Every culture produces heroes that reflect its deepest anxieties. The Greeks, terrified of both mortality and immortality, gave us Achilles. The Victorians, haunted by social mobility, gave us the self-made industrialist. And Silicon Valley, drunk on exponential curves and both terrified and entr...
We have "growth hackers" but no "stability hackers." "Disruptors" but no "preservers." Our entire vocabulary is oriented toward the new. We have no language for the equally difficult work of keeping existing things from falling apart.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-rime-of-the-ancient-maintainer/
The idea came to Moylan on a rainy day in April 1986 when he hopped in one of Ford's employee fleet cars to drive to a meeting at another building.
Savvy countries will discover there’s a way to mitigate the harm incurred by Trump’s tariffs—and it’ll boost their own economies while making goods cheaper too.
I was about to comment on how this sounds an awful lot like what @pluralistic has been advocating for.
Then I read who authored the article. 🤣
“In 2026, countries that want to win the trade war have a unique historical possibility: They could repeal their “anticircumvention” laws, which make it illegal—a felony, in many cases—to modify devices and services without permission from their manufacturers.”
https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/
The very best reporting and investigative journalism from our friends at other publications.
New, by @lorenzofb and me: We just published TechCrunch's annual jealousy list of cybersecurity stories that we *didn’t* publish but wish we had. This is the very best cybersecurity reporting from our friends at competing publications.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/26/these-are-the-cybersecurity-stories-we-were-jealous-of-in-2025/
With the snow line edging higher, 186 French ski resorts have shut, while global heating threatens dozens more
Giant amphipod species Alicella gigantea, once thought to be very rare, is found to inhabit the majority of Earth's deep ocean floors.
On choosing permanence over performance.
After the response to my posts about nature cure, and the conversation they opened about the myths surrounding it, I wanted to reshare this deeply personal piece.
It’s about choosing permanence over performance. About the profound impact drystone walling and physical labour had on my relationship with my body and male desire.
This essay is adapted from my book Drystone – A Life Rebuilt.
https://kristiedegaris.substack.com/p/what-i-build-will-outlast-every-man-who-ever-wanted-me
#Writing #WritingCommunity #Reading #Essay #Scotland #Drystone #Women #News #UK
One of the main lessons of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism is that we must actively think in the now, and try to grasp new realities on their own terms.
As Christopher Finlay (DurhamU) suggests perhaps the lesson to take from Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, is as much abut the way she thought about the current events of her time as the conclusions she drew about them.
We need to be 'actively thinking in the now, and trying to grasp an emergent “something” on its own terms – a threat that is taking shape, but which hasn’t yet fully revealed itself', not necessarily trying to fit it into old models!
#politics
https://theconversation.com/how-hannah-arendt-can-help-us-understand-this-new-age-of-far-right-populism-269626
Lucinda is a member of an exclusive club — living heart donors, and is the only woman to have a baby after a heart-lung-liver transplant
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