# Today I think someone could probably do very well for themselves by curating a regularly updated website that lists and reviews free and subscription-based content. I’d gladly see my stuff included — links to this blog and my Dreamwidth account, plus info for my subscription astrology posts, along with much more of the same kind? You bet. He predicted in “Tools for Conviviality” that, should technology not be restrained and the “balances” proper to nature and society restored, the consequence would be an increasingly “uninhabitable” social and natural environment in which personal initiative would shrink, polarization would grow, “all bridges to a normative past” would be broken, and “the world [would be] transform[ed]… into a treatment ward in which people are constantly taught, socialized, normalized, tested and reformed.” This seems to me a pretty accurate pencil sketch of the present moment, even if the “uninhabitability” is unevenly distributed ## This Week # Personal [ ] List Lenovo x250 on eBay # Bus # Read Jack London's The Road The Low Country: A Naturalist's Field Guide to Coastal Georgia, the Carolinas, and North Florida by Mallory Pearce Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Gardeby Joscelyn Godwin The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg Letters of a Sufi Master Work less play more" by Steven Catlin Double Axe By Robinson Jeffers Travels With Herodotus Ryszard Kapuściński Wallace Stegner, Crossing to Safety Edward O Wilson, On Human Nature Helena Drysdale, Mother Tongues Hugh Kenner, A Homemade World # scratch # log #### 2023-06-13 Tue - Write Framework Laptop review - Finish lux tablet guide - Go to Napa - fuel line - Take olivia bike seat in to see about replacing #### 2023-06-12 Mon - Wrote all-clad deals post - troubleshooting fridge to power supply - sent present ideas to my parents #### 2023-06-07 Thu - go to little girl point photos of spring stuff #### 2023-06-07 Wed - Updated best VPNs :guide: removed nordvpn, added more notes about not using vpns emailed freelancer with US take on VPNs - Updated best fanny packs :guide: pulled two, added two, still at 10 - Read Viking Explorers to kids talked about the farfarer idea lilah drew a boat #### 2023-06-06 Tue - got expense approval for firebox - 11 AM Gear meet fanny pack :guide: subs from Louryn ?? Nena diaper bag x Adrienne mountain bike bag x Julian Moment Bag x - wrote Acer review - got garmin to ship new watch - moved audio files into git annex and uploaded to 2 annex, my server and backblaze #### 2023-06-05 Mon - Added metadata to some git annex photos and played with tagging. - Emailed Firebox stoves to see about getting one - Followed up with Pentax, tracking 1Z01E84V0322803487 - did laundry