Chump Change

“When David Graeber and David Wengrow did their research for The Dawn of Everything, they came to the conclusion that across most of human history freedom has meant three practical things: the freedom to move away, the freedom to refuse orders, and the freedom to remake the arrangements one lives under.”

“Expertise is often confused with elitism, as though years spent learning languages, history, textual criticism, philosophy, and the history of interpretation were a suspicious attempt to keep ordinary people from the Bible. Scholars can indeed become arrogant. Credentials can be used to avoid argument. An expert can be spectacularly wrong. But none of that makes sustained study irrelevant. Ten thousand hours spent wrestling with texts does not confer infallibility; it does create capacities that ten casual minutes do not.”

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚