Reads

Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
Read The Benefits of Being Joe Biden’s Brother by Daniel Golden, Chuck Neubauer, Matthew Malone (Mother Jones)
Jim Biden repeatedly tapped into Joe’s political network for help with his finances and to promote his business ventures.
This is solid and needed reporting. The sad fact is that the opposition party doesn’t care about these and is willing to let even worse transgressions go on their side of the aisle, which has gotten us into a much worse situation. I’d much rather see more in-depth reporting on this sort of tangential malfeasance on the current administration (of which I’m sure there is far more than we’ve previously seen).

At this point, I’m not sure that Biden has much of a chance in the Democratic race, but why hadn’t this sort of story come out long before now?

Read Frederick Koch, Who Spurned Family Business, Dies at 86 by Katharine Q. Seelye (nytimes.com)
The oldest of four boys, he had little interest in his brothers’ conglomerate or politics. Instead, he collected art and restored manor houses.
I was coincidentally reading a bit about the Kochs last night in American Amnesia. They indicated that Koch’s father was a co-founder of the John Birch society and naturally the boys were all steeped in their philosophy.
Read Paradox of Technology by Greg McVerryGreg McVerry (quickthoughts.jgregorymcverry.com)
Podcasting or bronze casting crafting  of your story should be rough draft of your glory Yet the paradox of technology lead to padlocks on the soapbox once artisic holitstic now undescriptive and stripped of synergistic differences search of prescriptive low friction design instead of the grind//...
Quite a nice little poem here. Almost rap-like with a soupcon of social media silo…
Read - Reading: American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson (Simon & Schuster)

Hacker and Pierson trace the economic and political history of the United States over the last century and show how a viable mixed economy has long been the dominant engine of America’s prosperity. We have largely forgotten this reliance, as many political circles and corporate actors have come to mistakenly see government as a hindrance rather than the propeller it once was. “American Amnesia” is more than a rhetorical phrase; elites have literally forgotten, or at least forgotten to talk about, the essential role of public authority in achieving big positive-sum bargains in advanced societies.

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Discussion of the schism of the right tracking further to the right in the 90’s and onward leading toward more extreme views as trust in government crashes.

Read The ABC of City Planning (chpcny.org)
In 1937, Mayor La Guardia’s Committee on City Planning produced a small book for children, titled The ABC of City Planning, intended to instill understanding and enthusiasm in children for the city’s built environment. CHPC has preserved a copy of this adorable text, which for modern audiences is more than just an amusing diversion: it offers a unique insight into a New York City of a different era.
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Read My IndieWeb Challenge! by Jacky Alciné (Jacky Alciné)
I'm going to be participating in the IndieWeb challenge in December this year. Most of my work is going to focus around building up services that I'd like to use for the IndieWeb and can help use to encourage use of it. This means I'll be doubling down on building Lwa and Fortress to bring a polishe...
This popped up in my feed reader and for a second I thought Jacky was already planning for the end of 2020. It’s probably not a bad idea though…
Read Twitter Archiving Google Spreadsheet TAGS v5 by Martin Hawksey (MASHe)
For a couple of years I’ve been sharing a Google Sheet template for archiving searches from Twitter. In September 2012 Twitter announced the release of a new version of their API (the spreads…
This looks like a cool little tool for archiving content from Twitter. There’s apparently a newer version out too.
Read Ethical Edtech (Digital Pedagogy Lab)
Much of what passes as educational technology are corporate products designed for purposes of profit-seeking, surveillance, data collection, and user lock-in. Other kinds of technology exist, but they typically lack the marketing and sales budgets of competing vendors. Ethical EdTech is an online community that shares tools and techniques to facilitate pedagogy that puts participants... Read More