The Digital Packrat Manifesto. “DRM and big tech’s war on ownership has led me to make my own media libraries, and you should too.” — Janus Rose. 404media.co
The War on Memory: Learning from the Jewish Labor Bund — Molly Crabapple. The Bund was a Jewish anti-Zionist political organization that flourished in Poland between WWI and WWII. thefunambulist.net
Primary Every Democrat! primary.every.democrat
Brother makes a demon-haunted printer. pluralistic.net
“The Democratic Party is an exhausted and empty shell, a corpse sucked to the very edge of death by moneyed donors, a pale jumble of consulting firms trying to sell unflavored broth at the Gumbo Festival.” — Hamilton Nolan, “A Television Show Called the USA”
“In the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, you can learn that the first animals with backbones evolved during the early Cambrian Period, 525 million years ago. Outside of that museum, few backbones can be found in Washington, DC.” — Hamilton Nolan, “A Television Show Called the USA”
“Stop trying to reinvent Twitter.” — Dave Winer
“The critics panned [Mickey] Spillane, but he didn’t care. He said, ‘Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.’ He said he never had a character who drank cognac or had a mustache, because he didn’t know how to spell those words.” — Garrison Keillor [writersalmanac.publicradio.org]
James Davis Nicoll reviews “Galactic Empires,” a two-volume 1976 science fiction anthology of stories about (you guessed it) galactic empires, edited by Brian Aldiss. I loved those books. [jamesdavisnicoll.com]