Off to work:
Day 11 of the 14 day hell week(s).
I am going to sleep for 24 hours after.
Actually, the way the stupid pay period works, I get 1 day off, then return for two more.... then I can sleep for 24 hours.
Fuck this I am supposed to be retired.
( I would quit, except for loyalty to my fellow workers.)
(Here is a weird thought)
Trump's Eviction Moratorium Opens the Door for Medicare for All by Executive Order.
by Thomas Neuburger
[Title 42 U.S.C.] ยง264. Regulations to control communicable diseases.
The Surgeon General, with the approval of the Secretary, is authorized to make and enforce such regulations as in his judgment are necessary to prevent the introduction, transmission, or spread of communicable diseases.
https://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2020/09/trumps-eviction-moratorium-and-what-it.html
( I post this, Not because I agree with it. But because it made me think !)
How the Death of Faith Will Hurt the Left.
A secularized America is not necessarily a better place.
By Murtaza Hussain
...we might end up reviving in new guises the worst aspects of the old religions, including moral censoriousness, judgmentalism, heresy-hunting, and the persecution of those who think differently.
Why Black, Indigenous and Other People of Color Experience Greater Harm During the Pandemic.
Scholars take a deep dive into how structural racism intersects with public health.
By Mahader Tamene, Elleni M. Hailu, Rachel L. Berkowitz, Xing Gao
More:
https://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/black-life-two-pandemics
In the Wilds of an Open Soil with Writer Merlin Sheldrake.
Merlinโs poetic prose is so visual in the writing that many parts reminded me of a graphic novel.
By Wendy Xu
Book:
Exit To Community.
Grafting the lessons of old cooperatively owned companies to the online economy.
By Nathan Schneider
โWhat if a startup that successfully builds a community could opt for an exit to ownership by that community?โ
โWhat a group of people creates together and relies on should be those peopleโs common possession.โ
The right and wrong of citiesโ current moment.
A ๐งตby Karl Sharro
For the last 20 years, thinking about planning and cities has been dominated by 'The Urban Agenda' but in the aftermath of Covid there have been foreboding pronouncements about the end of the city.
I have this thought on repeat:
"Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. We will face our fear. We will permit it to pass over us and through us. And when it has gone past we will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only we will remain.โ
I changed "I" to "We"
Nature is pissed off. She will not go softly anymore.
I am out for the night.
Be kind. Be strong.
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First.
I want to thank each and every one of you. For being here with us, in this time of forest fires. I and my close neighbors are safe. But many other are not. Please help if you can.
I feel a bit bad that I have not been posting all the juicy links, that I usually do. Been a bit busy.
I believe the worst is over. Although the fires are not contained, and continue to burn. The better weather is helping a lot.
Fuck "Normal". I don't want to return to normal.
Nature will not allow it.
HORRIFIC. Do Not Read Show more
A review of:
Macroeconomic Inequality from Reagan to Trump:
Market Power, Wage Repression, Asset Price Inflation, and Industrial Decline.
by Lance Taylor
Wage repression as the biggest driver of inequality in the U.S.
This conclusion differs from many who have studied the issue, such as Thomas Piketty, who theorized that inequality is caused mainly by a tendency of profits to run ahead of the growth rate in the economy.
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48989783-macroeconomic-inequality-from-reagan-to-trump
Lawful Neutral
Liberalism and AI share the political project of eliminating human difference.
With AI, surveillance and the digitization of everything, neoliberalism finds the perfect tool to grind down and erase the โimportant differences that make human life rich and meaningful.โ
By Sam Popowich
To Watch:
The Hunt
This short film The Hunt, by Sanjay Rawal, follows two characters from his feature film GatherโChef Nephi Craig of the White Mountain Apache Nation and master forager Twila Cassadore of the San Carlos Apache Nationโas they work with Indigenous foodways to promote processes of healing and recovery from historical trauma.
To Read:
Beginning with the End
by Roy Scranton
Using books/quotes from Frank Kermode, Murray Bookchin, and others, Roy Scranton explains how we tend to consider ourselves (humanity) too much in the โmiddestโ of things, apart from nature, central in time. Worlds are constantly ending, civilizations pass, eras pass, the end of this world is coming but it doesnโt mean the end of humanity or of nature.
To Listen to:
Transcending Distractions
Nathan Glyde
Invitations to relaxation, energy perceptions, anattฤ, surrender, and devotion as ways of relating to thoughts and other phenomena that appear as distractions to our steady relaxed attention.
https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/audio_player/836/62579.html
And
I strongly urge people to NOT share this "paper".
This is junk science. Not even a paper, but just a commentary. Many top immunologist are decrying this piece of crap. This has NO DATA to back up this idea. This is not just wrong. It is dangerous. It will lead people to think that if I ware a mask, and get close to infected people, I will become immune.
STOP, DO NOT DO THIS.
Here is the piece:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2026913
And a response:
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/podcasts-webinars/episode-23
This is appropriate too post as my first "Open Carry" Book.
This ๐งต by Doctorow
"As I learned from Little Brother, there is something powerful about technologically rigorous thrillers about struggles for justice - stories that marry excitement, praxis and ethics. Of all my career achievements, the people Iโve reached this way matter the most."
@Kurtroedeger @Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
Here ya go
#opencarrybooks
Does this mean that "Concealed Carry" Books are the banned books one has under a trench-coat.
@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine @corlin I'm loving this. 'open carry books' and to be read pics replacing dick pics and gun pics is awesome. ๐
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"