You should read (Feb 25)

Top articles from my Pocket reading list, the week of February 21, 2022.

World War Three

• The Editorial Board: This is the way the postwar world ends (Washington Post)
• Against Annexations and Imperial Aggression (CrimethInc.)
  Statement by anarchists in Russia
• War and Anarchists: Anti-Authoritarian Perspectives in Ukraine (CrimethInc.)
  Statement by anarchists in Ukraine
• Soldier! The Enemy Is in Minsk, Not Kiev! (Pramen)
  Statement by anarchists in Belarus
• Ice Cream Diplomacy: What the progressive caucus gets wrong on Ukraine (Ink Stick Media)
• Russian gas threat in Europe (Reuters)

Everything Else

• "Life is basically impossible." (Berkeley Zen Center podcast)
  “One day, Suzuki Roshi said, ‘Life is basically impossible.’ Then he got up and walked out of the zendo."
  “The next day, a student raised his hand and asked, ‘Yesterday, you said life is basically impossible. What are we going to do?’"
  “Suzuki Roshi answered, ‘You do it every day.’”
• James Baldwin on 4AM, the Fulcrum of Love, and Life as a Moral Obligation to the Universe (The Marginalian)
• “Voting With Your Dollars” Has Always Been a Flawed Idea (Jacobin)
• Apple gives Siri a less gendered voice (Axios)
• Americans are fleeing to places where political views match their own (NPR)
  When my family moved to California, school quality was the determining factor in deciding where we landed. My wife and I are pondering a future move once our kids are off to college. Voting patterns will be the first thing we look at when considering our future home.
• The Dark Knight: When Plot Holes Don’t Matter (Den of Geek)
• Bloc by Bloc:Uprising
  “A cooperative and semi-cooperative tabletop game inspired by 21st century protest movements, riots, and popular uprisings.”