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Cory Doctorow | Cui Bono? | AI Shell Game | Factoids

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 1d

For and To
Cui Bono? | AI Shell Game | Factoids

Luddism and science fiction concern themselves with the same questions: not merely what the technology does, but who it does it for and who it does it to.

| Cory Doctorow

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Opinion | Win or Lose, It’s Zohran Mamdani’s Political World Now

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

WE'RE GOING TO TAKE THOSE PEOPLE I PARDONED, ACCUSE THEM OF BEING ANTIFA, AND PUTTHEM BACK IN JAIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 1d

It would be funny if people weren't consigned to hunger.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 1d

Jennifer Steinhauer | [Younger Americans] 'are united not by one political platform but by establishment politicians’ inability to relate to younger Americans.'

See: Mamdani.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Sean Wilentz | 'The spiral of violence usually begins with official violence.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 2d

Theda Skocpol | 'Trump himself, many in Congress and many in their voter followings live in a virtual world where cities are aflame and “leftists” are demons.'

Hallucinations.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Win or Lose, It’s Zohran Mamdani’s Political World Now

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 3d

Jennifer Steinhauer | 'It’s easy for people to dislike the cultural references that elude them.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/o...

Abraham Lincoln | Yet Another American Experiment | Factoids

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 3d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 3d

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 3d

swiss coops go so hard. this is in suburbs of basel.

building is <45' deep.

22 homes: (8) x 2-BR, (10) x 3-BR, (4) x 4-BR

a third of residents are kids. 40% of households are young families. 20% are retirees. it's a passivhaus. a *ton* of community spaces.
www.hagnauer-gaerten.ch/wohnungsange...

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 3d

The Superior Of Capital
Yet Another American Experiment | Factoids

Human beings, their projects and their institutions carve grooves into the future that structure the direction of change.

| John Fabian Witt
www.workfutures.io/p/the-superi...

The Superior Of Capital

Abraham Lincoln | Yet Another American Experiment | Factoids

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 3d

The Superior Of Capital
Yet Another American Experiment | Factoids

Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

| Abraham Lincoln

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The Superior Of Capital

A Bad Time to Take the Helm? New Retail Leaders Face Extra Headaches.

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 4d

Jordyn Holman | '[CEO] turnover is high in the consumer sector: It accounted for 1/4 of all chief executive turnover. The average tenure for a chief executive in consumer businesses was 5.9 years, down slightly from last year.'

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See How E.V. Road Trips Went From Impossible to Easy

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 5d

Francesca Paris, Eve Washington | '40 percent of U.S. counties still don’t have a fast charger, according to federal data, the vast majority of them small and without a major interstate crossing through.'
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

There are a lot more fast chargers than there used to be. Look up what that could mean for a route near you.

Opinion | ‘If You Don’t Want This Consequence, Don’t Vote for Republicans’

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 5d

Goldberg: 'A fundamental thing that people say about Democrats, which is that they don’t know what they stand for.'
Bouie: 'Are you just an elaborate set of institutions to elect a handful of ambitious people? Or is there actually a vision for the country?'

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Tyron Edwards | Brinkmanship | Doughnut Economics | Factoids

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 8d

Hope is a muscle, not a mood.

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eileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 13d

Hope - not as something you have, but something you practice into being.

It is what the philosopher Jonathan Lear has called “radical hope” - “directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.”

Vale Professor Jonathan Lear (1948-2025)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 8d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 8d

Another brutal jobs report. The economy lost 32,000 jobs in September, and August was revised from +54,000 all the way down to -3,000. That’s not just a slowdown—it’s a collapse. The economy is clearly in trouble under Trump, and Republicans are still in total denial.

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 8d

The Best Apologies
Brinkmanship | Doughnut Economics | Factoids

> Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past.

| Tryon Edwards

www.workfutures.io/p/the-best-a...

The Dems are taking the right action now to make up for fumbling universal healthcare.

The Best Apologies

Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 11d

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers:

38-54 (Quinnipiac)
39-60 (AP)
40-56 (Gallup)
41-58 (Reuters)
39-56 (Economist)

On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen:
newrepublic.com/article/2010...

As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.

newrepublic.com

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 11d

Lozada | 'I don’t think a person like that should be the nominee in 2028. And I certainly pray that they won’t be the nominee in 2028, regardless of who the Republicans nominate.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

Opinion | Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem

Opinion | Harris’s Memoir Is Another Example of the Democrats’ Problem

Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 11d

Carlos Lozada | Harris is 'a kind of bog-standard politician who just doesn’t really have a lot of ideas and worked her way up inside the technocratic machine that is the contemporary Democratic Party.'

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/27/o...

How To Raise The Collective Intelligence Of Teams

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 12d

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Stowe Boyd @stoweboyd.bsky.social · 13d

How To Raise The Collective Intelligence Of Teams
When does collaboration become a drag on effectiveness?

The next installment of How To Use Time

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When does collaboration become a drag on effectiveness?