Tag Archives: economics

href weekly | Dec 8 – Dec 14 2024

Bits

“Shouldn’t science have been directed toward exploring how computers could serve citizens, civil society, and the public sphere writ large—not just by automating processes, but by simulating possibilities, by modeling alternate futures? And who, if anyone, was speaking up for these broader interests?” https://www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai-we-deserve/

Sound & Music

Bud and blossom, bud and blossom, bud and bloom and bear,
So we may have plenty of cider all next year;
Hatfuls and in capfuls and in bushel bags and all,
And there’s cider running out of every gutter hole.

Politics & Economics

https://www.noemamag.com/trespassing-for-the-common-good/
He called me a louse and said “Think of the grouse”
Well I thought, but I still couldn’t see
Why all Kinder Scout and the moors roundabout
Couldn’t take both the poor grouse and me

href weekly | July 21 – July 27 2024

Bits

A custom version of focused on privacy, security and freedom. https://librewolf.net/

“If you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not unicorns.” https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nope-its-never-aliens/

Comics

https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/1d3zgdw/googling_stuff_then_vs_now/

Politics & Economics

https://www.philosophizethis.org/podcast/episode-201-transcript-bkx3e-37rkx-bpl83-ysc9b-kkg62

It’s never been more evident that for-profit publishing simply does not align with the aims of scholarly inquiry. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/16/academic-journal-publishers-universities-price-subscriptions

If a fire can burn the town of in a national park that has the resources to deal with fire, what does the future hold for hundreds of small boreal forest towns across the country that do not have the means, know-how or resolve to accept that will come someday? https://theconversation.com/the-2024-jasper-fire-is-a-grim-reminder-of-the-urgency-of-adopting-a-canadian-national-wildfire-strategy-235567