john verdon

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Foresight Shaman, Mytho-poet
un-disciplined mind - Curious interstitial forager, Dharma Bum
Focused on the alchemy of cultural change
Re-Imagining the Local #mmt
@inquiline and in San Jose, 4:30 pm at City Hall:

high street is full of alluring cafés, most are chains & products taste the same. We step into the dark of the cinema hoping to be taken somewhere new, but the journey follows submerged tracks like a theme park ride, and the only destination is back home

https://aeon.co/essays/why-does-every-film-and-tv-series-seem-to-have-the-same-plot

Why does every film and TV series seem to have the same plot? | Aeon Essays

The three-act ‘hero’s journey’ has long been the most prominent kind of story. What other tales are there to tell?

it’s how patriarchy creates itself. Erasing women makes men into the main characters in life and in history, and women into supporting cast, or caste.

https://time.com/7284644/trumps-erasure-of-women/

Trump’s Orwellian Erasure of Women

Through executive order, President Donald Trump has used an Orwellian playbook to erase women from the public record.

TIME

many users who ask themselves why a much older, familiar technology continues to thwart their attempts to complete apparently simple tasks. Dropping and positioning an image in a word document often leads to audible groans of frustration.

https://stripepartners.substack.com/p/this-months-frame-using-w-brian-arthurs

This month’s Frame: using W. Brian Arthur’s “adjacent possibility principle” to perfect products

A framework to encourage product teams to focus on the established not just the novel.

Frames
whatever -
political views -
if-we-the-people -
can resource it --
and we want it -
we can provision -
ourselves -
with it -
​And maybe -
that's the real -
wicked-problem -
how do we -
enact a common -
sensing -
of a common -
valuing -
#MMT -
#micropoem
https://theconversation.com/what-is-modern-monetary-theory-an-economist-explains-how-it-could-help-canada-256868#
MMT democratizes money - demystifying idea that money is inherently scarce. It emphasizes that government spending is constrained by the availability of real resources, not finances.
“What do we need, and how can we mobilize our resources to achieve it?”
What is modern monetary theory? An economist explains how it could help Canada

A heterodox school of economic thought known as modern monetary theory has significant implications for how Canadians understand public debt and deficit spending.

The Conversation

Brain regions can participate in multiple networks simultaneously and shift their roles as needed

https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-human-brain-is-like-a-murmuration-of-starlings

How the human brain is like a murmuration of starlings | Aeon Essays

The brain is much less like a machine than it is like the murmurations of a flock of starlings or an orchestral symphony

“interregnum,” a notion invoked frequently in aphoristic terms as a moment during which “the old is dying and the new cannot be born.” In such a moment, “a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

https://activehistory.ca/blog/2025/05/15/diseased-neoliberalism/

Diseased Neoliberalism

If the present crisis, defined by a rising and self-confident politics of reaction, is understood historically as the diseased radicalization rather than the demise of neoliberalism, perhaps we mig…

Active History

an experiment with all the proper controls and found that bees biting plants made their flowers bloom as much as thirty days earlier than they would otherwise

https://www.delanceyplace.com/index.php

plants communicating with plants --5/14/25

Today's selection-- from The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger. The surprising interactions of plants with other plants and with animals: “By now I’d learned from Rick Karban and his sagebrush about...

delanceyplace

The goal is not to ask “What would Kant make of driverless cars?” or “what would Heidegger lament about Large Language Models?” but rather to allow for appearance and cultivation of a new school of philosophical/ technological thought

https://research.antikythera.org/

Antikythera | Antikythera