02 December 2022

Istiqlál, 10 Qawl (Speech), 179 B.E

Seen

Another collage of fall leaves from earlier in the season…

Done

Participated in the weekly Zoom call with Helen Stucky-Weaver and the Wellness Weavers “Inner Circle” group. I had an opportunity to review my strategy for digitizing and organizing my work so it can be accessed on a website. I referenced the “Music Brain” as an example of how to use TheBrain for this purpose. The Wellness Weavers information would easily fit into this format—it’s just a matter of how much time one wants to spend doing it. They encouraged me to keep looking into it. And so I will!

Noted

Astral Prospecting on Instagram | Astral Prospecting on YouTube | Astral Prospecting on Facebook

Marc Bosserman on Instagram | Marc Bosserman on Facebook | Marc Bosserman Music and Musings on YouTube

Tab’s Galaxy on YouTube

Listened

Benny Goodman - Live at Carnegie Hall 40th Anniversary Concert

Notes by Discogs.com

Read

Morgan, W. Y. (William Yoast). The Near East. 1st ed. Topeka, Kan.: :Crane & Co., 1913. http://archive.org/details/neareast00morg.

Bookmarked

Bakker, Michiel A., Martin J. Chadwick, Hannah R. Sheahan, Michael Henry Tessler, Lucy Campbell-Gillingham, Jan Balaguer, Nat McAleese, et al. “Fine-Tuning Language Models to Find Agreement among Humans with Diverse Preferences.” arXiv, November 27, 2022. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.15006.

Baquero, Carlos. “The Legacy of Peer-to-Peer Systems.” Communications of the ACM, December 1, 2022. https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/267236-the-legacy-of-peer-to-peer-systems/fulltext.

Bjoin, Bob. “Cherish the Experience at Wapsie Pines Tree Farm.” Iowa Farm Bureau, November 28, 2022. https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Cherish-the-experience-at-Wapsie-Pines-Tree-Farm.

Bordoff, Jason. “Emmanuel Macron & Other EU Leaders Have Used Inflammatory Rhetoric to Criticize 3 Aspects of US Energy & Climate Policy over Profiteering from Ukraine & #IRA.” ThreadReader, December 2, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598697099335708672.html.

Columbus Democratic Socialists of America. “Statement on Fascist Threats Against the LGBTQ+ Community in Columbus.” ThreadReader, December 2, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598814711172268032.html.

Garry, Hugh, and Anjali Ramachandran. “Unlocking Creativity, 52 Lessons. Monsters of Doc.” Substack newsletter. Storythings Newsletter (blog), December 2, 2022. https://storythingsnewsletter.substack.com/p/storythings-newsletter.

Goldberg, Brad. “465 Patients Checked into Our ED in a 24hr Period.” Twitter, November 30, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598101949127106560.html.

Heilpern, Layah. “Bill Gates: I’m Gonna Put a Microchip inside You Everyone: EVILLLLL.” Tweet. Twitter, December 1, 2022. https://twitter.com/LayahHeilpern/status/1598181995917774848.

Loury, Glenn. “John McWhorter and James Beaman – A Peek Behind the Antiracist Curtain.” Substack newsletter. Glenn Loury (blog), November 28, 2022. https://glennloury.substack.com/p/john-mcwhorter-and-james-beaman-a.

Packer, Dominic, and Jay Van Bavel. “What’s the Least You Can Do to Turn People against Each Other?” The Power of Us, November 29, 2022. https://powerofus.substack.com/.

Pearson, Catherine, Photographs by Sara Naomi Lewkowicz, Vanessa Leroy, Sarah Rice, and Yehyun Kim. “What It Really Takes to Breastfeed a Baby.” The New York Times, November 30, 2022, sec. Well. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/11/30/well/family/breastfeeding-nursing-formula.html.

Rixey, Charles. “When Nature Falls: A COVID-19 Conversation with ‘Scientists.’” Substack newsletter. Prometheus Shrugged (blog), July 8, 2021. https://prometheusshrugged.substack.com/p/when-nature-falls-a-covid-19-conversation.

Roubini, Nouriel. “That Is Why AI Will Make the Job of Most Economists - Including Myself - Obsolete over the next Few Decades.” Tweet. Twitter, December 1, 2022. https://twitter.com/Nouriel/status/1598426365166243840.

Sheahan, Hannah. “So Happy My First Major Piece of Work at DeepMind Is Now Published!” ThreadReader, December 1, 2022. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1598349628499496960.html.

Sorted

Developed a workflow for saving and organizing bookmarks using TheBrain. Next up, learn about templates.

Quoted

I will speak to you concerning the special teachings of Bahá’u’lláh. All the divine principles announced by the tongue of the Prophets of the past are to be found in the words of Bahá’u’lláh; but in addition to these He has revealed certain new teachings which are not found in any of the sacred Books of former times. I shall mention some of them; the others, which are many in number, may be found in the Books, Tablets and Epistles written by Bahá’u’lláh—such as the Hidden Words, the Glad Tidings, the Words of Paradise, Tajallíyát, Ṭarázát and others. Likewise, in the Kitáb-i-Aqdas there are new teachings which cannot be found in any of the past Books or Epistles of the Prophets.

A fundamental teaching of Bahá’u’lláh is the oneness of the world of humanity. Addressing mankind, He says, “Ye are all leaves of one tree and the fruits of one branch.” By this it is meant that the world of humanity is like a tree, the nations or peoples are the different limbs or branches of that tree, and the individual human creatures are as the fruits and blossoms thereof. In this way Bahá’u’lláh expressed the oneness of humankind, whereas in all religious teachings of the past the human world has been represented as divided into two parts: one known as the people of the Book of God, or the pure tree, and the other the people of infidelity and error, or the evil tree. The former were considered as belonging to the faithful, and the others to the hosts of the irreligious and infidel—one part of humanity the recipients of divine mercy, and the other the object of the wrath of their Creator. Bahá’u’lláh removed this by proclaiming the oneness of the world of humanity, and this principle is specialized in His teachings, for He has submerged all mankind in the sea of divine generosity. Some are asleep; they need to be awakened. Some are ailing; they need to be healed. Some are immature as children; they need to be trained. But all are recipients of the bounty and bestowals of God. ¹