john verdon

I Went to Watch the Tiny Operation That’s Making ICE Lose Its Mind. A Lot Can Happen in 24 Hours. At the headquarters for Donald Trump’s darkest work, a few people are getting under the administration’s skin.

The key enabler of citizens acting with solidarity as community is the right to robust, reliable, means of communication and coordination. The foundation of any civil society.
ICE Watch

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followed -
a-curiosity -
and no-diced -
a-trail -
to your re-action -
and sort-of
nice to find -
time-spacing -
of a-mycelium -
be-tween -
our minds -
#micropoem

10/29/2025 - New to First Quarter Moon my theory - once you get - to a certain - age - memory - of details fade - and outlines - patterns - trajectories - seem easier to see - i...

10/29/2025 - New to First Quarter Moon
#micropoem

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YouTube video by Local-First Conf Mauve Signweaver - 5 years of P2P web browser development

Mauve Signweaver - 5 years of P2P web browser development

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository We recently published a blog post with our reaction to the new Google Developer Program and how it impacts your freedom to use the devices that you own in th...

We chose Android devices believing in Google’s promise of an open computing platform & able to run any software we choose. Next year they will push updates irrevocably blocking this right & forcing their judgement about software we are permitted to use
f-droid.org/2025/10/28/s...

early technology shaped our brains & bodies - humans are “biologically committed to a diet of cooked food” and have “greater manipulative ability” with our hands. Technology has done as much to shape humans as humans have done to shape technology.

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ideas -
need to be -
populated -
to live -
so accessible to all -
leave-able anytime -
and-so ideas -
only live
in-conversations -
of polymorphic -
perversity -
never knowing -
what's even -
want-able -
#micropoem

markets -
our-are engines -
of innovation -
ecologies -
of evolution -
when well chosen -
well tended -
markets -
become cultures -
of virulence -
when greed -
has no justify-able -
boundaries -
#micropoem

observing -
thinking -
and measure -
making-sensations -
as they are -
coalitions -
protocols -
intra-inter-faces -
fore-patterns -
of quorum-sensing -
wholes -
of-for-by -
parts -
all-ways up-down -
we become
niche-a-ware -
in the bio-electric -
ecology -
#micropoem

pondering -
long ago -
days -
what did we -
do at night -
sitting together -
watching -
screens -
together -
the primal fire -
#micropoem

pondering -
making film -
production -
set-designing -
reality -
be-coming closer -
two -
ai -
a sur-real -
quality now -
to see-ming
real-sets -
and see-mimg -
generated-backgrounding -
and close-ups -
you see the make-up -
and wonder -
if it's ai-generated-cgi -
#micropoem

no mad-kings day
#nomadkings

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Bringing Henry George’s Ideas to Life in the 21st Century

The Progress and Poverty Institute, & the Henry George Foundation of Canada, Ottawa, joint event.
Tax revolutions, current Land Value Tax advocacy and real estate bubbles.

On Zoom at: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Polycentric and Plural – Beyond Binaries

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Really? @CityOttawa @_MarkSutcliffe why are we installing #tesla ev charging stations?????

my theory -
once you get -
to a certain -
age -
memory -
of details fade -
and outlines -
patterns -
trajectories -
seem easier to see -
in some ways -
#micropoem

America Needs a Mass Movement—Now Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.

This crisis is not about election cycles. It’s about historical tides. Every so often, a political-cultural-social tide sweeps the world, leaving everything rearranged in its wake.

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@youtube #enshitification #badAds more important then #content

@youtube #enshitification

AI bubble is 17 times the size of that of the dot-com frenzy, analyst says A research firm is arguing not just that AI is in a bubble, but that it is 17 times the size of the dot-com bubble.

AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

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AI bubble now 17 times bigger than dot-com boom and four times larger than subprime crisis, per MW

10/13/2025 - Third Quarter Moon
#micropoem

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YouTube video by The Onion The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein

The Onion Investigates: Jeffrey Epstein youtu.be/XjhSoGcQhWU?... via @YouTube

can it be -
as simple -
as that -
any system -
that eats and -
shits -
is a living system -
inhale -
metabolize -
exhale -
the complexity -
is in metabolic ecology -
and evolution -
of flourishing -
of metabolic-niche -
and adjacent -
possibles -
#micropoem

re-cognitions -
re-verb-aerations -
shamans -
work the mythos -
shaping -
the fram-ecology -
the figuring -
from ground -
and shamans enact -
in the media -
of-collective-mind -
the mycelium -
the interstitium -
of quorum-sensing -
#micropoem

YouTube video by The Rational National Absolutely Insane Doug Ford Scandals Pile Up While No One Is Paying Attention

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is facing scandal after scandal (including several recent ones discussed in this video), yet it doesn't appear to be hurting him.

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10/6/2025 - Full Moon
#micropoem

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@youtube - is becoming so #enshitified it's becoming unwatchable

access to -
everything -
is changing -
faster -
content -
moore-is-different -
whole new -
market-space -
e-motivational -
e-proliferational -
learning-knowing-of -
the play-full-ness -
the augmenting reality -
ness of it -
the common-wealth of it -
of-for-by -
of it -
#micropoem

has anyone -
of my parents -
generation -
ever had it -
easier to be -
part of -
someone's life -
no matter
how far apart -
people are -
#micropoem