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
the 1896 publication of student notes from Smith’s 1762–1763 Lectures on Jurisprudence. There, Smith declared that the maintenance of justice, not, say, market efficiency or economic growth, was “the first and chief design of every system of government
mhm twitsla - the ed wood of platforms?
Plants chat among themselves and with other species. They release volatile organic compounds with a lexicon, Calvo says, of more than 1,700 “words”—allowing them to shout things that a human might translate as “caterpillar incoming” or “*$@#, lawn mower!”
ode-to-my -
seeded-sourdough -
stave-o-life -
with thin spreads -
dark chocolate -
ginger marmalade -
a cinnamon sprinkle -
and -
sriracha -
a spark to -
rich densities -
and flairs -
of taste-flows -
into body -
sensorial travel -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Darwin’s ‘gradualist’ evolution of only natural selection, is not compatible with contemporary science. random mutations are one of many processes that produce new species; they have nothing to do with major evolutionary transformations of macroevolution
https://aeon.co/essays/why-did-darwins-20th-century-followers-get-evolution-so-wrong
jeezus -
i love my bread -
stave of my life -
and never -
had such a happy -
relationship with -
food -
eating with pleasures -
guilt-less -
shadows -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Earth’s rotation deflects the flow of fluids in a way that’s analogous to how magnetic fields twist the paths of electrons moving through quantum materials called topological insulators
https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-quantum-physics-describes-earths-weather-patterns-20230718/
social-media -
about social-media -
global village -
gossip-opinion-i-zing -
a special audience-public -
monetizing - personality -
the public staging -
of moral-plays -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Good conversation mixes opinions, feelings, facts & ideas in improvisational exchange with one or more - in an atmosphere of goodwill. inspires mutual insight, respect & joy. It relaxes the mind, opens the heart & connects honestly with others
https://aeon.co/essays/a-good-conversation-relaxes-the-mind-and-opens-the-heart
Intelligence does not live in a petri dish or laboratory or inside a single skull; it lives out in the open, it lives in and as our cities. A city is not just architecture plus dwellers; it is an artificial environment par excellence.
The artificial refers to something that merely resembles an original (such as a cheap plastic “diamond”) whereas the synthetic is a genuine and meaningful version of something that was deliberately created (such as a laboratory-grown diamond identical to a “natural” one at the molecular level). Thus, artificial intelligence merely seems smart, but synthetic intelligence really is. We should be pursuing synthetic intelligence, not artificial intelligence.
The emergence of planetary-scale computation thus appears as both a geological and geophilosophical fact. In addition to evolving countless animal, vegetal and microbial species, Earth has also very recently evolved a smart exoskeleton, a distributed sensory organ and cognitive layer capable of calculating things like: How old is the planet? Is the planet getting warmer?
is neoliberal-capitalism -
gaslighting -
about the public -
foundation of a -
market -
it a public -
and public institutions -
that enables -
a market to function -
as a market -
instead of a landfill for -
rent-seeking -
capitalist-grifting-djinns -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
and she'll probably -
get it wrong -
at first -
it's because she compels -
entices -
my complete respect -
from the first -
she is one -
that gifts -
a wisdom -
enabling -
honest considerations -
apprehensions -
given and taken -
close and far -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
what is this -
i feel -
with hui -
a touch of her -
a delicate dance -
our spaces -
just enough -
with promise -
of futures -
and plannings -
worth the journey -
i - feel -
she is what wanting -
to marry -
for living life -
with another -
and feeling so -
true -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
A microbial skin can glue together pebbles, break them down into soil and fertilize that soil with essential nutrients. In effect, the crust can “terraform” the desert.
A nonadaptive process, genetic drift is the loss of genetic variation in a population due to the chance disappearance of certain genes.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/human-evolution-lauren-schroeder-scientists-to-watch
Remember: A response is a reward. When you respond to a troll’s social media post in order to negate it, you are also helping to amplify it and increase its audience. The troll wins.
https://framelab.substack.com/p/response-in-reward-why-you-cant-win
If you are thinking of committing a crime, let me suggest you become the CEO of a corporation and do it there. If caught, authorities are likely to prosecute the company, while you escape with your ill-begotten gains. Here, is where crime can pay.
https://mintzberg.org/blog/prosecuting-criminals-instead-of-corporations
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