ecolanguage

ecolanguage

@ecolanguage.bsky.social

Pedantic doodler. Ecology & economy in a graphic cartoon. All natural intelligence, nothing artificial. New playlist: "New Addition to Economics" https://www.youtube.com/@ecolanguage

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The Iran war "plan" looks like two bets: 1. That AI-insisted military intel can knock out the regime to allow an uprising. 2. That they can pull this off before oil prices destroy Trump politically.

Bush, Obama, Biden avoided war because: 1. Air war can't change regime 2. So, no exit strategy 3. 4x bigger than Iraq - ground invasion impossible 4. Iran can choke off oil. Different now: AI-assisted intel can pinpoint location of many regime leaders & encourage uprising.

Republicans voted against lefty DEI & restrictions on free speech, for a guy who cancels anyone opposing him. Republicans voted against lefty weak socialism, for a guy who's now recreating Chinese communist "state capitalism." According to the Wall St. Journal, no less: www.wsj.com/economy/the-...

wsj.comThe U.S. Marches Toward State Capitalism With American CharacteristicsPresident Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

Inroads by China to old allies risks their adoption of Chinese computer & telecoms specs and protocols. This could increase the military threat against the U.S.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

KLUTH: “.. Never has a country blessed with such an abundance of ‘soft power’ forfeited so much of it with so little justification.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

We can reverse a lot of this crap four years from now. Less reclaimable: 1. The pain & suffering. 2. US's claim to revere its Constitution. 3. Foreign allies' loss of trust in US' obligations, competence & foresight.

Brad @delong.bsky.social is a great teacher & writer. Slouching Towards Utopia is an outstanding economic & political history of the last 150 yrs., put in terms of markets vs. social institutions (epitomized as Hayek vs. K. Polanyi) -- and why we need both. Entertaining & recommended to everyone.

The GOP preached two Reagan falsehoods: 1. Unregulated capitalism makes fastest growth, & it works for everybody. 2. Government can get smaller. These MUST crash into reality. The GOP self-contradiction got wider and wider until a conman was able to walk into the breach.

...given these identified gaps, the Office cannot rule out the possibility that the unavailable information would shed additional light on (or cast in a new light) the events described in the report.” -- Mueller report, Vol 1 p10

Unpredictable climate dangers: Complex systems dynamics have shown tipping points, and even short-term extreme oscillations, without an advance signal, or at least one that we are able to identify.

"...the evidence does indicate that a thorough FBI investigation would uncover facts about the campaign and the President personally that the President could have understood to be crimes..." -- Mueller Report, vol.2, p.76

Sacred --> Spectralism --> Minimalism --> Bricolage: Tallis, Spem in alium (c. 1570) Messiaen, Plusiers Oiseaux des arbres de Vie (1988) Saariaho, Lichtbogen (1986) Steve Reich, Proverb (1995) Saariaho, Windows (Maa, 5th movement) (1992) Ingram Marshall, Hidden Voices (1990)

"Tokyo Story" is usually voted in the world cinema top of the list. Nothing out of the ordinary happens but by the end, the world has moved underneath all the characters, and it lasts for the rest of your life. Later Ozu style is formal & unique. No bombast or melodrama.

Finnegans Wake: Joyce inverts Dante's mystical descent to hell, into the upwelling collective conscious in the nighttime dream of a man with a daytime problem. Guilt & mystery. Deepest novel, literally & figuratively. Advanced radical critique of modernity & language. And very humorous!

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