all methodologies even the most obvious ones have their limits ~feyerabend 🔭🔬🧬⚛️♾️ a very great deal more truth can become known than can be proven ~feynman 🌏 Many refuse to accept this. Their identity is sculpted around a constellation of intellectual conceits common to narrow intelligence.

They are still finding Francos death pits.

Only in a •failed state• is this story possible. Why was it ignored for so long - and by so many? Beyond soundbites and clichés, people don’t examine this question closely. It makes us feel exploited. Naive. Flawed. Culpable. The tribalism of identity creates all kinds of demons - not just this one.

We make human-ing harder than it should be. We make molehills into mountains, searching shadows and turning shapes into shards. Instead, be like our pets. Not a care in the world, trusting that provisions come, troubles pass, and wishes are granted. Today, I choose to be more like my pet. #Chooseday

Today on WFMU: On Techtonic with Mark Hurst, Dave Karpf on the data center backlash. The growing anger against data centers could be a catalyst for huge changes in the tech industry. Dave Karpf discusses how citizens might help pop the AI bubble (6 p.m. ET).

When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."

NPR spent decades exhausting its concession-making, power-appeasing culture. Confessions are all that remain.

I took this macro shot of a Xeno Crab on a Gorgonian Sea Fan in Sogod Bay, Philippines. There were many macro subjects. #marinelifephotography #marinelife #wildlifephotography #wildlife #naturephotography #nature #crab #scuba #eastcoastkin #photography

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COVID raises your shingles risk. New data from 110,000+ patients out of Taiwan shows that post-COVID Shingles raise risk of ➡️ Bell's palsy ➡️ Guillain Barré ➡️ Myasthenia Gravis Risk are increased for 3+ years. Sounds like another good reason to get a Shingles vaccine. buff.ly/H1N73zd #medsky 😷🧪

UFC is like cocaine for thrill-seeking vulgarians who are dead inside, but if I could secure ten uninterrupted, televised minutes on the PA system beforehand, I would agree to fight anyone foolish enough to waste their time murdering me.

I consider all kinds of ideas, assertions and theories, but the •passion• of their proponents, advocates & adherents does not compel my agreement, acceptance or conformity. People emphatically believe all kinds of things that aren’t true - and very often cannot explain what informs their belief.

those who think they know it all have no way of finding out t h e y d o n ' t ~leo buscaglia

One of the funny things about disclosing Spiritually Transformative Experience is being judged and ridiculed by people in marginalized groups. It isn't "ha-ha" funny, but it does provide valuable insights into human behavior. Had I not developed a thick skin, I would’ve bled to death years ago.

The Information Age doesn't confer knowledge or understanding, and the intransigent institutions which preceded it are gears within gears pulverizing people & ideas into extrudable grist for an extractive economy wholly reliant on the brutal exploitation of planetary life.🌐 Oh, hey. How’s it going?

Rod Serling was a highly respected and profoundly influential figure in my life and the lives of so many others. Reflecting on what informed his perspective - the unspeakable horror of war; the shame and redemption inherent in human experience - can only deepen one's appreciation of his life’s work.

I truly don’t have a nationalist bone in my body, but erasure is not nationalism or patriotism. MAGA was a hate movement long before it was MAGA. All those “collegial” compromises espoused as “pragmatism” were always lies. Institutionalism has never saved anyone from anything, and it never will.

What happened some 152 years ago would remain buried for over a century until David Blight, a renowned Yale University professor, scholar and author, discovered that Blacks founded what is now known as Memorial Day. #DecorationDay #BlackskyNews chicagocrusader.com/memorial-day...

For the first time in my life I’ve had occasion to interact with another country’s medical system and good lord the US system is Not It.

The moment I care about metrics is the moment I lose the plot. When honest expression isn't its own reward, nothing else will be, either. We are conditioned, as we condition each other, to be transactional creatures. That isn’t love, service or wisdom. Exploitation does not have to govern our lives.

The Tunnel of Nine Turns is one of many long and winding narrow ravines in Taroko Gorge. The marble gorge is one of only three in the world and is a national park in Hualien, Taiwan. #landscapephotography #landscape #naturephotography #nature #gorge #taiwan #asia #eastcoastkin #photography

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH

Meet Potpourri, one of my devil's flower mantises. He is at his L-3 stage of development, having only molted twice. Devil's Flowers are one of the largest mantis species. #naturephotography #nature #macrophotography #macro #wildlife #prayingmantis #mantis #insect #eastcoastkin #photography

That NPR was a •stealthy• bullshit factory catering to the intellectuals who funded it is also a “real history lesson” - one which remains unexamined & unacknowledged because the implications are personal, compel introspection and demand self-correction. Consequence teaches what Awareness overlooks.

Were I to post •all• my grievances, I could sit at the cool kids’ table. But then I’d have even more grievances to post, and I’m not that ambitous, industrious or desperate for validation. Being an outsider has its perks.

NPR still doing the CPB shuck & jive. Is there anything it won't whitewash or sanewash in its desperate mission to rewrite Officialdom’s bloody past and dystopian present? Wait, wait, don’t tell me: We’ll never know because that’s the entirety of its sappy, obsolete brand. Camelot that, suckers.

New from me: Following up on my 14 Theses Concerning Online Political Violence, I offer Four Rules of Thumb for Online Safety Work. Whether you work for the companies directly or research safety issues in civil society, we need to approach our work with new guardrails. medium.com/p/0e4eba9668...

May brand collapse become a longterm global trend. “Too big to fail” is a threat, not a universal axiom. ⬇️🧵

Each moment this malicious criminal regime commands the levers of government culminates in a metastasizing threat to every man, woman and child on Earth. This is not hyperbole. Truth transcends belief, declaration and identity. It must be lived through an honest life if one is to understand it all.♾️

life everywhere incipient in the very rock aping organized forms ~emerson 🌏 ALL MATTER IS BIOGENIC. This is neither supposition nor metaphor. It is suppressed knowledge; a decades-long malignancy devouring human potential and the planet which gives us life - a nightmare from which all must awaken.

I truly don’t have a nationalist bone in my body, but erasure is not nationalism or patriotism. MAGA was a hate movement long before it was MAGA. All those “collegial” compromises espoused as “pragmatism” were always lies. Institutionalism has never saved anyone from anything, and it never will.

Remember when “Mind your own business,” and “Live and let live,” were generally associated with “freedom” and “liberty.” Not that xenophobes and hate mongers ever excelled at either, but as aspirational ideals go, it was sound advice which left room for evolving perspective and personal growth. 🌱🌞🌻

As it turns out, all the pageantry and self-aggrandizing rhetoric about defending The Constitution "against all enemies, foreign and domestic” was a fantasy. A towering lie teetering on a mountainous trash heap of self-deceit. As with all nationalist mythologies, the grandiosity is a dead giveaway.🌐

Gangsta Nation.

Geriatric fare, as a genre, is far too ingratiating and saccharine for my taste, but THE BOROUGHS cast is a generational supernova I literally cannot ignore.

Going to be stupid hot over the next few days, so the only place for me is among the trees. They give me shelter from the cares of life and now the heat of the day. Stay cool friends and carry water. #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky #ColorADay #BWFri

Alchemy.

William S. Burroughs & Gus Van Sant - Millions of Images [USA, Spoken Word/Ambient] (1985) https://redd.it/291qb7 https://youtu.be/KxR8NPI_66o

FATAL DISEASE CONDUCTS POSTMORTEM If Ken Martin had standards, he would release his own report instead of shuffling away from the fart area. Not that I’d read it. The DNC is a one-eyed, one-armed, concussed pugilist who only punches left. There is never anything “incredible” about its behavior.

I’m surprised Bluesky Management acknowledged Russian interference at all. It has tipped its hand too many times for me to unsee.

Kestrels are famous for their ability to hover. This allows them to lock their eyes on the ground and search for small prey like voles and mice. TT: Jacob Rheams Wildlife Photographer - UK

The Thinker, by Hiromu Kira c. 1930.

The Dem centrist modus operandi.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.

This story, as I read it, is about Schrader’s immersion into AI to understand the Human/AI intersection. Some people learn primarily through experience, not analysis. Describing him as “the ‘Taxi Driver’ screenwriter” suggests the story was written to elicit ridicule. Kinda feels like a cheap shot.

Julie’s WFMU show, DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL, makes every Tuesday a celebration. She’s an exquisite curator of eclectic headtones. Love & Gratitude to you, Julie.❤️‍🔥 wfmu.org/playlists/sh...

I like their style.

I lived much of my life like this - usually to the disapproval of family and acquaintances. Being a generalist in a specialist’s world yields little social capital and even less financial capital. Granted, I will likely die as I’ve lived - in penniless obscurity - but not as a stranger to myself.❤️‍🔥🧠✌️