Non-theist Christian and elder in Community of Christ. I have Mormon roots and aspirations to do better with justice and peacemaking—especially in the digital sphere but also in Lexington, Kentucky, the U.S., and the world more broadly.

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🔗 linkblog: Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein'



The rules seem to be that it’s okay to do whatever in the GOP, but no Democrat can even seem to be in a sticky situation. What a joke.


📚 bookblog: ❤️❤️❤️❤️🖤 for Debt: The First 5,000 Years, by David Graeber



Like everything I’ve read from Graeber, I appreciate the overall argument that he’s making and I find the evidence he marshalls compelling. At the same time, there’s a density to the latter that I admit having trouble following, so I don’t always see how it leads to the overall argument. Even with those caveats, I’m happy to endorse this read. I’m interested in how Graeber explores the relationship between moral thinking and economic modeling—as I posted earlier, I also find his thoughts on the moral dangers posed by abstracting interpersonal obligations into quantifiable debt with the help of money.


🔗 linkblog: The Far Right Has a New Hero: Elon Musk'



Bookmarking for… sigh… teaching purposes.


🔗 linkblog: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis'



As usual, lots to like in this post from Mike Masnick.


🔗 linkblog: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System'



Resubscribed to WIRED because despite my efforts to focus more on tech news than political news, THEY HAVE BECOME ONE AND THE SAME IN REALLY WORRYING WAYS.




Currently reading David Graeber’s “Debt: The First 5,000 Years,” and while it’s really dense, one clear theme is how money has the power to abstract our moral thinking in dangerous directions. This NYT blurb seemed relevant.


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Love to be living in a world where a blog I read for tech commentary—and that is more reserved than I would be on a lot of that commentary—is running articles describing current goings-on as “a coup in progress.”


🔗 linkblog: The Twitter Files Playbook Comes For The US Government'



More good writing from Masnick on scary stuff coming out of DC.




It’s obviously not the most worrying thing about it, but a very specific tragedy about Musk’s DOGE nonsense is that it may end up being the largest (indirect) influence Homestar Runner has had on the world.


🔗 linkblog: The NTSB chooses Elon Musk’s X to update the press on plane crashes'



Lots of bad things are happening right now, but this one stands out. There’s no good reason for this except to make Musk happy.