Lately, I’ve been hearing a lot of claims that Elon Musk isn’t the real deal — that he’s just riding on the ideas of others or that his accomplishments aren’t all that groundbreaking. Honestly, this sounds like a classic case of motivated reasoning. People don’t like his politics or his public persona, so they twist themselves into […]
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On July 31st, 2024, my father, Dieter Scharmer, passed away peacefully. At the age of 94, he had lived and worked almost his entire life on the same piece of land, a farm 50 kilometers north of Hamburg. The farm was founded 800 years ago by the Cistercians and owned for roughly 200 years by
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Each new disaster brings my own healing process to a deeper level… as I grieve all that is dying and place my heart in the future that comes after collapse. Yesterday I felt a new sensation as I watched photos flow across my information feeds about the destruction in Los Angeles, California. There was a
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In February 2024, the Territorial Foundations movement of Colombia decided to design and implement a Territorial Regeneration Fund. This fund is part of a collective bet as a movement to generate new paradigms of transformation in the country. Our geography to organize is “North Andean” in size with a focus on watersheds and ecosystems that exist
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At the Design School for Regenerating Earth, we are excited to announce our new learning journey for 2025 called How to Organize Your Bioregion. This will be a six month long exploration into what it means to live bioregionally, how to create the conditions for collaboration around the regeneration of vital ecosystems, and what you
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Hi everyone, my name is Joe Brewer and today I want to share with you some of my observations about the problematic framing of the climate discourse. Now some of you may remember that a long time ago in my life I worked with George Lakeoff and helped to extend his understandings of cognitive linguistics
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In this room, we uncover hidden messages through steganographic methods and research. Task 2: Analyze the Audio Question: What is the link inside of the audio? To solve this task, I used Sonic Visualizer to analyze the attached WAV file for hidden messages. I added a new spectrogram layer and zoomed in to reveal a QR code. Scanning
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Seven Observations On 2024 and What’s Next In 2024, over 2 billion of us voted in national elections. So what have we learned so far this year, in general and from the US election in particular? In the seven observations & reflections below I offer some of my own initial sensemaking as part of a broader
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— It’s Bigger Than You Think And It’s All About The Wasted Votes There is a lot of talk about a Republican Electoral College advantage — that the Republicans can win an Electoral College majority even though they get fewer popular votes. It is true, and the Republican advantage is bigger than many people realize. In 2020,
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task file This TryHackMe room demonstrates how easy it is to extract identifiable information from a single photo, showcasing the power of Open Source Intelligence. 1. What is this user’s avatar of? For the first step, I used ExifTool to extract the metadata from the image file attached to the room. By examining this metadata, I
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