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Sarah Skwire
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Books and yarn, mostly.
Love work, loathe mastery over others, and avoid intimacy with the government. Pirkei Avot 1:10
February 6, 2025 at 2:51 PM
My first email account was a VAX account and I used it to email exactly two people. 1) A very cute boy from MIT and 2) my professor for Newton to Einstein: The Trail of Light.

Because no one else had email yet.
Laughs in TRS-80
Proud to be an Elder Geek. 👵🏻 ❤️❤️❤️ @microsoft.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct... All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary." Orwell, 1984
Very free speech. Much end of censorship.

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As part of the de-wokeification process, Trump’s administration has eviscerated more than 8,000 pages of materials just since Friday about a range of topics, from census methodology to resources about postpartum depression.

https://newrepublic.com/post/191123/donald-trump-purges-information-govern…
February 5, 2025 at 2:18 PM
In the Middle Ages violating sanctuary by, say, killing Thomas a Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, would get you excommunicated, or executed, or (at the very least) fined.
January 28, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
January 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reposted by Sarah Skwire
Using a podcast with urban planner Alain Bertaud as a starting point, I explore similarities between housing regulations that restrict building (and repurposing) and limits on the Smithian "extent of the market"—and therefore the division of labour and our ability to solve problems of/in cities.
The Great Antidote: Extra: Alain Bertaud on Urban Planning and Cities | Adam Smith Works
Diversity in cities creates challenges but the largeness of cities make them great places to address those challenges.
www.adamsmithworks.org
January 23, 2025 at 6:17 PM
It is very odd watching Episcopalians suddenly taking political heat. My decision to reread Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, rewatch the Tudors, and run a reading group on Shakespeare's plays was supposed to distract me from contemporary politics, not mirror it! But there you go...
January 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 5:57 PM
We need a word for the moment when a metaphor turns out to be just plain facts.
Donald Trump will be indoors for the inauguration with his billionaire pals. His core supporters will be left outside in the cold.

Think about that.
January 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM