john verdon
Foresight Shaman, Mytho-poet
un-disciplined mind - Curious interstitial forager, Dharma Bum
exploring alchemy of cultural change
Re-Imagining the Local #mmt
Joined May 2022
It isn't that the so-called debt doesn’t matter but it doesn’t matter the way we’ve been taught to believe
We don't think of Alzheimer's as fundamentally a disease of the brain. We think of it as a disease of the immune system within the brain
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-09-alzheimer-autoimmune-disease.html
musky-bob square pants doesn't just want to destroy twitter - he's turning drivers into girly-boys according to major - Green-traitor
All the shadows -
are the castings -
of some light -
and without -
shadows -
what would we see -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
An event series and research project that brings together science fiction writers, futurists, scholars, and technologists to survey how science fiction narratives can shape the development of real-world technologies.
could it be -
that -
audience share -
is the new -
democracy -
#micropoem
the change in antitrust can be causally linked to an increase in lobbying, a revolving door between regulators and the industries they regulate, and lavish “educational” programs aimed at judges that included luxury holidays.
#formula #regulatorycapture
https://doctorow.medium.com/an-antitrust-murder-whodunnit-49f3bd3cc69c
40-some yrs ago, US antitrust enforcement took sick. it has been largely comatose — right up until the very recent past, when the Biden administration began to take muscular — but very belated — action to restore a modicum of competition to the economy
https://doctorow.medium.com/an-antitrust-murder-whodunnit-49f3bd3cc69c
there are two kinds of designers: those who really do know better, and those who, by believing they know better, do worse
so if #scotus isn't reformed - how long before the
@GOP
#americantaliban #theocracy start enforcing a #moralitycode on all American women?
#IranProtests
count what can be represented ... to interrogate what cannot be counted.
After the recent development of accounting for biodiversity and ecosystems at the business level and at the national level, a third construction site in accounting research is necessary at the scale of inter-organizational ecosystem management.
Microbial life represents the majority of Earth’s biodiversity. Across disparate disciplines from medicine to forestry, scientists continue to discover how the microbiome drives essential, macro-scale processes in plants, animals and entire ecosystems.
“The alarm bells are ringing,” the report asserts, and a major course correction is needed—quickly—if the world is going to avert a painful economic slowdown and a global debt crisis.
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/unctad-warns-of-too-much-tightening
Two substances in the saliva of wax worms - moth larvae that eat wax made by bees to build honeycombs - readily break down a common type of plastic, researchers said on Tuesday, in a potential advance in the global fight against plastic pollution.
El Paquete is a one terabyte collection of digital material distributed since around 2008 on the underground market in Cuba as a substitute for broadband Internet. Since 2015, it has been the primary source of entertainment for millions of Cubans,
mhm -
for how play -
give us all -
worthy ways -
of producing -
and learning -
with aspirations -
in mastery -
#micropoem
10/2/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem
https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/10/1022022-first-quarter-moon.html
DeSantis’ first votes as member of Congress in 2013 were against bills to help Northeast recover from Hurricane Sandy. He voted for 2017 bill including relief funds for home state amid Hurricane Irma. Now he’s asking the federal government for help
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/currency-using-governor-seeks-financial
No one can claim a product was made by them alone; rather, production demands to be recognized as social.
john verdon
Foresight Shaman, Mytho-poet
un-disciplined mind - Curious interstitial forager, Dharma Bum
exploring alchemy of cultural change
Re-Imagining the Local #mmt
Joined May 2022