University of Winds
Three links to wonderful and thought-provoking things every other Saturday morning from Mita Williams.

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Aug
02

UofWinds 417, Week 31 2025: The Invisible Chain that Holds Us Together, It’s telling how telling a telling can be, Marking the Dispossessed

Good morning. I have written another summertime edition of this newsletter – which means I wrote most of this the night
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Jul
19

UofWinds 416, Week 29 2025: BBC Sounds --> BBC.com, Seeing like a place, Corpora as medium / generative systems and the content deficit

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Jul
05

UofWinds 415, Week 27 2025: Unbreaking, Usufruct, Utopia Clicker

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Jun
14

UofWinds 414,Week 24, 2025: TRMNL, The Who Cares Era / It matters. I care, When Building a Brand-New City Doesn’t Go as Planned

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May
31

UofWinds 413,Week 22, 2025: Giant Sequoias Are Taking Root in an Unexpected Place: Detroit, Pretrial (Let Her Go Home), Fonts in Use

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May
17

UofWinds 412,Week 20, 2025: Living in the Electromagnetic Spectrum, I Randomly Decided To Pay Off A School’s Lunch Debt, Oikos vs polis: a new (but old) axis on the political map

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May
03

UofWinds 411,Week 18, 2025: How Do We Write Now, We’re All Going to the Conclave Larp, Brian Eno's Theory of Democracy

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Apr
19

UofWinds 410,Week 16, 2025: A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse, How cascades of rapid change routinely sweep across families, institutions, and nations, “Trump's manly tariffs”

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Apr
05

UofWinds 409,Week 14, 2025: Why does every book come from the same country? You Are Witnessing the Death of American Capitalism, Contact: Art and the Pull of Print

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Mar
22

UofWinds 408, Week 12, 2025: What You Should Do, The Tyranny of Public Opinion / We're getting the social media crisis wrong, The Waters of Lethe Flow From Our Digital Streams / The transformative power of journaling

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