themotionoflife

Doctor of Human Geography.

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I am a Geographer by publication.
A anthropologist by training.
A storyteller by passion.
And a administrator by profession (the only skill that guarantees a fixed salary with benefits)

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The idea that only Asian cultures have a concept of “face,” where respect needs to be performed to maintain the hierarchy is fundamentally racist. Face is built into ‘western’ culture, it’s just not challenged.

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It’s not really a ban on under sixteens using social media, but a ban on them *posting* on social media. So social media is losing a large chunk of its original ideas from the next generation

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Like the process of drafting a two page letter to a friend, typing it out than posting it. Retelling the emotions you went through without immediate judgment. But knowing it would be read and receive a thoughtful response.

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I was reading by a history book quoting from a key figures letters and thinking about the emotional processing opportunities we are missing because we don’t have the friction and physicality of letter writing.

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Social media is the rosary beads of our age

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AI is just the next iteration of the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction

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Organizations need to regularly ask themselves who is *not* represented in their workforce… not who is

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Maybe the reason our children spend so much time on their phones is that we parents aren’t that interesting any more?

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@SanNuvola @iycrtylph but do we have a better term? to differentiate family studies generational encounters and economic cohorts of workers?

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all new technology starts off as magic

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Watching a children’s television show episodes about the dangers of getting magic to clean your room; and it’s an effective addition to the AI in education debate. I’ve observed the plot line across multiple shows - so it has cultural value and pre-dates the latest AI debate.

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The number or people who can’t write well, or would have never written anything down anyway, whose work out put will be improved by 100% from zero shouldn’t be ignored

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Universities should be educating people not extracting value from them…

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Tiered subscription models for assistive technologies (eg the big 3 Ai platforms) are open a an attempt to replicate and sustain class and caste.

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AI GPTs are just evidence humans are incredibly boring and predictable

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What if our obsession with screens is the symptom not the disease

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Community requires inconvenience

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@its_mccarthy "The budget is the skeleton of the state stripped of all misleading ideologies" ? Btw, it's actually from Rudolf Goldscheid, not Schumpeter.

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I’ve heard “the system demands content” enough times on the radio in the last week to think it it’s gone mainstream. Mostly in regards to sport!

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The longer I am a parent in Australia the more I realise we urgently need to move to a #30hourweek . It’s not us but the social institutions that rely on parent volunteers are crumbling because we can’t fit it all in