If we lose the future, ceding democracy to authoritarians or bad corporate actors, it will be due mostly to a stunning failure to communicate with people in simple language that connects with them on the level of their moral values.
https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/failure-to-communicate-key-lessons
Ujamaa,
it is clear, refers to nothing less than the capacity of human beings, despite their differences, to work together as a community—something that humans are better able to do than any other animal on Earth
#SocietyOfSelves
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2346528/pdf/rstb20062007.pdf
We’re in the early stages of the digital lifeworld: a delicate social system that links human beings, powerful machines and abundant data in a swirling web of great complexity.
https://www.noemamag.com/digital-technology-demands-a-new-political-philosophy/
“The unaccountable power of digital technology is at its most obvious when a vast social media platform is purchased by one man for expressly political purposes.”
https://www.noemamag.com/digital-technology-demands-a-new-political-philosophy/
In the 1960s, Bell figured out how to translate a philosophical question about the nature of reality into a physical question that could be answered by science—and broke down the distinction between what we know about the world and how the world really is.
https://phys.org/news/2022-10-philosophy-physics-reality.html
what lies behind the smooth buttons on a mobile phone or cushioned soles of sneakers What's involved in extracting & processing materials?
#iAmBecauseWeAre #socialSelf
The Toaster Project: Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
https://bookshop.org/books/the-toaster-project-or-a-heroic-attempt-to-build-a-simple-electric-appliance-from-scratch/9781568989976
the promise -
of a sports geek’s -
perspective lies -
with -
understanding the -
‘game being played’ -
and the assessment -
of agencies -
in play -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
over a protracted period of good times, capitalist economies tend to move from a financial structure dominated by hedge finance units to a structure in which there is large weight to units engaged in speculative and Ponzi finance
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/think-about-minsky-for-a-moment
mhm -
two words -
American Maid -
or something -
like that -
#micropoem
At some point in late 2022, the eight billionth human being will enter the world, ushering in a new milestone for humanity.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-worlds-population-at-8-billion/
10/9/2022 - Full Moon
#micropoem
https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/10/1092022-full-moon.html
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1578721055635824641
Is this true?
PayPal's new acceptable use policy, beginning November 3, 2022, will enable the company to withdraw $2,500 from your account if they find anything you've said to be objectionable, including "misinformation" or "discrimination" of groups or individuals based on gender identity.
mhm -
living systems -
constraint enacted -
energy capture -
released to reproduce -
itself -
to capture -
more energy -
repeatedly -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
sensations are ideas - how our brains represent what’s happening at our sense organs & how we feel about it. Their properties are to be explained, not literally as properties of brain-states, rather as the properties of mind-states dreamed up by the brain
https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness
A paper published Monday by the National Bureau of Economic Research puts some numbers to the relationship between voting Republican and dying of COVID — most likely because lower rates of Republicans got vaccines once they became widely available.
https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/10/04/study-more-republicans-than-democrats-likely-died-of-covid/
https://ncpolicywatch.com/2022/10/04/study-more-republicans-than-democrats-likely-died-of-covid/
Short cycles of a low-calorie diet that replicates fasting appeared to reduce inflammation and delay cognitive decline in mouse models of Alzheimer's disease; initial data indicates diet's safety in Alzheimer's patients.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220927144320.htm
Modern Money & Public Purpose 6: Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy
the legal and operational relationship between central banks and treasury departments
public debt poses no inherent danger to currency-issuing government
currency-issuing government never needs to borrow its own currency
it can always determine interest rate on bonds it chooses to sell
government bonds help shore up private sector
finances
https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/its-oooooooooooooo-big
Foresight Shaman, Mytho-poet
un-disciplined mind - Curious interstitial forager, Dharma Bum
exploring alchemy of cultural change
Re-Imagining the Local #mmt