Creighton
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Creighton
Well, but I shaved carefully and put on a white shirt and buffed my shoes a little, and so on. I think such preparations can be the difference between an elderly gentleman and a codger. I know the former is a more suitable consort for your lovely mother, but sometimes I forget to go to the necessary trouble, and that’s an error I mean to correct.
from Gilead (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel by Marilynne Robinson
Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector
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- It comes on top of more visible good news—the IEA said this weak that oil demand around the world is softening because of “surging” sales of electric vehicles. In China, demand for gasoline will peak this year or next and then decline sharply. Britain, where the coal era was born, will close it’s last coal-fired power plant at the end of this month... See more
from Silent Solar by Bill McKibben
From Bill McKibben’s substack.
Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It’s Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
- In these latter days everybody is familiar with concepts like the carbon footprint, sustainability, and the like. Measures of the ecological cost of the things we do. One of the most irksome problems bedeviling Earth's biosphere at present is the outrageous cost of many aspects of many human lifestyles. Society is gradually and too late awakening t... See more
from Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector by Albert Burneko
Unsparing commentary on where we are, from the article “Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars”
Human religion begins with our ability to populate our minds with imagined other minds.
Storr, The Science of Storytelling
‘The land is becoming desert’: drought pushes Sicily’s farming heritage to the brink
- Steve Jobs energy transference was so strong it was labelled a Reality Distortion Field. He could bend other people's perception of reality with one interaction. I don't think this is some mystical woo-woo energy. It's a combination of intensity, frame, belief, body language, optimism and vocal tonality.
“Hope clouds observation.” — Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965 novel
- CrowdStruck
from CrowdStruck by Edward Zitron