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shiny-pebbles -
of pondering -
shiny in the -
mass of shores -

because we've -
forgotten -
the embodied commons -
but haven't forgotten -
the habit of -
commons-rules -
the care and fairness -
necessary for -
strength of-by-for -
accord -
a civility of article-5 -
all-for-all -

and is that -
an attractor -
in my psyche -
the urge to -
community -
as protection -
from a whimsy -
of violence -
domination -
bullying -
and why policing -
is about ensuring -
a public space -
of security -
a public space -
of rights -
and laws -
for all -

pondering -
the temperature -
management of my -
house -
diurnal rhythms of -
inhale-exhale -
flows -
exchanges -
a vigil dance -
grows an attractor -
of habit-us -

“Sara Forsdyke points to the parallel between Theognis of Megara's statement that ‘personal wealth brings with it public harm’ and Solon's rebuke of those who destroy the city ‘on account of their desire for wealth’

delanceyplace.com/

parts of brain area that control movement are plugged into networks involved in thinking & planning, and in control of involuntary functions such as blood pressure and heartbeat. - a literal linkage of body and mind in the very structure of the brain.

medicine.wustl.edu/news/mind-b

Musk’s Starlink satellites disrupting scientific research & causing streaks in deep space photos — also dumping “unintended electromagnetic radiation” into space, something that could be a major problem for Earth-bound astronomers

ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/starlink-s

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l

it's the narration -
that gives you -
feelings -
and the story -
of archetypal -
vs the positivist -
story
to shape feelings -
you have to feel -
what you're feeling -
facts don't give -
you feelings -
that understand -
the story -

Threads feels like what a network entirely made up of Twitter Blue users would look like — cretins obsessed with “engagement” and “metrics,” who do not want to communicate with others so much as they want to juice “impressions of their content.”

wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-t

Most importantly, there’s the understanding that without the (free) contributions of users, the network has no real value — and, indeed, that the network’s most popular and active users are extremely valuable to keeping others on the platform.

wheresyoured.at/p/the-end-of-t

Friday Thinking - 3-17-2023
a playful reflection of the week's pondering moments.

johnverdon-friday-thinking.blo

pondering -
the work -
of reflex-shuns -
in-text -
what lets the flow -
and what -
enables constructing -
a-peace of -
reasoning -

and finally -
the comprehension -
of the sanctity -
of life -
that arises -
with the apprehension -
of its precarity -

pride -
prejudice -
zombies -
in-the-news -

first it's individual's -
not race -
resonant with -
there is no society -
there's only individuals -
there is only the market -
of individuals -
who are impeded -
by government -
who are zombie-parasites -

mhm -
Biden-economics -
is this really -
a stealthy -
implementation -
of -

maybe -
living systems -
don't need such -
massive data -
with embodied contextual-correlates -
emotions -
physical-sensorial-conditions -
to qualify -
color -
and-call-our -
associations -
simulated -
as tag-variable-gradients -
to generate -
response-able
accounts -

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