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
they express thinly veiled bigotry, racism, misogyny, homophobia, and so forth — because, remember, your entire shtick is making people feel better about themselves by hating someone less powerful than them.
Through the early 1900s, what you could wear was actually legally regulated in many countries. Sorry, only this kind of person can wear this particular garment.
12/16/2022 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem
https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/12/12162022-third-quarter-moon.html
our gut bacteria is acquired metabolism
ability to eat diverse food sources and metabolize them comes down to those bacteria.
important vitamins and cofactors that we require, like vitamin K, made by gut microbes
We’re very reliant on these partnerships
https://www.quantamagazine.org/holly-moeller-finds-keys-to-ecology-in-cells-that-steal-20221219/
the ability of some protists to co-opt parts of the cells they prey upon. Armed with these still-functioning pieces of their prey, the protists can expand into new habitats and survive where they couldn’t before
https://www.quantamagazine.org/holly-moeller-finds-keys-to-ecology-in-cells-that-steal-20221219/
Sentinel intelligence refers to a special cognitive capacity that allows someone to detect threats before anyone else.
https://jessicawildfire.substack.com/p/youre-not-a-fearmonger-you-have-sentinel
Meta’s Horizon Worlds garnering 200,000 monthly active users, 300k short of end-of-year target & 2.5 million short of MySpace.
only 9% of worlds created by users are visited by more than 50 people, & >50% of headsets aren’t in use 6 months post-purchase
https://medium.com/@profgalloway/2022-predictions-review-7ab463f80f1c
Big Printer downgrades your printer with “security updates” to prevent using 3rd party cartridges Apple uses legal & tech counters to stop apps not bought at its store. Facebook uses warfare & smear to stop anyone connecting outside tools to its platform
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs
Only where chaos prevails do the well-known rules of thermodynamics follow from quantum physics.
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-chaos-theory-quantum-thermodynamics.html
In new research published today in Nature Communications, we show this basic assumption in biomedicine—that females are "smaller versions" of males—is not supported for most pre-clinical traits
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-12-women-adverse-drug-reactionsa-mouse.html
mhm -
sci-fi imagining -
generative intuitions -
it's not time-travel -
through a linear -
moving universe -
it's dimension-wormholing -
entanglement -
in a manifolding universe -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
imagine -
some sci-fi -
lab accident -
creates copper-eating -
nano-thing -
in months the world -
is without electricity -
we are past -
the point of -
no-return -
human are
electric societies -
now -
shades of McLuhan -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
It is so easy to forget -
that often -
the difference -
between medicine -
and poison -
is dosage -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Is it just me or are establishment republicans trying to rehabilitate themselves by become establishment democrats and insinuating themselves into #msnbc?
A tribe of Dr Frankensteins in 'shock and awe' over what they have created?
12/16/2022 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem
https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/12/12162022-third-quarter-moon.html
A Eulogy to Truth – Long Live Honesty
http://www.johnverdon.com/2021/05/a-eulogy-to-truth-long-live-honesty.html
The truth is dead - long live honesty
Entailing honest accounts and holding accounts honest
Science teaches us skepticism -
Entailing multiple lines of evidence
For reliable knowledge
Complexity teaches us relative perspectives -
Entailing multiple ways of reasoning
For relevant wisdom
Collective wisdom emerges in our institutions of conversation
pecking-orders all the way around :) until we organize as commons :)
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