Happy June! As usual, it’s been a while since I last wrote. Below this little digression, you’ll find some updates, including a new essay on Longreads and an op-ed I wrote on the film No Other Choice.I’ve just returned from the Santa Cruz mountains, where I was doing a bit of research for the repair book, and thought I would share something unexpected that I saw there. One day, while I was hiking along a trail bordered by ceanothus (a fire-following plant you’ll see everywhere in areas that b...

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