new podcast from George Lakoff

https://soundcloud.com/user-253479697   (doesn't appear on search lists yet and no RSS)

Racial resentment fueled election of Trump

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/12/15/16781222/trump-racism-economic-anxiety-study

La Saboteuse by Yazz Ahmed

Village of Arts+Ideas 50th anniversary

calling all alumni and hangers-on - let's meet in 2021!

Doug Shaw, Rheinhold Ziegler, Larry Parker, Peter Clark, Ralph Steiner, Robin Barrett, Howie Russell, Eric Reiter, et al

Time to start looking for an assisted living facility for my brother, Doug, in the Redding area - leads will be appreciated. Must be suitable for the psychiatrically disabled 

Tim Ferris interviews Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is one of the strongest influences in my life and Tim Ferris one of the most interesting explorers. Tim interviews Stewart for 90 minutes in this podcast - most interesting views, derived from a life of exploration that has reached the age of 78.

https://tim.blog/2017/11/21/stewart-brand/

Trump pick for Census Bureau puts anti-democracy theoretition in position to mastermind gerrymanding

Theintellectualist

So we have a deficit plan to encumber Dems, a judiciary to control everything, and elections tilted - master warfare by Reeps

Charlie Manson was an alt-right progenitor

I know someone who knew Manson and am sure this Times opinion column is correct.
Manson was a charismatic crazy exploiter of the weaknesses of the Sixties Counterculture and a race war provocateur.  I also recommend watching the Aquarius tv series (2 seasons) and listening to the You Must Remember Manson podcast

data analytics/AI in the service of Right wing psywar

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit-robbery-hijacked-democracy

This is an important pointer to the role of Cambridge Analytica and similar companies in the Brexit, Trump and other campaigns.

San Francisco's Transbay Terminal and the Salesforce tower

SF Chronicle story

why conservatives are more susceptible to lies

Slate.com article similar to Lakoff

a must-watch HBO/Vice News reveal of the Paradise Papers

The November 7 episode of HBO/Vice News series reveals the Paradise Papers, the largest by far expose of the intertwining businesses of the mega-wealthy, the powerful and many administrations, especially the Trump administration.

things French, mostly

KevinO follows a steady diet of things French these days, including reading the news in French and a visit to Paris. He should check out a recent post at one of my favorite blogs, the long-running kottke.org, which is filled with French influences... I also see a Montreal restaurant review, which reminds me I was looking at a flight to Athens with a five-hour layover in Montreal - maybe I could visit with Debbie Marc?

first lucid dream

Brief and momentary, real: I became aware of my waist length hair and wondered what was going on, as my hair has been short for forty years.  It then dawned on me - "I'm dreaming!" I exclaimed to myself. I was joyful. That's all I remember. I occasionally dream I have long hair, usually flipping it back - this must be my wakeup object, rather than Castenada's hands trick.

the pit bull right hand man to Mueller

go, Andrew Weissmann!

the dominance of GOOG, AMZN, and FB changes the internet

The Next Web h/t Steve Adams

play Spot the Bot

Cal undergrads use machine learning to id the political bots

more in-depth Wired article

where does the ideology of the two parties come from and how does it play out?

This NY Times opinion piece looks correct and does not bode well for the dominant Democratic strategy. It also implies that success would require a long-term campaign to define an identity, given the weak one that now exists.

the Energy Gang podcast

The Energy Gang podcast from Green Tech Media really excites me and keeps me informed. The rapid declines in costs of renewable energy and energy storage seem to be overshadowing the ideological fights about which way to go.  These trends make Trump's promises about coal moot.
For an investor-type view of the industry, you can't beat this podcast!

Shambhala Buddhist organization comments on Myanmar

https://shambhalatimes.org/2017/10/27/shambhala-to-myanmar/

Krishna Das's latest recording: Trust in the Heart

This music returns me to my heart place and reminds me of what is real

blockchain projects ecosystem map

https://medium.com/@josh_nussbaum/blockchain-project-ecosystem-8940ababaf27

Eighty Trips Around the Sun reviewed

https://www.stereophile.com/content/tripping-terry-riley#dZFsFx1ckUMSDSAu.99

missed concert of giants of Indo-jazz

reviewed here and first-person reported by David and Bebe, this was an event I regret missing.

The Units - Warm Moving Bodies (I-Robots Remix) - Opilec Music

original by a friend, Scott Ryser, et. al.

a dozen useful tricks with Google Maps

https://www.fastcompany.com/40483528/12-incredibly-useful-things-you-didnt-know-google-maps-could-do#1509056243077  h/t: Steve Adams

new shingles vaccine recommended

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/25/health/cdc-shingles-vaccine.html

Kathleen Kennedy on systemic responses to Harvey Weinstein

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2017/10/17/kathleen-kennedy-hollywood-abuse-commission/774249001/

minor footnote: Kathleen and I went to high school together

Sonoma County fires

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/How-the-deadly-Tubbs-Fire-blitzed-Santa-Rosa-12268552.php

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tubbs-Fire-unleashed-fiery-tornadoes-that-12289228.php

white evangelicals/nationalists alliance

Politico points out the coalition shown at the Family Values meeting

on Wittgenstein

The London Times on Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ken McLeod - Vajrayana in the West

Anil Prasad's Ralph Towner interviews

2000, 2006, 2010, and 2017

we are safe (so far) from the fires

Fires are raging around the North Bay.  We watched for awhile, then packed a carload of memories and headed to the Peninsula to wait out the emergency.  After two days we decided it is safe enough to return.  We are still ready to jump if the fire comes our way, but at this time it is on the far side of the ridge and we are two miles from the base.  The local fires are 20-40% contained now but had been 0% for days when we left. We are hopeful this passes without destroying our house...

GenreMap, the antithesis of tangents.com

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

AI music

Artificial Intelligence and music

MiC 2017 All Star Pro Strictly Swing Jason Miklic & Nelson Clarke

productivity

https://qotoqot.com/blog/improving-focus/

mobile phone security

https://blog.kraken.com/post/219/security-advisory-mobile-phones/amp/

Dave Winer

Dave Winer is my favorite blogger. His blog is http://scripting.com/ and he operates many other sites devoted to his ideas and the software he creates.  I read him daily.  He is prickly and opinionated and not everyone's cup of tea.  He was one of the A-list bloggers that cyberbullied me around the turn of the century when I was suffering a mental breakdown due to stress and lack of sleep.  Nonetheless, I read him.  I also have written him occasionally to offer tips on subjects he might find interesting, nearly always links. A month ago when I copied him on a tip, I included an unsubscribe button, which he clicked; I have not and will not email him again. Today he posted on Facebook a general warning to all: "Please refrain from sending me unsolicited texts and emails. Should you not do so I will contact the appropriate legal authorities." I guess I am not the only one he is "unsubscribing" from...

Stieg debugs Bruce Lee history

part 1

part 2

long form reading list

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/09/more-than-100-exceptional-works-of-journalism/536049/

Tycho's Burning Man Sunrise 2017 DJ set (2 hours)

https://soundcloud.com/tycho/ingress-burning-man-sunrise-set-2017

Regen VIllages, a contemporary version of the Village of Arts+Ideas?

In the Seventies I was a co-founder of the Village of Arts+Ideas, an intentional community dedicated to a vision of an eco-village.  This talk by James Ehrlich introduces a modern version of that vision.  I am fascinated and intrigued!

exa, a replacement for ls

https://the.exa.website/

Organic Music Tokyo

https://www.mixcloud.com/NTSRadio/organic-music-tokyo-w-chee-shimizu-sugai-ken-2nd-august-2017/

Sam Shepard

The Paris Review

On your knees... (all or nothing)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/03/well/live/what-i-wish-id-known-about-my-knees.html

Trump Jr in Russian trap because he played in scene above his league

Magna Gopal & Ismael Otero @ 46 Lounge

Vicente Fox to Trump

blockchain-based music royalties

https://hbr.org/2017/06/blockchain-could-help-musicians-make-money-again

Build it or fuck it

I just listened to an old Security Now podcast. Steve Gibson told a long story about a beamed audio device he designed and built as a high school student, which was funny and interesting. The moral was for kids to experiment and build things. This reminded me of one of the mottos back in the Village of Arts + Ideas: "Build it or fuck it", which meant the real test of ideas is to actually create something...

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/592?autostart=false

Grateful Dead documentary

http://www.vulture.com/2017/06/long-strange-trip-the-definitive-grateful-dead-documentary.html

how to buy bitcoin

https://protonmail.com/blog/how-to-buy-bitcoin/

Indo-jazz

https://www.facebook.com/innerviews/posts/10155371715573594

Francesco Lucidi & Simran Ghalley playthrough - Jurojin ‘Jyoti’ - Drums&...

Apple's new HQ

Wired on Apple Park.  I hope Marc can arrange a visit for me...

self compassion

the Atlantic

wooden heart

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Anika Nilles - "Orange Leaves" [official video]

jazz dance roots performance

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFxZCNcRf4E&t=6s

gerrymandering and math

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Meet-the-Math-Professor/239260/

https://sites.tufts.edu/gerrymandr/resources/

a profile of Dan Rather's comeback in the face of Trumpism

Politico

theremin and vocal cover of The Ecstasy of Gold

at LaughingSquid

the war in Laos in the 60s and 70s

A colleague from my Oracle days once told me to remember that corporations have no gratitude.

A Great Place to Have a War shows that neither do countries.  The Hmong surely know this.

I did not know that more tonnage of bombs was dropped on Laos than on all Axis nations in World War II and that the clandestine war there was the birthplace of today's CIA approach.

A worthwhile book - read it

music for West Coast Swing dancing

for those curious minds who want to know what music we dance West Coast Swing to... (not the same as Lindy Hop):

http://www.radiowcs.com/radiowcs_live.html

national identities in the US

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-11-nations-of-the-united-states-2015-7

Al Green - 'Love and Happiness' Live.

Daniel Schmidt and the Berkeley Gamelan - And the Darkest Hour is Just B...

fun juggling!

https://brightside.me/video/when-she-began-the-hall-fell-silent-with-delightwhat-this-woman-does-is-real-magic-322260/

Trump team's Russia ties monitoring site

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/national/trump-russia/

frozen and rolling

In the early Nineties I visited Cancun and rode a parasail. GF-at-the-time LRG ( ex-gymnast ) casually swung on the bar and enjoyed the view; Z panoramically shot the view with his video cam and relaxed. I, OTOH, froze in fear of heights, to such a degree that I could not relax enough when landing to run, but instead rolled in my frozen seated position... Imagine me over the Niagra Falls...

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/jul/17/niagara-falls-new-zipwire-food-restaurants

Carl Stone's electronic music

Zurkonic review

I wish www.envelop.us or sfjazz.org would invite him to perform.

the "Flintstone house" on I280 is for sale for $3.2M

https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/03/16/whats-that-thing-off-280-the-flintstone-house/

Dirty Three (Australian musical group)

really like this band I just discovered, who have been around since the Nineties

the Guardian tips me to a new source of music

London jazz++ netradio

female electronic music pioneers honored

https://www.moogmusic.com/news/honoring-female-electronic-music-pioneers-international-womens-day

Bluexit

Hillary Clinton carried just 487 counties in 2016. It’s also true that those 487 counties generate almost two-thirds of the nation’s economic activity.

https://newrepublic.com/article/140948/bluexit-blue-states-exit-trump-red-america

The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America -- Society's Child -- Sott.net

The cult of ignorance in the United States: Anti-intellectualism and the "dumbing down" of America -- Society's Child -- Sott.net: https://www.sott.net/article/313177-The-cult-of-ignorance-in-the-United-States-Anti-intellectualism-and-the-dumbing-down-of-America

I was a Daria fan

Vice's oral history of Daria on the 20th anniversary

Maya Angelou

I really enjoyed the PBS American Masters documentary on Maya Angelou

DNC chair

http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/why-tom-perez-strong-competitor-against-keith-ellison-democratic-party …

on propoganda

counternarratives not fact checking builds on http://jonathanstray.com/networked-propaganda-and-counter-propaganda

follow up to Dark Money

I finished listening to the Dark Money audiobook all the way to the end! I feel that it was fundamentally important and wanted a post-election update. This Guardian article fills the bill.

anti-fascist analysis of Alt-Right movement

This article is not as stomach-churning as the Alt-right piece I originally sent out.

It meanders a bit, too.  However, it analyzes the groups and potential pathways of

evolution of the Right.

authoritarian moves in democracies

Vox: authoritarian moves in democracies

a beautiful and interesting PBS Nova episode on origami

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/origami-revolution.html

only one year to defend democracy

http://international.sueddeutsche.de/post/157058066625/we-have-at-most-a-year-to-defend-american

Sunday's declaration of Trump dictatorship

http://shareblue.com/in-despotic-declaration-trump-senior-advisor-says-trumps-power-will-not-be-questioned/

attitudes of the working/middle claas

https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-so-many-people-dont-get-about-the-u-s-working-class

Oren Ambarchi's Intermission 2000-2008 album

Laswell intro in 10 albums

http://thevinylfactory.com/features/introduction-bill-laswell-10-records/

Koch brothers' influence on Trump administration

https://littlesis.org/maps/1820-the-trump-administration-is-filling-up-with-koch-allies

my favorite monologist is now a Fellow in brain science!

http://joshkornbluth.com/week-one-at-my-brain-gig-uncertainty/

fastest terminal emulator

http://blog.jwilm.io/announcing-alacritty/

Robert Reich explains Authoritarianism, Trump's threat to Democracy