New reads. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka.

I love being a human artist and creating something never before seen, out of my mind’s eye. I love making every decision with care. I love trying and failing. I love noticing mistakes and fixing them. I love it all.

Learned so much about aid development models, the geographic distribution of aid (32% to ‘unspecified aid’?), and that health takes up a huge The relatively low per capita spending from aid compared to general spending per capita for some of the countries

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I console myself that, even if I can't use the word "clusterfuck" in an academic book, "omnishambles" serves just as well.

Bezos isn’t “bending the knee.” Corporate media isn’t either.

The oligarchs aren’t scared or capitulating, they’re part of a coup in the middle of an aggressive class war. The longer we keep framing it otherwise the worse it’s going to get.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-birth-...

Learned so much about aid development models, the geographic distribution of aid (32% to ‘unspecified aid’?), and that health takes up a huge The relatively low per capita spending from aid compared to general spending per capita for some of the countries

open.substack.com/pub/kenopalo...