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
wordle -
delivers -
training data -
for ai -
to harvest -
sense-sweepings -
entailing rhetori-logics -
framing anticipation -
of sense-making -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
BRUCE STERLING From the Dark side to the Light
Self-driving cars, face recognition, digital money, smart vaccines - evolving fast, with Artificial intelligence (AI) But there is a dark side, as AI is not neutral. It sometimes even divides our society
Individualism promises prosperity and success based on individual effort and merit, but it delivers ideas and conditions that make those things unattainable for all but a privileged few
https://aeon.co/essays/in-classical-chinese-philosophy-all-actions-are-collective
it’s meta-for -
everything -
everywhere -
till -
meta is metaphor -
nothing -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
it’s how to -
expand-entangle -
accounts of experience-in-environments -
to know what -
‘normal’ is -
other than assort of baseline -
common sensorial-attractors -
experience of past experience -
for comparison -
guiding in-by -
anticipation -
for response-abilities -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Although best known as a tool used to alter genomes in the laboratory, CRISPR–Cas can function in nature as a rudimentary immune system. About 40% of sampled bacteria and 85% of sampled archaea have CRISPR–Cas systems.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/you-may-be-early-but-youre-not-wrong
latest studies tell us
No permanent immunity from virus. Each time it attacks our hearts, minds & weakens us. It imprints on us, so future variant has better shot next time.
the key points
You can catch Covid multiple times
Reinfections are common
Breakthrough infections are common
Covid can kill you months after you recover
It can cause brain damage
It can cause blood clots & heart attacks
It doesn’t spare children
Vaccines help, but only some
Masks work
lifeforms have profoundly altered the fabric of this planet, and this, in turn, has altered the circumstances in which lifeforms evolve.
https://aeon.co/essays/the-insight-of-darwins-work-on-corals-worms-and-co-evolution
This project found that Metarhizium stops plants from taking up mercury. Despite being planted in polluted soil, the plant grows normally and is edible. What's more, the fungus alone can quickly clear mercury from both fresh and saltwater.
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-common-fungus-toxic-mercury-soil.html
1rst time in 3 decades new prefixes added to the International System of Units (SI)
Joining ranks of well-known prefixes are ronna and quetta for the largest numbers—and ronto and quecto for the smallest
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-ronnagrams-metric-prefixes-voted.html
while moving in flocks, sheep alternate between the role of leader and follower. Leaders are thus only leading the group for a certain amount of time, before control of the group is transferred to another sheep
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-physics-sheep-flocks-alternate-leader.html
researchers contend, suggests that the reason some fecal matter floats is due to the nature of the bacteria in the gut—some produce more gas than others.
A good place to start anything - is understanding one's own s..t
a new superconducting qubit, the unimon, to increase the accuracy of quantum computations. The team has achieved the first quantum logic gates with unimons at 99.9% fidelity—a major milestone on the quest to build commercially useful quantum computers
https://phys.org/news/2022-11-unimon-qubit-boost-quantum-applications.html
You're a serious, sober reporter. You stick to the facts, and your reporting has led you to conclude that capitalism is broken, which is not something we're used to hearing. Why is that your conclusion?
https://the.ink/p/like-capitalism-itself-business-journalism
Dr. Gabor Maté discusses The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
The very values of society are traumatizing for many people - Maté argues that "psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease
so -
who are -
twitsla's advertisers -
? -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
mhm -
the pillow guy -
the drump -
they're entangled -
un-charming quarks -
#micropoem
mhm -
worst case scenario -
for evolution -
survival -
without death -
no death -
no survival -
no adaptation -
no evolution -
best case scenario -
abundant flourishing -
metabolisms -
niche possibles -
response-abilities -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
mhm -
imagine if every -
'price sticker' -
indicated the portion-
that was profit -
would that change -
comparative -
shopping -
and how ? -
#micropoem
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