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Hard Work: The Greatest Con

You’ve heard it before: Poor people don’t work because they’d rather do drugs and fornicate with themselves. But is this really true? — “I enjoy manual work because it makes me feel that I am fulfilling man’s noblest task, and because I like to think how much man can transform his planet. …

Work

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Hard Work: The Greatest Con
Hard Work: The Greatest Con
Work

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An Uncensored Library Created in Minecraft Defies Authoritarianism

Censored articles from around the world find refuge in this massive Minecraft map — Reporters Without Borders is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. In order to expand upon this goal, the organization has turned to an unlikely source: the video game Minecraft, and a 12.5 …

Minecraft

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An Uncensored Library Created in Minecraft Defies Authoritarianism
An Uncensored Library Created in Minecraft Defies Authoritarianism
Minecraft

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Sep 16

Whose Fault is it Anyway?

Until we stop looking at other human beings as the enemy, we’re going to keep having problems. — I keep seeing people writing about how the current administration has done all sorts of wonderful things, and I’m like… “No, they’ve done the absolute bare minimum to keep a Liberal order intact.” The current administration is certainly better than actual Nazis, but decades of Liberalism has also made fertile…

Politics

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Whose Fault is it Anyway?
Whose Fault is it Anyway?
Politics

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·Aug 18

How Can We Meet the Future with Compassion?

For this pandemic, and all those to come, we must build the resilience of an open heart and mind. — When we are confronted with all the fears of the world, it is easy to become lost, to flounder like someone drowning at sea. There are mitigating factors we can, and must, take in order to protect ourselves and one-another. …

Meditation

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How Can We Meet the Future with Compassion?
How Can We Meet the Future with Compassion?
Meditation

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ILLUMINATION

·Aug 17

Biased Towards Unbiased Data

Our biases can change, but first we have to recognize that they exist. — Did you know that human beings are biased toward optimism? About 80% of the population, according to estimates from numerous studies, display an optimism bias (Sharot, 2011). We assume we will enjoy our vacations. We assume that we won’t get into car accidents. We assume that we won’t get sick…

Meditation

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Biased Towards Unbiased Data
Biased Towards Unbiased Data
Meditation

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Aug 16

General Safety Measures We Need to Normalize

We’re all on the front lines of health and safety these days, so here’s what we can do. — If Covid-19 is still a problem, if there are other airborne diseases (like R.S.V. and influenza) that we need to be wary of, and if there will likely be more such illnesses in the decades ahead… what can we do? Covid-19 is Still a Problem, or: How Diseases Actually Work Can we prepare ourselves for the reality of our world?indubitablyodin.medium.com

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General Safety Measures We Need to Normalize
General Safety Measures We Need to Normalize
Safety

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Aug 16

The Next Pandemic or: how we can change habits in order to outlast and overwhelm the rich bastards who are profiting off our misery

In the face of overwhelming greed, it’s more important than ever to make a stand. — As we create further damage to the Earth’s ecosystems, destabilization will make room for more unique diseases. Rising heat, worsening living conditions (disproportionately for the poorest humans), and the destabilization of predatory ecosystems will all lead to more diseases, not fewer. How Can We Meet the Future with Compassion? For this pandemic, and all those to come, we must build the resilience of an open heart and mind.medium.com

Capitalism

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The Next Pandemic or: how we can change habits in order to outlast and overwhelm the rich bastards…
The Next Pandemic or: how we can change habits in order to outlast and overwhelm the rich bastards…
Capitalism

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Aug 16

Long Covid: A Stark Reality, a Call to Action

The pandemic isn’t over, and its effects will be with us for decades, but information is a pathway to hope and power. — The risk of “Long Covid” symptoms increases every time you get infected. Like a shitty game of viral Russian roulette, you never know when your luck will run out. But what is Long Covid? How can we understand its effects when so much contradictory language has been used, and when…

Covid-19

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Long Covid: A Stark Reality, a Call to Action
Long Covid: A Stark Reality, a Call to Action
Covid-19

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Aug 16

Covid-19 is Still a Problem, or: How Diseases Actually Work

Can we prepare ourselves for the reality of our world? — Between the 1860s and 1950, Australia attempted to kill a fuck-ton of rabbits using plague. Australia has fought some interesting wars. Like the time that their army lost a war against 30,000 emus. Anyway, the rabbit plague eventually worked — it killed almost all of the rabbits. But then, the…

Covid-19

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Covid-19 is Still a Problem, or: How Diseases Actually Work
Covid-19 is Still a Problem, or: How Diseases Actually Work
Covid-19

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Aug 13

Unbelievable Historical Military Facts

Some of the weirdest, funniest, and most incredible events from military history. — Humanity has fought wars for about as long as agriculture has existed, but when one thinks of war one might be tempted to think of words like “heroism” and imagine stylized battlefields lit by the explosion of shells, where brave soldiers vie in a desperate struggle for some strategically-vital piece…

Military

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Unbelievable Historical Military Facts
Unbelievable Historical Military Facts
Military

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Odin Halvorson

Odin Halvorson

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A futurist/socialist/fantasist writer, editor, and scholar. BFA/MFA. Free access to my articles at OdinHalvorson.substack.com | More over at OdinHalvorson.com.

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