thanks and links for 2024-W25

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

2024-06-23 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-06-23 is 2024-W25-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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a must-watch: Chris Hedges gives a talk in England … a must-read: the text*

They chose Brexit because many thought: how could life get worse? (!?)*

power matters: AI magnifies power for those who use it, but not equally (!?)*

power decides what happens and decides what people think about what happens (!*)*

Lynn Conway (1938–2024) was fired by IBM in 1968 for being transgender (!?) / image*

“And it is important to understand that this is not about sexual orientation.”* / Piraro

a master class in how it’s up to us whether we go extinct or not – another must-read*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W25-3*

in the UK only the SNP has anything skeptical to say about nuclear weapons (!?)*

screenshot from open letter on ScheerPost* picked up from Mondoweiss*

Swiss court sentences four billionaires to four years for exploiting domestic staff (!?)*

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thanks and links for 2024-W24

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

2024-06-16 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-06-16 is 2024-W24-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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it’s all about inequality and narrative control, as Einstein pointed out in a 1948 article*

Caitlin Johnstone: I often say, “I write about the end of illusions,” because …*








continuing to treat Palestinians as subhuman enables the genocide to continue*

Elon and Peter Thiel and Zuckerberg under control / Geoffrey Hinton (!?) – AI guy*

less than 4 percent of the total came to North America / Slate (!?) – Atlantic slave trade

British prison hulks (!?)

“attack surface”: a term that denotes the target area for online crime (!g) / QR codes*

again, it’s the narrative: in the here and now nothing tells you it’s okay to kill children*

“Quadcopter drones darted in and out firing machine guns at the crowded streets.”*

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thanks and links for 2024-W23

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

2024-06-09 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-06-09 is 2024-W23-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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Caitlin Johnstone: I often say, “I write about the end of illusions,” because …*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W23-4*



self-inquiry (!? !*)

Daniel Quinn: “Here’s how it works. …” (!g !*)

Enrico Fermi: Where is everybody?* (!?)

Ralph Roughton on listening*

for those critical of what some call wokeness, “the clip is pure catnip”*

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thanks and links for 2024-W22

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

2024-06-02 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-06-02 is 2024-W22-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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Keri Blakinger: Corrections in Ink (!?)*

making someone a multimillionaire almost always makes them loyal to the status quo*

it’s “possible to kill children legally if … attacked by an enemy who hides behind them”*

Powell Jobs purchased The Atlantic in 2017 and has invested in other media outlets …*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W22-3*

Ali Harb (Al Jazeera) on Gaza: “What does victory look like for the US and Israel?” (!?)*


why Israel is in deep trouble / John Mearsheimer (!? !g)

being aware … knowing all the time when you’re being marketed to is a great thing (!?)*

Claire Cameron: Assembled / a found poem – Voices of MAiD (!?)*

time to wake up, to rise to our full potential as a species – or go the way of the dinosaur*

the UUA now “fanatical and dogmatic,” “fundamentalist,” “abusive,” “an inquisition”*

“to find peace we have to tolerate, maybe even learn from, our differences”*

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thanks and links for 2024-W21

a post in the thanks and links series

Portrait of Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

2024-05-26 / notes

*a link / see the about page for more on links

2024-05-26 is 2024-W21-7* / ☛ see notes for this and all other posts in this series*

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like so much else, the fuss over “international law” is really about narrative control*

Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W21-3*

“the kleptocrats (or, if you prefer, plutocrats) have already won the 2024 election”*

NYT piece details ideological capture of Israeli society by right-wing extremists*

subliminal message: this could be you if you are seen as not all in with Israel on Gaza*

Netanyahu rightly dismisses as “absurd and false” claims of equivalence in atrocities*

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.” —Howard Zinn*

Elle Griffin: Publishers aren’t in trouble – writers are* / “The house always wins.”

conspiracy fantasists* / George Monbiot

East Van co-housing project leads to 0% loneliness* / CBC: The Early Edition

ten theses of secular dharma / Stephen Batchelor* … with a note on spreading the word

Ananda and spiritual friendship (!?)

broken hip: more deadly than cancer – “borne out by new Canadian research”*

“run-up (n.), sense 1.e,”* / a hyphenated compound, not an open or a closed compound

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