Updates

Bundling Indigo automation state into a JSON variable, political wordplay about gender, and an imagined Star Trek civilization with six genders.

Reasons for cancelling a Cursor subscription and separating daily journal updates from the blog’s longer posts.

Technology fatigue, concerns about the ethics of technology purchases, and blog changes to fonts, syntax highlighting, embedded code, and external dependencies.

Reflections on James C. Scott’s critique of inequality and political power, the importance of art, and Trump’s renaming of bodies of water.

Quotations from James C. Scott and Mikhail Bakunin on inequality, freedom, democracy, and socialism.

Zygmunt Bauman on the anxiety of modern life, reflections on the paradox of choice, and a photograph of coastal Newfoundland.

A satirical proposal to restrict Ted Cruz’s public commentary after national tragedies, alongside criticism of his party’s politics.

Interesting links, a little thoughts for Monday, May 23, 2022.

A brief reflection on Anthony De Mello and his description of enlightenment as cooperation with the inevitable.