botwerks

movies dumb money (2023) - watched this on the plane. if you remember this time, it was bonkers and kind of beautiful at the same time. (4/5) the gentlemen (2019) - watched this in the plane, guy ritchie definitely has a style. fun, solid cast, a couple of novel twists. (3.5/5) please don’t destroy: the treasure of foggy mountain (2023) - watched this on peacock. i fell asleep through a chunk of it....

goal 30 books this year. let’s get crackin' books liberty’s daughter (naomi kritzer) notes green earth (kim stanley robinson) notes The Future of the Responsible Company: What We’ve Learned from Patagonia’s First 50 Years (Yvon Chouinard, Vincent Stanley) notes the death and life of the great lakes (dan egan) notes a hacker’s mind (bruce schneier) notes shop class as soulcraft (matthew b. crawford) notes the lost cause (cory doctorow) notes...

the message – (ta-nehisi coates) there’s been no shortage of press on this book. i’ll confess i’ve ingested a fair amount of what’s surrounded it. given the press around the book you’d be forgiven for glossing over the trip to dakar and to a school board meeting. i’m not sure that i parse the dakar bits, i’m probably not cerebral enough to grok what’s going on here. the school board stuff i thoroughly got, but that’s not why i bought the book....

links, etc The Truth About Hurricane Geoengineering - The Atlantic it’s absolutely bonkers to me that this is something that requires discussion.

for posterity … dear future generations, google search used to be so good that you could find primary or secondary source information quickly and reliably with a modicum of effort. failure to exert this teensy bit of effort to poke at something that needed an answer which could reasonably be expected to be found online would be met with snark and some level of disposable derision. “let me google that for you” (online, LMGTFY) was often the snark of choice....