Larry Hammer (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
larryhammer) wrote2025-06-17 12:53 pm
larryhammer) wrote2025-06-17 12:53 pm
Entry tags:
“yeah we’ve got a light / to see our way by / we’ve got what we need / when we’ve got you”
Links of varying relevance, both to currency and each other:
The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world. BBC summary of an academic study with historical data. Pull quote: “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.” For perspective, for the US that’s about 11 million people, to give a totally random example. (viajanni)
Nicely thinky New Yorker profile of Martha Wells (archive version). CW: inconsistent misgendering of Murderbot (mostly in one paragraph). (via /r/murderbot)
Interview with the production designer of Murderbot, who is nicely thinky. (viamarthawells)
---L.
Subject quote from We've Got You - i: Spark, Vienna Teng.
The ‘3.5% rule’: How a small minority can change the world. BBC summary of an academic study with historical data. Pull quote: “Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change.” For perspective, for the US that’s about 11 million people, to give a totally random example. (via
janni)Nicely thinky New Yorker profile of Martha Wells (archive version). CW: inconsistent misgendering of Murderbot (mostly in one paragraph). (via /r/murderbot)
Interview with the production designer of Murderbot, who is nicely thinky. (via
marthawells)---L.
Subject quote from We've Got You - i: Spark, Vienna Teng.