me after trying to erase the past

oh hell nah 😩

One of the major points of doing DEI (or whatever you want to call it) is a labor insight that lots of people out there could be excellent air traffic controllers or anything else etc, but racism, sexism, whatever drives them out of the workforce until you don’t have all the best people for the job.

Clear and helpful info on the air quality situation in L.A.

“If we think it’s wildfire, then we tend to maintain wildfire as the principal problem — with wildfire control as the solution. However, there is no evidence to suggest wildfire control is a reliable approach during the extreme wildfire conditions” www.latimes.com/california/s...

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this hit me like a sledgehammer: “[Andrea] felt that she had spent years moving through the world ‘as if I was giving a hundred dollars to each person I connected with, in the hopes that on the day I needed to borrow ten dollars, I could.’” www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

from "A Visit With Joan Didion," New York Times, 1977 www.nytimes.com/1977/04/03/a...