Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.” – Timothy Snyder
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“How do you make software? It’s so simple. You start with a block of bytes, and carve away everything that’s not software.” – internet person
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. I personally prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking in liberalism.” – Hayek
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A thought – my own thought.
“In my darkest moments, I feel that I am becoming an accelerationist. I think: go ahead, burn Social Security to the ground! Take the VA and Medicare down too, while you’re at it! Let’s see if we can get into a hot war with Canada or Europe; let’s raze the entire country…”
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet (a few months late, sorry).
(Transcription and translation: 혹시 파트너 소개팅방 관심있으세요? / 내란수괴 윤석열은 퇴진하라 / 퇴진하라 … Are you interested in “partner blind date rooms” [sex chat]? / The coup-leader, [President] Yoon Seok-yeol, must resign / resign)
A quote.
“Ignorance is rarely an accident. It operates with precision, lurking in classrooms where history is selectively taught, in courtrooms where justice bends under the weight of wilfull blindness, and in cabinets of power where silence is often the most strategic policy. It is not simply the absence of knowledge but the calculated absence of knowledge, forged to serve particular ends.” – Colin W P Lewis
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs). The most improper job of any man is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“[S]o far as we approve of monarchy, in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.” – Thomas Paine in Common Sense
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“There is no escape. If you will not have rules, you will have rulers.” – Professor Ransom, in CS Lewis’ That Hideous Strength.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The bad news is that America is falling apart, but the good news, now that they are our enemies, is that America is falling apart. They are weakening as a force in the world every day. They are crashing their own economy. They are creating a cost of living crisis within their own borders. They have destroyed their civil service in the name of what may amount to as little as $5bn in savings. They are dismantling their scientific community. They are dismantling their education system. They have fatally wounded the FBI and the CIA. They are gutting their national institutions one by one. In terms of self-mutilating policy decisions, they are up to about a Brexit a week at this point.” – Stephen Marche, Canadian writer
I stopped doing this “links” thing back at the beginning of January, when I learned I’d be traveling to Queensland for much of the month. And then, since getting back, and the subsequent trip to Portland, and feeling overwhelmed by caregiving and running the store, I’ve simply been unmotivated to resume. But I haven’t stopped looking at the internet, so there are still things worth putting into these links features – I just have to motivate to post them. So here’s a resumption – we’ll see how long it lasts.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet. Graffiti seen in Calgary.
A quote.
“The president is not our teacher, our tutor, guide or ruler. He does not command us; we command him. We serve neither him nor his vision. It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law, and beliefs; to appropriate industries; to seize the country, as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others. It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them, and to him and the acolytes of his choosing.” – Mike Pence (!)
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Asking you to give me equal rights implies that they are yours to give. Instead, I must demand that you stop trying to deny me the rights all people deserve.” – Elizabeth Peratrovich
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“In any fundamentally evolution-driven system, diversity is the most important feature if you want that system to be resilient over time. So in the context of human society and its embeddedness in the wider ecosystem, diversity is the characteristic to be maximized: not just human genotypic diversity, but cultural diversity too.” – this was my own half-developed thought
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Doe maar gewoon dan ben je al gek genoeg.”
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“English is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.”
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Her face would stop traffic. It was large, octagonal, and red.”
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Let the mind of men be blind to what is to be. May those who fear be permitted to hope.” – Lucian
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The end is nigh. In fact, the nighness of the end is really quite undeniable.” – JL Jones
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“I once almost choked to death while eating food. I did my own research and discovered that I am not alone. Thousands of people choke every year while eating, and hundreds of those people die. That’s why I don’t feed my kids. Its dangerous. Now plenty of people will point out that food supposedly “prevents starvation,” and that might be true, but Its not fair to completely ignore all the dangers food poses, like choking, allergies, gingivitis, and garlic breath. I’m just saying, do your own research and decide what you think is best for your kids. If you choose to give your kids potentially deadly food, that’s your problem, but as a parent, I don’t think the government has any right to tell me that I need to feed my kids.” – Gordon Scott
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Remember, if you’re ever feeling down, free will means you can just eat a whole block of cheese anytime you want.”
A stray thought.
I feel like most people believe very strange things about sleeping surfaces. I sleep on the actual floor – the hard floor, with just a blanket under me – and I have no issues with it. It works fine. Humans didn’t evolve to sleep on mattresses. ‘Big Mattress’ has everyone hoodwinked. Is this a conspiracy theory?
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“By saying mostly insane nonsense, I can imbue the few meaningful nuggets that I utter with more significance.”
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The kids might still do yoga and say namaste, and they still think there’s a universal consciousness that’s ultimately identical with their own self—but they’re no longer interested in renouncing desire or achieving union with the divine. They don’t want to escape the material world. They don’t want enlightenment. They are driving their bodies like cars, and they have no interest in getting out.” – Sam Kriss
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.” – Issac Asimov
Here are some links I found interesting – with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Si Luigi Mangione mató a ese CEO, imaginense de lo que Waluigi Mangione sería capaz.” – Sergio
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“어째서 사람이 이 모양인가” – South Korean Conference of Catholic Priests, in response to the recent failed auto-golpe by president Yoon [“How can a person be like this”]
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Craig, Alaska: Where everything is a little bit half-assed!” – G. Klein, a local booster in my town.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“I wouldn’t be so hard on you if you were stupid.” – Jeff Hawkins (my stepson), speaking to his son.
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“we’re all on our own journeys and as you read these words you bring your unique self and have unique thoughts and feelings, really these words do little, what you’re experiencing is mostly a performance, a show that your brain puts on, just once, just for you, I hope you’re paying attention.” – blogger who goes by “dynomite”
Banalities.
We’re having a very traditional day-after-Thanksgiving, here at Juli and Keith’s. Keith is watching football. Juli and Karen are making pies. Wayne is … being Wayne. Watching videos on his iPad. Though he and I took a walk down to the river this morning. We saw some salmon. Wayne wished he had his fishing gear with him.
Blackberry pie:
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.” – Samuel Adams
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“The history we were taught could not have produced the present we were living in.” – Eric Foner
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“Here’s a proposition: It all depends on language. Society, civilization, democracy, the entire collective project depends on the quality of our thought and expression, our ability to put words to the reality of a thing.” – Ben Fountain
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet (or rather, MY internet).
A quote.
“Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I am going to go fulfill my proper function in the social organism. I’m going to go unbuild walls.” – Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
(Transcription: Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite. / Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace / If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.)
A quote.
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – HL Mencken
Here are some links I found interesting- with minimal comment.
An illustration from the internet.
A quote.
“And just like that, the voting machines are totally fine.” – Alex Cole
