Wellington Harbour, Aotearoa New Zealand
8:45AM UTC/GMT+13 - Wednesday 14 October 2020
Hikitia floating crane (constructed 1926)
#adayinthelife
Aotearoa New Zealand takes voting seriously. These are the voting locations in Wellington City, population 213,000. Voting is open for 2 weeks, plus postal voting.
The reading room takes shape… #renovations #kitchen #update #upgrade #warehouseapartment #openplan #design #evastreet #hannahslaneway #wellingtonnz
The brownshirts are preparing...
The latest Atlantic story about extreme militia groups preparing to contest the US election is deeply, deeply troubling:
wars donāt always start with a clear, decisive eventāan attack, a coup, an invasionāand that you might not realize youāre in one until itās under way. Civil conflict is gradual.
Has the US conflict already begun? What can be done to halt it?
Read more: Right-Wing Militias Are Bracing for Civil War - The Atlantic
Thereās something wonderful about Shepherd Restaurant
The Book of Koli
This looks like an interesting book š! Looks like another one I’ll need to track down and read…
Narrator Koliās inquisitive mind and kind heart make him the perfect guide to Careyās immersive, impeccably rendered world, and his speech and way of life are different enough to imagine the weight of what was lost but still achingly familiar, and as always, Carey leavens his often bleak scenarios with empathy and hope.
Work - a history of how we spend out time
James Suzman’s new book š “Work - a history of how we spend out time” is a fascinating and thought-provoking review of the long run history of work and the impact of agriculture and industrialisation. It highlights the opportunity, in a world of increasing automation, to transform how we organise our lives and economies to support ourselves and each other. As John Maynard Keynes thought:
by 2030, capital accumulation, improvements in productivity and technological advances would have solved the āeconomic problemā and ushered in an age in which no one besides a few āpurposive moneymakersā worked more than 15 hours in a week
We now have a chance to turn that prediction into reality.
Read more: The 300,000-year case for the 15-hour week ā Finanz.dk