www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/1…
This is big. Renewables have created problems for the grid. Agenetic AI can potentially solve those problems through micro monitoring and intervention long before humans can or have to step in. AI enables the energy transition. Good thing because AI itself is increasingly the energy hog of the whole planet!
This is nuts.
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Continuing conversation with SG in the comments.
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger & Mourning on the American Right: A Journey to the Heart of the American Political Divide by Arlie Russell Hochschild sgreenleaf.substack.com
😅 I so relate. I can tell so many stories about my brands and blog names.
Why is it called EchoFeed?
The good reason: Because it takes a feed and “echoes” it to other services. The real reason: It reads RSS feeds, so Feeder. Feeder are a band with an album called Echo Park. Echo is a good name because the album link AND the meaning of the word echo. Naming things is hard, leave me alone.
EchoFeed echofeed.app
Dan has a busy fall lined up. I don’t know how he does it. He’s thinking about what/how to teach history, with the 250th coming up. My comment:
It’s so interesting to think about why and how to learn history. There’s so much of it, and so many angles to take. My attention and focus change dramatically over time based on what I’m doing and studying otherwise. I too am feeling the ramp up to the 250th. I remember 1976. The 4th felt different this year. With the ebb of globalism and retreat back into nationalism history is going to foster some new takes on American identity. That’s my prediction. Better history than race, gender, class! At least we have a chance to assess the past and decide what to identify with or not, claim for the present and future or not. Will we make good assessments? Good judgements (as Arendt would say)? I don’t know.
Tracy Gustilo on MakingHistory danallosso.substack.com
I wrote a long comment on SG’s recent review of Strangers in Their Own Land. Still pondering, but I want to call for some serious self reflection.
Thanks for the good review. It does sometimes feel like a foreign country to visit parts of the US. Anthropological/sociological studies like this across political (or religious) divides are always eye openers and attract a certain fascination. I do think it’s relevant to consider the “symbolic capitalism” angle of Musa al-Gharbi. (I’m not as fond of Henderson’s “luxury beliefs”.) I appreciate attempts to understand and even to make friends. But studies like this (I haven’t read this particular book) often feel to me like they judge and subtly look down not just on how people live (and struggle) but on an apparent inability of the “foreign” others to understand them — while they feel they can (magnanimously, laudably) reach across any cultural gap. I dare say there is more gap crossing both ways than meets the eye. I dunno. I grew up not in the Deep South but in a decidedly blue collar and less educated rural Michigan during mass unemployment with the collapse of the auto industry. I actually think a lot of Americans are first generation “elites” who manage to get advanced education and are lucky enough to attain financial security to create generational cultural shift for their families. But it doesn’t mean they forget where they came from (the good and the bad). Hillbilly Elegy comes to mind. And yet there are also generationally maintained life ways that don’t change, or even degrade over time. Longitudinal studies might be just as or more interesting than geographical comparisons. Also, maybe you couldn’t have academic “studies” going the other way, but I bet there’s some real wisdom to be had from reversing the perspective. It was for comedic effect, of course, and would be too politically incorrect today, but old TV shows like the Beverly Hillbillies managed to put the shoe on the other foot. Absurdities abound on all sides.
Tracy Gustilo on Taking Readings sgreenleaf.substack.com
Fiesta – Icon Books iconbooks.com
I want to read this when it comes out.
plum - winter orchid - spring bamboo - summer chrysanthemum - autumn
The virtues of the gentleman (Chinese junzi 君子) associated with each flower/season vary, but roughly: plum is for perseverance and hope, orchid is for elegance and nobility, bamboo is for strength and integrity, chrysanthemum is for calm and wisdom.
Starting the ponderlog today. Books, articles, quotes, photos, updates.