Sharon said I should do a Groundnut scheme thread
So, in the spirit of Mr. @garius.bsky.social of this parish, I shall embark on a short history of THE TANGANYIKA GROUNDNUT SCHEME, or the time the Attlee government tried to turn the worst land in east Africa in the world's largest peanut farm.
another highlight from this account: shipbuilders were marked absent in muster books with 3 dots, but present with a line in the same place, which meant they just bribed clerks to cross the former through with the latter in order to take personal days
Arjun and I discuss this a bit in Against Money:
Congratulations to SMC members Susie and Brynn to their election to @denverdsa.bsky.social Steering Committee! Both have been instrumental in the @melatkirosco.bsky.social campaign and engaging hundreds of new volunteers in electing a democratic socialist to Congress.
every royalty dollar goes toward what I think is a very ambitious third project (I can't wait to talk more about it-- but first I will have a second book to promote, so you'll have to settle for hints here and there)
it has a very 2000s ambivalence to it. you get a banger tune with anguished lyrics. perfect for the doom-laden nostalgia of now. this also keeps it from being too twee or trite; it provides the irony for you, so you can just earnestly headbang
I'll have more on this when it's time but CONTROL SCIENCE is also getting Korean, Chinese, and Russian translations with different presses and if you haven't grabbed it yet you should
a lot of people are resistant to the idea that anyone with money or power can have ideology or belief (even bad) other than money. this is, ironically, largely an ideological product of people with money and power