The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Nature is Calling Jailbreaking from the Matrix Collapse Kalihi Valley Druid "I can see the mountains I can see the skies with 3 more minutes to go And it’s to dern pretty for a man that don’t want to die 2 more minutes to go" -Johnny Cash, 25 Minutes To Go Yesterday I had to run some errands in town and finally got the energy to do so. It wasn't particularly difficult except for trying to find a small business using my phone gps. For some reason the device kept freezing up, sending me to the wrong address, and literally had me driving around in circles until I gave up and called the place to get directions. What I found most suspicious was that even power cycling the device didn't seem to have any effect. All my apps were running super slow or crashing, and the navigation voice kept alternating from the saccharine melody of a modern female AI back to the stunted robo-speech of ten years ago. On a whim I tried covering up the cameras and instantly everything was func...

  How Christianity rebooted cognitive evolution The aftermath of a collapse Peter Frost Portrait of Augustine, 6th century fresco Mean cognitive ability fell under Imperial Rome but rose again as the Empire became Christian. Cognitive ability is the capacity to process information, recognize patterns, and solve problems. It initially served to meet the challenges of hunting and gathering – a way of life that, by 30,000 years ago, spanned the full range of natural environments from the equator to the Arctic. Colder environments presented a greater number of cognitive challenges, as shown by the inverse correlation between temperature and technological complexity among present-day hunter-gatherer groups (Hoffecker, 2002, p. 10, Figure 1.5). The coldest and most challenging environments existed during the last ice age, and covered northern Eurasia until about 12,000 years ago. Food was potentially abundant but made up largely of “meat on the hoof” – large herds of wandering reindeer a...

  MAGA in One Step By  Karen Kwiatkowski ok ocracy and elections.  It’s about getting something for nothing, always and necessarily from someone else’s pot. Electing an executive, who in turn spends trillions of borrowed and stolen money every year – mainly to buy the next election, enrich themselves and their allies, always unaccountable, always unauditable, always failing to deliver more freedom and more prosperity – why, that how it works, isn’t it? H.L. Mencken was correct in his assessment of democracy and elections.  It’s about getting something for nothing, always and necessarily from someone else’s pot. Electing an executive, who in turn spends trillions of borrowed and stolen money every year – mainly to buy the next election, enrich themselves and their allies, always unaccountable, always unauditable, always failing to deliver more freedom and more prosperity – why, that how it works, isn’t it? Trump, with no third term to game, and with a new and extraord...