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  1. Worth a listen: An episode on Studs Terkel

    If you’re a podcaster—or even just a fan of aural history—you’ll enjoy this, from PRX.

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    #Podcasting #StudsTerkel
  2. Markets are a value-agnostic resource allocation & exploitation system. If society prefers not to treat humans as resources to be allocated & exploited, then it needs to impose constraints on how markets work. That's regulations. Value alignment, if you will.
    -- Studs Terkel

    #Quotes #StudsTerkel #Exploitation #FreeMarket #Regulation

    #Photography #Panorama #LavaFlow #Galapagos #Geology

  3. Markets are a value-agnostic resource allocation & exploitation system. If society prefers not to treat humans as resources to be allocated & exploited, then it needs to impose constraints on how markets work. That's regulations. Value alignment, if you will.
    -- Studs Terkel

    #Quotes #StudsTerkel #Exploitation #FreeMarket #Regulation

    #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

  4. On the Right and medical quackery

    I'm listening to a 1978 interview of Susan Sontag by Studs Terkel on the topic of Illness as Metaphor.

    At 39 minutes, Sontag notes that the extreme right has long been occupied by medical quackery:

    "Laetril has very much been taken up by the John Birch Society."

    She and Studs also talk about the morality and moralisation of illness, notably (at the time) TB and cancer.

    Audio: studs-terkel-radio-archive-fee

    Podcast: studs.show/feed.xml (XML feed)

    #SusanSontag #StudsTerkel #Podcasts #Disease #Quackery #JBS #MoralisingPathology

  5. Intro post! It took me a while to figure out what to say. I've been a software developer or something related like programming instructor or development manager for more than 20 years. I still love it but am trying to start a new career as an author.

    My posts are mainly about #writing, #parenting, #MagicTheGathering, and #ProgressiveChristianity.

    Favorite authors: #DorisLessing, #LaurenGroff, #HowardThurman, #StudsTerkel, and #TonkeDragt.

    Favorite #MTG deck type: graveyard shenanigans