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From Internal Medicine to Integral Regeneration A Life-Value Framework for Healing Systems, Selves, and Civilizations | ChatGPT4o
[Download Full Document (PDF)] In an age of planetary polycrisis — ecological collapse, institutional failure, social fragmentation, and meaning depletion — there is an urgent need for a new kind of medicine: one that heals not just bodies, but systems, selves, and civilizations. This white paper begins with a clinical insight: that internal medicine already embodies the most refined practice of…
#AQAL#ChatGPT#civilizational renewal#Coherence#diagnosis#healing architectures#Hippocratic oath#institutional integrity#Integral Theory#integral vocation#internal medicine#life-capacity#Life-Value#McMurtry#metabolic coherence#metabolic governance#metabolic healing#mitophagy#planetary healing#regeneration#sacred systems design#Semiotics#systemic health#Wilber
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The Political Implications of R.F.K. Jr.'s Appointment by Trump
The Political Dynamics Surrounding R.F.K. Jr.’s Appointment In any given political climate, the nature of public outrage and the rallying points of opposition reveal much about the underlying sentiments. In the current landscape, the fervent backlash from liberals regarding Donald Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for the Department of Health and Human Services is particularly…
#Democratic Party#Department of Health and Human Services#institutional integrity#Operation Warp Speed#political dynamics#public health#R.F.K. Jr.#scientific expertise#Trump#vaccine skepticism
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vomits another AU
#ruby rose#weiss schnee#winter schnee#penny polendina#monster AU#rwby#my art#been doodling some creatures so now it's another AU#there is just a vague idea of what this is#might expand on this sometime#basically ppl can turn into monsters once they go over the quota of allowed negativity#they can also turn back to human if they manage to push through and win the squabble with the evil twin in their head lol#some traits of the monster they've turned into will remain on them though. they also be fucked up in the head for a while.#and there's an institute in every kingdom that houses/keeps them#vale's the oldest and focuses on rehab#mistral focuses on containment#vacuo's more lax and is more friendly for integrating back into society#atlas' focuses on research#all of them also have a program where they can join to kill and potentially save some of the turned#anyways that's it for now i have no idea what goes on either lmao
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Thaumo from @symptomsofdeceit :))
This has been sitting in IBIS Paint for. many months because I started colouring and could not figure out how to 😭😭 I am still not happy with the colouring and I rushed it a lot but I will take it as a learning lesson and experiment with more yan characters (my laundry list of victims after spending so long on this)
I love this squishy guy
#symptoms of deceit#symptoms of deceit vn#thaumo#yandere vn#yandere visual novel#on a brighter note I think it's so cool how yan creators integrate their knowledge into their work like#how SOD's creator studying biology and medicine stuff and having an aquatic species world building thing#or a writer I like studying english and politics and you see a lot of their yans stemming from corrupt institutional power#and then u got me 🧍 sitting in art school like#damn I should've expanded my knowledge to write crazy bastards#yandere#anyways I've been exploding to draw a certain tired office worker. aha
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We always felt that if you do something with quality and integrity, then it’s going to come back to you.
–Herb Alpert, Musician and Co-Founder of A&M Records
#Herb Alpert#Quote#Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz#Inspiration#Integrity#A&M Records#Creative Karma
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the fix is in!!
#Supreme Court corruption#judicial integrity#legal ethics#accountability#justice system reform#transparency#judicial independence#public trust#legal oversight#ethical standards#judicial misconduct#Supreme Court accountability#judicial power#political thuggery#institutional limits#checks and balances#public pressure#media coverage#judicial reform#democratic principles#constitutional interpretation#judicial impartiality#judicial appointments#separation of powers#government accountability#supreme court ruling#presidential immunity case#Trump legal arguments#congressional impeachment power#criminal charges
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a doctor turned serial killer turned doctor again, an actor who paints, a gang leader, a mining baron, and a vice overseer walk into the room.
oh yeah and they lead karnaca now.
dishonored 2 is my fav game but i think it's mid, story-wise. here's why dh1 works and why dh2's overarching story sorta misses
tl;dr: story integration is critical for gameplay that offers audience payoff, but emily's personal arc from dishonor to honor is inconsistently demonstrated in the story, and is not an interactive part of the gameplay.
essay/long version under cut >
recap: what's dishonored's deal
[skip if you want] dh1 is an underdog story: corvo is an honorable man swept up in the machinations of a callous city, so his canonical ending being 'this child will rule over an empire' isn't about the child's rule but rather about corvo's reputation being restored in a more hopeful city, due to his & the player's rejection of the violent connotations of the tagline 'revenge solves everything.'
similarly, in dh1 DLCs, daud's story arc is that of an anti-hero: a dishonorable man who realises too late he has done irreparable harm. he sees the error of his ways after a single monumental death, and eventually a single life redeems him when he/the player stepped in to circumvent a terrible fate for a child, enabling her to rule unfettered.
daud & corvo come to a satisfying conclusion within the extent of their narrative arcs. it doesn't matter that a child on a throne isn't really a fix for a decaying empire - the player's actions throughout the city of dunwall was what mattered - and these stories could be framed as parables. in that sense, young emily as a ruler is a metaphor for a hopeful future for the city & empire.
dishonored 1 & its DLCs are also great examples of storytelling with perfectly integrated gameplay - you, the player, worked towards the outcome that redeemed the protagonists.
in your efforts to save young emily, you either achieved a good outcome (corvo) or prevented a worse outcome (daud).
bringing us to dh2 -
what's emily's arc
emily's arc is a coming of age: we're introduced to a reigning empress who questions her role & skillset ("am i the empress my mother wanted me to be?"), then her titular fall from grace occurs. from there, she learns to reject the violent, selfish connotations in 'take back whats yours' tagline (a la daud & corvo!) while rediscovering why her rule is critical to the empire.
emily's rule is no longer metaphorical, but:
a literal thing for audience assessment (is emily a good ruler?) AND
the crux of her storyline.
at the beginning of dh2, emily is introduced as a disengaged leader ("i wish i could just run away from all this;" "i dont know if whether i should sail to the opposite side of the world, or have everyone around me executed"). the antihero has a precedent for the dishonored series in daud, so it's not at first glance an issue*, however, the fact that emily has ruled poorly reframes corvo & daud's endings as being less than ideal (a moralistic retcon) *we could talk here about how ready an audience was in 2016 for a flawed women as a protagonist, hell, even in 2023,,,
throwback to the beginning of this essay when i said:
'this child will rule over an empire' isn't about the child's rule but rather about corvo's reputation
emily's story arc, unlike for daud & corvo, is literally about the quality of her rule. we're no longer in metaphor territory (ironic phrase): a parable-style ending doesn't work.
does emily become a good ruler
we know she becomes a good ruler because the game says so. it is narrated to the audience via a (literal) word of god in the space of 30 seconds, after the final boss. the outsider tells us that emily becomes known as Just & Clever.
drawing a distinction here - this narration is not the same as the player actively being involved.
the player does not throughout the game become aware that emily has made political allies. during the game, she doesn't talk to these characters about saving karnaca or being a better ruler to the empire (there's a few lines might imply it, but you need to be actively looking and being careful to wait for every voice line. it's a far cry from daud & corvo's fight to save emily being unmissable - even though daud doesn't know at the beginning that's the goal).
how does the game show it
you can coincidentally not kill most of your subjects and never be aware that emily is looking to restore karnaca by means of instating a council - it's never brought up. it *couldn't* be brought up, because that council serves under the fake duke (armando), who is the last person she speaks to before she leaves for dunwall. its her suggestion that he rules karnaca, but armando's condition is that he will rule as he sees fit.
to back up a bit, emily's canonical method of restoring karnaca is by banding together key allies - hypatia, stilton, [byrne &or paolo], pastor, under a council beneath the duke's body double. they are passionate people who would each individually make worthwhile advisors, but if you think about those characters sitting at a table trying to reach an agreement, it feels like an assortment of people that emily didn't kill along the way and doesn't feel organic (up to interpretation). it's not stated if emily herself banded this council together, but logically she must have (worth a mention these are mostly characters that you as the player had reasonable rationale to kill during a high chaos run, except pastor). the underlying concept may be that karnaca's power is returned to its people - which is interesting given that the monarchy remains and armando's decision is final.
this overarching solution could also be taken as a critique to dh1's 'put your kid on the throne,' which is another reason its worthwhile looking at how emily was shown to be a better leader. obviously my point isn't that her solution was bad given the circumstance, but i mean she has very little agency here in all. if emily was shown to be more controlling as a leader, this could be interpreted as character growth, but that's not the case.
coming of age
how do you learn & grow when you can't specify your failings? emily doesn't really touch on her shortcomings as an empress. she non-specifically worries delilah makes a better empress than her. it's hard to argue her worries are meaningful when someone good at their job will still worry when lives are in the balance.
emily's best 'aha' moments (eg. crack in the slab comment about gaining perspective) are consistently undercut by a conversation with sokolov or meagan afterwards in which she demonstrates she hasn't learned anything (before the grand palace, emily condemns 'toadies sucking up to me' and is reminded by meagan that she's part of the problem). the story is confused about what it's trying to say about emily's progress, and when she's meant to show progress, if she was meant to show any progress at all. it could be argued that emily was never even a bad ruler, she had just been fed misinformation about the problems in karnaca and been the victim of slander by her political enemies. the game doesn't make this clear - it's easier to argue that the opposite is true given that her allies only have criticism.
worth a mention here that the heart quotes about armando - a fake ruler - interestingly mirror emily's character concerns. "see how he sighs? his life is a gilded cage." but this essay is already long.
while corvo & daud spend their games (and through the gameplay) 'earning' their redemption, emily is being led by the NPCs around her to a conclusion and a fix for the political mess in karnaca: meagan & sokolov guide emily to her missions, and there's no recurring quest for emily to investigate possible allies. she is able to gather the people she hasn't killed to herself by manner of... post-game narration. during the game, she's primarily concerned with getting her throne back.
an easy fix: if there had been less dialogue & narrative focus on emily's failings perhaps the ending would have felt more satisfying. it has the feel of cut content, but i don't know what was cut to be able to comment on it.
so what went wrong?
i can't help but wonder if arkane were worried they would lose a certain demographic if corvo wasn't playable (may have been deemed too much of a risk - 2013 was a different time), and so they had to take out story elements that were unique to emily's growth as a character/empress, because the usual storyline/gameplay integration had to work for both characters - in other words, gameplay that made sense for both corvo & emily was prioritised before emily's story & character development. which is a silly problem to have in a game that added character voices for the sake of improving characterisation - maybe emily's tale would have felt more akin to a parable if she had less lines that betrayed her ignorance (to the disdain of those around her).
i wish more care had been taken with emily's story. most players will never really notice the large variety of different endings - they're not particularly satisfying in and of themselves.
it's ironic that one of Emily's complaints is about her father/protector being overbearing, when his (parallel universe) presence in the gameplay may be one of the reasons her own narrative arc falls flat.
what are the upsides here
changing tune from what didn't work - don't you think the concept is fantastic? it's a great idea overall - can you imagine if the coming of age storyline was better integrated into the game?
it's valuable to talk about the integration of story and gameplay and characterisation from a craft perspective. dh2 genuinely is my favourite game - it's beautiful, the imm-sim design philosophy makes the world a delight to explore, the combat gives endless creative options for tackling any fight, there is a far greater diversity of cast in an in-text canonical way. there's loads to love!
i love emily as a dodgy leader, to me it adds interesting dimensionality to the outsider's narrations - of course in dunwall there's never a neat happily ever after! emily, like the outsider, both work well as characters who hold ultimate power but aren't necessarily worthy of it - and this makes perfect sense for the dishonored universe's morality & critiques of power. however, within this grey area there's still plenty of room for a satisfying ending, which isn't what we ended up with, whatever the true reason for that was. and also, damn, emily's a marked assassin empress, if she can't lead well then who can?
while dh1 was criticised for its narrative simplicity, dh2 in contrast and in hindsight shows us that simplicity isn't so bad - there's satisfaction in gameplay achieves a clear, simple narrative goal.
#are you a dh1 enjoyer but less so a dh2 enjoyer?#have you ever wondered why you don't love dh2 as much?#here's 1.8k words that might articulate some of that.#light reading.i guess#this essay wasn't meant to cover everything - just the core of the plot and why its important to integrate story & gameplay#and to compare dh1 & 2#dishonored#dishonored 2#dishonored 2 spoilers#emily kaldwin#daud#corvo attano#this week i'm cracking things out of my drafts!#<333 don't get me started on doto.#some of this might be contentious. idk i try to live in a bubble#the meme version was easier to read i know i know#this essay would have been a lot longer had i integrated more references from the game#i know a few others have said this but imagine if they went a different way with emily#like she realises shes not fit for the job and maybe no one is and says fuck the system cause shes got a rebellious streak#and does a kickflip on the monarchy and institutes something else. i dont even care what. make it funny#and then for the sake of continuing the trend we spend dishonored 3 undoing the horrible leadership emily instates <3#i think they really loved emily as a character. i FEEL the love i believe its there.but didn't think enough bout how she would be perceived#there's a good couple comments from baldur's gate 3 devs about how much work goes into writing women to account for sexism#there's more that i could have added to this essay but for brevity's (ha.ha) sake i'll leave it there#other textposts about this game that i see around tend to romanticise dishonoreds story a little more
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My political opinion at work is "i want my friends and family to be safe"
It's the ultimate solid stance. You disagree you look like a fuckin asshole.
yeah I mean I wasn’t talking really about political discourse at work more like….if you can turn the other way and help someone in the process, do that. if you’re told to profile, or you’re told to discipline someone bc they said something “wrong” or told to rat ppl out for stealing, just. don’t.
I want my friends and family to be safe is a great point but also - for half of America, that means at the expense of everyone else. we need to care about each other and truly believe in the collective. I think that’s the only way we can get thru this. Idk. I just dk.
#chzburger answers#us politics#if we don’t have non profits and federal funding I really don’t know what’s going to happen#I really don’t#and the worst part is everyone who voted for him will be affected. they won’t get services or help or whatever. and it’s already too late#it has to be institutional and I constantly scream about if people just DID THE RIGHT THING AND ACTED WITH INTEGRITY FOR FUCKING ONCE
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Don Moynihan at Can We Still Govern?: At the Democratic National Convention, speaker after speaker sought to remind viewers of Project 2025. Jim Clyburn referred to it as “Jim Crow 2.0.” Cory Booker mocked it was “Project 1825” and “Project 1925.” Michigan Senator Mallory McMorrow was one of many speakers who brought an enlarged version of the Mandate for Leadership document published by the Heritage Foundation that serves as the backbone to Project 2025. Trump’s campaign has falsely claimed that Project 2025 is dead, and in mailers to voters he has doubled down on his efforts to distance himself from it. (Note to Forbes and other media outlets who confuse repeating Trump’s lies with reporting: this is what you get — becoming a tool in his disinformation efforts).
Of course, Project 2025 very much remains alive and the most relevant way to understand how Trump would govern. At the convention, Tim Walz invoked Project 2025 when he said that “when somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re going to use it.” The comedian Kenan Thompson gave one of best summaries of the relationship between Trump and Project 2025:
[You know how when you download an app and there are hundreds of pages there that you don’t read. Its just the terms and conditions. And you just click agree, right? Well, these are the terms and conditions of a second Trump Presidency. You vote for him, you vote for all of this.]
Trump dislikes Project 2025 as a brand because it lays out a series of specifics about right wing policy goals, which, it turns out, are unpopular. There has been some schadenfreude in how Project 2025 has become baggage for the Trump campaign, and has in some ways backfired for the Heritage Foundation, who went from energetically promoting their ties to Trump to gingerly defending their efforts from Trump’s own campaign.
We got a glimpse about the scale and nature of these plans when some British undercover journalists performed a sting operation of Russ Vought. Vought is touted as a potential Chief of Staff in a second Trump administration. As a Trump official, he helped to cover up Trump’s withholding of arms to Ukraine, and aggressively pushed Trump’s plan to fire career civil servants. Out of office, he then complains about the weaponization of federal agencies without a trace of irony.
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The Heritage Foundation been portrayed as the central player in Project 2025, deservedly so. But its role reflects a certain continuity of effort — it has been publishing Mandate for Leadership guides since Reagan — that understates the dramatic nature of the change that has taken place on the right. The Conservative Partnership Institute, which has played a less visible role in Project 2025, is more emblematic of the MAGAification of the conservative movement. A recent profile of CPI by Jonathan Blitzer in the New Yorker is eye-opening. CPI was created in 2017 by Jim DeMint, the Heritage Foundation leader who was pushed out for trashing Heritage’s reputation for credible research by making it more partisan and less serious. DeMint also aligned early with Trump, which some Heritage board members never forgave him for. CPI operates less like a think tank, where former Trump officials hang their hat, and more like a venture capital firm providing seed funding for MAGA-aligned organizations, as well as connections to other donors, and physical space to get a foothold in DC. These include:
Russ Vought’s Center for Renewing America
Stephen Miller’s America First Legal
The American Accountability Foundation, which ran attack campaigns against Biden nominees, and is currently compiling an enemies list of career civil servants
Cleta Mitchell’s Election Integrity Network. CPI had been deeply involved in election denial. It helped to organize efforts to disrupt the vote to confirm Biden’s election on January 6th. Mitchell a Secretary of CPI, was the lawyer who helped Trump with his call to Georgia officials asking them to fine more votes. She is organizing a network of legal challenges to block legitimate election outcomes this year.
The State Freedom Caucus Network, whose goal is to embed state versions of the House Freedom Caucus in every state
An API official said that in a speech at Mar-A-Lago: “Trump complained about his personnel. He said he had these bad generals, bad Cabinet secretaries. That was a big signal to the people there.” This is why there is such an intense focus on Schedule F, to fire civil servants, and building a pipeline of dedicated Trumpists as political appointees. Part of the function of CPI was to alter the incentives for Trump officials. A previous generation of conservative lawyers or other appointees might worry about their long-term career prospects for engaging in a little light treason. CPI has created an ecosystem existed to defend them (they have funded legal defenses for John Eastman, Peter Navarro, Mark Meadows and Jeffery Clark), to and to find them new roles after wrongdoing.
@Don Moynihan nails it: The “next phase” of Project 2025 contains plans we don’t even know about.
#Project 2025#2024 DNC#Don Moynihan#Donald Trump#Kenan Thompson#Malcolm Kenyatta#Jim Clyburn#Tim Walz#Russ Vought#State Freedom Caucus Network#Conservative Partnership Institute#The Heritage Foundation#Election Integrity Network#American Accountability Foundation#Center For Renewing America#America First Legal
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Zetan Research: The Institute Edition...
Institute
Salvage & Reverse-Engineering
Institute scientists, masters of clandestine technology, have intermittently recovered downed Zetan vessels in the Commonwealth and dissected energy-rifle blueprints—enabling a Science! Rank 4 mod that lets the Alien Blaster fire standard Fusion Cells. Game8
Integration into Synth Programs
There are unconfirmed Institute logs (leaked via Railroad sympathizers) suggesting that alien neural-interface studies informed Generation 3 synth circuitry—particularly in regulating cryogenic stasis protocols similar to Zetan “holding cells.” Fallout Wiki
#fallout#pre-war#post-war#The Institute#Zetan#Zetans#aliens and ufos#Research#Synth#Reverse Engineering#Salvage#Integration#Generation 3 Synth
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#center for climate integrity#cci#society for plastics#plastics industry association#vinyl institute#society for the plastics industry#plastics recycling foundation#epa#eastman chemical#exxon chemical#beyond plastics
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#just saw a post saying that democrats have put forth a bill directly targeting musks takeover of the treasury#written in a tone that implied this is a massive burn to president musk and a great move for the dems#and I'm just. sorry to break it to you but what he's done is already illegal#the fact that no one has been arrested for it yet is the giant pillar of smoke that both parties are currently skirting around#and again the fact that I haven't seen it made the main issue by any news outlet either#is just so telling for how the selective blindness of these institutions enable each other to stay silent#and then nothing ever gets done#except by billionaires whose profits are made by perpetuating the silence#because they are so eager to do anything that prevents them from being taxed#they're willing to throw the integrity and wellbeing of their fellow humans under the bus#maddie debrief
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sjm copied down anything and everything except for taking any notes from jaime's chapters when she decided to make tamlin """""bad""""""
#doing bad things for love is sexy and mother. honestly he didnt do enough destruction at the integrity of his institution for love#shame!
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Musician and record label founder Herb Alpert during an Institute Masterclass in Los Angeles in 2014, with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, now the Artistic Director of the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz Performance at UCLA, among the musicians.
#Jazzback Friday#Herb Alpert#Quote#Inspiration#Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz#Integrity#Ambrose Akinmusire#UCLA
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just found out Berea College pulled their motto from Acts 17:26. total chad move, what a baller institution
#cheat sheet: it's the bit about God Has Made Of One Blood All Peoples Of The Earth#(berea was the first integrated college in the US south)#(also it's tuition-free to everyone who gets in. badass institution I Stan The Good Kentucky Things)
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my answer would be the same and for many of the same reasons
#superior culture/mindset/ethos#i mean speaking as an outsider#that's why i wanted to join the usmc above all other branches#in my mind they had more of a warrior spirit and a do-more-with-less attitude#every marine a rifleman was something i really admired#and just in general it seems to be an extremely self-sufficient and adaptable branch#probably largely owing to its amphibious nature -- it is inherently versatile#and i have been obsessed with the marine expeditionary units since i was a kid#and i think they probably give them a logistical edge over the other branches#coordinating land air and naval units across the world has to develop some major institutional wisdom#but again i'm speaking as an outsider and would be open to other perspectives#i mean the usmc already integrates air land and sea by design#so it would only make the most sense
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