Blessing for the home chef: May the first lid you grab fit the pot on your stove tonight and every night.
December 17, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Blessing for the home chef: May the first lid you grab fit the pot on your stove tonight and every night.
What the best book to bring to get picked for jury duty? What's the best book to bring to NOT get picked for jury duty?
December 11, 2024 at 8:07 PM
What the best book to bring to get picked for jury duty? What's the best book to bring to NOT get picked for jury duty?
What if my next article paper was on the public goods problem of tissue boxes in 3rd grade classrooms?
December 5, 2024 at 10:43 PM
What if my next article paper was on the public goods problem of tissue boxes in 3rd grade classrooms?
"But give me holly, bold and jolly,
Honest, prickly, shining holly;
Pluck me holly leaf and berry
For the day when I make merry."
From Christina Rossetti's [A rose has thorns as well as honey,]
Honest, prickly, shining holly;
Pluck me holly leaf and berry
For the day when I make merry."
From Christina Rossetti's [A rose has thorns as well as honey,]
December 4, 2024 at 3:43 PM
"But give me holly, bold and jolly,
Honest, prickly, shining holly;
Pluck me holly leaf and berry
For the day when I make merry."
From Christina Rossetti's [A rose has thorns as well as honey,]
Honest, prickly, shining holly;
Pluck me holly leaf and berry
For the day when I make merry."
From Christina Rossetti's [A rose has thorns as well as honey,]
Plucky > Cheerful
Today I proposed a sort of disposition for liberals going forward.
I don't think we have an impossible task. There's work to do, though. The place to start is where you can.
With hat tips to @kenwhite.bsky.social and @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and some side eye at Albert Jay Nock.
I don't think we have an impossible task. There's work to do, though. The place to start is where you can.
With hat tips to @kenwhite.bsky.social and @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and some side eye at Albert Jay Nock.
The Plucky Remnant
A new home and a new mindset
www.janetbufton.ca
November 28, 2024 at 12:46 AM
Plucky > Cheerful
I don't think The Catherine Project is on BlueSky so I'll do my part to recommend them: catherineproject.org
For Spring 2025 I'm trying to decide between groups on work by George Eliot, Ken Kesey, Soren Kierkegaard, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. But there's LOTs more.
For Spring 2025 I'm trying to decide between groups on work by George Eliot, Ken Kesey, Soren Kierkegaard, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. But there's LOTs more.
Main Page - Catherine Project
If you seek real learning and real conversation, we invite you to join us in reading and discussing great books. We welcome people from all educational backgrounds and walks of life. We charge no tuit...
catherineproject.org
November 22, 2024 at 10:22 PM
I don't think The Catherine Project is on BlueSky so I'll do my part to recommend them: catherineproject.org
For Spring 2025 I'm trying to decide between groups on work by George Eliot, Ken Kesey, Soren Kierkegaard, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. But there's LOTs more.
For Spring 2025 I'm trying to decide between groups on work by George Eliot, Ken Kesey, Soren Kierkegaard, William Shakespeare, and Virginia Woolf. But there's LOTs more.
Achievement unlocked: Jury duty summons
November 18, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Achievement unlocked: Jury duty summons
I'm not a Dickens fan but if you put him with some Adam Smith and David Hume, I'm in. How about you?
libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-c...
libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-c...
A Timeless Reading Group: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - Society, Responsibility, and Happi... | Liberty Fund Portal
Readings:
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, Part I, Part II, Essay III, Of Money, (page 281) and Part I, Essay XI – Of the Dignity or Meanness of ...
libertyfund.circle.so
November 14, 2024 at 3:57 AM
I'm not a Dickens fan but if you put him with some Adam Smith and David Hume, I'm in. How about you?
libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-c...
libertyfund.circle.so/c/timeless-c...
I wrote about why should listen to @sabineec.bsky.social's podcast and maybe, if you want to (but no one is going to force, we're not like that!), read some Shakespeare. Then reread some Shakespeare. And come talk with us about it.
Folks is Folks | Online Library of Liberty
Sarah Skwire doesn’t say YOU MUST READ SHAKESPEARE…but if you do, you’ll probably learn from him. And then you can reread him later to learn more and different things. In this hour-long conversa...
oll.libertyfund.org
January 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
I wrote about why should listen to @sabineec.bsky.social's podcast and maybe, if you want to (but no one is going to force, we're not like that!), read some Shakespeare. Then reread some Shakespeare. And come talk with us about it.
.@joybuchanan.bsky.social will understand and approve.
December 8, 2023 at 7:51 PM
.@joybuchanan.bsky.social will understand and approve.
Reposted by Christy Lynn
It's never a bad day to read Adam Smith's crucial two chapters on why so many people go so inordinately far to praise and honor the powerful, but maybe a day of thinking about Kissinger's life, and the commemorations to come, is especially good.
knarf.english.upenn.edu/Smith/tms132...
knarf.english.upenn.edu/Smith/tms132...
November 30, 2023 at 3:54 PM
It's never a bad day to read Adam Smith's crucial two chapters on why so many people go so inordinately far to praise and honor the powerful, but maybe a day of thinking about Kissinger's life, and the commemorations to come, is especially good.
knarf.english.upenn.edu/Smith/tms132...
knarf.english.upenn.edu/Smith/tms132...
Reposted by Christy Lynn
‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species
‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species
Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny “water monsters.”
apnews.com
November 27, 2023 at 10:50 AM
‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species
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The 100 Greatest BBC Musical Performances. This is an incredible trove of late 20th and early 21st century musical greatness, including performances from Blondie, Dizzy Gillespie, Patti Smith, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Hole, and Bob Dylan. [kottke.org]
November 21, 2023 at 10:22 PM
The 100 Greatest BBC Musical Performances. This is an incredible trove of late 20th and early 21st century musical greatness, including performances from Blondie, Dizzy Gillespie, Patti Smith, Daft Punk, Radiohead, Jimi Hendrix, Hole, and Bob Dylan. [kottke.org]
Made a Things They Carried joke at the bookstore today when they were out of bags and the clerk laughed and smiled. Then he gave me free bookmarks. Good times.
November 19, 2023 at 2:29 AM
Made a Things They Carried joke at the bookstore today when they were out of bags and the clerk laughed and smiled. Then he gave me free bookmarks. Good times.
Reposted by Christy Lynn
Most of the space where we live our lives and make individual and policy decisions involves common-pool resources and ill-defined property rights. Elinor Ostrom helped us understand how we can solve collective action problems in such situations.
knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/governing-...
knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/governing-...
Governing the Commons
Elinor Ostrom's work is relevant to most of our decisions
knowledgeproblem.substack.com
November 16, 2023 at 2:29 PM
Most of the space where we live our lives and make individual and policy decisions involves common-pool resources and ill-defined property rights. Elinor Ostrom helped us understand how we can solve collective action problems in such situations.
knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/governing-...
knowledgeproblem.substack.com/p/governing-...
Really enjoyed this EconTalk with Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman. I learned a lot about Milton and some recent economic history. www.econtalk.org/jennifer-bur...
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman - Econlib
Who was Milton Friedman? Jennifer Burns of Stanford University finds in her biography of Friedman that the answer to that question is more complicated than she thought. Listen as she and EconTalk’s ...
www.econtalk.org
November 14, 2023 at 3:50 PM
Really enjoyed this EconTalk with Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman. I learned a lot about Milton and some recent economic history. www.econtalk.org/jennifer-bur...
Reposted by Christy Lynn
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
November 14, 2023 at 9:06 AM
Happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands By The Perimeter Fence And Screams For Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day for those that celebrate
Reposted by Christy Lynn
Taking a page from Carl Sagan (“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe…”), Recursive Recipes lets you replace ingredients in recipes until they are “made truly from scratch”. [kottke.org]
November 13, 2023 at 3:36 PM
Taking a page from Carl Sagan (“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe…”), Recursive Recipes lets you replace ingredients in recipes until they are “made truly from scratch”. [kottke.org]
Reposted by Christy Lynn
Interested in my research on the motives that lead people to censor? This talk contains a whole lot of my best stuff!
Censorship in "the authoritarian surge and its intersection with the information revolution" is explored by @adapalmer.bsky.social in her University of Chicago talk...
"Why We Censor: from the Inquisition to the Internet" (90min) 2023 Nuveen Lecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMJ...
"Why We Censor: from the Inquisition to the Internet" (90min) 2023 Nuveen Lecture
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMMJ...
November 12, 2023 at 1:12 AM
Interested in my research on the motives that lead people to censor? This talk contains a whole lot of my best stuff!
Reposted by Christy Lynn
Happy Tear Down ALL the Walls Day to all who celebrate.
November 9, 2023 at 12:36 PM
Happy Tear Down ALL the Walls Day to all who celebrate.
Reposted by Christy Lynn
The NEH has just announced a major new initiative, "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." It specifically focuses on encouraging humanistic research about the potential ethical, legal, cultural, and societal impacts of AI. www.neh.gov/AI
Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence
www.neh.gov
October 30, 2023 at 7:46 PM
The NEH has just announced a major new initiative, "Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence." It specifically focuses on encouraging humanistic research about the potential ethical, legal, cultural, and societal impacts of AI. www.neh.gov/AI
This looks very interesting!
This musical about the composing of the Aeneid by @mariadahvana.bsky.social is excellent. Funny, true to the source mythology & religious culture while dealing with Virgil's guilt at helping the bloodthirsty tyrant Augustus.
🎶 I helped a villain build a dream 🎶
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0C6QSG1G...
🎶 I helped a villain build a dream 🎶
www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0C6QSG1G...
Vergil
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. You may think you know Vergil’s epic poem, The Aeneid -- the story of Aeneas, a Trojan hero, prophesized to found Rome. Or maybe you’ve heard of the fea...
www.audible.co.uk
October 20, 2023 at 3:17 PM
This looks very interesting!
Reposted by Christy Lynn
New Ex Urbe Ad Astra episode where @adapalmer.bsky.social and I talk to @rezendi.com exurbe.libsyn.com/ex-urbe-ad-a...
Ex Urbe Ad Astra: Ex Urbe Ad Astra #10 - Setups and Payoffs with Jon Evans
In this episode, Ada and Jo speak with Jon Evans about the remote research versus travel, short stories, beleivability, and setting up shocking twists for striking payoffs.
exurbe.libsyn.com
October 17, 2023 at 2:54 AM
New Ex Urbe Ad Astra episode where @adapalmer.bsky.social and I talk to @rezendi.com exurbe.libsyn.com/ex-urbe-ad-a...
Reposted by Christy Lynn
Really enjoyed this Conversations with Tyler interview conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ada...
Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship (Ep. 191)
Could one tiny decision have changed The Enlightenment forever?
conversationswithtyler.com
October 11, 2023 at 6:26 PM
Really enjoyed this Conversations with Tyler interview conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ada...
Reposted by Christy Lynn
economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/09/27/w.... An ongoing project by Jeremy at EWED
Who is the Wealthiest Generation? Mid-2023 Update
The Federal Reserve has released the latest update to their Distributional Financial Accounts data, which the data underlying several of my past posts on generational wealth. With that recent data, I ...
economistwritingeveryday.com
October 9, 2023 at 1:46 AM
economistwritingeveryday.com/2023/09/27/w.... An ongoing project by Jeremy at EWED