A 1% wealth tax on the $13 trillion of the world’s 3,000 billionaires (meaning they might have to make do with a smaller second superyacht) versus the vastly improved flourishing of 250,000,000 kids.

Why is that a hard trade off

https://evonomics.com/free-market-genocide-the-real-history-of-trade/

in 2021 long-time Fed economist Jeremy Rudd wrote of his “deeper concern that the primary role of mainstream economics… is to provide an apologetics for a criminally oppressive, unsustainable, and unjust social order.”

https://evonomics.com/free-market-genocide-the-real-history-of-trade/

the logic of “smashing up social structures in order to extract labor” under threat of starvation became standard “civilized” liberal market practice (as violently imposed in Ireland and India and many places beyond).

https://evonomics.com/free-market-genocide-the-real-history-of-trade/

finished -
the latenights - -
another evening -
media-streaming -
attractor-a-tension -
we are still -
so early in the -
emergent-sea -
of media-minding -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

Turns out when Apple’s privacy prompt pops up, only 16% of users agree to being tracked. And if data is the new oil, ad platforms are losing 84% of their Brent Crude. Apple has gone Putin on Meta’s Germany by cutting supply

https://medium.com/@profgalloway/elephants-in-the-room-31e072ea75ae

The evolution of tree roots may have triggered a series of mass extinctions that rocked the Earth's oceans during the Devonian Period over 300 million years ago

#life #changes #environment #changes #life

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-evolution-tree-roots-driven-mass.html

video shows the app analytics that the App Store app sends to Apple while using the app. This includes detailed information about the device, every tap and impression you make in the app, and every app you view in the store.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxvH80Rrcw

Facebook's true objection to Apple's privacy tools is that they reduced Facebook's earnings by $10b.

Facebook is NOT wrong about Apple's cynicism. Apple exercises enormous direct control over its users. Apple blocks from installing software of your choosing or using third-party repair services of your choosing. They pour millions into engineering to make this technically challenging, and lead a coalition of large corporations that kill right to repair legislation

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/

Companies don't make you the product because you don't pay – they make you the product because you can't stop them.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/

11/16/2022 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/11/11162022-third-quarter-moon.html

a religion -
of play -
flourishing enactments -
calling their destinies -
aspiring life play -
fore infinity -
#micropoem

digital lifeworld -
already yesterday -
quantum-lifeworld -
exists -
computational-lifeworld -
informational-lifeworld -
mhm -
computable-lifeworld -
l’AIfeworld -
program-able l-ai-feworld -
a play-space -
for exploring -
ontologically real -
possibles -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

a science -
of spirit -
what spiritual is -
what mind is -
patterns of organizing -
information -
differences-making-differences -
which living systems -
enable a sensorial -
re-purpose-mapping -
affording -
niche-waking -
life seeding -
flourishing -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

pondering -
media -
role of -
newsing -
good-enough -
justice -
takes time -
memory needs -
enactment -
so media -
keeps memes alive -
for either/and -
business profit-reproduction -
and/or purposes -
deemed worth the effort -
and this is -
complex accounting -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

during a critical early period of brain development, the gut’s microbiome — the assortment of bacteria that grow within in it — helps to mold a brain system that’s important for social skills later in life.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-gut-microbiome-helps-social-skills-develop-in-the-brain-20221115/

Nature Catalysis study from six chemists at the University of Chicago shows an innovative new system for artificial photosynthesis that is more productive than previous artificial systems by an order of magnitude

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-chemists-artificial-photosynthesis-ten-efficient.html

mhm -
watching the -
fiasco -
that is -
the whirlwind of -
twitsla

ponder -
security -
implications -
of vehicle futures -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

11/8/2022 - Full Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/11/1182022-full-moon.html

@trumPettite -
#trumPettite -
never really was -
a #prophet #center -
in all ways -
a flushing -
more like -
a #profit #sink-
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

there is -
too much -
to know -
you have to sample -
and account for -
anticipate-able probabilities -
smoothness is -
determined -
by scale of -
observations -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry