"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
The Surreal Hyperrealism of Arinze Stanley.
And
From Ring to Echo, Amazon’s latest devices are built on stoking paranoid.
By Jared Newman
"The real danger is a bit more insidious: We already perceive more crime than there actually is, and critics of products like Ring have argued that its persistent surveillance raises people’s suspicion levels and feeds into their prejudices. Amazon is now tapping into those anxieties to build out its ecosystem."
https://www.fastcompany.com/90556104/amazon-ring-echo-smart-home-security-surveillance-paranoia
31 Buster Keaton Films: “The Greatest of All Comic Actors,” “One of the Greatest Filmmakers of All Time”
Now almost everything has been recovered, restored, and is available on DVDs and tapes that range from watchable to sparkling.”
(A lot of links in this)
http://www.openculture.com/2020/09/watch-31-buster-keatons-films-online.html
How many people will migrate due to rising sea levels? Our best guesses aren't good enough.
... some of the latest estimates suggest that as many as 630 million people may live on land below projected annual flood levels for the end of the century.
by Sonja Ayeb-Karlsson, Celia McMichael, Ilan Kelman and Shouro Dasgupta
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-people-migrate-due-sea-good.html
Paper
R.I.P.
Robert Bechtle
Photorealist Artist Who Pushed Painting in New Directions.
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-bechtle-dead-1234571717/
And
https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/robert-bechtle-photorealism-archives-1234571789/
An interview with Kimberley Brownlee
Author of:
Being Sure of Each Other:
An Essay on Social Rights and Freedoms
by Kimberley Brownlee
"Our core social needs--for meaningful social inclusion--are more important than our civil and political needs and our economic welfare needs, and we won't secure those other things if our core social needs go unmet.'
https://www.the-american-interest.com/podcast/the-right-not-to-be-lonely/
Book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49046571-being-sure-of-each-other
Get Up To Speed On The State Of Eco-Fashion.
The race is on to bioengineer carbon-neutral, recyclable, biodegradable, and affordable materials.
By Alden Wicker
Illustration by Richard A Chance
"Agricultural waste alone could provide 2.5 times the material we need to meet global fiber demand."
https://neo.life/2020/09/get-up-to-speed-on-the-state-of-eco-fashion/
(here is one thing we really do not need to worry about)
No Realistic Possibility Of False Vacuum Decay.
Your Questions Answered By An Expert.
Dr Tommi Markkanen
For your reading pleasure,
Here is the latest copy of
The Economist Magazine
for 2020/09/26
Grab it here:
For your reading pleasure.
The latest issue of
Nature Magazine
2020/09/24
(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 2020/09/25
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:
Hey you !
If you are new here.
Have you noticed that there are,
No ads?
No bots?
No harvesting your data?
No trolls?
How is this done?
It is the work of @th3j35t3r
And all the people supporting his work by going pro !
It's just $5.00 a month. (the price of one of those horrible Starbucks coffees)
Not right away, you are welcome to use this for free.
But think about it.
More:
My supervisor is taking 2 weeks vacation. So I will be working 40 hours a week. Again..... So I will be staying in town.
My cats have voluntarily moved themselves into the kids house. Nobody minds. All are happy about it. The kids dog is not thrilled, but resigned.
BTW:
Wellcome to all the new people:
Home update:
Everybody is safe and healthy. Main road is still closed, so we have to go the long way around. Still no power, nor internet. Might be 3 weeks or so, for power. A lot longer for cable to be restrung. So looking into satellite , to get us by. But it is so slow, and pricey. (the kids and I are the only ones pushing for internet.)
Have two generators running about three hours out of 24. for well and freezers and refrigeration. For now this is sustainable.
Please let me introduce you to:
Brenda Leong
A person to follow.
https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1080/00963402.2019.1604886
https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2020/09/82-what-should-we-do-about-facial.html
https://fpf.org/2019/02/06/ai-and-machine-learning-perspectives-with-fpfs-brenda-leong/
(This time DO read the comments...)
To Read:
The movie Stay Woke
by Arnold Kling
No one else saw a connection between the absence of policy ideas in the movie and the absence of any change. But it strikes me that is you aren’t behind a program, that makes it unlikely that you will effect change.
Nature through the looking glass
Handedness—and the related concept of chirality—are double-sided ways of understanding how matter breaks symmetries.
By Oscar Miyamoto Gomez
Gravity, electromagnetism and the strong nuclear force are ambidextrous, treating particles equally regardless of their handedness. But, as physicist Chien-Shiung Wu experimentally proved in 1956, the weak nuclear force plays favorites.
https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/nature-through-the-looking-glass
"He Drank It Black”:
On Dinah Lenney’s “Coffee”
By Markman Ellis
Yet isolating caffeine freed humans to think about what coffee does as a drug. Caffeine is similar to other psychoactive vegetable salts in tea, chocolate, and a few other products, like guarana. Caffeine, we now know, interferes with the process in the brain that makes us feel tired.
Book:
"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