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
All the #GOP conservatives who have been developing the concept of #unitary #executive - now they are seek rehabilitations and chicken-little-ing - the Alarm against a dictator running to be POTUS
Sort of like Dr Frankenstein - denying his own creation
the abductor -
the abduction -
the abductive reasoning -
of metaphor -
and entailing logics -
of a narrative capture -
of reason's abduction -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
mhm -
mirror-worlds -
uncanny-shadow-twins -
an alchemy -
self-shaping -
in a schismogenesis -
of doppelgangers -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
john verdon
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@johnverdon Don't tell them he's honest. You're trying to get them to give his old job back, not fire him the rest of the way.
@MSNBC please reverse the decision to cancel @mehdirhasan who provides honest journalism
We now have a shared language, or at least a word, for this system — or this organ, or this infrastructure (depending on whom you ask) — that’s been revealed as a fluid-filled superhighway spanning the entire body. It’s called: the interstitium.
https://orionmagazine.org/article/interstitium-scientific-discovery-anatomy/
wonder of -
a denial -
hidden in assumptions -
of instrumental-dominance -
athletic-virtuosity -
and the shadows -
of fear-hate -
of attractors -
in our imaginarium -
of desired -
seductions -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Some rules to avoid mistakes of 2016:
– Ban repeat liars from live interviews
– Never put lie in headline
– Use a truth sandwich to counter lies
– Don’t take the bait (don't reward drama with visibility)
– Abandon the social media algorithm
https://george-lakoff.com/2023/12/01/2024-have-political-journalists-learned-anything-since-2016/
@MSNBC - craven, pathetic,
to #cancel @mehdirhasan
- the cowardly fear those with courage to pursue honest accounts
the fitness landscape -
a conceptual -
brilliance -
and the question -
who does the shaping -
of who -
life builds environments -
as environments shape -
niche-species -
and where does fitness -
come from -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
left to one's own devices -
traditionally understood as -
to allow (someone) -
to do what they -
want or is able to do -
without being controlled -
or helped -
by anyone else -
often expressed as -
be left to one's own -
devices -
to our know-how -
to be human -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
there no possibility -
of a generic -
model of a human society -
without culture -
there is no objective -
assessment of values -
because values are -
what must be used -
to shape -
what we see -
as values -
#micropoem
#cosopoetry
Orwell was an avowed socialist who went so far as to take up arms against fascists in Spain. But the facts never stop certain people from making up their own alternate reality, however disprovable and ridiculous.
Unlike their forebears, contemporary billionaires do not hope to build the biggest house in town, but the biggest colony on the moon, underground lair in New Zealand, or virtual reality server in the cloud.
Scientists' recent discovery of a "new" part of the human body, the interstitium, is an invitation to think differently about our relationship with the world at large
https://orionmagazine.org/article/interstitium-scientific-discovery-anatomy/
embodied learning (embodied cognition) is that learning does not take place exclusively inside our mind, but requires continuous sensory stimulations from different body parts, alongside interactions with the environment around us and the people in it.
https://psyche.co/ideas/lessons-about-learning-from-ancient-greek-philosophers
"AI debate" is stupid, based on foregone conclusion that adding compute power & data to next-word-predictor program will create a conscious & inevitably a superbeing. This is like thinking that breeding faster & faster horses, will create a locomotive
https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/27/10-types-of-people/#taking-up-a-lot-of-space
We would do well to shift our economies from MORE toward BETTER. - MORE is about quantities, BETTER is about qualities. We can invest our efforts and our resources in more durable products, healthier foods, personalized services, properly-funded education
rentalism is what capitalism has become - there's no market only monopolies and oligopolies - And what is so sad -
@Google
has embrace 'let's just do evil'.
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