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Sharon Begley

January 24, 2021 by sergneri 1 Comment

From the New York Times obits: Sharon Begley, a Top Science Journalist, Is Dead at 64 Long at Newsweek, she was regarded as one of her generation’s pre-eminent science writers. An “Enlightenment-era figure,” Jon Meacham said. … Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote on Twitter that Ms. Begley would … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Future of Work, IT Failures, Obituaries, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Journalism, Journalist, New York Times, Newsweek, STAT, Wall Street Journal

TMS New Years Card

January 10, 2021 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From my sister Theresa – Tis Time For A FUNDEMIC!

Posted in: Feminism, Flying, Pandemic, Thinking about Tagged: FUNDEMIC, New Years 2021, Theresa Marie Sergneri, TMS

Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86

October 28, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A NY Times Book section obituary Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86  and an Associated Press obituary were published today, 10/28/2020. From the New York Times: Ms. di Prima often spoke of the influence of her maternal grandfather, Domenico Mallozzi, a tailor and ardent anarchist who had immigrated … [Read more…]

Posted in: California History, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Flying, Obituaries, Politics, Racism, Sea Stories, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: Activism, autobiographical, Beat Era, Ezra Pound, Greenwich Village, heresies, Hidden Religion, Liberation News Service, Loba, Memoirs of a Beatnik, poet laureate of San Francisco, Poetics Program, Poetry, San Francisco, the Diggers

The Habituation of Horror

September 11, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Ed Yong writes in the Atlantic about America Is Trapped in a Pandemic Spiral and ends with this: 9. The Habituation of Horror The U.S. might stop treating the pandemic as the emergency that it is. Daily tragedy might become ambient noise. The desire for normality might render the unthinkable normal. Like poverty and racism, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about Tagged: changing climate, COVID-19, extinctions, False Dichotomies, Magical Thinking, mass incarceration, Normality, police brutality, poverty, racism, school shootings, sexual harassment

Hawa Abdi, Somali Doctor, Dies at 73

August 17, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

A humanitarian hero has passed away – her obituary is in the New York Times …

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Feminism, Obituaries

Republicans are hypocrites. They happily ‘de-funded’ the police we actually need

June 17, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Guardian, again, hits the nail on the head with this spot on essay “Republicans are hypocrites. They happily ‘de-funded’ the police we actually need” by David Sirota: After two weeks of police violence and protests, Republican politicians have been pretending to have a fainting spell over the phrase “defund the police.” “There won’t be … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, Nuclear Industry, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: antitrust, Chemical Safety Board, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Consumer Products Safety Commission, Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Internal Revenue Service, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Securities and Exchange Commission

The NEWS you may not have read …

May 31, 2020 by sergneri 1 Comment

In the Columbia Journalism Review is an essay The bad news quietly buried during the pandemic by Zoë Beery: With the world’s attention glued to the coronavirus pandemic, news about anything else has been slipping farther and farther down the proverbial front page. But that doesn’t mean nothing’s been going on. Whether by design or … [Read more…]

Posted in: Climate Change, Ethical and green living, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: Airlines, Andrew Cuomo, Andrew Wheeler, Brett Kavanagh, carbon offsets, Coronavirus, coronavirus pandemic, department of Defense, EPA, food stamps, fuel efficiency standards, Immigration, Jared Kushner, Justin Walker, Keystone XL, Mitch McConnell, oil sands, pandemic, PATRIOT Act, President Trump, Stephen Miller, watchdog

Lillian Hellman: Scoundrel Time

May 23, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I just finished reading Lillian Hellman’s Scoundrel Time and am fascinated that these events from 1951 – 1952, the HUAC hearings, have such resonance with today’s administration. Today, thieves are thick, grandstanding the operative mode, derision and bullying are the norm as they were with Joe McCarthy and Richard Nixon in this era. Employing such … [Read more…]

Posted in: Feminism, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: anti-communism, Garry Wills, House Committee on Un-American Activities, House Un American Activities Committee., HUAC, Lillian Hellman, McCarthy, Red Scare, Richard Nixon, Scoundrel Time

Madame Speaker, WE LOVE YOU!

February 5, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment
Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History, Trump Tagged: 2020 State of the Union, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Madame Speaker, Nancy Pelosi

Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online

January 11, 2020 by sergneri Leave a Comment

I get a digest of the latest news on news and reporting from the Pew Research Center. One recently caught my interest was from Buzzfeed on the new “Black PR firms” who will, for a fee, generate, structure and support any lie you wish. Scary isn’t a strong enough word, terrifying is more apt. It … [Read more…]

Posted in: Content, Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, Future of Work, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Thinking about Tagged: Art-Media, Artifical Intelligence, Black PR, BuzzFeed, Cat@Net, cybersecurity, deception, deception and influence operations, Disinformation, Facebook, fake fact-checking, influence, intelligence, Lies, marketing, online manipulation, operation, PR, Pragmatico, Public Relations, spam, The Archimedes Group, the Reporter, Twitter
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