Oh, Facebook Enough is enough. And also, this is why Civ.Works. Wrote that up in more detail for LA Progressive - https://www.laprogressive.com/facebook-okays-political-lies/
Untitled post Wrote this, on Rojava, trying to organize actionable things in a collaborative way: RFC3: Rojava, Syria and Turkey 2019
"money isn't everything" indeed - its only an anonymized representation of value. But some types of value inherently cannot be anonymized. Some of those come under the category of 'love makes the world go round'
the benefits of lack of money one has to make a certain kind of sense to attract investors or donors; but one has to make another kind of sense, perhaps even more sense, to grow organically without dollars. and so this becomes an interesting discipline, that can create a particularly healthy organism
No time to Spare, indeed I love Ursula LeGuin's 'No Time to Spare' piece, in which among other points she points out the value of time to just have thoughts and feelings, to feel and think. I so agree..yet, when I have such time I often think of things to
The beautiful grimy buzzing streets of San Francisco Spending a week in SF, first impression is the beautiful buildings, the busy foot traffic, and the grime. It feels like a city where everyone is pushing to the limit all the time, with clean airy offices but streets too busy for planters, despite the friendly climate. And the homeless.
on meritocracy and the estate tax Of all the flimsy excuses of why children of the rich and powerful should have privileges from birth, meritocracy is perhaps the most blatantly illogical. Divine right of kings is more rational.
cancer and greedy dictators to write up properly: very close analogy - pull from GrannyD's speech; and the guy on Trevor Noah this week about data-basd and fact-based agencies having most problem with Trump cancer cells defect in repair = repressing dissent/truth the pathway to cancer is similar to the pathway to
The Jazz Fix: a riff-off of solutions to political corruption and gridlock Fun times and cool stuff at Unrig the System - it was lovely spending days in the company of organizers and activists, and tech innovators working on fixing things. Wrote it up on Medium here: The Jazz Fix: a riff-off of solutions to political corruption and gridlock