"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
This might be a bit harsh......
But I am pissed off.
When soldiers go into combat, they take enormous risks, and as a general rule earn great respect. They do this selflessly, for the love of people, and country.
When Nurses, Doctors, and all the support staff, go into combat against a vicious, and virulent virus. They are unknown, invisible, and almost forgotten.
They too do this selflessly, for the love of people, and country.
We have to change this !
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Photographer Takes Bird Portraits And The Results Are Sublime (25 Pics) https://www.boredpanda.com/endangered-photo-portraits-birds-tim-flach/
Feeling disoriented by the election, pandemic and everything else? It’s called ‘zozobra’ -- and Mexican philosophers have some advice.
The word “zozobra" is an ordinary Spanish term for “anxiety" but with connotations that call to mind the wobbling of a ship about to capsize. The term emerged as a key concept among Mexican intellectuals in the early 20th century to describe the sense of having no stable ground and feeling out of place in the world.
I have said it before:
Don't fuck with RN's, They fought more battles, lost more colleagues, and healed more people.
Than the fuckweeds now demanding we never lockdown, have drunk beers.
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands | Colossal https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/soren-solkaer-black-sun/
Moscow’s facial recognition system can be hijacked for just $200, report shows.
The dangers of building a real-time surveillance system for local police.
By Russell Brandom
https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21561018/moscows-facial-recognition-system-crime-bribe-stalking
More here:
Why Is Post-COVID China Embracing A Cyberpunk Aesthetic?
"The original Cyberpunk moniker was a cynical cultural expression, born in an era of growing global capitalism that led to suspicions of the ultra-rich and technocrats. Now, three decades later, this US-born subgenre has become an actual depiction of urban Chinese life."
By Jiaqi Luo
https://jingdaily.com/china-luxury-trends-cyberpunk-covid-louis-vuitton/
Inside the New York Public Library’s Last, Secret Apartments.
There are just 13 left.
"In today’s New York real estate market, this apartment is not unappealing. Yes, it would need cleaning and modernizing before anyone moved in. The one toilet in the apartment is facing into a corner. But the rooms are large enough, the kitchen could fit multiple people, And It’s In A Library."
By Sarah Laskow
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/inside-the-new-york-public-librarys-last-secret-apartments
Inside the Secret Math Society Known Simply as Nicolas Bourbaki.
For almost a century, the anonymous members of Nicolas Bourbaki have written books intended as pure expressions of mathematical thought.
By Kevin Hartnett
https://www.quantamagazine.org/inside-the-secret-math-society-known-as-nicolas-bourbaki-20201109/
Ursula K. Le Guin:
A Rant About “Technology”.
Super short Le Guin from 2005, always so insightful and clear in her remarks on technology.
Screw the Mars hype. Here's why we should move to Venus.
"So we’d have to live in the clouds, right below the protective ionosphere that sucks up radiation."
By Annalee Newitz
https://thehypothesis.substack.com/p/screw-the-mars-hype-heres-why-we
Making Wild Cities. Notes on Participatory Urban (Re)Wilding.
“Does your city know where its lunch is coming from? And is that place healthy, or not?”
This means that urban wilding must be more than just improving access to nature: it involves redesigning our urban infrastructures to account for our non-human neighbours, so that we don’t just co-exist, but, more, that we are mutually supportive and generative.
By Usman Haque
https://uah.medium.com/making-wild-cities-notes-on-participatory-urban-re-wilding-8f6ff35cdd71
Automating Society Report 2020
A great report (free download) on automated decision-making (ADM) systems in society.
Presented “through journalistic stories, then, through research, cataloging different examples, and, finally, with graphic novels.”
The results from our research are clear: while ADM systems already affect all sorts of activities and judgments, they are still mainly deployed without any meaningful democratic debate.
Thoughts:
Here is the thing. Even if Joe governs poorly, or ineffectively, or dismisses your favorite policy. We, most likely will go days or weeks or even years without a constitutional crisis. So be prepared to fill that lack of outrage gap, with some good books, long rambling conversations about the small nothings in your life. Use this space, creating, new relationships with people. Build a local network.
Imagine a better, more equitable world, and take small steps in that direction.
The Bandcamp of late Nigerian drummer Tony Allen (pivotal figure in the work of Fela, and master of his own music as well) uploaded his Film of Life LP. An instant, and much-needed, mood lift. Allen died at the end of April, what feels like a lifetime ago.
FILM OF LIFE
by TONY ALLEN
New Ambient
Decennium
by Arjen Schat
Original extended versions of my first two releases on Bandcamp, "Quiescence" and "Deity Reign". Originally released as 26-minute versions due to Bandcamp's file size limitations at the time for new artists, now available in celebration of my tenth anniversary on Bandcamp in their full 73-minute glory.
Mastered for low level playback.
This reminded me.
I meant to send this to you yesterday....
Puzzled otters learn from each other.
"The findings also provide evidence of "social learning"—as when one otter cracked a puzzle, its closest "friends" quickly figured it out too."
https://phys.org/news/2020-11-puzzled-otters.html
Paper:
It warmed up a bit,
But it is raining hard.
Gauge is reregistering 0.5 inch per hour right now.
Going to have to wear rain gear tonight at work.
New Ambient
Le Coeur Des Arbres
by Pat Pik
At the same time, the aggravation of the coronavirus pandemic led to an incomprehensible forbidden visit to the forests in France. Elsewhere in the world, some forests are burning, others are being savagely cut down for profit. This album is dedicated to our brothers the trees...
"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