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pondering -
enacting a fair society -
what sort of -
citizens a fair -
society would generate -
what sort of -
flourishing evolution of niches -
roles-occupations-knowledges -
spectrums of -
self-social literacies -
for citizen fluency -
and know-hows -

we meta-for -
bridging -
para-logidoxes -
meta-for -
interfacing -
logic-entail-meants -
and un-directing -
a-tension-in -
processes of proofing -

a moral framework -
a classification -
of meaning-full-feelings -
to account for -
qualities-of-relating -
with others-in-vironmeants -

reasoning with -
meta-for-logics -
always enacts -
afford-dances -
to-compensate -
inevitable -
godelsque -
para-dox-blind-spots -

the strength of natural selection on individual genes varies significantly from year to year, maintaining variation and enhancing the ability to adapt to future changing environmental conditions by providing raw material for natural selection to act on.

phys.org/news/2024-07-zooplank

The "free markets" of Adam Smith weren't free from regulation, they were free from rents.

pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/fai

societal shift from capitalism (where riches come from profits) to feudalism (where riches come from rents): your rights to your actual property (the physical stuff you own) are trumped by corporations' metaphorical "intellectual property" claims

pluralistic.net/2024/07/29/fai

A centaur is someone whose work is supercharged by automation: a human head atop tireless body of machine

*reverse*-centaur - someone harnessed as peripheral for tireless robot directing work at a robotic pace, until your body and mind are smashed.

pluralistic.net/2022/04/17/rev

and pondering -
doing the baking and -
experiment -
oven-fresh slice -
cut in four -
each with a different -
mouth-feel-taste -
spread butter -
garlic-aioli -
honey -
plain -

that will be-
my project -
for tomorrow -

billionaires backing Trump aren't supporting the racism, national abortion ban, attacks on core human rights, etc. Those are tradeoffs they willing make to get Trump's tax-cuts for ultra-rich, free rein to defraud with cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes

theverge.com/2024/7/24/2420470

natural selection on individual genes varies significantly from year to year, maintaining variation and potentially enhancing the ability to adapt to future changing environmental conditions by providing raw material for natural selection to act on.

phys.org/news/2024-07-zooplank

pondering -
how does -
policy-proposals -
succeed -
in an#mm literate -
political-economy -
account for how -
to resource a proposal -
people-resources-capacities -
in comparison -
to surpluses -
available in each -
domain -
it's good accounting -
of what counts -

and re-cognizing -
the generation -
of news -
through a large-network-sensorium -
who-knows-how-where-
of the sources -
reconciling the accounts -

A new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets would make it 100 million times more difficult for bacteria to evolve resistance,

phys.org/news/2024-07-dual-act

and lost -
the thought -
and what it is -
to approach death -
and age -
and all entail -
meants -
for the first-time -
again -

the living-field -
bio-social-collective -
solutioning-organizing -
constraint-closures -
patterns of allo-homeostasis -
in-formational-computational-fields -
formal-maps -
in-tissue-matter -
sense-make-in -
enviro-meants -
evolution -
as solutioning -
metabolism -

attractor-forms -
patterns-of-organization -
patterns of information -
differences-that-make -
a-difference -
across-ecologies -
of-relations -

and here -
i am -
suddenly -
in-un-certain -
and such -
long-trips -
are best taken-
in-steps -

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