"'With some people an event like this would change them,' says Shah, his Chicago friend. 'And suddenly Peter’s life has changed — he went through a divorce, in every way Peter’s life has changed — but I feel like he is what he is.'”—Stephanie Clifford, "What Really Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?" Medium.com. … Continue reading What Really Happens When You Become an Overnight Millionaire?
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Low Impact Friendship
"I try to make every interaction with me require the least amount of effort. You don’t have to entertain me or plan something for me to do. You don’t have to travel to some preferred location, or engage in some activity of the moment. If travelling is hard for you, I’ll come to you. And … Continue reading Low Impact Friendship
Undone (Television Series)
Undone is a really interesting animation exploring what it means to be human, time, family relationships, and many other things. While it is like Waking Life, it's really unlike any other series I've seen before. Recommended. Note: It's not complete. The ending is a cliffhanger for a second season. But, I liked it enough to … Continue reading Undone (Television Series)
Monkey Trap
"...take a hollow gourd or coconut and drill a small hole in it. Size matters. The hole should be just barely big enough for a monkey to get a hand inside. Place a treat—bananas, rice, etc.—in the gourd and tie it to a tree. Then wait.Eventually a hungry monkey will come by, stick in their … Continue reading Monkey Trap
Fitzcarraldo Editions
"Like some other small imprints – and some record labels' singles clubs – Fitzcarraldo runs an annual subscription scheme. For £100, subscribers get a year’s worth of books – in 2019, the label will publish 12 titles – and Testard gets some small measure of financial breathing space, with income that may not be received … Continue reading Fitzcarraldo Editions
A Second ‘Second Life’: Facebook Horizon
"Welcome to Facebook Horizon, an ever-expanding VR world where you can explore, play, and create in extraordinary ways. At Horizon, you’re not just discovering a new world, you are part of what makes it great."-Facebook Horizon At first glance, Horizon seems like a modernized Second Life, a first-person Sims, a fulfillment of the intentions of … Continue reading A Second ‘Second Life’: Facebook Horizon
The Trump-Zelensky Conversation
"For present purposes, it suffices to note that the text of the memo offers not a whiff of support for the president’s claims about what he did. That text unambiguously reflects conduct intolerable in a president in a number of different respects. And it does so in five brief, easy-to-understand pages, in which Trump clearly … Continue reading The Trump-Zelensky Conversation
Electric Zine Maker
"The Electric Zine Maker (⚡️📝✂️) is a printshop and art tool for making zines...This tool includes a drawing interface. You can import images, size and place, write text with any font that you have installed, smudge, paint, and a number of other options. You can also save your zines, and easily re-import them by dragging … Continue reading Electric Zine Maker
Warrens & Plazas
A warren is a social environment where no participant can see beyond their little corner of a larger maze. Warrens emerge through people personalizing and customizing their individual environments with some degree of emergent collaboration. A plaza is an environment where you can easily get to a global/big picture view of the whole thing. Plazas … Continue reading Warrens & Plazas
Lithium: The Gripping History of a Psychiatric Success Story
"Some 70 years ago, John Cade, an Australian psychiatrist, discovered a medication for bipolar disorder that helped many patients to regain stability swiftly. Lithium is now the standard treatment for the condition, and one of the most consistently effective medicines in psychiatry. But its rise was riddled with obstacles. The intertwined story of Cade and … Continue reading Lithium: The Gripping History of a Psychiatric Success Story
Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
ConclusionsGlobalisation/migration (domestic vs external inequality) and educational expansion (education vs property inequality) have created new multi-dimensional conflicts about inequality, leading to the collapse of the postwar left-vs-right party system.Why didn’t democracy reduce inequality?Because multi-dimensional coalitions are complicated.Without a strong egalitarian-internationalist platform, it’s difficult to have the low-education, low-income voters from all origins vote for the … Continue reading Brahmin Left vs. Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Changing Structure of Political Conflict
Conversations with Conservatives: Lies We Tell About Ourselves & Others
I was eating at a place that has communal seating. An older white man, mid-70s I'd guess, declares himself a conservative, and later, within the context of another table with, presumably, fellow conservatives says, lightly paraphrased: "Women would rather not work. The only reason they do so is because of economic necessity."An older white man, … Continue reading Conversations with Conservatives: Lies We Tell About Ourselves & Others
Alternative Influence
"These strategies reveal a tension underlying the content produced by these influencers: while they present themselves as news sources, their content strategies often more accurately consist of marketing and advertising approaches. These approaches are meant to provoke feelings, memories, emotions, and social ties. In this way, the “accuracy” of their messaging can be difficult to … Continue reading Alternative Influence
An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine
"Will I be anything? Will I be nothing at all? / The question wastes time. / I focus, get the chores done." —Jenn Pelly interviewing Brontez Purnell, "An Interview with Brontez Purnell." The Believer Magazine. August 1, 2019. Amazing interview throughout. Also liked: “We endorse the use of lies but not at the expense of … Continue reading An Interview with Brontez Purnell – Believer Magazine
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