#CoSoPolitics

AOC and Other Top Progressives Urge Biden—If Elected—to Deny K Street, Wall Street Execs Top Cabinet Posts.

"The next White House should belong to the people, not corporate America," said Jamaal Bowman, a New York Democrat.
by Brett Wilkins

(ha,ha,ha....fat chance)

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/10/16/aoc-and-other-top-progressives-urge-biden-if-elected-deny-k-street-wall-street-execs

#CoSoPsychology

We Learn Faster When We Aren’t Told What Choices to Make.

The way we decide may even give insight into delusional thinking
By Michele Solis

This observation means the brain is primed to learn with a bias that is pegged to our freely chosen actions. Choice tips the balance of learning: for the same action and outcome, the brain learns differently and more quickly from free choices than forced ones.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-learn-faster-when-we-arent-told-what-choices-to-make/

Paper

https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0919-5

#CoSoBooks

Announcing the Winners of the the Inaugural Ignyte Awards!

FIYAH created the awards to “celebrate the vibrancy and diversity of the current and future landscapes of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.”

FIYAH rises from the ashes of the Black literary tradition started by Fire!! in 1926. We aren’t here for respectability. We’re here to ask what it means to be Black and extraordinary.

https://www.tor.com/2020/10/17/announcing-the-winners-of-the-inaugural-ignyte-awards/

How about....

$ make -k-e FutureEquity

Ideas needed:

Looks like my Display name is soon going to become obsolete.
Need a new one.

Posable new new name:
(Limit 24 char.)

GreenFutureEquityJustice

@MarianneWerzOBrien

so many new folks, think it's time to explain your moniker again? ;)

It is a pined toot.
Just check my profile.

#CoSoEnvironment

(This should lighten up your day, it did mine.)

I Hung Out With 20 ‘Eco-Goats’ and It Was a Blaaaaast.
By Dharna Noor

The goats get to eat, the park gets its grass mowed and weeds trimmed, the neighborhood gets to experience joy, and people get a chance to get outside. In a just world, all people could experience the joy of open space in cities. A herd of goats in every park, if you will.

https://earther.gizmodo.com/i-hung-out-with-20-eco-goats-and-it-was-a-blaaaaast-1845397034

Wellcome Home to all the new users.

https://dashboard.counter.social/dashboard/db/countersocial?refresh=1h&orgId=1

#CoSoSpace
To Watch:
Tour of Asteroid Bennu

I loved hearing about the myths behind the names and it reminded me of the fact that even in the precise and rigorous realms of science, a lot of thought, imagination, and humor go into the naming of things.

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

#CoSoPhysics

To Watch:

David Bohm’s Pilot Wave Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics.

Today I want to take on a topic many of you requested, repeatedly. That is David Bohm’s approach to Quantum Mechanics, also known as the Pilot Wave Interpretation, or sometimes just Bohmian Mechanics. In this video, I want to tell you what Bohmian mechanics is, how it works, and what’s good and bad about it.
By Sabine Hossenfelder

http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2020/10/david-bohms-pilot-wave-interpretation.html

#CoSoQuotes

“Would you hit your left hand with a hammer, to make your right hand feel better! Just as your left hand is connected to your right hand, so all of us are deeply connected.”

~me

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.

https://counter.social/supportcoso.html

Some, but not all Pro features. There is also CoSoGroups !

#CoSoPoetry

Crossroads

by Louise Glück

#CoSoInternationalSecurity

(A podcast and an article on Western Reactions to the Ukrainian and Armenian Movements.)

Liberal Values, Material Interests, and the Inconsistencies of U.S. Democracy Promotion.

https://is-off-the-page.simplecast.com/episodes/12-liberal-values-material-interests-and-the-inconsistencies-of-us-democracy-promotion-bU8d01CP

Article

Selective Wilsonianism: Material Interests and the West's Support for Democracy.

https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/isec_a_00378

#CoSoWomen

(Yes it is "the intercept", which I don't like, but I do follow Sarah Aziza)

“Nothing Left To Lose”
After the Beirut Explosion, Lebanon’s Women-Led Civil Society Is Building on the Edge of Despair.
By Sarah Aziza

“It’s one thing to say we hate our politicians — and it’s another thing to show that we have the abilities within our community to solve these problems without them.”

https://theintercept.com/2020/10/17/beirut-explosion-aftermath-recovery/

#CoSoMusic

New Electronic

Orchards Of Churchyard Departures
by Lisa Bella Donna

This record is a collection of "monochromatic tone poems" I began sketching 2 years ago. Very impressionistic. Reaching ever so far back into my beginnings of studying the amazing composers of the baroque period and beyond into the 20th century.

https://lisabelladonna.bandcamp.com/album/orchards-of-churchyard-departures

#CoSoMusic

Beautiful Harmony In Isolated John Lennon And Paul McCartney Vocals On “If I Fell”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpbDY-RmG_c