Is 40’s the new 60’s? 40-year-old man describes how ageism is killing his job search www.financialexpress.com/trending/…
Inside America’s Quiet Safety Revolution: How Local Leaders Are Cutting Crime Without More Cops www.forbes.com/sites/ric…
How big trucks and SUVs gobbled up the entire auto industry. ‘Car bloat’ is what you get when companies prioritize profits over safety. www.theverge.com/the-stepb…
" … Trump is deploying troops against an imaginary enemy in DC before heading to Alaska to surrender to a real one." nextdraft.com/archives/…
Today’s computer science grads face more than double the unemployment rate of art history majors. nextdraft.com/archives/…
This long interview with Sharon Stone is extremely intense. www.theguardian.com/lifeandst…
Mitchellaneous Vol. CVIII: Thirteen things I saw on the Internet
Walking Liverpool, Leicester, and a little bit of London. “Two smaller English cities connected by football, the letter L, and depression.” By Chris Arnade walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/walking…
How AI, Healthcare, and Labubu Became the US Economy. “… the US is becoming Las Vegas - but everywhere. We are essentially building a glorified, speculative fantasy while China focuses on the foundational, ‘boring’ work of scientific and technological advancement.” kyla.substack.com/p/how-ai-…
A bleak assessment by Kyla Scanlon. But she ends on a cautiously hopeful note. We have the skills and labor to turn the U.S., and the west, around. We need the will and leadership.
Good ideas are popular: But they’re impolitic. “In democracies, we’re told, politicians exist to reflect and enact the popular will; but the truth is, politicians’ primary occupation is thwarting the will of the people, in preference to the will of a small group of wealthy, powerful people.” Most people around the world support socialism and socialist policies. But politicians don’t represent most people; politiians represent the super-wealthy. Fortunately, the super-wealthy hate each other, which gives the people people opportunity to enact policies that benefit all. By Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/08/0…