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Notebook

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.

Brubaker's Newsletter

From the most recent email newsletter [https://eepurl.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=12703963b24c2d94a368d4082&id=ffaede124d] Ed Brubaker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Brubaker] sent out. > I'll be honest here, in case it's not evident in my work all the time, I'

Would Russia Use Dragnipur?

Today I read this article [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/putin-kremlin-imperialism-ukraine-american-power/624180/] in The Atlantic by Shadi Hamid [https://www.theatlantic.com/author/shadi-hamid/] . It is, in my opinion, an excellent example of how complex America's possession of power has been since the end of

Isolate Self & Deep Boredom

Another thing from Craig Mod [https://craigmod.com], this time from his Roden newsletter #66 [https://craigmod.com/roden/066/]. > When I set off on my long walks [...] I feel [...] like I’m tapping into [...] the fullest-of-most-fully-realized versions of my “isolate self.” (“Isolate” because the older I get the

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