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27 April 2026

• 18:0718:07, 27 April 2026 Who/Hidden lives (hist | edit) [3,019 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>Hidden lives</h1> <p>At consequential risk, we all rely on celebrity to ease and enliven the burden of judgment. But <i>Fortuna</i> casts celebrity on the wise and the merely fashionable alike, and on others of all sorts: apparatchiks just following orders, provincial political hacks, professional athletic stars rising unpredictably from draft pools.... It brings to power accidental arbiters of truth and justice who can be dangerously arb...")
• 18:0618:06, 27 April 2026 Who/For persons (hist | edit) [3,149 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1>For persons</h1> <p>Everyone begins on {{apts}} as a visitor. The place is an open city inviting you to study through it. As a visitor, you can go where you like — {{apts}} has no private spaces. There's a lot to take in to really know your way around. The place is a place to study in the virtual world, and the actual world doesn't offer too many places to study these days to clue us in about finding our way on our own.</p> <p>A first-...")
• 18:0018:00, 27 April 2026 Who (hist | edit) [6,165 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Who}} <h1><i>Who?</i> seeks the agent at work</h1> <div class="outbox lefty thin"><div class="inbox compact"> 190px<br><small>Jacob spoke first. "I want to know if my hair is just like yours," he told Mr. Obama.... Mr. Obama replied, "Why don't you touch it and see for yourself?" He lowered his head, level with Ja...")
• 17:5517:55, 27 April 2026 Lifeworlds (hist | edit) [1,734 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Lifeworlds}} <h1> </h1> <div class="outbox" style="max-width:400px; margin: 1px auto 1px auto;"><div class="inbox compact">Please note: As a concept, <i>Lifeworld</i> has great importance for the design and development of {{apts}}. We need to put the project in motion, however, in order to work out the modes of interaction between actual persons living and working in different lifeworlds and the resources accessible to them through {{apts}}. This...")
• 14:1514:15, 27 April 2026 Hello/On commenting (hist | edit) [2,033 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} <h1>Work with the NavBlock</h1> <div class="container"><p class="parabox">¶{{#counter:in1}}</p>Don't expect {{apts}} to be encyclopedic, a compendium of knowledge about things. If you're interested in up-to-date knowledge about <i>what something is</i>, look in Wikipedia. Come to {{apts}}, not to know about <i>the world as it is</i>, but to think about how you intend to live in a world imbued with meaning, significance, value,...")
• 14:1214:12, 27 April 2026 Work with the NavBlock (hist | edit) [1,869 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} <h1>Work with the NavBlock</h1> <div class="container"><p class="parabox">¶{{#counter:in1}}</p>Don't expect {{apts}} to be encyclopedic, a compendium of knowledge about things. If you're interested in up-to-date knowledge about <i>what something is</i>, look in Wikipedia. Come to {{apts}}, not to know about <i>the world as it is</i>, but to think about how you intend to live in a world imbued with meaning, significance, value,...")
• 14:0514:05, 27 April 2026 Hello/We've begun! (hist | edit) [10,805 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1>We've begun!</h1> <h6><b>What's next? That's always the question, an occasion for judgment.</b></h6> <hr> <p>Here's an overview for first-timers of <i>what-happens-where</i>, and for many-timers, too. What we do on {{apts}} differs from what usually happens on websites. We use a clickable map to keep the whole place in mind. Use it to get about and choose where your active study might take place. We describe t...")
• 14:0414:04, 27 April 2026 Hello/The deal (hist | edit) [7,288 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} <h1>Here's the deal! </h1> <div class="compact" style="margin: 0 3em 1em 3em;"> {{Fatboy|boy=<p class="b1">Volunteers <u>build</u> {{apts}} to provide cultural resources to persons seeking self-formation and liberal learning in the digital commons.</p> <p class="b1">Persons freely <u>study</u> with these resources to form what they have to say and do in the context of their lives and their world, seeking to fulfill themselves through their...")
• 14:0314:03, 27 April 2026 Hello/It's not (hist | edit) [2,445 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1> </h1> 150px|center|What we are not <h1>{{apts}} is NOT . . . .</i></h1> * <i>NOT an encyclopedic project</i>. Like an encyclopedia, {{apts}} consists in part in an extensive collection of culturally valuable assets. But people interact with its collection, not to acquire impersonal knowledge, but to further their self-formation and liberal learning, aspiring to a personal understanding of...")
• 14:0214:02, 27 April 2026 Hello/Why do we study (hist | edit) [7,036 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1>Why <u>a place</u> to study?</h1> <!--<p>I'll introduce {{apts}}, beginning with a few words on why we might want it. </p> --> <p>Don't we get enough education? Most everyone ''has been educated'' in a worldwide system of formal instruction — some to succeed, others to fail. Helping more to succeed in the system and fewer to fail is important, but not the aim in creating {{apts}}.</p> <p>What we get from our...")
• 14:0014:00, 27 April 2026 Hello/To study (hist | edit) [4,693 bytes] Robbie (talk | contribs) (Created page with "__NOTOC__ __NOTITLE__ {{Setup|tick=Hello}} {{A-note}} <h1>Yes! We study.</h1> : From classical Latin, ''studēre''—to strive after, to concentrate on, to support, favor, to apply oneself, to give attention, be eager, be zealous, take pains, be diligent, be busy with, be devoted to. . . . <hr> <div class="outbox lf" style="max-width: 210px;">200px</div> <div style="text-indent: 2em"> <p>Sometimes I feel amazed, working to create {{apts}}...")