Itzswanson
@gswanson.bsky.social
I am retired and focused on friends, family, birds, boats, and books.
ALAN GREENSPAN served as Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve . This essay is adapted from his most recent book, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Never Saw It Coming
The former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve asks how so many experts, including him, failed to see the 2008 financial crisis approaching.
www.foreignaffairs.com
September 22, 2025 at 1:19 AM
ALAN GREENSPAN served as Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve . This essay is adapted from his most recent book, The Map and the Territory: Risk, Human Nature, and the Future of Forecasting
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
"In human conversation, in live, actual communication between or among human beings, everything “transmitted” — everything said — is shaped as it is spoken by actual or anticipated response."
www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/t...
www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/t...
Telling Is Listening: Ursula K. Le Guin on the Magic of Real Human Conversation
“Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it. They feed understanding or emotion back and forth and…
www.themarginalian.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:37 AM
"In human conversation, in live, actual communication between or among human beings, everything “transmitted” — everything said — is shaped as it is spoken by actual or anticipated response."
www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/t...
www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/21/t...
Barry Yeoman's writing is one amazing example after another of why journalism is so important.
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...
The Hog Industry's Great Biogas Boondoggle
CAFOs are jumping on the renewable energy bandwagon
www.sierraclub.org
February 26, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Barry Yeoman's writing is one amazing example after another of why journalism is so important.
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...
A century ago, the average American chicken flock contained 70 birds. Nowadays the 9 billion chickens slaughtered for meat each year in the U.S. are raised in buildings containing, on average, 20,000 or more birds, with roughly one square foot of space apiece.
nautil.us/the-unnatura...
nautil.us/the-unnatura...
The Unnatural History of Bird Flu
H5N1 is a human creation
nautil.us
February 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A century ago, the average American chicken flock contained 70 birds. Nowadays the 9 billion chickens slaughtered for meat each year in the U.S. are raised in buildings containing, on average, 20,000 or more birds, with roughly one square foot of space apiece.
nautil.us/the-unnatura...
nautil.us/the-unnatura...
The New Aesthetics of Slop
Or what happens when vulgar technocrats control the arts
www.honest-broker.com
February 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
..a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the summit of their hopes...
People will want to obey the voice of Authority, and many strange constructs of just what Authority is will arise in every mind…
-Leonard Cohen
www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
People will want to obey the voice of Authority, and many strange constructs of just what Authority is will arise in every mind…
-Leonard Cohen
www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance
One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of un…
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January 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
..a curious moment in which people find light in the midst of despair, and vertigo at the summit of their hopes...
People will want to obey the voice of Authority, and many strange constructs of just what Authority is will arise in every mind…
-Leonard Cohen
www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
People will want to obey the voice of Authority, and many strange constructs of just what Authority is will arise in every mind…
-Leonard Cohen
www.themarginalian.org/2024/07/18/l...
Reposted by Itzswanson
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
A planet parade of Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars shines in the skies this month
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
www.npr.org
January 17, 2025 at 9:41 PM
All month, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars will appear to line up and be bright enough to see with the naked eye in the first few hours after dark. This weekend, Venus and Saturn get especially cozy.
This is excellent.
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
Why Gregory Bateson Matters
Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century
open.substack.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This is excellent.
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
The Prophet of the Revolt
Martin Gurri and the ungovernable public
www.thepullrequest.com
January 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM