If everyone in the United States weren't living downstream from its consequences, it would be a pretty good tragic flaw that Donald Trump wants more than anything to be seen as a brilliant man who has always been right about everything when he is transparently a butterfingered dunce whose professional expertise more or less begins and ends at making cutting remarks from a safe distance and directing other people to file nuisance lawsuits on his behalf. defector.com/promises-made-promises-kept-the-lincoln-memorial-reflecting-pool-absolutely-looks-like-shit-now
Not particularly well made but concise. Why Dallas kind of sucks as a city, assuming one wants to move about it:
From the inside of the auto body shop.
RE: vis.social/@infobeautiful/116818870544899062
This led to a short shopping spree on 🦝 Society, which 💯 can recommend.
"...annihilating attention is a political project with clear benefits for the billionaire class: if we cannot attend the world, neither can we intercede in it. We become passive recipients of their worldbuilding, disenfranchised from our own responsibility to make sense of—and therefore to remake—the world around us."
2014, when we were talking about the same stuff we still do all the time. In which I pull quote from what was an amazing Frank Chimero post that is now a 404.
Blog:
daniel.industries/2014/01/03/blog/
I clicked on it because of the weird title. Turns out it was being (too) clever. The next post is titled "Indieweb?"
I don't know if Readwise has pagination, I guess they would. Sadly, their app completely shat the bed on me years ago in a way no browser reset, different browser, or anything else in my power could resolve, and their CS shrugged a lot before simply not responding on the thread any longer. I could probably create a new account with a different email in order to start over, but