Lodestar

1. a star that leads or guides (commonly used when referring to the navigation of ships) 2. one that serves as an inspiration, model, or guide.

@mikestarace.bsky.social

After Covid, we did a few things, like moving some chip production to the U.S., but mostly did little. The reason is that the lodestar for our economy is still promoting the efficiency of capital, and that means continuing to thin out how we make and move things.
https://open.substack.com/pub/mattstoller/p/monopoly-round-up-will-the-iran-price?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

View on bsky.app

View more posts with 'lodestar'

Dilettante

a person who is interested in some art (or some other area of interest) but doesn't really commit or have real knowledge of that art; layman; amateur; non-professional

Greg Stolze

Greg Stolze

@gregstolze.bsky.social

It seems clear I was crafted by the hand of evolution, providence, or the inscrutable plans of God Almighty to be a trifling dilettante smartass, and yet, for love of a good woman, I was up before the sun shoveling snow.

CHORIN'!

WITH THE APOSTROPHE!

View on bsky.app

View more posts with 'dilettante'

Polyglot

a person who knows and uses several languages

MickieMorganfield

MickieMorganfield

@mickiedances.bsky.social

nationalinterest.org/feature/reimagining-russia-211883
"The reigning culture of institutionalized Russophobia within Western governments is not conducive to peace negotiations." Trump polyglot DHS cyber Czar David Harvilicz prefers a neutral Ukraine, an unpunished Russia, a ban on voting machines.

View on bsky.app

View more posts with 'polyglot'