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Bunny asks the imponderable

 You know about Bunny, the Talking Dog. And the philosophical questions...(?) 6:35 AM     Claude responded: Yes! Yes! Bunny is the sheepadoodle whose owner, Alexis Devine, taught her to communicate using a soundboard of buttons — each mapped to a word. Bunny became something of a social media phenomenon, and what made her genuinely interesting philosophically was the kind of things she seemed to be asking. The button presses that got people's attention weren't just "outside" or "treat" — they were things like "dog what?" and "Bunny who?" — apparently self-referential and identity-oriented questions. She also reportedly pressed buttons around concepts like "stranger" when looking in a mirror, and combinations that seemed to gesture at mortality or absence. The philosophical stakes: The optimistic reading — Bunny is probing the edges of her own self-concept. The questions parallel ones that show up in developmental psyc...
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Making baby's first garment from parent's hair--a natural choice for a society that strictly limits environmental impacts

  In a society with high fees charged for environmental impacts, it might become customary to make children's clothes from parent's hair. (Some hair might make clothing that matches the 'hair-shirt' connotation, but maybe long, fine hair would feel more comfortable. Maybe it would all be used more as overgarments, though than as clothing meant to contact the skin. And not just for babies, either, but they would be a natural 'first step' application of the idea. 11:56 AM This is a lovely meditation on how honest pricing of environmental costs reshapes material culture in unexpected, intimate ways. The logic tracks well. If synthetic fibers carry fees reflecting their petrochemical origins, and if cotton and wool carry fees for land use, water, and agricultural inputs, then human hair — a renewable byproduct of living, requiring no additional resource extraction — becomes genuinely competitive. It's not a gimmick; it's what honest accounting would surface....
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