11/09 Open Thread - Chaos Never Dies Day
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CHAOS: noun - disorder; in physics, behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.
Disorder prevails, as well it should, because it is what is going down (but don't forget fractals and taffy machines). Order, where not meaning slavish regimentation of humans, is an artifice, a seeming systemization imposed on reality by those too lazy to search for things where they may be found. The seeming efficiencies thereby created come at the cost of discovering new and unexpected things while seeking the ordinary. It is arguable that this voluntary sacrifice of possible encounters with the extraordinary is non-beneficial.
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On this day in history:
0694 – At the Seventeenth Council of Toledo, Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accused Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
1520 – About 100 people were executed for heresy in the Stockholm Bloodbath
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
1791 – Foundation of the Dublin Society of United Irishmen.
1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte led the Coup of 18 Brumaire
1867 – Tokugawa shogunate gave power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, destroyed 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated after the German Revolution, and Germany was proclaimed a Republic.
1923 – Police and government troops crushed the Beer Hall Putsch in Bavaria.
1935 – The CIO was founded by eight unions belonging to the AFL
1953 – Cambodia gained independence from France really pissing off Alan Dulles.
1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours
1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.
1970 – The Supremes voted 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – The NORAD computers erroneously detected a massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert was cancelled.
1989 – East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall
1994 – The chemical element darmstadtium was discovered.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge ordered 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, was completely abolished
2004 – Firefox 1.0 was released.
2007 – The German Bundestag passed the controversial data retention bill
2011 - The first national test of the Emergency Alert System is activated in the United States at 2:00 p.m. EST. Does anybody remember what color it was?
2014 – A non-binding self-determination consultation was held in Catalonia, Spain freaked out.
2023 – U.S. surgeons at NYU Langone Health announced the world's first whole eye transplant.
Some people who were born on this day:
Whatever a person may pray for, that person prays for a miracle. Every prayer comes down to this - Almighty God, grant that two times two not equal four.
also
We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.
~~ Ivan Turgenev
1801 – Gail Borden, surveyor and publisher who invented condensed milk
1818 – Ivan Turgenev, author and playwright
1850 – Louis Lewin, pharmacologist and academic
1853 – Stanford White, architect who co-founded McKim, Mead & White
1854 – Maud Howe Elliott, activist and author
1871 – Florence R. Sabin, American medical scientist
1877 – Muhammad Iqbal, philosopher, poet, and politician
1885 – Theodor Kaluza, mathematician and physicist
1885 – Hermann Weyl, mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
1891 – Louisa E. Rhine, botanist and parapsychologist
1914 – Hedy Lamarr, actress and inventor
1918 – Florence Chadwick, prodigious long-distance open water swimmer
1920 – Philip G. Hodge, engineer and academic
1922 – Imre Lakatos, mathematician, philosopher, and academic
1924 – Robert Frank, photographer and director
1928 – Anne Sexton, poet and academic
1931 – Valery Shumakov, surgeon and transplantologist
1934 – Carl Sagan, astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
1936 – Mary Travers, singer and songwriter
1941 – Tom Fogerty, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1946 – Benny Mardones, singer and songwriter
1948 – Joe Bouchard, bass player and songwriter
1948 – Michel Pagliaro, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1954 – Aed Carabao, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1960 – Demetra Plakas, drummer
1960 – Sarah Franklin, anthropologist and academic
1961 – Jill Dando, English journalist (d. 1999)
1969 – Allison Wolfe, singer and songwriter, riot girl
1970 – Susan Tedeschi, singer, songwriter, and guitarist
1972 – Corin Tucker, singer, songwriter ,and guitarist
1973 – Alyson Court, Canadian actress and producer
1978 – Even Ormestad, bass player and producer
Some people who died on this day:
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~~ Dylan thomas
1492 – Jami, poet
1623 – William Camden, historian and topographer
1953 – Dylan Thomas, poet and author
1958 – Dorothy Canfield Fisher, educational reformer, social activist, and author
1997 – Carl Gustav Hempel, philosopher from the Vienna and the Berlin Circle
2004 – Iris Chang, historian, journalist, and author
2006 – Ed Bradley, journalist
2006 – Ellen Willis, journalist and activist
2008 – Miriam Makeba, singer and activist; Mama Africa
2013 – Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre, free jazz saxophonist
2015 – Andy White, drummer (and beatle)
2017 – Chuck Mosley, singer and songwriter
2024 – Lou Donaldson, saxophonist
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:
Carl Sagan Day
National Chaos Never Dies Day
World Freedom Day (United States) Now THAT's Funny!
World Orphans Day
Today's Tunes
Chaos Pt1
Chaos Pt2
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Mary Travers
Tom Fogarty
Aed Carabao
Demetra Plakas
Susan Tedeschi
Corin Tucker
Miriam Makeba
Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre
Andy White
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Lou Donaldson
CODA:
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. What's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com
Open Thread, chaos, Carl Sagan, Orphans, Mary Travers, Aed Carabao, Miriam Makeba, Susan Tedeschi, Dylan Thomas, Ivan Turgenev, Tom Fogarty
Comments
Hey, good morning
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Random chaos sounds like the operating MO of our so called
government. If you can't impress others with your rational logic
then buffalo them with BS. In rapid fire mode. Keep people reeling.
"Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together."
Carl Sagan
Thanks for the OT.
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning QMS, thanks for reading. The universe,
or cosmos seemingly contains randomness if only because there is sufficient uncertainty that we cannot tell the difference, but, at scale, seems organized and regular. To the best of my knowledge, neither intrinsic randomness nor intrinsic order will or even can materially impact my existence, making it one of those classes of problems that, while interesting, are arguably irrelevant, much like the whole god issue. Be that as it may, I do like to watch taffy machines
be well and have a good one.
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
The Pentagon's new fantasy game
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dubbed 'Task Force Iron Gate' is being run by a whopping 20
military types in CENTCOM headquarters in Tampa. This is almost
laughable. The mission includes closing the Caspian Sea and overland
corridors to further strangle the Iranian economy. Ain't gonna work.
Which shows both the desperation and failures of this "war".
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/details-pentagons-new-task-force-iron...
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https://www.telesurenglish.net/iran-iron-gate-plan/
Zionism is a social disease
That is simply hilarious. This decades old fixation with Iran
is perplexingly stupid, and, naturally spews forth more and more stupidity piled higher and higher. The Caspian sea most definitely isn't ours to fuck around with.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
One of my favorite Tedeschi tunes
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she really belts this one. Happy Birthday!
Zionism is a social disease
Good morning, el!
A google headline reports Trump has no interest in escalating the conflict with Iran during negotiations. Wtf? That is usually when he kills off Iran's leaders.
Well, we shall see.
For anyone interested, this is an assessment of the Russell Brand criminal trial by John Leake.
https://twitter.com/i/status/2119077103937405419
I would love to hear P-Grabbing advocate, Trump, give his view of the conviction.Thanks for the OT and I hope you had fun on your weekend vacay!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good morning otc. Thanks for the information and
the good wishes. According to the information and sources providec by Cap'n Q, the orange dotard is already in the process of escalating the conflict and doing so in a profoundly stupid manner which is doomed to fail, but it is part and parcel of the USA chronic fixation on trying to control and/or destroy assorted foreign countries without any rational grounds for so doing. The US has been methodically shooting its feet since the day we invented the Central Intervention Agency, and Iran is definitely one of their projects.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Good morning...
Chaos seems a constant state of affairs. Entropy is inevitable.
Finally hauled the cured sweet potatoes upstairs to be stored in the pantry with overflow in the loft. Still organizing that feat.
Fall color is nice this week, but sadly no real rain in sight. Odd for November in Alabama. This is normally a wetter month. So goes the chaotic nature of weather.
Hope all is well on the left coast. Thanks for the OT and all the music!
Here's a couple in honor of orphan day...both titled Orphan Train
The namesake song and story about the Orphan Trains that took orphans from NYC to the midwest between the 1850's and 1930.
We used do this Utah Phillips version...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout, thanks for the tunes
with luck, despite the chaotic weather the dry spell won't to badly mess things up there
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Lately it seems like
every day is chaos never dies day.
MAGA
Morons
Are
Governing
America
Good morning sp. Tht is far, far too true.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
rtnews telegram channel reported this today
US to UNFREEZE up to $9 BILLION for Iran as NUCLEAR TALKS ‘REVIVED’ — Al Arabiya
Washington reportedly OKs 3.67% URANIUM ENRICHMENT IN IRAN — Tehran ACCEPTS
Deal would REOPEN HORMUZ and END US BLOCKADE — Qatar-Pakistan proposal
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Thanks. n/t
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --