The Age-Old Urge to Destroy Technology Our hatred of social media or of artificial intelligence is not some novel phenomenon, the new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us; it’s a feeling that has existed in some form across millennia.

The new book “Techno-Negative” reminds us that resistance to new inventions has existed in some form across millennia. www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID. In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in. How in the world are you going to check our voters? Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon. But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation. For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections. COMMON SENSE Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why? Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five. You talk about trade-off, right? COMMON SENSE Sanctuany

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

I'm thrilled to share that my debut novel, Lessons in Attention, will be out with @tinhouse.bsky.social in 2026! A testament to faith, friendship, and how people change us, it follows a series of friends as they attempt to reach one another across Oxford, Oslo, Brazil. Can't wait to share it 🤗

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

A black sculpture of an ancient tree with a gilded gold interior

The chapter focuses on efforts to commemorate the loss of trees to disease, such as this beautiful sculpture 'The Gilded Elm' in Brighton which marks the death of a 400-year old English elm tree. The sculpture was created with the remnants of that tree after it had succumbed to Dutch elm disease

little pieces of language are ours

slogans, taglines, chants, flyers, memes, stickers, posters, zines

Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment — Switchyard By Mya Frazier

We’re thrilled to see Power Failure: On Landscape and Abandonment by Mya Frazier featured on @longreads.com this week. Congrats @myafrazier.bsky.social! Check out the full story here: www.switchyardmag.com/issue-4/powe...

If you can't write: [insert words that matter to you, to me, to us. To our times, past, present, future, uncertain, in-between. To those you know and love]. What do you write? How to write ______ without saying ______. Asking for the purposes of ______ grants. ______ glossary. Asking for a friend.

Everyone should be aware of the line that has been crossed in the Trump trans military EO.

No longer is this about "evidence," "science" or "protecting kids."

Now, explicitly, black and white, it's about trans people being "liars," "dishonorable," "false."

It's a big step towards very bad things.

@laurenchang.bsky.social 'cutesy' militaries and the likes

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@jeffsharlet.bsky.social's The Undertow and his insights on the ritual of the library, the stakes of this simple exchange: “'Here. I have a story. You can have it, too.'"

I remember attending a library protest here when I was a kid. I was 8 years old, and attendees formed a circle around the library, recently defunded. Was it a protest? A hug? My memory and the affect of this gathering feel slippery. Was I angry too? Did I grasp what was at stake?

Josephine County commissioners terminate lease with Grants Pass Library In one of their first moves as a newly reconfigured board, the Josephine County commissioners unanimously decided to terminate the county’s lease with the Grants Pass Library. This puts the library’s ...

Always, one eye on my hometown. This month, another move to defund the library. The indefatigable @jshermanroberts.bsky.social: “Why do we have to fight so hard for a library in this community for years and years and years?"

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@annikabow.bsky.social Is this Nik from TechLife? If so, this is Nick from TechLife 👋