{"id":3510,"date":"2024-07-21T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-21T15:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2026-05-20T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T20:12:19","slug":"href-weekly-july-14-july-20-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=3510","title":{"rendered":"href weekly | July 14 \u2013 July 20 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">interactive way to see how email servers work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.learndmarc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.learndmarc.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sound &amp; Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bravo <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=canadaland\">#canadaland<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=pretendians\">#pretendians<\/a> podcast https:\/\/www.canadaland.com\/shows\/pretendians\/ &#8211; excellent podcast, hope to hear another season .. <a href=\"https:\/\/files.mastodon.social\/media_attachments\/files\/112\/803\/253\/042\/253\/000\/original\/ba2d91fcff8aeed1.mp3\">also, love how they used #genai songs for episode bumpers<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The writing was subversive and experimental, characters and voices at the edge of the law, free with their sexuality, experimenting with drugs\u2014and cut-up\/collage writing techniques\u2014feeling the sensual and emotional thrills of the Romantic poets and Rimbaud, and deeply into jazz <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/lists\/the-beat-generation-list\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/daily.bandcamp.com\/lists\/the-beat-generation-list<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Photos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-624x832.jpg 624w, https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/lydia-20th-birthday-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Celebrating my daughter&#8217;s 20th birthday &#8211; July 19 2024<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Politics &amp; Economics<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">who killed the world? <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=scifi\">#scifi<\/a> <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=futurism\">#futurism<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2024\/07\/scifi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/pudding.cool\/2024\/07\/scifi\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The saddest creatures in late-stage capitalism are cheerleaders who own little equity but root for mega-cap companies like sports teams. With 54% of total US market cap held by 1% of the population, it\u2019s a given that these confused devotees far outnumber the real beneficiaries. <a rel=\"tag\" class=\"hashtag u-tag u-category\" href=\"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?tag=economics\">#economics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2024\/07\/chinas-subsidies-create-not-destroy-value\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/asiatimes.com\/2024\/07\/chinas-subsidies-create-not-destroy-value\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Utah anthropologist Joseph Tainter has argued that civilizations tend to collapse when they can no longer afford the social and energy costs of maintaining their complexity or, for that matter, their appliances. In other words, societies die when they can\u2019t fix things in an affordable way. <a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2024\/07\/15\/Enshittification-Everything\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/Analysis\/2024\/07\/15\/Enshittification-Everything\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bits interactive way to see how email servers work https:\/\/www.learndmarc.com\/ Sound &amp; Music Bravo #canadaland #pretendians podcast https:\/\/www.canadaland.com\/shows\/pretendians\/ &#8211; excellent podcast, hope to hear another season .. also, love how they used #genai songs for episode bumpers The writing was subversive and experimental, characters and voices at the edge of the law, free with their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[349,192,352,350,351],"class_list":["post-3510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-links","tag-canadaland","tag-economics","tag-futurism","tag-pretendians","tag-scifi","kind-article","h-entry","hentry"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100176,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/100176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}