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mhm -
the habits -
of rue-tines -
of familiar-comforts -
of changes-of-change -
of rhythm-n-rhymes -
of been-n-becoming -

it's not -
capacity -
to think -
abstractly -
it's short term-
working memory -
of relations minded enough -
to gather a sense -
of meaning -
to formulate -
symbol-sets -

any sense -
can only be -
enacted -
in relations of -
networks of -
part-wholes -
now-thens -

foraged the -
bready-leftovers -
microed -
raced -
with tremors of focusgasms -
processed stuff -
focuses -
n speed-measured -
sensorial-ing -

the homemade -
bread-stuffs -
focus on emerging -
dimensionality-intensities -
absent of
chrono-me-tricks -

mhm -
no matter how much -
you know -
about hydrogen -
and oxygen -
that knowing -
won’t tell you -
anything about -
swimming -
in it -
no matter the talent -
in swimming -
will knowledge -
of oxygen -
and hydrogen -
be necessary -
to swim -

John Rawls, developed a sustained, systematic and principled argument that even the most humane, welfarist form of capitalism is incompatible with the possibility of achieving liberalism’s deepest aim: free people living together in a society of equals.

aeon.co/essays/what-can-we-lea

Doug Ford's Corrupt Government Exposed In New Greenbelt Report youtu.be/4WYgE9iHSMc

and of course -
we both have -
shaping aesthetics -
including a weird -
willing-curiosity -
trust -
in the other -
of our shaping values -
of thresholds -
for attending -
a fair way to -
a fair end -
in a flow -
of-ford-dances -
as infinite -
as inevitable -

Smith was a great thinker & great writer - an empirical economist - more often right than wrong; he was skeptical, especially about wealth; he was a balanced & humane thinker who cared about justice, noting how much more important it was than beneficence

bostonreview.net/articles/how-

many languages lack an ‘olfactory lexicon’ – that is, a set of words that pick out smell-related qualities, that can be applied to different kinds of things that share a smell, and that are widely and uniformly used.

psyche.co/ideas/what-is-the-se

and the difference -
between me and hui -
how she bargains -
and i hold high -
the light of -
democracy -
and don't bargain -
as i was bought-up -
a consumer -

our sensorium -
a complex mycelium-rhizome -
difference-engine -
enables -
a-generation of -
apprehension -
for harmonizing -
the flourishing for infinity -
with the laws of -
uncertainty -

many types of fungi that break down hardwood trees can also break down polyethylene, a common kind of plastic.
Prior research identified about 430 species of fungi and bacteria that are able to break down different kinds of plastic.

phys.org/news/2023-07-fungi-ha

engineers tripled energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries - for capacity with specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.
- compared to ~260-odd Wh/kg lithium-ion batteries in current Tesla Model 3 battery pack, with no lithium

newatlas.com/energy/rmit-proto

the commodity -
is the new cog -
actually has been -
for a long time -
education evolves -
the capitalist form -
of social-media -
to form selves -
of branded-commo-dittys -
as programmable property -

as living -
enacts property -
slavery shadows -
the living -

the time of day -
where accounts -
attend to -
the shape of the dayze -
field of enactions -
coming aware of -
distract-abilities -
that flow in the living -

working alone -
at home -
weirdly different thing -
mcluhan-esqu -
enhances attention -
to social-exchange -
retrieves cottage industries -
obsolesces the trip -
into cities -
when beyond thresholds -
reverses into -
zombi-economicus -
brand-us -
above the long-tail -

coverage -
of newest -
charging events -
another distance -
closed toward -
a threshold -
numinous in looming -
will it be 'the' fight -
or only reveal -
the fight is not -
yet begun -
again -

as early as the 1940s, calculations and experiments showed that the value of the magnetic moment of the electron is related to the sea of virtual particles in which atoms of matter are immersed.

news.cnrs.fr/articles/touching

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