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Critiques, genius, and how art can change the world. When I was nine years old, my parents gave me a couple of books to read: Dee Brown’s Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. I’d never exactly been
Pandemic
What really robbed us wasn’t the pandemic. I just finished reading a poignant article by Rachel Hislop entitled “Testing My Fertility at the End of My World”. It’s a personal essay with some melancholic teeth, and is the first in a series I’m certain to continue reading.
How the big five paved the way for Amazon’s predation and the enshittification of publishing. There can be no question on this issue: electronic books provide easier access to knowledge and entertainment for people than has ever before been possible. Hundreds, even thousands of books can be carried around
Our shared humanity is visible in the light of the stars. Today is Carl Sagan day, and I am stirred, as always, to take a moment to pause, look toward the heavens, and see in that awe-inspiring firmament all the hopes, fears, sorrows, and joys of our strange and
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Inktober, what's next, and some Deep Thoughts
Take your lectures to the next level: Activate your students!
The most dangerous consequence of AI proliferation is not a Terminator-style future, it’s people passing laws.
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From Inktober, to ramen, from moon viewing to anti-capitalism. This newsletter has it all, folks.
Until we stop looking at other human beings as the enemy, we’re going to keep having problems.
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Fires, Student Loans unpausing, a trip to Seattle, and more!
For this pandemic, and all those to come, we must build the resilience of an open heart and mind.
Our biases can change, but first we have to recognize that they exist.