Nov. 7th, 2017

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A collection of strangenesses from various places. Posting about half of these in the hope that I'll get around to reading them if they're easily available on my work machine.

I have a story to tell about this man: "This is what set Mr. Rogers apart. No one else would have done this. He goes, 'Do you want to tell me what was upsetting you?'"

Neural networks can name guinea pigs: "Yes, despite having no concept of what these furry round rodents actually are, a neural network is indeed uncannily good at naming them."

Offline: "Disconnect to continue." Nothing groundbreaking or original in the content, but points for the form.

List: 11 Ways That I, a White Man, am Not Privileged:
"4. I fought against a history of social stigmas and systemic biases to get to claim the tiny space I occupy.
Oh no, wait, this might be getting away from me."

"Unbury the Future": Martha Wells' Full Speech from the 2017 World Fantasy Awards: "With the internet, it shouldn't be possible for that to happen again. But we hear an echo of it every time someone on Reddit says 'women just don’t write epic fantasy.'"

On the (un)livability of Rain City:

'We stand to wipe out a whole era': how the 1970s could vanish from Vancouver

I Left Vancouver Because Vancouver Left Me

Followup: Lament for a Lost City

More: (More) Laments for Lotus Land Lost

To read:

The Wanderer and the Wu Xing, a puzzle-game by a couple of acquaintances of mine.

The New Midlife Crisis

Freshly Remember'd: Kirk Drift

What the Ctenophore Says About the Evolution of Intelligence

Harvey Weinstein's Army of Spies, by Ronan Farrow, who knows something of what he writes. (Mildly startled to see Kroll referenced in the first paragraph, as they're the company I answered phones for back around the turn of the century.)

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Adventures in Mamboland

"Jazz Fish, a saxophone playing wanderer, finds himself in Mamboland at a critical phase in his life." --Howie Green, on his book Jazz Fish Zen

Yeah. That sounds about right.

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