You are right about all the positives of LBJ, and I concur.
Unfortunately, you minimize his role in enormously escalating the
Viet-Nam war, which led, quite probably to the stagflation that put
Nixon in power and created the conditions that helped sweep Reagain in
an undid much of
I admit to being slightly mystified by what you say, Felix. Let's start
with protocols. An example used decades ago in discussions of
artificial intelligence was the protocol for restaurant dining: you go
in the door, wait to be seated, are shown to table, sit down, examine
the menu
I'm so sorry to hear of Armin's premature death. As far as I know, I
never had the pleasure of meeting him, nor did I know was one of the
founders of Telepolis where I had a column years ago. But his remarks
on nettime were very often of great interest. To al those who knew him
Brian and others,
Now is a time for painful gnashing of teeth, moaning , and beating of chests in
despair. All that I can agree with...
It may feel fine to come up with the instant analysis you’ve been nurturing,
most probably, for quite a while, but it starts off factually wrong. The
I took part on Saturday in the March for Science in SF. It wast a bit
of d�ja vu for me, since, about 47 years ago, I helped organize and
participated in the March 4, scientists' movement that became "Science
for the People" (SftP), and then the first Earth Day the next year.
Prem has some worthwhile points as a response to the pandemic, but I question
the idea that “local government is the core.” Surely an effective international
system, rather than the hodgepodge we had, would have dealt better with an
international crisis such as the virus and its spread. Local
Thanks for these clarifications, Prem. But I donât think even your revisions
take account of what the pandemic actually teaches.
Start with Wuhan. While the lack of any sort of free press in China certainly
contributed to the delayed response, local officials' first instinct was
apparently
Thanks for these clarifications, Prem. But I don’t think even your revisions
take account of what the pandemic actually teaches.
Start with Wuhan. While the lack of any sort of free press in China certainly
contributed to the delayed response, local officials' first instinct was
apparently
Thanks, Molly, for a relatively cheering summing up. However, I’m not quite
ready to cheer until the election results are in and more or less accepted.
US election laws still favor just two parties, and left ideas are just
beginning to take a very partial hold among Dems nationally.. It’s a
Eric, in your diatribe about openness, which seems to me quite silly and
against the reality that perfectly legal assemblies have taken place, you also
make a scientific statement of doubtful validity, that since the virus will
continue to mutate there is no possible protection against it,
It’s hard to think of any actual, successful military coups or anything
similar except in Africa anytime recently. Certainly not in any country
remotely as “advanced” and complex as the US. However, The Republican party has
certainly been high methodical and quite successful in setting the
2. Re: what does monetary value indicate? (Brian Holmes)
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> From: Molly Hankwitz <mailto:mollyhankw...@gmail
> On Mar 27, 2021, at 1:27 PM, Molly Hankwitz wrote:
> ..how original is original when originality died long ago ?
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Yes, originality died with the second cave painting, but has been reborn many
times since, even if only evident to new generations. Depending on the
fineness of your mesh,
Dear Felix, Ted, Bryan, and Dymitri,
I have some differences of opinion about the nature of money, its meaning
today, and what it says about digital art, etc.
First, money is primarily a social construct, resting on a whole host of
institutions and arrangements. These inevitably change
As a one-time theoretical physicist, I find this quote from Gosden to be
out-dated, overly reductive, and incorrect, at least as far as the most
thoughtful scientists go.
Scientific understanding doesn’t “derive from abstraction,” but rather the
other way round. It doesn’t separate humans
See also this, today from Yair Rosenberg who is probably not that progressive,
but still:
Douglas Macgregor is a retired U.S. Army colonel who has become Fox News host
Tucker Carlson’s go-to foreign policy expert. In recent appearances on the
channel, he has argued
An interesting discussion, but I’d like to come at it from another angle.
My father was born in Lviv—then known as Lemberg, Galicia, Austro-Hungary,
pre-WWI–and one of my new granddaughter’s other grandparents was born in the
same city —then Lvov, Ukraine SSR. In between it was Lwów, Poland.
“A ceasefire as soon as possible, A compromise both sides can accept”
Brian and everyone,
The German open letter offers the simple solution to the Ukraine crisis of “A
ceasefire as soon as possible, A compromise both sides can accept,” as if the
road to this were somehow easy to see and
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