Every day. Without hope, without despair.
“Grateful Dead fans call the beginning of August the Days Between a period bookended by Jerry Garcias birth on Aug. 1, 1942 and his death on Aug. 9, 1995.”
There are thousands of Grateful Dead shows on Archive.org. If you don’t know which ones you’d like to listen to, you might want to look at this guide for a sampling of those considered among the best shows by fans.
“Explore the Facebook ads purchased by Russia-linked agents to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This tool unravels the contradictory messages used to target people across the political spectrum, discourage voter turnout and increase hostility.”
Suggestions for improving forecasting and communication about it:
—Andrew Mauboussin and Michael J. Mauboussin. “If You Say Something Is “Likely,” How Likely Do People Think It Is?” Harvard Business Review. July 3, 2018.
Sites like Good Judgment can be a useful exercise in making predictions and getting feedback on the results.
Enjoyable comic offering social commentary and life lessons.
Made fully public in January 2018, the site “858.ma” was created by the Mosireen Collective, a nonprofit media collective, as an “initiative to make public all the footage shot and collected since 2011” regarding the Egyptian Revolution. The site, upon launch, had 858 hours of footage — hence the name — and, according to its anonymous founders, is a tool for presenting histories and memories of the revolution and uprisings outside of the Egyptian regime’s counterrevolutionary narrative.”
—Cord Brooks. “Archiving Revolution on 858.ma. Los Angeles Review of Books. July 16, 2018.
The Internet is such a bizarre rabbit burrow of ideas. I came across the term: “Intellectual Dark Web” while skimming a Jacobite article providing an assessment of the “movement”. The article pointed to an aggregating website, which in turn links to guides like, “How to join the Intellectual Dark Web — a user’s guide.”
I suspect this is something that will gain some mindshare. On first blush, it seems like horseshit. But, I thought I’d post a note to look a little deeper later.
Nothing wrong with the wanting a space for the free exchange of ideas, particularly unpopular ones. But, intellectual and dark implies quite a bit more, as if a negative light shines through the ends of the Overton Window.
Sounds like bunkum and flimflam, but even error has its uses.
The Magazine Rack is a downloadable collection of over 34,000 digitized magazines and other monthly publications. Favorite so far is REVOLUTIONART.
