Bird Sounds.  What a great instrument.

I’m looking through Google for an article with a public endorsement and supporting arguments for the Senate Healthcare bill. I can’t find a single one, not even from the authors of the bill. Is there no argument for passing the bill?

Update: I found one

http://www.meshpoint.me/

Mesh network in a rugged easily deployed battery powered unit, built on open source.  Great.

Check out “Clouds of Sils Maria” on Netflix
www.netflix.com/title/80013293?source=android

Juliette Binoche.

Reading a Guardian article about the fracas in MT between the Republican candidate and the journalist, and once again come across the handwringing and the line “This is not America”. I’m getting tired of this. This is America. This is not a small, aberant, shameful minority. This is a large group of loud, foul mouthed, bullying, ignorant people who have been empowered to express clearly who they are and what they think, and they don’t express themselves by writing op-eds in the paper. They yell, and they beat you up if they think you’re weak. This is the country we live in, these are the people we live with. Pretending that they’re unrepresentative is wishful thinking. Trump won half the damn country, people.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/27/greg-gianforte-ben-jacobs-media-donald-trump-journalism-montana

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Technological Unemployment with Unconditional Basic Income
https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/6dhsdf/cutting_the_gordian_knot_of_technological/

He glosses over implementation and evidentiary details, and makes plenty of unchallenged assertions, but makes a case for the severing of the relationship between paid work and survival. Does a nice job decimating the gig economy, too.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/08/virtual-reality-religion-robots-sapiens-book

And we return to the UBI.  A light hearted but serious question answered.

The video guy posted.  This is closer to how it was than the photos I took:

My old friend Douglas calls up one day and says”How about going together on a five-day bike trip in the South Island?”. Since I’ve known him since high school and never seen him on a bike, how could i say no?
https://goo.gl/photos/1BZApuczH4SQJCQSA

How Did I Celebrate Becoming American? Protesting Trump https://nyti.ms/2nKn0XX

Hmm.