https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/zettelkasten-note-taking-method-guide/
Imagine a note-taking system that works with your brain, not against it—one that mirrors how we naturally connect ideas and make sense of the world. Developed by sociologist Niklas Luhmann, the Zettelkasten method transforms the way you capture, organize, and use information. It’s not just about storing notes; it’s about creating a dynamic network of knowledge that grows and evolves with you.
https://www.salon.com/2025/03/06/where-did-us-public-health-go_partner/
Addressing Risk in the Modern Risk Environment-
“…While initially useful, the term “all hazards” no longer accurately describes the functions or mission of the emergency management discipline. In the past few years, state and local emergency managers have led or coordinated governments’ responses to a broadening range of incidents and problems.
“All hazards” is a self-limiting term, not an enabling one. Hazards do not encompass the entirety of the discipline’s current focus, which can include special event planning and coordination, resilience building, humanitarian support (and aid), air and environmental quality, and election security, to name a few.
As emergency managers grapple with new and increasingly complex challenges—such as the intensification of natural disasters and the proliferation of threats like pandemics and cyberattacks—the all-hazards model is inadequate. The current emergency management landscape demands a shift away from the all-hazards approach to a more comprehensive, hazard-agnostic approach. This shift reflects the growing complexity of modern crises and the need for a flexible, adaptable framework that can address a broad range of evolving threats. This approach emphasizes core skills, adaptability, diversity of staff personal and professional experience, identifying commonality of threats, and addressing these by coordinating multidisciplinary solutions. …”
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-length-household-displacement-community-disaster.html
“‘…To understand the impacts of future disasters, the computer model can combine estimates of physical damage with socioeconomic characteristics to predict the duration of household displacement within a community and therefore help inform risk mitigation strategies that reduce displacement risks for members of that community in future disasters.”‘
“‘It’s the Inequality, stupid'” [to paraphrase the Clinton-era message]
Since Reagan (and I would argue Nixon) Rs have ’tilted the ice’ and have effectively installed Trickle Down philosophies as the common, central economic norm — rejecting the New Deal and Great Society ideals as extreme.
Trickle down is now orthodoxy. Again, Trickle Down came with tax cuts to the wealthy, deregulation of industries, demonization of unions, to name a few. various markets were becoming less and less competitive as mergers and leverage buyouts accelerated, creating greater levels of wealth consolidation. As a result, the social contract and social safety net are generally forgotten, or labeled as worse.
How this played out during recent election cycles:
–When Dems are in power, they are politically restricted to still working within the Trickle down norms. So, any Democratic party successes are within the existing, skewed playing field. When Ds are in power, they are politically restricted to still working within the Republicans norms.
So, any Democratic party successes are within the existing, skewed playing field. As a result, wealth inequality is the orthodoxy. So, even now as the strongest economy in the world, so many Americans do not benefit from any such gains.
Put another way, it mirrors the current “weather vs climate” arguments -i.e.: ‘economy ‘ is to ‘weather’ as ‘wealth inequality ‘ is to ‘climate. So when Dems respond to the ‘weather,’ they do not /can not fix any of the fundamentals of ‘climate change‘. As a result, the 2024 presidential elections pigeon-holed Ms. Harris as the more-of-the-same candidate who didn’t understand the economic lives of average Americans [granted, there was a lot of mis- / dis- and skewed information btw FOX, corporate media and social media algorithms, but that’s a discussion for another time…]
So how do we get the pendulum to swing back? I’d like to propose a few ideas in other posts that I will refer to as “‘We the People,”‘ proposals as part of future posts.
First & foremost: Corporation’s Are NOT People. This country has to codify in statue – and probably in a constitution amendment in order to neutralize the current SCOTUS.
Why does Trump want to abolish the Education Department? An anthropologist who studies MAGA explains 4 reasons https://flip.it/oFZp4R
Reading the following HSNewsWire article [link below] on supply chains and the language differences between the private sector vs government, i am reminded of the 1976 movie Network.
Network. Paddy Chayefsky. Big 70s all-star cast.
There’s a great soliloquy – no not Peter Finch/Howard Beale’s “I’m mad as hell and i’m not going to take it anymore…” The one i often think of is the Ned Beaty/network CEO:
“‘ You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no third worlds. There is no West.
There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, Reichmarks, Yen, Rubles, Pounds, and Shekels. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.
That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU WILL ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state — Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.
We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime.
And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that perfect world in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality — one vast and e****enical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock, all necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused.
From Brassville to... (working title) 