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Hey, this is kind of an informal announcement, but my budget is tight and I’m a full-time student. I figured that I’d post here that I’m looking to do some freelance work, particularly when it comes to writing. Most of what I specialize in is open source, exploring technology, how-to guides, interviews, and media production. I also have experience with brand voice, and wouldn’t mind helping with community engagement.

For a sample of my stuff, check out either We Distribute or my blog.

I’ll make a formal blog post about it later today.

#GetFediHired #Freelancing

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If you are inquiring into what meditation is, then the formulas, the repetitions, the mantras, the various things that you do must be put aside, and the mind must be entirely quiet. Either what you are doing now is meditation, or it is not. If it is meditation, there is no problem. But to find out if what you are doing is meditation, you must be free to look at it, to question it; you cannot merely accept it. To inquire into what meditation is, surely that freedom is the first necessity. So, can you be free from all your practices, from all your disciplines, from all your various conclusions and compulsions? And if you are freeing yourself from those things because you are inquiring into what meditation is, that very inquiry is meditation.

From Collected Works, Vol. 8

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#phylosophy
#mind
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Student: “So Elon Musk is a trillionaire?”
Me: “Yup.”
Student: “How did he get that much money?”
Me: “Well, he doesn’t really have a trillion dollars cash. He just owns a lot of stock in companies that are valued at a trillion dollars.”
Student: “So those companies make huge profits?”
Me: “Oh gosh no. They all lose billions of dollars a year. All of them. Huge losses.”

The Economist headline: “Gen Z Mysteriously Hates Capitalism and No One Can Figure Out Why.”

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My monthly #Arctic temperature graphics are now updated for May 2026. Fairly unremarkable month compared to some recent years. See: zacklabe.com/arctic-temperatur…. #DataViz #SciComm #OpenScience #OpenData

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If there is order in one’s life, real order, then what is meditation? Is it following certain systems, methods: the Zen method, the Buddhist meditation, the Hindu meditation, or the methods of the latest gurus? If meditation is determined, if it is following a system or method, practised day after day, what happens to the human brain? It becomes more and more dull. Is meditation something entirely different? It has nothing whatever to do with methods, systems and practices. Therefore, it can never be mechanical. It can never be conscious meditation. It is like a man consciously wanting money and pursuing money: consciously you meditate, wanting to achieve peace, silence. The man who pursues money, success, power, and the man who pursues so-called spirituality are both the same.

From Total Freedom

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#Meditation
#phylosophy
#mind
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Inwardly, is one in order, or is there disorder? Can one observe this fact? And what takes place when one observes choicelessly, which means without any distortion? Where there is disorder, there must be conflict. Where there is absolute order, there is no conflict. There is an absolute order that can only come about naturally, easily, without any conflict, when one is aware of oneself as a consciousness, aware of the confusion, the turmoil, the contradiction, outwardly and inwardly, observing without any distortion. Then out of that comes naturally, sweetly, easily, an irrevocable order.

From How to Find Peace

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#mind
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The planet doesn’t negotiate. It sends signals: rising seas, wildfires, heatwaves.

The EU responds with commitments like:

🔸Water Resilience Strategy
🔹Chemical Regulation
🔸EU Climate Law (net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050)
🔹Restoring nature and repairing damaged ecosystems

Change is accelerating: solar and wind infrastructure is expanding, cities are being redesigned around nature.

This World Environment Day, the debate isn't if climate change is real, but how fast we can act.

in reply to European Commission

European Union is a still a work in progress...

But why on earth is the EU Commission so slow on climate change : THE most important battle in our life time. THE ONE AND ONLY.

ACT NOW!!!

mastodon.social/@Alb_/11219745…

in reply to European Commission

On my feed, your post here is right after this one : floss.social/@danslerush/11669…
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#BBC #News Nearly 50 people die of thirst in Sahara desert after lorry breaks down w.st/FpKPQ
#News #bbc

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First they take away your land, its resources and then livelihoods while making false climate-related promises.

JBS: Keep your bloody business out of Africa!

insideclimatenews.org/news/310…

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Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#b…

Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality

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Seems website are trying to block bots my forcing us to register or pay to read them. I am slowly making a mastodon block list or filter that hides posts which cite articles from website that require registration or payment. Ironically it seems that I am just blocking the whole internet... this is not the way it was supposed to be. #nomadnet might well offer an escape route temporarily.

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How to stop time: kiss.
How to travel in time: read.
How to escape time: music.
How to feel time: write.
How to release time: breathe.

-- Matt Haig

Without authority, without compulsion, without reward and punishment, how do we understand what order is, and willingly cooperate to bring about that order? Without compulsion, without any form of threat, reward, that whole cycle, how would you do it? What does order mean, or discipline? What would you say order is? The word ‘discipline’ has its root meaning in disciple, one who is willing to learn. The idea of discipline is the act of learning, not complying, not imitating, not conforming, not subjugating, but the movement of learning all the time. That brings about its own order. That is the original Latin meaning of the word ‘discipline’. How would we help to bring about order, if you think order is necessary? What is order? Order and discipline basically mean the same thing. One cannot learn if there is no order, which means leisure, and willingness to cooperate in the act of learning.

From Unconditioning and Education Vol. 2

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#Meditation
#phylosophy
#mind
#day151

There is a difference between learning and acquiring knowledge. Learning ceases when there is only the accumulation of knowledge. There is learning only when there is no acquisition at all. When knowledge becomes all-important, learning ceases. The more I add to knowledge, the more secure, the more assured the mind becomes, and therefore it ceases to learn. Learning is never an additive process. When one is learning, it is an active process, whereas acquiring knowledge is merely gathering information and storing it up. So I think there is a difference between acquiring knowledge and learning. Education throughout the world is merely the acquisition of knowledge, and therefore the mind becomes dull and ceases to learn. The mind is merely acquiring. The acquisition dictates the conduct of life and therefore limits experience. Whereas learning is limitless.

From Krishnamurti on Education

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#Meditation
#phylosophy
#mind
#day150

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