What I saw on the web on 2021.7.15

1. Book Review: Crazy Like Us
   by Scott Alexander reviewing Ethan Watters
   https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-crazy-like-us
   having read the book twice myself, and being familiar with the reviewer's work, it was interesting to see how the two perspectives interacted with each other
   via rss
   
   
2. Why Do Analysts Keep Talking Nonsense About Chinese Words?
   by Jake Eberts
   https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/06/chinese-characters-phrenology-orientalism/
   as Homer says, "crisitunity!"
   via email
   
   
3. Facebook’s alternative facts
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://doctorow.medium.com/facebooks-alternative-facts-af735fd80939
   yup. The "gaslightism" of which Doctor O speaks is a nasty, pervasive thing; successful, until it butts heads with the parts of reality that aren't socially constructed
   via rss
   
   
4. Premier Jason Kenney announces equalization, daylight saving referendums
   by Drew Anderson
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-jason-kenney-referendum-equalization-1.6103528
   one of these is waste-of-time-ier than the other
   via rss
   
   
5. So, this is how to cut a peach so you can easily remove the pit
   by Mark Frauenfelder reblogging It's Holly
   https://boingboing.net/2021/07/15/so-this-is-how-to-cut-a-peach-so-you-can-easily-remove-the-pit.html
   looks like it should work. To be kept in mind!
   via rss
   
   
6. Stand Here for Dance Party
   by Improv Everywhere
   https://improveverywhere.com/2021/07/15/stand-here-for-dance-party/
   This does seem like a particularly NYC thing
   via rss
   
   
7. Carl Sagan Talks About Star Wars A New Hope Mistakes
   by Carl Sagan talking with Johnny Carson
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UsHQEr3A5Q
   including a well-presented limerick
   via boing
   
   
8. Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes (Alternate Unreleased Version)
   by Paul Simon, with Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Bakhithi Kumalo
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mez8gWnir5U
   great alternate mix. Forward the bass!
   via reddit
   
   
9. Emmy Noether faced sexism and Nazism – 100 years later her contributions to ring theory still influence modern math
   by Tamar Lichter Blanks
   https://theconversation.com/emmy-noether-faced-sexism-and-nazism-100-years-later-her-contributions-to-ring-theory-still-influence-modern-math-163245
   Emmy Noether was awesome!
   via reddit
   
   
10. FireSmoke.ca
    by these folks
    https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/
    sadly very useful these days
    via reddit
    
    
11. Death Trap
    by Tommy McCook & the Prophets
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sryk65q51_8
    with Yabby You, King Tubby, and those flying cymals! Yes, yes!
    via memory