Mindblown: culture, urbanism, leadership, technology.
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Triaging your principles
Some people can’t be saved, save the ones who can. That is the idea behind triage, the practice of sorting wounded or injured people to order them for treatment, but also to order them for non-treatment because in a crisis, when time and doctors and supplies are in short supply, trying in vain to save…
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thinking about how collapse will come
LA is burning. The destruction is immense, but less than it could have been, This is a small blip on the radar of future catastrophe. Time will only intensify these events – wildfires, droughts, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods – as the climate adjusts. As the ice and permafrost melts and the load on the poles lightens,…
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Discretionary power without accountability
Convicted felon Donald. J. Trump was in a New York City courtroom today where he was sentenced to bear no burden and suffer no penalty for cooking the books during his 2016 presidential campaign to hide from regulators and voters how he paid off a porn star to hide from voters that he’d had an…
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motd: 20250111
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The hard thing about banning Tik Tok
The hard thing about making a law and upholding it in the courts to ban Tik Tok is not coming up with reasons to do so, rather it is coming up with reasons to do so that don’t also apply to every social media platform. Nothing you can say about the dangers of Bytedance or…
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motd: 20250104
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Tariffs only work if …
Tariffs only work if they raise prices of imported goods above the cost of domestic goods because the purpose of a tariff is to create space in the competitive landscape for domestic producers to grow and prosper by raising the cost of the imported good so that domestic goods can undercut them on price in…
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Some bad intentions…
Bad Intentions The green bus passes through melike vibrating waves varying shades of ink Color It’s a pleasant enough sensationBut since I am paralyzed If the green bus continuesTo pass through me I will be left here foreverAs if betrayedBy some bad intentions of space and time Jim Carroll
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Modern life is out of control
Modern life is out of control. This is well known, in fact, it is so well known that we have entire industries dedicated to the attempts to put it back “under control”. Yet we organize and structure and tidy and balance to no avail, because modern life is out of control. Too little and too…
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My American Trauma
This is about what happens when you are wrong about who you are, how you see yourself, and what you think that means when conceptualizing yourself, the world, and your place in that world.