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All writers need readers. Reading is semi-miraculous act. And respect is due.

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I post a lot of links here.

I neither endorse, nor oppose the views in said links.

I post to inform.

Things I try to do in posts.

1. Use Hashtags to help us find stuff.
2. Try and find the original source.
3. Attribute, include author(s) name.
4. Quote a small bit of article.
5. Whenever possible include link to underlining paper.

Let me know if there is any other info you might want me to include.

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🙏 Buddhist
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🌲 Trees, Lives in Forest
👨🏻‍🔬 Science
✊🏻 Progressive
🧬Single, White, Male,
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👴🏻Retired, sleep whenever I want.
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🎧 Jazz, Ambient, Experimental

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So I am taking a break from posting. I might look into CoSo every once in a while, but only to lurk. How long a break, I have no idea.

be kind.

"We Be The Humans"

An Apology, and and announcing a break.

I apologize for adding to the confusion and controversy here. A few of my last posts were not clear in their intention. Because I linked to posts that have badly formed arguments, or views, that I don't hold myself, some might take this a being an advocate of said arguments. This is not true. My intention was only to inform what others were writing.

This on me. My bad. For not making my intentions clear.

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The thing that strikes me about the last couple of days is that, like in the 1960s, university administrations are massively overreacting to campus protests. Criminalizing protest is going to do one thing, which is lead to more protests.

Not only is this stupid, but it creates a world in which for people who maybe aren’t that informed or that bright, if you just define everything as anti-Semitism, you end up opening the door to actual, real anti-Semitism.

https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2024/04/overreacting-to-campus-protests

Perspective: 3

I had a front row seat when the SDS split into the Weather Underground. I spent literally months of time debating whether it was better to work from inside the system or violently overthrow it. I know well the arguments on both sides.

Me. I chose neither. I fucked off to northern Thailand to study Buddhism instead. Yes at first it was a copout, a running away. Then it became much more interesting.

Perspective: 2

Many feel like college's are becoming more violent. Let me tell you about college student violence as one who went to college in the late 60's. Remember the National Guard firing live rounds into students. Remember students blowing up banks. Remember students burning down selective service officers. Remember robberies, bomb building, and black students being assassinated by the FBI.

Perspective: 1

I know it feels like polarization is increasing due to events in the Middle East. But when I talk to, ya know normal folks, people not obsessed with the news. They don't really give a darn, If you ask them, they will mildly say that they support Israel.

But they will talk your ear off about grocery prices.

Most of the polarization is driven by a main stream media.
And most people don't care.

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R.I.P.

Terry Anderson, Reporter Held Hostage for Six Years, Dies at 76

The Beirut bureau chief for The Associated Press, he was kidnapped in 1985 by Islamic militants.

https://archive.ph/Sp4Fu

#Music

I saw Willie Nelson live once, in a small outdoor stadium in Sacramento Ca. Years ago. It was a fantastic show. I mean hours and hours of nonstop music. One of the best run outdoor shows I have been to.

Willie Nelson Outlaw Tour 2024

Considering the principals and the age of some, this presents a last chance opportunity to see them.

#CoSoMusic

Guitar Poetry
by Mikael Máni

https://mikaelmani.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-poetry

#CoSoMusic
#CoSoJazz

Smiling

Mark Lockheart - tenor and soprano saxophone
Nathaniel Facey - alto saxophone
George Crowley - clarinet
James Allsopp - clarinet and bass clarinet
Laura Jurd and Mike Soper - trumpets
Jim Rattigan and Anna Drysdale - french horns
Harry Maund - trombone and bass trombone
Rowland Sutherland - flute and alto flute
John Parricelli - guitars
Tom Herbert - bass guitar and double bass
Dave Smith - drums

(2024)

https://songwhip.com/marklockheart/smiling

#Gaming

Equinox
an impressive WebGL/Three.js space adventure game/demo from Little Workshop.

https://equinox.space/

#Labor

This is good news from Biden’s excellent National Labor Relations Board:

Labor officials have received a green light to pursue an injunction in federal court against the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper for allegedly violating its employees’ rights.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/pittsburgh-post-gazette-strike-injunction_n_662273b7e4b0bf7f0137fa4a?c5n

🔥🌍#ClimateEmergency

Carbon Credits are shit, they don't work. And at best just move money and risk around.

Hint: If the timber industry supports something, you know it is bad.

Timber companies claim carbon credits for trees they don’t cut down.

By Simeon Tegel

https://archive.ph/0S7I8

#Energy

Could the UK become a 100% green energy country?
Yes !

Could the UK become a net exporter of green energy?
Yes !

And it really isn't that hard. Nor disruptive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfzmwjWBVPU

#Future
I want to see:

You can skip the flying cars....

Still waiting for FDA approval of the small teleportation device, that sits in the bottom of a coffee cup. Pressure sensitive, automatically refills cup when low. From large pour over reservoir.

We need to get the Aliens to suspend patent rights on that one.

Works well with wine, or bourbon.