https://www.solgoodmedia.com Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! "Deep Thought Daily" challenges you to think deeply with daily philosophical musings on life, ethics, and human nature. Engage with thought-provoking questions and expand your understanding of the complex world around us. This podcast is your daily dose of intellectual stimulation.

Yvon Chouinard: Climbing Light In this episode, we honor Yvon Chouinard—climber, craftsman, environmental innovator, and founder of Patagonia—who asked the question: how light can a life be? We trace his path from forging pitons to founding Patagonia and explore how choosing durability, repair, and purpose can reshape how we live, continuing our theme: Stewards of the Earth. Get the Book Peace Stuff: Enough (Kickstarter) Find the Books, Podcast & Kickstarter: Everything you need to follow the

The first story in my special series on this podcast, where I'll share pieces of my creative writing from over the years. Fictional short stories, poetry, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into my creative writing process. This story is called Inky Earthling Daydream, an empathetic musing on the elements and how they feel in their mutable existence. A magical little fable exploring water, earth, air, and fire. For the references I discuss at the end on the consciousness of water, I recomme...

https://www.solgoodmedia.com Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! "The Daily Logic Library" is a sanctuary of reason, where daily discussions delve into the rules of logic and the structure of arguments. Perfect for anyone looking to sharpen their reasoning skills and understand the building blocks of effective communication.

In these dark times, we must fight evil with the most powerful weapons we have.The Rosary is foremost among them.Join the Great Rosary Campaign today at: www.GreatRosaryCampaign.com.The Great Rosary Campaign was a yearlong mission for the conversion of cultural leaders.Due to popular demand, and the inherent value of praying the Rosary and doing penance for conversions, the Great Rosary Campaign will remain a pillar of Eternal Christendom's weekly content. Every Sunday, we will continue to announce

Why do we quit?How do we redeem ourselves and thrive after quitting?Why we QuitI have asked these questions while writing my book, One Day a Lion, forthcoming in 2026.I have experienced both failure and redemption enough times to feel myself an expert, but the thriving continues to elude me. I do not feel alone here, however, as it appears I have plenty of company.Semantics are important. So what does it mean, after all, to thrive? And, more importantly, what does it look like?-- Money?-- Fame?--

This is a post about our recent work ImpossibleBench: Measuring LLMs' Propensity of Exploiting Test Cases (with Aditi Raghunathan, Nicholas Carlini) where we derive impossible benchmarks from existing benchmarks to measure reward hacking.Figure 1: Overview of the ImpossibleBench framework. We start with tasks from established coding benchmarks and create impossible variants by mutating test cases to conflict with natural language specifications. The resulting cheating rate serves as a direct

Improving the welfare of farmed fish is probably some of the most cost-effective near-term suffering reduction work the EA community engages in. To celebrate the EA community's amazing work for trillions of fish around the globe, here's a list of ten surprising fish behaviors and capabilities! Hopefully this list will help you/others appreciate the diversity, intelligence, and sentience of fish. Many of these examples are drawn from the excellent book on fish intelligence, What a Fish Knows by

https://www.solgoodmedia.com Listen to hundreds of audiobooks, thousands of short stories, and ambient sounds all ad free! "The Daily Philosopher" offers daily bites of wisdom, exploring ideas from ancient wisdom to modern thought leaders. Dive into deep philosophical discussions and learn to apply philosophical concepts to everyday life. Whether you're a seasoned philosopher or just getting started, this podcast promises to enlighten and inspire.

The Cogitating Ceviché PresentsThe Republic of Comments: Democracy’s Last Refuge Is Below the FoldBy Conrad HannonDiscussion by NotebookLMBeneath the Article Lies the PeopleForget Athens. Forget Philadelphia. The true agora of the modern age lies just below the headline. The marble columns have been replaced by thread indentation, and the town square smells faintly of hot takes and CAPTCHA verification. It is there, in the wild frontier beneath the fold, that humanity continues its oldest tradition:

Volume CXLV - "Apocalypse Now: The Heart of Darkness in Every Man"Key Themes:The universal capacity for darkness within all peopleKurtz as representing honesty rather than insanityThe danger of denying one's shadow sideMain Arguments:Darkness isn't something external that corrupts; it's structural within human consciousnessThe journey upstream is about becoming Kurtz, not just finding himMen who deny their capacity for darkness are most vulnerable to itTakeaway: Integration of shadow is

Bat Appreciation Week; Freshwater Dolphin Day; International Gibbon Day; National Kangaroo Day; Animal Lovers: A Meditation.

This week’s Saturday Contemplation invites you to notice what often goes unseen — the quiet moments that make up a life. From the hum of a familiar room to the light shifting across a wall, we explore how impermanence turns the ordinary into something sacred. Gratitude, after all, begins with paying attention. In honor of the two-year anniversary of When We Die Talks, all Saturday Contemplations from October are available to everyone — a small thank-you for being part of this project and for ...

The provided text is an excerpt from a 2025 Medium article by Greg Twemlow titled "When the Gods Went Missing," which argues that modern civilisation is unsustainable because it has lost the practice of "counsel." Twemlow defines counsel as the ethical exchange between wisdom and power that ensures decisions are guided by conscience, not merely profit or procedure. The author uses the 2018–2019 Menindee fish kill in Australia as a central parable, illustrating how "gross negligence" and

In August we launched a redesign of the EA Funds website. The main goal was to improve overall perception and make the site feel modern, trustworthy, and more consistent with the effectivealtruism.org brand. We also wanted to aim the site more towards donors, increase transparency around grantmaking and evaluation, and improve overall usability.View the EA Funds website We've been making incremental improvements since launch and will continue to do so. The update includes: Improved messaging and

This article at Our World in Data arguing in favour of "cage free" hens includes this graph from the Welfare Footprint Project (which spoke at EAG 2023) which has a nice breakdown which concludes that cage free aviaries are the most humane option of three types of hen housing studied. However, according to this analysis, hens in furnished cages have the lowest prevalence of excruciating conditions- not cage free. Moreover I am not convinced the tables for disabling and excruciating conditions

I've created a highly specific and actionable privacy guide, sorted by importance and venturing several layers deep into the privacy iceberg. I start with the basics (password manager) but also cover the obscure (dodging the millions of Bluetooth tracking beacons which extend from stores to traffic lights; anti-stingray settings; flashing GrapheneOS on a Pixel). I feel strongly motivated by current events, but the guide also contains a large amount of timeless technical content. Here's a

Key regulators have agreed to let the company kill its profit caps and restructure as a for-profit — with some strings attached This is the full text of a post first published on Obsolete, a Substack that I write about the intersection of capitalism, geopolitics, and artificial intelligence. I’m a freelance journalist and the author of a forthcoming book called Obsolete: Power, Profit, and the Race to Build Machine Superintelligence. Consider subscribing to stay up to date with my work. This

Click here to reply to @SeekingPlumb "But deciding like to measure people, this is like getting to exactly the psychology of what's harmful when it comes to like there is an element of clinical narcissism that's genetic. And it's a matter of like, when those things are switched on, switched off. But part of it is also how the child is parented."