exurb1a: Buddhism is Kinda Out There, Man

Enjoyably existential. The answer is to our problems is down and in, not up and out.

Insider: How Disney’s Animated Hair Became So Realistic, From Tangled to Encanto

This explains the hair modeling behind the animations of 3D Disney characters, which got a lot more complex in Encanto with more different hair types represented…fascinating!

Game: Alter Ego

Interesting game. Like Choose Your Own Adventure, but of an ordinary human life, starting at infancy. It gets tedious after awhile, but it does make you reflect on how many different interactions you had as an infant where you concluded things about the world that you don’t remember.

Techlore: Privacy Specialist Responds to John Oliver’s Data Brokers Segment

Great info and good links in the description box to tools for protecting your privacy.

How to Cook That: A.I. Wrote an Oreo Cake Recipe…Is it any good?

This is a great illustration of just how un-intelligent “AI” is right now. It’s basically a sophisticated regurgitation algorithm…when you try to get it to write something like a recipe, it has no mechanism for making sure you actually use the ingredients it called for, or that the end result is any good. Your robot overlords, these ain’t.

Cleo Abram: The Big Misconception About Clean Energy

The end goal isn’t to use less energy; everything about how we live is made better by more energy. The goal is to produce massive amounts of clean energy.

Johnny Harris: The Dark Side of Electric Cars

“Clean” energy so far just means not fossil fuels. It doesn’t mean clean in any other way–fair societies, less environmental damage, etc. It’s up to us to make those things happen too.

Knowing Better: Neoslavery, The Part of History You’ve Always Skipped

Good overview of the real history of slavery, before and after the Civil War, continuing through debt peonage and convict leasing.

David Hoffmeister: Allowing Yourself to Be Awakened

One of my favorite ACIM teachers. From the video: “We need a willingness to heal our mind. We need to be willing to see where we say no to peace. In fact, we only need willingness.”

Willingness was one of the first principles I learned about spirituality 20 years ago.

Spirit is the ultimate non-violent force: it will only show you anything after you truly, in your heart, are open and willing to receive it. You must first trust enough to be willing to allow for the possibility of experiencing something beyond your ego-mind before anything can happen. That is the key to all spiritual experience.

And it’s not a ra-ra, excited, proclaim-it-to-the-world kind of willingness. It’s the 2am, in the quiet of the night, when nobody is watching, when it’s just you and the moon and the possibility that there’s something awe-inducing beyond your senses available to you, kind of willingness. It’s a surrender of the figuring-out, needing-to-know, trying-and-seeking ego mind. It’s a sincere letting go of what you think you know and making a genuine invitation to the unknown.

Heidi Priebe: ENFP vs ADHD: What Are The Key Differences?

Yes, I have 200 open tabs, and no, I don’t have ADHD. ENFPs don’t like to do things we aren’t interested in, but we can if we have to. Personality is about your preferences, not deficits.