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reblogarythm ([personal profile] reblogarythm) wrote2025-05-17 06:05 am

What I saw on the web on 2025.5.16


  1. A Problem with Infinite Hotel Keys
    by Tom Crawford in conversation with Brady Haran
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uezOrcmHzrQ
    it is, of course, all about e
    via rss

  2. This Vancouver housing co-op is facing a $1M tax if it wants to renew its lease for more than 30 years
    by CBC News
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-housing-co-op-property-transfer-tax-1.7536390
    yikes! that legislation needs a cut-out for not-for-profit housing!
    via rss

  3. Northern Alberta Institute of Technology pausing 18 programs amid financial pressures
    by Emily Williams
    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/northern-alberta-institute-of-technology-pausing-18-programs-amid-financial-pressures-1.7536597
    yikes! that's a lot of programs being cut!
    via rss

  4. We can live well, even though we don’t have a higher purpose
    by Alexis Shotwell
    https://psyche.co/ideas/we-can-live-well-even-though-we-dont-have-a-higher-purpose
    an existentialist perspective, based in the writings of Ursual K le Guin
    via discord

  5. How to 'See' the 4th Dimension with Topology
    by Maggie Miller speaking to Quanta Magazine
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MURzTFRRuJQ
    yup, dimension 4 is a weirdo
    via youtube recommends

  6. A War Without End
    by Ursula K le Guin
    https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/3585-a-war-without-end-by-ursula-k-le-guin
    an excellent discussion. read it in connexion with link 4, above
    via FB

  7. Beyond Solitaire Podcast 189: Ada Palmer on LARPing the Renaissance
    by Ada Palmer speaking with Liz
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3UUWwMSZ_o
    a wonderful and wide-ranging conversation
    via checking to see what she'd done on youtube recently