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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.

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

Off track

From The Skimm newsletter today [https://www.theskimm.com/news/2021-10-26-1z8zCijCTYCnWKzCXNQzdY] > Yesterday, a UN report found that concentrations of greenhouse gases hit a record high last year. Even with a temporary slowdown of new emissions during the pandemic, carbon dioxide was almost 150% higher than pre-industrial levels. The report

A Myth About the Workforce in the 60s & 70s.

From an article in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com] titled The Great Resignation Is Accelerating, by Derek Thompson [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/derek-thompson/]. > You may have heard the story that in the golden age of American labor, 20th-century workers stayed in one job for 40 years and

Fake Art?

I saw this in the NYTimes Morning Newsletter [https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/01/briefing/delta-peak-covid-caseload.html]: > What happens to works of art that turn out to be fake? In many cases, they re-enter the market: One art dealer has been offered the same fake Egon Schiele [https:

Expanded NOT Expedited

The Skimm reports [https://www.theskimm.com/archive/2021-08-03]: > Yesterday, the State Dept said its expanding eligibility for Afghans seeking US refugee status. The new pathway creates an opportunity for thousands of Afghans who worked with the US during its nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan. BUT, (and this is