In Difference - June 2024
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Personal posts:

Framing Life - "Everyone is a living book, being written and spoken ceaselessly. Together, we epitomize a colossal library. Humanity’s scripture, the collapsed state of a much more inscrutable existence. The lucid interpretation abided by but not quite believed. Authorships are shared – we take the pen when we are ready or able, but we are not necessarily the ones writing our own tale."

Running the Gauntlet - Trying the most recent Hot Ones hot sauce lineup.

Earth-Sized Company Towns - The relevance of 'Sixteen Tons' today, when "the company towns are earth-sized; the swelling digital monopolies that tie themselves to our collective political economies at immeasurably large scales. The Titanics that carry with them the fate of markets, elections, freethought, and our environment."

At the Confluence of Dreams - "The spells are everywhere. This planet is extraordinary and we tend to get a little complacent with our surroundings. What we consider mundane because it is everyday nonetheless encapsulates breathtaking depth. And we ought to be better at stepping out of that particular trance and into one that does not gloss over the remarkable that resides close by. Continents need not be navigated to attain transcendence."

The complete collection of Weekly Picks from the past month:

June 2, 2024

  • How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science
  • To pee or not to pee? That is a question for the bladder — and the brain
  • The 165-year reign of oil is coming to an end. But will we ever be able to live without it?
  • The City Makes the Civilization
  • You Can’t Turn Back the Clock on Genocide
  • The Marked Man
  • The Tower and the Sewer
  • Haiti’s Sin of Resistance
  • On the Crisis of Men
  • The Insulin Empire
  • Dominion

Plus articles on India's general election and the ongoing siege of Gaza.

June 9, 2024

  • Israel’s Descent
  • Finding Sanctuary in Art
  • Stories Are Weapons
  • The Possibilities for Child Liberation
  • The New-Old Authoritarianism
  • Don’t Major in English: And Other Bad Advice from the World
  • Migrating Workers Provide Wealth for the World

June 16, 2024

  • Neymar: Bolivia’s Ladder Boy
  • Inside Mexico’s anti-avocado militias
  • Should I Have Kids?
  • The Internet Supercharged the Exploitation of Black Culture
  • The Great Video Game Swindle
  • The prison system isn’t ‘broken’ – it’s designed to traumatize black people en masse
  • The Oldest Ecosystems on Earth

June 23, 2024

  • Climate, State, and Utopia
  • When Police Shootings Don’t Kill: The Data That Gets Left Behind
  • The Sentimentality of Evil
  • The Beekeeper in Kathmandu
  • The Evolution of Empire
  • Ghosts on the Water

June 30, 2024

  • Exit 238
  • Agreeing to Our Harm
  • Why the ‘Costs of Doing Business’ Are Costing Us Our Lives
  • Computation Is All Around Us, and You Can See It if You Try
  • The Power of Physician Empathy
  • Rule by Militia
  • The psychology of oppression and liberation
  • Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business

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