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Reflections
Family, friends, acquaintances, experiences. All the people and things that shape who we are today and who we can be tomorrow.
For all these people, many of whom are reading this, and for all of these experiences, I give Thanks.

27.11.2024 19:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era. — POLITICO To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.

“Only a democracy that works for the people is sustainable.
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23.11.2024 22:14 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Jazz at the Pawnshop - Wikipedia

One of my favorite Jazz albums -
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at...

20.11.2024 05:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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November 19, 2024 (Tuesday) For three hot days, from July 1 to July 3, 1863, more than 150,000 soldiers from the armies of the United States of America and the Confederate States of America slashed at each other in the hills and...

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20.11.2024 05:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Another BlueSky annoyance / feature request
I’d like to be able to post formatted text. BlueSky is removing my “newline”, so my list of thinkers in an earlier post, became one line of text. Formatting “is” part of the message. Markdown, HTML, or text formatting tools please.

19.11.2024 17:17 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Seminal writers & thinkers - part 1
Gregory Bateson Richard Feynman Buckminster Fuller Douglas Hofstadter Daniel Dennet
Daniel Kahneman.

19.11.2024 17:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That's a pretty good idea, with caveats.
Not necessarily *everything*, in fact I suggest releasing "everything except that which might expose national security, or some really bad sh*t that we might want to use for a future impeachment or other prosecution".

19.11.2024 16:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Important conversations part 3
Bluesky 300 character limit is going to be a pain.
I’m looking for a way around it. Ideas are welcome, even requested

19.11.2024 15:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Rupture I’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. Our job is to give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the issues that matte...

Important conversations part 2
I’d like to introduce you to Umair Haque who writes a daily missive titled “The Issue”. I agree with much of what he writes. Here’s a link to a recent post www.theissue.io/the-rupture/

19.11.2024 15:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Important conversations
This is an experiment. I’m looking for a group of people who share my concerns and philosophy and can engage in a broad, long-running conversation about the state of the world and what we can constructively do next, both individually and collectively.

19.11.2024 15:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0