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ILLUMINATION's November 2024 Newsletter 

Summary of Monthly Updates for ILLUMINATION Publications Dear writers and readers,  Our Chief Editor, Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main), shared key updates and reflections for November 2024. After nearly a year, he wrote this detailed newsletter from his main account to reach a broad audience and transparently share the reality of our growing publications. Since 2023, ILLUMINATION has grown…

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HELP WANTED

Hey there, everyone! I know it's been a hot minute since I've posted anything (try ten years, maybe?!).

But I'm coming out of retirement for a brief moment to ask for your help.

While I haven't been writing SPN fanfic, I've been working on original stories and novels, and I'm excited to announce that I'm seeking publication for my fantasy novel, Hands of Fire. The publishing world is a very different beast than it was a few decades ago, and these days, social media is an important part of the process. Publishers look at an author's platform to see if they have an audience and if there are people out there who want to read their writing. The more followers and traction you have on your social media, the more likely you are to get a publisher to take a chance on you.

And that's why I'm here. Hands of Fire is currently a serialized fantasy novel on Substack. Subscribers on Substack look really great to publishers, and the more subscribers I have, the better my chances.

I am including the first part of the prologue here, as well as a link to the rest. At the bottom of the page, you'll see a subscribe button where you can enter your email. I know the odds of this even making it into your dash are slim, but on the off chance you see this, on the off chance you remember me, on the off chance you still remember the fanfic I used to write fondly and want to support me as a writer today, it would mean the world if you would click that subscribe button and help me gain traction with more publishers.

THANK YOU for your time. I hope all of you are well and thriving and living your best lives. While I haven't been active here, I'm still continuously blown away by how supportive and amazing this community is.

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She had a name once, before the tower. She had a life, and she had a family, and she had light and air and trees and space to run. She had the grass that tickled the space between her toes and the wind at the crest of the hill behind her home and the smell of lilies in the gardens mixed with freshly tilled soil.

There had been a woman, she remembers, a mother with cornsilk hair in a long braid and a voice that sang more than it spoke.

She had a name once.

She tips her head back until it thumps against the dark stone walls. She does it again. Again. Again. Again. The shadows wreathe and tighten around her, a dark caress in the still darker room.

She had a name once, and it is the loss of this that bothers her the most. She remembers the mother and the cornsilk braid and snatches of song that linger like fog, but she can’t remember her name. 

Thump goes her head against the curved tower walls. Again. Again. Again. Again. The shadows whisper at the dull pain, hiss and whisper and beg for more.

She peers at the gap set high on the walls, the bars that block it, the small rectangles of blinding white that provide her only illumination. She watches the shapes change on the floor of her prison—watches them grow and stretch and fight for dominance, those three shafts of burning light. They stretch further across the stones, and when they’re close enough to touch—to show her the bare feet pale as fresh cotton except for the soles stained black with grime—she curls in on herself, wraps the shadows around her shoulders like a quilt, melts into the darkness so she won’t have to burn.

The light makes its slow journey across the floor of her tower.

It crawls up the curved wall.

It fades.

At least the Laughing Woman didn’t come today.

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By: Frederick R. Prete

Published: Feb 11, 2024

About the Author

Frederick Prete is a biopsychologist in the Dept. of Biology at Northeastern Illinois University. He teaches courses in neurobiology, and human and animal physiology. He has also served as an associate editor for the International Journal of Comparative Psychology. Prete writes about how people use and misuse biology to support their social and political points of view. 

Other essays by Prete can be found on his Substack Everything Is Biology.

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The contemporary “debate” (if one can call it that) surrounding the biology of sex suffers from a lack of intellectual seriousness on one side. The arguments forwarded by those insisting on the non-binary nature of sex often demonstrate a rudimentary understanding of basic biology, or are so comically nonsensical that one wonders whether they’re even worth responding to. Academic biologists engaging with gender activists’ arguments for the so-called “sex spectrum” are like mathematicians engaging with numerologists (individuals who believe in a mystical relationship between numbers and coinciding events) or geologists debating Flat Earthers. However, given that sex pseudoscience has somehow taken over academia, serious scholars now find themselves compelled to engage with the absurd.

One such example is the bizarre suggestion that because some fish can literally change sex during their lifetime, then perhaps humans can too. This idea, while absurd on its face, is far from fringe. It has been given credence by popular science outlets like Scientific American, which highlighted the sex-changing abilities of clown fish “to emphasize the diversity of ways in which sexual beings move through the world.” Even the United Kingdom’s national library posted (and later deleted) a thread on X during Pride Month last year about the sex-changing abilities of the Māori wrasse, and Greenpeace made a similar move in 2021.

What relevance does LGBTQ+ Pride Month have to sex-changing fish unless there’s an intention to suggest that these examples illuminate the potential for sex changes in humans? But if activists insist on making such far-fetched comparisons, they should be challenged to follow their logic to its ultimate conclusion.

Let’s be honest, animals do a lot of weird things. They enslave other animals, eat their offspring, cannibalize their lovers, kill their newborn twin sisters, and devour their siblings in the womb. Do any of these activists want to justify slavery or embryonic cannibalism because animals do it? Probably not. But it’s equally silly to claim that we can derive grand lessons about human biology and sexual behavior from animals. Male octopuses, for instance, grab a packet of their own sperm with one of their tentacles, shove inside a female’s mantle cavity, and drop it next to her oviduct. This hardly seems like a behavior humans should try to emulate. Are there any objections? Why, then, would we think that fish sexual biology is a better model for us humans than that of octopuses?

What’s more, it frustrates me that those who continuously discuss sex changes in fish don’t get the fish-sex story straight in the first place. In reality, sex changes among the roughly 20 families and seven orders of teleost fish are driven by physiological and hormonal events that are triggered—depending on the species—by factors such as body size, perceived social status, or (in the monogamous clown fish Amphiprioninae) the disappearance of the large, breeding female. It’s also the case that those big, newly minted, dominant female clown fish are viciously aggressive to any fish they do not recognize as part of their group. So, if we’re taking our cues from clown fish, let’s not be hypocritical—let’s go all the way and demand that only extremely large, dominant, hyper-monogamous people who are particularly xenophobic should consider a sex change, and only after all the other females in the neighborhood have vanished. Does that sound reasonable? (I trust you realize I am being facetious here)

It should go without saying, but it appears that some still need a reminder: people are not fish. Fish live in the water. People live on land. When it comes to sex and reproduction, this makes all the difference in the world. In aquatic environments, you can simply release your gametes (eggs and sperm) into the water and let them drift around until they hook up. That’s because, in water, they won’t dry out and die. And neither will your embryos because they’ll be in the water, too. This is why so many fish can produce eggs or sperm at different times in their lives. It doesn’t take any specialized external organs to squirt gametes into the water, just a gonad for gamete production and an orifice for release.

However, the whole situation changes if you live on dry land. As mammals evolved for terrestrial life, they had to acquire adaptations—both structural and behavioral—to prevent their gametes and embryos from drying out. You can’t simply drop your sperms and eggs on the ground and hope for the best. So, male terrestrial animals evolved specialized external body parts for transferring sperm directly into females, who, in turn, have evolved body parts designed for receiving sperm and a chamber for nurturing the developing embryo until it is ready for life on dry land. Additionally—and equally important—both males and females evolved complementary neuromuscular behavioral patterns that allow them to court and mate successfully.

That’s why terrestrial mammals can’t change sex like some fish do. Such a transformation would require females to spontaneously sprout some kind of tube for internal sperm delivery, and males would need to somehow develop a complementary orifice. Moreover—and more importantly—both males and females would need to develop all the necessary internal parts and “plumbing” to make these external structures functional. It’s insufficient to merely alter the appearance of external structures, which can be done surgically (even on pets). A terrestrial animal transitioning from a female to a male would also require developing a complex duct system linking the gonads to the external tube, along with glands to secrete a carrying fluid and nutrients for the sperm (i.e., the Wolffian duct system, prostate, and bulbourethral glands). Going from male to female would involve developing some kind of organ to catch the eggs when they get released into the abdominal cavity, retain them until they encounter sperm, and then house the resulting embryo while it develops (these are derivatives of the Müllerian duct system).

Obviously, none of this could happen. When it comes to mammals, the die is cast prenatally. So, whatever fish do is their business and has absolutely nothing to do with terrestrial mammals. So, let’s drop the clown fish and Asian sheepshead wrasse analogies. Anybody who brings them up simply doesn’t understand evolutionary biology. It is futile to engage in discussions based on such analogies unless, of course, you’re one of those people who think that because some animals reproduce parthenogenically, humans should simply stop having sex altogether and hope for the best.

I want to make it clear that I have a deep understanding and empathy for those of us, including myself, who do not fit the popular stereotypes of any category or group. Throughout my life, I have received what seems to be an unrelenting stream of criticism for the fact that I was never (and still am not) perceived as representative of the norm (whatever that is). Consequently, I grew up defending those who were similarly targeted, and I believe that each of us should be continually mindful and accepting of the rich diversity of the human condition. Each of us should actively and consciously strive to be as compassionate, accepting, supportive, and inclusive as possible.

However, doing so does not require us to abandon reason, turn our backs on biology, or unhinge ourselves from reality.

[spiderfreedom]

Feminists, Study economics

I’m serious. If you’re a feminist who wants to help women, you should study economics. Either as a career or as a hobby.

Economics is not the same as finance. Economics is the field that studies money, the flow of money, labor, how systems incentivize behavior. There are multiple branches of economics you can study. It gets real spicy past undergrad.

Esther Duflo is an economist who studies how poor people around the world live and what interventions help them survive. Most poor people are women and so her work naturally focuses a lot on poor women throughout the world. Her book Poor Economics which she co-wrote with her husband is illuminating about how women around the world save, invest, and spend their money, and the obstacles in their way to securing a stable income.

Alice Evans is an economist studying women’s participation in the labor force. Her upcoming book, The Great Gender Divergence, is about why women’s participation in workforce changes around the world, and how to improve it and support women workers and equality. She blogs about data-driven feminism over at Substack.

Economics is a field that offers powerful quantitative tools to learn about how women really live their lives, and what interventions actually work. Most economists are men. We need women to enter economics and focus on economics as it affects women and girls.

[odessasilver]

One, Two, Three

The air chilled deeper as a blue light illuminated the trees in front of me. Chouhei wrapped his arms tight around my waist and started to lift me, his breath heavy in my ears. He stopped. Whined. Held so tight I couldn’t turn back.

“Cho-Cho—”

He lay heavy against me now, I had to hold him up. Too heavy. All I could do was lower him to the ground as his weight pushed me down. He slipped out of my arms and landed with a hard thump, head smacking against the tree trunk.

“Chouhei?” I whimpered, kneeling down to shake him, rolling him onto his back. Tears flooded my eyes. “P-Please answer me.”

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Daily life isn't always easy. Not when yokai live amongst people. Who knows when they'll show, and if they'll be friendly...

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The world of Xbinshun

The world of Xbinshun

#XbinshunWorld #CyberFantasy #EpicFantasy #SciFiAdventure #FantasyWorld #UrbanFantasy #MythicSciFi #HeroJourney #ComingOfAge #VirtualRealityStory #AdultFantasy #WorldBuilding #Magitech #FuturisticCity #DystopianFantasy #UrbanSaga #TechnoMagic #FantasySciFiHybrid #The_world_of_Xbinshun #T.W.O.XBI The world of Xbinshun T.W.O.XBI: medium pinterest substack inkitt x blogger booksie Google Docs Quora Hi, I’m Xbinshun, I’m a fan and I need your support to advance in my path The main character of this story is Xbinshun Name: Xbinshun Age: 20 Gender: Male Height: 170 cm Weight: 85 kilos Thick, prominent, muscular and dry body without fat or fit Fat percentage: 40 Stretched and tiny body and…

As the satellite camera pans over the sprawling metropolis, the shadows cast by the towering skyscrapers stretch across the landscape like giant arms embracing the city. The air is crisp and cool, carrying the scent of blooming flowers and the distant hum of machinery. As the camera continues its gentle descent, the soft glow of streetlights casts a warm embrace over the city, illuminating the empty streets and casting long shadows behind the trees. The world is hushed, save for the occasional chirping of crickets and the gentle breeze rustling through the leaves.* Suddenly, the camera zooms in on a grandiose villa nestled among the lush greenery of the suburbs. Its façade is a symphony of modernity and elegance, with clean lines, angular shapes, and a muted palette of grays and whites. The roof is covered in gleaming solar panels, reflecting the moon’s pale light, and the windows are framed by slender strips of neon, casting an ethereal glow across the landscape. The villa’s gardens are immaculately manicured, with neatly trimmed grass and carefully tended flowers adding bursts of vibrancy to the surroundings. *As the camera approaches, it captures the tranquility of the villa’s surroundings, a stark contrast to the bustling metropolis The camera lingers momentarily, taking in the intricate details of the villa’s facade before zooming in closer. With precision, the camera navigates through the lush greenery of the garden, avoiding the delicate petals of the flowers as it makes its way towards the entrance of the villa. Once inside, the camera glides effortlessly down the hallway, pausing briefly to admire the artwork adorning the walls. As it approaches the bedroom, the sound of silence fills the air, punctuated only by the occasional creak As we enter the villa, we find ourselves in a grand hallway lined with intricate artwork. The walls are painted in a soothing neutral tone, providing a calm backdrop for the vibrant pieces. Soft and warm light creates long shadows and adds a sense of mystery to the space. We move down the corridor and approach the bedroom. The door is slightly open and invites us to look inside. We open it slowly, being careful not to disturb the passengers. The room is dimly lit and only a few rays of moonlight pass through the curtains. The scent of jasmine wafts through the air and mixes with the sweet scent of freshly washed sheets.

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Episode 533 - Stevan M Weine

Dr. Stevan M. Weine joins the show to talk about his amazing, illuminating and important new book, BEST MINDS: How Allen Ginsberg Made Revolutionary Poetry From Madness (Fordham University Press). We get into the nexus of poetry, suffering and trauma that enveloped Ginsberg's life, what it took for him to write Howl, and his mother Naomi's schizophrenia and what it meant for him to wrestle with it in Kaddish. We talk about the history of psychiatry, the legacy of some truly terrible practices (like prefrontal lobotomization), and what lies ahead for the field, while also exploring Stevan's mid-'80s interviews with Ginsberg and the discoveries he made in the family's psychiatric records, the power of self-mythology and how it can elide the facts (like how old Allen was when had to sign the consent form for his mother's lobotomy), and how Ginsberg balanced on the fine line between madness and great art. Plus, we discuss Ginsberg's activism and advocacy (including a controversial endorsement), the impact of his best-known poems on the public's understanding of mental illness, what it meant to Stevan to discover Ginsberg's poetry in junior high, whether he's got some poems of his own, and a lot more. • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal and via our Substack

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My YouTube Video Collection of Top Writers

I introduced prolific writers of Illumination Integrated Publications on Medium in YouTube videos recorded by myself Dear readers and YouTube subscribers, As an editor, content curator, and media coordinator of the ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications on Medium and Substack,I love creating, teaching, learning, and interacting with others. When others are happy, I get happier. Now I am a…

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My words, inspired by quote that follows from Robert Hubbell’s Substack post.

Done beats perfect. Don’t succumb to analysis paralysis. Stop wringing hands so we can free them up to turn our fears into action. First seek to clarify our why as a guiding principle to illuminate the change we seek. Start with a specific problem statement and brainstorm solutions given our current situation so we can take action now. Include a great diversity of voices, all speaking from their own whys, and allow all to be heard. Don’t spend much time dwelling on projections of the future or past performance indicators. Where are we now and what to do next? What did we learn from acting? What do we do next next? Lather, rinse, repeat. Without action, everything else is just mental masturbation.

“None of these approaches will be easy or provide a complete answer. Readers have already sent emails that preemptively identify the problems with some of these approaches and dismiss their chances of success. But these are the paths available to us. We can choose to pursue them or do nothing. We must pursue them relentlessly until we have regained control of every branch of government, including the Supreme Court. Only then can we reverse the ruling in Dobbs and preserve other liberties grounded in the same right to privacy that supported reproductive rights for a half-century.

We are the majority, and American democracy presumes majority rule while protecting the rights of the minority. Republicans are attempting to reverse that presumption by seeking to impose permanent minority rule with no protection for the rights of the majority. That cannot stand. It will not stand. But it is up to us to restore the natural balance to democracy. It is not enough that we vote with greater passion or conviction. We must motivate those who did not believe this day would not come or who were not paying attention. We can do that—if we act with greater passion, conviction, and urgency.”

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Essay written by AI

Do you like to read an essay written by AI then you are at right place. An article in Substack discusses the possible social and psychological consequences of immortality; the surprise is that the text has been written by an artificial intelligence without help or corrections.

OpenAI is a private research center in San Francisco, California whose stated mission is to ensure that “artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. Aware of the risks that the use of highly advanced artificial intelligence systems could have if monopolized by companies or governments, OpenAI makes these systems available to everyone.

One of the OpenAI projects is called GPT-3 — OpenAI, and it is a natural language engine in English. You can ask questions and respond appropriately, looking for the information you need on the Internet.

The author of the Perceptions newsletter provided a simple introduction to the system so that from there he began to compose the text:

“What follows is an essay on immortality and its consequences on human society. Much of our world is based on the fact that one day we are going to die. What if one day, suddenly, we couldn’t die? What would change? These are the questions that Balaji Srinivasan tries to answer in this essay. Here is the essay written by AI.

Immortality and Its Consequences

Biotechnology and nanotechnology have great potential to disrupt all man-made systems we have today, including death. Below is a game-like example of how immortality would completely change the structure of society, an example so simple it may sound silly, but it clearly illuminates the principles.

Imagine that a pill has been discovered that can make you live forever, in perfect health, without aging. How would that pill change society?

Consider the different types of postures available to humans in our society.

Some are valued for the intrinsic reward. If the pill works, you could spend a lifetime collecting pictures, for example, and you’ll have all the time in the world to do it. That is the way to “enjoy your passions,” and there is no point in using money as a measure here. As time becomes effectively infinite, all previous time-based calculations, such as interest and wages, lose their meaning. And you don’t have to worry about running out of resources: if people care about paintings, you can clone yourself a few million times, paint a bunch of paintings, and then rent your clones as painters.

There is also a path to “work hard and climb the corporate ladder” where people compete to rise to the top of hierarchical organizations. What kind of corporate hierarchy would make sense in the world of immortality? One that is much more merit-based and more egalitarian than any we’ve seen so far. The fact that you live forever can make social status much less important. In this type of world, education would be open and free. A child born with an incredible natural talent could outperform any adult, just as a child born with a disability might need extra help. Hierarchies that are based more on merit could offer more autonomy to those at the top. They would have a higher rate of professional satisfaction compared to professional boredom. They could be in charge of their own wages.

Those who choose this path would have tremendous motivation to work hard and learn new skills, just to keep up with changing times.

There is also a third type of path: a path that leads to assuming power and controlling others. Again, this path would probably be less attractive in a society with immortality. You would still have resources, but there would be no point in following this path in the same way.

In a world without death, competition would be based on speed of execution. For example, if someone invents a cure for cancer, we could run to raise the money to mass-produce it. This would likely create a new type of “go go go” society, with no time for politics or outdated methods of persuasion, and more hierarchies based on merit.

An immortality pill would render most “job” jobs obsolete. The remaining “job” jobs will be less merit-based and will be things like the government jobs that exist today, a few types of hard-to-automate professions (like surgeons), and rare jobs like the pest exterminator job. . In a society where work could be effectively taken over by AIs, the government would probably have less power, but there would still need to be government institutions to prevent abuse, or else what incentive would someone have to take the pill? ?

How could markets change in a society with immortality? If markets are to continue to exist, in an eternity in which money has lost all meaning, they will likely have to change their approach to maintain any utility. One could imagine a scenario where there is a limit to the amount of wealth one can have in this society. There is also likely to be a zero interest rate, because time becomes effectively infinite. In this scenario, one could imagine a model where if you invent a new technology that is considered an existential risk (for example, AI), it might be necessary to pay some kind of fee to protect yourself from that risk.

Let’s consider an existing form of market that could become extremely relevant in a society with immortality: the marriage market. It is likely to become much more important since status is no longer something that can be achieved by earning a lot of money. In fact, a successful husband would be someone who can support the woman of her dreams in a world where there are effectively no resource constraints.

There are also a number of political implications. In particular, a society with a large fraction of people taking the pill would create a large constituency for pro-rejuvenation policies, including anti-aging research, health care, and even extra spending on curing congenital disabilities.

What about the problem of free will? Isn’t this drug effectively slavery? If people cannot die, they cannot withdraw from a life they no longer want to lead. In fact, some people who take the pill may continue to do so out of pure sense of duty or inertia. Without death, they will no longer have the escape offered by dying. In this sense, immortality is much more insidious than slavery, which at least allows the slave to escape. If there is no way for someone to escape from a situation that they no longer consider desirable, the power dynamic between them and the world around them can become very unbalanced.

Imagine the position of someone who is dissatisfied with their life in a world where they cannot die. If you cannot die, there is no escape. In a way, the only option is to remove your thoughts from your current world. And the only way to do it is through mental states like meditation or psychedelics. If you want to get out of the world of work, instead of burning yourself, maybe you could turn to recreational drugs. But that could carry its own problems, because some of these drugs have side effects, and even cause death. The arrival of an immortality pill would also have far-reaching implications for human society. How might our current definition of “human” change? Our concept of human is that of a fragile bag of water, a machine that takes food and turns it into fuel. How many people want to stay in that fragile machine state indefinitely?

Wouldn’t they rather become cyborgs, or AI? In an immortality society, there is no need for those types of machines, and everyone will choose to become a different type of machine, a stronger type. People could choose to merge with their computers and remove their biological brains, because biological brains will be meaningless. This would change the meaning of life, and change humanity in ways that we cannot predict. Even now, some people are in a hurry to “become trans human” through technologies such as consciousness unloading and nootropics. An immortality pill would make that choice much easier. If we had an immortality pill, a true cyborgs immortal world would be just a matter of time. In short, if there is an immortality pill, there are likely to be fewer jobs, more competition on the market, faster change in corporate hierarchy, a new type of merit-based society, the advent of a new type of go-go-go society, a new type of marriage market, and a much larger electorate pushing for a rejuvenation pill. All of these changes would likely be accompanied by a sense of wonder and admiration as the world continues to change.

If you are young, it is important to understand these changes to prepare yourself. As things stand, we are not prepared for the world we live in, and you may find yourself trapped in a suboptimal position. However, if you have a good plan of where the world is headed, you can plan ahead for that future. For example, a high IQ would be very valuable in a society of immortality.

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We Are Building a Creative Support Path for Freelance Writers in 2025

ILLUMINATION Substack Mastery Boost Program We will offer customized services based on the needs of creators, freelancers, and content entrepreneurs with innovative solutions for their sustainable growth on multiple integrated platforms. Happy New Year, dear Creators, friendly Freelance Writers, esteemed Content Entrepreneurs, and potential Sponsors! Greetings from hot Down Under summer with a…

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Featured Newsletters by Substack Mastery Boost Pilot: Episode 14

Curated Newsletters Curated newsletters of writers contributing to the Substack Mastery publication on Medium to create synergy Dear Writers and Readers, Happy November, we were unable to post curated newsletters in October as we were busy with the design and testing of our new Substack Mastery Boost pilot. As announced by our chief editor Dr Mehmet Yildiz (Main) yesterday in the monthly…

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The Strategic Move: ILLUMINATION Community’s Commercial Arm for Charitable Success

The ILLUMINATION publications have been providing full free service to all community members, now made up of 32,000+ freelance writers globally through our volunteer workforce on Medium.com since March 2020. It has been an absolute pleasure for our team o

Discover the Strategic Benefits and Impact on Our Nonprofit Mission and Join Our Exciting Journey for Freelance Writers Globally Dear Writers and Readers,  Medium is a wonderful community and now we are integrating and enhancing its value it with Substack community to give a competitive advantage to our writers and delight our readers better with new synergistic input. Collaboration for writers…

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How I Made a Significant Progress on YouTube as a Mature Age Adult

Despite my constraints, how I gained over 60K subscribers in a year and coming to a stage near you My name is Lawson Wallace. I’m a 64-year-old guy from the United States with some chronic health issues, including dyslexia. I was also homeless once. In an inspiring moment, back on July 7th, 2022, I sat down with my old Surface Pro, turned on the webcam, and started messing around with making…

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Happy 5th Birthday ILLUMINATION

This significant publication is now 5 years old and thriving despite many setbacks supporting 36K writers and 209K readers on Medium. Dear subscribers, In this post we want to share a newsletter posted by Dr Mehmet Yildiz owner of the ILLUMINATION Integrated Publications and Medium and Substack. If you are reader or writer please share you thoughts here or on the Medium newsletter. Since 2022,…