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bizarette-art · 9 months

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I work at a movie theater.

And personally? To be in the tickets booth, and see young girls, teenagers, adult women, coming in to see Barbie,

the most highlighter pink outfits, some of them coming in with the dolls they’re dressed as, laughing to each other, cheering for each other,

to see the men they’re coming to see it with, dressed in pink, cheering them on, taking their pictures with smiles and cheers in the lobby at the photo op

touches something so deep in me

I can’t say any nuances of the movie that haven’t already been said, but like, fuck man, love is so deep and so kind and to be able to see glimpses of it from behind my little ticket desk makes me a little less nihilistic.

#barbie #barbie movie #barbenheimer #movie theater #womanhood #girlhood #girly #humankind #not art

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luvingsunshine · 2 months

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sapiens: a brief history of humankind

#currently reading #booklr #sapiens #sapiens: a brief history of» humankind #yuval noah harari #history #science #nature #literature #humankind #my scan

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gobcorend · 4 months

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Fragments of NOT JUST PASSING - By Hiba Abu Nada (24 June 1991 - 20 October 2023)

Translated by Huda Fakhreddine

Yesterday, a star said

to the little light in my heart,

We are not just transients

passing

Do not die. Beneath this glow

some wanderers go on

walking.

You were first created out of love,

so carry nothing but love

to those who are trembling.

One day, all gardens sprouted

from our names, from what remained

of hearts yearning (...)

O little light in me, don't die,

even if all the galaxies of the world

close in.

O little light in me, say:

Enter my heart in peace.

All of you, come in!

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inkcoveredpoet · 7 months

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People.

All images are from pinterest

#chaotic academia #coquette #people #photography #humans #dark academia #academia aesthetic #chaotic academic aesthetic #the secret history #dark acadamia aesthetic #romantic academia #dead poets society #tsh #humankind

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drnikolatesla · 3 months

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Nikola Tesla on Human Energy

In an article written in 1900 titled “The Problem of Increasing Human Energy,” Nikola Tesla shares his ideas aimed at revolutionizing the way energy is generated, transmitted, and utilized, with the ultimate goal of enhancing human well-being and progress.

Tesla starts with his philosophical perspective on human life–what is it, and where is it going? He implies that human life is a movement, and since the existence of movement naturally implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it, then wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. Since action and reaction are coexistent (Newton’s third law of motion), then human movement, along with all movement in the universe, is rhythmical. He explains how we are witness to this rhythm in the motion of the stars, the surging and ebbing of the oceans, the changing of seasons, and the infinitely varied phenomena of organic life. Tesla then identifies humanity as a unitary whole, and comes to the conclusion that the same general laws of movement that govern the whole physical universe must be applicable to all living things, including humankind, and we may understand this movement by using mechanical principles. Consequently, Tesla implies we may measure human energy using the formula for kinetic energy, E=MV²/2, which is one of the fundamental physics equations that describes a moving object's energy. E represents energy, M being human mass, and V a hypothetical velocity. Tesla goes on to consider humans analogous to machines and asks how do we increase the energy of this machine positively and decrease the negative forces decelerating it? In answering this question, Tesla suggests:

Promoting marriage

Having more children and raising them to a higher velocity, or enlightenment, than their parents

Attention to health

Improving quality of drinking water

Providing healthful food to those in need

Encouraging a vegetarian diet rather than a carnivorous one

Discouraging artificial food

Moderation of exercise between both mind and body

Discouraging bad habits with alcohol, tobacco, tea, coffee, and other stimulants

Discouraging gambling

Improving hygiene, education, and morals

Reducing ignorance, stupidity, imbecility, religious fanaticism, etc.

Improving the productivity of soil by electrical means

Increasing the workforce

Ending warfare by developing machines (remote controlled robots, drones, etc.) to fight battles leading to fewer human casualties

Encouraging peace by bringing humans in closer contact

Improving methods of manufacturing (i.e., coal, gas, iron, aluminum)

Withdrawing from traditional energy sources and tapping into renewable energy

Tesla shares his invention of a radio controlled boat and its possible use. He also shares his experiments involving burning of nitrogen in the atmosphere, wireless transmission of power, and more. He discusses his vision for harnessing natural forces to help increase the energy needs of humanity. He proposes a global system of wireless power transmission, using the earth as a conductor and waterfalls as a power source. He also explores the possibilities of interplanetary communication and ideas related to tapping into cosmic energy sources and utilizing them for the betterment of humankind.

Tesla finishes his article saying:

"I anticipate that many, unprepared for these results, which, through long familiarity, appear to me simple and obvious, will consider them still far from practical application. Such reserve, and even opposition, of some is as useful a quality and as necessary an element in human progress as the quick receptivity and enthusiasm of others. Thus, a mass which resists the force at first, once set in movement, adds to the energy. The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter — for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes with the poet who says:

"Schaff’, das Tagwerk meiner Hände, Hohes Glück, dass ich’s vollende! Lass, o lass mich nicht ermatten! Nein, es sind nicht leere Träume: Jetzt nur Stangen, diese Bäume Geben einst noch Frucht und Schatten."

(Daily work — my hands’ employment, To complete is pure enjoyment! Let, oh, let me never falter! No! there is no empty dreaming: Lo! these trees, but bare poles seeming, Yet will yield both food and shelter!)

*Goethe’s “Hope." Translated by William Gibson, Com. U. S. N.*

#nikola tesla #science #history #quotes #energy #wireless #power #humanity #humankind #philosophy #ahead of his time #ahead of our time

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thefunnythingaboutpeople · 6 months

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Have you ever really thought about how when you look at the moon, it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antionette and Van Gogh and Cleopatra looked at.

#dark academia #light academia #van gogh #cleopatra #shakespeare #marie antoinette #history #moon #the moon #the night sky #humanity #humankind #people #anthropology

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feral-ballad · 2 years

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It was a shipwreck, and me thrown on the coastline of humankind, and finding it not altogether human, and rarely kind.

Jeanette Winterson, from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

#jeanette winterson #humankind #excerpts #writings #literature #memoir #prose #fragments #selections #words #quotes #prose collection

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claraameliapond · 5 months

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Worldwide Pro Palestinian marches continue - We are all Palestinians

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abduloki · 1 year

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She’s not wrong. 🧐

Shazam! Fury of the Gods (2023)

#shazam fury of the gods #shazam #lucy liu #dceu #dc comics #dc movies #dc #humankind #rachel zegler #helen mirren

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aspiritualwarriors · 2 years

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There is hope in people, not in society, not in systems, but in you and me.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#jiddu krishnamurti #hope #people #humankind

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phrogarmyinvasion · 4 months

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nothing is more beautifully human than seeking and noticing the things that remind us of humanity as it exists currently. i saw a post on tumblr earlier about a piece of pottery from many ages past, in which a woman sits in front of the stove and patiently awaits a loaf of bread. someone posted it, likening it to how they look when they wait in front of the microwave for their leftovers. i couldn’t help but be reminded of the fact there are entire online discussion boards and groups dedicated to finding connection in the ways the universe and outer space replicate the human body. or the fact that last term i read a play called ‘the unnatural and accidental woman’ which likened humans to the trees which we fell. how many poems have been written about personifying spring, summer, fall, and winter? how many songs have been sung about the sky, the fields, the rain, and how many of them have described these effects with the same descriptors as women, men, children, old people, and humans in general??

the epitome of humanity is searching for connection in absolutely everything.

#poems #humanity #humankind #human love #ancient pottery #books #plays #theatre #the seasons #human connection

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idol--hands · 10 months

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Data: “And I was made by a mortal. By a human, specifically.”

Data: “Observe me, Shapers. See me for what I am. I am a synthetic intelligence android-classified life-form. Within the top two percentile of intelligent beings in the universe, at least within the current probability curve. And I was made by a mortal. By a human, specifically. I understand how one can undervalue them. They are short-lived and limited. Their information processing can be disappointing at the best of times. But what they create is eternal. You purport to believe in the sanctity of engineering. Would you destroy the few who could make something like me?” Sisko: “Commander, I have an apology to make. Your actions and intelligence today have dispelled any hesitation I may have had at your appointment. I could give a damn what Jean-Luc thinks — I could not ask for a finer first officer. I look forward to being your Captain. And your friend.”

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viktheviking1 · 6 months

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Why is it that in all of human history, it took until this past decade or so to figure out what actual healthy, empathetic,equal human relationships are?

My parents tell me stories of how it used to be normal for a husband to drag his wife by the hair, kicking and screaming, with no one calling the police. Like, that was just a Tuesday.

And parents telling their kids what they can and can't do with their bodies, forcing them to hug strangers, and beating them for expressing a need in a socially inappropriate way.

I mean, I get that in most all of human history, people had to worry about things like war and famine, but jeez! Worry about how you treat your fellow person! Worry about generational trauma!

And the human race still has a long way to go before we reach any kind of -mostly peaceful interpersonal relationships- but I'm just glad that I have the information to spot the gaslighters, manipulators, and the using you-ers. They didn't used to have words for people like that, it was just so normal.

So here's a little PSA for us all, if you walked past yourself saying what you're saying, doing what you're doing, would you think you were being an jerk?

Because we'll never have world peace if we can't be nice to the person making our burgers for an unlivable wage, even if they put cheese on it when you specifically said you were lactose intolerant, and you're pretty sure they just rolled their eyes at you. Even to them.

#mental health #kindness #manipulation #tw gaslighting #empathy #human #humankind #history #psychology

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gobcorend · 4 months

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Fragment of the book "Alive in Death" by Omar Fares Abu Shawish (22 march 1987 - 7 october 2023)

"All she has left is an emotional letter, part of which was burned. It was written by her fiancé shortly before war. She will keep it because it is the only thing left to bear witness to the massacre, to confess in the language of love and adoration how unromantic soldiers broke into hearts and stole the engagement ring from the wedding finger."

To turn into rubble, pieces of a story mixed with two lovers who did not continuen on the path to joy.

#palestine #free gaza #free palestine #gaza strip #freepalastine🇵🇸#we stand with palestine #israel #ceasefire #gaza #poetry #spilled ink #WRITING IS AN ACT OF PROTEST #hope #quotes #book quotes #humankind #writers and poets #instagram #lost

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shikoku4k · 1 year

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Dear America,

As a global community, we write to you with deep respect and admiration for your great nation. You have been a beacon of hope and inspiration for many generations around the world, with your unwavering commitment to freedom, democracy, and human rights. We have always looked up to you with admiration and respect.

However, we write to you today with a heavy heart, as we have noticed that some unknown nefarious forces have taken over your politics and media. We have seen several examples where America has violated the sovereignty of nations or particular individuals, and where there have been clear violations of international law. We understand that this is not the America that we know and love, and it is not your fault.

We see your suffering, the millions of people who cannot afford medical care or are addicted to drugs prescribed by doctors. We see the millions of homeless and those living in poverty, even though you are the best country in the world and the bastion of the free world. We feel your pain and want to help you.

We want to tell you that we love you, and we want to support and encourage you during this time of change. We believe that together, we can make a difference and bring back the America that we know and love. We want to work with you to create a world that is free from oppression, tyranny, and corruption.

Please know that you are not alone, and we stand with you in your time of need. We will continue to support and encourage you as you make the necessary changes to become the great nation that we know you can be.

With love and respect,

The Global Community

#America #USA #anti corruption #peace and love #world peace prize awarding council #family federation for world peace and unification #humanity #human nature #humankind #humans are space orcs

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zynart · 7 months

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humanity is worth loving, humans are worth saving

(yes we are. we absolutely are. and cynicism and nihilism is lame)

i was dwelling a lot on that idea a lot this afternoon about my views of humanity and my conviction in us, inspired by the central theme of the show and movies, which is that maybe loneliness and yearning for connection is the most human possible feeling, and that most human beings are to some level closed off from human connection that there's a hedgehog's dilemma among humanity — that fear of connection, fear of being seen as a mirror of what you most fear about yourself/fear of hurt from both vulnerability placed in others and the inevitability of change/the inherent inability to ever be truly known when human minds are fundamentally separated from each other — is inherent to humans

so to contextualize the rest of this post i’ll describe things i’d been thinking about today. evangelion rebuild 2.0 and the ending of that movie, the choice that the characters make there. the ending of life is strange and the choice that you make there (i said fuck arcadia bay). and then the mirror examples, that one episode of angel where angel becomes human, or the ending of final fantasy x. every piece of fiction where people face a choice between saving someone they love and saving the world and they say fuck the world. even when it makes no sense and even if it means they and you both will die soon enough in a destroyed world anyway, even when it’s morally indefensible and unquestionably selfish. every time that question comes up, it’s so obvious what the right answer *should* be, but how human is it to just choose wrong anyway? that’s what i did when i had to choose and i said fuck arcadia bay. at that moment i felt such a sense of connection with what it meant to be human

in the original neon genesis evangelion it’s an argument between a worldview that it’s the inherent flaw of human nature, which would mean that the ideal vision of heaven is all-as-one where all humans exist together in kind of a hivemind free-flowing soup of minds (or with how little we know ourselves, that maybe even worldview is just being so afraid of connection that you’re afraid to reach out and try unless it’s with the safety of it being complete and universal and inescapable)… or whether what is special about humans and the most human thing possible is humans choosing, with full knowledge of the fear and hurt and inability to ever be known and the inevitability of change with passage of time and death, to put fear aside and connect with others

that latter view has long been the frame of thought where i feel most tender and optimistic toward humanity and individual human beings as creatures of grace. what takes away times where i feel jaded or cynical or fatalistic or disgusted or hopeless, which it is easy to be. often when people talk about being proud of humanity is pride at collective humanity and amazed at what the human race could achieve working together, but that’s barely part of the equation for me. it’s just that one single core aspect of the human soul, that every day humans choose to put aside all that fear about things that are right to fear and just choose human connection anyway. better to have loved and lost than never loved at all isn’t a platitude or an expression, it’s a summation of the most fundamental element to being human — its just that it’s not only about romance, it’s about all love — for friends, family, children, pets, characters in fiction, music made by others, art created by others, memories with others

(this made me google that phrase, to learn more about this phrase that puts the deepest truth about being human into 13 words, and turns out it’s by tennyson writing about the sudden death from a cerebral haemorrhage of his friend— or maybe more, we don’t know, but it’s besides the point that it was someone that he loved dearly — arthur henry hallam, who died aged 22 when tennyson was 23. and it’s a line from a 2,916-line, 133-canto poem titled “in memoriam a.h.h.” that he spent 16 years writing. 16 years where the pain didn’t stop. they met each other as teenagers, knew each other for about 3 years, and that was it. when he finished that poem after 16 years, he’d lived almost half of his life with that pain. he’d lived with that loss for almost five times longer than the time he’d had with him. and he still felt it was all worth it. it was better to have had the honour and privilege to feel that love, even at the price of decades of pain, than it would’ve been if he’d never gotten to feel that love at all)

caring about anyone is opening yourself up to a world of hurt in so many ways outside your control and humans are the only beings we know of that actually has that knowledge but we choose to care anyway. we have children, we attach to family, we form friendships, we fall in love, we even get emotionally attached to pets with short lifespans and emotionally invested in fictional characters

animals don’t have that knowledge. it’s easy for me to imagine many rational beings or sentience that could have that knowledge and optimize toward the pain-minimizing path of closing off completely and dying off in a generation. if pain is the price we pay for the ability to live and feel things and love things, is the price of entry worth it at all? i think most versions of a fully realized consciousness that wasn’t human would think that it wasn’t worth it at all. nonexistence over pain feels rational. but we don’t make that choice. human beings choose over and over and over to love things. and when i think about it, it makes me feel proud and giddy even for inherent human nature, it makes me feel in love with the concept of people with the same butterflies, and it makes me a firm believer that we should exist and humanity deserves to exist

one could say that it’s very stupid to love. it's very stupid to make an active commitment to inevitable future pain. it’s suboptimal for an entity that optimizes to avoid debilitating, all-consuming pain in a world where the passage of time can never stop and loss is inevitable, where there is literally no possible ending in which there isn’t an ending. and it’s kind of a miracle that we choose to do so, billions of people, every day

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if you liked this, feel free to check out my other 'essays' on internet/pop culture stuff on my homepage. here's a selection:

· “book lovers” don’t love anything about books and it’s weird (or, defending classic novels)

· there are things we owe to each other

· i trained a neural net on 10,000 irony-poisoned tweets and it just gave me cringe?

· what makes someone good, bad, cancelled, or redeemed? i don't know either!

· please tell me if you have a definitive answer on what makes someone a bad person

· ok, fine, my social justice politics feel a bit like religion sometimes and that’s ok

· after the deluge (short story) (dispatch from an island state post climate apocalypse)

#evangelion rebuild #neon genesis evangelion #life is strange #tennyson #love #pain #loss #i don't know what fits here but cynicism is lame and humans are good #humanity #humankind #cynicism #Youtube

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