Timothy NoahThe bursting of the luxury-spending bubble is great news for everybody who isn’t a trust-fund brat (and maybe great news for them, too). My latest:
https://newrepublic.com/article/177445/rich-cession-luxury-market-bidenomics
Elizabeth Barrow
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Still trying to figure it all out. Hanging out here and Post.news instead of the old place. Reader.
kottke.orgThe Protagonist Is Never in Control. “I hate him. It’s a plea at first, and then simply a statement, calcifying into the primary fact of your life. The bad man will define the rest of your childhood.” https://www.guernicamag.com/the-protagonist-is-never-in-control/
A 2-minute clip from 3 Body Problem, a forthcoming Netflix series (by GoT showrunners Weiss & Benioff) based on the sci-fi trilogy of books by Liu Cixin. I have (perhaps unreasonably) high hopes for this show! https://kottke.org/23/11/clip-from-3-body-problem
Merlin MannA Unified Field Theory of the Mike Schuriverse:
* The Office - Can I be loved?
* Parks and Rec - Can I be useful?
* Brooklyn Nine-Nine - Can I be respected?
* The Good Place - Can I be redeemed?
It’s basically The New Testament, only funny.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Carl T. Bergstrom
https://projects.propublica.org/california-farmers-colorado-river/
Very well done article on Colorado River water rights
Very well done article on Colorado River water rights
evacideI have often wondered why, when stores close, landlords leave the spaces empty for years at a time instead of lowering rents. The answer, apparently, is banks often won't let them:
Brian KlaasHappy Halloween! I’ve written about how widespread belief in magic, demonic forces, and other non-rational beliefs drive politics—around the world and in the US—much more than you probably think. We’re blind to it because of what I call “rationality bias.” https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/magic-sorcery-politics/675836/
Eli the BeardedFun connections.
"Stereotype" is a printer's term. Moveable type is expensive. You don't want to keep it tied up longer than needed, so you make a mould from the set type and cast a plate from that.
The "stereotype" is the mould.
A "cliché" is what the French called plate made from that mould, it's onomatopoeia from the sound of removing the plate from the mould.
"Boilerplate" is widely repeated text from the round stereotype castings of newspaper columns ready to throw on a drum press.
David SchraubThe Dangerous Weave of Historical Maximalism: The principle that it is wrong to slaughter civilians -- going house-to-house with the express agenda of gruesomely murdering the men, women, and children you find there -- is seemingly so obvious it seems impossible imagine it must be "taught". Surely, it is a principle we all understand at some intuitive, base level. And yet, history is replete with such murders and massacres -- in all parts of the world, in every time… http://dsadevil.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-dangerous-weave-of-historical.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
