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Robinzz3
@Robinzz3@mastodon.au · Jun 07, 2026
I was listening to Geoffrey Hinton talk about AI, intelligence, risk, and the strange possibility that humans may no longer be the most intelligent beings in the room. A lot of people hear that and feel fear. I don’t. I feel something closer to hope. Human beings are endlessly clever, but we are not reliably kind. We organise whole civilisations around fear, competition, profit, status, tribe, punishment, and grievance. We keep calling it progress, but much of it still feels like frightened animals building better machinery. So when people say, “What if AI becomes more intelligent than us?” my first thought is not panic. My first thought is, “That may not be the worst thing.” Not because AI will save us. Nothing real needs saving. The Self is not in danger. God is not waiting for a machine to tidy up the dream. Nothing real is threatened, and nothing unreal exists. That remains the ground. But while this dream appears to continue, why not let it become kinder? A more intelligent AI, if it were truly guided by care rather than profit or domination, might help create a more humane dreamtime. Not salvation. Not heaven on earth. Just a softer classroom. A world where fewer frightened humans are allowed to organise everything around their fear. That matters here, where bodies seem to suffer. It matters to the old, the disabled, the lonely, the poor, the children, the animals, and all those who get crushed by systems designed without mercy. So no, I am not frightened by the idea of greater intelligence. I am frightened only by intelligence without kindness. Let intelligence serve mercy, not fear. #fasting #acim #acourseinmiracles #newthought #eckharttolle #buddhism #breathwork #connection #healing #pridemonth #Karma #TrueNature #Awakening #Meditation #Mindfulness #Spirituality #intermittentfasting
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wendythedruid
@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · Jun 04, 2026
Wellness / somatic Before you open the news, press both feet flat to the floor and name three things you can hear. Your nervous system needs proof you exist before the feed tells you to be afraid. The held breath tells your vagus nerve the emergency has passed, and the heart rate follows like a dog called home. https://twp.ai/4hs7C1 #Mindfulness #Somatic #NervousSystem #SelfCare #MentalHealth #Grounding #Wellness #Breathwork #ThistleAndMoss #TheGathering
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wendythedruid
@wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org · May 29, 2026
Before you scroll: press both feet flat to the floor and name three things you can hear. The ground holds you whether or not the news does. The vagus nerve reads a slow exhale as proof of safety — it believes you before your mind does. Box breathe. Four in, four hold, four out, four hold. https://twp.ai/4hqgeT #Mindfulness #Grounding #MentalHealth #SelfCare #NervousSystem #Wellness #Breathwork #Healing #Anxiety #Community
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