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March 27 2019 Right after the previous post devio.us suffered a hardware failure -- NIC went bad -- and was off-line until yesterday. To thwart future unscheduled downtime I've created a mirror on SDF.org: gopher://sdf.org/users/mmeta4 - m(irror)meta4 Right now the sites are just manually synced so there may be times when the content doesn't exactly match. Both sites are running gophernicus however, so automating shouldn't prove too daunting. I'm sort of between books; I've been mostly reading online lately. Here's some of the more memorable posts and essays: On the Fragility of Civilization - Lajos Brons/F=ma - March 19, 2019 http://www.lajosbrons.net/blog/on-the-fragility-of-civilization/ Lajos Brons describes himself as "a Dutch philosopher and social scientist living in Japan". I found this referenced on the GreenWizards.com forum, posted as something similar to John Greer's Theory of Catabolic Collapse (it's not). Brons seems to be intrigued by power politics and that comes through in his writing. Still, I thought it a worthwhile piece. - - Facing Extinction - Catherine Ingram - February, 2019 http://www.catherineingram.com/facingextinction/ Ingram is seemingly well known in Anglo Buddhist circles, describing herself as "an international dharma teacher with communities in the U.S., Europe, and Australia". She also has a journalism background. And evidently she was good friends with the late Leonard Cohen, the singer-songwriter, poet, novelist and ordained Buddhist monk. This all-encompassing essay seems to have come out of dark conversations with Cohen towards the end of his life. - - Homo Oblivion Oblivious - Rob Mielcarski/un-Denial - March 22, 2019 https://un-denial.com/2019/03/22/homo-oblivion-oblivious/ A 3 pane cartoon illustrating "[t]he concise modern history of the Fire Ape, also known as Homo -S-a-p-i-e-n-s- Oblivion Oblivious". I've experienced the first two so far -- hardly any bugs to clean off the windscreen on long drives through farmlands these days...