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<\/p>\nCatching up on unused links from the past three weeks. A couple of these I’ll return to in detail.<\/p>\n
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Salon, Nicole Karlis, 23 Nov 2023<\/strong>: The case for bringing a dish of gossip to Thanksgiving this year<\/a><\/p>\n (In recent years I’ve seen increasing evolutionary understanding of how gossip functions, especially in small communities, to police members of the group; it’s about reputation and shame and handling interpersonal issues without getting ‘authorities’ involved.)<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 22 Nov 2023<\/strong>: The simple reason why Donald Trump is escalating his Hitlerian rhetoric: MAGA demands more<\/a>, subtitled “Many of Trump\u2019s diehard followers are White Christians who have found a role model and outlet for their desires”<\/p>\n The article begins: “Hillary Clinton was right<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 again.”<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n OnlySky, Captain Cassidy, 21 Nov 2023<\/strong>: The Remnant: That evangelical need to feel picked-on and special<\/a>, subtitled “Funny how the remnant looks just like all the other power-hungry, privilege-grabbing hypocrites we\u2019ve ever seen in evangelicalism”<\/p>\n The taste for feeling victimized does seem to be a recurring theme.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n The Atlantic, Peter Wehner, 22 Nov 2023:<\/strong> Have You Listened Lately to What Trump Is Saying?<\/a>, subtitled “He is becoming frighteningly clear about what he wants.”<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n LA Times, Jackie Calmes, 21 Nov 2023<\/strong>: Column: Can\u2019t convince Uncle MAGA he\u2019s wrong? This Thanksgiving, let Trump\u2019s \u2018best people\u2019 do the arguing<\/a><\/p>\n A litany of the many people Trump has hired who leave their positions and then express, to one degree or another, what a moron he is. Pence, Barr, Kelly, Mattis, Esper, Tillerson, Cohn, McMaster, Bolton, Spencer, Bossert, Griffin. Is Trump a poor judge of character? Or perhaps they’re all right?<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n NY Times, guest essay by Cass R. Sunstein, 20 Nov 2023<\/strong>: Why I Am a Liberal<\/a><\/p>\n Long piece with 34 points. I’ll revisit it later.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n NY Times, guest essay by Kate Marvel, 18 Nov 2023<\/strong>: I\u2019m a Climate Scientist. I\u2019m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.<\/a><\/p>\n Will also return to this.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Quanta Magazine, Alex Stone, 16 Nov 2023<\/strong>: The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences<\/a>, subtitled “Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers \u2014 until they\u2019re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians.”<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Joe.My.God, 17 Nov 2023<\/strong>: Fox Sports Reporter: I\u2019ve Invented Quotes Many Times<\/a><\/p>\n No comment necessary.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n Quanta Magazine, Yasemin Saplakoglu, 9 Nov 2023<\/strong>: Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better<\/a>, subtitled “The discovery that the brain has different systems for representing small and large numbers provokes new questions about memory, attention and mathematics.”<\/p>\n This is one of those cognitive flaws that leads to bad\/dishonest science fiction. As I discussed in my essay.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n The Atlantic, Charlie Warzel, 3 Nov 2023<\/strong>: The Great Social Media\u2013News Collapse<\/a>, subtitled “Big Tech\u2019s relationship with journalism is much more complicated than it appears.”<\/p>\n I think this is about mainstream media is withdrawing from social media, but I’ll return to this later.<\/p>\n \\<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/d2r55xnwy6nx47.cloudfront.net\/uploads\/2023\/11\/WeirdSequences-byKristinaArmitage-Lede-scaled.webp\")
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