Media: DVD; Book by Joel Bakan
3 Gratitudes
Russell L. Ackoff. In the Circular Organization, a democratic hierarchy, everyone participates directly or indirectly in decisions that affect their work.
Sustainable Human
Women hunt in vast majority of foraging societies, upending old stereotypes
Food for Everyone, Growing Power in an Urban Food Desert - Yes Magazine article and video
Wikipedia: Will Allen (urban farmer)
This illustrated presentation from distinguished historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz is a rare and stunning exception. Pointing to efforts already underway in thousands of communities across the U.S., from co-ops and community land trusts to municipal, state, and federal initiatives that promote entrepreneurship and sustainability, Alperovitz marshals years of research to show how bottom-up strategies can work to check monopolistic corporate power, democratize wealth, and empowered communities. The result is a highly accessible look at the current economy and a common-sense roadmap for building a system more in sync with American values.
Broken link, so see [jacobs-01]
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counteractive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we're not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
See also:
2010-01-03 - Dan Ariely on our buggy moral code 263
So what is motivating these publishers in their desire to strike at the Archive, if not money? One can only guess, but a clue may lie in the recently updated versions of works by writers like Ian Fleming, Agatha Christie, Roald Dahl and P.G. Wodehouse. Unlike hard copies, digital versions are sold to libraries on a licence basis and must be regularly repurchased, allowing publishers to make revisions right across the board and remove earlier editions from circulation altogether.
'In electronic form they can change all books in all libraries all at once and irreversibly without permission,' says Kahle. 'This is dangerous. It is not hypothetical, it is happening.'
What does "Freedom" mean to you?
Work less? Buy less.
FAccT '21, March 3-10, 2021, Virtual Event, Canada Bender and Gebru, et al. This paper resulted in Google firing Timnit Gebru.
Fun
we are seeing the broad and deep emergence of a new, third mode of production in the digitally networked environment. I call this mode “commons-based peer production,” to distinguish it from the property- and contract-based modes of firms and markets. Its central characteristic is that groups of individuals successfully collaborate on large- scale projects following a diverse cluster of motivational drives and social signals, rather than either market prices or managerial commands.{benkler-01}
Amazing!
Compiled from the perspective of Eknath Easwaran of the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation
New research suggests a person's reliance on his or her smartphone predicts greater loneliness and depressive symptoms, as opposed to the other way around.
www.metablast.org
In This Land is Our Land, acclaimed author David Bollier, a leading figure in the global movement to reclaim the commons, bucks the rising tide of anti-government extremism and free market ideology to show how commercial interests are undermining our collective interests.
Really funny magician.
bottomupmind.com is gone. Some can be found in Internet Archive or OpEdNews (using google.com)
Excellent analysis.
the core essential fact about human nature.
We are all inherently delusional.
The more intensely you believe something, the more willingly you should check it out, now and then. Hence we know the only truly effective antidote to delusion that has ever been discovered is...
The criticism of others.
Criticism even—especially— by your enemies.
Oh, that’s not to say you’re doomed always to be wrong! For one thing, science has provided many self-check tools that reduce rates and levels of delusion, applying experimental and experiential honesty to enhance the central catechism that made science so successful. A pair of simple sentences spoken not just by scientists, but by any person with an ounce of decency or maturity.
“I might be wrong. Let’s find out.”
See also: olson-01, olson-02, evans-02, oliver-01
Flat or tall hierarchy? That is the wrong question! The proper question is how are the leaders in the hierarchy selected, from the top or the bottom, and are they evaluated by people at the top or the bottom? See a proper description of democratic corporations at:
Media: DVD
The key to knowledge is relationship — personal relationship. It takes time, maybe years to really know someone, their strengths and weaknesses, their reliability, whether or not we can trust their character — so that we know how to use them to help us in our own struggles. It's the same with books. Parroting something from a book is not the same as knowing the subject.
Knowledge is about trust in the journey we take to learn something. Knowledge may involve things and ideas, but its how they interact that matters.
trust is not the important thing but actually Mistrust is the thing that drives human cooperation. {burgess-07:1h:15m:44s}
That is, we pay attention to what others are doing because we are interested in what they are doing (or it could affect us), but we may not trust what they are doing or how they are doing it.
Papers written with Robin Dunbar: burgess-08, burgess-09
Media: epub. See also: Darwin Among the Machines, by Maria Popova [popova-01]
Part of "A First Year in Canterbury Settlement with Other Early Essays", by Samuel Butler, 1914.
Right on!
Interesting. But what about rocks, bugs, or birds?
Source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/03/15/2236209/new-supercar-technology-does-away-with-windshields
See orginal source paper: sherwood-01. Also see: huber-01.
"When Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism."
"...we are already surrounded by machines that demonstrate a complete lack of insight, we just call them corporations. Corporations don’t operate autonomously, of course, and the humans in charge of them are presumably capable of insight, but capitalism doesn’t reward them for using it. On the contrary, capitalism actively erodes this capacity in people by demanding that they replace their own judgment of what “good” means with “whatever the market decides.”
There are industry observers talking about the need for AIs to have a sense of ethics, and some have proposed that we ensure that any superintelligent AIs we create be “friendly,” meaning that their goals are aligned with human goals. I find these suggestions ironic given that we as a society have failed to teach corporations a sense of ethics, that we did nothing to ensure that Facebook’s and Amazon’s goals were aligned with the public good.
We need for the machines to wake up, not in the sense of computers becoming self-aware, but in the sense of corporations recognizing the consequences of their behavior.
ChatGPT and similar programs are, by design, unlimited in what they can learn" (which is to say, memorize); they are incapable of distinguishing the possible from the impossible.
a number of transaction costs involved in using the market; the cost of obtaining a good or service via the market actually exceeds the price of the good. Other costs, including search and information costs, bargaining costs, keeping trade secrets, and policing and enforcement costs, can all potentially add to the cost of procuring something from another party. This suggests that firms will arise which can internalise the production of goods and services required to deliver a product, thus avoiding these costs.{coase-02}
Talk on Gross National Happiness (King of Bhutan)
See also: [mcalevey-01]
Creators: Jon Cohen; Adam Conover; Jon Wolf
Series Produced by:
Big government moves slow because power is dispersed by design. Government isn't just the Federal government. Focus on local government to have more immediate impact. The US has 4% of world population, and 20% of the worlds prison population. 90% of people are held in state and local prisions. The politician most responsible for those 90% is the local Distric Attorney (the ones who run on being tough on crime). Success story: Reclaim Philadelphia. Formed to elect a progressive DA. Their candidate won twice as much as the incombant. Connect with people's common interests.
So what can we do about our “Ignore more, care less, everything is fine!” era? We need to stop enabling it. This starts by being more attuned to our “everyday ignoring” and “everyday bystanding”—like that pinch we feel when we know we should click through a concerning headline, but instead scroll past it.
We need to work harder to catch ourselves in the act of staying silent or avoiding uncomfortable information and do more real-time course correcting.
We need to guard against lowering our standards for normalcy. When we mentally and emotionally recalibrate to the new normal, we also disassociate from our own humanity.
We need to demand that our leaders give the full truth and hold them to account. We must stand up for the silenced and stand with the silence-breakers.
To counter the new normal’s assault on normalcy, we must double down on our /duty to know,/ to speak up, and to remember.
{cooper-01}
Myth #1 - Education will change behavior. (not quite)
How you present the information is the important part.
Myth #2 - You need to change attitudes to change behavior. (No)
Myth #3 - People know what motivates them to take action
'When it comes to someone fighting for his life on death row or someone longing for the right to die at life's end, America generally goes with the least empathetic option.'
Most-popular TEDxSF
"It roots our fundamental capacity for connection."
A 2020 study in the Journal of Scientific Advances found that, rather than lasting for only an hour, dangerous wet-bulb temperatures could persist for six or more hours by 2060 — killing anyone who can't take cover.
Great sequel to "Little Brother"
Free download of "Little Brother"
But if you like it, buy a copy, ebook or paperback!
by Cory Doctorow. (109 min read) Surveillance capitalism is just capitalism - with surveillance. Here's how to beat it.
This is a great overview of The Dawn of Everything
Luddism and science fiction concern themselves with the same questions: not merely what the technology does, but who it does it for and who it does it to.
DARPA
This is a continuation of his book "You are not a gadget". 448 pages of very unique analysis of culture and economy
kindle edition
In a way, they are in a cult. It's a group of people holding a different belief system and reinforcing it for each other.
It's almost impossible to hold a different belief system from the dominant one by yourself. You naturally seek out other people who echo it back to you, and who can help you elaborate it and explore it. The formation of a new culture is a group process. The word cult and the word culture are obviously related. I would say that the dominant culture could be called a cult. And the word cult means a culture that is separate from the dominant culture, therefore, it is called a cult. What makes a cult toxic—and the dominant culture is toxic—is when there's severe punishment for deviance, when you face ostracism and even retribution if you fail to profess the beliefs that the cult mandates. If you don’t exhibit the behaviors and abide by the taboos and rituals of the cult, you get in big trouble.
This is THE best direction for change that I've seen.
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy of the Iroquois
The Haudenosaunee Confederacy was a model for the U.S. Constitution. Chief ... was a skilled orator, who went to England. He showed how the English system was barbaric compared to the Haudenosaunee Confederacy resolved problems.
"Often described as the oldest, participatory democracy on Earth, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy’s constitution is believed to be a model for the American Constitution."-https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/who-we-are/
The Clan Mothers decide who has the chops to be a leader. They’re the ones who recommend promising young men for chiefhood. The Clan Mothers have the power to remove any chief who behaves in a way that strikes them as unseemly.
If I were a Clan Mother looking for kids with the makings of good chiefs, what would catch my eye? I’d be watching for the kids who break up fights. The kids who are curious and open-minded. Kids who can admit they made a mistake. Kids who are slow to judge and quick to forgive. Kids who are strong but kind. {etchemendy-01}
In the article "300 Years Ago, There Was a Brutal Murder. We Could Learn From the Treaty That Followed" by Nicole Eustace {eustace-01}, Eustance describes how restorative justice was used to resolve a murder that could have lead to more violence. Looking at the comments on the article gives some interesting insights how our culture, based on domination and punishment, interpretes restoritive justice. It sees restoritive justice as just "paying back" the victim, which will be unjust to the poor.
"Read the book before passing judgement that punishment is needed as a deterrent. Indigenous justice was based on victim or survivor’s satisfaction that the remedy of the wrong had been righted. It could include taking a life, property or a acceptance of an apology. It’s designed to restore balance and not lord power of one over another." {eustace-01:comment: Roland Rivard, Wisconsin, 2022-11-30}
This gets to the core part of restorative justice: it tries to restore balance for all people affected by the infraction. This would include the victim, their family, their friends, and the family and friends of the perpetrator. The goal is to try for healing on all sides.
"Two points:
Every society has both wisdom and folly. The Europeans thought they knew everything because their weaponry was most advanced. But there is much to be learned from all cultures."For perpetrators who have access to empathy, reparations and reconciliation work. But for those who have no empathy - serial rapists, serial killers, mob bosses, etc - the only answer is to prevent them from harming any more people." {eustace-01:comment: Lauren Noll, Massachusetts, 2022-11-30}
I agree with this last part: if all parties involved are not willing to follow a restorative justice process, then it would be best to then use the current justice process.
Another talk on algorithmic solutions for gerrymandering. See olson-01, olson-02, oliver-01
At age 16, Carolina Eyck invented a method for reliabably playing the Theremin.
Carolina Eyck | Theremin and Voice
... aggregators such as Amazon.com-as well as proponents of free music file sharing-have created a hive mind mentality emphasizing quantity over quality." Most importantly, creators are NOT rewarded fairly.
Good viewpoint on why internet freedom is so important.
This is the organization that Scott Peck mentioned at the end of his book. Unfortunately, one of the posts, that I came across, said everything "dried up" when Scott stopped touring. Looking at people's comments, it looks like no one has responded since ???.
This is their Facebook page. It looks it has some activity, but very minimal. https://www.facebook.com/Foundation-for-Community-Encouragement-FCE-299512419438
It looks like some of FCE has survived. See: http://movedtospeak.org
Link to a number of interview videos.
"The problem with playing tricks on highly intelligent people is that the time it takes for them to realize what exactly has happened from the moment they see something wrong is too short to provide any pleasure." He said this after a prank he played on Teller (with Teller's desk drawer).
At 5:48 Richard Feynman at Princeton meets great men (Richard learns that great men remember and argue fast) 1 418 261
Patriarchy steals women's voices (at about age 15), and it steals men's hearts (at about age 5)
Cindy Sheehan: We're preaching to the choir, but the choir's not singing.
Related: Jane Fonda: Life's third act - TED video
See also Jonathan Haidt
Why people can't seem to get work done at work.
When asked, where got when you really need to get something done? Most people will answer with:
No one answers with "the office".
The "day" is shredded in to "work moments".
Creative people need long stretches of time to get work done. Duh, this has been measured by many consultants (see Tom DeMarco): it takes 20min to get in a productive "flow" mode. Good metaphor: would you say you slept well if you were woken up once an hour, through the night? Work is like that.
The main problem: Meetings and Manager.
Some things to try:
Even more relevant to our current culture.
2008a-e The Automaton Citizen and Human Rights - pdf
Geeks Beat Jocks as Bar Fight Breaks Out Over Control of the TV
We are living in the scenario he showed in the talk, 5 years ago!
This a kindle book, from original edition 1992. The ISBN is for the paperback book. The ASIN is for an Amazon listing that might match the paperback book.
This is the 2003 paperback edition. The Link is to a 2005 online edition. The AltLink is to my copy of the 2003 to 2004 online edtion. The user/password is: guest/guest
https://moria.whyayh.com/rel/archive/mirror/site/www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/
See also gatto-07. 17a.htm: Three Holes In My Floor
This is a remix that combines a number of separate postings. This is really good overview of what education should be.
John Taylor Gatto: Elite Schooling - Part 2 of 2 (A summary of the books he has written.
by Mean Gene
Description has the parts list.
Also: gururise/directionalspeaker
...from a book called The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase. Adjectives, writes the author, professional stickler Mark Forsyth, "absolutely have to be in this order:
opinion-size-age-shape-color-origin-material-purpose Noun.
So you can have a lovely little old rectangular green French silver whittling knife. But if you mess with that order in the slightest you'll sound like a maniac."
Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces.
Great examples of the errors in the philosophy of "Utility".
American politics, about who has power and who does not. It's from 2014, their conclusion is "The central point that emerges from our research is that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while mass-based interest groups and average citizens have little or no independent influence."
Found with seach for: "Precision Breeding". See Non-GMO Project Certified Also: nongmoshopingguide.com
A good summary of the movement.
NEED TO KNOW | Are we slaves to debt? The history of spending more than we have | PBS - video
https://occupywallst.org/ - (WebCite)
Book: Debt, The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber - (WebCite)
http://www.democracynow.org/shows/2011/9/19 - (Local archive of video)
Part 2/2 - video
Excellent overview of the main points in his book. Funny quote: "Politics is that one domain of human existence in which behavior that would otherwise be psychotic is actually effective."
Saved a local copy of this...
part 2/2 - video
Charlie Rose. 2006?
See also [srslywrong-01]
David Graeber talked about jobs that he says qualify as employment but are pointless and unnecessary. David Graeber was interviewed by Cory Doctorow.
The word is "empathic distress:" hurting for others while feeling unable to help.
Handout prepared by Chris Cowan for Dr. Gaves's presentation in Boston, Mass., May 20, 1981 (PDF photocopy)
Sterling engine, and dynamic mirrors
See also: 2009-05-28 - Conservatives Live In a Different Moral Universe--and here's why it matters
Published on May 17, 2012
Nick Hanauer on His Banned TED Talk & Why the Middle Class are the Job Creators - Published on May 30, 2012 - From the Majority Report, live M-F 12 noon EST and via daily podcast at http://Majority.FM:
Graham Hancock talks about his banned TED talk on the Lifeboat Hour with Mike Ruppert - 2013-17-03 - audio
The War On Consciousness: The Talk That Gave TED Indigestion, By Graham Hancock
JRE: Eddie Huang TED Conference Exposed - Published on Feb 28, 2013 Joe Rogan talks to Eddie Huang about his experience at the TED conference.
Interviewed by Ari Melber
If you really want to make a change you cannot do it as an isolated individual. The super power of our species is not individual genius, it's the ability to cooperate in large numbers.{harari-02:2173s}
Then he added: 50 people will cooperate as part of a community. And they will make much bigger changes than 500 isolated individuals.
History is not the study of the past, it is the study of change.
We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit.
"Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person dot.causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location and that has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media."
See: [roberts-01] "Years ago, when I was a Georgist, I found a research paper that concluded something like 'nothing is profitable if you account for the cost of the degradation of the environment' Like, if you force capitalist enterprises to pay for the damage they cause to the environment, they would have no profit. Which means that their profit is the environmental degradation."
Most-popular TEDxCMU. Good points for anyone working.
Killing mosquito with lasers! All done with consumer electronics.
See also sherwood-01 and cassella-01
Nick Hudson: https://twitter.com/nicklejog
Class notes. "Milgram received much criticism for his experiments, some of which may have been due to the fact that the results had uncomfortable implications. However, it is arguable that Milgram did break several of the British Psychological Society's ethical stated principles:" Consent, Deception, Freedom to withdraw, Protection. "...it is doubtful whether those experiments would be allowed to take place now."
"A handful of other Delaware towns, including Fenwick Island, Henlopen Acres and Dagsboro, already allow corporations to vote, according to Common Cause."
"In 2019, it was revealed that a single property manager who controlled multiple LLCs voted 31 times in a Newark, Delaware, town referendum, an incident that led Newark to amend its rules. And residents in Rehoboth Beach in 2017 beat back a proposal to allow LLCs to vote."
See also: [haidt-01]
Alternate link: Marcin Jakubowski:
20 Machines for DIY Civilization, Open Source Ecology
Watch Open Source Ecology - Founder Marcin Jakubowski discuss the prospects for an open source, do it yourself civilization.
Wow!
What are you good at? What is the work that needs doing? And what brings you joy? Where your answers intersect is where you should put your climate action effort. The important parts are: Implementation and Leaderful.
Interviewer: You asked me what I was so afraid of giving up [to help fight climate change]. I think the answer that I gave you in the moment was cockamamie. The real answer to why I might be reluctant to change behaviors actually has more to do with selfishness.
Johnson: That’s good of you to admit. I think we all want to hold on to our comforts.
Interviewer: Is there an antidote to that kind of thinking?
Johnson: I think the answer is community. We have to be responsible to more than ourselves. We have to feel an obligation to more than our children. It can’t just be a selfish desire to hold on to what we currently have. You can maybe grip tightly onto your comfort in the short term, but the more we resist being part of the collective solution, the less likely that collective solution is to happen. In a sense, you’re echoing a bit of this bunker mentality where we have these megawealthy people who are buying up land in New Zealand and wherever else trying to save themselves. That seems like such a sad way to see the world. Like, do you want to live in a bunker for a year eating canned rations? Is that the life we want to build? Or do we all try to make sure we have a world where there’s enough for everybody, where no one takes too much and we share what we have. I’d rather share.
{johnson-09}
See image: ManagingACommons.jpg
"The Wave" is based on the real experience of a classs at Cubberley High School in Palo Alto, CA, in April 1967. History teacher Ron Jones attempted to tteach his pupils the realities of fascism by encouraging them to form a kind of classroom Hitler Youth.
Briggs writes: The games were, themselves, models of conflict management through play. And when children learned to recognize the playful in particular dramas, people stopped playing those games with them. They stopped tormenting them. The children had learned to keep their own relationships smoother—to keep out of trouble, so to speak— and in doing so, they had learned to do their part in smoothing the relationships of others.{junk-01}
We have ordered one! The store: http://printrbot.com/
Lisa Harouni: A primer on 3D printing - video
Book: "Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How it Changes Us"
"But we are being failed by the society we built. We cannot expect our dominant institutions to lead us to the transformation on which a viable human future depends"
ReleaseDate: 2003-08-01 [EBook #4341]
Media: DVD
See also: wikipedia-48. According to the theory, the tightest circle has just five people – loved ones. That’s followed by successive layers of 15 (good friends), 50 (friends), 150 (meaningful contacts), 500 (acquaintances) and 1500 (people you can recognise). People migrate in and out of these layers, but the idea is that space has to be carved out for any new entrants.
This is a continuation of his book "You are not a gadget". 448 pages
The Internet mistake of "give it away for free, and you will be rewarded"
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto, by Jaron Lanier
Read the book's Editorial Review section for a good Q&A with Jaron, that summarizes his initial points.
What they are doing is basic bio-feedback.
People who were happy with their live knew these 5 things:
Make other people happy, and taken care of, then you will be taken care of too.
This is a great example of how the conservitives think and how liberals would probably agree. See: 2009-07-04 - TED: Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives
"I don't care who does the electing, as long as I get to to the nominating."--"Boss" Tweed
Solutions:
True representation does not happen, ever, until equal representation is addressed first.
Also by Larry Lessig (Aug 10, 2017): How the Net destroyed democracy | Lawrence Lessig | TEDxBerlinSalon Mainly the talk is about the change in media control. It gets really interesting around 15 min.
"RING OF POWER, 27th of December 2014" to "RING OF POWER, 21st of February 2015"
Zappos.com
see also:
For Socrates, being a good person came first; being a good citizen was a poor second. As a matter of personal integrity, he made Athenians choose between their love of freedom and their love of community—and, in the end, they chose community.
Some quotes:
Empathy is not really possible in a hierarchy system--Riane Eisler
We institutionalize ignorance, then we go to war--Deepac Chopra
Domination - generates fear--Riane Eisler
Respect, in a hierarchy, is based on fear, [not admiration]. [paraphrase]--Riane Eisler
The meaning of life is not important. It is important to have an experience of the depth of life.--Joseph Campbell
Stop looking for the right person, become the right person.---Deepac Chopra
"As economic crisis paralyzes Western economies, an ideology of personal responsibility has come to the fore. Conservatives seize on flaws in self-control as a way of evading questioning the economic system. The Left, too, blames “greedy banks” in preference to systemic explanations."
Describes more about who disobeyed. What are the ingredients?
It all started in 1995 when Liu filmed the Loess-plateau in China. He witnessed a local population who turned an area of almost the same size as The Netherlands from a dry, exhausted wasteland into one green oasis. This experience changed his life. From that moment on, Liu has been travelling all over the world to convince and inspire government leaders, policy-makers and farmers with his film material and knowledge. Liu diligently spreads the message that restoration of ecosystems is not only possible, but also economically very meaningful. Backlight accompanies Liu on his mission in Jordan and shows on the basis of Liu’s own film material that a green future is possible worldwide.{liu-02}
This one has some for the same techniques: 5 techniques to speak any language: Sid Efromovich at TEDxUpperEastSide
Audio version: https://ianmack.substack.com/p/the-wild-edge-of-emergence-essay
Date: 2024-09-02
"I offer the wisdom of the African ancestors so that Westerners might find the deep healing they seek." - View Malidoma's Calendar
Mind blowing: Part One of an interview with Malidoma, conducted by Leslee Goodman in 2010
Malidoma Somé Interview Part 1 of 6 - video
VISIONS: Malidoma Some - Article, by D. Patrick Miller, Mother Jones, March/April 1995 Issue
yes! look at the big picture
The idea that we are "stewards of the earth" is another symptom of human arrogance. Imagine yourself with the task of overseeing your body's physical processes. Do you understand the way it works well enough to keep all its systems in operation? Can you make your kidneys function? Can you control the removal of waste? Are you conscious of the blood flow through your arteries, or the fact that you are losing a hundred thousand skin cells a minute?--Lynn Margulis{margulis-02}
Life is a planetary-level phenomenon and Earth’s surface as been alive for at least 3,000 million years. To me, the human move to take responsibility for the living Earth is laughable—the rhetoric of the powerless. The planet takes care of us, not we of it. Our self-inflated moral imperative to guide a wayward Earth or heal our sick planet is evidence of our immense capacity for self-delusion. Rather, we need to protect us from ourselves.{margulis-02:loc1571}
We people are just like our planetmates. We cannot put an end to nature; we can only pose a threat to ourselves. The notion that we can destroy all life, including bacteria thriving in the water tanks of nuclear power plants or boiling hot vents, is ludicrous. I hear our nonhuman brethren snickering: “Got along without you before I met you, gonna get along without you now,” they sing about us in harmony. Most of them, the microbes, the whales, the insects, the seed plants, and the birds, are still singing. The tropical forest trees are humming to themselves, waiting for us to finish our arrogant logging so they can get back to their business of growth as usual. And they will continue their cacophonies and harmonies long after we are gone.{margulis-02:loc1776}
See also [conover-02]
See also: [newcomb-01]
This is a great article, showing why we need to act sooner not later: Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now
by Angela Volkov. An open letter to humanity on getting its collective act together. Funny.
by Lauren Martinchek. If our lawmakers won't look out for us, it's time to take matters in to our own hands.
This is my own recording and edit of this talk.
Tamera - Benjamin von Mendelssohn - Part 2 of 2
"The Sacred Matrix: From the Matrix of Violence to the Matrix of Life, The Foundation for a New Civilization" - Book by Dieter Duhm. This book gives a pretty complete overview of the group's vision.
Tamera's main web site - web site
Tamera's youtube channel - Grace Media - videos
Tiny ships all the way up to Ring World
Other size comparisions: MetaBallStudios
Violence as a dichotomy, with the only choices being Violence or Non-violence, is not a very useful basis for political discussion, unless you want to confuse people.
"There once was a farmer who grew excellent quality corn. Every year he won the award for the best grown corn. One year a newspaper reporter interviewed him and learned something interesting about how he grew it. The reporter discovered that the farmer shared his seed corn with his neighbors. “How can you afford to share your best seed corn with your neighbors when they are entering corn in competition with yours each year?” the reporter asked.
“Why sir,” said the farmer, “Didn’t you know? The wind picks up pollen from the ripening corn and swirls it from field to field. If my neighbors grow inferior corn, cross-pollination will steadily degrade the quality of my corn. If I am to grow good corn, I must help my neighbors grow good corn.”
So it is with our lives. Those who want to live meaningfully, healthy, and well must help enrich the lives of others, for the value of a life is measured by the lives it touches. And those who choose to be happy must help others find happiness, for the welfare of each is bound up with the welfare of all.
Call it power of collectivity...
Call it a principle of success...
Call it a law of life.
The fact is, none of us truly wins, until we all win!!"
{michaels-03}
when many of these [early] civilizations failed, everyone scattered in order to survive elsewhere. There is now nowhere left to scatter to, so we are forced to deal with these predicaments on nature's terms, not ours.{michaels-04}
C. P. Snow, in 1961, pointed to its importance when he wrote:
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. If you doubt that, read William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. The German Officer Corps were brought up in the most rigorous code of obedience ... in the name of obedience they were party to, and assisted in, the most wicked large-scale actions in the history of the world.
The Nazi extermination of European Jews is the most extreme instance of abhorrent immoral acts carried out by thousands of people in the name of obedience. Yet in lesser degree this type of thing is constantly recurring: ordinary citizens are ordered to destroy other people, and they do so because they consider it their duty to obey orders. Thus, obedience to authority, long praised as a virtue, takes on a new aspect when it serves a malevolent cause; far from appearing as a virtue, it is transformed into a heinous sin.
Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20297701
AltLink: https://moria.whyayh.com/rel/archive/book/non-fiction/Milgram-DilemmaObedience-1974.pdf
AltLink: https://moria.whyayh.com/rel/archive/book/non-fiction/Milgram-DilemmaObedience-1974.html
AltLink: https://archive.ph/T9FDc
Converted with: https://cloudconvert.com/pdf-to-html
This is a simple mindmap tool. Storyboards, assign "measurements", attach text boxes, publish and share, save pdf, save to your dropbox. It could be adapted to create quick DFD diagrams, because the levels can be collapsed, and the test attachments allow for pseudo code descriptions.
Related: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/opinion/the-left-purity-politics.html?showTranscript=1 The Left is Eating Itself
My problem with this libertarian view (From "The ecstasy of influence", below at 2012-04-10): "The power of a gift economy remains difficult for the empiricists of our market culture to understand. In our times, the rhetoric of the market presumes that everything should be and can be appropriately bought, sold, and owned--a tide of alienation lapping daily at the dwindling redoubt of the unalienable. In free-market theory, an intervention to halt propertization is considered "paternalistic," because it inhibits the free action of the citizen, now reposited as a "potential entrepreneur." Of course, in the real world, we know that child-rearing, family life, education, socialization, sexuality, political life, and many other basic human activities require insulation from market forces. In fact, paying for many of these things can ruin them.
There are fewer than a dozen quiet places left in the United States. Even in our wilderness areas and national parks, the average noise-free interval has shrunk to less than five minutes during daylight hours."
"Silence is not the absence of something, but the presence of everything."
Related: Bernie Krause: The voice of the natural world - video
https://www.thesolarnerd.com/blog/planet-of-the-humans-debunked/
This is a typical enviro-angst show. Doom and glum with no reasonable solutions or a root cause. They only gave a glimpse of a root cause at 49:34 (https://youtu.be/Zk11vI-7czE?t=2974) our culture's denial of death.
It's easier to fool the masses than to convince them that they are being fooled. -Mark Twain
So rather than focusing on the problem, how about solutions? For some examples, check out Charles Eisenstein at https://charleseisenstein.org/
"...the issue is not whether our current civilization is sustainable. Do we even want to sustain it? Can't we do better than this?"
Or dig even deeper with: Tamera at https://www.tamera.org/ We need to stop this "war" on the "other"; we are part of nature, and need to see how to be a lot more cooperative.
Extra chapter added to Sicko. Comment: @TwinTn: Just to clear something up: Bastøy is not a normal prison sentence, it is a rehabilitation program at the end of a long sentence. Murderers and rapists are not normally sent directly to bastøy. They may serve several years in a closed prison, and if they behave and pose little threat, they may finish their sentence at Bastøy. The maximum prison sentence in Norway is indeed 21 years, but if an inmate poses a serious threat to society, he can be held indefinitely (eg. life). To summarize: The Norwegian prison system does not release inmates according to when society is ready to take them back, but when the inmates are ready to be a part of society again.
Really excellent points. I think most of this can be used as a starting point by any New Culture type companies. It is better than the Democratic Corporation concept that I've read.
Complexity makes jobs very stressful and unproductive for everyone.
Simple rules for Smart Simplicity
The real battle is not against our competitors, it is against our own bureaucracies.
See also [mcneil-01]
Focused sound.
Wow the lack of U.S. government inaction for Covid-19 is criminal!
Author Max Brooks became an expert on disaster preparedness - from pandemics to nuclear war - through researching for his books, "World War Z," "Germ Warfare" and the forthcoming "Devolution." He spoke with Terry Gross about how the federal government is designed to respond to crises like COVID-19 - and what is preventing the tasks forces from being deployed. He will also explain why "panic is not preparation," and how to have good "fact-hygiene."
Go home! - Mel Brooks and son Max share a comedic PSA on the coronavirus.
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A quote from him: "I've been buying and selling things for 10 years now. There's been hot product after hot product. But the thing is, there's always another one on the shelf," he said. "When we did this trip, I had no idea that these stores wouldn't be able to get replenished."
I think this is a very good summary of his misjudgment: Comment - on this post: he has 17700 bottles of hand sanitizer and nowhere to sell them
Stake & prune your beefsteaks
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - Several college students in an Alabama city organized "COVID-19" parties as a contest to see who would get the virus first, officials said.
Release Engineers != Developers
Single Track
Project branches
To support project branches: use the exact same servers and processes to build any branch.
It improves the survival of the community.
"When words are spelled the same and sound the same but have different meanings, then they are called homonyms. When they are just spelled the same but sound different and have different meanings, then they are homographs."
"Homographs may be pronounced the same (homophones), or they may be pronounced differently (heteronyms, also known as heterophones)."
bat, compact, desert, fair, lie, lead, minute, refuse, project, second, fine, entrance, clip, overlook, consult, row, discount, wind, contract, object,
Also: read, tear, content
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs
Another good rant
John Oliver discusses how the histories of policing and white supremacy are intertwined, the roadblocks to fixing things, and some potential paths forward.
Great rant! He ends with viral video by Kimberly Jones.
Here Trevor Noah interviews Kimberly Jones on June 19: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1k9APedIUY][Kimberly Jones - Speaking Out About Black Experiences in America | The Daily Social Distancing Show]]
Gerrymandering solution.
Here's a link to Brian's site that shows how federal and state districts are drawn with his algorithm. Don't like his algorithm? His suggestion is that any group tasked with redistricting needs to use algorithms that are reviewable by the public so that "special" biases can be identified. Have maybe 5 different algorithms define 5 district maps, then have the state or federal legislators vote on the ones that will be used for the next 10 years, i.e. until the next census. Impartial Automatic Redistricting
Another good rant by John Oliver (Apr 9, 2017): Gerrymandering: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
Here's another talk on algorithmic solutions: Data Science Can Solve Gerrymandering | Frank Evans | TEDxUCO evans-02
Gerrymandering solution: use algorithms. See also: olson-01, evans-02, oliver-01, brin-02
by Colin Horgan. Why shutting down Twitter accounts or limiting Facebook groups won't solve our problem.
My comments: Could a "voting" system such as stackoverflow.com help? Also signed text with authenticated key will probably be needed.
Like others, Food Not Bombs (FNB) volunteers have been bogusly called terrorists. Some have been arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned. Internal government documents suggest high-level concern that they're turning Americans away from militarism, instead advocating social justice, including quality education, universal health care, and good living wage/essential benefits jobs - the direct opposite of current US policy under either dominant party, each like the other, only pretending to be different.
As a result, FNB urges volunteers to stay focused, wary that infiltrators spread fear and disrupt constitutionally protected activities. Especially post-9/11, advocating peace and social justice are now crimes, engaged activists potentially facing charges of domestic terrorism and long imprisonment for supporting right over wrong. The reality of today's America is much different than its pretense, making it unsafe for anti-war, social justice advocates like FNB volunteers.
For the version see https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Question: Is there an alternative to top-down government or free market solutions?
Elinor Ostrom: Yeah. This is the, this concept of polycentricity of enabling both market and governments at multiple scales to interact with community organization so that we have a complex nested system. and it ain't pretty in the sense that it's nice and neat and many people have tried to get rid of creative solutions that are complex, but society is complex, people are complex. And for us to have simple solutions to complex problems, not a good idea.
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King wrote in his 1958 book Stride Toward Freedom that Parks's arrest was the catalyst rather than the cause of the protest: "The cause lay deep in the record of similar injustices."[55]: 437 He wrote, "Actually, no one can understand the action of Mrs. Parks unless he realizes that eventually the cup of endurance runs over, and the human personality cries out, 'I can take it no longer.'"
Paleontologist Kirk Johnson explores the dynamic history-and future-of ice at the poles.
I grep'ed through the full transcript. There is no mention of the Gaia Theory. The climate descriptions are all a result of inorganic processes. Disappointing. However the photography is stunning."
In long-term relationships, we often expect our beloved to be both best friend and erotic partner.
So we come to one person, and we basically are asking them to give us what once an entire village used to provide. Give me belonging, give me identity, give me continuity, but give me transcendence and mystery and awe all in one. Give me comfort, give me edge. Give me novelty, give me familiarity. Give me predictability, give me surprise. And we think it's a given, and toys and lingerie are going to save us with that.
So if there is a verb, for me, that comes with love, it's "to have." And if there is a verb that comes with desire, it is "to want." In love, we want to have, we want to know the beloved. We want to minimize the distance. We want to contract that gap. We want to neutralize the tensions. We want closeness. But in desire, we tend to not really want to go back to the places we've already gone. Forgone conclusion does not keep our interest. In desire, we want an Other, somebody on the other side that we can go visit, that we can go spend some time with, that we can go see what goes on in their red-light district. You know? In desire, we want a bridge to cross. Or in other words, I sometimes say, fire needs air. Desire needs space. And when it's said like that, it's often quite abstract.
Book: Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, by Esther Perel
Beautiful
Balloonist view of life. Pushed through life by consistent winds. Change your altitude, drop ballast or let out air, to find new winds, new paths.
Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. "Carrot/stick" rewards/punishments work for mechanical tasks, but fail completely for mental cognitive tasks. Yet businesses ignore this, tested fact.
Fascinating.
TED: Steven Pinker: Chalks It Up To The Blank Slate
by Grant Piper
A mysterious apocalypse brought down nearly all of human civilization three thousand years ago
See also: Erewhon, or, Over the Range, by Samuel Butler
Delayed Gratification
More: WillPotter.com/CMU - notes
The solution is transparency.
Issues 1 to 854:
But is where is a complete archive of all these newsletters?
This was taken around noon Wed 2020-09-09 at Redwood City, CA.
The air quality was "Moderate" (64) because the smoke is luckily trapped above an inversion layer. The temperature is only 66F because the sun is blocked so much. It was 105F on Monday.
What is the PGP Web of Trust Strongset?
https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/80629/what-is-the-pgp-web-of-trust-strongset
The web of trust is no longer active. It was removed in GPG version 2.2.17.
June 2016 the keyserver network was attacked in a way that fundamentally broke the whole thing. See: "SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack"
https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f
Dr. Lissa Rankin: Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof You Can Heal Yourself, Talks at Google - A longer talk given at Google. - 54min
Book: Mind Over Medicine, by Lissa Rankin
Site: HealHealthCareNow.com
Site: OwningPink.com
A 5 day summit, 8am to 3pm each day.
Private access: https://moria.whyayh.com/rel/archive/video/ThirdParty/a-cry-from-the-future/
Related: see reculture-02
Cite example: Summit: A Cry From the Future, Speaker: Jamie Wheal{reculture-01}
Community Classrooms.
Welcome to Re/Culture Education
The Forbidden Fruit: Eros / Love / Community
A Cry From the Future - Full Replay
Learnings from Tamera: Community and Culture
Re/Culture LIVE
The Opening with Jon Marro
[the] fluid-filled spaces had been missed for decades because they don’t show up on the standard microscopic slides [because the] fixing process drains away fluid and causes the newfound fluid-filled spaces to collapse.
the researchers discovered these fluid-filled spaces by using a new imaging technique that allows them to examine living tissues on a microscopic level.
The new process freezes the samples before the slicing process. Also the fluid-filled spaces collapse soon after deaths, so they won't be seen with cadaver studies.
"Trade" and idea transfer is the substrate for patterns...
cute, but it's only a start
"A sobering new study finds that the world's biggest industries burn through $7.3 trillion worth of free natural capital a year. And it's the only reason they turn a profit." Found because of comment by [hawks-01] on video [chapman-02].
All good:
Jeanne Robertson "Don't Get Frisky in a tent!" ("Don't sleep in a tent with Left Brain!")
Jeanne Robertson "Don't send a man to the grocery store!"
Jeanne Robertson "Flight attendant deals with a bad potato"
Jeanne Robertson "Mothers vs Teenage Daughters"
Jeanne Robertson "Don't go rafting without a Baptist in the boat!"
Jeanne Robertson at the Grand Ole Opry
Jeanne Robertson "The Golfer's Christening"
by Travis Rodgers
Answer: Time (duh)
Sad.
US incarceration rate from 1925 to 1975 was quite "stable", 100 per 100,000. After 1975 it rapidly climbs to 700 per 100,000 (over the last 40 years). The U.S. is 7 to 10 times higher than in European countries.
Crime moves in sync with, better policing, better social conditions, not incarceration.
He highlights German prisons. What a sane system!
Article 1 of the German Constitution: "Human dignity shall be inviolable. To respect and protect it shall be the duty of all state authority."
He went to Germany to "learn". How does a society go from such inhumanity to being humane?
Quote from Fyodor Dostoevsky: "The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
Excellent.
Image is powerful
Image is superficial
Donald Trump's approval rating has not move below 40 to 42%.
...the past few years have shown us is that the already difficult task of admitting you are wrong is even harder for conservatives, because it will also require recognizing the unthinkable possibility that liberals were right.
Compact animal herds are the key, with rotation.
Good, but probably too late
by Tom Scott
I'll bet this is still possible. Wow!
This is really important! A 30 year success story--this is not just a vision of what could be: it is a reality. Democratic companies: take vacation when you want, set your own salary, interviewed and hired by peers, leaders evaluated by subordinates every 6 months, etc. Education that is inline with what John Gatto talks about: no grades, no age grouping, flexible hours, no breaking up the day with multiple subjects, etc.
Very wise. Rather than "write what you know", "write what you feel".
Dangerous because it is stupid.
Videos "banned" from TED
Banned TED talk: Dr. Rupert Sheldrake - blog.ted.com, video
02/04/2013 - Dr. Rupert Sheldrake talks about his banned TED talk on Skeptiko with Alex Tsakiris - audio
The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence - video
Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013 - "Science Set Free" (Part 1) - video
Rupert Sheldrake at EU 2013 - "Science Set Free" (Part 2) - video
Science Set Free: 10 Paths to New Discovery - Book
Morphic Resonance: The Nature of Formative Causation - Book
He describes some very real problems with wind and solar. So, go nuclear. Well, there are safer and cleaner nuclear designs. But of course he doesn't address those. The issue of long-term storage of spent fuel was not addressed. The issue of meltdowns, with "active" fail-safes, in the current designs were not addressed. ("Passive" fail-safe designs are way more reliable.)
Also, in his descriptions of the problems with "renewable", he only talked about "centralize" renewables, i.e. large scale projects; he quickly brushed aside decentralized options as being more expensive. He also characterized lots of smaller renewable plants as being more fragile. Huh?! He truly does not understand redundancy in providing fault-tolerant systems.
Others pointed out, he didn't really address other storage options that are being developed. For example, liquid air.
See also cassella-01 and huber-01.
Book: Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations, by Clay Shirky.
Interview by Rob Kall, Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast
Another video banned by TED. Wow, really shocking, but strangely honest.
BANNED TEDx TALKS: Real Truth, Science, Consciousness, etc.
by Thomas Smith. And what it says about the problems with trusting your smartphone camera.
Good points. His used of Institution is equivalent to the Powers. How much a power limits an individual is certainly a valid point, and it would be part of evaluating the Institution for "evil."
Outline:
Play list with more details: How to enjoy the end of the world.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNcGo6a-yKuIubvDb6mIyd0KHQ-7UasJH
https://bsidneysmith.com/ - home website
See also [graeber-11]
Example: more density will reduce energy needs more than just changing to renewable energies. What we really want is "access" to what we want. Share more.
Fiat money, Tally Stick, Gold backed $, debt money from banks vs gov. issued money. History of money in the world and the US.
The video has been removed, but you can still buy the DVD (or google for other sources, it is 101 min long). It is really worth it! Buy it here. ($19.95 for 1, $60 for 5)
Populist Party Platform (1892)
"As Elinor Ostrom proved, the tragedy of the commons isn't that a commons is always exploited, but quite the opposite: an open-access resource will be exploited unless it is managed as a commons. We see the same misunderstanding of the climate commons. The climate is clearly a global common good, a foundational good critical to our survival. However, the climate has become a crisis because it is treated as the ultimate global open-access resource: why will the UK reduce our emissions if China won't."
Direct Democracy - video. This is a very good summary of a more humane society
Anarchists in the 1936 Spanish Civil War - The Catalonia experiment - video
Source: OWS New Year's Eve Festivities - comments - see user: struggleforfreedom80 (saved)
Got this reference from David French's article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/20/opinion/michigan-diversity-equity-inclusion.html
From above article: "the more ideologically or theologically “pure” an institution becomes, the more wrong it is likely to be, especially if it takes on a difficult or complex task."
In brief, group polarization arises when members of a deliberating group move toward a more extreme point in whatever direction is indicated by the members’ predeliberation tendency.{sunstein-01}
"That we have found the tendency to conformity in our society so strong that reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern."(32){sunstein-01}
(32) - See the overview in Solomon Asch, Opinions and Social Pressure, in Readings About the Social Animal 13 (Elliott Aronson ed. 1995).
See also: Dr. David Suzuki - Message to The Worldfrom Occupy Vancouver - 25min
Another source: https://www.sustainable.soltechdesigns.com/a-planet-for-the-taking.html
Books:
For a New Generation on Planet Earth
Tamera's Home page
We're building a movement of people across the United States to reclaim our future by initiating an emergency-speed, whole-society Climate Mobilization, reversing global warming and restoring a safe climate.
The second potential danger is more troubling: in a world where the past haunts the present, young people may calcify their identities, perspectives, and political positions at an increasingly young age.
In 2017, Harvard University rescinded admission offers to 10 students after discovering that they had shared offensive memes in a private Facebook chat. In 2019, the university withdrew another offer-to Kyle Kashuv, an outspoken conservative survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. In Kashuv's case, it wasn't a social-media post that caused the trouble, and it wasn't an adult who exposed him. Back in 10th grade, Kashuv had repeatedly used the N-word in a shared Google document created for a class assignment. When Harvard accepted him, his peers recovered the document and shared it with the media.
There are reasons to applaud Harvard for refusing to take these students. Such decisions offer hope that future generations will be held accountable for racist, sexist, and homophobic behavior. This is a step in the right direction. But there is a flip side.
When Kashuv discovered he had lost his place at Harvard, he did what any digital native would do-he shared his reaction online. On Twitter, he wrote, "Throughout its history, Harvard's faculty has included slave owners, segregationists, bigots and antisemites. If Harvard is suggesting that growth isn't possible and that our past defines our future, then Harvard is an inherently racist institution."
Personalization - leads a "filter bubble" which can isolate you from the world, and you do not get to choose the filter.
Great points!
Wow, this is powerful! This took them years. Again, time is needed for humane solutions.
The Q&A section is worth reading too. (link at bottom of page)
This is even simpler than MindUp. Just enter a text outline and it draws a very nice flowing drawing. This is good for really quick mindmaps.
An alternative to the Big Bang. Creation "stories" matter.
Community and the Unquantifiable
Home: 2021-10-19: https://archive.ph/3NxNL
2023: Duration: 37 parts, 14 hours
The TROM documentary is trying to present, in a simplistic way, the world in which we, human beings, live. We try to present the world that was discovered so far through the lenses of science: from the evolution of everything (including us) to the monetary system (the game we currently play), to a different kind of world that we could build for the benefit of us all, then back to Earth.
We are trying to present alternative solutions to current problems and take into account the future, which promises to be more than interesting. An informative documentary, perhaps shocking and disturbing to many, depending on how you digest the information. The documentary is divided into chapters and sub-chapters due to the documentary’s excessive length (14 hours) and all the parts are connected so we recommend that you see them in order.
2023: Duration: 4 parts, 5 hours
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!
A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
The first light bulbs had a life of 2,500 hours, the consortium of manufacturers fined members who did went over the mandated 1,000 ours for household bulbs. Inventors have created bulb with lives of over 100,000 hours. Inkjet printers stop working when they reach a limit on their cleaning cycle, because the absorbing sponge could not take any more. Buy a new printer is the only option. The first nylon stockings were very robust, but they had to be redesign to be more fragile. Designers are taught how to understand and meet the business goals of a product's "life cycle".
Personally I see it all the time in software creation. Making and using robust software libraries and languages is not supported--the assertion is that defect free software is impossible. Well too expensive, for the expected life of the software product, is the real reason when engineer's press the issue. Defective software is good, because you can sell fixes, if new features can't be convincing enough.
A bit at the end: getting off the "growth cycle". There can be jobs in repair and in closing the loop to eliminate waste.
by Zeynep Tufekci in The Atlantic
It is not average transmition rate. It's the clusters.
Book: [[http://www.amazon.com/dp/0451234197/
You can change people's brains.
Look at the brain, don't just treat symptoms.
Repair damage.
TurboTax and other tax prepares hide their free sites.
If you have Netflix, see Patriot Act: Volume 6, Why Doing Taxes Is So Hard
The idea of harvesting energy from graphene is controversial because it refutes physicist Richard Feynman's well-known assertion that the thermal motion of atoms, known as Brownian motion, cannot do work.
According to Kumar, the graphene and circuit share a symbiotic relationship. Though the thermal environment is performing work on the load resistor, the graphene and circuit are at the same temperature and heat does not flow between the two.
"This means that the second law of thermodynamics is not violated, nor is there any need to argue that 'Maxwell's Demon' is separating hot and cold electrons," Thibado said.
First Aired: 3/14/2011, 58 minutes
Bill Moyers examines the deteriorating and increasingly corrupt state of affairs that our government has devolved into and the accompanying divisiveness sweeping the country. Is there hope for things to improve? For the first time in his life, Moyers isn't optimistic.
Arthur Schopenhauer - philosopher
Recommended books:
Description: All across the internet, people are declaring modern life "empty" or "meaningless". This has been shouted from across the entire political spectrum, which makes me think there is some good philosophy to be had. So today we will look at Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Ritual, where he charts the slow decline of rituals in our societies, and the disastrous impact this has on our feeling of meaning in our lives.
See ~/Document/unsolicited.org
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08KH9DDJ7 2020 99 pages
Book: The Burnout Society https://www.amazon.com/dp/B012IEEJVQ/ 2010 70 pages
Why do we all hate work so much? And why does it seem to have only got worse in the modern era? Well, according to philosopher Byung-Chul Han, our psychological attitude towards work and productivity has fundamentally shifted in a disastrous direction for our mental health, our happiness, and our long-term fulfilment.
...her research on policing shouldn't be forgotten: It shows that, when it comes to safer communities, having more funding or larger services is not important. What's important is the connections and trust between the community and the service provider.
Cloud companies are ending Capatilism. Capatilism is being replaced with Technofeudalism. Rich people and companies will buy up things, IP, and distribution platforms. Then things can be "rented" but never owned.
Luck plays the biggest part.
Longer life:
To counter this decline, we can activate the body's own defenses against aging by stressing the body. Eat less, eat less protein, engage in intense exercise, experience uncomfortable cold [or hot]. When the body senses existential threats it triggers longevity genes, which attempt to maintain the body to ensure its survival until good times return.
Scientists are uncovering ways to mimic stresses on the body without the discomfort of fasting. Molecules like NMN also trigger sirtuins to monitor and repair the epigenome. This may slow aging.
by Veritasium
Watch Time (currently an average of 10 min is best)
Title and Thumbnail are key - it affects CTR, click threw rate
This is a continuation of the 1950's Utopian view, that technology will lead us all to greater leisure, higher lifestyle, and the best use of resources (50 years later, that sure didn't happen). The fundamental problem: how to make sure everyone only uses their fair share.
The elite's wet dream.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/Ken-Kramers-About-San-Diego.html%20target=
BALLE - Business Alliance for Local Living Economies
George Washington wrote out a copy of the 110 Rules of Civility in his school book when he was about 14-years old.
- Rule No. 1 - Every Action done in Company, ought to be with Some Sign of Respect, to those that are Present.
- Rule No. 2 - When in Company, put not your Hands to any Part of the Body, not usualy Discovered.
- Rule No. 3 - Shew Nothing to your Friend that may affright him.
- Rule No. 4 - In the Presence of Others Sing not to yourself with a humming Noise, nor Drum with your Fingers or Feet.
- Rule No. 5 - If You Cough, Sneeze, Sigh, or Yawn, do it not Loud but Privately; and Speak not in your Yawning, but put Your handkercheif or Hand before your face and turn aside.
- Rule No. 6 - Sleep not when others Speak, Sit not when others stand, Speak not when you Should hold your Peace, walk not on when others Stop.
- Rule No. 7 - Put not off your Cloths in the presence of Others, nor go out your Chamber half Drest.
- Rule No. 8 - At Play and at Fire its Good manners to Give Place to the last Commer, and affect not to Speak Louder than Ordinary.
- Rule No. 9 - Spit not in the Fire, nor Stoop low before it neither Put your Hands into the Flames to warm them, nor Set your Feet upon the Fire especially if there be meat before it.
- Rule No. 10 - When you Sit down, Keep your Feet firm and Even, without putting one on the other or Crossing them.
- Rule No. 11 - Shift not yourself in the Sight of others nor Gnaw your nails.
- Rule No. 12 - Shake not the head, Feet, or Legs rowl not the Eys lift not one eyebrow higher than the other wry not the mouth, and bedew no mans face with your Spittle, by appr[oaching too nea]r him [when] you Speak.
- Rule No. 13 - Kill no Vermin as Fleas, lice ticks &c in the Sight of Others, if you See any filth or thick Spittle put your foot Dexteriously upon it if it be upon the Cloths of your Companions, Put it off privately, and if it be upon your own Cloths return Thanks to him who puts it off.
- Rule No. 14 - Turn not your Back to others especially in Speaking, Jog not the Table or Desk on which Another reads or writes, lean not upon any one.
- Rule No. 15 - Keep your Nails clean and Short, also your Hands and Teeth Clean yet without Shewing any great Concern for them.
- Rule No. 16 - Do not Puff up the Cheeks, Loll not out the tongue rub the Hands, or beard, thrust out the lips, or bite them or keep the Lips too open or too Close.
- Rule No. 17 - Be no Flatterer, neither Play with any that delights not to be Play'd Withal.
- Rule No. 18 - Read no Letters, Books, or Papers in Company but when there is a Necessity for the doing of it you must ask leave: come not near the Books or Writings of Another so as to read them unless desired or give your opinion of them unask'd also look not nigh when another is writing a Letter.
- Rule No. 19 - Let your Countenance be pleasant but in Serious Matters Somewhat grave.
- Rule No. 20 - The Gestures of the Body must be Suited to the discourse you are upon.
- Rule No. 21 - Reproach none for the Infirmaties of Nature, nor Delight to Put them that have in mind thereof.
- Rule No. 22 - Shew not yourself glad at the Misfortune of another though he were your enemy.
- Rule No. 23 - When you see a Crime punished, you may be inwardly Pleased; but always shew Pity to the Suffering Offender.
- Rule No. 24 - Do not laugh too loud or too much at any Publick [Spectacle].
- Rule No. 25 - Superfluous Complements and all Affectation of Ceremonie are to be avoided, yet where due they are not to be Neglected.
- Rule No. 26 - In Pulling off your Hat to Persons of Distinction, as Noblemen, Justices, Churchmen &c make a Reverence, bowing more or less according to the Custom of the Better Bred, and Quality of the Person. Amongst your equals expect not always that they Should begin with you first, but to Pull off the Hat when there is no need is Affectation, in the Manner of Saluting and resaluting in words keep to the most usual Custom.
- Rule No. 27 - Tis ill manners to bid one more eminent than yourself be covered as well as not to do it to whom it's due Likewise he that makes too much haste to Put on his hat does not well, yet he ought to Put it on at the first, or at most the Second time of being ask'd; now what is herein Spoken, of Qualification in behaviour in Saluting, ought also to be observed in taking of Place, and Sitting down for ceremonies without Bounds is troublesome.
- Rule No. 28 - If any one come to Speak to you while you are are Sitting Stand up tho he be your Inferiour, and when you Present Seats let it be to every one according to his Degree.
- Rule No. 29 - When you meet with one of Greater Quality than yourself, Stop, and retire especially if it be at a Door or any Straight place to give way for him to Pass.
- Rule No. 30 - In walking the highest Place in most Countrys Seems to be on the right hand therefore Place yourself on the left of him whom you desire to Honour: but if three walk together the mid[dest] Place is the most Honourable the wall is usually given to the most worthy if two walk together.
- Rule No. 31 - If any one far Surpassess others, either in age, Estate, or Merit [yet] would give Place to a meaner than hims[elf in his own lodging or elsewhere] the one ought not to except it, S[o he on the other part should not use much earnestness nor offer] it above once or twice.
- Rule No. 32 - To one that is your equal, or not much inferior you are to give the cheif Place in your Lodging and he to who 'tis offered ought at the first to refuse it but at the Second to accept though not without acknowledging his own unworthiness.
- Rule No. 33 - They that are in Dignity or in office have in all places Preceedency but whilst they are Young they ought to respect those that are their equals in Birth or other Qualitys, though they have no Publick charge.
- Rule No. 34 - It is good Manners to prefer them to whom we Speak befo[re] ourselves especially if they be above us with whom in no Sort we ought to begin.
- Rule No. 35 - Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.
- Rule No. 36 - Artificers & Persons of low Degree ought not to use many ceremonies to Lords, or Others of high Degree but Respect and high[ly] Honour them, and those of high Degree ought to treat them with affibility & Courtesie, without Arrogancy.
- Rule No. 37 - In Speaking to men of Quality do not lean nor Look them full in the Face, nor approach too near them at lest Keep a full Pace from them.
- Rule No. 38 - In visiting the Sick, do not Presently play the Physicion if you be not Knowing therein.
- Rule No. 39 - In writing or Speaking, give to every Person his due Title According to his Degree & the Custom of the Place.
- Rule No. 40 - Strive not with your Superiers in argument, but always Submit your Judgment to others with Modesty.
- Rule No. 41 - Undertake not to Teach your equal in the art himself Proffesses; it Savours of arrogancy.
- Rule No. 42 - Let thy ceremonies in Courtesie be proper to the Dignity of his place [with whom thou conversest for it is absurd to ac]t the same with a Clown and a Prince.
- Rule No. 43 - Do not express Joy before one sick or in pain for that contrary Passion will aggravate his Misery.
- Rule No. 44 - When a man does all he can though it Succeeds not well blame not him that did it.
- Rule No. 45 - Being to advise or reprehend any one, consider whether it ought to be in publick or in Private; presently, or at Some other time in what terms to do it & in reproving Shew no Sign of Cholar but do it with all Sweetness and Mildness.
- Rule No. 46 - Take all Admonitions thankfully in what Time or Place Soever given but afterwards not being culpable take a Time [&] Place convenient to let him him know it that gave them.
- Rule No. 47 - Mock not nor Jest at any thing of Importance break [n]o Jest that are Sharp Biting and if you Deliver any thing witty and Pleasent abtain from Laughing thereat yourself.
- Rule No. 48 - Wherein you reprove Another be unblameable yourself; for example is more prevalent than Precepts.
- Rule No. 49 - Use no Reproachfull Language against any one neither Curse nor Revile.
- Rule No. 50 - Be not hasty to beleive flying Reports to the Disparag[e]ment of any.
- Rule No. 51 - Wear not your Cloths, foul, unript or Dusty but See they be Brush'd once every day at least and take heed tha[t] you approach not to any Uncleaness.
- Rule No. 52 - In your Apparel be Modest and endeavour to accomodate Nature, rather than to procure Admiration keep to the Fashio[n] of your equals Such as are Civil and orderly with respect to Times and Places.
- Rule No. 53 - Run not in the Streets, neither go t[oo s]lowly nor wit[h] Mouth open go not Shaking y[ou]r Arms [kick not the earth with yr feet, go] not upon the Toes, nor in a Dancing [fashion].
- Rule No. 54 - Play not the Peacock, looking every where about you, to See if you be well Deck't, if your Shoes fit well if your Stokings sit neatly, and Cloths handsomely.
- Rule No. 55 - Eat not in the Streets, nor in the House, out of Season.
- Rule No. 56 - Associate yourself with Men of good Quality if you Esteem your own Reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad Company.
- Rule No. 57 - In walking up and Down in a House, only with One in Compan[y] if he be Greater than yourself, at the first give him the Right hand and Stop not till he does and be not the first that turns, and when you do turn let it be with your face towards him, if he be a Man of Great Quality, walk not with him Cheek by Joul but Somewhat behind him; but yet in Such a Manner that he may easily Speak to you.
- Rule No. 58 - Let your Conversation be without Malice or Envy, for 'tis a Sig[n o]f a Tractable and Commendable Nature: And in all Causes of Passion [ad]mit Reason to Govern.
- Rule No. 59 - Never express anything unbecoming, nor Act ag[in]st the Rules Mora[l] before your inferiours.
- Rule No. 60 - Be not immodest in urging your Friends to Discover a Secret.
- Rule No. 61 - Utter not base and frivilous things amongst grave and Learn'd Men nor very Difficult Questians or Subjects, among the Ignorant or things hard to be believed, Stuff not your Discourse with Sentences amongst your Betters nor Equals.
- Rule No. 62 - Speak not of doleful Things in a Time of Mirth or at the Table; Speak not of Melancholy Things as Death and Wounds, and if others Mention them Change if you can the Discourse tell not your Dreams, but to your intimate Friend.
- Rule No. 63 - A Man o[ug]ht not to value himself of his Atchievements, or rare Qua[lities of wit; much less of his rich]es Virtue or Kindred.
- Rule No. 64 - Break not a Jest where none take pleasure in mirth Laugh not aloud, nor at all without Occasion, deride no mans Misfortune, tho' there Seem to be Some cause.
- Rule No. 65 - Speak not injurious Words neither in Jest nor Earnest Scoff at none although they give Occasion.
- Rule No. 66 - Be not froward but friendly and Courteous; the first to Salute hear and answer & be not Pensive when it's a time to Converse.
- Rule No. 67 - Detract not from others neither be excessive in Commanding.
- Rule No. 68 - Go not thither, where you know not, whether you Shall be Welcome or not. Give not Advice with[out] being Ask'd & when desired [d]o it briefly.
- Rule No. 69 - If two contend together take not the part of either unconstrain[ed]; and be not obstinate in your own Opinion, in Things indiferent be of the Major Side.
- Rule No. 70 - Reprehend not the imperfections of others for that belong[s] to Parents Masters and Superiours.
- Rule No. 71 - Gaze not on the marks or blemishes of Others and ask not how they came. What you may Speak in Secret to your Friend deliver not before others.
- Rule No. 72 - Speak not in an unknown Tongue in Company but in your own Language and that as those of Quality do and not as the Vulgar; Sublime matters treat Seriously.
- Rule No. 73 - Think before you Speak pronounce not imperfectly nor bring ou[t] your Words too hastily but orderly & distinctly.
- Rule No. 74 - When Another Speaks be attentive your Self and disturb not the Audience if any hesitate in his Words help him not nor Prompt him without desired, Interrupt him not, nor Answer him till his Speec[h] be ended.
- Rule No. 75 - In the midst of Discourse ask [not of what one treateth] but if you Perceive any Stop because of [your coming you may well intreat him gently] to Proceed: If a Person of Quality comes in while your Conversing it's handsome to Repeat what was said before.
- Rule No. 76 - While you are talking, Point not with your Finger at him of Whom you Discourse nor Approach too near him to whom you talk especially to his face.
- Rule No. 77 - Treat with men at fit Times about Business & Whisper not in the Company of Others.
- Rule No. 78 - Make no Comparisons and if any of the Company be Commended for any brave act of Vertue, commend not another for the Same.
- Rule No. 79 - Be not apt to relate News if you know not the truth thereof.
- Rule No. 80 - Be not Tedious in Discourse or in reading unless you find the Company pleased therewith.
- Rule No. 81 - Be not Curious to Know the Affairs of Others neither approach those that Speak in Private.
- Rule No. 82 - Undertake not what you cannot Perform but be Carefull to keep your Promise.
- Rule No. 83 - When you deliver a matter do it without Passion & with Discretion, howev[er] mean the Person be you do it too.
- Rule No. 84 - When your Superiours talk to any Body hearken not neither Speak nor Laugh.
- Rule No. 85 - In Company of these of Higher Quality than yourself Speak not ti[l] you are ask'd a Question then Stand upright put of your Hat & Answer in few words.
- Rule No. 86 - In Disputes, be not So Desireous to Overcome as not to give Liberty to each one to deliver his Opinion and Submit to the Judgment of the Major Part especially if they are Judges of the Dispute.
- Rule No. 87 - Let thy carriage be such as becomes a Man Grave Settled and attentive [to that which is spoken. Contra]dict not at every turn what others Say.
- Rule No. 88 - Be not tedious in Discourse, make not many Digressigns, nor rep[eat] often the Same manner of Discourse.
- Rule No. 89 - Speak not Evil of the absent for it is unjust.
- Rule No. 90 - Being Set at meat Scratch not neither Spit Cough or blow your Nose except there's a Necessity for it.
- Rule No. 91 - Make no Shew of taking great Delight in your Victuals, Feed no[t] with Greediness; cut your Bread with a Knife, lean not on the Table neither find fault with what you Eat.
- Rule No. 92 - Take no Salt or cut Bread with your Knife Greasy.
- Rule No. 93 - Entertaining any one at table it is decent to present him wt. meat, Undertake not to help others undesired by the Master.
- Rule No. 94 - If you Soak bread in the Sauce let it be no more than what you [pu]t in your Mouth at a time and blow not your broth at Table [bu]t Stay till Cools of it Self.
- Rule No. 95 - Put not your meat to your Mouth with your Knife in your ha[nd ne]ither Spit forth the Stones of any fruit Pye upon a Dish nor Cas[t an]ything under the table.
- Rule No. 96 - It's unbecoming to Stoop much to ones Meat Keep your Fingers clea[n &] when foul wipe them on a Corner of your Table Napkin.
- Rule No. 97 - Put not another bit into your Mouth til the former be Swallowed [l]et not your Morsels be too big for the Gowls.
- Rule No. 98 - Drink not nor talk with your mouth full neither Gaze about you while you are a Drinking.
- Rule No. 99 - Drink not too leisurely nor yet too hastily. Before and after Drinking wipe your Lips breath not then or Ever with too Great a Noise, for its uncivil.
- Rule No. 100 - Cleanse not your teeth with the Table Cloth Napkin Fork or Knife but if Others do it let it be done wt. a Pick Tooth.
- Rule No. 101 - Rince not your Mouth in the Presence of Others.
- Rule No. 102 - It is out of use to call upon the Company often to Eat nor need you Drink to others every Time you Drink.
- Rule No. 103 - In Company of your Betters be no[t longer in eating] than they are lay not your Arm but o[nly your hand upon the table].
- Rule No. 104 - It belongs to the Chiefest in Company to unfold his Napkin and fall to Meat first, But he ought then to Begin in time & to Dispatch [w]ith Dexterity that the Slowest may have time allowed him.
- Rule No. 105 - Be not Angry at Table whatever happens & if you have reason to be so, shew it not but on a Chearfull Countenance especially if there be Strangers for Good Humour makes one Dish of Meat a Feas[t].
- Rule No. 106 - Set not yourself at the upper of the Table but if it Be your Due or that the Master of the house will have it So, Contend not, least you Should Trouble the Company.
- Rule No. 107 - If others talk at Table be attentive but talk not with Meat in your Mouth.
- Rule No. 108 - When you Speak of God or his Atributes, let it be Seriously & [with] Reverence. Honour & Obey your Natural Parents altho they be Poor.
- Rule No. 109 - Let your Recreations be Manfull not Sinfull.
- Rule No. 110 - Labour to keep alive in your Breast that Little Spark of Ce[les]tial fire Called Conscience.
Alan Watt - (not Watts!)
Good tips
See: ver/local/project/book-humane/data/ic-podcast-paul-wheaton.txt
"Make it hard to join the community and easy to leave the community."--Diana Leafe Christian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diana_Leafe_Christian
"Under patriarchy, boys and men get everything, except the thing that’s most worth having: human connection."--{whippman-01}
As of October 2011, over 350 million users accessed Facebook through their mobile phones
See the section: Nonviolent resistance interpretation
All of us deal with the Powers That Be. They staff our hospitals, run City Hall, sit around tables in corporate boardrooms, collect our taxes, and head our families. But the Powers That Be are more than just the people who run things.
MC is composed of many co-operative enterprises grouped into four areas: industry, finance, retail and knowledge. In each enterprise, the co-op members (averaging 80-85% of all workers per enterprise) collectively own and direct the enterprise. Through an annual general assembly the workers choose and employ a managing director and retain the power to make all the basic decisions of the enterprise (what, how and where to produce and what to do with the profits).
As each enterprise is a constituent of the MC as a whole, its members must confer and decide with all other enterprise members what general rules will govern MC and all its constituent enterprises. In short, MC worker-members collectively choose, hire and fire the directors, whereas in capitalist enterprises the reverse occurs.
Yes! Positive eco. change with benefits, rather than the usual: look at all problems and extra costs.
The small things matter.
The DOJ is moving quietly. Building a case. Have faith in Merrick Garland. These things take time." What a bunch of B.S. Trump will not be indicted.
Positive stories about ecology and culture change.
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I went to Safeway this morning to buy some things. A reporter interviewed me (live) when I came out.
This is so cute.
"Problems" are not allowed in corporations. It's a great form of social control.
In the comments, the best alternative word, that others came up with was: activism
The day democracy in the US ended: January 21, 2010. USA is now UCA (United Corporate America).
[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL-_pGYwIvU" >The New American Corporatocracy! A Special Comment - Part 2 of 2]]
Keith Olbermann Interviews Alan Grayson About The Supreme Court Case of Citizens United vs. FEC - "103 years of settled law overturned"
Save Democracy - Petition by Alan Grayson
It would be really cool if this apparatus was added to Olympic gymnastics. German Wheel
Cyr Wheel
Well the first 5 min. is the summary; the actual video is almost 2 hrs. See also: 2011-02-03 for another short summary (15min)
http://thoriumremix.com/act/ - main site, you can buy the DVD of this for $1.75. Spread the word. It has a Creative Commons copyright so it can be copied and shared freely.
The Chinese are building this technology ($1 billion for the next 8 years). So far the US is doing nothing, mainly because this will destabilized the current coal, gas, oil, and water-based nuclear companies.
For more links and discussions see: http://energyfromthorium.com/
Energy from Thorium, LFTR Technology - http://flibe-energy.com/ by Flibe Energy
More communication tips: PowerDiversity
Tokyo railway optimal path design and slime mould... A single celled organism can do 'optimization' as good as hundreds of engineering minds put together... amazing video and amazing creature... just fascinating... look at the optimal railway paths of Tokyo created by the slime mould and be amazed...
Just about all of the Electric Universe vidieos are here.
The Thunderbolts Project - Home web site
Very cool. An app that will connect blind people with sited people who can describe to them what they see with there phone.
Here's the link to the app site: [[https://www.bemyeyes.com/" >Be My Eyes]]
WildX Speaker Filmmaker and Hypnotist Albert Nerenberg suggests there's something about sexuality the general public doesn't know. And it's potentially amazing. In this entertaining breakthrough talk Nerenberg explains he and Montreal hypnotist Dominique LaRoche stumbled on a largely unknown side of human trance behavior that opens up possibilities for sexual expression and healing. Humans can have orgasms without contact and with their clothes on. And they can do it by simply achieving a specific deeply relaxed state. Nerenberg claims this may open up possibilities for sexual healing but there is a need for an ethical framework. Either way, the implications are considerable and new.
A really nice visualization.
Great speech about how humans treat the earth and life.
My own video.
Accurate and funny. Want more?
See: https://www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-government-ads/
Honest Government Ads Authorized by the Department of Genuine Satire.
Produced by the Patrons of The Juice Media.
Funny and sad.
Hidden in democratic countries.
I hope we can realize this beautiful story. It will take some work to make a new "normal".
prepare-for-the-ultimate-gaslighting
Another good one: Flashmob Flash Mob - Ode an die Freude (Ode to Joy) Beethoven Symphony No.9 classical music - notice: Europeans know they should hold their cell phones horizontal to take videos. Videos should never be recorded with a vertical orientation. Americans will argue that vertical is OK. Really? Would you turning a video camera sideways?
Basics on how cells work
Great video describing how speed of light is measured.
Too bad scientists are now making a big error by "assuming" constants really are constant. Good scientists will keep measuring.
Amazing.
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What happened 13,000 years ago?
Actually this is more about being a good movie director.
Squirrels are amazing. Actually this a squirrel obstacle course.
Great details that describe the EU model.
Mandelbrot set and the binomial equation.
"We have an archaic idea of what family is," says Brooks in a new episode of The Idea File. The nuclear family unit, Brooks argues, is a privilege of the wealthy. Across the world, 38 percent of people still live with extended family. And over the past half-century, the share of people living alone in America has doubled. The nuclear family is no longer the norm-and it should no longer be the ideal.
Very cool
These are fun.
How narcissists use the double-bind to control people. It is often used by organizations too.
His personal story is sad. He shows how to break double-binds.
Permaculture--biodiversity, Bison for grazing the plains, sustainable fishing with no bi-catch... Using proven methods that regenerate, not deplete. Decentralized vs centralized solutions.
This is a good summary of his Coranation essay. ( The Coronation )
This is a good interview where he covers many of the points in "The Coronation": [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK8C_rCz1yw" >An Epidemic of Control, Charles Eisenstein]]
Another related video: The Goal Of Life Is Not To Survive It
What a world he pictures. Beautifully described in only 4 minutes!.
Former cop, Paul Manning, shared a story detailing how he was treated when he attempted to call-out officer misconduct.
Don't rat-out your buddies. They behave exactly like a gang. "Force" requires external checks and balances.
Lots of good political commentary videos on this channel: The Rational National
He gave a good view of how police think. Mainly they have no patience for the time needed to de-escalate problems.
This is cool. He has lots of other videos about motors.
This is part 2 of a good discussion about Engineering Principles. (Unfortunately part 1 does not work in a browser anymore--weird.) Engineering Principles for Makers Part 2; Material Properties #067
Lights on the moon, Air Force says UFOs are not earth craft, big push for mining on the moon--huh? Well, the "lights" can be explained by the EU theory.
The answer: salt 1 hour or 1 day before cooking. Also, cook in oven first then shear.
I'm definitely going to try this recipe.
This is a great series of podcasts. They do deep dives into trivial things. For example GPS time should be going slower than on Earth surface, because their relative speed is greater, but wait their relativity gravity effect is less so time is going faster than the surface of Earth. So the net result: GPS time is faster by about 38 microsecond/day. See Relativity section at: Error analysis for the Global Positioning System
Festival of the Spoken Word -Home: A Podcast of Unecessary Detail
Cute.
Really nice, if you like bag pipes.
Those are big drums!
You need to play this on your stereo, with sub-woofers.
Here is more from them: BookStock2020 (Fendrick & Peck with Scout & Morgan Books)
And here is there web site with CD's for sale: Fendrick and Peck
By the guy who describe the double-bind dilemma.
ObamaGate. Cute.
Cops respond to protests against systemic racism and police brutality with military tactics, macing and more of the same violence that protesters are working to shut down.
Let us not forget this, this time!
This channel also has a number of video about how to use a microscope.
Bizarre!
This is a wonderful tour. You really get to see how they move around. I liked one of the comments on the video: take a drink for every time he says "storage".
This is another tour done 4 years later. The interior is more cluttered. Grand tour of the International Space Station with Drew and Luca | Single take - Jan 26, 2020
Here's the web site link: Spote The Station
Problem: reinforced concrete only lasts 50 years. (100 years max)
Solution: use an older process that emits less CO2, for making concrete, and don't use steel in concrete. Only build with compressive forces.
My comment: This is a great analysis with solutions. However, to implement the solutions, the capitalist profit system will need to be overhauled to support 1,000-year developments. In the current system, cheaper and faster always wins over quality and longevity.
Related: The Venus Project and The Venus Project: Bombastic Dream or Realizable Future?
50min flight time. 2 props.