Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Here is my latest: The Life and Death of Canadian Small Towns. Or, how small towns cannot survive neoliberal capitalism.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-life-a...

For no particular reason I've been thinking lately about the essay prompt for the entrance exam at Eton in 2011, and what we prepare our upper class Future Leaders for from a very young age.

this post from @adapalmer.bsky.social on how censorship works holds up nicely.

www.exurbe.com/tools-for-th...

KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao