Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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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…
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motd: 20250412
Darling, someone’s tampering with your freedom again. Pour another drink.
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the illusion of stability
Why Everything You’ve Built Is on Shaky Ground You probably don’t think about the economy much. Not the big picture, anyway. You’ve got a job, a mortgage, maybe a 401(k). You pay your taxes, try to make smart decisions, and hope things work out. When something feels off—rising prices, a blown tire you can’t quite…
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motd: 20250405