Then: EIC of @milkweedbooks and @orionmagazine. Now: Woods, birds, and words.
The Berkshires
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@chipblake retweeted
The Unabomber’s cabin, held in an FBI storage facility on an airforce base in Sacramento.
There is something powerful about this image - the shack of the lone bomber who tried to stop the march of technology.
He died today in prison, aged 81.
@chipblake retweeted
So it took The Athletic, what? 5 years to go through the tech cycle.
1. Claim you are changing the game
2. Invest an unsustainable amount of capital
3. Sell
4. Begin layoffs and change mission to be exactly the same as the orgs you originally claimed weren’t doing things right
@chipblake retweeted
"In the United States, the richest 10% pollute 16 times as much as the poorest 10%." And "Nearly everyone in the United States, even those in the lowest income brackets, produces a lot of climate pollution relative to everyone else in the world."
nytimes.com/2023/02/28/clima…
@chipblake retweeted
I wrote hundreds of thousands of words this year, threw out nearly all of them, and barely published anything. It’s fine! It happens often. These bleak, dry, fallow years are necessary for the good work to begin to take shape in the periphery.
@chipblake retweeted
Mary Oliver poems are so amazing because you’ll be like “I feel bereft and hopeless and so alone” and she’ll be like “ok, but have you ever really thought about moss?” And it turns out you haven’t.
@chipblake retweeted
Twitter is still essentially the same service as before. But everything feels much more trifling, even pointless. The tone set from the top permeates the network. It's hard to have a serious political discussion when the owner is relentlessly taking the piss and always trending.
@chipblake retweeted
Goddamn it, with Trump coming back, I can't stay here. Tomorrow will be dedicated to replanting myself somewhere else. WHAT A FUCKING WASTE.
@chipblake retweeted
NEW: data confirms 18-29-year-olds voted for Democrats more than *any other* age group yesterday. Young people literally prevented a Red Wave & saved Democrats. Full stop.
If you know a young voter, please thank them.
@chipblake retweeted
With Twitter's change in ownership last week, I'm probably in the clear to talk about the most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter.
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@chipblake retweeted
look, I may not agree with the way Matt Gaetz handles his personal life, but he is an elected official and I will defend to the death his right to be dragged from Congress in handcuffs, humiliated, disgraced, tried for his crimes and thrown straight the fuck into prison
@chipblake retweeted
In our new Summer 2021 issue, track deer across a poisoned landscape with @ssteingraber1 in the inaugural essay supported by Orion’s Fund for Women Writers. Any favorite passages in this piece? So many gems...
orionmagazine.org/article/wo…
@chipblake retweeted
Kimberly Guilfoyle’s speech at the #RepublicanConvention seemed to make way more sense with North Korean propaganda music in the background.
So that's what we did. bit.ly/3aUjvUX
@chipblake retweeted
Trump clearing his way with tear gas and soldiers so he can hold up a Bible and ostensibly worship Jesus--that's obscene on so many levels I can't begin to count.
@chipblake retweeted
Over seven days in May, one crisis supplants another. One feature of this horrific year 2020 is how quickly events unfold, changing our sense of normality, crushing our false sense of security, in a matter of hours.
@chipblake retweeted
Minnesota cops detain a black #CNN reporter while his white colleague a block away has his credentials honored. Racism is killing black people like #GeorgeFloyd and freedom of the press for people of color. White supremacists and the people who tolerate them cannot handle truth.
@chipblake retweeted
With the departure of the policy candidate from the race, Democrats are left with two Trump avatars – the addled gerontocrat Joe with his big money loyalties and the overpromising outsider Bernie, with his uncompromising, scorched-earth followers. nytimes.com/2020/03/05/us/po…