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I’ve been reading a bunch on an old Kindle recently, the kind that has ads on the lock screen. 90% of the ads lately have been like this, but this specific one is a keeper.
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Wait wait wait. The “time crystals” in Star Trek: Discovery are actually a thing?! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time…
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A nice rainbow haul of graphic novels from St Marks Comics in Industry City today.
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This is incredibly important. This is a look at an unhealthy system, its bad outcomes, and wonderfully what can be done about it. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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The linguistic, historic, cultural analysis in this jawn is fascinating. www.atlasobscura.com/articles/…
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Okay, as India goes through an appalling heat wave, if you are not in the midst of it, listen to an interview with the author that predicted it two years ago: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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This is love. H/T to @vermilionink@twitter.
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It’s an evening for a playlist chosen by The Algorithms starting from A Warm Place by Nine Inch Nails. Let’s see where this goes. open.spotify.com/playlist/…
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“But this is a unique moment in our evolution. America is no longer bounded by its boundaries. We are tied in to a network of terror that crosses national divisions … We have been told that we are at some kind of war against some kind of terror….” ½
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Today in dialectic social commentary: Sarah Teasdale’s poem There Will Come Soft Rains and Jai’s speech Only Human. Both true, lovely, and challenging: poets.org/poem/ther… https:// blog.jaibot.com/secular-solstice-dawn-speech-only-human/
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Today in How to Save a Planet: How to buy clothes that are built to last. It matters immensely in 3 ways. www.nytimes.com/interacti… ¼
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From TidBITS: Ukraine … home to MacPaw (Setapp, Clean My Mac X, Gemini, and more), BeLight Software (Live Home 3D, Swift Publisher, and more), Readdle (PDF Expert, Spark, and more), CS Odessa (ConceptDraw), and Skylum (Luminar), among others.
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Oh boy, I’ve just finished installing a game I’ve been waiting to play for actual Years: Horizon: Forbidden West. This series is My Jam.
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rhinomanometry. Word of the day.
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This is brilliant. It perfectly encapsulates why The Adventure Zone was the best possible version of A Terrible Idea, but also just dispenses good advice. It’s about the players, not the GM. www.youtube.com/watch
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I just came across one of those melodies that will come to mind, unbidden, which I haven’t been able to identify since I first heard it: The Sacrifice, by Michael Nyman, from The Piano.
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Physics - To Touch the Sun https://physics.aps.org/articles/v14/178?utm_campaign=weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_source=emailalert
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Walking the walk: I’m easing off of Twitter to Mastodon & micro.blog. mstdn.social/@emsariel I’ll cross-post for a while, but eventually will only be on the federated system that is designed to be resilient to the toxicity that FB & Twitter systemically promote.
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Best Thing Sun Dec 19: the best thing was that I not only had a pretty good day, but pushed through some anxiety and made room to recognize how good the day was.
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Best Thing Sat Dec 18: I went down to IC to listen to live music and write some hard emails. After the Irish music ended, there was … more music! Glenn Roth, a great classical guitarist who had my number and played great covers of a bunch of songs I grew up with.
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So help me, I don’t like a lot of manufactured Christmas Songs, but I love having Holiday playlists on in the background. Give me those misplaced jingle bells, peppy non-specific nostalgia, and personal reflection aimed at gratitude … in the background.
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Best Thing Fri Nov 26: Alta and I spent time going through old papers our parents had kept - kid drawings, school reports, cards from relatives. I had strong sense-memories of some of them, like I remembered making things from when I was 5, 7, 12. We chatted as we went through things, it was great.
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Best Thing Thu Nov 25: Pre-prandial woodswalking with Alta and Jonah, followed closely by a nice family meal.
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Best Thing Mon Nov 22: My sister is one of the best people I know, and I got to spend a bunch of time with her on the train and at the home we grew up in together.
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