#CoSoPolitics

Democratizing the Supreme Court

Progressives are taking Supreme Court reform seriously for the first time in almost a century. Owing to the rise of the political and academic left following the 2008 financial crisis and the hotly contested appointments of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh,

By Ryan Doerfler, Samuel Moyn

https://share.counter.social/s/062083

More:

Pay close attention to this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMBkA1b_mvk

#CoSoPhilosophy

What can a scholar of 17th century political theory, teach us about today questions.... A lot.

Let me introduce you to Teresa M. Bejan.

She writes about political theory and history, bringing past perspectives to bear on contemporary questions.

(Watch the videos, read the articles.)

https://www.teresabejan.com/talks-and-articles

and

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/16/opinion/sunday/pronouns-quakers.html

#CoSoPolitics

Trump as the ultimate triumph of neoliberalism

The entire history of capitalism can be readily understood as the struggle between these two principles: is the democratic principle “exported” from politics to rule in economics too, or is the hierarchical principle of company organization to invade the political sphere. Social democracy was essentially the former; neoliberalism was the latter.

By Branko Milanovic

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-as-ultimate-triumph-of.html

@Museek
The virtue of small grassroots relief organizations, is that they can remain messy, not perfect, a bit disorganized, and still be very effective. Mutual Aid is based at the human level, not the organizational level. They don't become bureaucracies, or institutions. This is there beauty, to be parts loosely bound, rather than systems of imposed hierarchy. Stay loose, stay flexible, make a lot of mistakes, then correct them and move on.

Thanks for the work you do.
❤️

#CoSoMusic

(May I introduce you to
Sarah Davachi.)

Her latest is:
Figures In Open Air
by Sarah Davachi

https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/figures-in-open-air

some more of her work:

https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com

More here:

https://www.sarahdavachi.com/about

#CoSoMusic

Wormhole Hitchhiker - Der Steuermann
by Tehnofonika Records

https://tehnofonika.bandcamp.com/album/wormhole-hitchhiker-der-steuermann

Check out the label Tehnofonika Records:
https://tehnofonika.bandcamp.com/music

#CoSoCovid

(very long and thorough)

FAQs on Protecting Yourself from COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fB5pysccOHvxphpTmCG_TGdytavMmc1cUumn8m0pwzo/preview

Getting mixed messages.
Is 45 at Walter Reed, now ?
Or is he still at White House.

#CoSoMusic

New Jazz

Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard
by Dayna Stephens

Dayna Stephens, saxophone
Aaron Parks, piano
Ben Street, bass
Gregory Hutchinson, drums

https://daynastephens.bandcamp.com/album/right-now-live-at-the-village-vanguard

#CoSoScience

No lab, no problem: Students tackle science experiments at home after special deliveries.

USC mailed more than 1,000 lab kits to its college students around the world so they could still do hands-on experiments while studying remotely during the COVID-19 pandemic.
By Eric Lindberg

https://news.usc.edu/176633/physics-experiments-at-home-lab-kits-usc-students-covid-19/

#CoSoEnvironment

Evolution on the smallest of scales smooths out the patchwork patterns of where plants and animals live.
By Mark C. Urban

"So next time you find yourself counting down the hours for your car to reach its destination, notice the natural patterns scrolling by your window. Many of these patterns reflect the hidden hand of evolution, which has ironed out the wrinkles and left the world a smoother place."

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-evolution-smallest-scales-smooths-patchwork.html

#CoSoBooks
#CoSoPhilosophy

A review of:
Women Philosophers of Seventeenth-Century:
Selected Correspondence
by Jacqueline Broad (Editor)

The volume showcases a large selection of letters in which four women philosophers, Margaret Cavendish, Anne Conway, Damaris Cudworth Masham, and Elizabeth Berkeley Burnet, exchange views with a number of their prominent philosophical, political, and scientific contemporaries
Reviewed by David Cunning

https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/women-philosophers-of-seventeenth-century-england-selected-correspondence/

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44403250-women-philosophers-of-seventeenth-century-england

#CoSoPoetry

“As If To Remind Us Of Everything”
By Rose Solari

Recited By Scottish Actor Steve Hay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJWlV5owfk

To Read:

The Long Journey
By William Defebaugh

"Every environmentalist knows what it feels like to swim upstream. We do it every day.

Why do we do it? Why do we fight against the currents of complacency and corruption? Like salmon, we sacrifice our lives for the ones that will follow, who will in turn do the same, completing a long journey that is not linear, but circular."

https://atmos.earth/the-long-journey-salmon-migration/

#CoSoCovid

Acedia: (/əˈsiːdiə/; also accidie or accedie /ˈæksɪdi/, from Latin acedĭa, and this from Greek ἀκηδία, "negligence", ἀ- "lack of" -κηδία "care") has been variously defined as a state of listlessness or torpor, of not caring or not being concerned with one's position or condition in the world. In ancient Greece akidía literally meant an inert state without pain or care.

COVID-19 and Acedia
Opinion by Nick Couldry and Bruce Schneier

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/10/covid-19-and-acedia.html

#CoSoEconomist

For your reading pleasure,

Here is the latest copy of
The Economist Magazine
for 2020/10/03

Grab it here:

https://share.counter.social/s/adf629