Cory Doctorow: “AIs and self-driving cars are the new jetpacks”

I don’t know if this will prove to be true but it’s an interesting provocation.

“How Jung and Tolkien Tapped into the Collective Unconscious”

Wonderful, ten minute documentary about the Zuni Map Project—an art project to “depict the topography of myth, memory, and prayer embedded in the land, returning a tool of power to a space of connection.”

Wow! Testimony of Paul Robeson before HUAC in 1956. Audio is a reenactment by James Earl Jones but the words are from the hearing itself. More about Paul Robeson.

Rachel and I have been complaining about these “whole body deodorant” commercials (which of course target women). You know what? You’re a biological organism interacting with the real world of heat and microorganisms. You’re gonna smell a little funny. It’s fine. Don’t believe marketing bullshit.

I don’t subscribe to that many newsletters/substacks/etc. but it’s clearly too many, judging by the unread email in my inbox. New rule: if I don’t consistently read it immediately (or at least want to), unsubscribe.

We were meant to be inspired when Business Leader said his rule was, “better than yesterday, not as good as tomorrow.” My rule, on the other hand, is this: become increasingly useless to people like Business Leader.

Lovely video from Pete Larson on the rhythms of life.

Replace Bradford pears with dogwoods. Now that’s a campaign idea we can all believe in.

Apropos of nothing, I’m thinking this morning about how a series of ironclad mutual defense agreements marched everyone into WW1.