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  • You Don’t Need A Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume

    Brett Berks article, You Don’t Need A Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume, provides a good look at truck culture and the disconnect between how trucks are marketed and how they are actually used by owners. On one hand there’s no accounting for taste, on the other hand I appreciate the statistic that I use my mid-size SUV for towing more than the median pickup truck owner.

    Hey, America: You Don’t Need a Full-Size Pickup Truck, You Need a Cowboy Costume
    The full-size pickup truck has become America’s best-selling vehicle by a country mile. But most Silverado, Ram, and F-Series buyers would be better served with a cheaper means of role-playing.
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    Jan 9, 2025

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  • Bill Fletcher Jr. on Responses to COVID

    Yes, people were angry about restrictions imposed as a result of the pandemic, I got that, but what was being proposed in opposition? What was being proposed in response to the very real problem of dealing with a virus?

    An almost humorous response from the US right came from the lieutenant governor of Texas who argued that we should be willing to sacrifice our lives in defense of the economy. Turn away from mass vaccines, contract COVID, in the name of all mighty capitalism. I was looking forward to the lieutenant governor being the first sacrificial lamb. I mean you just can’t make this up.

    The response to COVID that was led by right wing authoritarian forces was coded rightwing libertarianism rhetorizing about freedom. It was a strange combination of self suicide and genocide, in other words, there was nothing here with which to offer critical support. And this movement has now expanded to address an alleged right to refuse vaccinations in the name of self control over one’s body, a hideous use of the call of the pro-choice movement.

    Bill Fletcher Jr.

    Jan 8, 2025

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  • N.T. Wright on the Pace of the Kingdom

    Somehow Jesus wanted his followers to live with the tension of believing that the kingdom was indeed arriving in and through his own work, and that this kingdom would come, fully arrive, not all in a bang but through a process like the slow growth of a plant or the steady leavening of a loaf.

    N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone, Part 1
    Jan 7, 2025

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  • January 2025

    Housing

    In December we finalized the purchase of a new house, and sold our current house (in a brief 3 days). We celebrated Christmas but also spent a lot of time packing for the move. Moving into January, the focus is now the move itself which will happen mid-month and getting settled into the new place.

    This website

    December saw some improvements to this website, but it still falls short of what I’d like it to be. January should see some improvements to the homepage, which content gets promoted to the blog page, and pages for media that I’ve read / watched / listened to.

    Game design

    An idea I had previously, inspired by the Amazon Prime series 007: Road to a Million was to create a interactive geolocation based game. To flesh out that idea further, I am rewatching 007: Road to a Million and reading the book The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses by Jesse Schell.

    Jan 6, 2025

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  • Maxwell H. Brock on Art

    I will talk to you of art,
    For there is nothing else to talk about,
    For there is nothing else.

    Life is an obscure hobo,
    Bumming a ride on the omnibus of art.

    Maxwell H. Brock
    Jan 3, 2025

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  • Can Architecture Trigger Neuroinflamation?

    Studies have established that architecture can trigger a stress response, but stress is more than a mental response – it triggers a whole host of compensating mechanisms in our bodies including hormonal changes.

    Cleo Valentine is doing interesting research, taking the impact of architecture one step further, by examining whether persistent exposure to stress caused by architecture can cause the same long term impacts of other stress such as chronic inflammation, anxiety, and depression.

    Cleo Valentine Research
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    Jan 2, 2025

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  • The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society

    After the Second World War, philosophers were playing a bit of a game of catch up behind the scientists. The war machine had driven all sorts of advancement, but there wasn’t a lot of thought about the impacts to people or society of these advancements. Norbert Wiener’s book The Human Use of Human Beings: Cybernetics and Society brings a sociologists perspective to examine the impacts resulting from automation and communication.

    Read more…

    Dec 27, 2024

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  • Monotrail Tech Talks

    My favourite source for modular synthesizer patching ideas is Monotrail Tech Talks. This channel consistently provides inspiration for new techniques to try, illustrated by easy to follow block diagrams.

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    Dec 20, 2024

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  • N.T. Wright on Personal Purity

    We in our modern world have many ways of dealing with personal impurity. Contemporary hygiene and chemicals mean we don’t need to worry about it nearly as much as people in the ancient world … there are still other types of pollution as well: the pollution which gets into our minds and hearts, into our imagination and memory. How can we get rid of that? One way is to spend time with a story like this.

    N.T. Wright, Matthew for Everyone, Part 1
    Dec 18, 2024

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  • Thoughts on Hiring

    Thinking about hiring, the typical process for screening candidates using written applications is likely to become far less effective as it becomes a game of adversarial bots both creating applications for positions and evaluating them. In light of this I see one possibility being less emphasis on written applications going forward, resulting in more emphasis on the strength and scope of one’s personal connections in turn. This could be a big step backwards for equality and inclusion as it would increase the barriers to moving outside of one’s current social circle.

    Dec 18, 2024

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