Notices by Charles Muller (acmuller@mastodon.social)

"Organized Oblivion", by Chris Hedges https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/organized-oblivion?r=2qa4v&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Where's the climate movement headed in the USA? https://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=a5e34a69b2&e=3221f6fc8c

#daodejing ch. 6

The valley spirit never dies...

谷神不死。是謂玄牝。玄牝之門、是謂天地之根。係係若存、用之不勤。

The valley spirit never dies.

It is called “the mysterious female.”

The opening of the mysterious female

Is called “the root of Heaven and Earth.”

Continuous, seeming to remain.

Use it without exertion.

#Daodejing ch. 5:

Heaven and Earth are not humane,

And regard the myriad things as straw dogs.

The sage is not humane,

And regards all the people as straw dogs.

The space between Heaven and Earth is just like a bellows:

Empty it, it is not exhausted.

Squeeze it and more comes out.

Excessive verbiage is usually a dead end

Is not as good as holding to the center.

Daodejing ch 4:

The Way is so vast that when you use it, something is always left.

How deep it is!

It seems to be the ancestor of the myriad things.

It blunts sharpness

Untangles knots

Softens the glare

Unifies with the mundane.

It is so full!

It seems to have remainder.

It is the child of I-don't-know-who.

And prior to the primeval Lord-on-high.

Daodejing ch 3

If you do not adulate the worthy, you will make others non-contentious.

If you do not value rare treasures, you will stop others from stealing.

If people do not see desirables, they will not be agitated.

Therefore, when the sage governs,

He clears people's minds,

Fills their bellies,

Weakens their ambition and

Strengthens their bones.

If the people are kept without cleverness and desire

It will make the intellectuals not dare to meddle.

...Here, the myriad things are made, yet not separated.

Therefore the sage produces without possessing,

Acts without expectations

And accomplishes without abiding in her accomplishments.

It is precisely because she does not abide in them

That they never leave her.

All in the world recognize the beautiful as beautiful.

Herein lies ugliness.

All recognize the good as good.

Herein lies evil.

Therefore

Presence and absence produce each other.

Difficulty and ease bring about each other.

Long and short delimit each other.

High and low rest on each other.

Sound and voice harmonize each other.

Front and back follow each other.

Therefore the sage abides in the condition of wu-wei (unattached action).

And carries out the wordless teaching...

Man made disasters #ClimateAction

The Way that can be followed is not the eternal Way.

The name that can be named is not the eternal name.

The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth

While naming is the origin of the myriad things.

Therefore, always desireless, you see the mystery

Ever desiring, you see the manifestations.

These two are the same—

When they appear they are named differently.

This sameness is the mystery,

Mystery within mystery;

The door to all marvels.

oh good. an fMRI study. I'm sure that'll be cited in a way that's super reasonable and absolutely informed and isn't at all in a weird consumer business journal oh wait it's about Ebay offers

I just read this out loud to my neuroscience wife and my research friend and we are all SCREAMING

PRC appears to have demanded that Paris museums erase the word 'Tibet' - but popular protests are having an effect.

https://www.phayul.com/2024/09/26/50970/

A tenured, Jewish professor was fired at Muhlenberg College, ostensibly for reposting an anti-Zionist / anti-genocide instagram post on her personal account. A panel at the school overruled the outside counsel they’d brought in to assess the case and deemed her actions harassment rising to the level of firing someone with tenure. Absolutely chilling and outrageous.

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/26/tenured-professor-fired-palestine-israel-zionism/

"#AirNewZealand has abandoned a 2030 goal to cut its carbon #emissions, blaming difficulties securing more efficient planes and sustainable #JetFuel.

Sustainable Aviation Fuels (#SAF) are a key part of the sector's strategy to cut emissions but airlines have struggled to purchase enough of it.
"[SAF] is more expensive than traditional fuels, and there is not enough capacity to produce that at scale," said Ellis Taylor from aviation analytics firm Cirium."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrjzvep41ro

“The crisis that threatens our planet, whether seen in its military, ecological, or social aspect, derives from a dysfunctional and pathological notion of the self. It derives from a mistake about our place in the order of things.” 1/2

“Robert Bellah calls for a moral ecology. ‘We have to treat others as part of who we are,’ he says, ‘rather than as a ‘them’ with whom we are in constant competition.

“To Robert Bellah, I respond, ‘It is happening.’ It is happening because of three converging developments.”

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🇩🇪Ohne uns zu fragen und undurchsichtig sammelt Mozilla's Firefox-Browser jetzt Daten für die Werbeindustrie. https://netzpolitik.org/2024/privatsphaere-firefox-sammelt-jetzt-standardmaessig-daten-fuer-die-werbeindustrie/

Ich stelle Fragen dazu und erwäge Beschwerde.

Unser Internetnutzungsverhalten ist hochsensibel und geht niemanden etwas an, auch nicht den Browserhersteller!

#Piraten

Bernie calling out Biden and every other elected official parroting Israeli talking points:
#uspol #ICC

My work colleague who has never discussed politics with me came up to me this morning and asked whether I had seen what was happening in US universities in terms of protests about the war in #Gaza.

She then got out her phone and showed me a clip that had left her distraught of a female Economics professor being grabbed by police and having head smashed into the pavement.

This colleague visited Auschwitz last month. She’s not antisemitic. Watching it had brought back memories of George Floyd.

🇩🇪Heute vor 14 Jahren hat Wikileaks die Aufnahme "kollateraler Mord" geleakt, die Kriegsverbrechen von US-Soldaten dokumentiert.

Folge: Soldaten blieben straflos, Wikileaks-Gründer #Assange soll für bis zu 175 Jahre ins Gefängnis.

#Transparenz ist kein Verbrechen. #Piraten