A friend of mine James Pogue published an opinion piece long in the making about a new kind of Democratic. He deeply investigates the subtly misunderstood Representative Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington. I was really moved by his sincere engagement with a new kind of Democrat who is really an old kind of Democrat who […]
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We are all us humans on the good ship Lollipop. I mean this as a stand in for Mother Gaia/Terra/Earth. We are all in this together right? Wrong? Who knows. I happen to be on the America decks, so even if I can see the sea is perilous the orchestra is still playing. Maybe I’m […]
I wonder how much of the moral education of Americans comes thanks to Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek is a very American show. It was pitched to Desilu Studios (owned by Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball of I Love Lucy fame) as a space western. The cowboy frontier spirit of Captain Kirk has an honor code […]
I’m not sure exactly how to characterize Doomer Optimism other than a kind of social club for Internet denizens that wish to retain their optimism in the face of chaos and change. It’s a very human group and I’ve enjoyed their company for years. And as humans tend to do, the social circles that are […]
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Day 1388 and Take Good Care of Them
I’ve written a few times about my interest in the right to repair. It’s not just a topic for computers or electronics. Many items can bring you lifelong joy. Being in New York City I brought in a pair of boots for repair to the cobbler to the fashionistas Leather Spa. My Gucci knee high […]
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Day 1362 and Hilux Drip
The right to repair movement is a worthy effort fighting the banal evil of planned obsolescence. If you aren’t familiar with the term, it’s an economic and industrial design strategy to deliberately make products with shorter functional lives to “shorten the replacement cycle” aka make you buy a new one. If you are a user […]
What does assigning value mean to you? How do you begin to investigate what is valuable? If someone asked you to value “object X” do you know what tools you would use first to make a measurement? If I tell you determining value is a cultural problem, you may investigate the problem of value through […]
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Day 734 and Personal Maintenance
The culture of planned obsolescence in Silicon Valley is a pernicious mentality. A policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the use of nondurable materials If you’ve ever bought an Apple product you are familiar […]
I like to manage my days with buffers around my routines and obligations. I find tight schedules to be tiring and unhelpful as I manage my energy, pain, and workload. A packed calendar raises my cortisol. I believe I am easily stressed by shouldering too much, but I also fear I am on a downward […]
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Day 851 and May Day
My husband Alex is currently being main charactered on Twitter for posting his distress that the cleaning service we use once or twice a month put his cast iron skillet in the dishwasher. As you will learn from a perusal of the 650 or so quote tweets, this Tweet is horror of privilege, class tensions […]