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Living in the jackpot

Posts about living in a time when everything is changing far faster than we can keep up.

Every time we drive, or fly, or burn fossil fuel...

From Skimm’s [https://www.theskimm.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paidmedia&utm_campaign=Brand_Tier%201_Exact&gclid=Cj0KCQjw6ZOIBhDdARIsAMf8YyG7a6l84uitdgDCh7ZdwdWmFu21ikcgAW_iLyKYUEdNfMW6E7Gq-3caAp50EALw_wcB] daily newsletter. > Who should pump the brakes.. Americans. Yesterday, a new analysis found that the lifetime emissions of about three average Americans create

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◎ Drafts №4 | Living in the Jackpot

In the old version of my weekly newsletter [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/tag/newsletters/], I would often include a section called Living in the Jackpot. The Jackpot was a term that the Sci-Fi writer William Gibson [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Gibson] came up with in his book The

Living in the Jackpot

The Skimm daily news digest [https://www.theskimm.com/daily-skimm] has had some serious Jackpot vibes going on as of late. Here is one of the more sinister Jackpot-ish things from today [https://www.theskimm.com/news/2021-07-19-5GxuqjrsFJkCAncqnr41ke]: > What's giving us 'Big Brother' vibes… >

The Jouissance of Tangping

Following up on something I posted yesterday [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/how-does-the-ccp-respond-to-the-jouissance-of-slacking/] , the NYTimes reports [https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/R86iHrhAaDqOHJibPqx7mQ~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRixBNyP0TeaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAyMS8wNy8wMy93b3JsZC9hc2lhL2NoaW5hLXNsYWNrZXJzLXRhbmdwaW5nLmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9OSZlbWM9ZWRpdF9ubl8yMDIxMDcwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0zNDU2NyZubD10aGUtbW9ybmluZyZyZWdpX2lkPTU2ODkxOTk0JnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NjI1ODkmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPTMxYj

How does the CCP respond to the jouissance of slacking?

From the Axios AM/PM newsletter [https://www.axios.com/signup/am-pm] today: > Rejecting China's work culture, some young people are embracing a loafing movement that includes traveling and living off savings — "lying flat" (tangping in Mandarin) This, in and of itself is not that

Its getting hot

For the Living in the Jackpot section of an upcoming newsletter. From the NYtimes The Morning email newsletter [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/24/briefing/climate-change-drought-us-heat-wave.html] > In Arizona and Nevada, it’s been so hot that doctors warned people they could get third-degree burns from the asphalt.

More Great Blog Posts from This Weekend 5/8/21

From Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/southbound/]: > Somewhere between Knoxville and Chattanooga, we ate bún xào in a parking lot. Then we hacked our way through Atlanta traffic, its tailgaters and stunt drivers declaring their political opinions on their bumpers. On a sleepy Sunday street in Macon, I ate

Majority Rule?

I read this post [https://modelcitizen.substack.com/p/the-anti-majoritarian-mistake] from Will Wilkinson [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Wilkinson]’s Model Citizen [https://modelcitizen.substack.com/] this morning. It’s a long read, too long I think, but it did make some interesting points about the fight between