The End of College Life? · kottke.org I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the effect that Trump’s authoritarian regime is having on American colleges and universities.

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2023年3月14日 · Kottke.org was the first membership program I supported back in the day and today I'm happily wearing my fine hypertext shirt. Thank you for all the posts, all the links and all the insights. Here's to the next 25!

2024年12月4日 · The 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide. Since 2013, I’ve done a holiday gift guide that’s basically a curated roundup of stuff from the best gift guides I can find. I always do it a little bit differently from year to year, and this year I’m going with a simple list. It’s gonna be dense…let’s go! 1. Charitable giving.

posted Mar 20 @ 12:51 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link · via @waxy.org Ha, Improved Relative Time lets you ditch BC and AD for designations like ABW (After Barbed Wire), BHCS (Before High Carbon Steel), AIP (After iPhone), and ASCR (After Supersonic Combusting Ramjet).

posted Feb 7 @ 06:30 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link Extinction Burst Explains MAGA Voters’ Racist Anger This fantastic two-minute video , from a guy named Rich, neatly explains why the anger and frustration of Trump’s supporters has been growing over time — why the pushback on things like diversity, equity, inclusion, trans rights, and ...

2025年2月5日 · Kottke is one of the reasons I’m inspired and educated enough to do what I can to prevent a similar slip into authoritarianism up here. Elections are coming soon, Canada, let’s take this sh*t seriously!

posted Jun 24 @ 05:44 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link A Genealogy of Technology and Power Since 1500 This is kind of amazing: Calculating Empires is a project by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler attempting to map how technology and human …

posted Mar 10 @ 02:22 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link “ Covid was a privatized pandemic . It is this technocratic, privatized model that is its lasting legacy and that will define our approach to the next pandemic,” says Siddhartha Mukherjee.

posted Feb 10 @ 03:00 PM by Jason Kottke · gift link How People & Institutions in Budding Autocracies Obey in Advance In a piece called The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump , Russian exile M. Gessen outlines the five different types of arguments used by people & institutions when they engage in “anticipatory obedience” (aka ...