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A collection of Dogtown links

Dogtown and Z-Boys 2001 Wikipedia

Jay Adams Wikipedia

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Abortion mazes to represent the complexity of abortion access

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On 'Social Capital'
(This came up because of a post by Matthew Yglesias this morning, in which he says...the fact of the matter is that tax rates will go up and down, regulations will get stricter and laxer, programs will get more and less generous no matter who wins in November. One election follows another, and things just keep happening. Those policy arguments are important, but over the long run, they pale in significance to the basic rule of law. It's a cornerstone of American prosperity, and Trump endangers it in a way that no other candidate in my lifetime has.

I get that less-educated people, people with lower levels of social capital, and people who feel like they're outsiders who've been screwed by the system are less invested in this point than I am or than I think they ought to be.

But successful investors and entrepreneurs have no excuse for ignoring the extent to which integrity and the rule of law provide the necessary backstop for everything good that comes out of a capitalist economy. So I got to wondering about "social capital", what it is and how it works. Some of what I found via searches and following my nose across the lexical landscape, with thoughts about class intruding from time to time:

Social capital Wikipedia
...involves the effective functioning of social groups through interpersonal relationships, a shared sense of identity, a shared understanding, shared norms, shared values, trust, cooperation, and reciprocity....

...goodwill, fellowship, mutual sympathy and social intercourse among a group of individuals and families who make up a social unit... (Hanifan 1916)

Pierre Bourdieu notes "...cultural, economic, administrative capital, physical capital, political capital, social capital and symbolic capital" as other loci of 'capital'

...unlike financial forms of capital, social capital is not depleted by use (David Bollier 2001)

...specific benefits that flow from the trust, reciprocity, information, and cooperation associated with social networks

...connections among individuals — social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them (Robert Putnam)

Social Capital Atlas socialcapital.org

Social capital — the strength of our relationships and communities...

Social capital I: measurement and associations with economic mobility Nature 2022

Definitions of Social Capital Institute for Social Capital

...the sum of the resources, actual or virtual, that accrue to an individual or a group by virtue of possessing a durable network of more or less institutionalized relationships of mutual acquaintance and recognition (Bourdieu and Wacquant 1992)

Social Capital Theory --an overview ScienceDirect Topics

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What is Dusking?

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18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian Maria Popova

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Microbes drove methane growth between 2020 and 2022, not fossil fuels

The laws of physics appear to follow a mysterious mathematical pattern New Scientist

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Srinivasa Ramanujan Was a Genius. Math Is Still Catching Up Quanta Magazine

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Rhizome

Rhizome Wikipedia

What is a 'rhizome' in Deleuze and Guattari's thinking? Thought Leader

A Thousand Plateaus Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (pdf)

Introduction: Rhizome Deleuze and Guattari (pdf)

Exploring Deleuze's Rhizomes, Organ-less Bodies and Changing Territories Thomas Lin at Medium

Deleuze and Guattari, "Rhizome" annotation by Dan Clinton

Deleuze & Guattari: Rhizome sophia kosmaoglou

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The Whirlpool of the Artificial Kevin Munger at Crooked Timber

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Your True Self H Patricia Hynes at Informed Comment

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How ghost cities in the Amazon are rewriting the story of civilisation New Scientist

5 mind-bending numbers that could reveal the secrets of the universe New Scientist