777exi Ⓥ//⁴²⁰//⚤♡⃛🌈//🍉₊✩‧₊˚౨ৎ˚₊✩‧₊3d ago

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When I was a kid my #individuality and sense of self was expressed and explored through filling out copy paste bulletins on #Myspace with all my "have-dones" and dislikes..

Nowadays kids just have plain ol' links to entire PAGES of their personal boundaries (which have been thoughtfully crafted and are totally unique to them!).

It makes me smile to think about how young people have more access than ever to articles and knowledge teaching them about self esteem! And to see teens and kids on the internet already having these developed concepts of #healthyboundaries for themselves is just so lovely   

#777exi #onlineprivacy #fuckpalantir #boycottdiscord #joinstoat #protectchildren

Improv6d ago

Topiary at Levens Hall, in Cumbria. Over 350yrs of interaction between the gardener and the tree. Two completely different kinds of will and determinism. Co-construction at its best.

#gardening #garden #Individuality #character #community

Show threadjanMay 12
When we define…individuals as cognitive entities, we are also defining them as intentional entities. …evolution now becomes a phenomenon driven largely by the intentions of the cognitively individual actors. …the organism and individual are reunited into a cognitive whole that both lives with desire and evolves with purpose.
—Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire
#individuality #cognition
janMay 12
…the individual is a cognitive being that has a sense of itself as something distinct from its environment. The sense of individuality need not be a conscious sense of self.
—Scott Turner, Purpose & Desire
#individuality #cognition
Truth CollectorMay 10

#Truth Collectively wins better for us all as a % of Truth together (if truth is done together).

Your Truth can #change and is assumed to improve and reveal the onion layers of usual (mis)understanding and we get better at seeing examples / expressing / doing it all / #encouraging others to use logic mainly but also more human #empathy #learning #circles #examples of #individuality / #imperfection.

Seems hard but accepting we're unique is powerful if done acceptingly together and more often.

ResearchBuzz: FirehoseMay 10

Michigan Daily: Say goodbye to your individuality. “I always thought the phrase ‘be yourself’ was so stupid. Obviously, you’re being yourself, who else could you be? With the rise of TikTok aesthetics, I’ve realized that in actuality, we all are desperate to be absolutely anyone else. The boxes have been created. Go choose one. For the cost of a few hundred dollars and an obscenely high […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/10/michigan-daily-say-goodbye-to-your-individuality/
Michigan Daily: Say goodbye to your individuality

Michigan Daily: Say goodbye to your individuality. “I always thought the phrase ‘be yourself’ was so stupid. Obviously, you’re being yourself, who else could you be? With the rise…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose
WIST QuotationsMay 6

A quotation from Bertrand Russell

In our own day […] there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try to fit men to systems rather than systems to men.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Lecture (1949-01-30), “Individual and Social Ethics,” Reith Lecture, “Authority and the Individual” No. 6, BBC Radio

More about this quote: wist.info/russell-bertrand/838…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #bertrandrussell #authority #control #freewill #humanity #individual #individuality #initiative #management #organizations #power #systems

Russell, Bertrand - Lecture (1949-01-30), "Individual and Social Ethics," Reith Lecture, "Authority and the Individual" No. 6, BBC Radio | WIST Quotations

In our own day [...] there has been too much of a tendency towards authority, and too little care for the preservation of initiative. Men in control of vast organisations have tended to be too abstract in their outlook, to forget what actual human beings are like, and to try…

WIST Quotations
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 3
🚨BREAKING NEWS: #Brains are unique! 🚨 #Stanford researchers discover that averaging brain scans might obscure individual differences. Who knew that lumping together complex human brains could miss the nuances of individuality? 🧠🤯 #ScienceIsHard
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/04/brain-scans-individual-versus-group.html #Unique #Research #Individuality #Science #HackerNews #ngated
Group averages obscure how an individual’s brain controls behavior, Stanford Medicine study finds

Studying brain scan data from individuals — not group averages — reveals key brain-function differences in children who struggle with goal-oriented tasks, a Stanford Medicine study found.

News Center
mindsetsMay 2

I still consider Scott McCloud's 1993 off-the-cuff definition of "art" in #UnderstandingComics to be the best definition I'm aware of (the emphases are his):

"Because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we ASSERT OUR IDENTITIES as INDIVIDUALS and BREAK OUT of the NARROW ROLES nature cast us in."

#individuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

Understanding Comics - Wikipedia

Chao-c'May 2

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@bielsubob/116502691975393549

Understanding our uniqueness

Why does the DMN (Default Mode Network) vary so much from person to person? Because it underpins deeply personal characteristics that define us, such as personality and values.

#individuality #personality #dmn #consciousness