Stay Human - Shape Tomorrow
Paul T Shattuck, MSW, PhD, Lorissa Rinehart, Isaac Andrew Sanders, Reynolds Taylor, Dr Sam Illingworth, Chinello Ifebigh, Pilar SuquilvideNavigation for staying human under authoritarianism and other systems trying to manipulate or drain you
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A Political Grief No One Is Talking About
On what readers over 50 are carrying — and the one comment from a young reader that surprised me most.
There’s a grief I don’t see named anywhere. It belongs specifically to people who are older, who have fought long and hard, who still ca...
Paytriarchy
Last week, the future of the global economy was negotiated in Beijing by a group of the world’s richest men. Not mostly men. Men. And almost no one is calling it what it is — the biggest misogyny story of the month.
Look at who was in that...
Where Sunset Watching is a National Pastime
Uruguay -- a Trump "shithole country" -- survived brutal authoritarianism. Here's what they built when they came through it.
I was standing on a beach in Montevideo, Uruguay when the crowd of thousands went quiet.
'The Humanities Are the Moats'
Sam Illingworth zoomed in from a rural location just outside Edinburgh, so remote he warned me he might drop out if he had to run up a hill to catch a 4G signal.
That detail tells you something about what “Slow AI” means.
Sam’s credential...
Staying Human In A World Engineered to Rob You of Connection, Dignity, and Security
Federal attacks on immigration infrastructure leaving us uncertain whether we can keep living in this country. A 14-month payment plan to cover an $8,000 ER bill — because Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires required gutting support for healt...
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Navigation for staying human under authoritarianism and other systems trying to manipulate or drain you.
Exploring 250 years of women's participation in American democracy.
Extra as Praxis, Afro-Indigenous, PhD Student, Builder of Worlds, Over-Analyzer, Lived Experience Research, Ending Youth Homelessness, Held By Community
Founder/Exec Director of Run on Power + Power Law & Policy Lab | Human rights attorney + M.B.A. | Reimagining law and markets and confronting corporate power.
Professor & poet in Edinburgh. Creator of the Slow AI Curriculum for Critical AI Literacy. Author of GenAI in Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Professional platonic cuddle therapist & intimacy specialist. Building a sanctuary in rural Spain for women who have been knocked off their feet by trauma, grief, illness and loss. https://houseofcircefoundation.org/en https://the-confidante.nl
Former good girl employee turned fractional COO. Building a life between Argentina and Spain without anyone's permission or playbook. I write about work, identity, slow living and all the things I was too polite to say in my corporate job.
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