[Allocate less to equities at retirement, but maintain enough to benefit from a remaining investment timeframe of about 20–30 years.]
[Hold bonds in your local currency. Exposure to other currencies adds risk to what should be a safe-haven asset.]
[The Dow (with 30 commitee-selected entries) and NASDAQ 100 (only non-financial) are poorly diversified and not a gauge of the broad market.]
Reading is an encounter with possible worlds.
[Authoritarians don't like people reading because it increases the number of imaginable worlds contradicts the idea that there is only one version of history.]
[People eager to frame their problems through other people's identity don't want to question the underlying system, only taking a stance on banking through the lense of bankers being Jewish, or on protection of women through the lense of offenders being Muslim.]
[Choosing between "the lesser of two evils" in democratic elections reflects a continuous oscillation between radical pro-oligarch and moderate pro-oligarch where both further the same agenda. The former capitalizes on our frustration with the system by promising meaningful change and enacting laws by force to server the wealthy. The latter attempts to sooth our disappointment of authoritarian overstep by promising a return to sanity but following the laws created by the former.]
Zventa Sventana: Side rain [Стороною дождь]
[Russian folk singer performing songs in older language spoken before the 1700s. This one asks the rain to wash away feelings of a broken heart.]
vocals with rawness and power over mysterious harmonies
featuring a catchy Arabic counting song for kids, learn the first ten if you like; couldn't find a clear original sample other than this cartoon
Carlos Puebla: Un trago para mi son
wonderfully simple instrumentation, vocals, and melody; all comes together with a strong groove
silly story featuring an Italian mother's accent
Charles Mingus: Cumbia and Jazz Fusion (excerpt)
a few minutes of super swinging AAVE
[Template interactions like "Je voudrais un hot dog, s'il vous plaît … merci!"; "Où est le WC? … merci!" are simple to use, but have no cultural or experiential value, and treat the other as a machine. If someone gives a surprising or interesting response, you might miss it.] Wielding language's magic is intoxicating; becoming susceptible to it, even more so.
[Inormation entropy as "how unique or surprising is this?" threads through: text prediction, text generation, autocorrect, search, cloze tests, data compression and transmission, encryption, memory, summarization, random noise, language learning, language evolution…]
["They lived happily ever after" in information entropy terms means "Nothing noteworthy happened for the rest of their lives".]
[People ask "how did you meet your spouse?" and not "how did you stay married?" because the latter is a story of struggle and pain.]
[Advice from someone who responds less predictably has more value because of entropy.]
[Pithy marketing phrases are "cliches with a diff".]
[War can be "popular" but never the collective choice of a population.]
thought this was some kind of quaint samba but learned it's morna with lyrics in Cape Verdean Creole.
[Drug dealers and their clients have to constantly invent new language as if they were poets when referring to substances, because known euphemisms or cliches can mean jail.]
[Latin speakers naming those with whom they break bread "com-panis" ("with bread") led to our word "companion".]
[People are always changing as you get to know them—partly due to your presence; they are never still.]
[Neurons change their connection structure each time they fire. Functional brains change. Experience changes you or it didn't happen. Relating is risky because you can't get to know someone without changing them or somewhat becoming them.]
[We can't actually touch anything: our perception of contact is really body atoms and table atoms exerting electromagnetic force on each other—dynamic exchange rather than static contact.]
heard two other albums by this band and it didn't really get my attention, but this track did; frantic hard driving intense free jazz
Body connection is our desired "magnificent integration of all the things", with electricity built-in.
Physical training, daily routines, and food choices can be spaces to practice building your path based on having a memory of what you did, which is a reflex in musical composition and improvisation.
Individual practice without the intensity of group training may seem less "intense" or "focused" as you find your way, but it also takes extra energy to self-organize and adapt so that sessions are possible in environments that are fluctuating, noisy, less private, not purpose-built, or adverse for other reasons.
[An aptronym is a surname amusingly appropriate to one's occupation, such as poker champion Chris Moneymaker or British neurology duo Russell Brain and Henry Head.]
[Plastic surgery, anti-balding hair products, shoulder pads, top surgery for overweight boys, push-up bras, and wigs are examples of gender-affirming care.]
[It's common for people born intersex to have doctors "pick one" without telling anyone in order to save the family from the burden of that choice.]
[Frogs change their sex based on the population's gender distribution, and penguins change their gender.]
[What exists is natural. We consider biological expressions "unnatural" until they happen.]
