[FRIAM] To all you Tectonics Deniers out there!

[Gillian Densmore]

@Nick as to weather changes that's a weird one to me.  As a concrete
example NM started a tornado season. That raised several concerns for me.
Several of my friends are around 4C physcally even if mentally they feel
about 25 to 30. My parents have a basement (ish): Can they get to it? Is
their house even built sturdy enough for a full Cat1 much less that Cat4?
(and not the RJ-45 Copper)  etc. Santa Fe has a hard time with basic radeo.
LANAL's WW2 eta air sirens might be tested regularly. I have no idea of
Santa Fe even has them still or if they work.
Sufficed to say their was what the weather service and pls translate called
a 'Cat 0' cyclone litterally over my house at about 0100 .While aww
inspiring to see that type electic storm: NOAA claims NM hasn't had to wory
about Cyclones of any sort for about 1million years or so.
Yeah global weather weirdness is definatly a thing.

Part of it is willful. Part of it is they 'just aint from these here parts'
lol and now for Yesterday News!

Ralf Fufino (Hulk/Batner) his foundation and one of his many geeky
interests is science. He talks and tweets alot about just the pragmatics of
the whole thing. Like asking who likes paying 2.5 to 3Euro  per litter of
desell or gas?
Wouldn't it be fun and just dead useful to have cars that you zip around on
air and sun power?

As to the weird polotics. Many of you remember hos weird it probably was
like having carter and nixon. I can only guess.
(laughing politely here) as carter put it on his blog: 'And they got mad at
me for being inspired by StarTrek and at least trying to make America just
plain nice and fun to live in?' (paraphrasing slightly as I don't have the
exact quote in front of me)
I experienced how weirdly cool in a strange geeky way B.Clinton was. and
vaguely recall him (trying to) do some hopefull and helpful things at the
time. He had some pretty odd personalities to wrangle (Gangreen and his
infamously long hour slow rants about...everything?)
BClinton had his share of weird polotics. Rigging the election with KGB's
help wasn't one of his qurks that I recall anway. I seem to recall his
legal and polical issues were more about being a stoner into women. .  Now
we have a have a troll  giving  Nixon and Geral Ford a serius run for
trollness..


I'd say it's safe to say if untill you experience weird ruralness or have
your nerves jolted a few times by earth quakes or meet some Uber Geeks.
heads of nasa and Aims Research.. for some it probably seems like far off
thing or something not to be concerned about. Those are the ones I have
hope for. Like I said a few times nick  Drumpf is a troll. He's getting
into trouble for being a troll and keeps doing things that are just trolls.
Sooner or later that catches up with  them.
On a ligher note:  "Their is a old Teran maxim. Only nixon can go to china"
-Spock.StarTrek Undiscovered Countery.

sudo cat  /usr/friam/poltics.txt >/usr/dev/null)

Hope that helps you nick ^_^

You may need to ask doug to translate the unix joke...if he's willing or
reading.

On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 9:41 PM, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> To the Local Congregation,
>
>
>
> Tomorrow is going to be my last FRIAM for a bit.  So, I am hoping to leave
> with answers to the following two questions.  The first comes from an R. G.
> Colleague of mine from France and Serbia, etc.
>
>
>
> *“Interference” in elections has been going on between countries forever,
> and we and the British are particularly adept at it with our BBC’s and our
> “Cultural Programs”, and the CIA screwing the Iranian elections, etc.  So,
> why is the Russian interference in our election (and the French
> election)(and the Brexit vote) such a big deal?  What is special about it?
> Are we just being whiners and crybabies?*
>
>
>
> The second is entirely my own, and is, in fact, a left-over from a
> conversation we were having last week:
>
>
>
> *Some people think that global warming, coastal flooding, etc., is not
> something to worry about and “we”call those people “climate deniers”.  “We”
> have many friends, relatives, and financial commitments in the Bay Area of
> California, in Seattle and in the Los Angeles basin, where at least one
> very severe earthquake is very likely in the next 20 years.  Are “we”
> tectonics deniers?  *
>
>
>
> Discuss.  Give your reasons.
>
>
>
> Nick
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>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Owen
> Densmore
> *Sent:* Thursday, May 18, 2017 9:13 PM
> *To:* Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* [FRIAM] Facebook. And this it not a troll
>
>
>
> I'm following Melanie Mitchell's SFI complexity mooc.
>
>   https://www.complexityexplorer.org/courses/74-introduction-to-
> complexity-spring-2017/segments/5687
>
>
>
> In the first video, it was mentioned Facebook is a fascinating example of
> a complex system, and in particular, how information traverses the network.
>
>
>
> So here's a group question or two:
>
> - If you use Facebook, how do you use it and why?
>
> - And if yes, how is it an information source for you?
>
>
>
> My interest is the contrast between Facebook and Twitter. Twitter is "the
> most information per square inch" but Facebook seems to me to be all over
> the map.
>
>
>
> A second difference is that there are people for which Facebook *is* The
> Web. By that I mean they enter it and stay there. It is their "email",
> "web", "social", "team (slack)", "tv" (FB recently started streaming
> video), and more. Sorta like the browser is for other ecosystems.
>
>
>
> So any interesting observation on The FaceBook Phenomenon?
>
>
>
>    -- Owen
>
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