Notices by band@octodon.social

@petergleick Yes, vandalism along several dimensions including a moral one. This quote: “It’s morally wrong, in my opinion, for us not to be doing this,” he says. Whew! 😰

@simsa04 all good here; thanks for the note. warm wishes for the new year

@simsa04 yes. and on another social my post elicited this response "Reality is what exists outside our perceptions. There are absolute rules about how this reality exists independent from our biases." -- this falls into my thinking-about-thinking bucket -- irony intended.

Rachel Bitecofer 📈🔭🇺🇲🇺🇦 - @RachelBitecofer: Stop saying there's no shared reality anymore. Reality is reality & there is only one. (*Spinoza fist-pump*)

> Climate change isn’t a problem that can be solved by summoning the “will.” It isn’t a problem that can be “fixed” or “conquered,” though these words are often used. It isn’t going to have a happy ending, or a win-win ending, or, on a human timescale, any ending at all. Whatever we might want to believe about our future, there are limits, and we are up against them.

Elizabeth Kolbert, Climate Change from A to Z
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/11/28/climate-change-from-a-to-z
[archive.today link](http://archive.today/9rhfz)

This essay hit me like a breath of fresh air:
Fight the tendency to see your life as a narrative journey. https://nautil.us/dont-treat-your-life-as-a-project-248266/

@Michele or perhaps Liu Cixin was onto something his The Dark Forest (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Forest>) novel.