Roe
For my disaffected friends: facing this moment requires embracing conflicting paradigms.
Topic
the state
A collection of 9 issues
Welp
So much for the daily blogging habit. Here's a lazy list of things on my mind: accessing money in academia, getting off Google, and the fog of identity and war.
Just Before Dawn
Is not having to think about how your sewage gets disposed of worth submitting to the rule of the state?
Killing God, again
What happens to religion in a Utopia?
A nice pairing
The dark, moody undertones of Chris Hayes' piece on internet fame go nicely with the bright, yet restrained optimism of Stasavage and Schneider's application of early democracies to the internet.
Token retreat
Let's talk when the metaverse can directly feed the hungry, house people, or remove carbon from the atmosphere.
NSF...
There's only one search result for 'marxist' on PornHub.
Inequality is the abberation
Deep history offers a tantalizing mission for technologists brave enough to adopt it: rebuild the egalitarian, cooperative communities that were our species' norm until very recently.
Bread, beer, and the state
Important bread vs. beer update! It might matter quite a bit if alcohol came first. Seriously.