The latest crisis: Low-income students are dropping out of college this fall in alarming numbers
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/09/16/college-enrollment-down/
Lets stop bailing out airlines, banks, and automakers and bail out the American people for a change. We need a TVA for broadband and America needs jobs, lets do both.
Had Obama bailed out the average Joe, there would never have been a President Trump. Vote Nobody 2020!
‘Astonishingly risky’: COVID-19 cases at colleges are fueling the nation’s hottest outbreaks
‘Astonishingly risky’: COVID-19 cases at colleges are fueling the nation’s hottest outbreaks https://a.msn.com/r/2/BB18VErF?m=en-us&referrerID=InAppShare
The university town I live in is in the same boat. The article, as well as our local health director, claims it was expected. Yet did NOTHING to prepare for it. Contact tracing is almost a week behind and testing is so dismal they just up and quit reporting the numbers, giving various excuses for why. In a corrupt society shit floats to the top, leaving all of us wading in the sewage.
A Big Chunk of White Americans With Degrees And People Of Color Are Behind Trump
Informative, but their “big chunk” is 12 to 25%.
Why I will not vote for Joe Biden
Yes I want Trump out of office. No I will not hold my nose and vote for Biden.
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/vote-joe-biden-200904085631525.html
Orson Welles’s psychedelic 1973 adaptation of Plato’s timeless ‘allegory of the cave’
Why Facebook Is Bad, Twitter Might Be a Little Bit Good, and Social Media Is Rotting Our Brains
Jaron Lanier is the prophet our times needs.
Leaving Facebook, Again –
Just posted to my long form blog:
Is Consciousness an Illusion?
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/is-consciousness-an-illusion?utm_source=pocket-newtab
I don’t know if I have the focus to read Dennett’s latest work, but this is a nice review. His “multiple drafts model” of consciousness has profoundly impacted my view of the world (from the 1991 Consciousness Explained.)
