Ed Cable

We are temporary, self-aware animals on a rock in space.
This is the only life you get.
Don’t waste it. Don’t damage others’.
And don’t extinguish the only system we know that can understand the universe.

LAPD won’t enforce ban on federal law enforcement officers wearing masks, chief says LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell said the ban is “not a good public policy decision.”

Apparently we’ve never had a grasp on laws. Why won’t LA enforce state law? This isn’t a jurisdictional question. It’s the police job to enforce, not make or interpret law.

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Since humans took thousands of years to accept that the earth wasn’t the center of the universe, perhaps we should not be surprised that we’ve yet to grasp the concept that the law applies equally to everyone. That concept was the impetus for the Magna Carta in 1215. It’s only been 800 years.

The principle is:

The environment in our shared spaces is no longer safe and predictable.

And we didn’t introduce the unpredictability.

SF anti-ICE protest today. #Minneapolis stand together.

End Qualified Immunity.

End Qualified Immunity

Too much media capacity.

End qualified immunity.

If the past year is an indication, we need to find another method for governing ourselves that doesn’t rely on our fellow humans to understand anything or make deliberate decisions. And one that doesn’t rely on authority to enforce decisions. Are we smart enough to find a solution?

It’s time to standardize and separate evidence collection into a society function, not beholden to law enforcement. We now have 70 years of the AAFS and they use established guidelines for professional behavior. Removing evidence collection from politics would yield a more predictable society.

This is why medical should have priority over every other function in society.

We voters certainly don’t operate from a position of knowledge. Just reactions to events. It would be nice to have better functional knowledge in our society.

Then we don’t have enough professionals.

If we were smart we wouldn’t go through this song and dance. Calm professionalism provides better opportunities than fear-driven authoritarianism.

Why Civilizations Flourish—and Fail From Athens to the Abbasids to today’s Anglosphere, creativity and commerce drive greatness

Civilizations flourish under freedom and opportunity, not protection and control
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The White House’s new media ‘bias’ tracker is a desperate gimmick | Margaret Sullivan The site isn’t exposing misleading reporting – it’s revealing the bubble Trump increasingly inhabits

The White House has a new media bias tracker. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... anyone can submit reports of media bias.

How a problem appears and what the problem is, may be two entirely different things.

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The main function of communication is to solidify social bonds, not to transfer information.

Illusion of safety is the common product sold by the government.

Put it on private property and it can’t be touched.

Perception is gated twice: by where you look and by what you believe.

5th amendment. Don’t say a word.

Ads are anthropology in HD. You don’t need philosophy to see what’s wrong with us. Just watch how we sell cars, banks, and breakfast cereal.

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Politics is nothing more than a set of people, using regulatory capture, to try and herd everyone using fear and emotions

What do we need more power for? If we just stopped moving so much extra mass around for no reason other than preference, we’d have plenty.