The claim that capitalism is being toppled by a new economic model comes on the heels of many premature forecasts of capitalism’s demise, especially from the left. But this time it may well be true, and the signs that it is have been visible for a while. — Read on www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalism-replacing-market-capitalism-by-yanis-varoufakis-2021-06

I don’t drop people I disagree with from my life – but for many liberals, differences of opinion have become unacceptable — Read on www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/jun/26/people-have-told-me-i-am-on-the-wrong-side-of-history-but-i-still-want-to-be-their-friend In my experience, conservatives say this right up until the day they stop talking to you because you thought they were joking when they insisted they were more important and […]

Sometimes I feel bad about how many times I’ve revamped the main model in my PhD, but Google makes me feel a lot better about it. Google has launched Chat, its latest revamped messaging strategy. But the company has struggled to get its services in order for years, from Talk to Hangouts to Allo. — […]

Instead of half closing everything for a year we let places open based on how good their ventilation and air filtration is? What if we’d actually incorporated aerosol transmission into our public health guidelines? — www.dropbox.com/sh/j1ht46ckc3njymp/AAD2Vuz7_vP8FdOEeQnO-QNqa

Sick legacy — how DDT exposure from the past can affect many generations to come — Read on www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6070030

Like many contemporary philosophers, Xunzi assumed that the dead are just that – gone, from us, from life, from existence.  But Xunzi did not imagine that this stone cold fact signified much.  Fact pales before desire and desire wants translating into action, into doing. In early China, one form of doing was the soul-summoning ritual.  […]