#cosopoetry

So many folks want to broadcast their views in podcasts. But I only have a few listening hours available in a day. And, for me, reading is faster than listening for info browsing. The info-universe is a noisy, noisy place.

"Oysgezoomt" - the Yiddish word of 2020:
https://jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/the-yiddish-word-of-2020/

I just finished reading Cixin Liu's trilogy: The Three-Body Problem, The Dark Forest, Death's End. And WOW! One of the most imaginative and generative set of novels I have read. Recommended!

Brookings reporting some truth here; "Closing the racial wealth gap requires heavy, progressive taxation of wealth": https://www.brookings.edu/research/closing-the-racial-wealth-gap-requires-heavy-progressive-taxation-of-wealth/

From “Is Green Growth Possible?” by @jasonhickel & Kallis (free PDF here: https://jasonhickel.org/s/Hickel-and-Kallis-Is-Green-Growth-Possible.pdf) one conclusion is "there are no scientific grounds upon which we should not question growth, if our goal is to avoid dangerous climate change and ecological breakdown" 😬

The New York Times: "... Wall Street rallied to new highs as political uncertainty faded ...." LOL ("whew, that was close" 🤨 😰 🤔 )

On that dark forest known as Twitter there is this ray of levity: https://twitter.com/birdinsults

"Human beings [can] overcome competitive struggle by restructuring society along principles of community and self-sufficiency."

https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing

the Orc of history ... does it bend in any direction?

fractal use of language: using just one more adjective or adverb to make a description of something [more] complete or accurate or readable.