“yeah we’ve got a light / to see our way by / we’ve got what we need / when we’ve got you”

[larryhammer]

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. (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)

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Subject quote from We've Got You - i: Spark, Vienna Teng.

Comments

[sovay]

Interview with the production designer of Murderbot, who is nicely thinky.

The interview appears to be missing its link! This one?

[conuly]

those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change

But what if both sides have the critical percentage, then what?

[larryhammer]

Has that happened?

[conuly]

It could happen. We're not the only ones who can hold mass protests and disapprove of the government.

[marjorie1170]

I enjoyed the profile of Martha Wells! (Well, I am in the throes of both watching the show and rereading the Murderbot Diaries in full. They are fun the second time round, even if it hasn't been that long.)

[larryhammer]

I'm waiting till the season is done to binge-watch.