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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.

⚯ 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

More Satellites (more CO2...)

Following up what I posted here [https://www.surplusjouissance.com/less-business-travel-means-less-co2-emissions/] about less business travel, Bryan Walsh writes [https://link.axios.com/click/24633212.414312/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tL3NwYWNlLXJhY2UtYmV6b3MtYnJhbnNvbi1uYXNhLTVjMTkzMTNlLTJjYzctNGQzNy1iZjVlLTAyODRlZDQzMjIzNi5odG1sP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1uZXdzbGV0dGVyX2F4aW9zYW0mc3RyZWFtPXRvcA/5f80edf4da94b81728375c46Bd60085ac] > Competition among

In Myanmar

The Daily Skimm email newsletter reports that in Myanmar [https://www.theskimm.com/archive/2021-08-02], > [M]ilitary leader Gen. Min Aung Hlaing said 'hi, I'm prime minister now.' And extended the country's state of emergency until 2023 (up from 2022). In February, the

The jouissance of not 996?

From the NYTimes The Morning email newsletter [https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oakv2?abVariantId=0&campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20210802&instance_id=36887&nl=the-morning&productCode=NN&regi_id=56891994&segment_id=65126&te=1&uri=nyt%3A%2F%