#CoSoGoodNews

Very good News !!!

J35, the orca also known as Tahlequah, gave birth to a male calf on Sept. 4. Mother and baby were seen this week romping and feeding.

Tahlequah raised worldwide concern in 2018 when her calf died shortly after birth and she carried it for 17 days and more than 1,000 miles.

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-orca-baby-born-pod.html

And

https://phys.org/news/2020-09-boy-tahlequah-baby-orca-frolicking.html

Brad Pascale ?

When I was a young kid, maybe about 5 or 6, we had a neighbor that regularly beat on his wife. I did not know, but all the adults did. One day I came home from school and this unfortunate woman was crying in my moms kitchen. Later on my dad came home from work, made a few phone calls, then went out. Only years latter did I find out that 4 neighborhood men went a visiting. Put that sob in the hospital for over a month.

This is how we used to treat wife beaters.

To Read:

(depressing, yet also true.)

I Lived Through Collapse. America Is Already There.
How life goes on, surrounded by death.
By Indi Samarajiva

"Collapse is just a series of ordinary days in between extraordinary bullshit, most of it happening to someone else. That’s all it is."

https://medium.com/indica/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there-ba1e4b54c5fc

Hey Science Nerds !

Anyone else having problems reaching Sci-Hub today ???

All the current links I have are all timing out.

#CoSoMathematics

Complexity Scientist Beats Traffic Jams Through Adaptation.

To tame urban traffic, the computer scientist Carlos Gershenson finds that letting transportation systems adapt and self-organize often works better than trying to predict and control them.
By Rodrigo Pérez Ortega

https://www.quantamagazine.org/complexity-scientist-beats-traffic-jams-through-adaptation-20200928/

#CoSoMusic

(If your Monday started out frantic, or if you need to re-group. Here is some piano based mellowness that will get that head into the right space.)

Out of the Valley
by n-So

https://modernarecords.bandcamp.com/album/out-of-the-valley

@Bikecob

Welcome Home.

One of the things you might have to get used to here, is there is almost no bullshit.

We have a huge base of expertise, on a very wide subject field.
From science, tech, art, music, philosophy, poetry, and humor.

Please ask any questions.

You will find Folks here like to share, explain, and discuss, without being pedantic nor obnoxious.

I dabble in Physics, Buddhism, and Philosophy.
So ask away !

Here is a users guide

https://counter.social/userguide.pdf

Y'all.
I have been completely off the bird site for two years now.
Never was on F**kBook.

Love CoSo, Yet some times it is a bit overwhelming. I want to read and look at everything !
No don't stop sharing.

Don't you dare censor yourselves.

I just need to learn to be more discerning with my attention.
❤️

Berlin Now Has a City-Run Recycling Department Store.

The secondhand shop is a new spin on the city’s efforts to make re-use and repair a way of life.
By Feargus O'Sullivan

The initiative is part of a broader plan from Berlin’s ruling center-left/Green/left coalition that looks to slash waste in all areas of the city’s economy.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-17/to-cut-waste-berlin-opens-its-own-secondhand-shop

To Read:

@mozilla

Has a response to the "docudrama" The Social Dilemma.
Not a criticism, but a thread about who's voices they left out....

https://twitter.com/mozilla/status/1308542908291661824

#CoSoEnvironment
#CoSoBooks

All We Can Save includes work by more than 40 women at the forefront of the climate movement who are leading humanity forward.

Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on each other or our collective future.

https://www.allwecansave.earth

#CoSoFuture

Strelka Institute has announced the second year of The Terraforming think-tank—an interdisciplinary postgraduate design research program that explores the geotechnical, geourban, and geopolitical conditions by which a viable planetarity can be conceived, modeled, and articulated.

https://strelkamag.com/en/article/strelka-institute-presents-the-terraforming-2021

#CoSoNeuroscience

Reasons Revealed for the Brain’s Elastic Sense of Time.

New research finds that the subjective experience of time is linked to learning, thwarted expectations and neural fatigue.

“Time” doesn’t mean just one thing to the brain. Different brain regions rely on varied neural mechanisms to track its passage, and the mechanisms that govern our experience seem to change from one situation to the next.
By Jordana Cepelewicz

https://www.quantamagazine.org/reasons-revealed-for-the-brains-elastic-sense-of-time-20200924/

Paper:

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-020-0698-3

#CoSoGames
#CoSoPrivacy

The Gamification of Games
When play becomes chiefly about data collection.

"Open worlds are well adapted to surveillance and control; endless possibilities for exploration are matched by equally endless opportunities for data collection."
By Ulysses Pascal

https://reallifemag.com/the-gamification-of-games/

#CoSoEconomics

(Short, But a must read)

Degrowth And MMT: A Thought Experiment.

"Over the past few weeks a number of people inspired by their work have asked me whether there is scope for thinking about degrowth from a MMT perspective. My answer: definitely. In fact, the two belong together."
By Jason Hickel

https://www.jasonhickel.org/blog/2020/9/10/degrowth-and-mmt-a-thought-experiment