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Hi everyone, I haven't been active in Solid Ground for a while, but I am still alive and kicking! I now work as personal assistant to a mind-bendingly weird and diva-esque artist-lip-syncher-performer named Fiona Blueberry. She is blissfully clueless about politics and seems to be completely unaware of the culture wars. Working with her is a breath of fresh air. If you need a mood lift, I encourage you to watch this video we made together. Happy 4th, everyone! Wishing you fun/love/peace on this holiday. :) www.fionablueberry.com
I’ve heard from Zak Stein in a few contexts related to the meta-crisis and in this conversation he talks at length about the problem of letting kids in particular get too attached to AI rather than forming human attachments. I’ll say at the outset that he is quite cerebral in his presentation and I’ll also add that while I like the guests the host of the show, Jim Rutt, has on, Jim himself irritates me at times. https://www.jimruttshow.com/zak-stein-6/
I also listened to Zak recently on the Life Itself podcast, and here you can learn about his journey to getting involved in education, starting with his having been severely dyslexic as a child. Here he talks about the development of developmental psychology (and its having been cast aside to some extent in academia) and then brings in the problem of measuring everything in the way we do (this will be of interest to Iain McGilchrist fans).
Michael Moynihan of the Fifth Column launched a show on 2WAY a month or two ago, and recently interviewed Doomscroll host Josh Citarella. I didn't listen to that interview at the time, but Josh got my attention when one of our SG members mentioned his interview with Catherine Liu. I watched and enjoyed that and started to watch his interview with Jennifer Pan from Jacobin, then circled back to this interview of Josh. He seems to be trying to earnestly understand the current political map and emergences, including understanding what's going on with the youth. His own leanings are as a social democrat, but he seems curious and able to converse with an array of people.
