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Amedeo’s blog mixing his professional work, essays, how-to guides, and more.
Services listed in the Wired article, “How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To,” along with others I’ve added as I learned about them: List of lists: A visual guide to switching services from this Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/comments/1jhvd58/your_guide_to_moving_away_from_big_tech_and/
It struck me as remarkable that The New York Times editorial board outright stated that Trump and Musk are “upending the rule of law.” As the article explains, the rule of law is the bedrock of this nation’s success because it produces stability across generations. Destroying it is destroying the country. More remarkable was that … Read more
the thingmade a fist of firesqueezed the world into ashwhile the ghosts of the livingwatched the ocean of flamebuild more waves,taller and stronger,begging collapse. the crash refused to come,the end of things demandeda hero, and so one camein armor like all the rest,carrying a sword like all the restthat he guided into the heartof the … Read more
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