"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
Who Is Michèle Flournoy, Biden’s Rumored Pick for Pentagon Chief?
The advocate of endless war and limitless Pentagon budgets would be exactly the wrong choice for Biden’s defense secretary.
By Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J.S. Davies
To Read:
Skywoman Falling
In this excerpt from the new introduction to her acclaimed book Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer draws upon the creation story Skywoman Falling and the wisdom of plants to guide us through our present moment of deep uncertainty.
By Robin Wall Kimmerer
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/skywoman-falling/
Book
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465709-braiding-sweetgrass
Book is about military technology and intellectual property, and how intellectual property law shapes the ways in which military technology spreads across the international system. An examination of how intellectual property law has enabled certain forms of espionage while also giving core countries control over arms export markets.
Patents for Power:
Intellectual Property Law and the Diffusion of Military Technology
By Robert M. Farley, Davida H. Isaacs
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49124672-patents-for-power
To Watch:
The Terrifying Ways Edwardians Wired Their Houses. Hidden Killers. Absolute History.
Enjoy the late, great Eva Cassidy performing Curtis Mayfield's "People Get Ready," live at the venerable DC jazz club, Blues Alley in Georgetown, on January 3rd, 1996.
"There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner whom would hurt all mankind
Just to save his own"
It Took Just 5 Minutes Of Movement Data To Identify 'Anonymous' VR Users.
"In both the privacy policy of Oculus and HTC, makers of two of the most popular VR headsets in 2020, the companies are permitted to share any de-identified data.Then regardless of what is promised in principle, in practice taking one’s name off a dataset accomplishes very little."
By Karl Bode
Papers.
Hexagons are the Bestagons.
CGP Grey looks at why hexagons are so great.
This is a fascinating post by historian Bret Devereaux, that looks at ancient self-governing democracies.
The Athenians were able to escape this cycle through choice: by choosing, in their votes, in their legal and political speeches, in court decisions, in public pronouncements to reaffirm, again and again, their commitment to the democracy and the redefinition of the polity as one that supported democracy and self-government.
https://acoup.blog/2020/10/30/fireside-friday-october-30-2020/
We Do Not Have the Internet We Deserve.
"Here is how bad our high-speed access market is today: every big American ISP has stopped deploying fiber services at any serious scale. This leaves a vast majority of Americans stuck with inferior cable Internet service. When you factor in the monopoly power held by the ISPs—preventing Americans from switching to better service—it becomes a perfect storm."
By Ernesto Falcon
#CoSoFirstPeoples
#CoSoEnvironment
The Ties That Bind.
"Western scientists are still catching up to the knowledge possessed and passed down by Indigenous peoples. With our world hanging on by a thread, Ruth H. Hopkins explains how its fate is inseparably intertwined with that of its original stewards, and the wisdom they hold."
Words By Ruth H. Hopkins
Photographs By Evan Benally Atwood
"We Be The Humans"
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(Lets go retro.)
Some retro sounds from guest artist Nautilus this time around, tiny percussion sounds perhaps from drum machines from days gone by, interleaved with subtle leads and pads. Nuances of early 80s pop with good old modern day IDM. Refreshing.
Nautilus
by Nautilus
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This is a friend of mine who is an admin in a nursing school, has been a nurse and taught at the school.
Healthcare workers shouldn’t have to beg the public to try to stay healthy, and use precautions during a global pandemic.
Why ?
What did he do ?
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.
Was he just not loyal enough ???
Is Fear of AOC Why Chuck Schumer Is Pumping a Non-Starter “Cancel Student Debt by Executive Order” Scheme?
"It’s odd to see Democrats talking about a Biden “100 days” when Obama did nothing like that when he actually did have a mandate to do so. Did they not get the memo that their blue wave didn’t hit the beach? It’s even odder to see Chuck Schumer affecting a Damascene conversion, particularly with respect to the student debt."
By Yves Smith
A Communicable Emptiness
By David Oates
"That’s it. Emptiness. That’s the discovery. It’s not deep. It’s so shallow it hurts. And I find that the half of history and human behavior that we’d rather not think about is better explained in these ten words than in anything else I’ve encountered.
It’s why Trump, the apotheosis of emptiness, is their natural leader. He who exists only when filling our space. . . with his emptiness. It’s like a demonic koan."
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/11/a-communicable-emptiness.html
Neo-Fascism, Or The Political Logic Of Neoliberalism.
"The neoliberal state, once released from the ethical constraints of democracy, can no longer be conceived as a safe haven in which citizens can expect protection from state violence and domestic acts of terrorism."
By Eric J. Weiner
To Read:
Lost And Found In Eden.
[This is the fifth in a series of essays, On Climate Truth and Fiction.]
High in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta of northern Colombia, the Kogi people peaceably live and farm. Having isolated themselves in nearly inaccessible mountain hamlets for five hundred years, the Kogi retain the dubious distinction of being the only intact, pre-Columbian civilization in South America.
By Usha Alexander
https://www.3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2020/11/lost-and-found-in-eden.html
For some of the newer folks:
Someone, (no I won't say who), sent me a DM.....
So for general reference, let it be known that my heart is spoken for.
I am deeply flattered, and humbled.
Yet I am not seeking companionship.
See here:
"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