Daniel Pinchbeck: Course on Exploring Other Worlds —
To deal with our changing circumstances, we must learn to maintain coherence and clear thinking while we open our minds to other levels of awareness and non-ordinary states of consciousness. These include the intuitive, psychic, mystical, and paranormal. This 5-week course from Daniel Pinchbeck and Sean Esbjörn-Hargens offers a new map of both the macrocosm – the external universe – …
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Berto Jongman: Using Twitter as a Source
Using Twitter as a Data Source: An Overview of Social Media Research Tools (2019) This post builds upon the 2015, and 2017 editions of this post, captures key trends and events which are shaping social media research for social scientists and provides a collection of research methods and tools for the analysis of social media …
Penguin: Open Source Civics in Spain
Medialab Prado: Applying the Open Source Ethic to Civic Innovation An open data project is exploring new ways to use shareable databases in creative, public-spirited ways. Now Medialab Prado is trying to go global with its civic incubation model. In September and October, it will be hosting a MOOC course (in Spanish) on “how to …
Vincent Boccarossa: Deep State
“Deep State Infiltration” by Vincent Boccarossa c2020 In this dynamic and yet diabolical period in human history, there are both truths being uncovered as well as lies and propaganda being aired across the mainstream media channels. This “subtle” form of mind control began using the TV as a delivery system in the 1940’s, and we …
Berto Jongman: The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of ‘Cynical Theories’
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of ‘Cynical Theories’ The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice. Cynical Theories superbly exposes a history of ideas which, in challenging unifying narratives and universal values, have come to threaten free speech, …
Stephen E. Arnold: Palantir Lost $579M in 2019?
Palantir Technologies: Maybe Stealth Is Better for Specialized Services Companies? I, like many other Palantir watchers, read “Leaked S-1 Screenshots Show Palantir Losing $579M in 2019.” My hunch is that this going public thing is not going to be the cake walk some envision. Palantir Technologies is a specialized services company. In my lingo, that …
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