lee a pseudogrammaton
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"I'm as shapeless as the man in the moon!" - Quasimodo
Yeh there's that. Altho propaganda runs cover for corruption
It’s not about the size of the gift or the bribe.
It’s about the size of your propaganda apparatus that counts.
And nobody has a bigger propaganda apparatus than Donald “Epstein” Trump.
It’s about the size of your propaganda apparatus that counts.
And nobody has a bigger propaganda apparatus than Donald “Epstein” Trump.
July 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Yeh there's that. Altho propaganda runs cover for corruption
Again, what do the Dems have to lose by being more vocal in their opposition to his misrule? They owe their constituents the courtesy of an explanation, if it's not too much to ask.
April 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Again, what do the Dems have to lose by being more vocal in their opposition to his misrule? They owe their constituents the courtesy of an explanation, if it's not too much to ask.
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Anytime I start feeling a little too smug about my sentience, I remember the time I took a mouth full of coffee, forgot to swallow, laughed at a joke in my own head, and spilled it all over my white shirt.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Anytime I start feeling a little too smug about my sentience, I remember the time I took a mouth full of coffee, forgot to swallow, laughed at a joke in my own head, and spilled it all over my white shirt.
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"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror
State Terror
A brief guide for Americans
snyder.substack.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:28 PM
"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."
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What's wild about the US tariffs is that they are not coupled with any industrial policy or public investment strategy that could plausibly deliver US re-industrialization. The result is that the tariffs will likely accelerate US industrial decline and general economic degradation.
April 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
What's wild about the US tariffs is that they are not coupled with any industrial policy or public investment strategy that could plausibly deliver US re-industrialization. The result is that the tariffs will likely accelerate US industrial decline and general economic degradation.
Circling the drain
"Truth is, USA are actually losing their grip on the world" www.lemonde.fr/article-offe...
Thomas Piketty : « La réalité est que les Etats-Unis sont en train de perdre le contrôle du monde »
CHRONIQUE. Le président américain voudrait que la pax americana soit récompensée par un tribut versé par le reste du monde, de façon à financer éternellement ses déficits. Le problème est que la puiss...
www.lemonde.fr
April 15, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Circling the drain
The rise of the rentiers has hit its apex. Down they go.
Sending a message tonight to Trump's Sec. of Commerce Scott Bessent, who:
💰 Called concerns about oligarchy "class envy" during his confirmation hearing
🙅 Opposes raising the min wage, claiming it "distorts markets"
🔒 Protects power and pushes for fewer corporate regulations.
#DefundOligarchy
💰 Called concerns about oligarchy "class envy" during his confirmation hearing
🙅 Opposes raising the min wage, claiming it "distorts markets"
🔒 Protects power and pushes for fewer corporate regulations.
#DefundOligarchy
April 15, 2025 at 6:10 AM
The rise of the rentiers has hit its apex. Down they go.
AKA stuffing money under the mattress. USA is practicing Economic Nationalism, incl. offshore assets losing value for tax evasion's sake. 2-party complicity but the Repubs include reactionary populism as part of rentier wealth defense. All in service to empire.
Insanely Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Our Prosperity - Evonomics evonomics.com/insanely-con...
Insanely Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Our Prosperity - Evonomics
Today's mountains of wealth throttle the very engine of wealth creation itself.
evonomics.com
January 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
AKA stuffing money under the mattress. USA is practicing Economic Nationalism, incl. offshore assets losing value for tax evasion's sake. 2-party complicity but the Repubs include reactionary populism as part of rentier wealth defense. All in service to empire.
Pythogoras meets the Circle of Fifths? When systematized in a 12×12 PC×Key schema, it forms a tonnetz. Implications? No idea.
#musictheory #tonnetz #12TET #acoustics #physics #quantum
#musictheory #tonnetz #12TET #acoustics #physics #quantum
January 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Pythogoras meets the Circle of Fifths? When systematized in a 12×12 PC×Key schema, it forms a tonnetz. Implications? No idea.
#musictheory #tonnetz #12TET #acoustics #physics #quantum
#musictheory #tonnetz #12TET #acoustics #physics #quantum
Neil deGrasse Tyson debates a right-wing commentator over COVID vaccines. Bet-David is in an epistemological battle to make knowledge & facts a matter of preference, in order to defend a vaunted but eroding ideology. Thats not conservatism that's reactionary populism in service to militant capital.
youtube.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Neil deGrasse Tyson debates a right-wing commentator over COVID vaccines. Bet-David is in an epistemological battle to make knowledge & facts a matter of preference, in order to defend a vaunted but eroding ideology. Thats not conservatism that's reactionary populism in service to militant capital.
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when people call music theory “gay math” they’re making it sound slightly cooler than it is. i still like it. but let’s temper our expectations
December 9, 2024 at 11:33 PM
when people call music theory “gay math” they’re making it sound slightly cooler than it is. i still like it. but let’s temper our expectations
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Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
December 12, 2024 at 4:31 AM
Roses are redde
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
Noble are the manatees
Yf we wante a bettir future
Teach artes & humanityes
"Sky Cooling Paint" literally ejects local heat back into space, bypassing greenhouse gasses. If 1% - 2% of the Earth's surface was covered by such paint it could mitigate global warming. By comparison all of the cities on Earth cover 3% of the planet's surface.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/c...
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/c...
To Help Cool a Hot Planet, the Whitest of White Coats (Published 2023)
Scientists at Purdue have created a white paint that, when applied, can reduce the surface temperature on a roof and cool the building beneath it.
www.nytimes.com
January 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
"Sky Cooling Paint" literally ejects local heat back into space, bypassing greenhouse gasses. If 1% - 2% of the Earth's surface was covered by such paint it could mitigate global warming. By comparison all of the cities on Earth cover 3% of the planet's surface.
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/c...
www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/c...
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"Surveilled": Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone
“Surveilled”: Ronan Farrow on the Spyware Technology the Trump Admin Could Use to Hack Your Phone
We continue to discuss the new HBO Original film Surveilled and explore the film’s investigation of high-tech spyware firms with journalist Ronan Farrow and director Matthew O’Neill. We focus on the...
www.democracynow.org
January 1, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Is a civilizational phase shift almost upon us? The existing system appears to be breaking down, & massive reconfiguration is imperative.
Civilization as we know it is ending, prominent forecaster says
YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder
m.youtube.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:51 PM
Is a civilizational phase shift almost upon us? The existing system appears to be breaking down, & massive reconfiguration is imperative.
Severe Avian Flu on the horizon? Nobody understands exposure risk, so it helps to have a chart. Here the 1st row of #'s are "new cases" per 100k people w/ an assumed 9-day contagion window, & an undercount coeff. of 5x (accel. spike in cases). See the "Alt Text" for the formula.
![Given an incidence of 0.1% (0.001), or 100/100k people, with an undercount factor of 5x, & two people standing in a room:
Assessment of personal risk:
1 - ((1 - ([0.001] * [5])) ^2) =
1 - ((1 - ( 0.005 )) ^2) = 0.01
or 1 out of 100, or 1% risk of group infection.
Note: Ascertainment bias is the degree of undercount, i.e. if the # of current reported infections is 100/100k people (0.1%) but we're undercounting by 80%, then the ascertainment bias is 5x (100/20), and the actual infection rate is 500/100k people (0.5%).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nksjiqahk2x6fdrh4q74hlft/bafkreigeignnpcnlv57r54h64lcfx4c355ucjwdfvlp5f4bfn57zdveage@jpeg)
December 30, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Severe Avian Flu on the horizon? Nobody understands exposure risk, so it helps to have a chart. Here the 1st row of #'s are "new cases" per 100k people w/ an assumed 9-day contagion window, & an undercount coeff. of 5x (accel. spike in cases). See the "Alt Text" for the formula.
Start stocking up on long-term supplies. The fuse is burning on avian flu, it's becoming less & less hopeful we'll dodge this bullet. An avian flu outbreak 3x more lethal than COVID, & 12x more lethal than typical Flu-A is not outside the realm of possibility, & yet another strain 50x more deadly!
* H5N1 update for December 27, 2024 *
* No good news*
Lizzietraveler is on TikTok. In her words: She is a “scientifically literate layperson, former EMT,... | By Soleil | Facebook
* H5N1 update for December 27, 2024 *
* No good news*
Lizzietraveler is on TikTok. In her words: She is a “scientifically literate layperson, former EMT,...
www.facebook.com
December 30, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Start stocking up on long-term supplies. The fuse is burning on avian flu, it's becoming less & less hopeful we'll dodge this bullet. An avian flu outbreak 3x more lethal than COVID, & 12x more lethal than typical Flu-A is not outside the realm of possibility, & yet another strain 50x more deadly!
Nice trails were it not for invasive feral hogs tearing everything up - they're very destructive to native habitats. I can see that a nat'l plan to extirpate them will soon be necessary - good eatin' but for trichinosis (RFK brain worms). #cruzbike #orlando #wetlands #park #OrlandoWetlandsPark
December 30, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Nice trails were it not for invasive feral hogs tearing everything up - they're very destructive to native habitats. I can see that a nat'l plan to extirpate them will soon be necessary - good eatin' but for trichinosis (RFK brain worms). #cruzbike #orlando #wetlands #park #OrlandoWetlandsPark
Expect the COINTELPRO reboot. Putin's playbook had this too, replete with anodyne-looking activist groups. Surkov rigged it all up nice & neat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
The Kremlin’s Gray Cardinal - PV Podcast Ep. 57
YouTube video by CEPA
www.youtube.com
December 27, 2024 at 8:06 PM
Expect the COINTELPRO reboot. Putin's playbook had this too, replete with anodyne-looking activist groups. Surkov rigged it all up nice & neat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmE...
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Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
October 24, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Semi-regular reminder:
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
Baby open-ocean octopuses sometimes ride on jellyfish like little hats.
📸 Songda Cai bit.ly/2ZmNZZH 🧪🪼🐙🦑🌿
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December 13, 2024 at 6:13 PM
I've often proferred this dodgy example of microeconomics in jest, partly b/c 300 hrs/yr was a number I grabbed out of my derriere. But now I come to find out the average American is expending upwards of 400 work-hrs/yr to keep a car [LINK:]
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/s...
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/s...
December 24, 2024 at 1:14 PM
I've often proferred this dodgy example of microeconomics in jest, partly b/c 300 hrs/yr was a number I grabbed out of my derriere. But now I come to find out the average American is expending upwards of 400 work-hrs/yr to keep a car [LINK:]
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/s...
usa.streetsblog.org/2024/03/25/s...