A Twitter gem from yesterday for today:
Dare Obasanjo - @Carnage4Life: One of the wrongest ideas from the 1990s was that capitalism creates democracies.

We’ve since learned from Russia & China that capitalism creates riches. Democracy and human rights are optional.

Today's Twitter poetry gem:

Today's Twitter gem:
Marcel Proust - @Daily_Proust: that sense of the complexity of life whereby, as soon as one gets close to other people, other lives, ready-made labels and classifications appear unduly crude

Today's Twitter fragment:

elizabeth bishop bot - @ebishopbot: There's little margin for error,
but there's no proof, either.

#cosopoetry

Today's Twitter gem:
elizabeth bishop bot -@ebishopbot:

In the blue pharmacy the pharmacist
had hung an empty wasps' nest from a shelf:
small, exquisite, clean matte white,
and hard as stucco.

#cosopoetry

Today's Twitter tech gem:
Become a data scientist in 350 days (do not miss the comments):
https://twitter.com/kjhealy/status/1505970345060323330

Today's Twitter gem:
Ethics in Bricks - @EthicsInBricks: "Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
- James Bovard

Today's Twitter curio:
Clive Thompson - @pomeranian99: I fed the Emily Dickinson poem "Because I could not stop for Death", couplet by couplet, into a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) -- to see what images it would generate.

Below, the couplet ...

"We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain —
We passed the Setting Sun —"

See the rest here: https://clivethompson.medium.com/what-ai-thinks-an-emily-dickinson-poem-looks-like-99db70c73e54

Today's Twitter gem:

Today's Twitter gem:

Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement p. 135: Climate change is often described as a "wicked problem." One of its wickedest aspects is that it may require us to abandon some of our most treasured ideas about political virtue: for example, "be the change you want to see." What we need instead is to find a way out of the individualizing imaginary in which we are trapped.

Today's Twitter gem:
Samuel Beckett - @samuelbbeckett: What are you musing on, Mercier?
On the horror of existence, confusedly, said Mercier.
What about a drink? said Camier.

Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement p. 133: ... the scale of climate change is such that individual choices will make little difference unless certain collective decisions are taken and acted upon. Sincerity has nothing to do with rationing water during a drought ... this is not a measure that can be left to the individual conscience. To think in those terms is to accept neo-liberal premises.

Today's Twitter gem:
Andrea Junker - @Strandjunker: This goes out to the person who saw the coffee beans first and was like, “Oh come on, I’ll roast this stuff, chop it up into dust, and then mix it with hot water.” — From the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Twitter gem of the day:

Plague Poems - @PlaguePoems: They have already
allowed it to happen
to the safety net
as well as
to the social fabric
so it is just in keeping
with their general stance
that in regards to the plague
they have decided
to just let it rip.