Mitchell Maddox

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

@AdamOmaryPhD @HumanProgress Have you guys sat down with Haidt? Debated him publicly? You both want human flourishing. Why not collaborate instead of promoting black-or-white thinking? Many of us appreciate both your approaches and would love to see dialog on this tricky subject.

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

@bryan_johnson The n of 1 “science” you’re doing is hard to discern among the hyperbole and self-righteous claims (you’re literally claiming to be superior to the rest of humanity). Who do you think you’re endearing yourself to? When did condescension convert anyone to one’s cause?

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

I am building a music art project and would love it if you would follow @soundofwaking. More information will be revealed there in the coming weeks and months. Thanks for your support 🙏

[The Sound of Waking @soundofwaking]

We're members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and you should be, too https://t.co/SCsKYtYC2x

[The Sound of Waking @soundofwaking]

Walt Whitman

[Ates Altinordu @atesaltinordu]

The video of my April 28 lecture on 'Religion and Nationalism in Turkey' is now available on the YouTube channel of the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University: https://t.co/22wYT702Oj

[Edmund @Kulambq]

'Nobler and more rewarding than fame, wine, love, and wisdom was friendship.'

Hermann Hesse

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

I got "The Neoplatonist" on the What Kind of Mystic Are You quiz from @millerman! Take it here: https://t.co/vF5nSWjFf6

Thanks for the share, @tedgioia

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

@atesaltinordu @CU_SakipSabanci Pleas share when it’s out!

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

@johndeandavis Congrats!

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

political violence is abhorrent. I have no sympathy for the freaks that carry it out. however, focusing on squashing these random unorganized extremist groups will do nothing but foment them further. the solution to the violence is easy: tell a better story, stop talking otherwise

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Absurd and inhuman violence is spreading ferociously through the sacred places of the Christian East, profaned by the blasphemy of war and the brutality of business, with no regard for people’s lives, which are considered at most collateral damage of self-interest. But no gain can be worth the life of the weakest, children, or families. No cause can justify the shedding of innocent blood.

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

After publicly declaring intent to replace all human jobs and maybe destroy humanity, tech leaders surprised to learn people don’t like that.

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Sam Altman responds to ‘incendiary’ New Yorker article after attack on his home https://t.co/c39bgTChtc

[Martin Bauer @martinmbauer]

It’s not the political split that makes this bad (the obsession to project everyone on a two-party spectrum is one of the worst exports of the US). It’s that the vast majority of accounts I recognise here post mostly crap. It turned twitter into the National Enquirer on steroids

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

"On one hand, people are becoming less religious. On the other, ppl are becoming more religious. But it’s the same anti-institutional zeitgeist powering both." Fascinating Q&A from @DKThomp on the Substackification of religion, the God of Socks, and more. https://t.co/z1AmGtBRIB

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

The honeybee industry is key to our agricultural production, deeply troubled, and in need of basic research that individual bee operators can't afford--a classic case for public R&D. And Trump tries to shut down the govt's #1 bee lab, completely randomly, and likely illegally.

[Mitchell Maddox @DistantRhythms]

@donnelly_brent Just wait till you start listening to your AI summaries at 3x speed

[Michael Haynes 🇻🇦 @MLJHaynes]

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV on Trump’s warning to Iran of “civilization” destruction —

“This is truly not acceptable. Here there are certainly questions of international law, but even more than this a question of morality for the good of people.”

He adds the war is “continuing to escalate and is not resolving anything… is only provoking more hatred throughout the world.”

“attacks on civilian infrastructure are against international law, but it is also against sign of the hatred and division that we are capable of.”

Video @Reuters