Category: Whatever
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What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
Towards the end of last year America began running short of medicines used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd), including Adderall (an amphetamine) and Ritalin (a central-nervous-system stimulant). Nine in ten pharmacies reported shortages of the medication, which tens of millions of Americans use to help improve focus and concentration.…
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Tina Turner: Simply the Best
R. I. P. Tina Turner (1939-2023), one of the best entertainers with a real gift for transcending circumstances and being open to change. 🙏namaste sibling🙏
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The coming schism
An op, Ed from the Los Angeles Times that speaks to the growing rift between the highly conservative United States. Bishops conference for the Catholic Church here, and the Vatican, specifically, Pope Francis. While the pontiff makes every effort to emphasize the need for pastoral care from all members of…
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What If the State Department of Transportation Tore Down Texas Highways?
When will Texas get real mass transit and stop enriching the companies that build roads???
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The fast fascist creep
It amazes me that 80 years on from the end of World War II, I still must share with my students to show them quotes like this. Look! It is happening around them and they do NOT pay attention… The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion…
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More pollution for less pollution?
Rocks unearthed here [in Indonesia] contain traces of nickel, a key ingredient in electric vehicle batteries. Extracting it, refining it and readying it for export is a gargantuan task. More than $1 billion has been sunk into the processing facility, the first in Indonesia to use an acid-leaching technology to…
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Ready… set… leap!
Obviously, folks make leaps all the time: they leap for real joy, they leap to invalid conclusions, they leap into bad deals, etc. So a distinction must be drawn between springing-forth from the solid ground of critical experience (the dance of uncertainty) and hopping-around on the shaky ground of uncritical…
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Reading my life as a “useless passion”
Problem posing from my experience increases my existential literacy in the direction of liberatory praxis.
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I asked Google Bard to explain…
Google Bard helps folks understand how all social media and tech companies get SO VERY MUCH free labor from all those who use it.
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Back to beginnings
Sometimes, it is better to junk some efforts with which you have been engaged than to continue their upkeep while simultaneously wasting your time. Social media was this for me. I was big proponent way back in 2008-2010. I saw that it could have some real world impact. Then it…
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No More Social Media
That is my intent and I hope to manifest a clean break. I will keep posting on here as blogging goes all the way back to when we still used Bulletin Board Systems to share our thinkering. And while I find that there are so many good folks, so much…
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Aphorism 25Mar2023
If I am willing to be open to the uncertainty of being in the lifeworld alongside all these others also struggling toward liberation, I must never forget: Evolution is neither preservation of the status quo nor conservation of the familiar; rather, evolution creates the opportunities for what has yet to…
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Some thoughts on guilt and innocence
To the degree that there is an intentionality to guilt. it would involve consciousness of failure. In this sense, I mean failure to do the right thing: either because you failed to do right on purpose or by accident. Existentially, this makes guilt always already a reflective acknowledgment. Imagining consequences…
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Health as Shame Generator
Lots of shame comes out of the Health Industrial Complex. Whether it’s a physician measuring your failure in pounds or a fitness guru manipulating your desire to “look fit and attractive,” shame plays a HUGE role in keeping most people miserable with their self-image. Aubrey Gordon has produced an excellent…
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Dark Music Days Music Festival
My beautiful sibling and philosophic co-conspiratorJeanette Joy Harris went all the way to Iceland for this festival experience. The least you can do is read about it. Sounds like it was a brilliant time Curating a music festival, or any festival that highlights “new” performance is tricky, but DDMF’s program…
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