"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018
For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
Nature Magazine
2020/10/01
(Note: I had to flatten this file to get it under 100MB, so a small loss in quality)
Grad it here:
For your reading pleasure,
The Latest Science Magazine from the AAAS,
for 2020/10/02
Grab it here:
For Everybody here:
It's Friday !
Every Friday I try and upload some magazines. For your reading pleasure. Help yourself. At the moment I am only doing the 5, I read most often. I put them up to expire after a month. So grab them now.
If there is a very wide spread need, I will entertain adding to the list.
Find them here:
Thirty glorious years.
Postwar prosperity depended on a truce between capitalist growth and democratic fairness. Is it possible to get it back?
"Democratic capitalism wasn’t a government takeover of the market economy, but it rested on a class compromise."
By Jonathan Hopkin
https://aeon.co/essays/postwar-prosperity-depended-on-a-truce-between-capitalism-and-democracy
Science Fiction Short Stories:
Entanglements: Tomorrow's Lovers, Families, and Friends (Twelve Tomorrows)
by Sheila Williams (Editor)
The strange new worlds in these stories feature AI family therapy, floating fungitecture, and a futuristic love potion. A co-op of mothers attempts to raise a child together, lovers try to resolve their differences by employing a therapeutic sexbot, and a robot helps a woman dealing with Parkinson's disease.
(If I win the lottery, I am going home in this.)
This 6×6 Mercedes 'Mamute' Has the Most Hypnotizing Off-Road Suspension We've Ever Seen.
You can keep your 6x6 G-Wagen. This is the six-wheeled Benz we want.
By Stef Schrader
To Watch:
Veritasium takes a deep dive into Kepler and Penrose to examine the infinite pattern that never repeats.
Simples rules of geometry meant that 5-fold symmetry was impossible as were crystals without a periodic structure. This turns out to be wrong.
How Civil Society Can Combat Misinformation and Hate Speech Without Making It Worse.
Good suggestions, backed by research. The six strategies for countering misinformation and hate speech: connected communities; the Truth Sandwich; pre-bunking; distributed debunking; localize the context; humor over rumor.
Mozilla’s new campaign makes sense to me, but I can’t say it makes sense to launch during a pandemic election …
Unfck the internet.
We love it, we need it, and we can all feel the ways it’s fcked. Together we can unfck it.
(What we all know, and struggle with.)
USB-C Was Supposed to Simplify Our Lives. Instead, It’s a Total Mess.
A mix of hidden standards make the ubiquitous cable a pain to deal with.
By Owen Williams
Furthering the confusion, some devices actually can’t be charged with chargers supporting Power Delivery, despite sporting a USB-C port — because they weren’t designed to negotiate the higher wattage being delivered by the Power Delivery standard.
China’s Air Force Might Be Back in the Nuclear Business.
Circumstantial evidence suggests that China now possesses a full nuclear triad.
By Roderick Lee
In addition to the circumstantial evidence suggesting that the PLA could be stationing nuclear-capable bombers at Neixiang and reinforcing the infrastructure with an eye toward nuclear missions, the PLAAF also reactivated what is likely an old bomber unit – publicly known as 93671 Unit.
https://thediplomat.com/2020/09/chinas-air-force-might-be-back-in-the-nuclear-business/
The President Contracting COVID-19 Is A Major National Security Crisis.
Beyond the President's ability to fill his role within the National Command Authority, other circumstances that do not necessitate dealing with an incoming nuclear attack would make it nearly impossible for him to lead effectively and in a sustainable manner while diagnosed with COVID-19.
By Tyler Rogoway
WTF is going on with rents in major cities.
It is a roller coaster. With some markets raising rents 15%,
And some dropping 20%.
San Francisco Rents in Free-Fall. New York Rents Swoon. Expensive Cities, College Towns, Cities in Texas, Other States Sag. But in 16 Cities, Rents Jump Double-Digits
by Yves Smith
Ok I am going to comment once, and only once, about 45, and COVID. Then I am ignoring all of this.
I wish illness or death on no one. It has nothing to do with justice or karma, or any other bullshit rationalization. I hope 45 stays well enough to meet the full force of the rule of law that he deserves. It is not I that judges him, but the courts, and Constitution that will. Yes I believe he is narcissistic bastard, and should never have been elected. I will take no pleasure in his illness.
This should cheer you up.
(unless your not human)
Baby Yoda joins forces with firefighters in western US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvHUsDF6opc&feature=emb_logo
AFFAA !
(All Fire Fighters Are Awesome)
"We Be The Humans"
boosted
~
"We, this people, on this small and drifting planet
Whose hands can strike with such abandon
That in a twinkling, life is sapped from the living
Yet those same hands can touch with such healing, irresistible tenderness
That the haughty neck is happy to bow
And the proud back is glad to bend
Out of such chaos, of such contradiction
We learn that we are neither devils nor divines"
~Maya Angelou, excerpt
#cosoconfessions
#thiscantbegood
Years ago, I needed, well everything. Strung out, and near death, but still working a (union) job. They sent me to a Psychiatrist. After just 25 minutes of my story, he keeps saying "Wow, really", then said "Son I can't help you, what you have been through.... I ... just... have no idea where to start."
Experimental, Electronic
New 40 minute live track.
Vacuum Phase Transition
by France Jobin
https://francejobin.bandcamp.com/track/vacuum-phase-transition
Unhappiness and age
"I examine the relationship between unhappiness and age using data from eight well-being data files on nearly 14 million respondents across forty European countries and the United States and 168 countries from the Gallup World Poll. […] Unhappiness is hill-shaped in age and the average age where the maximum occurs is 49 with or without controls."
By David G.Blanchflower
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268120301414
Very Large Telescope spots galaxies trapped in the web of a supermassive black hole.
Supermassive black holes in the early Universe? These are extreme systems and to date we have had no good explanation for their existence,
"Our work has placed an important piece in the largely incomplete puzzle that is the formation and growth of such extreme, yet relatively abundant, objects so quickly after the Big Bang,"
https://phys.org/news/2020-10-large-telescope-galaxies-web-supermassive.html
Paper:
https://sci-hub.se/https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2020/10/aa39045-20/aa39045-20.html
"We Be The Humans"
Older Retired White Guy. Buddhist.
"Non nobis solum"
Likes trees better than people. Books better than trees.
"We Be The Humans"
Joined Aug 2018