"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
Songs That Sing The Interior Life.
"Now that a deranged president’s toxic presence will finally, finally!, begin to occupy increasingly smaller tracts of our inner lives, these new days might offer an ideal occasion to celebrate songs that sing of the singular mental spaces hidden inside us all, songs that can help re-acquaint us with ourselves."
by Philip Graham
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/11/188157.html
(I don't know about you, but I am in a funky, down, mood. Like the day after that fucking amazing party, and everything is grey, and out of focus.)
Here is the sound track for this mood.
Watch Link Wray Play a Downright Dirty Version of “Rumble,” the Only Instrumental to Be Banned on Radio (1974)
(Experimental Piano & Electronic)
Absent Minded Reworks
by Gabríel Ólafs
https://gabrielolafs.bandcamp.com/album/absent-minded-reworks
(Two good things, to go)
Live violin from the Kazakh-British composer Galya Bisengalieva, soaring like gulls above an accompaniment of strings, voices, and muted percussion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNI4cqE136A
Hélène Vogelsinger performs (in full video) a 10-minute live modular piece in an abandoned castle in her native France.
Thoughts:
As I watch the news, I think who is winning America?
Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping, that's who.
Putin wants to destroy democracy.
Jinping wants to take over the role that America used to play on the world stage.
Both are much closer to those goals than two weeks ago.
Will the next president be able to fix this?
No. Not right away.
How much time do we have before Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinping, declare victory?
About ten years.
More from "Letter"
Panpsychism and the Science of Consciousness
Philip Goff and Massimo Pigliucci
(btw. This is a great website to wander around in.)
On Purpose
Alex Rosenberg and Daniel Dennett
The radical aristocrat who put kindness on a scientific footing.
"Human beings could overcome competitive struggle by restructuring society along principles of community and self-sufficiency"
By Lydia Sysoni
https://psyche.co/ideas/kropotkin-the-radical-aristocrat-who-put-kindness-on-a-scientific-footing
Researchers Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Maya Water Filtration System.
The city of Tikal purified one of its reservoirs with technology comparable to modern systems.
Evidence for the oldest known zeolite water purification filtration system occurs in the undisturbed sediments of the Corriental reservoir at the Maya city of Tikal, in northern Guatemala.
By Kenneth Barnett Tankersley, et al
Humanity is stuck in short-term thinking. Here’s how we escape.
Our sense of the future has expanded and contracted over time. But survival means learning new lessons from the shocks society is facing right now.
Some themes surfaced again and again, to which I’ve given the convenient acronym SHORT:
S – Salience
H – Habits
O – Overload
R – Responsibility
T – Targets
By Richard Fisher
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/21/1009443/short-term-vs-long-term-thinking/
And more here:
https://www.technologyreview.com/magazines/the-long-term-issue/#features
The DOOM! Report.
"What follows is a text collaboratively composed by Nemesis, GPT-3, K Allado-McDowell and our survey respondents, but arguably authored by none of us, per se. Instead you could say this report was written by the “third mind” of DOOM! which spontaneously arose when we began to process this information together with the conscious goal of generating predictions about the future."
By K Allado-McDowel
Experiments In Feral Futuring.
"This is the key thing. People aren’t just seeing these things as intellectual ideas. They are having to experience them on a daily basis, and that’s truly exciting. It’s more excited than anything else I’ve seen in years."
By Anab Jain & Alex Taylor
To Read:
Teaching Science Fiction While Living It in Lebanon.
"The answer comes in part by recognizing that the pedagogical power of science fiction sits in its simultaneous utopian and dystopian refractions. There is an immanent tension between inspirational possibilities and bleak futures that Lebanon seems to exemplify, lodged in the cleft between a utopian revolution and its dystopian likeness."
By Nadya Sbaiti
https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/teaching-science-fiction-while-living-it-in-lebanon
#CoSoPolitics
(Too Soon ?)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ends truce by warning ‘incompetent’ Democratic party.
New York representative sharply rejected the notion advanced by some Democrats that progressive messaging around the Movement for Black Lives and the Green New Deal led to the party’s loss of congressional seats in last week’s election.
The real problem, said Ocasio-Cortez, was that the party lacked “core competencies” to run campaigns.
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A review of two books:
Rentier Capitalism: Who Owns the Economy, and Who Pays for It?
by Brett Christophers
Unions Renewed: Building Power in an Age of Finance
by Alice Martin, Annie Quick
Two new books reveal how our economy is increasingly oriented around the interests of asset owners – and increasingly uncaring about the fates of everyone else.
By Christine Berry
Books.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55644795-rentier-capitalism
There is a warm light, that shines on us here at CoSo. It illuminates without casting shadows of doubt. It warms without heating our passions.
It is your words, and actions.
May this trip around the sun bring you the special joy reserved for those who value interdependence, cherish others, and expand others hearts.
❤️
🙏
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Help someone today big or small with no expectation of return
Precursor by Sutajio Kosagi
Mobile, Open Hardware, RISC-V System-on-Chip (SoC) Development Kit.
Linux Smartphones
"The idea behind the Precursor isn’t to provide a device that can replace your smartphone or tablet, but rather to offer a system that you have nearly complete control over."
Hackaday
"In short, it’s a maximally open, verifiable, and trustworthy device. Even the processor is instantiated on an FPGA so you know what’s going on inside the silicon."
"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