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Three links to wonderful and thought-provoking things every other Saturday morning from Mita Williams.

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UofWinds 426, Week 49: primarium, AI Killed the Take-Home Essay. COVID Killed Attendance. Now What?, going through hell, keeping going
Good morning. I slept in. This rarely happens. My son, who did not sleep in, is on campus writing his first exam of his second year of engineering. My husband is watching English soccer while the cat beside him is looking out of the window. Outside, there is a thin
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December 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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UofWinds 425, Week 47: Cleaning Supplies are Extremely Stupid, "Your Temper, My Weather", Workers Inquiry
Good morning. I am stretched out on the sofa in the study. My son has slept through the early morning Chelsea FC game. My daughter and husband will be leaving shortly to prepare and help run an indoor soccer league held in some domed building near Dominion Golf Club. Outside,
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November 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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UofWinds 424, Week 45: British Summer Time Walks, Towards a more Elvish vision of technology, Divine Comedy
Good morning. I took a few moments to tidy up the study before I sat down to write. This was necessary as my cat jumped on the table and this small violence caused my full coffee mug to spill over. There's not much outside light that has made
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November 9, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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UofWinds 423, Week 43: Technology Connections, how to actually be enjoyably well-educated, How I use ActivityPub (and Why)
Good morning. I am writing this without a coffee beside me because there are an assorted array of teenagers sleeping in the living room and I don't want them to wake them up to the whirl of our coffee grinder. Not yet. My husband in the study with
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October 28, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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UofWinds 422, Week 41 2025: Basic Human Emotion, Trusting your own judgment on ‘AI’ is a huge risk, Detroit Safety Team
Good morning. I'm stretched out on the sofa with a cat sitting on my legs and so my just out of reach coffee is going to be just a little cooler than I would like when I finally get to it. It is the long weekend on account
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October 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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UofWinds 421, Week 39 2025: One monkey mind's 10 days of silence, The Limits of Data, Dialectic Notebooks
Good morning. I'm in my IKEA wing-back chair, feeling sore (but not-injured!) from the previous day's adventure: being part of a Faculty v Students soccer game. It promises to be a gloriously sunny Autumn day, although the forecast suggests that it will be unseasonably hot. There
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October 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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UofWinds 420, Week 37 2025: The Blanket Exercise, When facing a complicated problem, don't try to solve it, try to understand it, The strategy is enquiry
Good morning. I am in the study, writing from the sofa with a coffee beside me. Thanks to the magic of a newly acquired subscription to a VPN service, I am catching up on episodes of Night Tracks from BBC 3. While I expect my son to wake up shortly
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September 22, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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UofWinds 419, Week 35 2025: Trolleyology, HAGOROMO Fulltouch, The McPhee method
Good morning. I am properly poised at the writing desk, trying to focus on the words in front of me, despite the temptation to join my family who are watching Chelsea FC in the TV room. I am also trying to resist refreshing Bluesky for a whisper of news from
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September 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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UofWinds 418, Week 33 2025: The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World, Heavyweight: An Art Project About Lawyer Vibes, 5 questions for Meredith Whittaker
Good morning. I'm writing this from the study. I am the only one at home and awake. It is the last weekend that requires my husband and daughter to be on the soccer fields within Windsor's Ford Test Track. My son will still be working for
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August 25, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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UofWinds 417, Week 31 2025: The Invisible Chain that Holds Us Together, It’s telling how telling a telling can be, Marking the Dispossessed
Good morning. I have written another summertime edition of this newsletter – which means I wrote most of this the night before because we're going away this long weekend to see family as soon as everyone is sufficiently awake and packed. Last weekend, we drove to Stratford to
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August 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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UofWinds 416, Week 29 2025: BBC Sounds --> BBC.com, Seeing like a place, Corpora as medium / generative systems and the content deficit
Good morning. I'm writing this from my grey wingback STRANDMON in the study. It's probably not good for my back to sit for too long in this chair, but it is my favourite place to write. To prevent injury, I get up from time to time
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July 29, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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UofWinds 415, Week 27 2025: Unbreaking, Usufruct, Utopia Clicker
Good morning... although I feel like I should confess that I wrote most of today's newsletter last night after dinner, so good evening as well. I broke from my regular writing practice to make sure I could make an early morning yoga class happening this morning, that some
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July 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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UofWinds 415-->Week 27, 2025
UofWinds 415 is on vacation. Back next week
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July 2, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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UofWinds 414,Week 24, 2025: TRMNL, The Who Cares Era / It matters. I care, When Building a Brand-New City Doesn’t Go as Planned
Good morning. Today is a day filled with No Kings protests across the border. While I will be tempted to glean how these events unfold from my social media feeds, I'm going to try to _not_ to do that. Instead, I'll probably work on a little
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June 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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UofWinds 413,Week 22, 2025: Giant Sequoias Are Taking Root in an Unexpected Place: Detroit, Pretrial (Let Her Go Home), Fonts in Use
Good morning. I am not the only one up early this morn, as half my family now spends their Saturday mornings at the Ford Test Track to coach and manage house league soccer until the end of August. For us, TV soccer ends today and real-life soccer has begun. Last
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June 10, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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UofWinds 412,Week 20, 2025: Living in the Electromagnetic Spectrum, I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt, Oikos vs polis: a new (but old) axis on the political map
Good morning. I'm sitting at my desk in the office and repeatedly removing my beloved cat who is repeatedly positioning herself in front of my keyboard. Since I've been back from away, she has been keeping close to me and in her sights. I had a
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May 27, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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UofWinds 411,Week 18, 2025: How Do We Write Now, We’re All Going to the Conclave Larp, Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy
Good evening. I'm writing this on a Thursday night because I will be traveling on Saturday morning as part of a two week vacation. I will pack my bags tomorrow. I will pack my words tonight. * * * ## How Do We Write Now Over the past two weeks, I seem
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May 13, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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UofWinds 410,Week 16, 2025: A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse, How cascades of rapid change routinely sweep across families, institutions, and nations, “Trump's manly tariffs”
Good morning. I'm at my parent's house for the Easter long weekend. It was warm last night so we opened the windows. This morning, I was awakened by the dawn chorus. The return of birdsong and the return of spring brings me a wave of relief.
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April 28, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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UofWinds 409,Week 14, 2025: Why does every book come from the same country? You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism, Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
Good evening. I'm pre-writing this fortnightly Saturday morning newsletter on Friday night on account that I've committed the next day to be at the We Robot Conference 2025. I am listening and learning and I am taking notes. This week will be a shorter version of
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April 14, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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UofWinds 408, Week 12, 2025: What You Should Do, The Tyranny of Public Opinion / We're getting the social media crisis wrong, The Waters of Lethe Flow From Our Digital Streams / The transformative power of journaling
Good morning. I am trying to start today's newsletter from the desk in the study but my cat demands tribute first. She's learned not to walk on my keyboard but she pretty much goes everywhere else on the table. Now that she is no longer directly
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March 26, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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UofWinds 407, Week 10 2025: Does Voting Matter in Ontario, Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States, Utopian Realism, No Neutral Ground in a Burning World, Phronesis, Make Life Possible
Good morning. I have to admit, I've been struggling with the deciding of what to share in this fortnight's issue as there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty and upheaval in this moment that we are in. Each week has been a decade. I have decided
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March 17, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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UofWinds 406, Week 8 2025: Climate Change is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together, Building the Union, The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them
Good morning. I'm writing this newsletter, properly for a change, at a desk and in my chair. I can almost type comfortably here with my coffee at hand, but there is the matter of _the other cat_(the one who never bothers me when I write on the
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March 3, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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UofWinds 405, Week 6 2025: The Evil Housekeeper Problem, "Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA", Monday Night Red Beans & Rice
Good morning. I'm sitting on the sofa trying to type this fortnight's newsletter in spite of an insistent cat who is nudging my hand off the keyboard. It is not the worst intrusion in this moment. My original intention was going to have this issue of
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February 18, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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UofWinds 404, Week 4 2025: It's Not a Marathon, Survive the Tyrant, Bibliomancy For The Living Autobiography In The Third Person
Good morning. I'm stretched out on the sofa under several blankets in the study. The cats have found the warmest corners of the house elsewhere. As I write this, I am pruning my absurd number of playlists in my YouTube Music account. On today's agenda is
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February 7, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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UofWinds 403, Week 2 2025: Inoreader, Watch Duty, In C
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January 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM