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• Unlearning Heartless Buddhism : Why We Need to Reject the Guru Class
  Context, just some thinking after reading about more aftermath of Tibetan Buddhism abuses and the trail of trauma it leaves behind, while our societies still portray it, as an alternative to other religions that have shown to be abusive systems TL;DR: Tibetan Buddhism—and the broader spiritual exotica we’ve imported into Western culture—doesn’t offer a path […]
• The only way to support the future is to enable and encourage migration.
  Migration to another country, especially one a fair distance away, isn’t undertaken by people who are truly destitute or who lack ambition. It requires resources, documents, connections. Having the will to leave, to seek out something new and leave everything and everyone you know behind, is a profound act of self-creation. Source
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  Based on the book #Apple in #China Apple’s China Crisis - $1 Trillion Payment To Xi Jinping Exposed TLDR : There is no Exit door for Apple in China and the hardcore dependency has now become a geopolitical risk for both the US and Apple. Maybe Apple can only exist, in China.
• AOC #2 magazine - l'international Tronçonneuse
  Tout le magazine en vaut le coup, mais ce passage m’a marqué : “De la guerre anti-genre à la suppression du financement des universités, de la glorification de la destruction de #Gaza par Israël au rejet d’un pouvoir judiciaire indépendant, les nouveaux régimes autoritaires révèlent la vitesse à laquelle le fascisme peut se mettre en […]
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  Fascinating read on #Bluesky app view retro engineering
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  When your Middle East policy is basically a horoscope with nukes. “We don’t really know, but trust us.”
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  How long until the internet, which allowed a generation to benefit from a vast wealth of human knowledge, becomes a swamp filled with generated #AI pollution? It may already be too late.
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  Fascinating early internet stories I’m not an Apple fan boy but, in the midst of reading Apple in China, reading the story of this video and watching it is really something.
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  Ça bouge bien côté Bluesky pour faire vivre le AT Protocol en dehors du contrôle de Bluesky ! ATmosphere Report 120
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  Project 2025 isn’t a blueprint, it’s already 40% enacted or completed. Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support: EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights Episode webpage: survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com Listen