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Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart
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💔 A welcoming space to bring any hurt, with 100+ years of psychodrama wisdom.
🔥 In-person in LA & nationwide — & virtual.
✨ Expect connection, movement, laughter. Speak, be silent, witness, or join — always at your pace.
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Before the scroll, there was the wander—the sacred act of browsing.
Aisles, shelves, spines. Discovery through patience.
Now, algorithms know our tastes better than we do.
But what happens to curiosity when nothing is left to stumble upon?

@thewalrus.ca
Life in the Stacks: A Love Letter to Browsing | The Walrus
Algorithms are integral to how we find and consume art. But old-fashioned browsing still has its benefits
thewalrus.ca
October 15, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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🌫️⏳ Design for lingering, not speed. From incense clocks to Zen halls, can our tools stretch time instead of slicing it into clicks and pings?

Read: seanvoisen.com/blog/design-...
Philosophy for Designers 4: Design for lingering
Inspired by Byung-Chul Han’s "The Scent of Time," this is an exploration of design interventions for contemplation and lingering.
seanvoisen.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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🎻 Thomas Laqueur on Kate Kennedy’s “Cello”: memory that survives in wood, silence that becomes sound. From Auschwitz to Wigmore Hall, a lost cello finds its voice again. What returns when we listen this way?
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@lrb.co.uk
Thomas Laqueur · A Different Life: Can cellos remember?
Cellists and violinists in particular are haunted by the musicians who played their instruments before them and those...
www.lrb.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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🌊 Mariners at the Dawn of History — our ancestors didn’t just walk into the unknown, they sailed.
Before cities or maps, they crossed vast seas—explorers of body and mind.

⛵ What does it mean that our first journeys were over water?
www.palladiummag.com/2025/10/10/m...
Mariners at the Dawn of History
www.palladiummag.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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📱✨ A like is never just a like.
Ruby Justice Thelot reminds us: even the smallest tap can carry echoes of love, longing, or loss. Digital gestures become the speed dials of our age, ranking intimacy in silence.
Read here: beingonline.substack.com/p/instagram-...
Instagram Story Likes and Markers of Digital Affection
User research on the meaning of Instagram Story Likes
beingonline.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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🌟 “We needed to do something.” Lori’s story is a reminder that grief, rage, and love can become engines for change. From buses to food pantries to ACT UP, she showed how ordinary courage feeds extraordinary legacies.
👉 rebeccamakkai.substack.com/p/we-needed-...

@rebeccamakkai.bsky.social
"We needed to do SOMETHING"
in memoriam, Lori Cannon
rebeccamakkai.substack.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Friendship, says The Shadowed Archive, is impossible—therefore it must be done. 🌊
We are not moss, spreading alone in damp silence. We are animals who rot without witnesses. Someone must see us, hear us, accompany us.
📖 theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/an-existen...
An Existential Guide to: Making Friends
Friends Friends What Glorious Friendly Friends!
theshadowedarchive.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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🔗 medium.com/@mhkt/as-we-...

We once became clocks. Now we are becoming cameras. ⏱📷
What happens when images saturate our reality the way time once did?
The question isn’t just about tech. It’s about what it means to see and to be seen—as humans, as communities, as souls.
As We Become Cameras
Wearable cameras will be ubiquitous. We’ll barely notice.
medium.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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🧮 Numbers are universal, right? Not quite.
The words we use to count shape how we think, learn, and even feel math.
BBC explores how languages like Chinese or Welsh give children a clearer grasp of numbers than English or French.

🔗 www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Why you might be counting in the wrong language
Learning numbers in a European language has probably affected your early maths ability. It turns out there are better ways to count.
www.bbc.com
October 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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🌋 In 2022, a volcanic eruption tore apart Tonga’s only internet cables. Overnight, a nation was plunged into silence.
What happens when the fragile threads that bind us snap?
🔗 www.theguardian.com/news/2025/se...

@samanthsubramanian.bsky.social
@theguardian.com
Extremely offline: what happened when a Pacific island was cut off from the internet | Samanth Subramanian
A colossal volcanic eruption in January 2022 ripped apart the underwater cables that connect Tonga to the world – and exposed the fragility of 21st-century life
www.theguardian.com
October 5, 2025 at 4:46 AM
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🌪️ Imagine a bird flying into a hurricane, not away. The Desertas petrel, no bigger than a pigeon, rides the storm’s chaos as opportunity. Out of destruction comes abundance, the ocean’s secrets churned to the surface.

www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

@kathla.bsky.social
@bbc.co.uk.web.brid.gy
Riders on the storm: The birds that fly into hurricanes
When hurricanes pass over the ocean they churn up creatures from the deep – a chance to feast for predators brave enough to weather the storm.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Tim Berners-Lee built the web, now he wants to save its soul. Tools shape us, unless we shape them first. Read: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Full article: archive.is/vSawW

@jcljules.bsky.social
@newyorker.com
Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive monopolies, he thinks he can do it again.
www.newyorker.com
October 2, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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The brain is a theater of balance. Excitation and inhibition dance, each neuron in harmony or chaos. Too much spark and we seize. Too little and we fall silent. Cajal’s drawings showed the cast—today science reveals the plot.
🔗 www.quantamagazine.org/how-the-brai...
@quantamagazine.bsky.social
How the Brain Balances Excitation and Inhibition | Quanta Magazine
A healthy brain maintains a harmony of neurons that excite or inhibit other neurons, but the lines between different types of cells are blurrier than researchers once thought.
www.quantamagazine.org
October 1, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Through the wardrobe we return—Narnia, not just a story, but a mirror of childhood wonder and adult grief. Goldwag revisits Lewis with fresh eyes, reminding us that myth and memory are doorways into our own psychology.
🔗 nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2025/09/27/r...

@goldwagnathan.bsky.social
Returning to Narnia (Part One)
I don’t remember the first time I read the Chronicles of Narnia. Possibly my dad read them to me when I was very little? It was just one of those series that was foundational to my childhood,…
nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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💔 A marriage cracks open. A child begs his parents not to divorce. Instead of responding with her own words, the mother turns to AI. What was once a fight between two people becomes a three-way argument with a machine.
🔗 futurism.com/chatgpt-marr...

@futurism.com
@mharrisondupre.bsky.social
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as Spouses Use AI to Attack Their Partners
Across the world, marriages are being destroyed as spouses use AI like OpenAI's ChatGPT to attack their partners.
futurism.com
September 29, 2025 at 5:21 PM
(1/5) Language has organs you cannot see. Berlinski & Uriagereka show how “case” is bone under skin, giving sentences shape even when the marks are gone. Reading it felt like finding the frame beneath breath.

🔗 inference-review.com/article/the-...
The Recovery of Case | David Berlinski & Juan Uriagereka | Inference
Jean-Roger Vergnaud’s famous 1977 letter to Noam Chomsky and Howard Lasnik assumed that case is obligatory. As Juan Uriagereka and David Berlinski argue, Vergnaud’s case filter was a vindication of th...
inference-review.com
September 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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🌌 Cyril Connolly once wrote to soothe a young woman afraid of death.
He said: death is either survival or extinction. If survival, it is spirit. If extinction, it is nothingness, no more to fear than deep sleep.
Read here: thelondonmagazine.org/archive-cyri...

@thelondonmagazine.bsky.social
Archive | Cyril Connolly's Cure for the Fear of Death - The London Magazine
Cyril Connolly's notes on a cure for the fear of death were written in 1949 for a girl who had expressed a fear of dying to the author.
thelondonmagazine.org
September 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Reposted by Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart
OBAMA: It's fair to say that 80% of the world's problems involve old men hanging on who are afraid of death and insignificance, and they won't let go. They build pyramids, and they put their names on everything. They get very anxious about it.
September 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Reposted by Catharsis Theater: Relief for the Human Heart
We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven.
September 25, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“Speak weirdness to truth.” When the compass spins, that is the doorway. Rao’s essay names the aporia where thinking and feeling both glitch, inviting a fuller reboot of mind and heart.

Read here: www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/09/22/s...

@vgr.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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🌀 Moral progress is often imagined as widening circles of empathy — once only kings, then citizens, then all humanity. Today, philosophers ask: should that circle stretch into the far future, to people not yet born?

🔗 mappingignorance.org/2025/09/22/t...

@mappingignorance.org
The brief life of longtermism (1) - Mapping Ignorance
Longtermism proposes that the lives of people who may exist hundreds of years from now have the same value as present ones
mappingignorance.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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🌍 The body as mediator
Merleau-Ponty reminds us that we do not just “have” bodies. We are lived bodies — breathing, pulsing, perceiving. In an age of screens, this wisdom is more urgent than ever.

🔗 aeon.co/essays/the-p...

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@aeon.co
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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🕊️ Behind prison walls in Ohio, cages hold not only robins, jays, and opossums — but also the fragile possibility of redemption. Inmates are finding meaning by caring for orphaned wildlife.

A story of healing across species:
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-natu...

@smithsonianmag.bsky.social
In Prisons Across Ohio, These Inmates Are Finding Meaning by Saving Orphaned and Injured Animals
The Ohio Wildlife Center’s hospital sends critters to five facilities for care before eventual release
www.smithsonianmag.com
September 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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🧠 Consciousness goes deeper than attention.
It may not arise at five months or five years. It may have been there all along, woven into every breath and sensation.

Article link:
www.scientificamerican.com/blog/observa...

@bernardokastrup.bsky.social
@sciam.bsky.social
Consciousness Goes Deeper Than You Think
Awareness can be part of it, but it’s much more than that
www.scientificamerican.com
September 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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When boxes slow, stories surface. Odd Lots asks why US box shipments hit lows since 2015 and what that says about the body of the economy. I hear a pulse check.

Link: www.listennotes.com/podcasts/odd...
The Cardboard Boxpocalypse and the State of the US Economy
00:43:32 - Almost everything we buy nowadays has been in a box at some point. Goods are shipped in boxes. Products ordered online arrive at our doorstep in box…
www.listennotes.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:06 PM