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Americans increasingly in favor of an authoritarian crackdown, according to new poll. An alarming number of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum say they favor abandoning democracy in favor of authoritarianism, violence, and secession, according to a poll of 2,008 Americans conducted this summer by Project Home Fire. (more)

Teri Kanefield: Things To Do. So, how do we strengthen democracy? The cure for what ails us is more democracy, or what Obama calls “citizenship” (more)

Robert Reich: Mainstream media (MSM) is playing into Donald Trump’s neo-fascist hands. I’m sticking with democracy and the Guardian. The reason I write a column for the Guardian is the same reason I read it daily: I trust it. (more)

John Birmingham: What if they had a Culture War and Tay Tay didn't turn up? She didn’t have to endorse Joe Biden to earn her place in Fox News’ 24/7 Two Minutes of Hate. She just had to be Taylor Swift. (more)

Zeynep Tufekci: A Strongman President? These Voters Crave It. For her and many others, she said, his most important quality was strength: He had the fortitude to keep the country safe, avoid new wars and ensure the economy hummed along... Sharp readily conceded that not everything Donald Trump said was great, but she saw that as part of the right personality to be president. “You gotta be a little crazy, maybe, to make sure other countries respect and fear us,” she said (more)

Opinion | Enough with all the fatalism about a Donald Trump dictatorship. Are you afraid of a Donald Trump dictatorship? Well, know this: The only thing you have to fear is fear of Tyrannus Trumpus itself. (more)

The best predictor of whether someone is a Donald Trump supporter is how Authoritarian they are. 49 percent of likely Republican primary voters I surveyed score in the top quarter of the authoritarian scale—more than twice as many as Democratic voters. My poll asked a set of four simple survey questions that political scientists have employed since 1992 to measure inclination toward authoritarianism. These questions pertain to child-rearing: whether it is more important for the voter to have a child who is respectful or independent; obedient or self-reliant; well-behaved or considerate; and well-mannered or curious. Respondents who pick the first option in each of these questions are strongly authoritarian. (They should poll teachers about their students this way.) Take activated authoritarians from across the partisan spectrum and the growing cadre of threatened (scared of Terrorism) non-authoritarians, then add them to the base of Republican general election voters, and the potential electoral path to a Trump presidency becomes clearer.

The Beginning of the End of ‘Gender-Affirming Care’? Over the past three decades, the Gender and Identity Development Service at the Tavistock Clinic in London has seen thousands of British children for gender dysphoria, with a British minister noting a more than 4,000 percent increase of referrals for girls alone in the last decade. But on Thursday, Britain’s National Health Service announced that it was closing down Tavistock for good—and, in effect, rebuking the common American medical approach known as “gender-affirming care” for treating children with gender dysphoria. (more)

The fight-or-flight or the fight-flight-freeze-or-fawn[1] (also called hyperarousal or the acute stress response) is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight-or-flight_response (more)

Geoffrey Litt, Max Schoening, Paul Shen, Paul Sonnentag (of Ink and Switch) on Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software. There’s a certain joy to scribbling down a note, whether in a physical notebook or a digital notebook app. We can write down information in whatever messy format we want, with no formal ceremony. (more)

cooking how-to book; see also recipe, recipe database

Chuck Jordan: Infinite Blank Canvas. I’ve been plagued with indecision about the Vision Pro headset, kind of hoping that the demand would outstrip supply to the point the decision is made for me, or grateful that I can’t just make an impulse purchase without first scheduling a long-overdue appointment with an optometrist. (more)

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Baldur Bjarnason: The different kinds of notes. This is the second entry of three where I go over what I learned from the user research I’ve been doing for Colophon Cards... The notebook above, from 1994, is the oldest notebook of mine I’ve found. It’s the first proper notebook I kept. It wasn’t a journal, sketchbook, drafts, or workbook for school. Just notes. And it petered out pretty quickly. (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: On online collaboration and our obligations as makers of software. So, you believed in having a personal website, what of it? No, you see, at the time blogging was supposed to be so much more than that. I truly believed that it heralded the future of collaboration, communications, publishing, and intellectual discourse. (collaborationware) (more)

guru of effectual reasoning

old (2000?) David Brin speech on "Disputation Arenas: Harnessing Conflict and Competitiveness for Society's Benefit" - In the long run, the Internet will serve us best if it enhances two seemingly contradictory traits - Individualism and Accountability. This may seem an odd blend, but their synergy is what brought us nearly everything we cherish about the modern era... The ultimatum of a disputation arena won't be to award "victory" to any one side, but to create an atmosphere of practical Problem Solving, helping moderates understand each others' concerns and reach for some mutually beneficial consensus, leaving fanatics isolated and impotent at the wings. In today's political climate, we all win by forcing both sides to accept a little ambiguity... Ultimately, Free Speech is about much more than just self-expression. It is also how humans find ways to solve problems and live with one another. Compare to previous Accountability Arenas. (more)

A big challenge for Knowledge Management systems has always been actually getting some content into them. (more)

Consensus decision-making or consensus process (often abbreviated to consensus) are group decision-making processes in which participants develop and decide on proposals with the goal of acceptance by all. The focus on establishing agreement of at least the majority or the supermajority and avoiding unproductive opinion differentiates consensus from unanimity, which requires all participants to support a decision. Consensus decision-making in a democracy is consensus democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making