"... the thread is lost; the labyrinth has been lost too. Now we don't even know if we are surrounded by a labyrinth, a secret cosmos, or a random chaos. Our beautiful duty is to imagine that there is a labyrinth and a thread. "
~ J. L. Borges,
“Cnossos” (1984) /ht @zarandillo

Today's Twitter gem: YOON - @nicoscosc:

"A human being lives out not only his personal life as an individual, but also, consciously or subconsciously, the lives of his epoch and contemporaries."

― Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (tr. John E. Woods)

Morning clouds. Austin, Texas, USA

A reflective and refreshing thread on issues with CS (and STEM) education: https://twitter.com/gillianmsmith/status/1268382214074634243

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌 - @RachelBitecofer: @ewarren is a capitalist too. She’s just not into the dumb version the GOP ascribes to- which is an ideological version, not an economic model.

All the social democracies are capitalist- they are not socialist.

The main thing wrong w/ capitalism is it’s treated like a religion.

Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu): Thread: "A Media Ecologist Explains the Many Crises in Journalism."
Notes and slides from my lecture to the Media Ecology Association, June 18, 2020. https://www.media-ecology.org/convention
Link: https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1273827099682451456

We should never forget the lesson of the French Revolution: rentiers need the state more than the state needs rentiers. - Ann Pettifor
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/vultures-are-circling-our-fragile-economies-we-must-not-let-them-feast/

Yesterday's Twitter chuckle: https://twitter.com/KeeblerOrganElf/status/1271548327750967302

This is very much worth a listen: https://caterinabarbieri.bandcamp.com/track/clessidra

Today's Twitter gem: Jenny Nicholson - @JennyENicholson: We're gonna have to retire the expression "avoid it like the plague" because it turns out humans do not do that

The militarized police presence and actions are in support of a government "by a few people, for a few people, over the rest of the people" -- not a democracy.

The bad &amp - faulty electronic gear or just HTML acting out? 🤔

Paul Krugman with the hard truth about the GOP: "The point is that today’s Republican Party wouldn’t object to a Trumpian power grab, even if it amounted to a military coup. On the contrary, the party would cheer it on."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/opinion/trump-nixon.html

Today what is on my mind is gloomy. "Whether by design or lack of it, Donald Trump and the Republican Party operate an American state that they have increasingly organized on fascist principles." https://newrepublic.com/article/157949/fascism-america-trump-anti-police-george-floyd-protests

@JRubinBlogger keeping it 💯
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/02/it-takes-village-create-monster/

This is a long and sobering read about the current political situation in our dear USA. I found it informative and generative. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250