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notions / Re: Mailing List Discussions
Last post by sub rosa - Today at 08:44 PM
March 18, 2026

1. Can listening to specially designed music with auditory beat stimulation reduce anxiety?
2. One hundred years ago Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket. Where are we today?
3. Favorite short story writers.
4. In a new episode of Modern Battles: "Breeders" vs Cat Ladies.

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notions / Re: Mailing List Discussions
Last post by sub rosa - Today at 08:43 PM
March 10, 2026

Discussions on the Mailing List this week:

1. What is solipsism?
2. Is the Objective-Subjective divide real?
3. What system of social organization works best?
4. Why some resent the excellence of truth, good and beauty.
5. Apocalyptic poetry.

... And more, including sundry abominations.

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notions / Re: Mailing List Discussions
Last post by sub rosa - Today at 08:42 PM
March 3, 2026

Select discussions on the Mailing List this week:

1. Should the Have-Nots steal the wealth of corrupt financial elites?
2. How would you design your ideal society?
3.  Is society a daycare?
4.  How real is people's "first love?"

And more...

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#4
notions / Mailing List Discussions
Last post by sub rosa - Today at 08:41 PM
Feb 22, 2026

Select ongoing discussions on the Mailing List this week

1. What is the Transcendental Life?
2. How do we end democracy?
3. Are there politics and social control in the way men and women love each other?
4. Is Beauty essential to life ?
5. "Why are you gay?" - The Evolutionary Function of Homosexuality
6. Does Life Imitate Art or Vice Versa - Understanding life through literary analysis
7. The Vitals: Fire Sauce or Diablo Sauce?
And more...

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#5
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Today at 03:23 PM
#6
books / Re: Book Club
Last post by prime - Today at 02:37 PM
#7
hou2600 / Dead Internet
Last post by prime - Today at 09:46 AM
QuoteThe utopia didn't last long. Early tech enthusiasts quickly realized how to monetize this collective consciousness by developing search engines, algorithms and collecting data.

"We see this in the ideology of early Facebook. The intention was very much like: 'Let me grab all of this data without permission and use it to build something that I can monetize'," says Mejias.

"We've moved from an age of connection to an age of extraction," Turner adds. "Digital media have become mining industries. We are now like oil or coal — embedded in a social ground that corporations extract from and sell back to us as products and advertising."

https://www.dw.com/en/the-internet-was-supposed-to-be-free-what-went-wrong/a-75213121

De-Communisting and applying Crowdism: this is what the herd wanted, a managed experience where Karen can demand to talk to the manager if someone says something that hurts her feelings.
#8
compost / Re: So you can post in here?
Last post by prime - Mar 17, 2026, 10:22 PM
Post into the void, if you want. I think it's private so outsiders will not see.
#9
notions / Re: DiversityWatch
Last post by prime - Mar 17, 2026, 10:21 PM
DiversityWatch: rape, strikes, Irish crime
https://www.amerika.org/politics/diversitywatch-march-17-2026/