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“The future is inside us. It’s not somewhere else… We call upon the people. Only people have this power. The numbers don’t decide. Your system is a lie. A river running dry. The wings of a butterfly. And you may pour us away like soup. Like we’re pretty broken flowers. We’ll take back what is ours. One day at a time.”

Radiohead – The Numbers

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Directly Addresses People Who Voted For Both Her And Trump

“If you’re only tuning in to those mediums, you will think that most people fall along this spectrum,” she said. “And a lot of people don’t, and that’s why it’s important to be at the doors, and that’s why it’s important to be on the phones, and that’s why it’s never just like a little junior thing that you grow out of, but that we always need to be listening, because you will learn a lot.”

This is fascinating. Thanks to Dave for sharing.

Don’t let your dreams give up on you – Austin Kleon

I got rear-ended at a stoplight on the drive out to the Frio Canyon last weekend. I’m fine, but I’ve spent the week thinking about whiplash. Not just physical whiplash, but spiritual whiplash — when we feel the jolts of being whipped back and forth by life. “Sharp, sudden movements can cause your brain to smack against the inside of your skull.” How does one recover? In the short term, there’s no way to treat it directly: You have to be still, deal with the pain, and let the injury heal before you figure out what further action is needed and how to get up and moving again…

Austin Kleon’s always excellent newsletter often brings joy. But this… This is exactly how I’ve been feeling and what I’ve been doing to treat it.

Alan Jacobs – periodicity

The more unstable a situation is, the more rapidly it changes, the less valuable minute-by-minute reporting is. I don’t know what happened to the hospital in Gaza, but if I wait until the next issue of the Economist shows up I will be better informed about it than people who have been rage-refreshing their browser windows for the past several days, and I will have suffered considerably less emotional stress.

This could help.

Ridley Scott on ‘Gladiator II,” Denzel Washington and Joaquin Phoenix – The New York Times

No need to read the whole interview (unless you’re a fan of the Director as I am) but it has what must be the most topical, timely, and thought provoking closing question and answer I’ve read in a while.

Your mother lived all the way into her mid-90s, right?

Yeah. She said to me, “This is ridiculous,” held my hand and died. Isn’t that great?

I’ve been on the fence for a long time. Both sides seemed equally bad to me. A choice between two evils. But now, after waiting for years for change in what has become a broken system and not addressing the issues that affect me and my family, I’ve finally decided…

Zoom meetings are evil.