@jonathanrgoodman.bsky.social hey there! Any chance an audio book version of invisible rivals is on the way?

I wish folks better at organizing and publishing than me, like @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social and @chrishaughton.bsky.social could figure out how to turn a book like People's History of the United States into a series of kids books like History of Information!

Alrighty everyone! It's time for everyone's favorite game! SCHOOL OR PRISON?!? #schoolorprison

@proton.me it would be great if the "from" field in proton mail could be a searchable drop down with any alias I had setup. Same for sharing files from Proton Drive

To the folks who insist worker ownership isn't compatible with "human nature"—we have empirical research over decades that shows the exact opposite. Worker ownership and participation are linked to increases in satisfaction and productivity. Psychological ownership is a real, studied phenomenon.

"People will always, eventually, be able to escape the tyranny of despots, but they do not know how to throw off the effects of their own despotism."

"The modern thesis is Capital, its antithesis is Communism. To progress towards well-being we must find their synthesis."

If you're ever afraid of what a person in government can do, then you have the wrong government, not the wrong person.

The movie Cars is just how suburban city developers envision their inhabitants

BREAKING: Narcissists are still narcissistic by themselves!

Someone's doing an impression of a pour over 😂

I asked AI for some ideas on what to plant with tomatoes to prevent common pests...it did ok with that. I asked AI to go harvest the tomatoes and produce and can some sauce...it failed miserably at that.

"The more authoritarian an organization, the more likely that it's leaders are operating in purely imaginative worlds." - James C. Scott, Two Cheers For Anarchism

@write.as Hi there! I can't easily tell from the various blog/theme examples I've looked through... Does write.as allow multiple columns of content?

The only way to achieve change with speed is coercion, be it intentional or unintentional. Systems achieved through coercion, will always tend towards coerciveness.

Etemology is just epistemology with the pis scared out of it! (Or the pis taken from it if you prefer a British variant;)

Possibility is more important than problems or progress.

Scale, speed, and practicality are always the ardent defenders of the status quo.

Any US employer that truly cares about their employees well-being would do what they could to support healthcare not being coupled to employment.

A worthy cause imo

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan promised we'd be all better off. But we just ended up poorer with a system that resembles Feudalism.

We’re at a crossroads in the US, poised between a politics of suspicion and retreat, and another founded on expansive relationships of mutual aid and collective solidarity. A new feature essay in The Guardian, adapted from my new book, Something Between Us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

When folks think of organizations with a democratic ethos, they often picture an organization run through consensus. In reality, the experience of democracy in an organization has three qualities:

My article on relocating and centralising UK power is now accessible. If we want to rebuild political trust across the UK, then we need to rethink where power is held and who has access to it. open.substack.com/pub/thenorth...

It seems that China and the US take fundamentally different approaches to developing artificial intelligence—not only technologically, but ideologically. 1/

Gmail was never truly free... ...free yourself from Gmail.

“Why is it so difficult to acknowledge and address the intertwining of our lives with others elsewhere?” Read more: www.sapiens.org/culture/some...

I've been trying to remember how I used to surf the internet before it was just 3 sites. I flexed some old muscles and went to both Crooked Timber and Naked Capitalism today; really enjoyed going to a URL and reading good posts and comments. What are some other sites that people still go to?

Direct action: an increasingly important concept. Pairs well with devolving power :)

"WHETHER THE PLIGHT of refugees or the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis or systemic racism, so much turns on the care and concern we can muster for lives and circumstances beyond our own." An excerpt from Something Between Us by @anandian.bsky.social is up now on @sapiens.org #ReadUP

The difference between creating “a gigantic plagiarism laundering apparatus” and “a vibrant commons of the human knowledge” is social and not technical. No technology can make the former become the latter. Or protect anyone from it.

I fill the 5 gal storage container with water from my fishtank to water my indoor seed starts and plants.

- Wikipedia is a global, free to access encyclopaedia of knowledge - Universities are full of experts on all sorts of niche topics - Those experts are under no career incentives to share their knowledge on Wikipedia I feel that something has gone terribly wrong somewhere

AI won't take your job... ... another human will make a choice to replace you (or not). A company that embraced the efficiency that AI brings could declare "amazing, we'll all work only 2 day weeks!" The real threat to collective prosperity and progress is whatever would prevent *that* outcome.

Friendly reminder: AI "takes jobs" the same way baseball bats kill people... Meaning, it's really another human making a choice. Those choice-making humans could make a different choice instead. The fact they likely wont isn't the fault of AI, but the surrounding social system's goals and norms.

"When we buy something, we don't pay for it with money, we pay for it with the time we had to spend to get that money. Remember that everything can be bought, except time/life." Pepe Mujica (1935-2025)

As grant money starts drying up, it's more important than ever not to waste it on paying publishers' open access "article processing fees" when we can host PDFs for free. Tom Morgan and I wrote a paper on this, forthcoming at Science and Public Policy. Accepted draft here: osf.io/preprints/os...

“Fiercely Egalitarian”: Thematic Cross-Cultural Analysis Reveals Regularities in the Maintenance of Egalitarianism Across Four Independent African Hunter-Gatherer Groups

As not-for-profit cooperative banks, credit unions provide people-centered financial services to more than 100 million Americans. Their tax-exempt status is now at risk, jeopardizing the vital resources that individuals and businesses depend on—services that for-profit banks often fail to deliver.

@libbyapp.com hey folks! Any chance you could enhance your filtering with a simple "not"? Like, I'd love to be able to filter books that are Fantasy but NOT romance.

Rauch:Decline of Christianity eroded community bonds, moral frameworks, & civic stability—leaving a vacuum filled by polarized politics. Classic functionalist anth (Durkheim, Malinowski): religion isn’t about truth but function-cohesion, ritual solidarity, shared moral order 🔝 @timmiller.bsky.social

What if "small" isn't the opposite of "scale", but instead a more cooperative, fair, sustainable, and resilient way to achieve scale?

Aaaand my next 3...going through a bit of a classics phase atm...sorta "knowing where we came from to better get to where we should go."

Summer reading books in for me and the 9yo!

What if 30% of businesses were worker-owned? The bottom 50% of Americans' wealth would rise from 1.4% to 6.4% of total wealth. Median wealth for Black households would increase from $24,000 to $106,000. Those without high school diplomas would see their median wealth grow from $21,000 to $84,000.

I think we can safely say that "The Information Age" is over. It's so much harder to get reliable information now than it was even a decade ago. We went from books to digital books to digital databases to just asking a computer to lie to us.

@libro.fm love this concept... ironically I have no indie book stores near me and wish I could choose my public library instead :/

"If there's no amount of evidence capable of changing your mind, there's nothing tethering your beliefs to reality." - Josh Kaufman

The early perennials are...perennialing