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• Post #4474558

  At the August BDays gathering on of the Bini (a young care-worker from the Philippines, Bagon Bayani!) brought a blue tooth microphone for Karaoke through cell phones. Euphoric fun around the meal table ensued. Grace did "Where's the Love" by the Black Eyed Peas^1. A fellow USAian did Wildflowers^2 by Dolly Parton. Good to learn! I got a Mom and Dad from the Vietnamese families to do Sac Mau. Got to be reminded. https://tiksi.net/wiki/bsmall2/DigitalGarden/SacMauSong #SacMau ^...

• Post #4051124

  > On page 45 of the PDF, the goose shows up. > Sixteen years ago, Softbank had only three golden eggs. That’s a market cap of 3 trillion yen. The “market only saw the eggs.” It ignored the goose. > But “eggs do not lay eggs.” It’s the goose! Value us! https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/26/softbanks-untitled-ai-goose-game-eggs-do-not-lay-eggs/ #GooseMeme #SoftBankMeme #MasayoshiSonWhiner #SoftBankGooseKY #PrivateEquityGoose 😂 😂

• Post #3872394

  > ... the voting public is learning a hard—or I should say watery—lesson about how important good government is, by way of the manifold consequences of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Robert Kennedy hacking away at American state capacity. The latest consequence can be heard in the groaning emanating from thousands of bathrooms across the country: the worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in American history. It deserves a name, so I’m calling it the MAHA Trots. https://prospect.org/2026/07/16/how-dona...

• Post #3660818

  > 未来の暗黒郷の二大構想と言えば、ジョージ・オーウェルの『1984年』とオルダス・ハクスリーの『すばらしい新世界』だ。大企業による全体主義への我々の転落を見つめていた人々の間の論争は、どちらが正しいかということだった。我々は、オーウェルが書いているように、粗野で暴力的な支配方式を用いる圧政的な監視・治安国家によって支配されているのだろうか? それとも我々は、ハクスリーが想像したように、娯楽と見世物に酔い、技術のとりこになり、浪費に魅せられて、我々自身が抑圧されるのを受け入れるのだろうか? 結局、オーウェルも、ハクスリーも正しかったのだ。ハクスリーは我々の隷属化の第一段階を見ていた。オーウェルは第二段階を見ていたのだ https://www.asyura2.com/09/dispute30/msg/876.html http://eigokiji.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2013/07/2011-7cb2.html #暗黒郷 #OrwellHuxleyJa #NeilPostmanQuoteJa #ChrisHedgesJa

• Post #3568870

  > 米国独立250年 さまよえる超大国 > ７月４日、米国が独立２５０年を迎える。１７７６年のこの日、大陸会議が英国からの独立宣言を採択したからだ。自由・平等・幸福の追求が人間の天賦の権利だと高らかにうたった独立宣言とうらはらに、米国は、強大な軍事力と経済力を背景に世界に君臨してきた。だが、米国一極支配にも陰りがみえはじめた。わたしたちは米国とどのように向き合うべきなのだろうか。 https://www.kinyobi.co.jp/tokushu/004317.php

• Post #2882442

  Probably 75,000 USA kid citizens. Not that citizenship should matter for decency... the obligation to treat.kids and their caregivers well.. > A new analysis suggests that more than 100,000 children have been separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown... > The researchers estimated that about 205,000 children have had a parent detained — typically a precursor to deportation — including about 145,000 who are citizens. https://www.nytimes....

• Post #2882441

  > "Small towns may revile you, but they have to keep you—they can’t turn you away." #InOnePerson by #JohnIrving on #SmallTowns #APlaceForEveryOne

• Post #2882440

  "A poem is an activity, seeking to become itself. All behavior (or activity as I prefer to say: see _Speculative Instruments_ pp. 118-22) or organisms is organic. But, of course it must be _activity_. When we fall downstairs that is not activity; going up them is. " -- I.A. Richards #PoetriesAndSciences pp. 108-109 This line, and maybe a similar on somewhere else helps fill out my aversion to the word _behavior.. Falling down the steps if behavior, going up them is activity...

• Post #2882439

  > 2021年5月、ガーディアン紙の記事で、ブレット・クリストファースは、マルムの主張をこう紹介した。産業革命時に工場経営者が動力を水力から蒸気に切り替えたのは、蒸気のほうが安価だったからではなく、より多くの利益を生むからであった。蒸気機関の導入によって、生産者側は原動機を設置するにあたり、水力で不可欠だった水源にかんする地理的制約から解放され、安価な労働力のそばに工場を建設することができるようになったことが特に大きかったのである。 https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/アンドレアス・マルム #AndreasMalm #FossilCapital #アンドレアスマルム #蒸気機関

• Post #2882438

  "The politics are embedded into the characters and the narrative, which is a more sophisticated way of doing it" > It makes you angry, not on your own behalf, but on behalf of the people whose voices weren't allowed to be heard. When you had trade unions, ordinary people, rank and file, never been on television, never been interviewed, and they're not allowed to be heard, that's scandalous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Loach #KenLoach #Wo...

• Post #2882437

  > He danced and sang from morn till night, No lark so blithe as he. And this the burden of his song, For ever used to be: I care for nobody, no, not I, If nobody cares for me. https://www.traditioninaction.org/Cultural/Music_P_files/P026_Miller.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_of_Dee #MillerPoem #MillerSong #MillerOfDee #EPGDM #EP3 #EP3p185

• Post #2882436

  Walking talking Money SackBag: "Higher Value Human CapTal" 😂😂 > “‘Taken out of context’ is the oldest deflection in the book. If you’re cutting 15% of your workforce, the ‘building skills for new opportunities’ line doesn’t land—it insults people’s intelligence.” https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/standard-chartered-ceo-bill-winters-apologizes-calling-some-workers-lower-value-human-capital-ai-push/ #LowerValueHumanCapital #HumanMoneySackBag #BillWinters #FinancialLeader...