Andy Lowry @AndyLowry@qoto.org
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
Andy Lowry
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If this year taught us anything, it's that:
1) Workers keep America going, not billionaires.
2) Corporate profits don't trickle down to workers.
3) Poverty is a policy choice.
4) Health care is a human right.
5) Strikes work.
I hope we act on these lessons in the new year.
Andy Lowry
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And there it is, what a lot of blather. https://www.supremecourt.gov/publicinfo/year-end/2022year-endreport.pdf
Andy Lowry
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We might see a mention of a loss of public confidence in the court, but that will be blamed on those of us who don't spend the time to read their opinions, where they lay out all the facts and just call balls and strikes.
I wouldn't expect to see anything about Justice Thomas's connections to the far right insurrectionists that tried to topple the U.S. government.
All in all, it should be a pretty boring statement from a revanchist, far right judiciary rolling back constitutional rights.
Andy Lowry
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It won't mention some of the court's biggest achievements, including blocking passage of legislation to make court records published on PACER available for free to the public and preventing online video of Supreme Court proceedings.
Nary a mention will be made of conservative efforts to covertly influence the court on abortion through the use of tactical donations to get close to the justices.
Nor will it hail the expanded use of the shadow docket or the capture of the court by the far right.
Andy Lowry
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It's not available yet, but I'm looking forward to the annual message from the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
I can preview it's content: "We're not corrupt. La-la-la-la."
It likely will hail the passage of internet censorship legislation as part of the NDAA that prevents publication of some information concerning the ethics of federal judges.
It likely won't mention that more than a hundred judges heard cases in which they had a financial interest.
@jayarava
Thanks for the info! Shouldn't be too hard to get an email one way or another through the university. It's a real-life QUEST! and I get to play Gilgamesh. 😉
@jayarava
I've just spent the last half hour trying to find a way to buy a copy of Old School Emptiness, as both your mentions and a review at the Cambridge site make it seems like something I'd get a lot out of. None of my usual methods, like finding a seller via the ISBN number, is working.
Since you're apparently acquainted with the author, I thought I'd ask if you have any suggestions that would help me purchase the book. Digital format is ideal for me but I can certainly settle for physical paper if need be.
Thank you.
Andy Lowry
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"A sense of wonder is desperately important."
Jane Goodall
#Quotes #EmotionalIntelligence
Andy Lowry
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Republicans are OK with 10-year-olds giving birth, just as long as they're not allowed to read a book about it.
Andy Lowry
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The ret-conning of Benedict resigning due to 'ill health' and not due to his decades of complicity in protecting child abusers at the expense of children is in full force today. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/24/former-pope-benedict-statement-child-sexual-abuse-inquiry He didn't 'fail to act' he actively covered up child abuse and gave the abusers repeated access to new victims *even after one was convicted*.
@jayarava
It reads as though it were translated from German. Odd.
@jayarava
Hey now! I managed to overlook that post somehow. Is it from the 8000 line? Something else? A search for the text and author aren't helping.
@jayarava
Well, I'm 99.9% sure it's nonsense, anyway, but that still allows for an infinitesimal of agnostic. 😉
@jayarava
Your mention of the Walser "Genealogy" book in your recent "The Cessation of Sensory..." sounded intriguing, so I looked at the description from the publisher. On seeing the subject matter, I snapped it up in a flash-- I've been looking for exactly this kind of thing on the origins of Mahayana for a long time. I had thought that Paul Williams' "Doctrinal Foundations" would have covered the history of the emergence of the school, but ha! fooled again. Looking forward to jumping into this one! Thanks for the happy happenstance. 😋
Andy Lowry
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@jayarava
Very much looking forward to that one! I'll just wait right here. 😎
Andy Lowry
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RT @LynzforCongress
Hey Secretary @PeteButtigieg—make sure you ask @SouthwestAir about calling in law enforcement to arrest customers they’ve stranded at airports. https://twitter.com/bradbatt/status/1607973979934834690
Andy Lowry
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RT @BernieSanders
Corporate greed is Southwest getting a $7 billion bailout during the pandemic & spending $5.6 billion on stock buybacks to enrich wealthy shareholders, while stranded passengers are threatened with jail time for the crime of trying to rebook canceled flights during the holidays.
Andy Lowry
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"I only go on Twitter to find people's Mastodon account info" is the new "I only use IE to download Chrome".
Andy Lowry
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GRETA, NOW DO ELON.
Retired SysAdmin living in the high country of Arizona, USA. I enjoy learning about physics, cosmology, genetics, neurology, and suchlike. Deeply confused by worldwide trends towards authoritarianism. I thought we'd already learned about that stuff. But I guess not.
Joined Nov 2022
