Dear Everybody: The big news today is not Trump’s Trumpapalooza, though Trump did his best to make it that by offering to bribe people to vote (about which more later), but then reality intruded in the form of that … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/10/iran-takes-a-very-bad-turn-and-trump-resorts-to-buying-votes/
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Part of an occasional series: ideas from outside the usual solarpunk reading list. In 1971, a 28-year-old Chilean engineer wrote a letter to a British management theorist, asking for help applying cybernetics to run an entire national economy. What followed was one of the strangest and most instructive experiments in the politics of technology: a […]
Dear Everybody: Yesterday I thought Trump had hit bottom with his totally made-up story about being at Ground Zero after 9-11, bravely digging through the rubble to rescue people and having to be carried out against his will by two … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/09/what-fresh-hell-is-this-9-11-edition/
Dear Everybody: The big news today is that 9/11 is coming and Trump is now trotting out all his old lies about his actions on 9/11, as well as some new ones. –Trump: “Nobody saw the plane hit.” –Trump … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/08/trump-on-9-11-i-was-down-there-with-the-first-responders-no-he-wasnt/
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Trump Goes Insane–Again
Dear Everybody: The big news today is that Trump once again went on a posting spree, and this one was the most deranged and frightening yet: –During a two-hour time span on Sunday, Trump posted more than 60 times. Since … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/07/trump-goes-insane-again/
First in an occasional series: ideas from outside the usual solarpunk reading list. In 1973, the philosopher and social critic Ivan Illich published a short, strange, still-uncomfortable book called Tools for Conviviality. It isn’t about technology in the narrow sense — it’s about any tool, from a hammer to a hospital to a school system, […]
Dear Everybody: The big news today is that the Iran War is once again escalating, and I’ll get to that, but I HAVE to start with this: –Trump has suddenly become a brunette. –An AP photographer spotted him coming off … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/06/dear-leader-is-now-a-brunette/
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“Small Potatoes”
Dear Everybody: The big news today is how Trump’s Trumpapalooza is not turning out quite the way he wanted: –Over 70 Republicans have announced they’re not attending. –Melania won’t be there. –Neither will John Cornyn, Tom Barrett, Zach Nunn, Nick … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/05/small-potatoes/
Dear Everybody: The big news today is that one of Fox’s biggest hosts, Maria Bartiromo, is out at Fox News: –She had two shows, one on Fox Business called “Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street” and one on Fox called “Sunday Morning … Continue reading https://azsf.net/cwdaily/2026/09/04/fox-fires-maria-reflecting-pool-repairs-and-sydney-sweeneys-boobs/
Part of an occasional series: ideas from outside the usual solarpunk reading list. Here’s a question that used to sound like science fiction and increasingly doesn’t: an insect, a factory-farmed animal, and an AI system might all, for different reasons, be beings whose inner experience — if they have any — we genuinely can’t verify. […]