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I thought millions of words would make a difference, so I joined the army of writers and made them, year after year. An article here, an essay there. A poem. A book, a short story. Ephemeral scribblings like this one. All of them crawled from the writhing places inside myself to the edge of the … Read more
As the Onion said, America defeated America in 2024. The question now is what will remain of this experiment in democracy after four years of the demagoguery and autocratic violence promised by the winning candidate and his army of sycophants who will take control of the federal government. Of course, that presumes meaningful elections will … Read more
Snippets from around the web painting a picture of what the USA might be like if a Trump authoritarian regime takes hold.
Modes Are you a sifter, substantiater, studier, socializer, or sensemaker? Answer carefully — the future of the news industry may depend on it. If you’re like me and other people mentioned in Next Gen News report on the future needs and wants of info-hungry folks, you’re probably all of them. From one second to the … Read more
With today’s food system contributing to the planet’s environmental woes, Harold H. Schmitz discusses why he believes mycelium should be embraced as one of the few options that “can meet all five requirements of being a paradigm-shifting nutrition source”.
Adin – If you’re tired of waiting on mashed sweet tater deliveries, here’s all you need to do to make them on your own.
I stumbled into cooked.wiki, a lovely service that allows you to turn chaotic recipe web pages into clean and usable directions by adding “cooked.wiki/” in front of the URL. Rather than typing that out repeatedly, I made a bookmarklet to handle the work. If you don’t know, a bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that uses … Read more
Fixing the environment is not just an technological problem, though everyone would prefer it is. It is also a political, psychological, sociological, economic system, and spiritual problem. But it’s simpler than that. It comes down to how we think. Those values so deep you don’t even know they’re there. A big one is that we … Read more
Bugs, dogs, dinosaurs, neighborhoods, cities, countries, civilizations, planets, and, now, human creativity: They live, they die — fast, slow, brutally or gently. Generative AIs like ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and Jasper are bringing plenty of violence and speed to the demise of writing. Or perhaps just a way of writing. Words, sentences, paragraphs, stories — making … Read more
Update September 10, 2024: After a long journey of trying to find a good electronic handwriting solution that turned most recently toward an iPad Air, Apple Pencil, and Paperlike screen covers, I have returned to the Supernote universe with the purchase of a used Supernote Nomad. I stumbled across it on Facebook Marketplace, and that … Read more