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Parallel Universes

Paris Commune, 1871: citizens wait for shooting to stop.

I live in San Francisco’s Mission District, going back to 1987. It’s a neighborhood undergoing intense gentrification, even with the current economic and housing crises. Sometimes I think with all the cafes and bars and trendy new galleries and boutiques that we’re sliding towards […]

Commons and its Enemies

IBM’s latest slogan is “We can make a smarter world” or something idiotic like that”¦ here, again, in a dumb marketing campaign we immediately confront the basic problem. The world is an incredible intelligence already. We humans really don’t understand it well at all”¦ It might make sense for a corporation like IBM […]

England is blooming

Since my last entry I’ve been rolling along: a nice visit to the Center for Contemporary Art and the Natural World in Exeter with Clive Adams on top of a ridgetop in southern England, after which he graciously drove me down to Totnes, the titular capital of the Transition Town movement. I didn’t do a […]