A bald eagle perches on a branch covered in snow during a winter storm in Nyack, New York, U.S. REUTERS/Mike Segar #photography #birds #eagles #winter image
SecondDeath: Experiences of Death Across Technologies by Alger Sans Pinillos et all, 2025 This book seeks to explore the uncharted territory of the intersection between death and technology, particularly within the realms of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI), and generative AI. #books #nonfiction #philosophy #technology #death #Springer image
A protester stands in front of a police line in Sydney on 7 June during a march demanding action on Yuendumu deaths in police custody in the Northern Territory. Photograph: Lisa Maree Williams/Getty Images #photography #Australia #Aboriginal #protest #police image
"The world is not directly given to us’, Paul Feyerabend writes in Against Method, his philosophical manifesto. Perhaps, as in anthropology, we give ourselves to the world. Feyerabend proposes that any grasp of the world is filtered through whatever competing worldviews, traditions, or beliefs the observer of the world might hold or encounter..." Sverker Finnström Source: Contextual Ethics, 2025 #quotes #philosophy
Progress by Samuel Miller McDonald, 2025 A History of Humanity's Worst Idea Progress is power. But our modern story of progress is a very dangerous fiction. In the pursuit of progress, of growth and expansion, we have levelled cities, flattened mountains, charted the globe and ushered in a new geological epoch unique in our planet's 4.5-billion-year history. #books #nonfiction #history #philosophy #progress image
Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics by William Schweiker, 2022 A comprehensive, innovative, and authoritative view of moral inquiry engaged with the resources of the world’s religions Encompassing three comprehensive volumes, the Encyclopedia of Religious Ethics introduces fundamental issues in moral inquiry, explores the world’s major moral traditions, and surveys specific moral issues across a wide range of human experiences. #books #nonfiction #religion #ethics #encyclopedia #reference image
Journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has issued a rare retraction of one of the most cited studies on the safety of the pesticide glyphosate, the main ingredient in the weedkiller Roundup via hive-news #glyphosate #Roundup image
Snow Raven via bluelady127 #video #music #song #indigenous
Old dog #video #dogs #adoption
Israeli settler attacks during this year’s olive harvest #WestBank #settlers image