"A third option is necessary: a way to rent without making someone else rich" Read Shane Philips article.
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Most of us entered the Internet Age with high hopes and expectations of what it could bring to us. Now, we find an online world dominated by corporations in pursuit of increased revenues, profit, and higher valuations. A world, where we, the users of the services are the product, where disinformation reigns, radicalization is rampant, rage is out in the open and where every day our privacy slips away. Read the Atlantic article "How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire"
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Frank Ocean - American singer, songwriter, record producer, photographer, and visual artist. He is considered to be among the most acclaimed artists of his generation and is recognized for his unique musical style and wide vocal range.
André Paul Guillaume Gide (1869 - 1951) French author known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works. He was the winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Is scuba diving safe? This is a question scuba divers are often asked. Most would answer that, ‘yes, it is – as long as you follow the scuba diving rules. However, rules can be broken, forgotten, or overlooked, and of course, accidents do happen. So, what should scuba divers do to ensure their own safety? ... continue reading
Toni Morrison (1931 - 2019) - American writer and poet, born in Lorain, Ohio, She received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.
Ulysses S. Grant - (1822 – 1885) A war hero but a reluctant politician. Served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. Before his presidency, Grant led the Union Army in winning the American Civil War. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who worked during Reconstruction to protect recently freed African Americans and reestablish the public credit. He was focused on rebuilding the U.S. Navy, which at the time lagged behind other world-power navies.
”Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
• 02/01/21 at 04:15AM •Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (1809 -1892) - British poet who become the most popular poet of the Victorian era and remains one of the most popular British poets.
“Things have roots and branches… If the root be in confusion, nothing will be well governed.”.... Read the full article on Brain Pickings
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“Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.”
• 01/25/21 at 04:00AM •Euripides (480 - 406 BC) Born in the Salamis Island, Greece. He was one of the great Athenian playwrights and poets. Of his 90 plays,18 have survived the centuries since he wrote them.
Martin Luther King Jr. - (1929 - 1968) American Christian minister, activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.
"In the Blue Hour, French illustrator and author Isabelle Simler offers a stunning joint celebration of these uncommon blue creatures and the common blue world they inhabit, the Pale Blue Dot we share." ........ Read the full article on Brain Pickings
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