"slum shifting fails because it tries to overcome causes of trouble by diddling-with-symptoms" -- Jane Jacobs
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Fascinated by complexity, emergence, simplicity, life. Tweeting curious multiplicities, random intersections, multiple associations, Koestler's ants?
"Small solutions are things that one does rather than things that one tells someone else to do. Small solutions typically become known only after they have had their effect" -- Chambliss
"There comes a time when out of a false good there arises a true evil, since the encroachments of the rich are more destructive to the constitution than those of the people" -- Aristotle
"... propaganda fills a need of modern man, a need that creates in him an unconscious desire for propaganda. He is in the position of needing outside help to be able to face his condition. And that aid is propaganda" -- Ellul (1965)
"he shared a cell with activist Lyndon LaRouche and skydiver Roger Nelson" - wikipedia doing its stuff for Jim Bakker
out for a walk in the dark, no distractions, and an idea comes, clear as day (poor brain, always in the dark)
"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, There is a field. I'll meet you there" -- Rumi
"the major advances-in-civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur:––like unto an arrow in the hand of a child" -- Whitehead (1927)
A two minute exposure of clouds moving over the #BrucePeninsula, Ontario at sunset for #StunDay #BruceCounty #ECK #photography #TenMinutesFromHome #BackyardPhotography #LongExposureProject
working something, takes a break for a bite to eat, and the answer comes, in the kitchen, spaces around places
turn it upside down is one way to see differently, a kind of beginners eye unbiased by familiarity
"Dramatic-simplicity has been one of their chief attractions and is also their chronic weakness, a serious one when they need to be applied in detail" -- Midgley
"Slopaganda is distinguished from traditional propaganda by three features: scale, scope, and speed" -- wikipedia
"paradoxes bind generations together with common problems" -- Sorensen
"...at a time when pickpockets were executed in England, other pickpockets exercised their talents in the crowd surrounding the scaffold..." -- Camus (1957)
looks like its equinox eve, looking forward to some autumnal colors in the coming weeks
in the cafe, everyone heads down in their facebooks, one guy head down reading a real book, with real paper - a little hope for the future
TIL you can just pick a number, search for it, and likely find a wikipedia page describing delightful things you'd never expect to find, learn - wonder if there's a concept for gateway-numbers
lost something four weeks ago, out for a walk a possible place to look comes, out of the blue - checks that place, and finds what we lost - brains work without thinking about it, nice when the answers come
even the solar overtakes wind headline this week - a glimpse of small, more affordable tech?
clean tech, ad free media - things to look forward to - both more local, less dependent on big tech
meanwhile youtube recommendations everyday slops up a chinese virtual newsreader, you can spot it in a microsecond, and block it, but they popup again, which presumably means the google ai doesn't hit the kill switch because ad revenue goes up