we are wired for herding We herd all the time: when we make war & when we make peace, when we celebrate & when we mourn, we herd at work & on vacation. The herd is not out there somewhere, but we carry it within us. The herd is deeply seated in our mind

https://aeon.co/essays/on-nonconformism-or-why-we-need-to-be-seen-and-not-herded

flexible solar cells, which are much thinner than a human hair, are glued to a strong, lightweight fabric, making them easy to install on a fixed surface

https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-paper-thin-solar-cell-surface-power.html

bispecific antibody, binds to both T cells and multiple myeloma cells and directs the T cells—white blood cells that can be enlisted to fight off diseases—to kill multiple myeloma cells

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-experimental-cancer-therapy-success-patients.html

no church -
no wife -
church-is-community -
of-faith -
of trust -
faith-is-trust -
with weaponizable -
afford-dances -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

12/16/2022 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/12/12162022-third-quarter-moon.html

inflation universe
https://twitter.com/jbrowder1/status/1602353465753309195

mhm -
if audience -
is the only -
success metric -
#trumPetite's -
infomercial -
got more audience -
than he could ever -
afford -
as what he is now -
#loser -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

mhm -
#deSantis -
the next -
#trumPetite -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

What's next - #mypillow for #potus

If there could be a greater sign of a righteous universe - then a #trumPetite flogging NFT-disgraced presidential digital losing cards - it would have to be way funnier

debt financing around Twitter gob-smacking. what were creditors thinking - game of finance is next level sport where destroying people, companies, products to achieve victory is tolerated. Historical trends suggest that the losers will be the public.

https://zephoria.medium.com/what-if-failure-is-the-plan-2f219ea1cd62

#twitsla #miniMe #trumPetite #loser #taker #unmaker

It’s been a long time since we saw the Fail Whale because there was a strong infrastructure team who worked to bake resilience into the system. In other words, Twitter grew up.
until #twitsla #miniMe #trumPetite

https://zephoria.medium.com/what-if-failure-is-the-plan-2f219ea1cd62

The left-handedness of the weak force has subtle effects that couldn’t have influenced the cosmos on galactic scales. But ever since Wu’s discovery, physicists have sought other ways in which the universe differs from its mirror image.
mhm #UKLeQuin

https://www.quantamagazine.org/asymmetry-detected-in-the-distribution-of-galaxies-20221205/

we should resuscitate a largely lost vision of the corporation as a “creation of the state” as part of reviving the progressive argument that corporations have duties to the public.

https://lpeproject.org/blog/corporate-personhood-response-to-knight

Sigh - just after I discover the glory of dark chocolate - I discover the story of dark chocolate

lead and cadmium appear to get into cacao in different ways, which means that each requires a different type of fix

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-cadmium-in-dark-chocolate-a8480295550/

Inflation did surge, with a peak of 10.7% in March 2022, but it has moved down to 3.7% in November 2022. (Both figures are three-month moving averages.)

https://stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/ban-the-phillips-curve

Congresswoman Katie Porter, Democrat from California’s 47th district, who wields her white board like a weapon. She explains (in plain English!) what we’ve got wrong about inflation
The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast

https://youtu.be/Ai6B8e-C8k8

David Dayen, Executive Editor of The American Prospect, joins us to talk through the spectacular rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX and its disgraced leader
The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast

https://youtu.be/jdazsXctLNc

the beauty of -
a tool -
lays mostly below -
the surfaces -
depths become -
revealed -
when we learn -
we are home -
with it -

a feeling of home -
i have found -
with you -
#micropoem