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The New Fog Of Footage
Modern life now includes a daily guessing game nobody asked for. Every time a video appears on X, Facebook, TikTok, or any other platform, you have to pause and ask a question that should never have been necessary.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin6 days ago in Humans
Bianca Bulgaru, Reporting From Kyiv Under Fire: Civilian Life, Drones, and Propaganda
Bianca Bulgaru is a Romanian journalist and Kyiv-based correspondent for Beta News Romania. Reporting from cities including Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Sumy, she focuses on how civilians adapt to air raids, infrastructure strikes, and the long psychological aftershocks of living under threat. She also tracks the parallel war over narrative: propaganda that inflates fringe extremists into state-defining myths, and the language politics that can turn a reporting choice into an accusation. Scott Douglas Jacobsen spoke with Bulgaru about habituation to danger, the ethics of witnessing, and why transparency matters for sustaining Romanian support for Ukraine.
By Scott Douglas Jacobsen6 days ago in Humans
The System to Replace Us
I must confess I use Artificial Intelligence. Not to write, of course. I would never use AI to write anything for me. Not because I am too morally superior to let a machine do my work. Generally speaking, I’m lazy and love shortcuts. The truth is I refuse to use Artificial Intelligence to write because I’m too prideful. I am way too talented of a wordsmith to need AI’s help with writing anything.
By A. J. Schoenfeld6 days ago in Humans
Failing at Putting an End to Sex for Sale on the Street
When we consider one of the many flawed systems that currently govern the way we do things, one fact in particular comes to mind.
By Justiss Goode6 days ago in Humans
You Ate What?
What did you say? You ate what? We have been consumed with modern technology. Every week it seems there is some new innovation to consider. Never has it been more imperative to take a step back and revisit what we are dealing with, because everything has a consequence, good or bad.
By Alexandra Grant6 days ago in Humans
OUTPUT. OUTPUT. OUTPUT.
Another girl I went to high school with just announced she’s starting to "post content" online. Over the past two months, that makes her at least the sixth or seventh person I know personally who, prior to this announcement, had shown zero interest in the arts or content creation. And if I'm being totally honest (feel free to call me a hater), none of them seem to have the personality or raw passion for the content they're creating. But here they are, venturing into the space anyway.
By Jide Okonjo6 days ago in Humans
Fatigue
It was like the flip of a coin or a flip of a switch, until everything we knew or thought we knew was upended and dismantled, right down to our own humanity. COVID
By Kelli Sheckler-Amsden6 days ago in Humans
The Architecture of Pause
Series Introduction There is a space most people avoid — the moment between impulse and action. In that space, architecture is either strengthened or fractured.
By Flower InBloom7 days ago in Humans
Choosing Day
Click! I switched off the television. I had had enough. It was well into the night and I had been monitoring updates all day for the election results.
By Alicia Anspaugh7 days ago in Humans
Erratic Leadership
Since the 2024 election, the United States government has been pulled apart, thread by thread. Deliberately. By a reality television celebrity. Civil service regulations and ethics oversight remain in place in theory, but the experienced professionals who enforced them were fired or resigned. Cabinet members lack qualifications and have repeatedly proven it. The Inspectors General and oversight personnel were fired so that unlawful actions would not be prosecuted. Elon Musk was, for a while, allowed unchecked influence. His lieutenants screamed at Federal employees, locked them out, indiscriminately fired people, and claimed savings that were false, as well as claiming dead people and undocumented people got benefits.
By Andrea Corwin 7 days ago in Humans
Falling Between Every System
Modern social systems are often described as safety nets. Employment law protects workers. Healthcare programs provide treatment. Disability benefits replace lost income. Unemployment insurance bridges job loss. Each system is presented as a safeguard designed to catch people when life disrupts their ability to function normally. Yet for many people living with disability, chronic illness, or injury, the lived experience is the opposite. Rather than forming a net, these systems stack vertically, each with its own eligibility rules, thresholds, and assumptions. Instead of catching the fall, they create gaps. People do not slip through because they failed to try. They fall because the systems were never designed to align.
By Peter Thwing - Host of the FST Podcast7 days ago in Humans
Regulation at the Threshold
Author’s Note — Flower InBloom This series is part of my ongoing work exploring personal sovereignty through nervous system awareness and structural alignment. I write not to dramatize change, but to understand how the body organizes through it. When we learn to regulate at the threshold, endings stop feeling like collapse and begin revealing architecture.
By Flower InBloom8 days ago in Humans