Is it just me -
how many rigged -
votes -
can happen -
in Congress -
in full view -
of the world -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

Bitcoin to Blockchains, to NFTs, to Web 3.0... it's time to find out if it's really all the hype or just part of one of the greatest scams in human history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdWE_ffirg

12/29/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/12/12292022-first-quarter-moon.html

what is money -
an accounting -
of exchanges -
by an invisible -
hand -
erasing our relations -
with a dusting -
of quanta -
to shape -
a calculus -
of interest -

that should be -
of-for-by -
our interests -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

"Is tweeting about a banned account now prohibited? How about tweeting about an account that was banned for tweeting about a banned account?"

https://georgelakoff.substack.com/p/how-and-why-to-get-banned-from-elon

fascinating animation of how the 10 most populous cities in the world changed from 1500 to 2018
by
@jburnmurdoch

https://twitter.com/i/status/1608716629977989120

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don't know -
where i wander -
so much absorption -
compared to -
creative fruiting -
mhm -
framing -
to surf waves -
of entailing logics -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

12/29/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/12/12292022-first-quarter-moon.html

a new sodium-sulfur battery that purportedly provides four times the energy capacity of lithium-ion batteries. They say it is far cheaper to produce and offers the potential to dramatically reduce energy storage costs.

https://www.pv-magazine.com/2022/12/08/novel-sodium-sulfur-battery-for-renewables-storage/

all these emergencies -
that replace -
running water -
with needs of -
bottled water -
who is bottling -
this water -
and who is making -
profit from -
all these disasters -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

writing final exam is analog version of Turing Test: - craft questions to distinguish between students who actually understand material vs those who “solve” problems by being skilled at pattern recognition & applying rote algorithms
#learning vs #metrics

https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/12/human-flourishing-in-the-age-of-machines.html

mhm -
will #trumPetite -
require -
a custom jail -
built just for -
#biggly #losers
#micropoem

Gender in a City
A graphic novel on the role of gender in shaping our urban experiences, by Leewardists in collaboration with Social Design Collaborative, Creadhle and Mist LGBTQ Foundation for the Bonjour India 2022 project 'City for All?''

https://www.socialdesigncollab.org/research

Jeezuz - #gop full of self-made-up folks

Did I #embellish my resume - yes
In that I completely made up that I had a resume.
new normal for #gop politicians

the ancient civilization was made up of more than 1,000 settlements covering approximately 650 square miles, most of which were linked by multiple causeways.

https://phys.org/news/2022-12-huge-year-old-mayan-civilization-northern.html

12/23/2022 - New Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2022/12/12232022-new-moon.html

Romanticism was something much more complex and radical. Romantic poetry, they said, was unruly and dynamic – a ‘living organism’. They wanted to romanticise the entire world. They strived to unite humankind and nature, art and science.

https://aeon.co/essays/english-romanticism-was-born-from-a-serious-germanomania

“Don’t argue with your grandfather, Instead, ask him to tell you a story about a time he did something good for someone else. Listen, and then ask him to tell you another one.”

https://george-lakoff.com/2022/12/24/how-to-deal-with-conservative-relatives-during-the-holidays/