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

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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

Good morning. I am trying to start today's newsletter from the desk in the study but my cat
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Mar
08

UofWinds 407, Week 10 2025: Does Voting Matter in Ontario, Political Parties Are Illegal in the United States, Utopian Realism, No Neutral Ground in a Burning World, Phronesis, Make Life Possible

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Feb
22

UofWinds 406, Week 8 2025: Climate Change is a Crisis We Can Only Solve Together, Building the Union, The man who discovered media codes and how to resist them

6 min read
Feb
08

UofWinds 405, Week 6 2025: The Evil Housekeeper Problem, "Update on my life: Last year, I joined my kids' school's PTA", Monday Night Red Beans & Rice

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Jan
25

UofWinds 404, Week 4 2025: It's Not a Marathon, Survive the Tyrant, Bibliomancy For The Living Autobiography In The Third Person

6 min read
Jan
11

UofWinds 403, Week 2 2025: Inoreader, Watch Duty, In C

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Dec
28

UofWinds 402, Week 52 2024: Toronto Event Generator, How We Communicate Will Decide Whether... They Own Us, Why Did Tens of Thousands of Chinese Students Go on Night Bike Rides?

5 min read
Dec
14

UofWinds 401, Week 50 2024: Coffeehouses in the 1750s were remarkably like Twitter, Empire and On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power, Welcome to the Martian Revolution

5 min read
Nov
30

UofWinds 400, Week 48 2024: A Man of Parts and Learning / Why I have resigned from the Royal Society, Archive Webpage / Replay Webpage, Here's What Happens When You Buy from a Gift Guide

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Nov
16

UofWinds 399, Week 46, 2024: The Third Information Crisis, Radical Responsiveness, What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?

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