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The final module in an online course I’m taking featured video of Shodankeh Johnson, founding pastor of New Harvest Global Ministries, a discipleship and church planting movement in Sierra Leone. He spoke powerfully of how his movement has been built on prayer and fasting, expanding despite civil war, poverty, and massive violent opposition to the message. The video on the course is not available outside of the course (it’s free, so someone could sign up for it to watch the video). I found a similar speech to share here. It’s the same idea and the same stories, but it lacks…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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We’ve been working on a research thread related to “call out” or “cancel culture” as part of what really influenced Robert Kieft to create the New City system. On the Phoenix Rising story stub, we’ve begun to work on Kieft’s back story, including him enlisting in the Democratic Union Army during the Second Civil War to specifically fight the “socially conservative and nationalist\/nativist policies of the GOP”. This Civil War started as “The Cyber War” with “cancel culture” elements engaged in cyber-warfare online to censure what they saw as bigoted content and “mis-information,” leading even to the exclusion of non-Progressives…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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In the What Happened to Jerry? storyline that Etcetera is working on, people in New City are disappearing and it seems the government has something to do with it. That’s not too unusual, even for a “free” country such as the United States, as our research uncovered in The History of Disappearing and Internment. What protects people from those in power grabbing and imprisoning whoever they feel like, whenever they feel like? Through much of human history, kings and landlords could do just that, especially to anyone beneath their social class. It wasn’t until the decline of the Hero Value…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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Microsoft celebrated Women’s History Month (March) with a feature on how women innovators around the world are using technology to make things better. An ad for this feature showed up over the last few days on my Window’s login screen at work, so I decided to check it out. The stories are pretty inspirational and give me lots of encouragement to keep thinking about the projects we’re working on. Particularly interesting is the story of Letta J. and the COEXIST gaming community in Brooklyn. Check out the feature for yourself and see what stories inspire you. Comment here on the…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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In the New City story line for SparkQuest, the government is a authoritarian regime that exercises strong censorship and repressive policies. This arose, in my mind, from an collective trauma stemming for the Second American Civil War, sometimes called “The Cyber War”. The war was a conflict first over the territories of the Internet, and then real-world territories, the culminating conflagrations of the current “Culture Wars” between conservatives and progressives in America. After the war, the victorious Democratic National Convention sought to complete its project of repressing all harmful and hurtful “misinformation”. To do this, they enlisted the help of…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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We’ve been working on Systems Thinking lately (see this post and this one). If found a good not-too-technical explanation put out by the CDC, but it really irritated me that, though the presented the speaker as a SME (Subject Matter Expert), they did not identify him or give any attribution. He could have just been a model-for-hire reading from a script. So I decided to find this guy. I grabbed a quick down-and-dirty screen shot from the video and searched Google for “facial recognition search”. I ended up on PimEyes, a Polish company that sells matches from pictures you upload…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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We just got gaming laptops so we could be more mobile when we have to be digital. As an unintended consequence, we’re able to take our computing wherever we’re “comfortable”, even if that means computing in postures that are totally bad on the body. For a generation that is going to spend more time in front of screens than any other in human history, learning how to take care of the bodies that transport our digitally-fascinated heads is a top priority. Let’s do some research on posture and exercises that can care for our bodies, even if we’re computer nerds.<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>

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What if the best way out of our big health problems is to think our way out? The CDC seems to think so. Take a look at this video about systems thinking, one of the biggest paradigm shifts in thinking about healthcare. There are some really good ideas in this video, but lets just start with the first: You can become less and less wrong, and this will give you high-leverage to bring the change you want to see. To illustrate this, a quadrant diagram was used: The idea is the a systems thinking approach tries to get to the…<\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>","max_pages":2}