brianball.bsky.social
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Reflections
Family, friends, acquaintances, experiences. All the people and things that shape who we are today and who we can be tomorrow.
For all these people, many of whom are reading this, and for all of these experiences, I give Thanks.
November 27, 2024 at 7:12 PM
“Only a democracy that works for the people is sustainable.
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I Watched Orbán Destroy Hungary’s Democracy. Here’s My Advice for the Trump Era. — POLITICO
To dismantle the machinery of autocracy, you first need to understand how it works.
apple.news
November 23, 2024 at 10:14 PM
One of my favorite Jazz albums -
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Jazz at the Pawnshop - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
November 20, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Another BlueSky annoyance / feature request
I’d like to be able to post formatted text. BlueSky is removing my “newline”, so my list of thinkers in an earlier post, became one line of text. Formatting “is” part of the message. Markdown, HTML, or text formatting tools please.
November 19, 2024 at 5:18 PM
Seminal writers & thinkers - part 1
Gregory Bateson Richard Feynman Buckminster Fuller Douglas Hofstadter Daniel Dennet
Daniel Kahneman.
November 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
Important conversations part 3
Bluesky 300 character limit is going to be a pain.
I’m looking for a way around it. Ideas are welcome, even requested
November 19, 2024 at 3:55 PM
Important conversations part 2
I’d like to introduce you to Umair Haque who writes a daily missive titled “The Issue”. I agree with much of what he writes. Here’s a link to a recent post www.theissue.io/the-rupture/
The Rupture
I’m Umair Haque, and this is The Issue: an independent, nonpartisan, subscriber-supported publication. Our job is to give you the freshest, deepest, no-holds-barred insight about the issues that matte...
www.theissue.io
November 19, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Important conversations
This is an experiment. I’m looking for a group of people who share my concerns and philosophy and can engage in a broad, long-running conversation about the state of the world and what we can constructively do next, both individually and collectively.
November 19, 2024 at 3:51 PM