I know a fair number of you want to shop at used book stores but find it intimidating and have a bad success rate on getting books worth reading, so I will tell you the secret:

The more cracked the spine of a book, the more people have read it completely through, cover to cover.

Buy the most cracked books you can find in any genre you like. They will be the most entertaining.

If the book isn't cracked, or is only cracked near the front cover, it's usually unreadable trash.

The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work

https://www.404media.co/the-medias-pivot-to-ai-is-not-real-and-not-going-to-work/

I got frustrated by own-goal leftist arguments that “mass demonstrations are useless”. So I explained the strategy and social science that make them critical right now.

https://ninelives.karawynnlong.com/strategic-resistance-mass-demonstration/

I found my next #solarpunk project:

I'm planning to make a travelling solarpunk #art exhibition!

I'll mainly use artworks from @alxd @writing.exchange 's https://storyseedlibrary.org/art/
and https://realutopien.info/visuals/ by reinventing society.

I'm in the process of contacting spaces that fit the theme somewhat and are accessible to many people - e.g. the local makerspace already showed interest!

Any suggestions on what to include, what problems to look out for..?

WeTransfer just changed their ToS to allow them to train AI on any files you transfer through them.

Don't use there service, especially for work that you don't have the right to relicense to them (e.g., commercial work that's exactly the most likely to create the huge files WeTransfer specializes in).

(ETA: this is already going boom so I'm muting it.)

https://wetransfer.com/explore/legal/terms

Spain and Brazil push global action to tax the super-rich and curb inequality.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/07/1165146

#TaxTheRich #inequality #FutureForHumanity #Billionaires #Poverty #UnitedNations