Liz's LIFT Marseilles '09 deck. (OMG can I just say I hate hate hate Slideshare.)

I'm sympathetic to some of the underlying logic here, but I find Lessig's insistence on defining state coercion as one of the core (indeed, definitive) attributes of "socialism" bizarre and tendentious. As I read it, what he's working toward - or more to the point, what *I'm* working toward - is neither socialism nor capitalism, precisely emergent and certainly not statist. This piece makes me sad.

It's beginning to look like everyone else was right, and I was wrong: highlighting comparative household energy use really does seem to incentivize demand reduction. At least for Northern Californians. I still think this will prove to be far little, too late.

“Talk about possible environmental damage the canal might cause doesn’t mean that much to me. I think more about all the engineers who will come in and eat at my place once construction starts.” Why we're all of us fucked, in a nutshell.

Hadn't seen this until now. You know I love Howard, but I'm sympathetic to Habermas here - for chrissakes, the guy's like eighty. I wouldn't necessarily expect him to get myPublicSpace.