pondered -
the sense of -
public-space -
as an anti-dote -
to de-humanization-othering -

the enjoyment -
of a robust -
extensive-intensive -
dimensional -
public-space -
is the practice -
of citizenship -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

10/21/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/10/10212022-first-quarter-moon.html

“It became clear that the crypto industry itself becomes much smaller than its initial ambition (”the new internet”) and specialized tools for crypto companies are unlikely to produce venture-scale outcomes.“

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/issue-42-to-the-moon

am passing time -
am-not living life -
and maybe that's all there is -
is passing time -
and is it possible -

to live-for-self -
without-living-for-others -
and with-them -
too -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

South Carolina pepper expert Ed Currie already held the record for breeding the world's hottest pepper, the Carolina Reaper. But he apparently did not fear the reaper, and upped the ante with his new record-breaker, Pepper X.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/pepper-x-worlds-hottest-1.7002884

more than 80 per cent of NFTs minted in OpenSea, the most popular marketplace for such tokens, were wash trades (simultaneous sells and buys of the same NFTs creating a false impression of market activity) or straight spam: fake and plagiarised works

https://aeon.co/essays/finance-fraud-is-not-a-deviation-from-the-norm-but-a-reflection-of-it

10/21/2022 - First Quarter Moon
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/10/10212022-first-quarter-moon.html

According to Minsky, the financial cycle typically follows three stages of financing. These are:
Hedge financing
Speculative financing
Ponzi financing

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4254321-minsky-and-levy-kalecki-profit-equation

Voting with your wallet is a pretty undignified way to go through life. - people with the thickest wallets get the most votes, and no matter who you vote for in that election, the Monopoly Party *always* wins,

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

the best use -
of the collective power -
to issue public currency -
is to balance -
the economy -
for the flourishing of all -
with-for-by all -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

And -
that is a good moment -
when there is room -
for new ideas -
that people -
can find -
hanging about -
unemployed -
and more honest -
than the noise -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

mhm -
hive -
wolf -
bear -
implicate forms -
explicit niches -
pre-existence -
is no guarantee -
of evolving -
future-fitness-entangle-meants -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

In a study of 49 people, participants who were asked to frown or smile while they slept responded accurately to at least 70% of these prompts. Rates were even higher during REM (rapid eye movement) sleep
#implications for sleeping with TV on?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03252-7

freedom -
agency to enable -
a flourishing curiosity -
to explore opportunities -
constraints and possibilities -
for wellbeing of-for -
a viable social-self -
self-in-environment -
enacting-with-others -
collective-intelligence -
evolving-entangled -
#micropoem

10/14/2022 - New Moon
#micropoem

https://johnverdon-mp.blogspot.com/2023/10/10142022-new-moon.html

a grounding -
shock -
the reality of -
love's future -
shadows of uncertainties -
the linger-of-cares -
availing -
path-dependents -
past the shaping -
of farther -
bounds -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

Purpose, Value, Evolution, Consciousness, Sentience, Life & Emergence of Mind
how end-directed systems, - life, can emerge from non-life; the origins of sentience & a sense of self; information, value, "aboutness" in the universe; more

https://youtu.be/Ln-q-Wxjjqw

a vale of she -
a hope -
i can't bear -
a want -
i can't fear -
a rest -
i don't hear -
a quest for seers -

with a light -
i can't field -
un-moving -
and pulled -
un-moored -
and my orbit loves her -
my dreams of she -
a gravity -
of home star -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry

Artist Preview: Clara V. https://youtu.be/oFhcaEKyAho

evolution -
contexts shape -
directionality-constraint -

and why is survival -
the purpose -
of fitness -
and space-time-scales of fitness -
in-forming -
shaping-clocks -
in-form-ing -
contexts of fit -
and the 'kantian-whole' issue -
when assemblages emerge wholes -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry