Category: environment

Acknowledgement to Juliana Spahr for the influence of her book “Well Then There Now”

Some info on stylistic influences on his 2017 book, ‘Synaptic Syntactic’, particularly a book by Juliana Spahr called Well Then There NOw. The characters’ names of ‘We all the Small Ones’ and ‘Demonoid Picotent’ were derived from Spahr’s work. Talk on the use of repetition and distorting texts using machine translations.

The Set of Modernistic Identities

The Set of Modernistic Identities — Flash creative nonfiction and/or prose poem We get up and have coffee. We shower or not. Have that run or not. Turn on the TV or radio or other background noise. We drive to work or school or the grocery. We say ‘hi how are you’ and ‘im good’ […]

Transient Formation of Flock of Multiconsciousness’ Islets

AI Summary is Nice: The text ambiguously gives an account of a group referred to as ‘We the People’ interacting with each other and the world around them. It suggests they are interconnected and interdisciplinary beings who navigate complex conceptual and physical landscapes while formulating theories and manipulating time. The narrative is abstract, fragmented, and filled with symbolic and philosophical expressions.

GoFundMe: Buy 1,000 Postcard Stamps and Defeat Fascism!

The AI is not wrong: The author is seeking financial aid for an activism project aimed at ensuring Donald Trump’s electoral defeat, among other goals. They have purchased postcards but need assistance to fast-track the acquisition of stamps, which is currently requiring significant financial restraint. The project’s detailed explanation can be found via a provided GoFundMe link. Some images to be included on the postcards cannot fully extend to the edges due to potential printing issues. The author posted this in the early hours of the morning, emphasizing the urgency of their request.

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We wake in the morning, or at noon, or the witching hour, rising, sick, or sleepy, or hurried. We make our preparations and take our medications, black coffee, nicotine, whiskey rocks, what have you, running and walking dogs, herding children and scooping after cats. There is no tomorrow, only this synthetic ‘morning’, whatever hour it […]

A Comparison of Diversified Versus not Diversified Economies in 2 Pictures

2019 figures comparing Moldova and Russia’s economy. Russia’s is over 75% extractive resource industries. Moldova’s has no noticeable extractive resources on the chart (I am counting wood products as renewable in both cases. Which of these economies will be more resilient to change and disruption? Which one will be easily brought to it’s knees by […]

Ocean Summit / 30% Protected by 2030 goal

Over 8,000 people attended, with free registration and no travel, something that would have been impossible before Covid moved everything to video conference. One presenter noted that last years’ virtual UN World Ocean Forum had over 60,000 daily attendees. There seems to be a lot of momentum behind the 30/30 goal of protecting 30% of the oceans by the year 2030. The proportion has doubled to 7.5% in the last decade.

Self-Concept Commutative Telegrams

We think carefully of our issues and action plans / We think of each one being empowered to choose / Elements stack and align, each of our peptides has different things to say / In shade of gloaming shadow, the Piskies prepare the tricks for They