randomWalks

It takes a certain amount of time and faith to accept or to realize that there is no difference between Him and His name, to get to the point where you’re no longer mystified by where He is. You know, like, “Is He around here?” You realize after some time, “Here He is—right here!” It’s a matter of practice. So when I say that “l see God,” I don’t necessarily mean to say that when I chant I’m seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute.

The reason why a lot of commodity farmers would want to transition isn’t for moral or ethical reasons, but because organic production actually creates more jobs because it’s more labor-intensive [than industrial agriculture]. That allows for the next generation to stay on the farm.

What we have to do to create liberty in the future is to monetize more and more instead of monetize less and less, and in particular we have to monetize more and more of what ordinary people do, unless we want to make them into wards of the state. That’s the stark choice we have in the long-term.

Once you can gather information in real time with a network, you can see so much more that the traditional idea of the insurer managing risk becomes absurd, because now you can say, “Well, I have enough information that it’s not so much of a mystery what will happen, and what I want to do is just insure the people who won’t need the insurance”. Then you start breaking the whole system.

You end up doing all this stuff to control your online presence, and your online reputation, and people become obsessed with that. But the real representation of you is the one you can’t access, which is the one that’s used to sell access to you to third parties.

I’m convinced the reason copying happened on the Internet was because Xerox PARC was so important as an early supporter of computers, that for Alan Kay to go to the Xerox people and say, “Oh, by the way, copying itself, even in the abstract will become obsolete because of computer networks”, would have just blown their minds. We ended up with copying on a network.

I’m astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms in any substantial sense, and basically traded them for being able to screw around online.

The Apple idea is that instead of the personal computer model where people own their own information, and everybody can be a creator as well as a consumer, we’re moving towards this iPad, iPhone model where it’s not as adequate for media creation as the real media creation tools.

Those markets are geared to shoppers who want to buy in bulk at the lowest possible price in order to pickle, can, dry and freeze, Mr. Woods said — unlike urban markets, where customers pay double rural prices and typically eat what they buy right away. “You won’t see certified organic products or any fancy marketing,” he said of rural markets. “It’s a very different world.” Ms. Hamilton began selling about 10 years ago when her garden produced more than she could handle. She knows she could charge more but doesn’t, because her customers “are struggling just like me.”

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jayrosen:

Here’s the complaint I sent to the NPR ombudsman about this method of hand-washing.

This is he said, she said reporting, one of the lowest forms of journalism in existence, in which the NPR reporter washes her hands of determining what is true. The new Kansas regulations may be a form of harassment, intended to make life as difficult as possible for abortion providers in that state. Or, alternatively, these rules may be sane, rational, common sense, sound policy: just normal rule-making by responsible public officials.

According to this report, NPR has no idea who is right. It cannot provide listeners with any help in sorting through such a dramatic conflict in truth claims. It knows of no way to adjudicate these clashing views. It is simply confused and helpless and the best it can do is pass on that helplessness to listeners of “Morning Edition.”

Push back against this shit.

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nevver:

RIAA

If you have Parkinson’s disease and you get an invitation from MJF foundation that has a statement like that on it you get real excited. If I’m taking time off work to go down there to see the unveiling of a pair of sunglasses I’m going to be highly pissed off.

We were unwilling participants in a bait-and-switch for Marie Callender’s new frozen three cheese lasagna and there were cameras watching our reactions.

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jesshudak:

The things you see..

This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total fucking dark.

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momentofmoore:

Time Management

Seek answers in only one particular set of semi-literate bronze age folk tales.

That list of preparedness resources on hardcorepreppers.com I blogged about this past week is now online and working again. There’s some great stuff there as well as some goofy items. As one Root Simple reader pointed out, the “herbalism” file is actually a list of imaginary herbs from World of Warcraft. Oh how I love when the virtual and real worlds collide.

Since people pay him money, he doesn’t need to run ads to “monetize” his customers’ attention. He doesn’t have to do all the things that typically ruin the experience for people—like clogging pages with distracting banners or breaking them into smaller chunks so users have to click around a lot. “It’s like a moral hazard,” he says. “Once you’re not just charging people straight up, you get into all these murky ethical things. You have to sell their eyeballs.”

If you’re white, you have to own it. None of this I’m-not- white, I’m-beyond-it-and-I’m-Norwegian stuff. White people have to see race according to the terms they actually benefit from. Not that whiteness is a monolith, any more than nonwhiteness is. As Mab Segrest writes: “Women are less white than men, gay people are less white than straight people, poor people less white than rich people, Jews than Christians, and so forth.” But what might matter, what should matter, is that whiteness is a real force that you’ve personally benefited from in one way or another if you’re white.

When I read a Bradbury story, I not only want to race to the computer and create literary wonders of my own—the greatest gift a fellow writer can give you—I want to race out the door and up the street with my arms wide, embracing the entire universe.

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feministdisney:

“I can’t pretend I don’t have some rotting branches; we can’t pretend our privileges don’t exist just because we do not like them.   To relinquish the power they hold, we have to constantly expose them for what they are,” Grandma Willow concluded, and gave John a pat on the back with one of her drooping branches.

It’s perfectly suited for the pantry in this house and we needed one and it was free.” And the dump, she noted, “has the best return policy.

Your carbohydrate cravings will go away and energy will come back. You will feel full and not really need to eat three meals to exist. You will notice your taste and smell change. You will notice changes in personality. You will become more thoughtful and mindful. You wont be as explosive in an explosive environment. You feel like you are warmer and exude body heat but your body temp will actually be lower and it will trend lower over 18-24 months while you thyroid settles into it new biologic groove. Your sexual desires will change and your libido will awaken. Your sleep will dramatically improve. Your migraines will improve slowly over time. Your muscles will begin not to kill you when you exercise after the rest. Your hair and nails will improve in color and presentation. Your pedicurist will notice you have less dead skin on your heels and you face. Your skin will soften and your skin color will change. Your energy level will gradually improve over 6-12 months. Your spouse will begin to notice things and treat you differently.