- Bart’s Watch Stories on YouTube: How Casio Made the Most Sold Watch Ever. It is about Casio F-91W, my default watch, and I can attest to its — excuse the pun — timelessness.
- @StatisticUrban on X: What states do Americans most approve of? DC is the lowest at +1 net approval.
- Ruxandra Teslo: Your newborn is not Hepatitis B vaccinated because of wokeness. See also her exchange on X with Curtis Yarvin, aka Mencius Moldbug, aka Mr Head-Up-Ass who loves the sound of his one voice even as he recommends disastrous remedies for obvious problems.
- Marioun Fourcade and Kieran Healy: Authenticate thyself. The subheading is “The sovereign individual and the paradox of the digital age”. It is more highfalutin than what I usually read — “The combination of epistemological self-centredness and hyperconnectivity makes people susceptible to diffuse forms of ‘supersense’-making (to borrow a term from Hannah Arendt).”, reads one sentence — but the essay does some important sense-making of its own:
As the deployment of digital technologies continues to generate ever-more stratospheric concentrations of wealth, the masses sink deeper into the void left by the evisceration of social solidarity and the rise of automation. The often-missed point about sovereign individuals is that not everyone gets to be one. But everyone should aspire to be one, and in the meantime follow one, as they walk down the road to selfdom.
Worth reading for that last sentence alone.