Climate shift: From the Rhodium Group. The North American climate is changing. Temperature, rainfall, humidity, habitability, agricultural production. An analysis. Well worth an overview. New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States projects.propublica.org/climate-migrat…

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Bridge, fog, river.

Xi Jinping on climate change, Chinese policy. Difficulties may and will arise, but Xi is signaling the desire and intent for China to set direction. foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/25/xi-…

A past abstraction: Ramona Falls. Shattered light. 10,000 shards of water bright and brilliant in late sun.

I voted in Wisconsin! I've got a supervote!

The cruelty is the point. buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…

"with all the light I can command" George Eliot "on what is passed or passing or to come" William Butler Yeats

Animated map shows one hour of active satellites orbiting the Earth (sped up by 240x). Reminded me of the news story claiming that Russia can now shoot down satellites (buff.ly/3fRDCEK). Source of the animation: buff.ly/2Fca0Vs

super Wisconsin vote!!!

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Absentee ballots are still being tallied in Milwaukee, Kenosha, and other cities. Based on everything we’ve seen, those ballots will decisively favor Biden. Green Bay hasn’t reported *any* results yet. When all votes are counted, we’re confident that Joe Biden will win Wisconsin.

Gaia transfigured into bodily form, travels to the city, is arrested, and put on trial. A short opera. Please listen. Please share. youtu.be/0Ulb9St2ums

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My father, an attorney in Milwaukee, with Robert Kennedy.

out my window

Jorge Luis Borges: The Golem - my translation blog.jamzik.com/2006/11/borges…

“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.” Jorge Luis Borges

So far the best part of Obama's memoir comes 567 pages in, when he's being blamed by Republicans for not fixing BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill fast enough. One of the few moments where it feels like he's speaking unencumbered. And like maybe his editor was partly asleep.