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This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.

Are Phones Spiders?!

Read this in Crag Mod’s Ridgeline newsletter 139 [https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/139/]. > I haven’t slept with a phone near my bed in over a decade. I don’t say that sanctimoniously, it’s just a fact — I don’t let anything internet-connected into bed with me.

Manzoor Pashteen Interviewed

I read an interview [https://foreignpolicy.com/2022/03/02/pakistan-politics-manzoor-pashteen-pashtun-nationalism/] with Manzoor Pashteen [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzoor_Pashteen] today in Foreign Policy [https://foreignpolicy.com]. There are many parts in the interview that stood out to me, but I want to remember the two below, so I&

Bollas on analyzing our problematic unconscious stuff

From the preface to Christopher Bollas [http://christopherbollas.com/]'s book Meaning and Melancholia: Live in the Age of Bewilderment [http://christopherbollas.com/portfolio/meaning-melancholia-life-age-bewilderment/] . > Any psychological analysis of human behaviour involves us in making judgements about the psychotic and non-psychotic parts of selves, about the homicidal and

Old School Ritual & Sci-Fi? | 12/31/21

I spent some time in my RSS feed reader today, and I read the words below on James A. Reeves's blog [https://atlasminor.com/midnight-mass/]Atlas Minor [https://atlasminor.com/midnight-mass/], where Reeves writes about going to a Catholic Midnight Mass. > I wonder what it would have

The noise of the world | 12/30/21

I read the following in an article titled The Cost of Engaging With the Miserable [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/12/twitter-facebook-misery-misinformation/621073/] , by Charlie Warzel [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/charlie-warzel/]. > Every morning, I wake up and grab my doom machine. My phone is a piece

⚯ Reading Notes | Mental Health & The Social order

> [M]ental health is part, a subcategory, of the set of the public order. > There is no other definition for mental health than that of public order. [...] Mental heal [is] defined, then, by reference to [the] public order. Mental health works to maintain the social order. Psychoanalysts don&

Peng Shuai is missing

From The Skimm today [https://www.theskimm.com/news/2021-11-18-3hriSbBsgxtLzfxPAv3u1y]: > Earlier this month, [Peng Shuai [https://link.theskimm.com/click/25745016.886455/aHR0cHM6Ly9za2ltbXRoLmlzLzMwdmFZWGQ/5bb525872ddf9c50a3ace324B7ec2e60f] ] the Chinese tennis star publicly accused a former top gov official of sexual assault. It’s the first time anyone’s made such an allegation

⚯ Reading Notes | Miles Law via David French

In his Third Rail Email Newsletter [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/the-third-rail/], political commentator David French [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_French_(political_commentator)] says the following: > I’d like to introduce you to an obscure but commonsense statement about human nature. It’s called Miles’s law [https:

Cancelation is a problem, regardless of if it comes from the left or the right

From the Wait, What? [https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/] Newsletter by Molly Jong-Fast [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Jong-Fast] (Part of The Atlantic's new email newsletter program [https://www.theatlantic.com/subscriber-newsletters/].) > Earlier this month, a Hill-HarrisX poll [https://emails.theatlantic.com/c/eJwdUMuOwyAM_JpycwUkJOTAYS_7HzxMYMujIqRV_

It is the performance inside the legal procedure that might be more important than the legal procedure...

In an article in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/trump-strategy-steve-bannon-indictment/620704/] David Frum [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/david-frum/] shares some well articulated insights about some of the things playing out around the Jany6’th commission. Comparing what Bannon is doing the what the Chicago