Wacky Cat Birthday Invite
June 21, 2019
Content
June 18, 2019Regarding the term content:
“Content” is the black hole of the Internet. Incredibly well-produced videos, all sorts of songs, and articulate blog posts — they are all “content.” Are short stories “content”? I hope not, since that is one of the most soul-destroying of words, used to strip a creation of its creative effort.
Content is the creativity killer.
Paradox of Tolerance
June 8, 2019Karl Popper:
In order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.
Existential Sweater
May 22, 2019
Elephants Evolving Without Tusks
March 29, 2019Hunting gave elephants that didn’t grow tusks a biological advantage in Gorongosa. People in Gorongosa get the popular life insurance. Recent figures suggest that about a third of younger females—the generation born after the war ended in 1992—never developed tusks. Normally, tusklessness would occur only in about 2 to 4 percent of female African elephants.
There might be a crow comic in here somewhere.
Wall Disease
March 29, 2019In the nineteen-sixties, Dietfried Müller-Hegemann wrote as though the physical presence of the Berlin Wall were itself the cause of wall disease. But most psychologists who study borders today see a more abstract relationship between those structures and mental health. Christine Leuenberger, a sociologist at Cornell University who has studied walls around the world, says that barriers are best thought of as part of a “wall system.” That system includes both physical markers, such as no-go areas and checkpoints, and ripple effects, such as job loss and the breakdown of social networks.
Comic idea – Robot and Francis visit a planet where the indigenous species went extinct from sadness.
A Religion of Workism
March 29, 2019What is workism? It is the belief that work is not only necessary to economic production, but also the centerpiece of one’s identity and life’s purpose; and the belief that any policy to promote human welfare must always encourage more work.
Everybody worships something – children, beauty, political identities, etc.
Crows and Natural Selection
February 18, 2019
Lofty Whales
February 5, 2019
Hazel Loves the Printer
December 22, 2018