russia -
if you are listening -
please don't -
release -
my emails -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

like drinking water – a utility underpining our very existence.
very few understand what it takes for it to travel from a distant reservoir to our kitchen taps
the internet is unseen - an invisible “cloud” just above our heads, raining data down upon us

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/09/what-lies-beneath-the-growing-threat-to-the-hidden-network-of-cables-that-power-the-internet

childhood wish - had to wake in darkness of early winter mornings - to go - to school:
wished for more sleep. This was not fulfilled in his school days but much later: his failure to get an academic position is what allowed him to sleep whenever he wants

https://psyche.co/ideas/why-charlie-chaplin-was-an-angel-of-peace-for-walter-benjamin

attending -
to process -
for honest expression -
of knowledge-imagination-experience -
a good-faith -
reason-able account -
and with play-full-ness -
for afford-dances -
entangling -
meta-fores -
that is good -
for our -
political -
self-governance -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

and it's also -
that we -
only know -
the value of -
ideas -
when others -
enact it -
pulling us along -
as we are all -
children of life -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

did he drop -
the bear -
before or after -
the worm -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

pondering -
enacting a fair society -
what sort of -
citizens a fair -
society would generate -
what sort of -
flourishing evolution of niches -
roles-occupations-knowledges -
spectrums of -
self-social literacies -
for citizen fluency -
and know-hows -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

8/4/024 - New Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2024/08/84024-new-moon.html

we meta-for -
bridging -
para-logidoxes -
meta-for -
interfacing -
logic-entail-meants -
and un-directing -
a-tension-in -
processes of proofing -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

a moral framework -
a classification -
of meaning-full-feelings -
to account for -
qualities-of-relating -
with others-in-vironmeants -

reasoning with -
meta-for-logics -
always enacts -
afford-dances -
to-compensate -
inevitable -
godelsque -
para-dox-blind-spots -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

the strength of natural selection on individual genes varies significantly from year to year, maintaining variation and enhancing the ability to adapt to future changing environmental conditions by providing raw material for natural selection to act on.

https://phys.org/news/2024-07-zooplankton-traditional-views-evolution.html

@AskTheDevil yes completely agree - he's also grasped the ideas of modern monetary theory and the need for strong public domains

@AskTheDevil LOL - that's my assumptions too :)

@AskTheDevil Cory Doctorow is amazing

@CarmenSlamdiego yes - because he was a moral philosopher - the first time he used the term 'invisible hand' was in his first book 'Toward a Theory of Moral Sentiments' :)

The "free markets" of Adam Smith weren't free from regulation, they were free from rents.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/

societal shift from capitalism (where riches come from profits) to feudalism (where riches come from rents): your rights to your actual property (the physical stuff you own) are trumped by corporations' metaphorical "intellectual property" claims

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/faithful-user-agents/

A centaur is someone whose work is supercharged by automation: a human head atop tireless body of machine

*reverse*-centaur - someone harnessed as peripheral for tireless robot directing work at a robotic pace, until your body and mind are smashed.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/revenge-of-the-chickenized-reverse-centaurs/

and pondering -
doing the baking and -
experiment -
oven-fresh slice -
cut in four -
each with a different -
mouth-feel-taste -
spread butter -
garlic-aioli -
honey -
plain -

that will be-
my project -
for tomorrow -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

billionaires backing Trump aren't supporting the racism, national abortion ban, attacks on core human rights, etc. Those are tradeoffs they willing make to get Trump's tax-cuts for ultra-rich, free rein to defraud with cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations