I backpedal on the days I plan to rest — I’ll just go for a quick one right now and take tomorrow off instead.
I don’t know what I’m going to do this winter without it.
https://kottke.org/24/11/might-as-well-face-it-youre-addicted-to-running
Political Power != Cultural Power
“Now that Trump won people have to like and agree with me and not tell me I suck anymore.”
‘These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.’
Listen, if you can stomach it, to a random MAGA grievance rant & ask yourself “how much of what they’re most upset about is something public policy can realistically address?”
‘Elon Musk has all the money in the world and can’t buy one minute of cool.’
The work of obtaining facts has a major economic disadvantage against the production of bullshit
The destruction of patience is one of the most dramatic cultural shifts we’ll probably experience of our lifetimes.
Democracy is more than the absence of czars, more than freedom, more than equal opportunity. It is a way of life, a use of freedom, an embrace of opportunity.
https://mattdpearce.substack.com/p/journalisms-fight-for-survival-in
he is not only taking care of his mother and younger brother but also those around him as a nurse.
conservatism has long been surrounded by an enormous shimmering halo of pseudo-philosophy
Frank Wilhoit: ‘Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”’
What I have taken advantage of is what so many, many, many, many other people have taken advantage of, which is today the total disintermediation of the public discourse. There is no longer any gatekeeping whatsoever.
https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html
Doing graphic design for ISIS was the passion of a 28-year-old Houston man who was arrested last week
ISIS’s chief designer gave him the nickname The Nightmare because of the extensive notes and revisions that were required before any piece of propaganda he worked on was pushed out.
https://www.404media.co/graphic-design-for-isis-is-his-passion-fbi-alleges-in-filing
Haha So True!
This research explores HST as a potential game-changer for the chronically socially fatigued.
Minimal-effort “Haha So True!” responses provide the same satisfaction boost as more strenuous replies like “OMG LMAO”.
Friendships thrive best when effort is kept to a bare minimum – so long as it exists at all.
How Journalism gets punished by Authoritarians
The president tweeted false statements about Amazon and his threats to raise its postal shipping rates. Amazon’s market value briefly plunged $60 billion.
Through his actions, Defendant Trump has intentionally conveyed to all writers and journalists that if he objects to their coverage, they may be subject to retaliation by the federal government.
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
Part of living in a society means you must learn to care for people other than yourself
All children deserve a quality, free education.
If you aren’t willing to fork over an extra 17 cents for a Big Mac, you’re a fundamentally different person than I am.
I cannot have political debates with these people. Our disagreement is not merely political, but a fundamental divide on what it means to live in a society, how to be a good person, and why any of that matters.
In our collective quest for a reformed masculinity, at a time when kids are being force-fed misogyny and other kinds of hate by the social media giants, each of us has a responsibility
Gender identities have become rather more fluid since I was 10(15) years old in 1991.
Boys simply weren’t (and I suspect still often aren’t) exposed to emotionally intelligent character interactions in the books marketed to us.