I really don’t know Dorothy Barrie. We do have mutual friends. When I saw her post on Facebook, I wanted to share it with you.

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I share my subscriptions ……

Jane Fonda Pledges to Never Buy a Car Again

by Brooke MarineOctober 12, 2020 10:38 am

Image courtesy of TED.

Last year, Jane Fonda promised she’ll never buy another item of clothing again. Now, the climate change activist is taking her environmentalist pledge a step further.

Even during the coronavirus pandemic, Fonda has kept up with her weekly Fire Drill Fridays, where she often peacefully protests the dangers of climate change in front of the United States Capitol.

At the At the TED Countdown conference on Saturday, Prince William (who made his TED talk debut), the Pope, Jaden Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Cynthia Erivo and more joined Fonda virtually to talk about the devastating threats climate change can pose to our environment.

Fonda co-hosted an hour of the Countdown program with 18-year-old climate change activist Xiye Bastida, where they asked questions like what happens to our carbon emissions and where do they go in the atmosphere, how have we used our fossil fuel budget, and shared actions that everyone can take to limit their carbon footprint.

The first commitment? Never buying a car (or two-wheeler with internal combustion engine) again. Fonda pledged she will not purchase a vehicle with a combustion engine. “Yes, I can certainly commit to that! You bet,” she said. “And I hope many others will, too.”

It’s sort of a follow-up promise to last fall’s pledge Fonda made, inspired by Greta Thunberg. The actress promised that the red wool coat she often wears to her weekly Fire Drill Fridays would be the final item of clothing she would ever buy. “When I talk to people about, ‘We don’t really need to keep shopping. We shouldn’t look to shopping for our identity. We don’t need more stuff,’ then I have to walk the walk too,” she said last November. “So I’m not buying any more clothes.” Since then, Fonda has been known to repeat outfits she wears to big events, like her Oscars dress this year (a repeat from Cannes) and her black sequined suit at last year’s GCAAP Empower Party (a repeat from the Glamour Women of the Year Awards).

At the Countdown conference, even Pope Francis echoed Fonda’s sentiment about global waste. “The current economic system is unsustainable,” he said. “We are faced with the moral imperative, and the practical urgency, to rethink many things: the way we produce; the way we consume; our culture of waste; our short-term vision; the exploitation of the poor and our indifference towards them; the growing inequalities and our dependence on harmful energy sources. We need to think about all these challenges

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Message from an Israeli Jew: Please don’t re-elect Trump – The Forward

https://forward.com/opinion/456117/message-from-an-israeli-jew-please-dont-re-elect-trump/

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Trump is bad for America and bad for the Jews

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The former head of ADL speaks !

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/american-jewrys-fateful-choice/

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The 40 best places to sell stuff online

https://mashable.com/article/where-to-sell-stuff-online/

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Trump is desperate to seem manly. It’s hurting us all.

https://mashable.com/article/trump-covid19-masculinity/

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Are Deepfakes Dangerous? Creators and Regulators Disagree | Digital Trends

https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/deepfakes-future-of-internet/

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The Best Political Ad Not To Be Missed

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Zoom video recording for Art Photography Talk: Creatures of the Night—a Efren Olivares lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40MDjYzfIk&t=1738s

We all know that human nature is particularly unique at night. At night, there is dancing, celebration, romance, and glamour. There is also crime, vice, and illicit activity. Photographers have capturing nightlife for over120 years. 
We will start our journey at end of the 19th Century to show the obstacles faced by early pioneers of night photography like Paul Martin and Jessie Tarbox Beals. We will then quickly move to photographers who made nightlife a significant part of their artistic practice.  These include Brassai’s groundbreaking images ofParis by Night, Bill Brandt’s images from A Night in London,  Weegee’s groundbreaking “night crawler” scenes of NYC’S nightlife and crimes, Rose Hartman’s photography at Studio 54, the intimate work of Goldin’s friends, and much more.  You will see men wearing top hats at the opera, celebrities dancing in clubs, prostitutes walking the streets of Paris, and much more.  
Throughout the talk, we will explore how technological influenced opportunities for photographers shooting at night.  We will discuss whether subjects knew they were being shot (and even asked to pose) vs being photographed without their consent. 

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Newman from ‘Seinfeld’ releases anti-Trump PSA about the Postal Service

https://mashable.com/video/newman-seinfeld-anti-trump-voting-psa/

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Trapped inside. The United States needs a leader who can make outside safe again.

The Wall Street Journal.

Why Disney World Is Open but Disneyland Is Closed

https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-disney-world-is-open-but-disneyland-is-closed-11602235802?st=pegnzwo555rfhcc&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Talk Radio Is Turning Millions of Americans Into Conservatives

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/opinion/talk-radio-conservatives-trumpism.html?referringSource=articleShare

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Which ARTnews Top 200 Collectors Can Spend $50 M. or More? –

ARTnews.com
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/top-200-collectors-50-million-dollar-spenders-1234572446/

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As Trump’s fortunes sink, Republicans start to distance themselves in bid to save Senate

https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0XG8a4au?pd=0292Kwz5&s=i3

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See ‘Seinfeld”s Newman Return to Defend Postal Service in New PSA – Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/seinfeld-newman-usps-trump-psa-1073241/

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Truth follows fiction. This is what Carl Hiaasen’s book “Squeeze Me” is all about.

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‘Beast of a snake’: Huge python caught in the Everglades sets a new record
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/environment/article246305275.html

A New Member Of Our Family

“When Trump walked through the doors, Walter Reed had a stellar reputation. As he walks out 72 hours later, its reputation is in tatters. There’s nothing Trump can’t ruin.”

— Maureen Dowd

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Pierre Schwob, a client for the fourth time over several decades, has just handed me the final draft of his novel. It’s up to me to get it published and make headline news. I believe his words will shake up the world to completely understand what needs to be done to save the planet. Schwob is an entrepreneur, inventor, and philanthropist based in Palo Alto, CA.
He founded (1994) and runs Classical Archives (ClassicalArchives.com). He invented and licensed the ID LOGIC technology for radio receivers which was incorporated into a US national standard. Author of books on chess, calculators and history (1975-76), he taught computer science at NY FIT and the NYU adjunct faculty (1981-86).
He supports cosmology research at KIPAC (Stanford/SLAC) and foreign affairs policy research at CISAC (Stanford). He was raised in Geneva , Switzerland and has lived in New York (13 y), Hong Kong (11 y) and now Palo Alto since 1997. An asteroid has been named after him. Let’s see if I can make him a star right here on earth.

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Night Terrors

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I thought we had a home invasion when I woke up at 3am. It turned out to be our stationary bike with a tripod plus camera behind it.

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Early Morning Walks

https://youtu.be/dxWAwBOK1ac

I will remember this video forever.

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Is Your iPhone Listening To You?

If you use Facebook, Instagram or other social media sites, you must have noticed ads on your feeds for certain products that you clicked on when you visited various retail websites. The first time I saw this I was amazed. How did Facebook know I wanted that blouse?”

One time I even received a notice that said, “You left this at check out.” That was correct. I placed a sweater in a checkout cart but decided not to buy it. Now that my Facebook feed reminded me of the sweater, I actually bought it. Mission accomplished by the retailer.

If all that is not scary enough, let me tell you what happened to two friends of mine. They were in the Cole Haan store in Columbus Circle, NYC last week when one guy said to the other, “I really like these shoes.” He was referring to a pair that was being showcased on a display table near him. They never mentioned the name of the shoes, the price, the color, or where they were standing. Later that night, an ad for the exact pair of shoes appeared on their Facebook feeds. Was it a coincidence? I don’t think so. Welcome to the new world of GPS, algorithms, and voice recordings.

I googled the possibilities. Here is one story I found in Forbes.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanpettijohn/2019/09/03/of-course-your-phone-is-listening-to-you/amp/

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Finally, The Truth

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Puzzlement

After completing 17 puzzles during the pandemic, the 18th fell out of Eliot’s hands when placing it on an adhesive sheet. It usually takes Eliot, two/three days of 8 hours each, to complete a 1000 to 1,500 piece puzzle. They will all be donated to charity.

Lucie Arnaz Luckinbill stepped out of her #stayathome comfy clothes and got dressed up to deliver an important “live events” message for everyone in America. We better listen carefully. We all want to return to performances on stage. Thank you Lucie.

https://youtu.be/uk6kwjZ-3Ts

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Warning: if you are a wine lover, expect to weep.

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SOUND FAMILIAR …….?

When one door closes and another door opens, you are probably in prison.

Age 60 might be the new 40, but 9:00 pm is the new midnight.

The older I get, the earlier it gets late.

When I say, “The other day,” I could be referring to any time between yesterday and 30 years ago.

I remember being able to get up without making sound effects

I had my patience tested. I’m negative.

Remember, if you lose a sock in the dryer it comes back as a Tupperware lid that doesn’t fit any of your containers.

If you’re sitting in public and a stranger takes the seat next to you, just stare straight ahead and say “Did you bring the money?”

When you ask me what I am doing today, and I say “nothing”, it does not mean I am free. It means I am doing nothing.

I finally got eight hours of sleep. It took me three days, but whatever.

I run like the winded.

I hate when a couple argues in public, and I missed the beginning and don’t know whose side I’m on.

When someone asks what I did over the weekend, I squint and ask, “Why, what did you hear?”

When you do squats are your knees supposed to sound like a goat chewing on an aluminum can stuffed with celery?

I don’t mean to interrupt people. I just randomly remember things and get really excited.

When I ask for directions, please don’t use words like “east.”

Don’t bother walking a mile in my shoes. That would be boring. Spend 30 seconds in my head. That’ll freak you right out.

My luck is like a bald guy who just won a comb.