Reading “Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising” by the late Rob Burbea. Something to take in little bites as time allows you to know and not just read it. 😉 https://t.co/h8EacYlWMp — Kevin Clark (@gonnatryanyways) Jan 10, 2022 from Twitter https://twitter.com/gonnatryanyways January 10, 2022 at 01:19PM
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“Suddenly, it feels like 2000 again. Back then, surveillance programs like Carnivore, Echelon, and Total Information Awareness helped spark a surge in electronic privacy awareness.”
“You and everyone you know live inside a massive magnetic tunnel, according to new research from the University of Toronto.”
“Something odd is happening to Earth’s magnetic field. Over the last 200 years, it’s been slowly weakening and shifting its magnetic north pole (where a compass points, not to be confused with the geographic north pole) from the Canadian Arctic toward Siberia.”
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“This morning the Oregon Employment Department released the latest employment report. The good news is jobs rebounded in January, following losses in December. More importantly from a data perspective we also got the annual benchmark revisions as well.”
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