Sunday, December 08, 2013
why is violent crime so rare in Iceland? Evangelii Gaudium may have an answer
By CNu at December 08, 2013 9 comments
Labels: not gonna happen...
the playbook we should all be focused on....,
By CNu at December 08, 2013 0 comments
Labels: not gonna happen... , People Centric Leadership
Saturday, December 07, 2013
Friday, December 06, 2013
the hon.bro.preznit makes impotent mouth noises about inequality...,
By CNu at December 06, 2013 17 comments
Labels: narrative , you used to be the man
clever canadians explain how corporate power shapes inequality
ABSTRACT: 'Economic inequality' has recently appeared on the public radar in North America, but much of the attention has been confined to its ominously high level and its socially corrosive impact. The long-term drivers of inequality, by contrast, have attracted less attention. This presentation will explore the linkages between corporate power and inequality, arguing that both the level and pattern of inequality in Canada closely shadow the differential power of capital.
This presentation is the second in a four-part Speaker Series on the Capitalist Mode of Power. The series is organized by http://capitalaspower.com and sponsored by the York Department of Political Science and the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought.
October 29, 2013, York University, Toronto
By CNu at December 06, 2013 0 comments
Labels: The Hardline , truth
Thursday, December 05, 2013
if it doesn't predict disease or illuminate neurodiversity, who cares?
This Dillweed Here |
Then there are “the scientists,” or perhaps more precisely the genoscenti. Matt Herper stated to the effect that the genoscenti have libertarian tendencies, and I objected. In part because I am someone who has conservative and/or libertarian tendencies, and I’m pretty well aware that I’m politically out of step with most individuals deeply involved in genetics, who are at most libertarian-leaning moderate liberals, and more often conventional liberal Democrats. Michael Eisen has a well thought out post, FDA vs. 23andMe: How do we want genetic testing to be regulated? Eisen doesn’t have a political ax to grind, and is probably representative of most working geneticists in the academy (he is on 23andMe’s board, but you should probably know that these things don’t mean that much). I may not know much about the FDA regulatory process, but like many immersed in genomics I’m well aware that many people talking about these issues don’t know much about the cutting edge of the modern science. Talk to any geneticist about conversations with medical doctors and genetic counselors, and they will usually express concern that these “professionals” and “gatekeepers” are often wrong, unclear, or confused, on many of the details. A concrete example, when a friend explained to a veteran genetic counselor how my wife used pedigree information combined with genomic data to infer that my daughter did not have an autosomally dominant condition, the counselor asserted that you can’t know if there were two recombination events within the gene, which might invalidate these inferences. Though my friend was suspicious, they did not say anything, because they were not a professional. As a matter of fact there just aren’t enough recombinations across the genome for an intra-genic event to be a likely occurrence (also, recombination likelihood is not uniformly distributed, and not necessarily independent, insofar as there may be suppression of very close events). And this was a very well informed genetic counselor.
By CNu at December 05, 2013 0 comments
Wednesday, December 04, 2013
god, dopamine, 3-dimensional space...,
What are God and Heaven doing up in the clouds? |
By CNu at December 04, 2013 4 comments
Labels: dopamine , hegemony , Race and Ethnicity , the wattles , What IT DO Shawty...
dopamine hegemony depends on the wattles...,
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: dopamine , hegemony , Livestock Management , the wattles , What IT DO Shawty...
believer brains vs. non-believer brains - a smidgeon of interesting data...,
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: neuromancy , not a good look , theoconservatism
just say no...,
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , not a good look , unintended consequences
the ways of lust
By CNu at December 04, 2013 0 comments
Labels: killer-ape , What IT DO Shawty...
Tuesday, December 03, 2013
now you just KNOW the pope is on the right track...,
You know, the pope, Pope Francis -- this is astounding -- has issued an official papal proclamation, and it's sad. It's actually unbelievable. The pope has written, in part, about the utter evils of capitalism. And I have to tell you, I've got parts of it here I can share with you. It's sad because this pope makes it very clear he doesn't know what he's talking about when it comes to capitalism and socialism and so forth. Wait 'til you hear it.
Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as 'a new tyranny' and beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church. ... In it, Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the 'idolatry of money.'"
I gotta be very careful. I have been numerous times to the Vatican. It wouldn't exist without tons of money. But regardless, what this is, somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him. This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. Unfettered capitalism? That doesn't exist anywhere. Unfettered capitalism is a liberal socialist phrase to describe the United States. Unfettered, unregulated.
By CNu at December 03, 2013 1 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , Peak Capitalism
Monday, December 02, 2013
in praise of greed, envy, IQ...,
By CNu at December 02, 2013 8 comments
Labels: big don special , cultural darwinism , eugenics , not a good look
from dust-to-dust...,
By CNu at December 02, 2013 0 comments
Labels: ecosystems , Farmer Brown , food supply , microcosmos
pretending it's not fukushima...,
By CNu at December 02, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Great Filters , unspeakable
Sunday, December 01, 2013
can capitalists afford recovery - the presentation
By CNu at December 01, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Peak Capitalism
we are suffering a slow-motion nuclear war...,
By CNu at December 01, 2013 0 comments
Labels: unspeakable
Saturday, November 30, 2013
the god father of ecstasy...,
Working from a lab in his home, and using himself and his wife Ann as test subjects, Shulgin's discoveries have brought him into conflict with the law but made him a worldwide underground hero. The two books they co-authored, "Pihkal" and "Tihkal", have built a foundation for cutting-edge neuroscience and medical research. DIRTY PICTURES examines the impact of Dr. Shulgin's lifelong quest to unlock the complexities of the human mind.
{Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin is the scientist behind more than 200 psychedelic compounds including MDMA, more commonly known as Esctasy. Considered to be one of the the greatest chemists of the twentieth century, Sasha's vast array of discoveries have had a profound impact in the field of psychedelic research. By employing unorthodox methods; testing his creations on himself, working from a makeshift lab in his home, Shulgin has gained the reputation of a modern day alchemist within the scientific community}
By CNu at November 30, 2013 0 comments
Labels: alkahest , entheogenesis , Living Memory
making a killing
By CNu at November 30, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Livestock Management , neuromancy
if psychiatric motives were benign, why didn't psychiatry dismantle the war on drugs and fully explore entheogens?
By CNu at November 30, 2013 0 comments
Friday, November 29, 2013
maturana and varela: the biology of cognition
Living systems are not just static structures. We ascribe 'life' to them because they're dynamic. We can find another sort of circularity in their internal operations. These internal operations are 'circularly' interconnected in the same sense that the components are. There is something about the identity and unity of a living system which is maintained by these internal operations -- something which can be influenced by events in the living system's environment, but which is specific to the living system itself. You can move the living system to another environment, but (so long as it can successfully survive) this circularly-interconnected network of internal operations will persist. These operations evidences no intrinsic 'purpose' beyond maintenance of the living system's constitutional and configurational integrity.
The course of actions ('responses') observed for a given living system exhibits a sort of circularity in the sense it is (at least partially) repetitive. The exact trajectory of these courses of action is mediated 'internally' by the organism's capacities for action. In other words, what the organism will do (and remain living) will be circumscribed by the range of things the organism can do. Because these capacities are in turn qualified by the living system's circularities of form, configuration and internal operations, similar circumstances will result in similar actions.
Correspondingly, the course of situational transitions affecting the organism ('stimuli') is mediated 'externally' by those potentials the world affords. Even though it is the organism's own configuration which determines its capacities for action (and hence its specific actions), the 'environment' influences the overall course or trajectory of the situations encountered, and hence the series of resulting actions. As such, there is a 'circularity' in the reciprocal interplay between the living system and its 'environment'.
The 'circle' of this interplay cannot be reasonably said to have a starting point (except the point at which the living system originates). It cannot be said to have an ending point (except the point at which the living system ceases to be living). As such, we cannot predict the living system's course of activities based on 'first' or 'last' causes.
Because of this, the course or trajectory of reciprocal engagement between a living system and its observed 'environment' is not reducible to exclusive determination by one or the other.
By CNu at November 29, 2013 17 comments
Labels: paradigm , Possibilities
the neverending eugenic quest...,
By CNu at November 29, 2013 0 comments
Labels: cultural darwinism , essence , music?
Thursday, November 28, 2013
black sun rising in the land of the rising sun...,
By CNu at November 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Race and Ethnicity , The Hardline
fukushima spurs approval of japanese secrecy law...,
By CNu at November 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: clampdown , unspeakable
could tepco's removal of fuel rods from unit 4 be a complete charade?
By CNu at November 28, 2013 5 comments
Labels: Possibilities , propaganda , unspeakable
lack of replacement is a nation killer...,
There is also talk about mass immigration in this same segment of the documentary - and the Japanese will have none of it.
Water, energy, pollution - the unspeakable - are all acute problems for Japan - BUT it is the finances which will not support resolution of these fundamental problems. With the globe all interconnected financially these days, and not likely to change, it is a problem which the Japanese will not be able to overcome.
By CNu at November 28, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Race and Ethnicity
Wednesday, November 27, 2013
legibility
- Look at a complex and confusing reality, such as the social dynamics of an old city
- Fail to understand all the subtleties of how the complex reality works
- Attribute that failure to the irrationality of what you are looking at, rather than your own limitations
- Come up with an idealized blank-slate vision of what that reality ought to look like
- Argue that the relative simplicity and platonic orderliness of the vision represents rationality
- Use authoritarian power to impose that vision, by demolishing the old reality if necessary
- Watch your rational Utopia fail horribly
By CNu at November 27, 2013 0 comments
Labels: de-evolution , governance , reality casualties
cicada 3301
Sleepily – it was late, and he had work in the morning – Eriksson thought he’d try his luck decoding the message from "3301”. After only a few minutes work he’d got somewhere: a reference to "Tiberius Claudius Caesar” and a line of meaningless letters. Joel deduced it might be an embedded "Caesar cipher” – an encryption technique named after Julius Caesar, who used it in private
correspondence. It replaces characters by a letter a certain number of positions down the alphabet. As Claudius was the fourth emperor, it suggested "four” might be important – and lo, within minutes, Eriksson found another web address buried in the image’s code.
Feeling satisfied, he clicked the link.
It was a picture of a duck with the message: "Woops! Just decoys this way. Looks like you can’t guess how to get the message out.”
"If something is too easy or too routine, I quickly lose interest,” says Eriksson. "But it seemed like the challenge was a bit harder than a Caesar cipher after all. I was hooked.”
Eriksson didn’t realise it then, but he was embarking on one of the internet’s most enduring puzzles; a scavenger hunt that has led thousands of competitors across the web, down telephone lines, out to several physical locations around the globe, and into unchartered areas of the "darknet”. So far, the hunt has required a knowledge of number theory, philosophy and classical music. An interest in both cyberpunk literature and the Victorian occult has also come in handy as has an understanding of Mayan numerology.
It has also featured a poem, a tuneless guitar ditty, a femme fatale called "Wind” who may, or may not, exist in real life, and a clue on a lamp post in Hawaii. Only one thing is certain: as it stands, no one is entirely sure what the challenge – known as Cicada 3301 – is all about or who is behind it. Depending on who you listen to, it’s either a mysterious secret society, a statement by a new political think tank, or an arcane recruitment drive by some quasi-military body. Which means, of course, everyone thinks it’s the CIA.
For some, it’s just a fun game, like a more complicated Sudoku; for others, it has become an obsession. Almost two years on, Eriksson is still trying to work out what it means for him. "It is, ultimately, a battle of the brains,” he says. "And I have always had a hard time resisting a challenge.”
By CNu at November 27, 2013 0 comments
Labels: Ass Clownery , you used to be the man
Tuesday, November 26, 2013
the poisoning of america's soul?
High ideals, proud history, and for the most part a decent, generous, hard working people.
So why does the government's behavior resemble that of Nazi Germany in so many respects?
Why are the big banks allowed to loot trillions of dollars in broad daylight with no consequences?
Why have so many people who are little more than highly polished low life scum ended up in the White House and other positions of authority?
This video based on an interview Dave Emory of Spitfirelist.com conducted with veteran and Department of Justice Nazi hunter John Loftus - reveals secret aspects of world and American history not 1 out of 100,000 people are aware of.
In the first part of this series was saw how America's leading bankers and industrialists - Rockefeller, Walker, Dupont, Harrriman, Ford, Mellon, Bush etc. - funded and supported the Nazis in German, the Bolsheviks in Russia and the terrorists who established the House of Saud (Saudi Arabia.)
Nearly 100 years later, the State Department and Justice Department continue to protect their creations.
If you ever wondered why the US can't defeat a rag-tag band of terrorists, now you know.
The expert on this call is former US military officer John Loftus who worked for the Justice Department as a Nazi hunter. He was punished for finding too many of them.
We can't possibly understand or deal with what's going on today unless millions of Americans are aware of these facts so spread the word.
NOTE: This video also demonstrates that Islam and the Arab world have nothing do to with the terrorist extremists fostered by the US and British who are currently running amok.
To claim that Islam is a religion of violence or that Arabs by nature are predatory is pure slander. A truer statement would be that the government of the US follows a religion of violence and behaves in a predatory manner.
"Running" terrorists for their own purpose is a decades-old UK and US trick right up to the present day. The program is simple: Create a disaster and then profit from it, often by creating "laws" to reduced citizen freedoms.
This explains the Department of Justice gun running program to Mexican drug cartels. It also explains how Department of Justice attorney Michael Chertoff was able to deliver a complete draft of the massive PATRIOT Act while the fires of 9/11 were still burning.
By CNu at November 26, 2013 9 comments
Labels: History's Mysteries , Living Memory
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