Mark Springer

Writer. Explorer. Erstwhile coder. Full-time storyteller. Life is a metaphor.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

@mrbruff Don’t let it bug you. The classical antiquity strain is milder than the Kafkaesque variant.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

@mrbruff @astrahousebooks Glorious news!

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

1/Concepts/frameworks that offer negative utility for understanding what's going on right now: capitalism, socialism, communism. 18th-19th century ideological frameworks were fashioned from limited observations and limiting philosophical influences.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

Perspective is everything.

[Wicked Witch of the Westside @_afrodiziak]

the opposite of scarcity isn’t wealth. wealth is in fact a function of scarcity, compelling us to hoard what we can get our hands on bc there will never be enough.

the opposite of scarcity is abundance. do not confuse or interchange wealth with abundance.

abundance liberates.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

Brevity is the soul of @nameshiv : a (brief) thread. 👇🏻

[Jacob Perry @RealJacobPerry]

I can't believe we are just letting March act normally after what it did to us last year.

[Molly Wood @mollywood]

Occam's Razor is seriously losing the information wars. Imagine having to work this hard to maintain your worldview.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

Thinking a lot about the human capacity for willful self-destruction lately, for obvious reasons.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

When you constantly elect people who proudly say government doesn’t work and they intend to prove it, you end up with incompetence as a feature and not a bug. Competency matters over ideology or at least it should. We are an intentionally failing society and government.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

Important thread.

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

1. Ok, so most people have a vague sense of frustration that the last Dem administration didn't do enough on the economy. But it's still just a vague sense. So my org wrote a report showing in detail, industry sector-by-sector, what policymakers did wrong. https://t.co/I1fUawW87f

[Anthony Oliveira @meakoopa]

the pandemic decluttered my emotions now there is only Anxious and Tired all else was vanity

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

The surface of Mars as seen by Curiosity Rover with the sound of the Martian winds captured by InSight lander. Credit: NASA​/​JPL-Caltech​/​MSSS

[Terry Pratchett @terryandrob]

You can’t start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it. – Terry Pratchett, A Blink of the Screen

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

Lessons from @marthawells1 and Murderbot:

(1) Things can always get worse.

(2) An infinite number of worse things that can happen in any given moment.

(3) Lessons 1 and 2 are not reasons to give up.

[Murderbot wandering.shop/@murderbotbot @MurderBotBot]

When I said everything kept happening at once, it had mostly been an exaggeration, but now everything was actually happening at once.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

What’s infuriating is that the powerful are going to use this fascist movement they created to push security measures that will inevitably infringe on civil liberties and be used to destroy reform movements instead of addressing the conditions which led to this crisis.

[Mark Springer @othermspringer]

Required reading.

[Jared Yates Sexton @JYSexton]

The wealthy and powerful spent decades creating a hateful, paranoid environment where conspiracy theories enabled the dismantling of government as a public good, culminating in Trump and an outright fascist movement.

Now it’s time to pretend they’re horrified by their creation.