This, from over a year ago, still pretty much summarizes my outlook on the election. We’re living out the ending of a world; the characters are merely playing their part.

Sad coal mining song from Kathy Mattea. Of course it’s sad. There aren’t any happy coal mining songs.

This term—from blogging’s heyday—popped into my head this morning. Anyone else remember this?

Charles Brooks takes photographs of the interior of various instruments and the results are amazing. (via Mortise and Tenon Magazine)

Everybody makes fun of “prepper Jeremy” until the water main breaks. Now I’m sitting here having my coffee while others are rushing to Walmart. 😄

This 1975 documentary about a Kentuckian chairmaker is worth watching.

Another good one from Cory Doctorow: Red Lobster was killed by private equity, not Endless Shrimp

Adam Savage’s lathe display (source)

It all started with a post from Alan Jacobs about that Apple ad, which pointed me to this post by L.M. Sacasas, which led me to his post on Albert Borgmann, which led me to this pdf chapter from Borgmann’s book. This is a rich vein. I don’t recall why I unsubscribed to Sacasas, but error corrected.

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.