from the inside to go from being in a dramatically “bad place” psychologically (severe suicidality etc) to being in a “good place”. She’s interesting because she believes strongly in psychodynamic therapy concepts (i.e. psychoanalysis, the stuff descended from Freud), even as she’s skeptical of therapy itself. (I’ve also gone on a much smaller magnitude “healing journey”, but I mostly credit prescription antidepressants and general live-and-learn evolution, I am very suspicious of psychodynamic concepts, and one concept I do think is helpful is that a high level of baseline happiness is common and attainable.)
https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/yes-you-can-trick-ai-into-exonerating Lawrence Lessig seems to have taken an odd turn; he used AI to generate a long document arguing in the defense of famous research fraudster Francesca Gino.
I haven’t investigated Gino myself, but this article (and many others) have sufficiently convinced me that there’s no real doubt about her guilt; the weird thing is that someone as illustrious as Lessig (founder of Creative Commons, staunch advocate of open-source software and reduced copyright restrictions, clerked for Posner and Scalia) would lend himself to her defense, and that he’d be foolish enough to think it proves anything that an AI prompted to defend her would obediently do so.
https://matter.xyz/ it’s an insult to our intelligence that this is called “Matter Neuroscience” (there’s nothing neuro about it), but it is an interesting idea; you get in-app points if people tag you in photos for bringing them joy. as someone who probably doesn’t socialize enough and never takes photos when I do, this would be a nice incentive to “make memories”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Larsen tech executive, founder of Ripple. now cofounding brain emulation startup Netholabs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_sampling_method psychological surveying method: pinging people at random times throughout the day to get them to report on what they’re doing or feeling at that time