{"id":46830,"date":"2026-08-09T05:50:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46830"},"modified":"2026-08-09T06:17:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T10:17:54","slug":"the-mcintosh-modernity-index-donkeys-danilo-f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=46830","title":{"rendered":"The McIntosh Modernity Index &#038; donkeys &#038; danilo f."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There\u2019s a village in Luxembourg that\u2019s right outside the main metropolis. A farmer often ties up a donkey to the little bridge leading to town. The juxtaposition of international digita\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/1\/1a\/Donkey_in_Clovelly%2C_North_Devon%2C_England.jpg\/500px-Donkey_in_Clovelly%2C_North_Devon%2C_England.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&amp;utm_campaign=parser&amp;utm_content=thumbnail\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:180px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2026\/08\/the-mcintosh-modernity-index\/\">The McIntosh Modernity Index<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>not sure why it&#8217;s the &#8220;mcintosh modernity index&#8221;, but it reminded me that Danilo Formenti used to rant about getting a donkey for the commute from Indian River &lt;> Quickmill.  Probs during the gas price <a href=\"https:\/\/afdc.energy.gov\/data\/10641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uptick in 2008~<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe style=\"width: 759px; height: 904px;\" src=\"https:\/\/afdc.energy.gov\/data\/widgets\/10641\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a village in Luxembourg that\u2019s right outside the main metropolis. A&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2288,2289,18,2155,997],"class_list":["post-46830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-danilo-f","tag-donkey","tag-economics","tag-las-vegas","tag-quickmill","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46837,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46830\/revisions\/46837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}