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Let the game begin.

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"Ironically, the destruction makes the message of Buddha and Buddhism more apparent: emptiness of emptiness, everything is emptiness."

A Buddha statue in Afghanistan before its destruction in 1992.

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CERN, Super Proton Synchrotron tunnel completed, 1974.

Construction began shortly after CERN's expansion into French territory was approved, and the tunnel was completed on 31 July 1974. The Robbins tunnel-boring machine excavated a 7-kilometer circumference tunnel at an average depth of 40 meters, crossing the Franco-Swiss border and making the SPS the first cross-border accelerator. The SPS was commissioned in 1976 and has played a crucial role in various high-energy physics experiments. Notably, in 1983, experiments conducted using the SPS led to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the W and Z bosons, fundamental particles that mediate the weak force. the SPS continues to be an integral part of CERN's accelerator complex, serving as a pre-accelerator for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by boosting the energy of particles before they are injected into the LHC for further accelerationConstruction began shortly after CERN's expansion into French territory was approved, and the tunnel was completed on 31 July 1974. The Robbins tunnel-boring machine excavated a 7-kilometer circumference tunnel at an average depth of 40 meters, crossing the Franco-Swiss border and making the SPS the first cross-border accelerator. The SPS was commissioned in 1976 and has played a crucial role in various high-energy physics experiments. Notably, in 1983, experiments conducted using the SPS led to the Nobel Prize-winning discovery of the W and Z bosons, fundamental particles that mediate the weak force. the SPS continues to be an integral part of CERN's accelerator complex, serving as a pre-accelerator for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by boosting the energy of particles before they are injected into the LHC for further acceleration

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Who lived when?

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#Disenshittify Or Die! How To Seize The Means Of Computation

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Scorpion ring. The setting dates to the 15th century, while the intaglio at its center originates from the 2nd century BC–1st century BC. Collection: Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

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Introduction to the P2P Foundation Wiki Material about Spirituality *Peer production as the consciousness of the new civilization: "peer production and the emerging economy of the Commons may (and already do) provide the material conditions of an alternative future spirituality and self. An identity based on networks of cooperation rather than competition, and common property and sharing rather than privatization and commodification, has no need to generate a collective will that puts human systems in balance with eco-systems because that will is already built-in to the foundation of the consciousness and practices of peer production as a collective, commons project. There is no sense of the individual part standing separate from the collective whole or in a dominant relation to others, so there is no gap to mend and heal, there is only an in-built spiritual consciousness and self practice of ‘We’ and ‘I’ in nature and society as a unified (yet diverse) integral practice." - Joe Corbett

https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Introduction_to_the_P2P_Foundation_Wiki_Material_about_Spirituality… Amazing wiki

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David Bowie Answers the Famous Proust Questionnaire

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Reading.

What is your most marked characteristic? Getting a word in edgewise.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Discovering morning.

What is your greatest fear? Converting kilometers to miles.

In the 1880s, long before he claimed his status as one of the greatest authors of all time, teenage Marcel Proust (July 10, 1871–November 18, 1922) filled out an English-language questionnaire given to him by his friend Antoinette, the daughter of France’s then-president, as part of her “confession album” — a Victorian version of today’s popular personality tests, designed to reveal the answerer’s tastes, aspirations, and sensibility in a series of simple questions. Proust’s original manuscript, titled “by Marcel Proust himself,” wasn’t discovered until 1924, two years after his death. Decades later, the French television host Bernard Pivot, whose work inspired James Lipton’s Inside the Actor’s Studio, saw in the questionnaire an excellent lubricant for his interviews and began administering it to his guests in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1993, Vanity Fair resurrected the tradition and started publishing various public figures’ answers to the Proust Questionnaire on the last page of each issue.

In 2009, the magazine released Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire: 101 Luminaries Ponder Love, Death, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life (public library) — a charming compendium featuring answers by such cultural icons as Jane Goodall, Allen Ginsberg, Hedy Lamarr, Gore Vidal, Julia Child, and Joan Didion. Among the most wonderful answers, equal parts playful and profound, are those by David Bowie — himself a vocal lover of literature — published in the magazine in August of 1998.

What is your idea of perfect happiness? Reading. What is your most marked characteristic? Getting a word in edgewise. What do you consider your greatest achievement? Discovering morning. What is your greatest fear? Converting kilometers to miles. What historical figure do you most identify with? Santa Claus. Which living person do you most admire? Elvis. Who are your heroes in real life? The consumer. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? While in New York, tolerance. Outside New York, intolerance. What is the trait you most deplore in others? Talent. What is your favorite journey? The road of artistic excess. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Sympathy and originality. Which word or phrases do you most overuse? “Chthonic,” “miasma.” What is your greatest regret? That I never wore bellbottoms. What is your current state of mind? Pregnant. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? My fear of them (wife and son excluded). What is your most treasured possession? A photograph held together by cellophane tape of Little Richard that I bought in 1958, and a pressed and dried chrysanthemum picked on my honeymoon in Kyoto. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Living in fear. Where would you like to live? Northeast Bali or south Java. What is your favorite occupation? Squishing paint on a senseless canvas. What is the quality you most like in a man? The ability to return books. What is the quality you most like in a woman? The ability to burp on command. What are your favorite names? Sears & Roebuck. What is your motto? “What” is my motto.

Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire is a treat in its colorful totality. For a similar compendium of wisdom from cultural icons, see LIFE Magazine’s 1991 volume The Meaning of Life, then revisit Bowie’s 75 must-read books.

Article, https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/07/10/david-bowie-proust-questionnaire-vanity-fair/

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Srinivasa Ramanujan’s legacy is a trail of divine genius — ideas that appear again and again in disparate corners of the world of mathematics.

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Nantang and Nantang DAO

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‘Passage into Otherworlds was usually one way; those that penetrated the veil rarely emerged again this side of it...as (Arthur) Machen observed..the whole farrago of the magical grimoires, the alchemical texts..conceal and reveal the modus operandi of opening these doors’ KENNETH GRANT

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Scientists Spy a ‘Dandelion’ Supernova around a ‘Zombie’ Star

A strange supernova remnant first appeared as a “guest star” seen in 1181 by sky watchers in China and Japan

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Derrida’s book represents not just a destruction of Marx and Marxism, but an incapacitation of critical thinking itself."

Gillian Rose's review of Derrida's Points and Spectres of Marx, in The Times, 27 July, 1995

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Machine and Sovereignty For a Planetary Thinking

Yuk Hui

Machine and Sovereignty offers a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts. Arguing that a new approach to planetary thinking is urgently needed, Yuk Hui presents new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future.

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From the paper, "Single Neuron Recording in Behaving Mammals: .." Book chapter, Ranck, Kubie,Fox, Wolfson and Muller, 1983

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The Oxford Handbook of Kant Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is a towering figure of Western philosophy, someone whose work continues to exert an influence across all areas of the discipline. His work is characterized by both breadth and unity: he writes powerfully about mind, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, mathematics, natural science, ethics, politics, religion, history, aesthetics, education, and more. And across those areas, he is concerned to work out and defend a view of human beings and their place in nature according to which our own reason enables us to discover and uphold the laws of nature and freedom—that is, to think for ourselves. The newly commissioned essays which make up this Handbook collectively present a picture of where the study of Kant’s philosophy finds itself, at this point in the twenty-first century. They are organized around the four questions which Kant said unite all interest of our reason: (1) What can I know? (2) What ought I to do? (3) What may I hope? and (4) What is the human being? Their aim is to help students and scholars of Kant’s philosophy think for themselves about the topics about which he wrote with such insight. Visit >