things - civic

Read: I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt. Then Something Incredible Happened.

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“We’re getting to the point where ghosts are real. The future is here, valuing magic and mystery over reality. Not only are we aware of the difference, but we’re at peace with it.”

Louis Rosenfeld in reference to this.

→ 5:06 PM, May 7
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“Covey’s take was “an abundance mentality springs from internal security, not from external rankings, comparisons, opinion, possessions, or associations.” In my experience, that internal security overflows into their inner circle and wider community, believing that more for the people around them doesn’t equal less for them personally, but precisely the opposite — the more people succeed, the greater chance I will as well. Which fuels my desire to go on the offensive, helping my peers and strangers alike.”

Abundance in a Time of Scarcity

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Sites I like: 18f.org. “But we came to the government to fix things. And we’re not done with this work yet.” Fuck yeah ❤️‍🔥

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Some Things, Week 6, 2025

Photo by Yama Bato.

You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism: “Trusted information networks have existed since long before the internet and mass media. These networks are in every town and city, and at their core are real relationships between neighbors—not their online, parasocial simulacra.”

Simulacrum: “a representation or imitation of a person or thing.”

90’s Hip-Hop: A 45 plus minutes mix of Golden Era Classics + Rarities.

Makara Peak Mountain Bike Park Wayfinding: Cool signs.

Ghimli Sans: A font with “a nice ol’ boozer vibe.”

Marginalia Search: “Find lost old websites.”

Existential Kool-aid Man.

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AI Bureaucrats

You know, the world is being filled with AI bureaucrats that in the armies, in the banks, in the universities, in the governments, more and more decisions, which house to bomb, who is a terrorist, whether to give you a loan, whether to give you a job, whether to give you a place in a university. These decisions are increasingly made by AI. And these decisions are becoming opaque to us.

Yuval Noah Harari on the Hard Fork podcast.

→ 10:17 AM, Jan 15
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Solitude changes us

The individual preference for solitude, scaled up across society and exercised repeatedly over time, is rewiring America’s civic and psychic identity. And the consequences are far-reaching—for our happiness, our communities, our politics, and even our understanding of reality.

From The Anti-Social Century. Emphasis mine.

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Doing good versus doing nothing

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn’t been good versus evil. It’s hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing.

Always Go To The Funeral /via SwissMiss

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the best defense, the most meaningful work, the best preparation you can do at the level of an individual life is to boost your local resilience. To become a person of place. To connect with the people and land where you live. This is what we’re built to do.

How I became ‘collapse aware’. This is not a depressing read (or listen, the author read option was great)! /via Dense Discovery

→ 11:59 AM, Dec 18

Log of the Bay is a LOG of radio traffic received on Marine VHF channels form a basement window in Oakland, California.

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