📖 What I’m Reading:

​Robbins v. Lower Merion School District – Wikipedia​

• Why webcams have tape on them now.

​The Rise of Neotoddlerism – Gurwinder​

• Many broad brushes but much good analysis. Juvenile protests abound across the world on both political extremes, and they represent a growing issue—”the grim irony is that, by believing the world is worse than it actually is, neotoddlers make the world worse.”

​China Is Done With Global Carmakers: “Thanks For Coming” – Michael Dunne​

• China has historically imported tons of cars, including American cars. It was a status symbol for the Chinese and a boon for automakers. Now China produces most vehicles in-house. And they are approaching 50% electric.

☝️ Word of the Week:

tendentious (adj) tin-DIN-shuhs

Having or showing a definite tendency, bias, or purpose.

From Latin tendere (to extend outward, stretch, spread out, direct, aim).

“At their worst, the postwar social problem films were tendentious, preachy, and puffed up with their own virtuous motives.”

💬 Quote of the Week:

“There is perhaps no more reliable indicator of a society’s ripeness for a mass movement than the prevalence of unrelieved boredom. In almost all the descriptions of the periods preceding the rise of mass movements there is reference to vast ennui; and in their earliest stages mass movements are more likely to find sympathizers and support among the bored than among the exploited and oppressed.”

-Eric Hoffer

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ps: Disney is evil, Exh. 16676935420 (X)

pps: TikTok is evil, Exh. 1823433913068610027 (X)

ppps: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard is a wild band. Last year they made a metal concept album about an environmental apocalypse. It was called “PetroDragonic Apocalypse; or, Dawn of Eternal Night: An Annihilation of Planet Earth and the Beginning of Merciless Damnation.” Which is awesome, of course. This year they made a groovy, feel-good album that sounds like Steve Miller Band or the Doobie Brothers or something. Here’s a good track. (YouTube) (Spotify)