What I saw on the web on 2022.1.9

[reblogarythm]

1. 27 Unhelpful Facts About Category Theory
   by Oliver Lugg
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0Ek86IH-3Y
   this is hilarious. and accurate.
   via reddit
   
   
2. Sunday 09 January 2022. Bredonborough
   by Robert Fripp
   https://www.dgmlive.com/diaries/Robert%20Fripp/2022-01-09-rf-diary
   some reflections from a self-described Awful Man
   via rss
   
   
3. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (for 2 contrabassoons and subcontrabassoon)
   by Richard Bobo³ and a surprise from Jeffrey Curnow
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM3QaSqraPY
   note what's involved in changing pitches on the subcontra
   via checking in on RB's channel
   
   
4. Oh, 2022!
   by Charlie Stross
   http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2022/01/oh-2022.html
   some ruminations from Charlie on how the strange portion of the future is getting larger
   via rss
   
   
5. Was Voltaire the First Sci-Fi Author?
   by Geek's Guide to the Galaxy, interviewing Ada Palmer
   https://www.wired.com/2022/01/geeks-guide-ada-palmer/
   short answer: depends what you mean by Sci-Fi
   via her twitter account
   
   
6. Purity in a Trumped-Up World
   by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein in conversation with Alexis Shotwell
   https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/purity-trumped-world/conversation-alexis-shotwell
   how to think productively about engaging not with our ideal world but with the one we actually live in?
   via Ada_Palmer
   
   
7. Dirtiest Joke in the World
   by Bob Saget
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHeZS3mGDKY
   RIP Saget, you filthy, filthy man
   via googlery after boing