It’s amazing the extent to which our billionaire tech bro overlords are just telling us out loud that they are rooting for fascism. Makes me slightly nostalgic for the days when American plutocrats plotted against democracy in secret.
Thrown off schedule by the holiday weekend, but back to this:
The challenge is to choose 20 books that greatly influenced you. One book per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews. Just covers. 4/20
#booksky
Perspective by Stephen P. Leatherman: Digging holes in sand might seem innocent, but experts recommend never digging a hole deeper than the knee height of the shortest person in your group — with two feet being the maximum depth.
Nice to see this recognition for my colleague Patrick O'Malley's book, The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century (UVA 2024) www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5964/
