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When I first sat with Wendell [Berry] to talk about educating farmers as farmers, he started by turning to the idea of love—in the fullness of the term, not sentimentalized but fully rounded, with the joyful and the difficult joined through membership in a place and with its people.
He then asked a question that I try to answer every day: what works does this love propose?Start with love, then see what works that love proposes. (H/T: @ayjay)
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from Kottke:
Public Work is an image search engine that boasts 100,000 “copyright-free” images from institutions like the NYPL, the Met, etc. It’s fast with a relatively simple interface and uses AI to auto-categorize and suggest possibly related images (both visually and content-wise). And it’s fun to just visually click around on related images. On the downside, their sourcing and attribution isn’t great — especially when compared to something like Flickr Commons.
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Which Vision: Sunrise or Carnage?David Brooks, quoting Michael Strain
A Trump win would play into the narrative of Americans as helpless victims. The economics of grievance is ineffective, counterproductive, and corrosive, eroding the foundations of prosperity. Messages matter. Tell people that the system is rigged, and they will aspire to less. Champion personal responsibility, and they will lift their aspirations. Promoting an optimistic vision of economic life can increase risk tolerance, ambition, effort, and dynamism.
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Hate the Sinner, Hate the SinDavid Frum, via Nick Cataggio:
Nobody seems to have language to say: We abhor, reject, repudiate, and punish all political violence, even as we maintain that Trump remains himself a promoter of such violence, a subverter of American institutions, and the very opposite of everything decent and patriotic in American life.
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Kräuterbuch - “Book of Herbs” | Johannes Hartlieb - 1462
Hosta [really?!] 🌱
If Trump ever used words to render reality, I never heard it.*
Heather Cox Richardson:
- Trump said that some Democratic states allow people to execute babies after they’re born and that every legal scholar wanted Roe v. Wade overturned — both fantastical lies.
- Trump said that the deficit is at its highest level ever and that the U.S. trade deficit is at its highest ever: both of those things happened during his administration.
- Trump lied that there were no terrorist attacks during his presidency; there were many.
- Trump said that Biden wants to quadruple people’s taxes — “pure fiction,” according to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale
*Mark Edmonson, Harpers, January 2023
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