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I'm an old Pogo fan. For some unknown reason I persist in outrage at Feudalism, as if human beings can do much better than this. Our old ways of life are obsolete and are killing us. Will the human race wake up in time? Stay tuned...
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We are not in a zombie movie. And we all contain some of the virus now. The job is to keep from passing it on. Series: The Big Mirror (12 Articles, 16700 views)
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18 U.S.C. 2441(a) Offense.-- Whoever, whether inside or outside the United States, commits a war crime, in any of the circumstances described in subsection (b), shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for life or any term of years, or both, and if death results to the victim, shall also be subject to the penalty of death.
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Netanyahu runs US foreign policy now. What happened to Zelensky? And who's next? Have they picked somebody in Taiwan yet? What will become of all those semiconductors?
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Some thoughts after a quote from French economist Andre Orlean, in a book by Howard Richards. I think it's about what happened to us when we invented money.
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It's time to starve the attention addict-in-chief. Don't mention that name; don't tell anybody how terrible he is. Stop making up funny, angry screeds. It only bloats the thing all the more.
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Because ten of the thirteen pounds of plutonium did not fission but were drawn seven miles into the stratosphere and rained back down on the planet, a huge area of the Southwest will be contaminated for 240,000 years with the most toxic poison known to man. Series: Peace Boat (3 Articles, 3418 views)
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The historic Golden Rule anti-nuclear sailboat arrived in Cuba this morning, December 31, 2022. The storied wooden boat, which was sailed toward the Marshall Islands in 1958 to interfere with US nuclear testing, set sail from Key West, Florida on Friday morning with a crew of five. The 34-foot ketch belongs to Veterans For Peace, its mission "to end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons." Series: Peace Boat (3 Articles, 3418 views)
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In this new world, a free and adversarial press cannot function as designed in our Constitution, i.e., as a check on political power. This structural feature of the old paradigm no longer works, because the structure has been replaced.
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Unbounded organization is a not-too-confrontational attitude. It has no a priori bias for or against market-based solutions. For any problem it is open to considering innumerable options. The fixed north star is not the solution, but the commitment to work together to solve it. It was born in the twenty-first century and it was born in Africa, the land of Ubuntu. Series: Sources and Resources (5 Articles, 6550 views)
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A cursory glance at the "U. S. Government COVID - 19 Response Plan March 13, 2020" tells us that it was hurriedly got up to confuse and delay the public about the degree of Executive engagement in managing the pandemic. (Zero degrees of Executive engagement.)
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Who said the revolution will not be televised? And it's not torches and pitchforks and burning castles this time. It's nuanced and detailed and documented. With circles and arrows on each one. There are people ready to step up and handle things, cause they've had to be.
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This is so much bigger than an obscenely rich playboy playing pingpong with the public mind, much less a clever researcher into new slang and symbolism on the internet with a book to sell. These may be stories, but they pale next to what's been dumped in Taibbi's lap, probably because of his reputation for old-school journalistic integrity, that he is faithfully, and responsibly, reporting. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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The key may be the neurological correlation of behavior and perception. Modifying either what we do, or the way in which we understand reality, can shift our trajectory. But behavior modification is too much like trying to back a triple-tandem truck into an alley: instant chaos. On the other hand, modifying the way in which we see and understand our world brings whatever the hardwired correlate to that view, instantly.
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What makes a story a story nowadays isn't the information in it. What puts legs under it is the size of the instant virtualized audience it picks up as it ripples out across the network frog-pond from the big lilypad. Ribbit. Ribbit. Ka-ching! The sound of your now-virtualized eyeballs changing hands. But nobody cares what you were looking at, much less what you saw. They've already been to the bank. Series: Antisocial Media (8 Articles, 9541 views)
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