dreamers

Meh. I'm not in the mood for you. I got your dreamers right here.

These are the 'children' Reuters describes as "migrants." 

Jacking with language as usual. Taking in the low information voters who accept Newspeak that show up at polls in droves who couldn't tell the difference between legal and illegal even if they did care and who couldn't pass a third grade American History exam if they were given the answers, purposefully conflating illegal immigrant with migrant as if to suggest some intention of returning. They assume you are stupid.

Per National Review, adults posing as children to enroll in High School, screw you, property owners. Here is your one chance to instill a sense of what it is to be American, whoops, too bad, the teachers are socialists too. 

Objections to federally sponsored waves of illegal immigrats have nothing to do with xenophobia either, it has nothing to do with nativism as one Shikha Dalmia at Washington Examiner so rudely suggests. 

Per Breitbart TSA is now allowing illegals to board commercial airlines without identification. While regular American travelers get the full shakedown. We know nothing of these people, who they are, where they come from. Their documentation mere copy paper without any photo, easily counterfeited. I could do it myself. Without any health clearance whatsoever. So screw you, regular paying jet airplane traveler. Here, have a case of scabies, or nits, or worse, tuberculosis. I know what happens to people with vulnerable immune systems who dare board a plane. I've seen what happens to them. Even healthy people get sick when they fly. At this point you couldn't pay me to get on a plane. I honestly believe our federal government is making itself our enemy. Taken together this is so far beyond the pale it is quite unbelievable. I could weep were I not so angry and disgusted for what has become of my onetime wonderful country at the hands of this shiftless president and his malevolent controlling Party, and his abetting corrupted media. I am fed up with all of them. 

We are being lied to. Again. These people are looking for a socialist country to embed within. To take care of them. To change by their numbers, by their lack of education, their abject absence of appreciation of our laws, our history, for our constitutional constructions, by their propensity for accepting ruthless ruling class.This is why Homeland Security is not allowing journalists to document activities, when they're not swarming small towns in a show of force. It is precisely why photographers are not allowed. This is not a thing that is happening out of the blue by forces beyond our control, rather, it is a thing our federal government is doing to us. 

Photo from Film Ladd's twitter.

Via Jeff G. at Protein Wisdom.

"Complexity simplified"

"These are collective decision-making systems," says Couzin. They have always looked fearsomely complex but maybe they follow rules that are much simpler than we have suspected. By observing the individual behaviour of these swarming cells we may be able to discover those rules, giving us new ways to intervene."

"Taking the idea even further, Couzin contends that neurons act like swarming animals. The brain is the very definition of complexity: it contains about 86 billion neurons, all interconnected by physical, chemical and electrical channels. Couzin and his colleagues wonder whether each might act as a simple sensor which, when networked, generates complex emergent behaviour. "We're interested in how they integrate local information from those around them, and how that gets encoded," he says. This might, he suggests, be a key to understanding how consciousness emerges. Perhaps it is collective information processing, analogous to the way groups of fish detect light gradients that a single fish cannot perceive."

 

New Scientist: Mind meld: The genius of swarm thinking