Winter Solstice Card – TMS – 2019
From my very talented sister Theresa Marie
Feminism
A Few Notes About the Future of Work
Seems that themes come in batches, the newest theme for me is the old Jetson’s promise of leisure time replacing work, somewhere in the future we’d all work at what we’re good at and there would be enough (food and other goods and money) to go around. I’m firmly convinced that since the dawn of … [Read more…]
Read Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing attack on Facebook in full: ‘greatest propaganda machine in history’
The Guardian published the contents of a speech by Cohen: In a speech last night at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen attacked Facebook and other social media platforms for enabling the proliferation of hate speech and misinformation. The speech was striking in its sincerity – Baron Cohen appeared as … [Read more…]
Real Americans by Joseph O’Neill
In the New York Review of Books, this essay Real Americans by Joseph O’Neill is noteworthy. O’Neill reviews two books, This America: The Case for the Nation by Jill Lepore and This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto by Suketu Mehta. O’Neill delivers a fine essay covering many points of the current state in … [Read more…]
24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life – Guardian News
24 ways to lead an anti-capitalist life
Raising a Child in a Doomed World
By Roy Scranton July 16, 2018 NYT Climate Change and Parenting … Take the widely cited 2017 research letter by the geographer Seth Wynes and the environmental scientist Kimberly Nicholas, which argues that the most effective steps any of us can take to decrease carbon emissions are to eat a plant-based diet, avoid flying, live … [Read more…]
Zuka
Zuka (Zenaida Gourievna Booyakovitch) was born in Los Angeles in 1924. Her parents left Russia in 1917 during the Revolution and settled in America. Zuka studied at the University of Southern California where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Her mentor, Estella Katzenellenbogen took her around Europe, England and France. She settled in … [Read more…]
Analytics – The Network of Propaganda
Today, it is apparent that advertising’s roots in propaganda are resurfacing, we can now add the term analytics under the propaganda heading. These new and highly devious suites of techniques are becoming key to swaying hundreds of millions of people who use social media and who are unprotected from targeted advertising during their internet sessions. Persuasion is part and … [Read more…]
SUFFRAGIST LEADER UNDER ARREST
Mariposa Gazette, 13 December 1913 Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst Is Seized on Her Arrival in England and Jailed Turbulent Seas Prevent “General” Drummond and Her Aids From Rescuing Their Chief Plymouth, England — Wind and sea helped the police to evade the posse of suffragettes who had planned to prevent the rearrest of Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst … [Read more…]