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Land Talks #5 is soon! I'm running another evening of lightning talks about land policy.
This one's got quirky stuff about the impact of driverless cars on land, and crunchy stuff about how liberalising planning can reduce trust and cause more problems.
Come along!
Anyone do urban gaming, like this
Excited to announce we're running a second season of Land Talks! Evenings of lightning talks in London about radical land policy.
Come along to the first one two week's tomorrow (Monday):
https://luma.com/ba8uvclo
Or follow us on Luma for updates as we announce speakers for all of them!
Pleased with Vynn and my new episode of our podcast "Imagine an apple".
We talk with Jess - who organises JessCamp where Vynn and I met! - about the inner experience of meditation.
I think meditation is a particular area where more comparison to the variety of normal experience is important. Everyone's mental experience before they meditate is so different, it makes lots of the conversations confused esp. about early stages.
Find in any podcast app or at https://zencastr.com/z/gbMzgVr6
What’s the detail of the inner experience of meditating? What do you see while body scanning? How does noticing more details of inner experience alter your beliefs about your mind? Welcome to another episode of “Imagine an apple”! Today, Vynn and Francis chat with meditator Jess (also known as Frideswyth on Twitter) about the granular detail of her attention and visual imagery while meditating. Timestamps: 02:07 Why Jess started meditating 08:24 Body scanning 17:28 Visual imagery while body scanning 22:28 Imagery and inner voice every day 25:16 Horror movies 29:36 Phenomenology of emotion 32:13 Changes due to meditation 36:19 Koaning 40:34 "First awakening" 49:09 Thinking nothing 53:15 Meditation is phenomenology 55:04 Each aspect of mind is already missing in someone Show Links: * The Power of Now [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_of_Now] - by Eckhart Tolle * Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha [https://www.mctb.org/] - by Daniel Ingram * Liberalis Events [http://www.liberalis.events/] - for more about JessCamp * Tales For The New Future [https://frideswyth.wordpress.com/] - Jess’ blog * @frideswyth [https://x.com/frideswyth] - Jess’ Twitter Contact Details: Please follow us, get in touch, tell us about your inner experiences! Twitter: @imagine_apple [https://twitter.com/imagine_apple] @SurenVynn [https://twitter.com/SurenVynn] @frabcus [https://twitter.com/frabcus] Email: [email protected] Theme written, performed and recorded by @MJPiercello [https://twitter.com/MJPiercello]
@albertcardona @robinhouston Thanks for posting that Albert - it's lovely to see some of what he worked on in connectomics, as it is a world of his I knew little about.
Lots of love to you Robin, on this heartbreaking day.
The following is much more personal than I usually choose to be on this account, but I am sure some of you would like to know it, sad as it is.
My friend and colleague @mhl20 died last night after a short illness. Characteristically he announced the news of his illness on his blog, illustrated with a relevant graph. https://longair.net/blog/2026/01/03/health-update/
Although his death was announced in a comment on that blog post this morning, I suspect many of his friends have not yet heard of it.
I have no additional information not mentioned here, but I know many of you will share my sadness at this tragic turn of events.
I've had fun running Land Talks this year, and we're ending it with a pub quiz.
If you're in London two weeks on Tuesday, and fancy a more relaxing and social evening, with people who want to improve Britain's land system, and you like tenuously land-linked quizzes...
Hope to see you there!
robinhouston