we err -
to think -
we are fully -
into the anthropocene' -
we have only -
entering late teen-phase -
surviving the anthropocene's -
reckless teen becoming -
will be a re-cognition -
of entering -
the anthropocene's -
age of majority -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

The United States is the only long-established democracy of over fifty for which we have data that has seen a considerable decline in social trust.

https://psyche.co/ideas/defining-social-trust-is-a-first-step-toward-nurturing-it

Our ability to trust those we do not know has also expanded. We now interact with people whose identities we will never know, and with anonymous others within systems we do not understand. Social life has a new essential ingredient: social trust.

https://psyche.co/ideas/defining-social-trust-is-a-first-step-toward-nurturing-it

An analysis of the life spans and social lives of nearly 1,000 mammal species shows that species that live in groups, such as horses and chimpanzees, tend to live longer than solitary beasts, like weasels and hedgehogs.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mammals-groups-longevity-genetics

Republicans held a House Oversight Committee hearing on Twitter in an attempt to expose an anti-Republican bias from the platform, and it backfired spectacularly.
https://youtu.be/t5oVhG_Gv1s

The day the clowns cried. : https://thenib.com/clowned-on

today creators have more copyright, the companies that buy creators' copyrights have more profits, but creators are poorer than they were 40 years ago. How can this be so?

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/09/ai-monkeys-paw/#bullied-schoolkids

honesty -
is not by necessity -
the truth -
honesty -
affords -
a measure of trust -
enabling -
good faith -
coordination of -
collective capacity -
to make living -
more worthwhile -
by flourishing together -

like an invisible -
hand -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

unity is more difficult to say because you can say that all simple systems look similar one to the other and each complex system is complex in its own way.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2632-072X/ac9171

mhm -
you know -
the saying -
justice must not only -
be done -
it must be seen -
to be done -
so let's see it -
being done -
#micropoem
#micropoem

The Myths of Venture Capital
Julia Ott of @thenewschool pulls curtain & shares preview of upcoming "Wealth Over Work: The Origins of Venture Capital, The Return of Inequality, and the Decline of Innovation"

https://youtu.be/Gz7BlAWlK80

2/5/2022 - Full Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/02/252022-full-moon.html

legislators from cities to Congress have proposed public options for banking & payment tech to counteract rampant privatization & for-profit surveillance
contemporary monetary projects share a startling premise - money is a system we create & shape

https://www.aaup.org/article/stop-trying-find-money%E2%80%94create-it#.Y08okITML0p

as Crotty read Keynes’ voluminous output from the 1920s, 30s and 40s he found something very different — a radical who saw the pursuit of profit as both inimical to a decent civilization and unsustainable on its own terms.

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/james-crotty-and-the-responsibilities-of-the-heterodox

“There’s nothing to prevent the federal government from creating as much money as it wants and paying it to someone.” ~Alan Greenspan

https://stephaniekelton.substack.com/p/danger-ahead-mike-pence-would-pick

something unprecedented happened — H5N1 infected minks, and then a mutant version likely spread among them. The first mammal-to-mammal transmission. That is a big deal.

https://www.theinsight.org/p/who-should-worry-about-h5n1

in the 1100s the Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi saw himself living in a new age of distraction thanks to the technology of print: ‘The reason people today read sloppily is that there are a great many printed texts.’

https://aeon.co/essays/google-didnt-break-your-brain-a-history-of-distraction

using seawater with no pre-treatment to produce green hydrogen. “We have split natural seawater into oxygen and hydrogen with nearly 100% efficiency… using a non-precious and cheap catalyst in a commercial electrolyser

https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2023/01/31/green-hydrogen-straight-from-the-ocean-adelaide-researchers-find-successful-method/

1/28/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/01/1282022-first-quarter-moon.html