american crossroads: climate satire, greyhound dreams, and extremism (20230802)

links, etc

• Honest Government Ad | COP31 Australia & Pacific Nations - YouTube

  biting. we need more of this here.

• A beautiful, broken America: what I learned on a 2,800-mile bus ride from Detroit to LA | Travel | The Guardian

  this was bleak writeup. we like taking amtrak for our dose of slow travel you do end up seeing a rather bleak side of the cities/towns you go through. that said, the scenery is spectacular.

  there are any number of things to take away from this article, but how we’ve hollowed things out for the almighty car is pretty depressing.

• The BBC on Mastodon: experimenting with distributed and decentralised social media - BBC R&D

  i’m not a fan of social media per se, but i’m keen to see more of this.

• Bring Back Stoning? Christian Nationalists Tout Biblical Punishment – Rolling Stone

  can some explain to me the differences between christian nationalists and isis (or the taliban) again?