Tommy O'Keefe (He/Him)

just saw this - yeah I’m taking a break from socials in general and I’ve deactivated my Instagram and Facebook. I’ll see if I have those videos saved locally and send them your way!

This one might be helpful as well:

www.instagram.com/reel/DAO7AvL...

This one is actually borrowed from Heraclitus - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heracli...

The general idea is that the river itself changes and so does the person crossing.

I just remembered that I recorded this video that’s on Instagram where I talk a bit about this:

www.instagram.com/reel/DAipLQF...

Jay McDaniel uses 3 simple ideas as an intro that I really like:
1. No one crosses the same river twice
2. No person is an island
3. All living beings have value

Great question! How much time do you have? Lol.

The one liner is that process thought is all about change. If a more classic approach puts the emphasis on static entities then process inverts that and
focuses on the constant flow of events - becoming over being in one sense.

The song that Tam sings at the end of this episode is so moving. Well worth your time!

remember this; try

if the things some people are trying look useless or stupid to you maybe they are, find something that seems smart. and keep an eye on whether or not the shit other people are trying works.

Patrick Walker: “can someone feel too much?”

Me: 🤘🏻😭🤘🏻

YouTube video by Starry Eyed Lizard Warning - Bridges live at Roadburn 2017

It’s Sunday and I’m listening to mournful doom metal again.

I’ll never grow tired of the last few minutes of Warning’s “Bridges” - the raw sounds of a heart cracking open and spilling out as old wounds are seen in a fresh light.

youtu.be/TbDz40Jw1bs?...

#metalsky

We got a couple “May the 4th be with you” jokes at All Souls today as well 😂.

Breaking Down President Trump's Public Media Executive Order Plus, a look at how federal funding of public media works (up until now)

Really helpful analysis of how federal funding flows through public media and what Trump’s EO related to public media means practically.

semipublicco.substack.com/p/breaking-d...

Stygian Bough Volume I, by BELL WITCH and AERIAL RUIN 5 track album

It’s #FuneralDoomFriday over here so we’re blasting the gorgeous 2020 Bell Witch / Aerial Ruin colab “Stygian Bough, Vol. I”. Haunting, mournful, meditative, crushing - this one has it all.

bellwitch.bandcamp.com/album/stygia...

#metalsky

I needed a little more Billy Power in my life 😂

5x5 collage of the last week of listening in album covers .

I know people traditionally share these on Friday, but I always forget, lol. Monday morning seems more natural to me. The previous week had ended, a new week is about to get started. Anyway, here’s what I listened to last week - spoiler alert: it was a LOT of Frodus.
#fivebyfive #weekoflistening

The DOGE Axe Comes for Libraries and Museums The Institute of Museum and Library Services has long received bipartisan support. But after years of trying, President Donald Trump has delivered it a crushing blow.

fascistic moves wrapped
in a cloak of cost savings
efficient for who

www.wired.com/story/instit...

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

In the name of health
eliminating research
cutting departments

forget the future
cold hard cash for the taking
blood on doge's hands

#haiku #HaikuTheNews #HaikuTheHeadlines

www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

The FBI Is Investigating Attacks on Tesla as ‘Domestic Terrorism.’ Here’s Why That Matters The domestic terrorism designation could give law enforcement sweeping authority to surveil people protesting against Elon Musk's role in the US federal government, civil liberties experts warn.

Terrorism as
An empty signifier
Makes dissent a crime

#Haiku #HaikuTheNews #HaikuTheHeadlines

www.wired.com/story/fbi-te...

Researchers created sound that can bend itself through space, reaching only your ear in a crowd By combining ultrasound with a concept called nonlinear acoustics, you can create sound that stays silent until it reaches a specific location.

bending into ears
ultrasonic waves collide
audio enclave

#haiku #HaikuTheNews #HaikuTheHeadlines

theconversation.com/researchers-...

Selfie - I’m wearing an Old Man Gloom “Darkness of Being” shirt and you can see my “Darkness of Being” LP behind me

Just realized that I’m spinning the same album that I’m wearing today 😂

#OldManGloom

Musk yearns for shutdown
DOGE on a slash and burn run
That no one can stop

#Haiku #HaikuTheNews #HaikuTheHeadlines

This was my favorite album of 2024. So good.

We are so far away from all of this, but at the very least it gives us a goal to aim for.

The basic values of democracy are:

#LIBERTY
#EQUALITY
#JUSTICE

All theee are needed, and equality is the foundation for liberty and justice to actually flourish.

Efficiency is a tool that almost GUARANTEES growing inequality unless it is subservient to resilience & effectiveness in a democracy.

The goal DOGE is aiming for has absolutely nothing to do with the basic aims of democracy. Unfortunately society has bought the lie that efficiency is a democratic value. It is not. It is a value held by the oligarchs who want to extract as much as possible.

It’s only with a backdrop of resilience that we can start talking about effectiveness, and that requires a clear understanding of our shared goal.

It’s only after we have achieved effectiveness of a clear goal that we can seek to make that more efficient.

This leads to the opposite of resilience.

We get brittleness instead of flexibility and adaptability.

We get a fragile system where we need redundancy.

We get single homogenous streams where we need diversity.

We get isolation instead of the interconnectedness that keeps us all in it together

Starting with efficiency does the opposite of this.

It allows us to optimize for profit and value in isolation without consideration for who might be negatively impacted. It imposes the fallacious idea that economics is a “science” and should be free of value judgements.

Resilience requires a clear picture of what we need to protect and why.

Ground zero should be the most vulnerable elements of our society. Whatever we do, we should ensure that our system has the redundancy, flexibility, diversity and interconnectedness to ensure that those elements are protected.

Because of that basic premise, I would argue the most important of these three ideas is resilience.

We live in a connected and complicated world and building resilient systems that can weather unexpected changes is more important than ever.

This is completely upside down.

The government is not a business. It’s not a for profit enterprise. It’s not a value extraction mechanism to be leveraged by the machinations of multi-national corporations.

The government exists to provide protection and well-being for those who live here.