What I saw on the web on 2021.1.13

[reblogarythm]

1. A quote from Mason Cooley
   by pattage23
   https://twitter.com/pattage23/status/1349178177252253697
   I agree
   via his twitter feed — how does one .rssify a twitter account?
   
   
2. How Many Microcovids Would You Spend on a Burrito?
   by Gregory Barber
   https://www.wired.com/story/group-house-covid-risk-points/
   a fair question
   via Ada Palmer on twitter
   
   
3. On the Goldwater Rule & the 25th: the Present Limits of Psychiatry
   by siderea
   https://siderea.dreamwidth.org/1686298.html
   in which a good case is made
   via rss
   
   
4. Twitter’s ban of Donald Trump isn’t a free-speech crisis – though that crisis remains on the boil
   by Andrew Coyne
   https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-twitters-ban-of-donald-trump-isnt-a-free-speech-crisis-though-that/?cmpid=rss
   Coyne suggests that conservatism is more about tax policy; less about assassinations, violent revolution, and race war
   via rss
   
   
5. Concrete Cuckoo Clocks in Form of Germany’s Brutalist Buildings
   by Happy Jasta
   https://www.homecrux.com/concrete-cuckoo-clocks-by-guido-zimmermann/101497/
   I don't think I'd get one, but a fun concept
   via Jacobin, ultimately from FB
   
   
6. Piles of dirty snow are a Canadian kid's kingdom
   by Nichole Huck
   https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/dirty-snow-piles-huck-1.5868627
   yup
   via rss
   
   
7. 20 years a blogger
   by Cory Doctorow
   https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/13/two-decades/#hfbd
   a chunk of this resonates with my experience. Cory's creation of pluraistic is arguably a main impetus behind reblogarythm
   via rss
   
   
8. Slot car catastrophe caught on video
   by Mark Frauenfelder, reblogging someone
   https://boingboing.net/2021/01/13/slot-car-catastrophe-caught-on-video.html
   oops
   via rss
   
   
9. "lost waterways of Edmonton"
   by /u/GlitchedGamer14
   https://www.reddit.com/r/Edmonton/comments/kwq8y9/the_lost_waterways_of_edmonton_as_of_2001_the_red/
   [insert obvious Joni Mitchell reference here]
   via reddit
   
   
10. The Bizarre Way We'll Keep Track of Time on Mars
    by RealLifeLore
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuCipRrKpc8
    the issue with defining months, in particular, is . . . Complicated
    via boing
    
    
11. Praying mantises watching TV!
    by InsecthausTV
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAa-A45N6Yo
    apparently not only humans get glued to the tube
    via boing