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The Political Legacy of Jerry Garcia

nytimes.com

“There’s a lot of us,” Mr. Garcia said, “moviemakers, musicians, painters, craftsmen of every sort, people doing all kinds of things. That’s what we do. That’s the way we live our lives.”

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The government’s power, he insisted, was “illusory,” a myth that took real form only because people accepted it. “The government,” Mr. Garcia said, “is not in a position of power in this country.”

What Andy Kim’s Senate Victory Means to a Hub of Korean American Life

nytimes.com

“Speaking up or speaking out wasn’t really viewed favorably,” said Ms. Choi, 40, who spent her early years in Highland Park, N.J., but lived in Korea as a young adult. “What was actually valued was doing the work.”

Few images better embody that sense of unheralded service than a photo of Mr. Kim on his knees picking up trash in the Capitol hours after rioters had rampaged through its halls on Jan. 6.

The photo became so iconic that the Smithsonian National Museum of American History asked Mr. Kim to donate the suit he was wearing that day to its collection.

Powell's Technical Bookstore goes online

langston.com

Email list announcement of Powells Technical Books going online in late 1993.

On my first visit to Portland in 2002, the original store was still in action and it was definitely a highlight of the trip. The breadth of what constituted tech, alongside the old computers on the museum, blew my mind. I reminisced a bit recently about the feel of the old Powell’s Tech.

The Dystopian Dream Team

lmnt.me

Jony Ive may be a brilliant designer, and he may have assembled a brilliant team. They very well may be enjoying having every tool at their disposal to create anything they could ever dream of. I don’t doubt it. But Jony himself does not strike me as a person who ever really liked computers.

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Sam Altman has built an entire business around theft.

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Both of these men are made for each other in the worst way imaginable. They both seemingly have a disdain for computers. None of what they spoke about in that ten-minute masturbatory video showed any ounce of wonder and amazement for what humans are able to do with computers. I don’t think these men are here to save us.

Find Your People - Jessica Livingston

foundersatwork.posthaven.com

The first step is to realize that the subway stops here. Up to this point in life, most of you have been rolling on train tracks. Elementary school, middle school, high school, college—it was always clear what the next stop was. In the process you’ve been trained to believe something that’s not true: that all of life is train tracks. And there are some jobs where you can make it stay like train tracks if you want, but really today is the last stop.

The secret history of Monopoly: the capitalist board game’s leftwing origins

theguardian.com

Above all, the Monopoly case opens the question of who should get credit for an invention, and how. Most people know about the Wright brothers – who filed their patent on the same day as Lizzie Magie – but don’t recall the other aviators who also sought to fly. The adage that success has many fathers, but we remember only one, rings true – to say nothing of success’s mothers.