So, one of my sister-in-laws made a firm decision NOT to give her kids phones until they were 16, and instead did crafts with them, encouraged them to be in plays, and gave them dance and music lessons (all the same things my own grandparents did with me). Both kids are in college now and are still very creative! And yeah, they have phones, but aren't addicted to them. Now my other sister-in-law gave her 9-year-old a smart phone, and tbh, I'm a little wary to interact with her. She used to spend a lot of her time outdoors and was very artistic, but now is on the phone all the time, and only cares about what other "mean girls" think. I've seen first-hand the damage smartphone addiction can do to young minds. IMHO, both smartphones and marijuana should be allowed only AFTER young minds have developed, and only after their owners have developed good lifelong habits -- like reading, creating, using their brains, etc.
#SmartPhones #TechAddiction #NatureBasedLearning #ArtsLearning #Creativity #Imagination #SmartPhonesAreDumbingUsDown
😂 Breaking news: Claude Pro Max, the #AI with a vivid #imagination, conjured up a $270 #Notion #feature that remains as elusive as Bigfoot. Meanwhile, Anthropic's 23 days of #silence suggests they might still be recovering from the laughter-induced coma. 🤣✨
https://gist.github.com/habonggil/f6130a68bbc4139c8066aa90c14c986f #BreakingNews #Anthropic #Humor #HackerNews #ngated
🎭✨ RINCON Halloween Costume Competition – Let’s Get Creative! ✨🎭
The #RINCON #Halloween #Costume #Competition is back! 🎉
We’ve created 5 categories for all you daring adventurers:
🧵 Best Selfmade
🎭 Best Original Character
🌿 Best on Theme
🛠️ Most Creative Technique
📸 Best Pose
And there’s more!
🌟 5 fun categories unique to this year will be revealed at the event!
Let your #imagination soar and show us what you’ve got! 🎲🎭
We all — adults and children — have an obligation to daydream. We have an obligation to imagine. It’s easy to pretend that nobody can change anything, that we are in a world in which society is huge and the individual is less than nothing, an atom in a wall, a grain of rice in a rice field. But the truth is that individuals change their world, over and over. Individuals make the future, and they do it by imagining things could be different.
Neil Gaiman
“When it comes to the Earth, we suffer from an incredible failure of the imagination.”
David Wallace-Wells, The Uninhabitable Earth
Imagine the World of Tomorrow : Forty Contemporary Thinkers Tested by Imagination by Xavier Pavie, 2025
What is imagination? It is what allows humans to differentiate ourselves from machines. In the era of artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, it is more crucial than ever for humans to develop and cultivate their imaginations to survive.
Sample chapters:
https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/14073
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I am proud to present you with an interview with an incredible @adapalmer straight from this year #Bazyliszek convention, now available as a #solarpunkPrompts special!
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