If what is stated below is correct, let us manufacture Carbon Sink Platforms to float on the Ocean, each with a desalination system.  Make these islands with habitation, linked as network archipelagos.  Flexible to resist destruction by storms. Home for refuges and for people displaced by rising seas, and places for people to vacate land…

For as long as I can remember I have been almost obsessed in pushing my transparency on others. Not that I considered myself of special importance; I never attempted to attract special attention to myself, but I also didn’t want to be invisible. If a person was to relate to me, I wanted them to…

I explore alternative frames/contexts for the world of humans beyond real-time perception. I can’t go into all the different avenues of exploration at this time. Briefly (and hopefully comprehensible) the societal world of local to global “institutions”, entities beyond perception, are phantoms (Latour). What “exists” in the societal domain may have a weirdness analog to…

Summary of what I think I have read about the history of our written languages:     Keeping economic records was a distinct process different from visual strings of symbols to tell readers what to say.  Early writing was but a script for talking.  It took a long time for them to put spaces between words,…

Recent research confirms that “who we are” is more determined by the trajectory over life of our social network than from personal agency. We are all nodes in a changing network.  The relative roles of person vs node has yet to be adequately researched. Here I use this conceptual scheme in analogy for how we…

Just viewed the Moyers/Suzuki dialog , part 1, on Climate Change. Part 2. Frustrating! If only I could motivate them to attend to UPLIFT. There IS a concrete, viable way out; one doesn’t need to depend on vague hope. Yes, humankind has the potential – but there is no viable organized activity to actualize that…

JABBER   JABBER   JABBER Endless Inane/Innovative Jabber Human mouths, fingers, ears, eyes, saturated and exhausted. Nobel Laureates & talk show celebrities, pundits & bloggers, tweets & treatises, texting & video, expertise & lay opinion, rants & raves, woo woo – looky looky  what’s new new everyone & anyone are jabbering, jabbering, jabbering. Contradiction, Confusion & Confession,…

The first week in May, 2014, I was basically alone in the house, doing basic maintenance – with 3 dogs and 8 cats.  My goal was to somehow kickstart a change in life/work style. Organizing/cleaning my workspace, initially intended, has been delayed, as has re-organizing my online presence. Both organizing projects remain needed.  I have…

I am frequently told that I waste time reading and viewing the news, especially the bad news. I admit to wasting my time, but not with the news. The news may be a waste of time for others. But, I could become MUCH more efficient (reesee) in my news processing. My news (which is special…

I accidentally stumbled on this provocative post by George Por, which motivated me to respond – in length, which is my practice. One more time, periodically over five decades, I drop a sem into a pond. May this pond process my sem (semiotic structure), possibly building to a constructive Tsunami. George, what you are doing,…