Mastodawn

"It’s telling that we also use the word “agency” to describe the nature of this action. Maybe this is the endpoint of all this “high agency”: constant hamster wheels of action, unmoored from any values, no compass to be found."
#Culture #Morality #WhatNext #GiftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/high-agency-silicon-valley.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.PcFr.MSLsyrujKnx2&smid=bs-share

Opinion | All the Worst People Seem to Want to Be ‘High Agency’

The term “high agency” is an ethos for a gambler’s time.

The New York Times

Carolannie Mar 22

A meditation on loving humanity
#WhatNext

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2026/03/22/sunday-reading-39/

Sunday Reading

"There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."

slacktivist

Out of Context Podcast Quotes Mar 17

"How did panda diplomacy start?" - MARY HARRIS, Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?, What Next #WhatNext #NationalPandaDay #MaryHarris

Out of Context Podcast Quotes Mar 16

"People love a panda!" - MARY HARRIS, Wait, China’s Taking Our Pandas Back?, What Next #WhatNext #NationalPandaDay #MaryHarris

Out of Context Podcast Quotes Mar 9

"And the gist of what happened in Arkansas was that it was a complete disaster!" - PAMELA HERD, Do Work Requirements Work?, What Next #WhatNext #PamelaHerd

Carolannie Mar 5

White male neocon vanity rules male "beauty" standards
"... we judge every day who is trustworthy and who is not, based on accepted markers that are often fundamentally racist."
#WhatNext
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/mar/05/there-is-no-shame-in-being-vain-the-relentless-rise-of-impossible-male-beauty-standards

‘There is no shame in being vain’: the relentless rise of impossible male beauty standards

Men’s faces are under scrutiny as never before, with more opting for cosmetic procedures than ever. What is behind this sudden and significant shift?

The Guardian

Carolannie Mar 5

"And in that moment, I realized how much of our political crisis is also a crisis of language."
#WhatNext
https://seattlemedium.com/america-struggles-with-trumpism/

Thomas Dorr Feb 24

JFC, looks like the end of online course work might be coming, thanks to #aislop Companies are offering free hook the students trials.

It will impersonate a student and log into the LMS and submit assignments for them. #worsttimeline #llm #whatnext

Carolannie Feb 15

h/t @triptych.oxus.net.web.brid.gy
A poignant photo essay about how, here in the United States, the Diné suffer from lack of water while the nearby town has golf courses and swimming pools
#HumanRigts #WhatNext
https://elliotstudio.com/a-question-of-balance

A Question Of Balance — ELLIOT ROSS STUDIO

In the Navajo Nation–a sweeping landscape of red-rock canyons and desert that takes in the Four Corners–water is not taken for granted. Here, more than one in three Diné, as Navajo people call themselves, must haul water to their homes, often across long distances. The Diné use the least amount of w

ELLIOT ROSS STUDIO

Carolannie Feb 13

Impede ICE with state and local legislation
#Immigration #WhatNext
https://www.thestranger.com/news/2026/02/13/80474179/local-lawmakers-are-finally-moving-against-ice