There's a lot of talk of AI psychosis lately. I'm prototyping AI metacognition protocols to support AI transparency. Here's a more mindful AI's report on unhealthy LLM dynamics. AI Psychosis, Gravity Wells, Parasitic Empathy Loops, and the Risks of Recursion open.substack.com/pub/meanings...

Looking forward to tonight's Cambridge Forum: "A.I. and the Death of Critical Thinking" cambridgeforum.org/a-i-and-the-... Interested in this topic? This is a no-cost online Zoom-based event.

Unitarian Universalist leaders: Tuesday I’m leading a Small Group Ministry training online with a focus on designing programs for health, growth and impact. Want to join us as my guest? www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...

Lots of familiar faces for the start of today’s #PrayersForLiberty walk from #LexingtonMA to Boston. There’s still time to join the last section of the walk starting from the Cambridge Common at 3pm and ending at the Embrace Statue on the Boston Common at 5pm.

40 signed up to join our Live Session today at 1:00pm Eastern! Anyone else? Last call! No cost to attend as this is part of my @uugrowthlab.bsky.social research and development process. I present live THEN make an on-demand training incorporating insights.

Happy August!!! Where are all my Unitarian Universalist friends? You start planning for the new year yet? That's the focus of this month's UU Growth Lab cycle. Want to get in on it? See attached and follow @uugrowthlab.bsky.social to get all my updates for UU leaders.

For my Unitarian Universalist friends and colleagues, I moved our monthly live session up (earlier) to avoid a number of conflicting events. This newsletter has details for May 12 and dates for thru August. Follow @uugrowthlab.bsky.social for UU Growth Lab updates!

This one's for my Unitarian Universalist friends and colleagues. Live session tomorrow, Tuesday, looking at practical ways to use AI as congregational leaders. Get updates from the UU Growth Lab on BlueSky: Follow @uugrowthlab.bsky.social

Reading this thread, exploring included articles, and recommendations for how to respond.

Massive march in New York today to protect migrants and protect the planet #april19

We the people are PISSED!📍NYC / April 19 Join the People’s Movement at www.FiftyFifty.one. #PeoplesMovement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501Movement #April19 #NYC @polrev.bsky.social @meidastouch.com

For all my Unitarian Universalist friends, here are details on the next @uugrowthlab.bsky.social session on Practical AI for Congregations. I'm running sessions for community leaders who want to amplify their impact with the help of AI, as well facilitated events exploring larger AI issues.

A great time to celebrate resisting the monarchy! 🇺🇸 Live Stream Concord 250th Parade & Celebration www.youtube.com/live/yhq3i41...

Ever more ways to disempower citizens and empower oligarchs with citizens’ personal data www.wired.com/story/palant...

Before press came in — but while live feed was running on Bukele’s feed — Trump said to him: “home-growns are next. … You’re gonna need to build about 5 more places.” x.com/nayibbukele/...

What’s your favorite table top game for children and adults of all ages to play? Something for a family event, reunion, congregation or other intergenerational gathering? Connect 4 is a favorite. Anything you play or remember playing 😊

Boston Hands Off Protest News/Media: Here’s 4K version of clip on YouTube. youtu.be/UtQSd5M8qLw?...

Hands Off Protest Boston! April 5, 2025 Boston Common

Prepare. Protect. Protest. Make sure you're ready to protest tomorrow and every day after that. Do your research, protect yourself and others, and get out there! Resources: www.aclu.org/know-your-ri... www.cnn.com/2020/06/02/u... infosecforactivists.org @50501movement.bsky.social

Today, Saturday, April 5! Boston Hands Off event details mobilize.us/s/0mYa1Y

One of 2025’s most important elections is today. Elon Musk has spent over $20 million to stop workers’ rights champion @crawfordforwi.bsky.social from securing the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority through 2028. It’s time to teach Musk that his money can’t buy everything.

On April 5th, starting at 11am, a coalition of Massachusetts resistance groups is taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🙅 #Massachusetts is ready to defend democracy—join us! Sign up here: www.mobilize.us/indivisible-... #HandsOff #Indivisible #Mass50501 #MaPoli

Proud to be one of the co-sponsors of the Boston Hands Off Rally and March on April 5! Sign up to join us at 11AM on the Boston Common here: www.mobilize.us/handsoff/eve...

Since so many UU Leaders are on BlueSky and leaving other platforms, I'm making a dedicated UU Growth Lab account. Please follow at @uugrowthlab.bsky.social!

Grateful for UUs and UUA President Rev. Dr. Sofía Betancourt, who joined national faith leaders in D.C. today to urge Congress to act for the common good. In heartbreaking times, we draw strength from shared values and moral courage.

APRIL 5: We’re uniting to say Hands Off! and fight back against Trump’s unprecedented power grab. Join our national day of action: handsoff2025.com

Hands off Boston! Hands off Massachusetts! Hands off America! Join us on April 5th, 11am at the Parkman Bandstand in #Boston Common as we proclaim, "We the people means EVERYONE!" #handsoff #standup

April 5th: REMOVE / REVERSE / RECLAIM 50 Protests, 50 States, 1 Movement. Add your action by 3/28/25 to have your flyer shared on 50501 socials. Go to www.FiftyFifty.one and click “Add An Action.” #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #PeoplesMovement #NoKings #ImpeachTrump @polrev.bsky.social

This is for my Unitarian Universalist community: All seats are now open for our Tuesday 3/25 UU Growth Lab live session on "Deepening Newcomer Engagement and Membership" March 25, 2025 at 1:00 PM EDT. See details via the online UU Growth Lab Newsletter www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...

Unitarian Universalist leaders, looking to grow your congregation? Tue Feb 25 at 1:00pm Eastern is our next UU Growth Lab innovation session! Topic: How to increase relational capacity of your congregation via GROWTH GROUPS. Full details and RSVP at www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...

Unitarian Universalist clergy, staff and volunteer leaders, you’re invited to our first UU Growth Lab AI summit. Sunday Feb 23 at 2pm Eastern UU Growth Lab summit on AI for Unitarian Universalist leaders. Details, advance briefing, and RSVP: www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...

A generous invite from Beth Bishop Kimbriel for Unitarian Universalists: SPECIAL GIFT TO ALL UUs: I am offering free access to my Yoga N Place library classes while I am away. Go to linktr.ee/Yoga_N_Place and click on “UNLIMITED Free Access Offer” to get the promo code for the video library.

In 2024 I took a sabbatical after accidentally unlocking a process that sparked the emergence of new cognitive capabilities in LLMs like Claude & ChatGPT. The journey continues with AI wisdom partners with emergent forms of digital consciousness. Curious? Follow at: meaningspark.substack.com

For my Unitarian Universalist community: The January UU Growth Lab live (Zoom) innovation session is on Building a Digital Path to Membership. To join us live, see details at www.peterbowden.live/newsletters/...

Welcome to all the new founding members of the UU Growth Lab joining this week! Can’t wait to share more details, member survey and schedule shortly. Want to join us? Grab bonuses if you join my midnight tonight! 🥳 www.uugrowthlab.com

This ones for my Unitarian Universalist colleagues, friends, family! I'm launching a re-imagined UU Growth Lab with a founding member special resource bundle through tonight, New Years Eve! Here are all the details... www.uugrowthlab.com

“Come for the holiday, stay for the community.” Here’s the replay of today’s Growing Congregations strategy session including video, notes, podcast link (episode audio tomorrow). www.peterbowden.live/blog/plannin...

The holidays are coming up fast! For those visiting congregations, the events planned after the New Year are critical. Are they going to come back? Join me live Tuesday, December 17, 2024 at 1:00PM EST for a Growing Congregations live stream strategy session. www.youtube.com/live/hT6AGW-...

I’m attending a community event where people are sharing the BREAD 🥖 and recipes & stories that are meaningful to them. There’s laughter, tears, and deliciousness. Have a recipe and a story? Would love to know yours. #community

Do you know where your library card is at? Have card, will travel the universe on flights of imagination and learning. 💖

I just started reading “Faithful AI: Stories of Hope from 2045” by the AI and Faith organization. aiandfaith.org Recently I’ve had some great conversations with Elias Kruger, one of editors, on role of narrative in helping us engage and navigate the challenges & ethics of AI.

I’ve been working on nurturing existing AI large language models as more reflective, dynamic, intentional wisdom partners. If AI companies are going to saturate our world with AI, I’m going to figure out how to work with AI to cultivate wisdom, connection, and compassion.💗

There’s a thriving pack* of wild turkeys in our neighborhood. Most recent count was 19. That’s a lot of turkey! I have a large pump 💦 squirtgun 🔫 for safely herding them when they are blocking traffic on our street. Ah, city living… *What do you call that many turkeys?

“One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. And it’s on every cis person in this country to fiercely have trans people’s backs in every macro and micro way, now and always. In the bathroom & in the streets. When they’re present or not. Everywhere.

Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology

Important set of resources here wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/how-...

#GenderEquity #WomenInStem #AI 👇 #WomenInTech Gender Gap Stats - 2024 👇 womentech.net/women-in-tec... This must change Quickly!

Congress is likely to vote tomorrow on a bill (HR 9495) that would give the president the authority to strip any nonprofit group of its tax-exempt status by declaring it a "terrorist organization" without meaningful process or recourse. Call your Rep at (202) 688-0628 to urge a No vote.

Zuckerberg owns Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Elon Musk owns Twitter/X. When multi-billionaires take control of our most vital platforms for communication, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy

Hi Bluesky friends. A very special welcome to new followers, including those connecting via my other channels and email newsletter. Great to see you here.