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…what do I know when I am in this place that I can know nowhere else? And then, what does this place know of me that I cannot know of myself?

The liberation of human attention may be the defining moral and political struggle of our time. Its success is the prerequisite for the success of virtually all other struggles.

Leaked Facebook internal report: “Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness,” and if left unchecked, the site would continue to pump its users with “ more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention and increase time on the platform.”

We now live in a world dominated by technologies based on B. F. Skinner’s vision of how the human mind works. His insight – that you can train living creatures to desperately crave arbitrary rewards – has come to dominate our environment.

“The practice of beholding, this fidelity to beauty in all things, I’ve come to believe, is no small form of salvation.”

Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism in which the existing inhabitants of a territory are displaced by settlers who take land by force and establish a permanent society where their privileged status is enshrined in law. “Settler colonialism describes contexts where colonization constitutes an ongoing reality rather than a singular event in the past”(Raheb)…”Settler colonialism destroys to replace”.

“Perhaps the ephemeral nature of the bloom alongside the poison only makes it more poetic. We are forced to contemplate both the divine and the darkness.”