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The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.
The Machine Stops
The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.
www.newyorker.com
August 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.
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Ellie Wilson composed Moth x Human in a protected habitat on Parsonage Down in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She assigned each of the 80 resident moth species a different sound, which was triggered when it landed on her monitor.
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from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
Musician uses moths’ flight data to compose a piece about their decline
"I wanted the difference in moth populations to be audible," says creator Ellie Wilson.
www.motherjones.com
July 7, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Ellie Wilson composed Moth x Human in a protected habitat on Parsonage Down in Salisbury, Wiltshire. She assigned each of the 80 resident moth species a different sound, which was triggered when it landed on her monitor.
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from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org
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May 30, 2025
May 30, 2025
In July 2024, according to an article published today by Kirsten Grind and Megan Twohey in the New York Times, billionaire Elon Musk texted privately about his concerns that government investigations ...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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May 25, 2025
May 24, 2025
On Thursday the Trump administration told Harvard University that because it had not handed over information on foreign students’ protest activities, violent activity, and coursework, the university h...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
May 25, 2025 at 5:23 AM
May 25, 2025
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A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
May 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
A thousand yeses to this from Cole Arthur Riley.
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"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow
Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing
snyder.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...
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The word “journey” used to mean a single day’s travels, and the French word for day, jour, is packed neatly inside it, like a single pair of shoes in a very small case. Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.
The Art of Arrival
I published this in Orion Magazine in 2014, about the environmental activist Jo Anne Garrett of Baker, NV, who would've turned 100 on April 30th. I wanted to pay tribute to her by republishing this (s...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
May 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The word “journey” used to mean a single day’s travels, and the French word for day, jour, is packed neatly inside it, like a single pair of shoes in a very small case. Maybe all journeys should be imagined as a single day, short as a trip to the corner or long as a life in its ninth decade.
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“Love our neighbors - Welcome the stranger - Care for the most vulnerable among us - Speak the truth - Work for justice…”
April 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
“Love our neighbors - Welcome the stranger - Care for the most vulnerable among us - Speak the truth - Work for justice…”
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Muppets Tonight was something else
April 25, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Muppets Tonight was something else
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IHIP News: DYSTOPIAN DAY as Billionaires BURN MONEY in Space; Trump's LOVE FEST with Evil Dictator
youtu.be/jdYx6q5_rOY
youtu.be/jdYx6q5_rOY
IHIP News: DYSTOPIAN DAY as Billionaires BURN MONEY in Space; Trump's LOVE FEST with Evil Dictator
YouTube video by I've Had It
youtu.be
April 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
IHIP News: DYSTOPIAN DAY as Billionaires BURN MONEY in Space; Trump's LOVE FEST with Evil Dictator
youtu.be/jdYx6q5_rOY
youtu.be/jdYx6q5_rOY
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"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
April 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong
(April 8, 2025)
(April 8, 2025)
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Maps -
This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
March 28, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Maps -
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This keeps happening
Her name is Rumeysa Ozturk, she's a student from Turkey, and even her lawyer doesn't know where she is right now.
Ozturk's attorney tells me they still have no idea where she is. ICE says only that she is in the agency's custody. www.salon.com/2025/03/26/d...
March 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This keeps happening
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In which she quotes: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
My written testimony for yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the so-called "censorship industrial complex," which is more detailed than my opening statement, can be downloaded here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/202...
Download File: 2025-03-25_Testimony_Franks | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
www.judiciary.senate.gov
March 26, 2025 at 9:44 PM
In which she quotes: “If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
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Peter Dutton and Gina Rinehart believe Australians are easily manipulated fools. And that is a damning indictment of their view of the Aussie voter.
This isn't a political movement. This is bargain-bin, reject shop Trumpism, and we see through it.
This isn't a political movement. This is bargain-bin, reject shop Trumpism, and we see through it.
Dutton and Rinehart’s Bargain-Bin Populism Is a National Embarrassment
Australia’s conservatives aren’t leading a movement—they’re fumbling through a second-rate Trump tribute act.
buff.ly
January 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Peter Dutton and Gina Rinehart believe Australians are easily manipulated fools. And that is a damning indictment of their view of the Aussie voter.
This isn't a political movement. This is bargain-bin, reject shop Trumpism, and we see through it.
This isn't a political movement. This is bargain-bin, reject shop Trumpism, and we see through it.
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If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
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January 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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I mean, as an Oxford comma lover, I have no choice but to share this
January 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
I mean, as an Oxford comma lover, I have no choice but to share this