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Data brokers are selling the ability to track women at abortion clinics
Data brokers are selling the ability to track phones that visit abortion clinics and follow them back across state lines.Sen. Ron Wyden (MSNBC)
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For most of us, if not all of us, there is literally nothing we can do to stop what is happening in #Gaza
But the *very least* we can do is be a witness to what is happening and to see it CLEARLY.
Because when this is over (whatever 'over' will look like), the Powerful will tell us that what we saw was NOT what we saw. They will try to erase the fact these people existed and had a right to exist. They had a right to be free.
They HAVE a right to be free.
I'm overwhelmed and overcome because there's only so much trauma we can bear. But WE, here in the U.S., are bearing *nothing* compared to what our Palestinian neighbors are bearing.
To look away is a comfort+privilege.
But the *very least* we can do is be a witness to what is happening and to see it CLEARLY.
Because when this is over (whatever 'over' will look like), the Powerful will tell us that what we saw was NOT what we saw. They will try to erase the fact these people existed and had a right to exist. They had a right to be free.
They HAVE a right to be free.
I'm overwhelmed and overcome because there's only so much trauma we can bear. But WE, here in the U.S., are bearing *nothing* compared to what our Palestinian neighbors are bearing.
To look away is a comfort+privilege.
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As October breathes the first chill into the air of our lives, an illustrated field guide to the art, science, and joy of tea https://t.co/b5PSUfeSI0
An Illustrated Field Guide to the Art, Science, and Joy of Tea
From leaf to cup, by way of the history of human civilization.The Marginalian
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I noticed a new god in the temple.
"Who are you offering to?" it asked.
I listed them all, the gods of rising bread, of health, and all the others.
"Offer to me only, and I will share with all of them."
It was convenient, but now there is only one god, and my bread will not rise.
#SmallStories #MicroFiction #TootFic
"Who are you offering to?" it asked.
I listed them all, the gods of rising bread, of health, and all the others.
"Offer to me only, and I will share with all of them."
It was convenient, but now there is only one god, and my bread will not rise.
#SmallStories #MicroFiction #TootFic
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“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am … my shadow as well as my light,’ the shadow’s power is put in service of the good.”
This is wonderful: https://t.co/jc39XEDSbk
This is wonderful: https://t.co/jc39XEDSbk
The Six Pillars of the Wholehearted Life: Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Naropa University Commencement Address
“Take everything that’s bright and beautiful in you and introduce it to the shadow side of yourself… When you are able to say, ‘I am all of the above, my shadow as well as my ligh…The Marginalian
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Thank you for this! Really lovely (and a great mood-setter as I head to synagogue for Yom Kippur services).
I'm surprised the Republicans have not found a way to take this down from the internet yet.
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A Tale of Two Cities.
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Paul Simon says he suffered sudden hearing loss while recording his new album, making it unlikely that he will ever be able to tour or perform live again.
"He recently survived a severe bout of COVID-19, which has been linked to sudden irreversible hearing loss in some patients."
#Covid #Covid19 #SarsCov2 #LongCovid #music
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/paul-simon-hearing-loss-covid-seven-psalms-18117021
"He recently survived a severe bout of COVID-19, which has been linked to sudden irreversible hearing loss in some patients."
#Covid #Covid19 #SarsCov2 #LongCovid #music
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/music/paul-simon-hearing-loss-covid-seven-psalms-18117021
Paul Simon unlikely to perform live again due to sudden hearing loss
“My generation’s time is up,” said the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame musician.Aidin Vaziri (Datebook | San Francisco Arts & Entertainment Guide)
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well, it makes about as much sense as thinking that unlicensed copying is stealing…
i guess it would also mean that public goods are impossible.
i guess it would also mean that public goods are impossible.
boosting this reply in agreement even while still convinced that OP is right and yet another example of the Freedom Monster at work
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Thousands of years ago, people were experimenting with all sorts of complex, dense social forms. Over 11,000 years ago, at Göbekli Tepe in what is now Turkey, people were erecting some of the world’s first monumental stone architecture. 11,000 years ago at Jericho, in Palestine, people were settling in one of the world’s first cities. At Çatalhöyük, also in Turkey, people 9,000 years ago built a complicated, honeycomb-like city. 5 to 6,000 years ago, people in what is now Ukraine built sprawling settlements. People were experimenting with urban life, with agriculture, with writing and all sorts of new phenomena.
Then, a little more than 5,000 years ago, in what is now southern Iraq, something entirely new began to emerge in some of the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia: the state.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uruk_period
Then, a little more than 5,000 years ago, in what is now southern Iraq, something entirely new began to emerge in some of the Sumerian cities of Mesopotamia: the state.
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Fantastic thread, thank you so much! Eloquently and succinctly put together much of my current thinking on these topics that I was unable to combine as neatly as you.
If I may ask a question: How/When do you see gerontocratic and especially patriarchal forms of hierarchy come into the picture and fit into early/current state formation/violence? And similarly subjugation/separation of "nature"; as Bookchin theorized that human/human subjugation was the foundation for exploiting "nature" or the (according to Bookchin) Marxist view that subjugation of nature was required for human/human exploitation?
If I may ask a question: How/When do you see gerontocratic and especially patriarchal forms of hierarchy come into the picture and fit into early/current state formation/violence? And similarly subjugation/separation of "nature"; as Bookchin theorized that human/human subjugation was the foundation for exploiting "nature" or the (according to Bookchin) Marxist view that subjugation of nature was required for human/human exploitation?
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🐉THE RECLINING DRAGON💤
The 'Garyū-rō' (臥龍廊 'Reclining Dragon Corridor') is counted amongst the '7 Wonders of Eikan-dō' (七不思議).
Curling gently up the hillside like the spine of a dragon, the roofed staircase was constructed in 1504 without the use of a single nail.
Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji (永観堂禅林寺) traces its history to Shinshō (真紹 797–873), a pupil of Kūkai. Aspiring to found a temple for worship of the '5 Wisdom Buddhas', in 853 he was gifted the mansion of Fujiwara-no-Sekio to realise his dream.
The 'Garyū-rō' (臥龍廊 'Reclining Dragon Corridor') is counted amongst the '7 Wonders of Eikan-dō' (七不思議).
Curling gently up the hillside like the spine of a dragon, the roofed staircase was constructed in 1504 without the use of a single nail.
Eikan-dō Zenrin-ji (永観堂禅林寺) traces its history to Shinshō (真紹 797–873), a pupil of Kūkai. Aspiring to found a temple for worship of the '5 Wisdom Buddhas', in 853 he was gifted the mansion of Fujiwara-no-Sekio to realise his dream.
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At the base of the Garyū-rō (臥龍廊) is a basin known as 'Suikin-kutsu' (水琴窟 lit. 'water koto grotto').
When water is poured into the small opening the sound of trickling echoes melodiously within.
The design is simple...an upside pot sits above a basin of water.
#Kyoto #京都 #suikinkutsu #水琴窟 #waterkoto #Eikando #EikandoZenrinji #Japan
When water is poured into the small opening the sound of trickling echoes melodiously within.
The design is simple...an upside pot sits above a basin of water.
#Kyoto #京都 #suikinkutsu #水琴窟 #waterkoto #Eikando #EikandoZenrinji #Japan
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Under Yōkan (永観 1033-1111), the 7th abbot, the temple's teachings leant towards Pure Land Buddhism (the Jōdo-shū sect would form at the end of the 12thC).
Yōkan, who cared deeply for the poor and sick, was also known as Eikan...which gave Zenrin-ji an additional name 'Eikan-dō'.
#Eikando #永観堂 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan
Yōkan, who cared deeply for the poor and sick, was also known as Eikan...which gave Zenrin-ji an additional name 'Eikan-dō'.
#Eikando #永観堂 #Kyoto #京都 #Japan
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Hey there!
#climate #ClimateJustice #climatediary #Climatepsychology and #ClimateCrisis folks -
this is Climate Psychology Alliance of North America's new mastodon account -
There seem to be some CPA-NA bots and impersonators out there - but this is really us!
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#climate #ClimateJustice #climatediary #Climatepsychology and #ClimateCrisis folks -
this is Climate Psychology Alliance of North America's new mastodon account -
There seem to be some CPA-NA bots and impersonators out there - but this is really us!
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a Portrait of Tenochtitlan, my 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empire is released!
I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I am really curious what all of you think.
Take a look:
http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
#tenochtitlan
I've been looking forward to this for a long time, and I am really curious what all of you think.
Take a look:
http://tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
#tenochtitlan
a portrait of Tenochtitlan
a 3D reconstruction of the capital of the Aztec Empiretenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
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Wild pumpkins drained of their spice by illegal poachers. Please demand ethically sourced #PumpkinSpice lattes. 😔 :bb:
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Toxic male politicians or representatives like #Trump in US and #Rubiales in Spain should have to pay a hefty fine each time they claim there‘s a „witch hunt“ underway to get them. These are exactly the kind of guys who would have hunted down alleged „witches“ in past centuries because they simply hate strong, independent women. And now they hide behind this historic crime of powerful men against women in order to make themselves look innocent.
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Re-upping this again: I wish more lefties could internalize the idea that hypocrisy is not a meaningful accusation to the right. Of course they're being hypocrites. That you are bound, by rules, standards, logic, human decency, some fundamental moral consistency, anything at all, and they are not? That is their conception of what power is, and why they seek it. So they can exercise power, without constraint, and you cannot.
That's the whole point.
Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.
That's the whole point.
Hypocrisy is the virtue-signaling of fascism.
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One of the most memorable scenes for me in Iain M. Banks' THE PLAYER OF GAMES is when an official in the Evil Space Empire explains to the protagonist that the whole point of having power is that other people have to follow rules you get to break, and I wish it were more widely understood that this has been the whole point of "conservatism" all along.
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I came across a first-hand account of somehow who escaped the fire in #Lahaina and she noted that many roads out of town were privately owned by sugar plantations and were chained shut.
She says people died in their cars trying to escape.
These people were murdered by #PrivateProperty.
All of those sugar plantations were enclosed by the Hawaiian monarchy and sold off to American colonists, who in turn overthrew the monarchy and cemented their control of the islands and their lands.
Dying because of a chained gate on land that was stolen from the Hawaiian people is as surely murder as if they’d been pushed into the flames.
She says people died in their cars trying to escape.
These people were murdered by #PrivateProperty.
All of those sugar plantations were enclosed by the Hawaiian monarchy and sold off to American colonists, who in turn overthrew the monarchy and cemented their control of the islands and their lands.
Dying because of a chained gate on land that was stolen from the Hawaiian people is as surely murder as if they’d been pushed into the flames.
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I get that this is a tragic horrendous thing that happened but blaming a property owner, no matter how they got that property, is severely ridiculous.
I’m trying and failing to see a distinction between people dying because they can’t access private roads and people dying at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory because the owners locked the doors.
Private property is an assertion of a right to interfere with access, even unto a non-owner’s death. That’s the whole point of private property!
Private property is an assertion of a right to interfere with access, even unto a non-owner’s death. That’s the whole point of private property!
increasingly convinced that the idea of private ownership of land is without exaggeration literally the single worst thing to have ever happened to life on earth
@LaNaehForaday The US is the only developed country that has no public right of way thru private property. In the U.K. it's standard practice to allow public trespass thru property, including on roads.
The US has a strange mentality about 'private' property. Given the small size of these islands, no roads, regardless of where, should have been off limits to anyone. And this tragedy proves it.
The US has a strange mentality about 'private' property. Given the small size of these islands, no roads, regardless of where, should have been off limits to anyone. And this tragedy proves it.
@julescelt01
Yes in a perfect world, all things would happen perfectly. My point is blaming the sugarcane owners because they cordoned off their areas to keep people out of their cane are not at fault, no matter how they acquired their land..
Yes in a perfect world, all things would happen perfectly. My point is blaming the sugarcane owners because they cordoned off their areas to keep people out of their cane are not at fault, no matter how they acquired their land..
@LaNaehForaday @julescelt01 People put up gates when they didn't have to. Other people died because the gates were there. The people who put up the gates should be held responsible. What is so complicated about this?
If they weren't prepared to open the gates in an emergency... that is still their fault.
If they weren't prepared to open the gates in an emergency... that is still their fault.
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@sidereal When you own property you are allowed to put up gates. You do not have to be responsible for your gates when there is a wildfire. IDEALLY all gates would magically open exactly when they need to open HOWEVER people/corporations/business owners/ land owners ARE ALLWED TO PUT GATES ON THEIR PROPERTIES.
Just because there was a wild fire does not make them at fault for putting up gates on THEIR property. JFC
Just because there was a wild fire does not make them at fault for putting up gates on THEIR property. JFC
@julescelt01 @HeavenlyPossum @julieofthespirits If you put up barriers which prevent people from escaping from a fire, you are responsible for their deaths. I don't know how else to explain this. There is nothing particularly complex or nuanced about this.
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> There is nothing particularly complex or nuanced about this.
::laughs and laughs and laughs in real estate lawyer::
::laughs and laughs and laughs in real estate lawyer::
okay i just saw the rest of this conversation and what you were responding to
i retract my derision
i retract my derision
There is a different way to think about private property. I've been a wildlands firefighter, Park Ranger, and Environmental scientist that has done field work. I can't count the number of times I've had to cross private property to access public lands. We actually had to carry multiple keys to access gates. That slows down response times for fires, to protect people and their property. And when we were hindered, property owners blamed us.
i've found that every modification to private property that improves something or solves or mitigates a problem is at its heart an encroachment, reservation or proviso on how private that property is allowed to be - which leads to my first reply
congratulations on the single worst comment i've seen on my timeline today
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I know a lot of people will think that this is a 'radical leftist ideological approach', but when I read calls to 'design ways to survive the heat', I really feel sad for the current limited productivist vision #design has.
You know what will help us to survive? Downscaling production, stopping billionaires, ending colonialism (yes, it's still there) and shifting to a post-growth economy of care.
You know how designers can help? By stopping designing products we don't need.
#ClimateDiary
You know what will help us to survive? Downscaling production, stopping billionaires, ending colonialism (yes, it's still there) and shifting to a post-growth economy of care.
You know how designers can help? By stopping designing products we don't need.
#ClimateDiary
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Hivemind/boost question, please?
What boardgame would you say is a fun, fast, widely accessible game of space combat?
I'm looking for something to potentially port to Classic Traveller that would make the space combat portion available to most players, instead of the wargame-like mechanics in the rules.
#ttrpg #boardgames #space #combat #pleaseboost
What boardgame would you say is a fun, fast, widely accessible game of space combat?
I'm looking for something to potentially port to Classic Traveller that would make the space combat portion available to most players, instead of the wargame-like mechanics in the rules.
#ttrpg #boardgames #space #combat #pleaseboost
Hahaha! That sounds awesome! And the potential for shenanigans with rubber bands...
Yeah, it goes outside the box of randomized dice/cards for combat resolution. One complaint I saw was that the "scoring" (checking the shots) can take longer than the gameplay (throwing the ships), so you might want to take it into account.
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Exactly 14 years ago today—on July 24, 2009—the minimum wage was set at $7.25 while top 1% were worth $5T. Today, billionaire wealth is $45T+, meanwhile the min wage is still $7.25.
This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage
This is what generational wage theft looks like. Pay workers. Tax billionaires. #RaiseTheWage
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At 1.4 trillion, more photos were taken in 2019 than in the entire 20th Century
In 2023, it’s estimated we’ll take 1.8 trillion photos
90% of all photos ever taken were taken since 2000
Since 2000, we’ve taken about 2,000 photos for every child, woman and man on planet
We’re storing about 10 trillion photos in the Cloud
Most of them will never be looked at again.
To deal with CO2 caused by photos between 2000 and 2020, you’d need to plant about 675 million trees
https://photutorial.com/photos-statistics/
In 2023, it’s estimated we’ll take 1.8 trillion photos
90% of all photos ever taken were taken since 2000
Since 2000, we’ve taken about 2,000 photos for every child, woman and man on planet
We’re storing about 10 trillion photos in the Cloud
Most of them will never be looked at again.
To deal with CO2 caused by photos between 2000 and 2020, you’d need to plant about 675 million trees
https://photutorial.com/photos-statistics/
How Many Photos Are There? (Statistics & Trends in 2023)
Discover everything you need to know about photo statistics - Number of photos taken daily, number of photos on Google, and much more!Matic Broz (Photutorial)
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Everyone should read this by @adactio, it feels like the start of something pretty profound https://adactio.com/journal/20315
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This seems like a worthy project. And I'm well on my way with the plants I already have, as well as increasing success with the wildflowers in my front yard. It's what I hope to accomplish with our backyard, with some set aside for growing fruits and veggies and my dyestuffs.
"Homegrown National Park® is a grassroots call-to-action to regenerate biodiversity and ecosystem function by planting native plants and creating new ecological networks."
https://www.homegrownnationalpark.org
"Homegrown National Park® is a grassroots call-to-action to regenerate biodiversity and ecosystem function by planting native plants and creating new ecological networks."
https://www.homegrownnationalpark.org
Home - Homegrown National Park
WE CAN DO THIS! ONE PERSON AT A TIME* REGENERATEBIODIVERSITY PLANT NATIVE *No experience necessary! GET ON THE MAP 31,923 ALREADY ON Doug Tallamy co-founder HNP”In the past, we have asked one thing of our gardens: that they be pretty.Homegrown National Park
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We shouldn't call them "Billionnaries" like they won a lottery and we're all envious. We should call them Capitalist Extremists like the world killing terrorists they are.
#capitalist #extremists #CapitalistExtremists #capitalism
#capitalist #extremists #CapitalistExtremists #capitalism
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Even if you never read "The Dawn of Everything" by Davids Graeber and Wengrow, at least take this to heart:
What you learned about human prehistory was most likely a lie. There was no linear progression from hunter/gatherer to farmer to city dweller to modern human. Our ancient ancestors were just as creative as we are. They didn't wait until 5,000 years ago to figure out agriculture. They invented it and discarded it when it didn't suit them, over and over again. They built cities and abandoned them quickly or centuries later, over and over again. They invented and discarded socialism and despotism, many times over. And there's no correlation between mode of production vs. political freedom. The idea of a linear progression was invented by 18th century Europeans who were feeling defensive about the inequality in their societies as compared to those of indigenous Americans.
What you learned about human prehistory was most likely a lie. There was no linear progression from hunter/gatherer to farmer to city dweller to modern human. Our ancient ancestors were just as creative as we are. They didn't wait until 5,000 years ago to figure out agriculture. They invented it and discarded it when it didn't suit them, over and over again. They built cities and abandoned them quickly or centuries later, over and over again. They invented and discarded socialism and despotism, many times over. And there's no correlation between mode of production vs. political freedom. The idea of a linear progression was invented by 18th century Europeans who were feeling defensive about the inequality in their societies as compared to those of indigenous Americans.
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Just a friendly reminder that if you store your government ID on your phone and find yourself in a situation where you have to show them your ID, you'll have to hand them your unlocked phone to do it.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745168/google-wallet-state-id-drivers-license-custom-cards
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/1/23745168/google-wallet-state-id-drivers-license-custom-cards
Google Wallet is getting custom cards and state IDs this month
Google Wallet users will soon be able to add their state ID or driver’s licenses to Google Wallet and can create a digital version of any card that features a barcode or QR code.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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Here's a case where a man got shot for reaching for his phone, the officer involved thought it was a gun.
"Hold on sir, don't unlock that. There have been reports of people triggering explosives with their phones. Hand it to me and give me your passcode."
This is easy as fuck. I could come up with 10 bullshit excuses to make you unlock your phone in as many minutes.
Don't give cops a reason to take your phone. Your recording is likely your only protection.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting/index.html
"Hold on sir, don't unlock that. There have been reports of people triggering explosives with their phones. Hand it to me and give me your passcode."
This is easy as fuck. I could come up with 10 bullshit excuses to make you unlock your phone in as many minutes.
Don't give cops a reason to take your phone. Your recording is likely your only protection.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/22/us/sacramento-police-shooting/index.html
Goddamn even if the cops leave the phone locked to view the ID, they'll just pocket the phone afterwards and "give it back to you when we're done here" - you willingly handed it over to them, they can keep it.
Now they know you can't be recording them. You want to hand over the one thing that they know might keep them honest?
Are people just not paying attention? How the fuck can anyone be in favor of this? You want your ID on your phone so bad, get a sticky ID holder and slap it on the back.
Now they know you can't be recording them. You want to hand over the one thing that they know might keep them honest?
Are people just not paying attention? How the fuck can anyone be in favor of this? You want your ID on your phone so bad, get a sticky ID holder and slap it on the back.
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This is a very fascinating comic by M. Sabine Rear, an artist who cannot see color. https://thenib.com/a-vision-in-monochrome/
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When we talk about how billionaires shouldn’t exist I don’t think people really understand the massive difference in scale between a million and a billion. One million seconds is 12 days. A billion seconds is 31 years. It’s an unfathomable amount of money that no one should have. Even uber-rich mega millionaires - hundreds of millions - really shouldn’t exist. We need to tax the rich; they’re the real free loaders. They’re the drains on the economy. They’re the ones dragging society down.
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Jonathan Schofield
•Neither of them are here. (Immy has a dormant account)
https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/112113393061798054
Jonathan Schofield
2024-03-17 22:30:15
Jonathan Schofield
•And just noting a few thoughts that spring to mind:
1. His setting out of our predicament is among the clearest I’ve heard
2. His recurring focus on soil and food systems as a key domain to work on is, I feel, spot on
3. At 48 minutes in the emphasis turns to the patterns of how societies will respond
4. His citing of terra preta is something I want to look into more (see #2)…
INDY JOHAR: The starkest collapse prognosis I’ve heard
Apple PodcastsJonathan Schofield
•6. He comes across as genuinely humble and open, which is super important.
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I might dig out a transcription of the opening section because it is in my view so well framed
Jonathan Schofield
•It’s on Acast, so transcribing the hard way is the next step
Pauline von Hellermann
•Like Indy, I have recently started to think that it might be war that destroys everything before we even get to the full fallout of climate change. But who knows. I am not so hopeful that other ways out will be found, but as he says we have a duty to try, and Dark Matter Lab’s approach is so good.