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
Economist, updated global daily estimate of excess deaths attributable to COVID-19 - their projections, of cumulative global excess death toll stands at 28.5 million, 4.1 times higher than official COVID death toll, (surpassed 7 million at end of 2023)
be-coming aware -
the impermanence of -
everything -
be-coming awakened -
the suffering of -
attach-meant -
and avoid-dances -
and -
dividualism -
profilicity -
repertoires -
of profiles of -
partial-selves -
in an ecology of -
networks of relations -
and unknowns -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Canada’s oil-producing tar sands generate more pollution-causing gases than megacities such as Los Angeles, California, and about the same as the rest of Canada’s human-generated sources combined
We build toward this definition of life:
Life is a non- equilibrium, self-reproducing chemical reaction system that achieves: i. Collective autocatalysis, ii. Constraint Closure, iii. Spatial Closure; iv. as such, living entities are Kantian Wholes.
tamagotchi -
seeding -
enaction-with-device -
encure-age-culture -
care-of-other -
digital-lifeform -
and the personal -
device -
interstitium-of-care -
of others -
ai levels-up -
tamagotchi -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
mhm -
there is no formula -
sequence-of-measures -
taken -
that can pre-define -
the space of solutions -
indeterminate -
un-order-able -
in-form-able -
so comfort and surprise -
we re-cognize patterns -
that seem reliably -
use-full -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
pondering -
the-public -
interstitium -
of common-body-ecology -
the public -
social-meme-gene -
enacting-homeostasis -
of human -
flourishing of-for-by -
all -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
The bankers feared that the new U.S. Notes would replace the multitudinous private bank notes that were the country's primary currency. They were shocked at the notion of a paper money unhinged from gold.
The bankers feared that the new U.S. Notes would replace the multitudinous private bank notes that were the country's primary currency. They were shocked at the notion of a paper money unhinged from gold.
an agreement of trust -
in conditions -
of care and fairness -
is what enables -
the best of human -
collaborative-flourishing -
as a public -
of-for-by -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
The bankers feared that the new U.S. Notes would replace the multitudinous private bank notes that were the country's primary currency. They were shocked at the notion of a paper money unhinged from gold.
john verdon
boosted
(there are bass players, then this is this woman, from another universe.)
Many folks pay homage to Coltrane, play his tunes, and transcribe his solos. Few channel Coltrane as musically and authentically as Mohini Day achieves with her performance here. This might be the most memorable 90 seconds of music you see and hear this week.
Trump is not a politician. Trump is a super salesman who has successfully sold the Republican base on his status as a “strict father” authoritarian leader. As such, this nomination contest will not center on policy or strategy differences.
https://framelab.substack.com/p/desantis-disaster-why-the-wannabe-dictator
McLuhan -
technology is the most human -
part of us -
Kay -
people define technology -
as anything -
that was invented -
after they were born -
what we are growing into -
always challenges -
what we are growing out of -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
The idea of genetic blueprint, & underlying cybernetic definition of communication as faithful exchange of information, prevented us from seeing the body as it really is – not product of an algorithm, but a complex, molecularly networked social becoming
https://aeon.co/essays/why-its-time-to-replace-the-genetic-blueprint-idea
how-where -
does a democracy embody -
the practices of -
civil-polity -
other than in public-spaces -
open to all -
on level ground -
0-practices of fairness -
tolerance-inclusion -
care-for-all -
public-spaces -
where citizens -
meet as citizens -
as human -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
the sadness of -
an endless -
disillusionment -
of how embodied -
a democracy is -
upon a living -
social-cultural-body-ecology -
of fair-caring institutions -
oh the dis-eases -
we suffer -
with inattention -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
For the first time, they counted and identified these minute particles in bottled water. They found that on average, a liter contained some 240,000 detectable plastic fragments—10 to 100 times greater than previous estimates
https://phys.org/news/2024-01-bottled-hundreds-thousands-previously-uncounted.html
In 1950, a 65-year-old woman had an average of 41 living relatives. By 2095, a woman of the same age will have an average of only 25 living relatives.
#future #familiesofchoice will be #vital
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