december solstice this year, date and time in ISO format: 2019-12-22T04:19Z
in Vancouver: 8:19pm on December 21
wherever you are, the winter solstice is five minutes or so from now, at 04:19Z https://t.co/R4DMclsrYP pic.twitter.com/CB2Miedp80
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 22, 2019
er, make that *December* solstice https://t.co/a5SZR1ip66
— George Atherton (@notrehta) December 22, 2019
Many former contractors say they’ve stopped using virtual assistants and unplugged their listening devices. The audio sexts were awkward and all, but some are more haunted by the idea that people are listening even to the most quotidian of conversations, like a father chatting with his son after school, or a husband and wife talking in the kitchen after work. “In my head, I would say, I shouldn’t be listening to this, ” says a former contractor who spent months working on Siri transcriptions. “This is none of my business.”
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wanting nothing to be or not to be other than it is,
doing no more than need be done to be and let be kind, caring, and joyful,
wanting nothing to be or not to be other than it is
and seeing that nothing depends on nothing and nothing doesn’t change;
that nothing is other than this, that no one is; and that no one need do more
than need be done to be and let be
notes and links
If you're weighing up the best way to spend 25 mins of your time to understand what's really at stake in this week's election, you can't do better than this film https://t.co/iAOuBFkIZU
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) December 10, 2019
this video is going up in a bunch of places but here's mine: my take on the AS controversy and why intentionally fanning the flames, as so many are doing, endangers Jewish people pic.twitter.com/yXgKrRBKvT
— David Graeber (@davidgraeber) December 3, 2019
[source of this tweet]I got Unitarian, followed by Reform Judaism, followed by Paganism, followed by liberal Christianity, which are all groups I've either joined or briefly pursued joining. So, highly reliable quiz I guess https://t.co/rB6pUDui6i via @po_st
— Eleanor Amaranth Lockhart (@BootlegGirl) May 31, 2019
Every year or so around my birthday I like to pause and write an essay outlining where I stand and what I’m doing here as clearly as possible. I do this partly because I think it’s important for crowd-funded media to be fully transparent about where they’re coming from so that people can decide if it’s something they want to support, and partly because the sheer volume of material I publish makes it possible for people to spin false narratives about my worldview in a way that’s difficult for others to fact-check without combing through hundreds of essays.
So here are 11 things my readers might want to know about me, with hyperlinks to my relevant writings on the subject.