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Of Interest – Jan 2025
Cory Doctorow – “It’s Pretty Easy to Cut $2 trillion from the Federal Budget…”
If Musk wanted to run DOGE as a force for waste-elimination, he wouldn’t be attacking the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS (whose budget accounts for 0.012% of federal spending). He wouldn’t be attacking federal fiber subsidies (he’s mad that he can’t get more subsidies for his dead-end satellite service that caps out at one ten-millionth of the speed of fiber). He wouldn’t be attacking high-speed rail (which competes with his Tesla swasticars). He wouldn’t be fighting with the SEC (which defends the public from costly stock swindles, which is why they’ve been investigating Musk for seven years).
Joan Westerberg – “We Don’t Need More Cynics. We Need More Builders.”
We need a new intellectual stance that’s neither naively optimistic nor reflexively cynical.
D.L. Mayfield – “How to Survive When An End-Times Cult Takes Over Your Country.”
Because most of all, the best way to resist a Christian end times cult that has taken over your country is to live as if the world wasn’t actually going to end. To continue to invest in the things that give you joy and pleasure and hope for humanity — to connect to nature and the earth and the vastness of time and space. To remember we are tiny silly beings who hold an infinite capacity for creativity. To remember you are not in this alone, and you never will be.
Cory Doctorow – “Billionaire-proofing the internet.”
Laurie Jonas – “The Metta Prayer of Loving Kindness.”
Fred Clark – “Do Not Obey In Advance.”
Charlie Warzel (aRticle from The Atlantic) – “We’re All Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This.”
Greatest Song of All Time (for Today)
When you glorify the past
Your future dries up
