Our Butlerian Jihad

...n lure of our “smart” phones. The movies tend to overplay what I think is Herbert’s less interesting and overly reductive view of religion. For a further exploration of the present day implications of a Butlerian Jihad and neo-Luddism the Tech Won’t Save Us podcast had a freewheeling discussion about the recent Dune movies. As I mentioned in an earlier post, there’s an ongoing Butlerian Jihad happening in my woodshop. I’ve been thinking of expandi...

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Back From Nowhere

...switching our hosting service and has restored the ability to subscribe to posts via email. Thank you Roman! While I recover my muse, have a listen to this excellent summary of William Morris’ life via the Jacobin Podcast. The more I become familiar with Morris’ art and politics the more I think he speaks to our time, of the need to recover an optimism about the future and the right we all have to meaningful work....

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LA’s Gangsters

...rticipate in local government and at our unions to make the changes we need to make. Some resources: DSA-LA voter guide Knock LA’s coverage of the leak LA Podcast Emergency Episode Mike Bonin’s moving speech at yesterday’s council meeting...

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Holy Scrap on the Road

...https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=156&v=IM8OPqJnOHE The Holy Scrap Hot Springers, our guests on episode 18 of the podcast are spending seven months touring the US in their pimped out Honda element. In this video Wendy and Mikey show off their 35 square foot “Hondominium” from which they run an eBay based business out in the middle of nowhere/everywhere....

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