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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

I enjoy life; I might almost say that with every year that passes I enjoy it more. This is due partly to having discovered what were the things that I most desired, and having gradually acquired many of these things. Partly it is due to having successfully dismissed certain objects of desire — such as the acquisition of indubitable knowledge about something or other — as essentially unattainable. But very largely it is due to a diminishing preoccupation with myself. Like others who had a Puritan education, I had the habit of meditating on my sins, follies, and shortcomings. I seemed to myself — no doubt justly — a miserable specimen. Gradually I learned to be indifferent to myself and my deficiencies; I came to centre my attention increasingly upon external objects: the state of the world, various branches of knowledge, individuals for whom I felt affection.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 1 “What Makes People Unhappy?” (1930)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/755…

#quote#quotes#quotation
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

blenderdumbass . orgThe Impossible Task of Famousing Myself
More from Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
#YouTube#LBRY#Odysee
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Doug Webb

Logging in to say how happy and grateful I am to be able to make annotations on #EPUB on my e-reader running #KOReader, and to then be able to import and read those same EPUBs and annotations on my laptop in @zotero

💌 💌 💌

This allows me to read long-form (I really struggle to do so on my laptop) and still take digital notes (not having to manually copy afterwards.)

#FOSS#focus#attention
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Henry Farrell's consideration of the attention economy & political science's failure to really see it, is an important read; he asks

'How might the attention economy remake the underlying structures of democracy? If there is a political scientist who predicted how Musk could effectively leverage his position to eliminate US-AID despite the legal and political barriers, I don’t know who she or he is'!

The political economy of attention *needs* our attention!

#attention
programmablemutter.com/p/the-a

Programmable Mutter · The attention economy is devouring politicsBy Henry Farrell
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Vermont Citizen Scientist

How the brain knows when to give up! Suppressing GABA-releasing neurons, made mice spend more time investigating one object. Turning off glutamate-related neurons made mice explore many objects; inhibiting serotonin-producing neurons made mice lose interest altogether.
nature.com/articles/d41586-025 #learning #attention #neuroscience #neurochemistry

www.nature.comHow the brain decides whether to persist — and when to give upNeuroscientists demonstrate how specific neurons in the brainstem control these behavioural strategies in mice.
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

blenderdumbass . orgThe Impossible Task of Famousing Myself
More from Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
#YouTube#LBRY#Odysee
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PrivacyDigest

#Ads Popped Up on Drivers’ Screens. There May Be More on the Way

When #Jeep owners complained ads were appearing while #driving, the carmaker said it was a #glitch. But as #automakers consider connected car opportunities, in-vehicle selling might be too tempting to ignore.

> should I interpret this action as they’re willing to put their customers lives at risk for a potential few extra pennies ?
#advertising #security #safety #attention

wired.com/story/ads-popped-up-

WIRED · Ads Popped Up on Drivers' Screens. There May Be More on the WayBy Aarian Marshall
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Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )

From: blenderdumbass . org

Doing those Dumbass Blender tutorials was supposed be a way for me to get noticed. But no matter how utterly insane my ideas were, I just fell deeper and deeper into despair.

Read or listen: blenderdumbass.org/articles/th

blenderdumbass . orgThe Impossible Task of Famousing Myself
More from Blender Dumbass ( J.Y.Amihud )
#YouTube#LBRY#Odysee
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Howard Rheingold

I wrote about attention and other social media literacies 15 years ago. Clearly, edu institutions have failed toeven try to teach attention control, crap detection, etc. The online commons might be a very different place if a larger population had learned to use it without damaging/deceiving themselves and others.

#attention #media #literacy #education #socialmedia

er.educause.edu/articles/2010/

EDUCAUSE ReviewAttention, and Other 21st-Century Social Media Literacies© 2010 Howard Rheingold. The text of this article is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.
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