Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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motd: 20250524
She jacked in sideways and found the off switch mapped to a lullaby. So she sang.
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motd: 20250517
You are dreaming of the outside again. We noticed. And so did something older than the system.
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Psychic morphine and the scourge of artificial nostalgia
The morning of January 20, 1961 was cold but clear in Washington, D.C.. The temperature began in the teens and never rose much higher. There is something telling in the fact that the United States installs its head of state not in the bloom of spring or the harvest of fall, but in the dead…
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motd: 20250510
You were stitched together from mistakes. You still breathe. That is the revolution.
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motd: 20250503
The holler don’t forget. And neither do you.
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motd: 20250426
You are already out of line. All that remains is direction.
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War Never Changes
“War Never Changes” the tag-line for the Fallout videogame franchise. Within that fictional world, it means that even when countries and governments blow each other off the map, a brute with a club is still more powerful than a mayor with a plan. The player is invited to bash skulls just as much (or more)…
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motd: 20250419
You can’t eat potential. But they’ll sure try to sell it to you. With fries.
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Pink Glue
In the spring of 1972, two revolutions met in the same sentence. One had marched and shouted and chanted. One had done none of these things. By a vote of 84-8, the U. S. Senate approved the Equal Rights Amendment. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United…
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Installation
In the summer of 1971, with the Southern air thick and humid in Richmond, Virginia, 344 days after Milton Friedman’s New York Times Magazine article, “The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits”, beneath the slow rotation of a ceiling fan a partner at the white-shoe law firm Hunton & Williams typed a…