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Fly, (and help us) be free!!!
Today I mailed my letters for Vote Forward!! Mine were 110 out of more than 16 million letters sent, encouraging folks to participate in the election and vote, vote, vote -- check out all the photos :)
Today I mailed my letters for Vote Forward!! Mine were 110 out of more than 16 million letters sent, encouraging folks to participate in the election and vote, vote, vote -- check out all the photos :)
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National Handwriting Day
It's National Handwriting Day! Writing by hand exercises your fine motor skills (it's about more than just the thumb, people!), improves dexterity (swiping can only do so much!), helps you retain information, and can have a powerfully positive emotional impact on the folks you write to. So write that letter to a friend, scribble a note and slip it under someone's door, leave a message on somebody's windshield, send a card to a family member, whatever -- as long as you do it by hand :)
If you can't think of anyone to write to, Egg Press has a list of those in need who could use a friendly word. Write on!!!
If you can't think of anyone to write to, Egg Press has a list of those in need who could use a friendly word. Write on!!!
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neveragain.tech
A group of technical folk from Silicon Valley have initiated a pledge called 'Never again', by which they state their refusal to create or contribute to databases that would be used to oppress and exclude.
This makes me happy.
The full text is posted online, but here is an excerpt:
This makes me happy.
The full text is posted online, but here is an excerpt:
We, the undersigned, are employees of tech organizations and companies based in the United States. We are engineers, designers, business executives, and others whose jobs include managing or processing data about people. We are choosing to stand in solidarity with Muslim Americans, immigrants, and all people whose lives and livelihoods are threatened by the incoming administration’s proposed data collection policies. We refuse to build a database of people based on their Constitutionally-protected religious beliefs. We refuse to facilitate mass deportations of people the government believes to be undesirable...
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Because my art is mine, and not subject to your control
Apparently the 60th anniversary edition of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which I don't own but clearly need to possess, includes a new coda by the author. It is a masterpiece of literate laceration, in which he excoriates the obsession with political correctness which, taken to its extreme, leads to everything sounding just like everything else.
Read the full text here, and tell me what you think.
For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conservationist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule. If Mormons like not my plays, let them write their own. If the Irish hate my Dublin stories, let them rent typewriters. If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture. If the Chicano intellectuals wish to re-cut my "Wonderful Ice Cream Suit" so it shapes "Zoot," may the belt unravel and the pants fall...
Read the full text here, and tell me what you think.
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