Bix dot Blog

The unsupported use case of Bix Frankonis’ disordered, surplus, mediocre midlife in St. Johns, Oregon—now with climate crisis, rising fascism, increasing disability, eventual poverty, and inevitable death.

Read the current manifesto. (And the followup.)

Rules: no fear, no hate, no thoughtless bullshit, and no nazis.

On one and the same day, I came across Tom Whyman on “the spectre of the wallet inspector [which] is summoned whenever someone falls for an obvious grift” and Barry M. Mitnick on how “con artists are especially skillful at what social scientists call framing, telling stories in ways that appeal to the biases, beliefs and prominent desires of their targets”.

Originally published to bix.blog by Bix Frankonis. Comments and replies by email are welcome.