# ordinary people (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ordinary people. Page: Feed: --- ## [A HUGE THANK YOU TO ALL OF MY SUBSCRIBERS!](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/a-huge-thank-you-to-my-paid-subscribers) _2026-08-18 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ By Christine Wolking ## [No Such Quantity of Money](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/no-such-quantity-of-money) _2026-08-18 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Some forms of wealth can only be created by giving our time away ## [America is Warmer than we Think](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/america-is-warmer-than-we-think) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ the Forgotten Forms of Wealth that are Hidden in Plain Sight ## [Industrial heat: 17 million Dodge Caravans](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/industrial-heat-17-million-dodge) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Q: How much civilization can you buy for $1,500? ## [Cultural warmth: the one-of-a-kind heirloom](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/cultural-warmth-the-one-of-a-kind) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Q: How does another family’s memories become part of your story? ## [Relational fire: the elders are still among us](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/relational-fire-the-elders-are-still) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Q: who taught the person who taught you? ## [Communal hearth: how Isaac earned the name “Eisenhower”](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/communal-hearth-how-isaac-earned) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Q: What happens when a village helps raise your children? ## [Civic glow: ordinary people authoring their future](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/civic-glow-ordinary-people-authoring) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Q: Who gave citizens permission to build extraordinary things? ## [A passionate spirit of practicality: useful people helping useful people](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/a-passionate-spirit-of-practicality) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Q: When did knowing how to help become a form of wealth? ## [Kindling](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/kindling) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ Ordinary people creating extraordinary warmth ## [Auto-trade Cross-Exchange Gaps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/XhcKXNxAbiRy) _2026-08-16 · **Sponsored**_ Find cross-exchange spreads, backtest strategies, and execute automatically with risk controls. ## [The glimmer](https://kentdahlgren.substack.com/p/the-glimmer) _2026-08-16 · Kent Dahlgren · Dahlgrenisms_ There are things in this world worth more than money ## [Gang Stalking, Obedience, and the Milgram Experiment: How Ordinary People Can Be Drawn Into Harmful Systems](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/gang-stalking-obedience-and-the-milgram) _2026-08-14 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ How Authority, Social Pressure, and Diffused Responsibility Can Turn Ordinary People Into Participants in Harmful Systems ## [What Are We Really Eating, Drinking, Putting on Our Bodies, and Injecting Into Our Bodies?](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/what-are-we-really-eating-drinking) _2026-08-12 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ If it enters our bodies, goes onto our bodies, or is used to manufacture something we consume, we should be able to find out exactly what it is. ## [Time Travel](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/time-travel) _2026-08-05 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ Levart emit ## [Multiple Jack](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/multiple-jack) _2026-08-02 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ Jack Joseph Cooper would never have known any different if he hadn’t spilled the balsamic vinegar that morning. ## [Launching a Cloud Atlas](https://www.wrecka.ge/launching-a-cloud-atlas/) _2026-07-28 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ The right questions to arrive with—and the right structure for what comes out of the interviews—are not completely obvious. So I’ve been spending some time thinking about clouds. ## [Carol](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/carol) _2026-07-27 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ Look at Carol. ## [The Eyebrow](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/the-eyebrow) _2026-07-26 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ There it is: a barely perceptible twitch in the eyebrow. ## [Why I Am Building Axiom AI: A Guardians Global Code Foundation Initiative for Truth, Ethics, Accountability, and Human Rights](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/why-i-am-building-axiom-ai-a-guardians) _2026-07-25 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ A Guardians Global Code Foundation Initiative Transforming Truth, Ethics, Human Rights, Research, Journalism, Law, Legislative Reform, Education, and Accountability Into a Human-Centered AI Execution Platform ## [Granny's Dead](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/grannys-dead) _2026-07-24 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ The first time my granny died was when she drank a bottle of whiskey and forgot which pills were for which days so she just popped a load of them and hoped for the best. ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/AuodQeflwcwE) _2026-07-24 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [China’s President Xi Jinping Just Announced a China-Backed Global AI Governance Organization Founded by 29 Countries, Creating One of the Largest and Most Dangerous Power Plays of the Artificial Intelligence Era](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/chinas-president-xi-jinping-just) _2026-07-22 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ THIS IS FUCKING SERIOUS: IS THIS THE LOCKDOWN PLAY FOR THE NEW AI WORLD ORDER? ## [The Nano World Order Files: 286 Resources on Nanotechnology, Mind Control, Surveillance, Directed Energy, Geoengineering, and the Future of Human Freedom](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/the-nano-world-order-files-286-resources) _2026-07-22 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ By Christine Wolking ## [BREAKING: New York City Is Examining Whether Netanyahu Could Be Arrested During the United Nations General Assembly](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/breaking-new-york-city-is-examining) _2026-07-20 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ By Christine Wolking ## [The Smart Grid Arrived as My Targeting Became Obvious: What Changed in Maryland and Across America From 2007 to 2010?](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/the-smart-grid-arrived-as-my-targeting) _2026-07-19 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ By Christine Wolking ## [Could Ambien Have Been Responsible for a Profound Decrease in My Tinnitus? How Other Medications May Affect Ear Ringing](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/could-ambien-have-been-responsible) _2026-07-19 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ By Christine Wolking ## [Why Has George W. Bush Never Faced a Full Public Accounting for the Iraq War, Torture, Warrantless Surveillance and the Government Infrastructure Built After September 11?](https://targetedcommunity.substack.com/p/why-has-george-w-bush-never-faced) _2026-07-18 · Targeted Community United · Targeted_ By Christine Wolking ## [Holdfast 0: Situating](https://www.wrecka.ge/holdfast-0-situating/) _2026-07-12 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ This post introduces the written version of some optimistic and constructive thinking on knowledge in networks that I’ve been wrestling with since the end of last year. ## [Moment of Return](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/moment-of-return) _2026-05-19 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ Spinning around rising swirling ## [The Spiral](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/the-spiral) _2026-05-16 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ And among the patterns images flowing ## [The Tarabuli](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/the-tarabuli) _2026-05-13 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ An account of anti-symbiosis ## [One OS for your AI workforce (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/aZ9iPD3BgGyX) _2026-05-13 · **Sponsored**_ Build, direct, and supervise an AI workforce from a single operating workspace. ## [Stealing a Formula](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/stealing-a-formula) _2026-05-11 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ CTRL + Z! CTRL + Z! CTRL + Z! CTRL + Z! ## [Once](https://chadeastwoodisat.substack.com/p/once) _2026-05-05 · Chad Eastwood · Chad’s Substack_ Once, the landscape shimmers in the morning, ## [Cool Kelp Facts (talk notes)](https://www.wrecka.ge/cool-kelp-facts-talk-notes/) _2026-04-14 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ Treating ordinary people as subjects with agency, not objects to be manipulated. “Networks as if people matter,” maybe. ## [Landslide; a ghost story](https://www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-ghost-story/) _2025-12-23 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ On March 27, 1964, a converted liberty ship named the SS Chena brought a shipment of supplies to the port of Valdez, Alaska. Valdez, which I need you to know is pronounced “valDEEZ,” sits at the end of a fjord—a narrow inlet carved by a glacier. ## [Sparks fly up](https://www.wrecka.ge/sparks-fly-up/) _2025-11-11 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ Once you’ve seized the tools of political life to build communal power, it’s hard to forget what a hammer feels like in your hand. ## [Clouded skies for open networks](https://www.wrecka.ge/clouded-skies-for-open-networks/) _2025-10-22 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ Last week, I finished an essay about platform design affordances and content moderation expectations and community-level context collapse on Bluesky for Tech Policy Press and set it aside to cool before a last read-through. An hour later, the Trump administration brought to Bluesky a propaganda-zombie army made ## [A year into the wreckage and salvage](https://www.wrecka.ge/a-year-into-the-wreckage-and-salvage/) _2025-10-08 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ It’s coming up on been a year, somehow, since I started this website/micro-studio/space to think in . What a wild choice that was, setting out in October of 2024, eyes on the horizon! We’d hoped things would turn out differently. The research and thinking ## [The work at hand](https://www.wrecka.ge/the-work-at-hand/) _2025-04-29 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people. Sometimes caring about ordinary people means finding new ropes to pull on and throwing your weight into it. For those of us inside the US but outside the VIP lounge of American ## [Bridges & scruples](https://www.wrecka.ge/bridges-scruples/) _2025-02-06 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin ## [Ursula's list](https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/) _2025-01-31 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world. ## [What's good?](https://www.wrecka.ge/whats-good/) _2025-01-13 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are. ## [How we'll do discussions here](https://www.wrecka.ge/how-we-do-it-here/) _2025-01-10 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ Discussions on wreckage/salvage will take place in a semi-sheltered space to encourage generative and generous conversations. ## [Bad shape](https://www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/) _2025-01-09 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet. ## [What people in the global majority need from networks](https://www.wrecka.ge/what-people-in-the-global-majority-need-from-networks/) _2024-12-13 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ Or really, what some people in the global majority/Majority World need from networks, but that's too long for a headline. ## [Against the dark forest](https://www.wrecka.ge/against-the-dark-forest/) _2024-11-22 · Erin Kissane · wreckage/salvage_ The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.