On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier.
Happy holidays, fediverse!
I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us.
In a world where a woman’s work is never done, perhaps the biggest form of rebellion is taking time for ourselves.
Women with care duties have very little "pure” leisure to themselves. Often, it is spent w/ kids or those they’re caring for. Early time-use researchers—all men—initially coded child care as leisure. They assumed women were at home having fun with the kids. https://www.thepersistent.com/women-leisure-time-hobbies-taking-back-me-time/
In the age of Spotify and AI slop, tapes remind us what we’re missing when we stop taking risks.
"Artists are tired of tech platforms that pay them virtually nothing, owned by degenerate billionaires that see all human creativity as interchangeable aesthetic wallpaper, valued only for its ability to make numbers go up. Everywhere I go, people are exhausted by the never-ending scroll, desperately wanting to reconnect with something real."
https://www.404media.co/why-i-quit-streaming-and-got-back-into-cassettes/
Why focusing on Farage’s past misses how racism is incentivised, normalised and repeatedly rewarded in the present
The Bear, right on the button on racism, Nigel Farage & ReformUK:
'The question isn’t whether [Farage] was a rancid little racist at sixteen, it’s how he came to build a political brand that so successfully normalises suspicion, resentment and exclusion - and how he is still able to act so terribly wounded (and get away with it) when the people that are attracted to that brand express it too honestly'!
Reform is an infrastructure for racism!
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/reform-uk-doesnt-just-have-a-racism
While much of the world sings the iconic ‘Carol of the Bells’ melody this holiday season, the tune’s birthplace is slowly being erased by Russia. Oleksandr, a priest, witnessed this destruction firsth
As the year draws to an end now is a good time to review where we are with Europe’s cloud situation, and what has been achieved. One thing is certain, a lot has happened, and also quite a lot has become clearer. tl;dr: Great strides have been made in 2025, especially in convincing people that s...
The debate on whether Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute a genocide is now closed, and has been closed for a while.
"The main way the genocide has been actively supported by our democracies is less the flow of weapons and intelligence to Israel, important as these are, than the organised repression and punishment of everyone who dared to call attention to events in Gaza or offer criticism of Israel and its conduct"
#Israel #Gaza #Genocide
Gaza: The Reckoning - by Bruno Maçães - World Builders
https://brunomacaes.substack.com/p/gaza-the-reckoning
On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.
Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum and things may get worse before they get better, says Guardian columnist Larry Elliott
Labour is living in a fool’s paradise if it thinks it has plenty of time to turn Britain around | Larry Elliott
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Going into 2026, the economy has little forward momentum. And there’s the issue that things may get worse before they get better ...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/labour-british-economy-2026-worse
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