Pluvious
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Member since: Sun Jul 11, 2004, 05:18 PM
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Google Finally Confirms Security Problem For 1.5 Billion Gmail And Calendar Users
Posted by Pluvious | Tue Sep 10, 2019, 10:33 AM (12 replies)
What we now know - "Sleep Is Your Superpower" (TedTalk)
Posted by Pluvious | Sat Jun 8, 2019, 11:23 AM (11 replies)
Bob Weir, the indelible guitarist of the Grateful Dead, will not rest. (GQ piece)
King Weir
The long strange trip lives on. The music will never stop. "...Sometime later, he saw a photo of an ancestor. “He had a full-on Yosemite Sam mustache. I said to myself, ‘That's a look that's fallen from favor for the past 150 years or so. I'm just the guy to bring it back.’ ” It is possible that Weir's tongue is in his cheek, but it is hard to tell. On account of all the beard." ... Then Weir tells the story about the night Jerry Garcia died. ... Sometime in the early-morning hours, Weir had a dream about Garcia: “He had a real sort of intense look in his eye,” Weir says. “He looked straight at me, and then through me”—and here he adds the new part—“and then he stepped into me.” ... He is a living piece of musical and countercultural history, for starters one of the few humans to have been on the bill at the Mythologized Boomer Trifecta of the Monterey Pop Festival, Woodstock, and Altamont. Kesey gave him acid; Neal Cassady gave him driving lessons; the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi gave him the mantra he still uses to meditate daily. 
https://www.gq.com/story/bob-weir-grateful-dead-profile |
Posted by Pluvious | Tue May 28, 2019, 11:22 AM (15 replies)
It's Not Just Measles. What You Should Know About Vaccines For Adults:
Posted by Pluvious | Wed May 15, 2019, 10:59 AM (10 replies)
Thank you for sharing your stream of remembrances and reflections
I guess it's no surprise that we become more reflective and wax philosophical as our turn at life slowly winds down.
I catch myself often doing this more and more lately 
So many of the clichés I've heard repeated over the decades, like "youth is wasted on the young" etc - they all make so much sense now lol. But so does realizing the futility of trying to help them young'uns from repeating my own past mistakes. In the end, we're left with the hope that our species will wise up fast enough to survive the future's challenges awaiting it. We need a miracle everyday. |
Posted by Pluvious | Mon Apr 29, 2019, 11:55 AM (1 replies)
Epic collage of hypocrisy sound bites jabbing Obama but destroy Pres Bonespurs !!
Posted by Pluvious | Wed Apr 17, 2019, 06:18 PM (0 replies)
Why These Four Presidents ? (inspiring reminder of just WHAT made us great to start with!)
I personally found the linked page below to be a nice, cathartic quick read.
A perfect - if brief - distraction from these gloomy times we're all enduring. Gutzon Borglum selected these four presidents because from his perspective, they represented the most important events in the history of the United States. Would another artist at that time, or perhaps a modern artist choose differently? As you read more about Borglum's choices, think about what you might have done if the decision was up to you.
"We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self-government." 
https://www.nps.gov/moru/learn/historyculture/why-these-four-presidents.htm |
Posted by Pluvious | Thu Mar 28, 2019, 06:12 PM (0 replies)
Happy Time Break - Project One Life - 100 Dancing Strangers FTW
I can only take so much of you know what...
I had to take a short happy break, maybe good for you too ?!! This video is a short (3m) fun watch, from a most interesting fellow with a most delightful hobby !! Rejuvenate your joy coffers, with a... Dancing Around The World With Random Strangers !!! Hopefully, this will bring a few brief smiles into being this fine weekend
Matt's site: https://www.wheretheheckismatt.com Project One Life's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/ProjectOneLife -- To the Jury: This is a video promoting World Peace, please don't delete my post. |
Posted by Pluvious | Sat Mar 23, 2019, 01:01 PM (4 replies)
The Internet has failed - Important warnings regarding social media abuse and our future
Whew !!
This was a hard-hitting read, I'm compelled to share this forward with DU. I was an early evangelist of the nascent internet back in the 90's, and reading this was a sobering and troubling read. Tho I've been coming to realize of the recent years, something's very wrong been going on, now abundantly clear with the CA/Russian/Trump debacle of 2016. This presentation from SXSW keynote really breaks it down, but also lays out a plan and path to redemption
This should be required reading for all of us !! In The New Yorker’s Feb. 25, 2019 report titled “Private Mossad for Hire,” Uzi Shaya, a former senior Israeli intelligence officer, said, “Social media allows you to reach virtually anyone and to play with their minds. You can do whatever you want. You can be whoever you want. It’s a place where wars are fought, elections are won, and terror is promoted. There are no regulations. It is a no man’s land.”
Here is a quote from [Sir] Tim Berners-Lee, who drew the original diagram for the world wide web on a napkin, and who now has Dr. Frankenstein’s remorse.
“We demonstrated that the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places. [The Web] has ended up producing—with no deliberate action of the people who designed the platform — a large-scale emergent phenomenon which is anti-human.” By now, it is clear that what was begun as a mission to connect and unite mankind has mutated into a pernicious distortion machine that has disconnected mankind and put us at each other’s throats, and in doing so has destroyed and is destroying institutions and knowledge that have taken centuries to develop.
To stay human, to survive as a species, we have to wrest our communications out of the control of the lust for power, the avarice, larceny, hubris, deceit and self-delusion of the heads of Google and Facebook.
SO MUCH MORE at: http://buzzbands.la/2019/03/13/t-bone-burnetts-keynote-speech-at-sxsw-dire-warnings-vs-the-goal-of-art-to-create-conscience/ |
Posted by Pluvious | Mon Mar 18, 2019, 03:13 PM (2 replies)