"Conservatives *hate* complexity"
a superb post by @pluralistic that distills a core aspect of why right-wing ideas about how to manage things like the economy, immigration and our personal lives collide so rapidly with reality
key passage here, but do read the whole thing
This wasn't the way I wanted to hear Doctorow having cancer. :/
And I hope things continue to be ok!
I realise our relationship is the dictionary defintion of parasocial, but it's a parasocial relationship I've had with you since before I could vote (I'm 40).
Just writing that there seems foolish, but I wanted to tell you how your existence in the background radiation of my life has been meaningful. You're just one of those things that have always been there!
I hope you continue being there, and that things continue to be ok!
Clive Thompson
Juho Mäntysalo
Cory Doctorow
Jonathan Hartley