The rabbit holes are multiplying!
Imagine this: You are a 20 year old #soldier & are born into a regime. This regime has itself cut off from the rest of the world (thinks North Korea) & was established prior to your birth.
You are 30 now, the #regime has fallen & you live in a democracy.
Can you be judged for the crime of murder if you shot a #defector as instructed & you had no concept that this is unlawful (as it wasn't in your insular world)?
“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.” This is from Psalms 23:4, a classic prayer about God’s blessed navigating a world full of sin and evil at every turn. Growing up in…
The moment I had long dreaded finally arrived: the day I’d have to dismantle my childhood. I suppose I should consider myself lucky. It took 43 years to get here, to this spring day in 2025, standing in my nearly empty former bedroom in my mother’s house in Philadelphia, wearing a Mitski T-shirt, ratty yoga […]
A Guide to New Indie Web Media (Partial)
It's a scary yet hopeful time for web media. As it must periodically, the hard fist of capitalism has let a number of very talented individuals slip out of its grip, and they've started their own little ramshackle internet presences to try to slice themselves out a sliver of the money pie.
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https://setsideb.com/a-guide-to-new-web-media-partial/
#indies #404Media #aftermath #defector #DumbIndustries #indie #NewMedia #secondwind #secretbase #web
Jim Spanfeller destroyed multiple media brands and has now written a self-ecomonium about how hard it's been ... on him.
Won't someone *please* think of the oligarchs?
With last week’s sale of Kotaku, the project that was G/O Media is effectively dead. Its media portfolio is now something of a media one-pager: The only website it still owns is The Root, another publication that deserved better. The Nosferatus in Oxford blue shirts at Great Hill Partners, which owns G/O Media, have polished […]
Wow! Lots of news about #Greens #defector #DorindaCox this morning! #auspol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-04/federal-politics-live-june-4/105372650
Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Secret note reveals Russia using Telegram bots to control drones attacking Ukraine — Russia can attack Europe 2-4 years after war’s end, faster with lifted sanctions — ‘Russia is not winning this war,’ EU defense commissioner says — Latvia urges EU-wide halt to Russian visas over security concerns — Why did Russia invade Ukraine? Debunking the Kremlin’s ‘root causes’ claims… and more
https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/05/tuesday-may-27-2025/
Would you like to try to simulate what life on #Mars would be like?
Step one is to clear out your freezer. Step two is to lock yourself inside of it.
...your loved ones on the outside may deliver some food to you no sooner than nine months after you ask for it.
#Defector #LifeOnMars
https://defector.com/neither-elon-musk-nor-anybody-else-will-ever-colonize-mars
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan…
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’d had throughout my twenties in exhausting freelanced aggregate. The boss that bit me […]
Mars does not have a magnetosphere. Any discussion of humans ever settling the red planet can stop right there, but of course it never does. Do you have a low-cost plan for, uh, creating a gigantic active dynamo at Mars’s dead core? No? Well. It’s fine. I’m sure you have some other workable, sustainable plan…
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