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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.

georgelakoff.substack.com/p/fa

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

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/

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.

noemamag.com/digital-technolog

“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.”

noemamag.com/digital-technolog

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.

phys.org/news/2022-10-philosop

what lies behind the smooth buttons on a mobile phone or cushioned soles of sneakers What's involved in extracting & processing materials?

The Toaster Project: Heroic Attempt to Build a Simple Electric Appliance from Scratch
bookshop.org/books/the-toaster

the promise -
of a sports geek’s -
perspective lies -
with -
understanding the -
‘game being played’ -
and the assessment -
of agencies -
in play -

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

stephaniekelton.substack.com/p

mhm -
two words -
American Maid -

or something -
like that -

At some point in late 2022, the eight billionth human being will enter the world, ushering in a new milestone for humanity.

visualcapitalist.com/visualize

twitter.com/stillgray/status/1

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 -

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

aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-

When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill done.” (Keynes 1964, p. 159)

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.

ncpolicywatch.com/2022/10/04/s
ncpolicywatch.com/2022/10/04/s

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.

sciencedaily.com/releases/2022

Modern Money & Public Purpose 6: Fiscal vs. Monetary Policy
the legal and operational relationship between central banks and treasury departments

youtu.be/soVyyyXrcwo via @YouTube

how many applications has MicroSoft accelerated to irrelevance - mhm - where did Skype go during the pandemic - how many young people are on LinkedIn ?

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

stephaniekelton.substack.com/p

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