Research/Surfing
Great tweet-storm by someone explaining why they are leaving twitter. Not indignation, but information hygiene.
After years of being exposed to the family in the media, I have found my favorite Romney, with all due respect to the Senator. (And, yeah, I get they are not related).
UBI and sustainability are probably totally different spheres. Hooray for a "a more equitable arrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic."
I think everyone should know about Operation Northwoods. h/t Ran Prieur.
Someone calculating how rich Mr. Darcy would have been, as well as explaining how the financial instruments in Jane Austen's books worked.
Ian Welsh showing examples of when analog technologies were better -- and probably could be again, and then explains what digital technologies have really been about.
Hey, have you heard? Chestnuts might save the world.
Aphorisms/Shorts
"The function of propaganda is not to tell us what to think but to sink us deeper in what we already thoughtlessly believe" Ran Prieur from "Slow Crash"
Conjecture: with superstition marginalized, much of political discourse is socially appropriate "scary stories."
The job system -- being around people you don't like and doing things you don't like -- isn't a rite of passage; it is a rite of entrapment.
”Now that we can do anything, we must do less.” Ruben Anderson
