"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
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AMERICAN INK
To Me this is just wonderful. To see another generation using these amazing machines, with love and care.
I sent many a year running both a Heidelberg Platen Press & a Heidelberg Cylinder Press. Featured in this video.
https://fieldnotesbrand.com/products/united-states-of-letterpress
The US excess mortality rate from COVID-19 is substantially worse than Europe’s.
By Janine Aron, John Muellbauer
We compare cumulative excess mortality from the last week of February to the penultimate week of July13 and compute the two measures of rates of excess mortality: the per capita measure of excess deaths and the percent of ‘normal’ (i.e. the P-score measure).
https://voxeu.org/article/us-excess-mortality-rate-covid-19-substantially-worse-europe-s
Alchemy Arrives in a Burst of Light.
Researchers have shown how to effectively transform one material into another using a finely shaped laser pulse.
By Philip Ball
If you have the wave function of a substance and you know what kind of light pulse you’re using, you can predict the result, the expectation value, you’re going to get.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/alchemy-arrives-in-a-burst-of-laser-light-20200930/
Friend-to-friend texting may be the most effective voter mobilization tactic during 2020 election.
Their analysis reveals evidence of large and statistically significant treatment effects from friend-to-friend mobilization efforts. The statistical methodology may be used to study other friend-to-friend messaging efforts.
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-friend-to-friend-texting-effective-voter-mobilization.html
Paper:
Gene expression altered by direction of forces acting on cell.
by Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
"These observations show that gene upregulation and activation are very sensitive to the mode of the applied force, when the magnitude of the force remains unchanged,"
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-gene-cell.html
Paper:
A review of:
Tom Stoppard: A Life
by Hermione Lee
The Long Road to Leopoldstadt
By Jeremy Treglown
"Until I read Hermione Lee’s life of Tom Stoppard, I didn’t know it was possible to bask in envy. As if being handsome, funny and a dazzling writer (and good at cricket and fly-fishing) weren’t enough, Stoppard is immensely rich – not just in money but also, Lee shows, in family, lovers, friends."
https://literaryreview.co.uk/the-long-road-to-leopoldstadt
Book:
(An interview with the author.)
Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
by Nicole R Fleetwood
Carceral Aesthetics
Nicole R. Fleetwood in conversation with Rachel Kushner.
Their works testify to the economic and racial injustices that underpin American punishment and offer a new vision of freedom for the twenty-first century.
https://www.artforum.com/print/202007/nicole-r-fleetwood-in-conversation-with-rachel-kushner-83681
Book:
Some Physicists See Signs of Cosmic Strings From the Big Bang
Subtle aberrations in the clockwork blinking of stars could become “the result of the century.” That’s if the distortions are produced by a network of giant filaments left over from the birth of the universe.
By Thomas Lewton
https://www.quantamagazine.org/pulsar-data-may-point-to-cosmic-strings-from-the-big-bang-20200929/
New evidence suggests it was matter ejected from the Chicxulub crater that led to impact winter.
by Bob Yirka
But one area of contention has remained: the source of the material in K–Pg boundary records. In this new effort, the researchers suggest that while some of the material in K–Pg boundary records is likely from such burnt material, most of it came from material ejected from the crater at the impact site.
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-evidence-ejected-chicxulub-crater-impact.html
Paper:
Beau of the Fifth Column
Quotes Hunter S. Thompson,
And it be well said.
"We Be The Humans"
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May every being have all they need for eventual peace and well being. May every being have the medicines and fuels and support for well being and harmlessness and health. May every being be freed from poisons and conditions which lead to suffering, having instead the sustenence and conditions which lead to non-suffering.
Steadfastly, I hold this meditation, may it fuel the good in you, and for you.
(Always take polls with a high bit of skepticism.)
Forecasting the US elections
The Economist is analysing polling, economic and demographic data to predict America’s elections in 2020
Right now, our model thinks the Democrats are likely to win a majority in the Senate.
Grief:
First, thanks to all that responded with kind words, It does make a difference.
Sudden unexplainable tragedy, strains ones ability to grieve. This is why it is so important to take the time, now, to build up some self-care practice. To engage in ritual, and awareness. To become used to the knifes edge we all are walking. No you can never prepare for it. But you can have a fall back plan.
For me and others this is ritual. The performance of centering. Coming back to the breath.
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How democracies can claim back power in the digital world.
Technology companies have taken many aspects of tech governance from democratically elected leaders. It will take an international effort to fight back.
By Marietje Schaake
This disparity between the public and private sectors is spiraling out of control. There’s an information gap, a talent gap, and a compute gap. Together, these add up to a power and accountability gap.
Researcher studies how Black young women use language to fight back.
by Claire Miller
Participants also explored how they could use their own voices and stories to fight back against the oppression they experience—just as Black female authors like Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Fannie Lou Hamner, Audre Lorde and Angie Thomas have done.
https://phys.org/news/2020-09-black-young-women-language.html
Paper:
So....
Debate in America has been reduced to:
"Two preteens in the back of a station wagon."
"You don't want me to pull over...."
Update:
All of the friends that I am staying with are finally sleeping. After this tragedy. The company that both the victim and my friend here in town, work for, has sent out a grief councilor. She is very competent, and doing the right things. Meeting each worker at home, and supporting the victims family. No information coming from the State Police, as per usual.
Diari Bustos was a very bright light, full of life. She and her younger brother will be badly missed.
Please don't reply right now....
I am kind of busy.
See you all Wednesday or Thursday.
Folks...
Very bad news.
The family I am staying with in town, has lost a co-worker.
So I am in crises intervention mode, will be for a while.
She was a beautiful women. We lost her younger brother also. I met her a few times. This is hard on everyone.
(From the Oregon State Police)
It is fall in Oregon.
Which means the rains are coming.
@estherschindler Just had a post about how important it is to take notes by hand, and I agree.
But how do you do that out in the middle of a wet forest ?
Get the right tools.
Any ballpoint pen that will take a fisher space pen refill.
And the best all weather notebooks.
https://www.amazon.com/Elan-Publishing-Company-E64-4x4-Surveying/dp/B071GNK2XB
https://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Space-Pen-SPR4F-Pressurized/dp/B000Z7WVZK
"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