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Interesting Things on the Internet: August 9th 2021 Edition

• A Careful Industries update. Good to hear what Rachel is up to. "I wasn’t sure exactly what we would do, but I knew I wanted it to be careful, productive, and collective. And I knew I wanted to do it slowly." That chimes with the MCQN Ltd approach.
• A virtuous cycle for analytics. Jon Udell explaining how he's been building tools to help his colleagues. It has many echoes of the DoES Liverpool Ethos that I wrote about a few years back. I'm including it here especially to highlight the term he uses: toolsmith. That's it, more of us need access to toolsmiths.
• Racists must be prosecuted, not moderated.
• Who holds the welding rod? James Meek on wind power, green jobs and global capitalism "Still harder to swallow, in retrospect, are the boosterish, infantilising comments made by politicians, who talked about the Campbeltown factory being an example of Scotland leading the world in green energy technology." A good, long read on the complications and contradictions of globalisation and green jobs.
• Corporations aren’t going to save America. Or the rest of us. "“Of course we want businesses to be responsible,” said Suzanne Kahn, managing director of research and policy at the Roosevelt Institute. But she emphasized that this does not constitute a plan for how to organize society."
• Public Health Policy and Options Erasure. Sensible words about how we should be approaching the polarity and division in handling the pandemic (and the rest of life)