Peter Norman
@peterminorman.bsky.social
Thoughts on professional and personal interests: renewable energy, democracy, egalitarianism, economic development, urbanism.
Americans will lose an average of 400 pounds each?
November 6, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Americans will lose an average of 400 pounds each?
See, this is the problem with cutting the liberal arts. No one appreciates the beauty of the prompt for its own sake.
July 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
See, this is the problem with cutting the liberal arts. No one appreciates the beauty of the prompt for its own sake.
Are tweeps on Bluesky ... bleeps?
March 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Are tweeps on Bluesky ... bleeps?
This by Quinn Slobodian has been on my reading list. Seems relevant?
Crack-Up Capitalism
A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free mark...
us.macmillan.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:26 AM
This by Quinn Slobodian has been on my reading list. Seems relevant?
I can imagine if that Trump were to remember just one phrase from a constitutional law professor, it would be "citizenship is Allegiance-for-Protection" -- and he could easily take it even beyond its immediate, horrifying, implications for the children of immigrants.
February 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I can imagine if that Trump were to remember just one phrase from a constitutional law professor, it would be "citizenship is Allegiance-for-Protection" -- and he could easily take it even beyond its immediate, horrifying, implications for the children of immigrants.
But perhaps they've been playing a different game. Trump has been a Gemeinschaft patriarch/mob boss his whole life; Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. are in this regard toddlers.
January 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
But perhaps they've been playing a different game. Trump has been a Gemeinschaft patriarch/mob boss his whole life; Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, etc. are in this regard toddlers.
You'd expect that to claw their way up corporate hierarchies (including as VC-funded founders), they'd have developed their own hypersensitivities to the intentions behind perceived slights and abilities to reward friends and punish enemies.
January 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
You'd expect that to claw their way up corporate hierarchies (including as VC-funded founders), they'd have developed their own hypersensitivities to the intentions behind perceived slights and abilities to reward friends and punish enemies.
Late to the party, but I think of this one from time to time. www.theonion.com/affluent-whi...
Affluent White Man Enjoys, Causes The Blues
HIGHLAND PARK, IL–Steve Smalls, a senior vice-president at Chicago's Alliance Manufacturing, the world's largest producer of industrial refrigeration systems, is a self-described "blues nut."
www.theonion.com
May 20, 2024 at 3:04 AM
Late to the party, but I think of this one from time to time. www.theonion.com/affluent-whi...