5-7 books to something something about me? Good Lord. Um...
Okay, "A Wrinkle in Time", that's like a free space.
Thaddeus Golas, "A Lazy Man's Guide To Enlightenment".
Robinson, "A Short, Sharp Shock".
Me, "All Reality" (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KH-ZR3A8va_QVaVVP5EWb3SIUUJF2o0g65hOV3pVspA/)
Ram Dass, "Be Here Now"
I don't know! Maybe Morick (ed) "Challenges to Empiricism".
Ooh how about Abbott's "Flatland"?
"Principia Discordia" of course.
Darn, that's eight already, and I haven't listed "The Wind in the Willows" yet, which should probably have been first.
And lots more!!
An #introduction:
Bachelor's degree in #Philosophy from Princeton, 1981, which makes me ?good at ?discussion?.
#Zen #Buddhist #Pantheist #atheist
#Radical (for the US) #politics, in that I think power should be more fairly distributed than it is now,.
Master's in #compsci from Pace, 1985ish; professional #coder for like 40 years, mostly for #IBM and now for #google (all opinions strictly my own, of course, not theirs!), mostly on the #systems side. #cpp and anything else really, they're just languages. :)
Greatly enjoy #writing, and I've done a number of #nanowrimo novels (working on the dozenth in 2022). Have also greatly enjoyed playing with #gpt3.
I have no visual skills, but lately I've been producing thousands of images using #midjourney and a few with other text-to-image tools. The future is wild!
I think the first two years of college should be free, student loans should be at 0% interest and available to anyone who needs one, we should take care of our veterans, we should have free public transportation, the post office is not a business and should not be run like one, healthcare is a right
Absolutely insane that every vote is a squeaker, and literally no one wants this bill but they don’t wanna get primaried. This bill is insane trash and will make everyone’s life worse except mine. And I don’t want the tax break. I want to pay for kids meals and Headstart with my taxes.
'Trump lit the match': Ex-insider says president set stage for 'brutal' attack
#MissileSystemsRollback #TrumpUkraineConflict #ZelenskyPressure #RealTimeConflictUnfolding #UkraineSovereigntyThreatened
"The Other Side Of The #COIN: Counterinsurgency And Community Policing by Kristian Williams
"This essay outlines the current counterinsurgency model, with an emphasis on its domestic application in the United States. It shows that many contemporary counterinsurgency practices were developed by police agencies inside the U.S., and illustrates the transfer of theory, strategy, and technique from domestic police to the military- and back."
Index page https://www.interfacejournal.net/2011/05/interface-volume-3-issue-1-repression-and-social-movements/ #ACAB #AmericanGestapo
"What are you crying for? You're tall, I like that; you have long hands which all but obey your will; why aren't you happy about it? Always wear dark cuffs, that's my advice. -No-I flatter you and yet you cry? I think you cope quite sensibly with the difficulty of living."
A new class of materials that passively harvests #water from the air.
Because science.
From a project funded by the US National Science Foundation.
'Crazy, unreliable leadership': Democrats condemn Trump's national guard deployment to LA - video
#TrumpNationalGuard #EnemyWithin #CaliforniaNewsom #TeargasPepperBalls #MaxineWaters
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Trump's birthday parade next week is genuinely a very good opportunity to point at the artillery rolling down PA Avenue and say "that's why health care expenses are the leading cause of bankruptcy"
Bush-appointed judge torches Trump with 27 exclamation points -- and a gumbo recipe -- in ruling against an executive order
#JudgeRulingAgainstTrump #ExclamationPoints27 #TrumpExecutiveOrder #BushAppointedJudge #WaveOfLegalActions
Thing about donating Bibles to a homeless shelter is - we already have them. Shelters get Bibles all the time. Once in a while, somebody picks one up. If you want to donate something that will help, check the shelter website. They might have a list of stuff they need. Socks and hygiene items are always useful.
If you *really* want to help the homeless, destroy capitalism.
I just wrote a rather lengthy thread attempting to alert folks to the strange yet dangerous opinion handed down today by one of the federal district courts hearing habeas petition efforts from Venezuelans detained per Trump’s Alien Enemies Act. Because I inadvertently broke the thread a couple of times, here’s a roadmap through it. It begins at https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/114480615081835914. 1/
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