thanks and links for 2024-W05

a post in a series

Meister Eckhart – d. 1328* – known for saying, inter alia, that a thank-you is enough*

thank you so much, all who share
an interest in one or more
items noted – with links – below

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2024-02-04 / notes

*a link; see also the about page for how posts – and copies on fw – use links

2024-02-04 is 2024-W05-7* / other notes for all posts in this series are under “▼” here

please copy and share whatever you like … and thanks for sending me any new links of note*

origin of “stoke” in or as a place name (!?)

messianic politics will cleanse the US of “liberal elitists and other sinners” (!? !n)

a ready-to-use playbook for Trump, courtesy Atlas Network thinktanks / (Monbiot)*

McLuhan Lecture 2024 by Cory Doctorow (!w2 !?) – video and prepared text*

again and again, institutions fall prey to ideological capture – now the BBC*
/ it’s power: power cares only about more power; power couldn’t care less about people*

new UK law means jail for “rough sleepers” – the homeless – for being a “nuisance”*

affordable housing in Vienna: more than a policy, a foundational ideal (!?)

history professor Juan Cole on the betrayal of the Palestinians by the “free world”*

Jonathan Cook (!?) on “understanding what is really going on with … UNRWA”*

satellite imagery above via the Guardian* – pair with recent post from Chris Hedges*

Zoketsu Norman Fischer (!?) says you can “experience dukkha with equanimity” (!?)

a translation of Einstein’s God letter ends further notes for another fewer wurdz post*

Thanu Padmanabhan (!?) article: The Answer – embedded in footnotes elsewhere*

Stephen Batchelor (!?) article on Secular Buddhism, aka Buddhism 2.0 – archived PDF*

further notes are often appended to copies on fw