board meeting last night, and I failed to convince these nice “progressive” people to participate in the composting program that the city finally started to do in our low-priority area.

Basically, they are concerned that people who live in our building are too stupid or uncaring and would leave their food scraps out improperly, which would bring rats and roaches. 

This concerns them more than the methane that we would keep generating in the landfill.

I feel like we just pulled out of Paris Agreement, and I’ve done nothing to prevent it. All politics is really local.

scienceisbeauty:

Impressive artwork.

Dr. Greg Dunn (artist and neuroscientist) and Dr. Brian Edwards (artist and applied physicist) created Self Reflected to elucidate the nature of human consciousness, bridging the connection between the mysterious three pound macroscopic brain and the microscopic behavior of neurons. Self Reflected offers an unprecedented insight of the brain into itself, revealing through a technique called reflective microetching the enormous scope of beautiful and delicately balanced neural choreographies designed to reflect what is occurring in our own minds as we observe this work of art. Self Reflected was created to remind us that the most marvelous machine in the known universe is at the core of our being and is the root of our shared humanity.

h-t New Scientist: Brain images display the beauty and complexity of consciousness

At 6:30am it is already steamy, like in that tropical greenhouse in the garden, and the religious school near the park looks vaguely colonial. There is a jungle of trees near it and some extremely loud birds – I think they are the escapee parrots that settled in the cemetery on a day foraging trip – that make it look, smell and sound positively tropical.
I close my eyes and pretend I’m in São Paulo or San Juan or Santo Domingo or some other warm fragrant place that begins with San…

also nice to catch up with UK friend from the old life (should I just refer to it as “default” ?). She is disillusioned with UK politics as we are with ours. It feels like everything is going to implode.

Also, learned about an infosec dude she met who for living wipes out history of rich kids doing stupid things.