#thresholds #limits #greed 7) Limits and Thresholds can help. Most economists talk about all boats rising with capitalism. It's a nice thought. But what about when only 1% of the megaboats suck in all the water for their private pools? All the other boats sink. That's where we are now.
#Thresholds
#thresholds #limits #greed 6) ...should be a limit that nearly everyone should agree with. After all, if one individual has so much money they don't need to honor anyone else on the planet, is that person a good person? I heard that Jeff Bezos doesn't actually NEED Amazon customers anymore. He has amassed so much wealth that just investing it makes him more money than anyone can dream of. If someone is that divorced from the effects they can have on others, that's dangerous to civilization.
#thresholds #limits #greed 5) Whether it's capitalism, transhumanism, religious conversions, romantic partners, etc... Perhaps, to keep things safe and sane, everything needs a threshold to enforce limits. I know there are people who will disagree vehemently with this because it feels like an impingement on freedom. But, right now, the problems we're seeing in the world (and the US in particular) are because there are no limits on some key things. Should trillionaires exist? I think that...
#thresholds #limits #greed 4) I would say that eventually there is a saturation point where all the watches I make that people really need have been sold. You can count on replacements for watches that get lost, damaged or stolen for some profit going forward. But not enough to keep shareholders happy. So I am starting to think we need to ask ourselves in every operation in life: "How much is enough"? Thresholds.
#thresholds #limits #greed 3) ...of years. This is not the place to argue that BTW. For people like me who aren't particularly greedy for money, the idea of ever increasing profits and gains sounds like a sickness. For example, if I make the best smart watch in the world and sell it for $50 undercutting everyone else. The demand SHOULD make my watch the best seller because the price is so low that nearly everyone can afford one. But the question: How many of these should be sold? Limits.
#thresholds #limits #greed 2) Another example is businesses wanting every increasing profits because stockholders want ever increasing gains. In both of these examples, there are... questions and assumptions. First, the questions in my case are endless. There are people who disagree with my take on technology. To them, what I propose sounds either incomprehensible, insane, or just plain awful. To others who might agree, we're not even close to a human-machine merge and won't be for hundreds...
#thresholds #limits #greed 1) I've come to the realization that in, perhaps, every arena and aspect of life our civilization has ignored the problem of greed, and the solution of limits and thresholds. In my case, I am a pro-technology guy. I feel like technology can solve EVERY problem. My ultimate utopia is one where humans and machines merge and we become post-human with greater powers, faster developments, and deep and enlightened insights on everything. Some, not I, would say "god-like"...
🌕✨ OUT NOW ✨🌕 Taper #15: Crossroads — 26 works by 24 authors at the thresholds of human + machine authorship. This issue plays with ritual midpoints + border crossings. 👉 Read free: https://taper.badquar.to/15
#elit #taperzine @leoflores @nickmofo
#DigitalPoetry #ElectronicLiterature #TaperZine #Crossroads #PoetryCommunity #Epoetry #LitMag #Thresholds #Ritual
Between two English counties, a day conference on sacred landscapes explored how energy, lunar geology, and living soil intertwine with Pagan spirituality. It offered a reminder that land and sacredness dwell not in arrival, but in the thresholds between worlds.
https://wildhunt.org/2025/10/spirit-in-the-landscape-rediscovering-worlds-at-tutbury.html
#pagan #witchcraft #tutbury #liminalspace #churchyard #cemetary #thresholds #paganconference #naturespirituality
"THRESHOLDS OF BECOMING: THE MOSAIC SELF". Digital design by A.G. (c) 2025. All Rights Reserved. #historiotheque #artoperations #concreterealism #seasonsoftheheart #winterofthesoul #thresholds #becoming #mosaic #self
Optimal #thresholds and key #parameters for predicting #influenza A virus #transmission events in #ferrets, npj Viruses: https://www.nature.com/articles/s44298-024-00074-w
Identification that intermediate transmission outcomes should be contextualized relative to the transmission mode assessed provides needed refinement towards improving interpretation of ferret transmission studies in the context of pandemic risk assessment.
Trajectories And State Changes Of A Grassland Stream And Riparian Zone After A Decade Of Woody Vegetation Removal
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https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2830 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #alternativestates #nutrients #riparian #zone #stream #discharge #thresholds #waterquality #woodyvegetation #Kansas #prairie #water #hydrology #landuse #landcover #changes #climatechange #streambed #ecosystem #impacts #humanimpacts #sediment #sedimentation #grassland #prairieland #terrestrial #aquatic #biomes #NEON
im #DRK gehört, dass ST-Werner eine Klanginstallation auf der Insel La Certosa hat
#arte
#thresholds
Jonathan Berger, “Prologues, Epilogues, Thresholds: An Exhibition in Three Parts”, 2007 ★ USA ★ https://www.luhringaugustine.com/artists/jonathan-berger #JonathanBerger #contemporaryart #graphics #artistsbook #monuments #stele #pedestal #rhythmic #architectural #thresholds #black #2000s
It's interesting to just observe certain patterns showing themselves in your photo collection.
Some photos I've taken over the last month.
Fujifilm X-Pro 3 w/ XF 35mm f2
And behold some #doors / #thresholds / #portals: clockwise from left: house on the steps down to Bingin beach; cottage accommodation (one quarter of the cost of the ugly flat I rent in Darwin!) on Nusa Penida; gorgeous homestay accommodation in Uluwatu; and some kind of yoga studio (?) next to a cafe in Uluwatu
Cortical layering disrupts multi-electrode current steering https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/acdaf7 "Multi-electrode stimulation is not suitable for targeted activation of layers using current steering", but may reduce risk of #seizures by lowering activation #thresholds; brain implant, #visual cortical #prosthesis, #BCI #NeuroTech #blindness
Retiring $\Delta \text{DP}$: New Distribution-Level Metrics for Demographic Parity
Xiaotian Han, Zhimeng Jiang, Hongye Jin, Zirui Liu, Na Zou, Qifan Wang, Xia Hu
Action editor: Varun Kanade.
Data-driven predictions of the time remaining until critical global warming thresholds are reached
"Our predictions also suggest that even with substantial greenhouse gas mitigation, there is still a possibility of failing to hold global warming below the 2°C threshold."
Noah Diffenbaugh and Elizabeth Barnes (PNAS) #climate #emissions #GlobalWarming #GlobalHeating #ClimateChange #thresholds #ParisAgreement #COP28 #COP28UAE https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207183120
Only halving emissions by 2030 can minimize risks of crossing cryosphere #thresholds
Uta Klönne et al (Dec 2022) Nature Climate Change
Considering #cryosphere and warming uncertainties together implies drastically increased risk of threshold crossing in the cryosphere, even under lower-emission pathways, and underscores the need to halve #emissions by 2030 in line with the 1.5°C limit of the #ParisAgreement. #climate #ClimateChange #TippingPoints #EarthSystem https://climateanalytics.org/publications/2023/only-halving-emissions-by-2030-can-minimize-risks-of-crossing-cryosphere-thresholds/
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