• Talking with Sammy about why the imagery/history/thought of WWII is so appealing for lots of present-day young people. We think it’s because the war had cut-and-dried sides of good and bad (apart from all our nuanced judgments of the US’s engagement) while we can hardly even figure out who (or what corporations) are to blame for the injustices we try to fight against today. For young people who are eager to do work on the world and help out, the prospect of a mortal battle against a known, openly destructive (as opposed to secretly destructive) force is a really romantic one. Plus the uniforms were normcore.
  • The company that gives a three-word name to every ten-meter square of land on the planet, What3words.