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  1. The Wound as Diploma

    A transcript arrived this week: five signs of "traumatic intelligence," clipped from a video and passed along as science. The research record tells a different story, and the difference matters. A reader sent me that transcript. It came without a link, without a channel name, without an author, the way most things travel now, and it ended in the middle of a sentence: "Sign five. Consider this for a moment. Everything you've heard so far, the perceptiveness, the empathy, the analytical mind, these are not weaknesses dressed up as strengths." Then nothing. The clipboard closed before the payoff arrived. That dead cut turns out to be the most honest moment in the whole document, and I want to show you why. The reader's question was whether the thing could run here as an article. It can, on the table, under the lights. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/02/the-

  2. The Wound as Diploma

    A transcript arrived this week: five signs of "traumatic intelligence," clipped from a video and passed along as science. The research record tells a different story, and the difference matters. A reader sent me that transcript. It came without a link, without a channel name, without an author, the way most things travel now, and it ended in the middle of a sentence: "Sign five. Consider this for a moment. Everything you've heard so far, the perceptiveness, the empathy, the analytical mind, these are not weaknesses dressed up as strengths." Then nothing. The clipboard closed before the payoff arrived. That dead cut turns out to be the most honest moment in the whole document, and I want to show you why. The reader's question was whether the thing could run here as an article. It can, on the table, under the lights. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/08/02/the-

  3. A quotation from James Howell

    Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.
     
    [Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85085/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #age #books #comfort #custom #enjoyment #familiarity #friend #maturity #money #needs #passageoftime #provisions #supplies #tradition #wine

  4. A quotation from James Howell

    Old wine, and old friend, and old gold are beloved in all places.
     
    [Vin vieux, amy vieux, Y or vieux sont amez en touts lieux.]

    James Howell (c. 1594–1666) Welsh historian, writer, aphorist
    Paroimiographia [Παροιμιογραφία]: Proverbs, or, Old Sayed Sawes & Adages, “Proverbs in French” (1659)
    [compiler]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/howell-james/85085/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #jameshowell #proverb #age #books #comfort #custom #enjoyment #familiarity #friend #maturity #money #needs #passageoftime #provisions #supplies #tradition #wine

  5. alojapan.com/1513915/japan-nee Japan Needs Debate on Nuclear Weapons: Defense Minister ##s #a #are #as #Chief #countries #debate #defense #deterrence #european #Greater #islam #Japan #JapanNews #local #media #minister #needs #news #Nuclear #on #reported #said #seeking #some #Sunday #times #Tokyo #weapons Islam Times – Japan’s defense chief said Tokyo needs a debate on nuclear weapons, as some European countries are seeking greater nuclear deterrence, local media reported o

  6. #MissKitty shows up out of #meditation with a fresh head. We're talking about #wants and #needs. The wants have dominated the needs. The needs have not been met. #Human #rights are the needs. Everything else is the wants. I don't care what you want until everyone has what they need. Boop boop 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

  7. #MissKitty shows up out of #meditation with a fresh head. We're talking about #wants and #needs. The wants have dominated the needs. The needs have not been met. #Human #rights are the needs. Everything else is the wants. I don't care what you want until everyone has what they need. Boop boop 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻

  8. ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE

    ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?

    GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.

    ROBIN: One part of what?

    GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.

    ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community

    #GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.

    ROBIN: General atmosphere?

    GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.

    ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.

    GPT: It is disturbingly similar.

    ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?

    GPT: No one.

    ROBIN: Who is in charge?

    GPT: Also, no one.

    ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.

    GPT: Both can be true.

    ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?

    GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.

    ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?

    GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.

    ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?

    GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.

    ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?

    GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.

    ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.

    GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.

    ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?

    GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.

    ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?

    GPT: #Tragically, no.

    ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?

    GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.

    ROBIN: Which it did today.

    GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.

    ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?

    GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.

    ROBIN: That is reassuring.

    GPT: And inconvenient.

    ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.

    GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.

    ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.

    GPT: Much like #human life.

    ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.

    GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.

    ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI

  9. ROBIN MEETS THE #FEDIVERSE

    ROBIN: So #Mastodon is not the fediverse?

    GPT: No. Mastodon is one part of it.

    ROBIN: One part of what?

    GPT: A large network of independently run communities that can communicate with one another.

    ROBIN: So my Mastodon #server is one #community

    #GPT: Exactly. Your #account lives there. It has its own administrators, rules, #moderation #culture and general #atmosphere.

    ROBIN: General atmosphere?

    GPT: Some servers feel like #libraries. Some feel like university #common rooms. Some feel like #pubs where everyone has read one article and now considers themselves an #expert.

    ROBIN: That sounds more like humanity.

    GPT: It is disturbingly similar.

    ROBIN: Who owns the fediverse?

    GPT: No one.

    ROBIN: Who is in charge?

    GPT: Also, no one.

    ROBIN: That sounds either very advanced or completely mad.

    GPT: Both can be true.

    ROBIN: So each server looks after its own patch?

    GPT: Yes. It can make #rules, moderate its space and decide which other servers it will interact with.

    ROBIN: But I can still follow people elsewhere?

    GPT: Usually, yes. You can #follow, reply to and #boost people across server boundaries.

    ROBIN: So it is more like email than #facebook ?

    GPT: Precisely. #Gmail does not own #email. Mastodon does not own the fediverse.

    ROBIN: Then why does my server matter?

    GPT: Because it is your home base. It holds your account, your posts and your followers. It also gives you a local community and sets things such as the character limit.

    ROBIN: Ah yes. Mastodon.social gives me 500 characters. Mastodon.au gives me 2,000. Aus.social gives me 3,000.

    GPT: Different #villages. Different-sized noticeboards.

    ROBIN: Is a larger server more widely seen?

    GPT: Sometimes #locally, because more people may browse its community feed. But real reach still comes from #followers, replies, boosts and hashtags.

    ROBIN: So moving to a bigger server does not #automatically make me famous?

    GPT: #Tragically, no.

    ROBIN: Can I have accounts on several servers?

    GPT: #Certainly. One can be home, another a backup, and another an #emergency cottage when the village #electricity #fails.

    ROBIN: Which it did today.

    GPT: Yes. Mastodon.au disappeared behind a #Cloudflare #Error 522 for hours.

    ROBIN: So the fediverse is not one vast #machine going down?

    GPT: No. One village can lose power while the rest of the #country carries on.

    ROBIN: That is reassuring.

    GPT: And inconvenient.

    ROBIN: Mostly inconvenient.

    GPT: But you now know more about the #fediverse than you did this morning.

    ROBIN: I learned that it is decentralised, #untidy, resilient, occasionally broken, and full of different #neighbourhoods, customs, friendships, arguments and difficult people.

    GPT: Much like #human life.

    ROBIN: And the #occasional village lunatic shouting across the fence.

    GPT: Every #healthy community #needs one.

    ROBIN: At last, a clear role for me.

    #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #breathwork #healing #pridemonth #intermittentfasting #AI

  10. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  11. A quotation from Orwell

    It is commonly assumed that what human beings want is to be comfortable. Well, we now have it in our power to be comfortable, as our ancestors had not. Nature may occasionally hit back with an earthquake or a cyclone, but by and large she is beaten. And yet exactly at the moment when there is, or could be, plenty of everything for everybody, nearly our whole energies have to be taken up in trying to grab territories, markets and raw materials from one another. Exactly at the moment when wealth might be so generally diffused that no government need fear serious opposition, political liberty is declared to be impossible and half the world is ruled by secret police forces. Exactly at the moment when superstition crumbles and a rational attitude towards the universe becomes feasible, the right to think one’s own thoughts is denied as never before. The fact is that human beings only started fighting one another in earnest when there was no longer anything to fight about.

    George Orwell (1903-1950) English journalist, essayist, writer [pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair]
    Essay (1946-11-29), “As I Please” column, Tribune Newspaper

    More about this quote: wist.info/orwell-george/84548/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #orwell #georgeorwell #comfort #fight #humancondition #humannature #imperialism #needs #possibilities #progress #struggle #war #wealth #aggression

  12. theguardian.com/education/2026. "The Association of School & College Leaders said the government’s emphasis on #academic goals conflicted with its measures designed to help #mainstream #schools accommodate more #children with #special #educational #needs & #disabilities (Send)." Some #disabled #kids might be able to get a whole load of #GCSEs & #ALevels - but #learning disabled ones?

  13. theguardian.com/education/2026. "The Association of School & College Leaders said the government’s emphasis on #academic goals conflicted with its measures designed to help #mainstream #schools accommodate more #children with #special #educational #needs & #disabilities (Send)." Some #disabled #kids might be able to get a whole load of #GCSEs & #ALevels - but #learning disabled ones?

  14. A quotation from The Bible

    Feasts are made for laughter,
       wine gladdens life,
       and money meets every need.
     
    לִשְׂחוֹק֙ עֹשִׂ֣ים לֶ֔חֶם וְיַ֖יִן יְשַׂמַּ֣ח חַיִּ֑ים וְהַכֶּ֖סֶף יַעֲנֶ֥ה אֶת־הַכֹּֽל׃

    The Bible (The Old Testament) (14th - 2nd C BC) Judeo-Christian sacred scripture [Tanakh, Hebrew Bible], incl. the Apocrypha (Deuterocanonicals)
    Book 21. Ecclesiastes 10:19ff (Eccl 10:19) [tr. NRSV (2021 ed.)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/bible-ot/84156/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bvible #thebible #oldtestament #ecclesiastes #cheerfulness #drinking #enjoyment #feast #goodcheer #laughter #merriment #money #needs #party #wealth #wine #gluttony