This is
commentary. And this is really
good.
What I've been watching
and reading in this time:
- Article, "Why Germany Has It So Good -- and Why
America Is Going Down the Drain" by Terrence McNally
- Article, "Sex & Sexuality in the 19th Century" by Jan Marsh
- Article, "Russia's Terrifying 'Nuke Trains' Will
Be Roving The Rails By 2018" by
Tyler Rogoway
- Post, "BDSM Questions, Answered", by Ozy Frantz
- Article, "The Quest for an Archaeology of Sea Otter Tool Use", by Elin Kelsey
- Article, "French Design Firms Imagine An Arcology In the Sahara", by Andrew Liptak
- Article, "Portlander Ursula K. Le Guin is
Breathing Fire to Save American Literature", by Taylor Clark and William Anthony
- Article, "This academic debate about worms has
an important lesson for the future of global poverty", by Amanda Taub
- Article, "Dead Enough", by Walter Glannon
- Post, "Aromanticism: Defining Our Terms" by Ozy
- Article, "Could a Massive Collision Produce a
Subsurface Ocean on Pluto?";
by Mika McKinnon
- Article, "Megapolisomancy, Or Why All Cities Are
Haunted", by
Annalee Newitz
- Article, "How to Use a Black Hole's Spin to
Harvest Energy",
by Esther Inglis-Arkell
- Article, "Why We Were Totally Wrong About How Boa Constrictors Kill", by Jason Bittel
- Article, "Snake proteins have gone through
massive evolutionary redesign", by Ed Yong
- Post, "Non-Dual Awareness", by Scott Alexander
- Article, "Chimps Are Eating Clay to Detox Themselves", by Esther Inglis-Arkell
- Article, "NK Jemisin: the fantasy author upending the 'racist and sexist status quo'", by Noah Berlatsky
- Article, "The 7 biggest myths about abortion", by Kali Holloway
I planned on reading a
post by Matt Walsh. Then I saw that it was written by Matt Walsh. I decided to
not waste my time or give him another link.
Also check out:
Homework for the future:
- Go through at least five entries in in my "P
Articles" bookmark folder. Let's go with: (1) "A Neocon Bible: What Would Jesus
Say?"; (2) "An Aging God"; (3) "What are Jinns exactly made up
of?"; (4) "What are Jinn or Spirits"; (5) "What's a Bodhisattva?"
- Read the posts linked to by "Responses to the Anti-Reactionary
FAQ.". Eventually.
- Still on the to-do list: studying the Austrian School
of Economics.
- Finish the reading for "Notes to: Anarchy:
Never Been Tried?"
- Finish the reading for "Notes to 16 Articles on
Writing"
- Read Fenrir's Shrine.
- Also on the to-do list: All of those themes that I
decide I want to play with, and cool bits that attract me, and things like
that? Let's get systematic about that, put them into a single document
(might be public, might not) and work with at least one of them every
week. Systematic. Systematic. I do it best when I do it
systematically.
- Also, don't forget to flesh this section out a bit more with goals in general, and maybe include a section on which of those goals were accomplished since the last update.
