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Bay Area Indians enjoyed an outstandingly diverse diet based on seasonal community rotation. Nomadic in the sense of not having permanent constructed dwellings, the Ohlone moved in response to abundance rather than scarcity, and individual communities maintained small, consistent territories. Natural cycles of ripening and spawning dictated short

Malcolm Harris • Palo Alto

On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales

The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.

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Feral women of all ages, and especially the young, have a tremendous drive to compensate for long famines and exiles. They are endangered by excessive and mindless striving toward people and goals that are not nurturant, substantive, or enduring. No matter where they live or in what time, there are cages waiting always; too-small lives into which

Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés • Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

In a world in which any skill that can't be leveraged for the maximum benefit of capitalism is seen as a dubious enterprise, it can be difficult to make the case for languages that are not widely spoken. Yet their continued existence matters, for a variety of compelling reasons. "First of all, it's just the right thing to do," says Daniel Bögre... See more

Mary Elizabeth Williams • Lily Gladstone's Acceptance Speech Shows Why We Need to Save Endangered Languages

Jane Goodall beautifully says, “ We are the most intellectual species to walk the planet, but we ' re not intelligent . If you're intelligent you don't destroy your only home.”

Substack • if we're lucky, we never become 'good' humans

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Laughlin’s credo was simple: “To purify the breeding stock of the race at all costs.” As journalist Edwin Black notes in his 2003 book, War Against the Weak, Laughlin’s plan of attack was threefold: “sterilization, mass incarceration and sweeping immigration restrictions.” In furtherance of these goals, Laughlin created the imposingly named,

Bill Bryson • One Summer

‘Were there a species of creatures intermingled with men, which

though rational, were possessed of such inferior strength, both of body

and mind, that they were incapable of all resistance, and could never,

upon the highest provocation, make us feel the effects of their

resentment; the necessary consequence, I think, is that we should be

bound by the

Over time, we have seen the feminine instinctive nature looted, driven back, and overbuilt. For long periods it has been mismanaged like the wildlife and the wildlands.