What I saw on the web on 2022.10.3

[reblogarythm]

1. Why Oboes Are So Expensive
   by Business Insider
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xOj9bLkYVQ
   that's a perfectly reasonable explanation
   via TYWKIWDBI
   
   
2. Seeing and somethingness
   by Nicholas Humphrey
   https://aeon.co/essays/how-blindsight-answers-the-hard-problem-of-consciousness
   an investigation of the implications of blindsight. i feel like there's a step lacking in the argument.
   via reddit
   
   
3. The Pathologies of the Attention Economy
   by L.M. Sacasas
   https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-pathologies-of-the-attention
   not yet read, but it's a topic about which i think regularly
   via ran prieur
   
   
4. BRIEF OF THE ONION AS AMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER
   by The Onion
   https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%20-%20Novak-Parma%20-%20Onion%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2x47EFBGwG0hVkfaTi4vV5T5TH4ZhmeTD2xdHtGwv6zQ8c55bo5-5HLKw
   in case you still thought we were actually in the real world, this exists
   via comment on charlie's blog
   
   
5. Sheldon Cooper presents Fun with Flags
   by David Benson
   https://slides.com/davidbenson/minimal#/1
   i will never look at "Norway" the same way again
   via Ada_Palmer
   

Comments

[jjhunter]

That amicus curiae brief filing from The Onion is both funny and very much to the point - it really delivers on its delicious table of contents agenda:INTEREST OF THE AMICUS CURIAE ............. 1
INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY OF ARGU- MENT .................................................................. 2
ARGUMENT ........................................................ 4
I. Parody Functions By Tricking People Into Thinking That It Is Real ........................... 4
II. Because Parody Mimics “The Real Thing,”
It Has The Unique Capacity To Critique The Real Thing .......................................... 8
III. A Reasonable Reader Does Not Need A Disclaimer To Know That Parody Is Parody ........................................................ 10
IV. It Should Be Obvious That Parodists Cannot Be Prosecuted For Telling A Joke With A Straight Face ................................. 15
CONCLUSION..................................................... 18