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   Futurist Jim Carroll (jimcarroll@futurist.info)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Apr-2025 18:47:02 JST Futurist Jim Carroll

   "In times of chaos and fear, purposeful action is power" - Futurist Jim Carroll

   Act boldly. Fear feeds on hesitation.

   Think about this moment. Confidence is fragile. Every headline screams volatility.

   And just like that, a wave of fear rolls in—bringing hesitation, doubt, and paralysis.

   Are you letting the fear freeze your future?

   Have you become the deer in the headlights?

   But here’s the truth: the antidote to anxiety is action.

   While others freeze, you can move.

   While some debate what might go wrong, you can start building what could go right.

   While people wait for signs an upturn, you can create your own little upturn, simply by acting.

   Fear loves hesitation. It grows stronger when you pause, wait, scroll endlessly, or convince yourself that “now isn’t the time.” It thrives in your indecision, matures in the recesses of your uncertainty, and becomes a cancer in your inaction.

   But bold action—no matter how small—immediately puts you back in the driver’s seat. It shifts your mindset from 'overwhelmed' to 'engaged.' It puts you in control. It gets you out of your doom cycle. It brings you back from focusing on where you are - to building momentum for where you could be.

   You don’t have to launch a moonshot to make a difference. You don't need some huge stretch goal. You don't need to be chasing some grand vision. You just have to move:

   Learn something new.

   Start that project.

   Test the idea.

   Build the prototype.

   Say yes.

   Momentum beats perfection. Progress quiets panic. Action beats fear.
   We are not victims of the future. We are its architects—if we choose to be.

   So when the uncertainty rises, meet it with motion.

   When fear whispers “not yet,” answer back: “Watch me.”

   Because the future doesn’t wait.

   And neither should you.

   What are you waiting for?

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   Futurist Jim Carroll knows that action is the antitode to every moment of volatility.

   These posts on resilience and volatility are also being archived at https://tomorrow.jimcarroll.com

   **#Action** **#Fear** **#Resilience** **#Momentum** **#Uncertainty** **#Leadership** **#Progress** **#Future** **#Confidence** **#Boldness**

   Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/04/decoding-tomorrow-your-daily-future-inspiration-in-times-of-chaos-and-fear-purposeful-action-is-power/

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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Saturday, 29-Mar-2025 02:09:11 JST Aral Balkan

   Just had the loveliest experience while getting my watch strap resized at Silver Phoenix in Bray. They’re a tiny, independent two-person jewellers – Martin and Joleta – and they took such care (Martin resized it three times and did a micro-adjustment and then undid it until we found the perfect fit).

   In a world of faceless corporations you forget sometimes how lovely people can be.

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   https://silverphoenix.ie

   #SilverPhoenix #Ireland #jewellery #watches #wallets #pens #repair #sizing #Bray #online #independent #shopLocal #shopIrish #local

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   Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ (richpuchalsky@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Feb-2025 00:25:25 JST Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝

   in reply to

   The post I wrote in 2011 goes through the so-far accurate reasons why technocrats can't disguise a governmental decision as an economic one through carbon taxes or tradable permits. Geoengineering is so far a fantasy and the more we learn about it the less effective it seems like it will be.

   So the path left is conversion to renewable power based only on renewable power plus batteries becoming cheaper than fossil in straightforward market terms.

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   JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 18:45:36 JST JA Westenberg

   Someone accused me of bias this morning. Specifically, bias against MAGA and Trump supporters. Apparently it's disappointing to discover that I'm not the morally neutral arbiter of truth they imagined me to be.

   So let's talk about it. Let's talk about my neutrality. A thread. 🧵

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   Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social)'s status on Thursday, 05-Dec-2024 20:43:57 JST Nazo

   in reply to

   @cavyherd @VampiresAndRobots @futurebird 99.999% sure it is.

   Synthetic training ultimately results in a breakdown of a model in a generation or two. They need non-synthetic input. And what better way than to mass deploy a system where users identify the outputs so they don't have to.

   Except it's still pretty synthetic. We're being fed some pretty poorly made results and we don't understand our instructions. (Should I click this one? Will it count against me if I click it?) And of course they're low resolution too, which makes it that much harder for us to even determine what they are even supposed to be.

   So I guess the good news is we're giving it at least some bad data. 😁

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   solarbird (solarbird@solarbird.net)'s status on Saturday, 02-Nov-2024 03:35:53 JST solarbird

   this looks to me like what we call a “tell”

   “Scoop: What Trump is hearing about his chances in a tight 2024 race,” writes Axios. I’m not linking it, because I think it’s shenanigans.

   What he’s supposedly hearing is that he pretty much has the election pretty much in hand, better position than 2020, blah blah blah blah [fart noises].

   I’m calling bullshit on the whole story, because this “internal” memo that they “scooped” is using as its thesis data from fucking Real Clear Politics, an absolutely canonical clown car, and if they had real, actual, good internal data showing what they’re talking about, they’d be using it. And they’re not.

   Given that even Trump should know that, I’m thinking much less “this was a scoop” and a lot more “This was propaganda written to be ‘scooped’ up and reported as a ‘scoop,'” and Axios happened to be the ones who bit.

   Further – I think it’s a tell. Between that and Trump going all in on telling his cult that he has a truly massive lead that can only be overtaken by fraud, what I’m actually hearing is that the Trump campaign thinks they’re losing.

   I think they know something very bad about their numbers, and I think I know what it is, and I think it’s more than one thing. 1: I think the gender gap is higher than they or pollsters have been thinking it is; 2: I think likely voter composition is different than they think it is and pollsters haven’t caught up either (this is, however, reflected in enthusiasm numbers); 3: I think Trump has failed to get past his hard upper limit of 47% and thanks to that racist hatefest in New York, Latino men who had been leaning towards not voting for a woman got a big slap of reality in the face, and finally…

   4: People who don’t math very well are saying that Harris’s wide lead in early polling just reflects how Democrats always turn out more for early voting than Republicans, and that her lead is not even as good as Biden’s was in 2020, but that ignores that this time, Republicans are in fact turning out in early polling, and way more than they have for a while, and Trump’s even been encouraging them.

   A lot of people don’t seem to be catching on to that, and it matters.

   And while a lot of these numbers are shaky at best – there’s one set of numbers going around that is in fact from a decent polling agency but the question it’s hanging on is kind of fucked up so I don’t think it’s reliable – Harris’s lead appears to be bigger than the party turnout differential.

   And what that means is that some of those early-voting registered Republicans are voting for her.

   Mostly women, no doubt. But still, I have seen some numbers that make me go holy shit. And not just in Kansas.

   I’m wondering whether the Trump campaign have figured all that shit out. Particularly with their panic about Republican women not voting the way their men want them to, and talking about how maybe women shouldn’t be voting at all and maybe the 19th Amendment needs to go away so that women can’t vote.

   Their reaction to losing is always to prevent the people who vote against them from being able to vote at all. I see no reason for this time to be different. If they’re saying women shouldn’t be voting at all, that tells me they’re being absolutely brutalised by women voters – as they damn well should be.

   So now they’re moving forward on their Plan B of setting up the faithful for mass rejection of the results and a second coup attempt.

   Another thing I said a very long time is that to get through this without major violence, we need the fascists to think that they’re on the very cusp of victory throughout, and not to believe they’re actually going to lose until they literally can’t win.

   That’s what 2024 has always been about, and I think they may’ve just figured out they can’t win.

   I really would’ve preferred them not figuring this out for another few days, but, well… four days beforehand, that’s not so bad. One day after would’ve been ideal, of course, but four days before? We can work with that.

   Keep up the pressure, team. Stay at your posts, or if you’re not at your post, get to one and start pushing us across the finish line. If these numbers confuse you, forget about them all – in fact, ignore all the polls entirely. I could be so very, very wrong. I don’t think I am and my history is good, but in the fog of war, anyone can be fooled, including me.

   So stay on target. First we have to win this, then we have to keep it. And we can’t leave anything “on the field,” because this is – as I have said many, many times – for all the marbles.

   Eyes. On. The. Prize.

   3 days remain.

   [link] #politics #USPol #fascism #politics #uspolitics