#altruism

Sharing the best of humanity with the world, one story at a time.upworthy.com@web.brid.gy
2025-11-19

Fortnite owner praised for quietly saving 50,000 acres of wilderness from development

fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upwo

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-11-18

The highest meaning of a social group is to foster the development of its members' individual potential. Group well-being depends on it.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

Photographs of Jim Ralston and Barbara Kingsolver and their thoughts on the highest meaning of a social group
trndgtr.comtrndgtr
2025-11-15

Why Do Nice Guys Survive? - Steven Pinker and Brian Greene

Sofia JadeSofia3232
2025-10-27

Discover actionable insights on giving back through the power of philanthropy, even without massive wealth: susanaureliagitelson.com/blog/

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-10-26

Ah yes, the "Leisure Class" now saves the world 🌍 by sipping lattes and Instagramming their "good deeds" 📸. Because nothing says like a trust fund and a hashtag. 🥂
letter.palladiummag.com/p/earl

Sofia JadeSofia3232
2025-10-24

Discover practical guides and stories on giving, altruism & impact in Dr. Gitelson’s blog: susanaureliagitelson.com/blog/

Nadiah Kristensennadiah@fediscience.org
2025-10-16

Quite the opening sentence to the Discussion of this paper:-

"Repeated interactions alone cannot explain the evolution of one-shot cooperation because they cannot explain the evolution of repeated cooperation."

nature.com/articles/s41586-024

#cooperation #evolution #anthropology #reciprocity #groupSelection #PrisonersDilemma #altruism

2025-10-13

American Liver Foundation: American Liver Foundation Launches First-Ever Living Donor Network to Increase Liver Transplants. “American Liver Foundation (ALF) is excited to announce the launch of the ALF Living Donor Network, the first-ever non-directed donor (formerly called altruistic donor) database created to connect individuals who wish to donate part of their liver with transplant centers […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/american-liver-foundation-american-liver-foundation-launches-first-ever-living-donor-network-to-increase-liver-transplants/

2025-10-09

This interview with the wonderful Jane Goodall – one week before her death – also highlights the spectrum of humanity: from people like the great scientist, who is a role model for empathy and keeps in mind responsibility for the environment and future generations, to people like Elon Musk – at the opposite end of the spectrum – who seem to have lost all of these qualities.

youtube.com/watch?v=4oshFOK9-sk

#JaneGoodall #ElonMusk #Sustainability #usaid #climateChange #Trump #environment #altruism

2025-10-07

It's October at The Security Economist, so it's time for the horror stories. Today's installment: Invasion of the Data Snatchers!
Free tools. Hidden motives. An open-source ecosystem… taken over from within.

Altruism is the first step...maybe sincere, maybe not. Either way, forces beyond our control push hard in the direction of @pluralistic 's enshittification. Read about how it happens, why it happens, and what we can do about it.

securityeconomist.com/invasion

#enshittification #altruism #thesecurityeconomist

Domando Al Lobo 🐺DomandoAlLobo
2025-09-27
Silken Windsilkenwind
2025-09-25

We must embed altruistic values into AI design:
• Human-life-first objectives
• Transparency & disclosure
• Independent audits

Only then can national security align with humanity’s survival.

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-09-17

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

These illustrations suggest four general maxims, which will prove an adequate preventative of persecution mania if their truth is sufficiently realized. The first is: remember that your motives are not always as altruistic as they seem to yourself. The second is: Don’t overestimate your own merits. The third is: don’t expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself. And the fourth is: don’t imagine that most people give enough thought to you to have any desire to persecute you.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 8 “Persecution Mania” (1930)

More info about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/788…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #altruism #ego #motivation #paranoia #persecution #perspective #pride #selfawareness #selfcentered #selfimportance

2025-09-12

Most of Rand's philosophy comes down to rationalizing avarice, but that doesn't mean it can't be useful. #philosophy #objectivism #altruism

medium.com/@johnhenryus/the-on

Lydia Conwell :mastodon:lydiaconwell@todon.nl
2025-09-05

#CraigMurray | AI and the Urgent Need for a Politics of Altruism

"But as the AI revolution is starting at a time of maximum inequality, and where states are structured to reinforce that inequality, this of course will not happen. Unemployment will rise and people will be driven into desperate poverty, while all the productivity gain will be harvested by the billionaire class.

That is our immediate future."

craigmurray.org.uk/archives/20

#AI #Politics #Altruism

Adrian SegarASegar
2025-09-04

The highest meaning of a social group is to foster the development of its members' individual potential. Group well-being depends on it.

conferencesthatwork.com/index.

Photographs of Jim Ralston and Barbara Kingsolver and their thoughts on the highest meaning of a social group
Weekend Storiesweekendstories
2025-08-31

, the " mind", is central to . It unites () and (), motivating practitioners to seek for all beings. Unlike conventional , bodhicitta is rooted in and non-dual awareness, making Buddhist unique.

🌍 fabriziomusacchio.com/weekend_

Gandharan relief depicting the ascetic Megha (Shakyamuni in a past life) prostrating before the past Buddha Dīpaṅkara and vowing to become a Buddha, c. 2nd century CE, Gandhara, Swat Valley, today Pakistan. Source: Wikimedia Commonsꜛ (license: CC 1.0)

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