🔖 Read The real reason Musk retreated by Daniel Hunter (Waging Nonviolence).
This article about the power of collective action really made me feel hopeful.
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🔖 Read Should You Ditch Fixing Your Weaknesses And Lean Into Your Strengths? by Nicole Aherling (The Good Trade).
My top 3 strengths are either Input, Learner, Communication or Love, Curiosity, Creativity. Either way, I’ve built a life where these strengths lead the way. 💗
🔖 Here’s a project IMLS supported that you won’t see in partisan social media posts about where that 0.003% of the federal budget went: Libraries’ Roles in Disaster Preparedness and Recovery by Denise Lyons (Library Journal)
🔖🍿 Read Why Minecraft Movie Fans Are Getting Rowdy and Going Viral by Lynn Zubernis Ph.D. (Psychology Today)
Found this via Austin Kleon’s newsletter. I love this explanation of how rowdy theater behavior is developmentally appropriate.
And there’s a whole Science of Fandom Column? I am excite.
🔖 Book Riot’s Literary Activism Newsletter explains: Library Funding Targeted in New Trump Executive Order: What It Means & What To Do Now.
🔖 Read The clockwork universe: is free will an illusion? by Oliver Burkeman (The Guardian).
I’m trying to find a space where determinism and existentialism co-exist. I just keep coming back to the line from the TV show Angel: “if nothing we do matters, all that matters is what we do.”
🔖 Read HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me by Tim Carmody (Wired)
Carmody and I came to HTML within a year of each other, both via Netscape, and I love this love letter to my favorite programming language (yes, I love HTML more than BASIC). Count me in as part of HTML’s posse.
🔖 Read The Courts Can’t Stop the Trump-Musk Coup.
Courts are not known for their harm prevention—they’re best used when trying to hold someone accountable for the harm they already caused.
🔖 Read The history of anti-authoritarian struggle is a history worth repeating by Sarah Freeman-Woolpert (Waging Nonviolence).