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Many americans believe that vaccines are unsafe, but will jab themselves full of performance enhancers. They think seed oils cause chronic disease, but beef tallow is healthy. They’ll say you can’t trust federally insured banks, but you can trust the millionaires who want you to invest in their volatile vaporware crypto tokens. They think food additives are toxic but support an administration removing all restrictions on pumping pollutants into the air and water. They’ll insist that you can’t trust scientists, because they’re part of the conspiracy. The podcaster selling you his special creatine gummies, though? He seems trustworthy.

Link: The Cynical, Gullible American Man – The Atlantic

via: kottke.org

Just doing my research…

The sun started to set, and we still had 5 miles to go. A couple of us rallied ahead to the hut to start cooking dinner for the rest of the team. We finished Day 1 with headlamps, hungry, and wet with giant smiles. Our teamwork and positivity confirmed that I was on the trip of a lifetime with incredibly strong and resilient women. My cheeks hurt from smiling already.

From 215 Miles of Dirt, Grit, and Connection

I’ll just admit it, I’m a sucker for these marketing long form articles and videos.

They are the community gardeners, the backcountry hunters, the anarchist beekeepers, the rewilding advocates — plus, of course, the direct-action protesters putting their bodies in front of bulldozers. They are the still-proud greens who, in recent years, have crafted historic alliances between eco-romantics and Native peoples to halt oil pipelines, oppose industrial agriculture, and establish preserves that protect living landscapes from the Machine’s hunger. Not everyone has surrendered yet.

Link: Can a Left, Right, and Faith Group Coalition Save the Earth?

An interesting essay, and a new-to-me site to explore

Today I will be neighboring — going out to protect the good people next door or down the block. Not because I favor illegal immigration, but because I oppose the fundamental indecency of President Trump and Stephen Miller

Source: Opinion | How Minnesota Beat Trump – The New York Times

There are a lot of great stories here. Long article but worth it. Proud of all of my neighbors, known and unknown who stood up against this.

In the age of algorithmically driven feeds, when non-influencers post, perhaps their imagined audiences seem smaller than they used to. “If there’s no guarantee that our friends will even see what we post,” Chayka wrote, “then what is the incentive to keep doing it?”

Source: The Great Friendship Flattening – The Atlantic

This is a great article. I’m probably one of those non-influencers with an imagined audience at this point 😉

…Hegseth’s Pentagon briefings since the war against Iran began. We haven’t learned anything we didn’t already know about Hegseth in these briefings. But the press conferences have reminded the world why he is exactly the wrong person to hold the position he does.

Source: Pete Hegseth’s Moral Unseriousness – The Atlantic

Social media is distracting, and if you’re distracted, it becomes harder to maintain control over your schedule. So, the more you use social media, the worse you become at time management.

But I’ve become interested in the reverse form of this argument: the better your planning system, the less time you’ll spend on engagement-based applications like social media.

Source: What Do Social Media Companies Fear? Time Management. – Cal Newport

Great little post – link to the full study there.