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How to draw an orange
How to draw an orange
New thing I’m in the middle of. Going to get bigger and annoyingly more complex, but the message will stay clear. This week’s question comes to us from...
·buttondown.com·
How to draw an orange
Waiting For The Worms
Waiting For The Worms
I've seen a lot of people express the sentiment that they initially found Musk compelling because the books they loved as kids made them also want to be an Astronaut and go to Mars, and they saw in his public persona some kind of a kindred spirit. Well, I also read a lot as a child, and I wished for an ebon longsword that nourished me with the damned souls of my enemies. But then, eventually ...
·jwz.org·
Waiting For The Worms
But He Does Good Work
But He Does Good Work
I was about to post this as a reply to someone on my "Make Nazis Sweat Again" post, which has derailed into car-brained windshield-view defenses of Musk, but it got long, sooooo.... The world is full of people who, in this, the Year of Our Basilisk, 2025, are willing to loudly admit, "Yeah, I knew Musk was -- [pick one or all] -- 1) a homophobe, 2) a racist, 3) a con man, 4) a eugenicist, 5) ...
·jwz.org·
But He Does Good Work
Futarchy As Meta Governance
Futarchy As Meta Governance
While anyone can buy stock in public firms, private firms are instead held by a more concentrated and exclusive set of owners.
·overcomingbias.com·
Futarchy As Meta Governance
The Manifesto of the Cognitive Revolution
The Manifesto of the Cognitive Revolution
I’m here to tell you what should already be abundantly clear: that simple truths, all around us, reveal things that are blatantly obvious.
·notesfromthecircus.com·
The Manifesto of the Cognitive Revolution
The Manifesto Of The Cognitive Revolution
The Manifesto Of The Cognitive Revolution
My project thus far has been to educate you, to help you renormalize history from a common ethical center. To show you what should be abundantly clear: that simple truths, all around us, reveal thi…
·techdirt.com·
The Manifesto Of The Cognitive Revolution
Why Tariff Inflation Won't Be Just a Blip
Why Tariff Inflation Won't Be Just a Blip
I am a Tariff Man ,” declares Donald Trump. But what about inflation? In his 2025 State of the Union, he admits There mightl be "a little ...
·dolanecon.blogspot.com·
Why Tariff Inflation Won't Be Just a Blip
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is...
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is...
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). “When truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative — no matter how detached from reality it is.&#
·kottke.org·
Bellingcat’s Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is...
What the Hell Are We Doing?
What the Hell Are We Doing?
The Trump administration is a self-inflicted economic, political, and diplomatic aneurysm, hemorrhaging chaos with no purpose beyond its own destruction.
·theindex.media·
What the Hell Are We Doing?
How Digital Marketing Broke Society
How Digital Marketing Broke Society
25.9% of teenagers who spend four or more hours daily on screens experienced depression symptoms in the past two weeks. 27.1% reported anxiety symptoms. Higher durations of Internet use increases depression levels. Adolescents who spend more than three hours online daily are more likely to fall into the
·joanwestenberg.com·
How Digital Marketing Broke Society
Strategic corruption reserve
Strategic corruption reserve
President Trump is hawking a memecoin and collecting most of the revenue from the sale of a separate coin from a company called World Liberty Financial.
·popular.info·
Strategic corruption reserve
Might the US be about to fall off an economic cliff?
Might the US be about to fall off an economic cliff?
I am grateful to Dr Tim Rideout for drawing my attention to the GDP Now forecast run by the Atlanta Fed in the USA. As they say of this: The growth rate of real gross domestic product (GDP) is a key indicator of economic activity, but the official estimate is released with...
·taxresearch.org.uk·
Might the US be about to fall off an economic cliff?
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
The FFCKUS, on his media platform: All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agita...
·mleddy.blogspot.com·
“Thank you for your attention to this matter”
Make Nazis Sweat Again:
Make Nazis Sweat Again:
Facebook Cybertruck Owners Group Copes With Relentless Mockery: A Facebook group for Cybertruck owners is full of videos and photos of passersby and other drivers flicking them off, leaving notes that say "WHAT'S ELON'S CUM TASTE LIKE?," and "NAZI CAR," and people kicking their cars, throwing slices of cheese at it, etc. Another post shows images of words people had drawn on the side of a ...
·jwz.org·
Make Nazis Sweat Again:
Blogging for Democracy
Blogging for Democracy
This is a great post from Mike Masnick about why Techdirt is writing more or less full-time about the Trump regime’s attack on democracy: Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not). I agree with every word of it. One of the po
·kottke.org·
Blogging for Democracy
The Self-Domesticated Ape
The Self-Domesticated Ape
We aren’t the only species on this planet that have domesticated another species. There is one kind of ancient ant that herds and cares for insect aphids in order to milk them of honeydew sugar. But we are the only … Continue reading →
·kk.org·
The Self-Domesticated Ape
Journal Club: How Poverty Fell
Journal Club: How Poverty Fell
An amateur's field guide to Armentano, Niehaus, and Vogl
·justismills.substack.com·
Journal Club: How Poverty Fell
UNION - A Film By Brett Story and Stephen Maing
UNION - A Film By Brett Story and Stephen Maing
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) — a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island — takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionize.
·unionthefilm.com·
UNION - A Film By Brett Story and Stephen Maing