Refactorings Roundup 11/13/18 – 12/08/18

We have 8 featured posts from friends of ribbonfarm, 19 selections from elsewhere around the internet, and a few short takes this roundup. We also have a new addition to our friends-of-ribbonfarm blogsphere dragnet: foolproof.ink.

I just realized my approach to curation is basically the same as my approach to reading to fuel writing. You could call it Postel Curation: Be liberal in what you read, conservative in what you write (after Postel’s Law). I’ve unconsciously been trying to include at least 2x as many selections in the “Stuff We Read” bucket as opposed to the New Posts (== “Stuff We Wrote” bucket).

This roundup is a human-filtered subset of links and short takes aggregated by the Feed Fox bot authored by Zach Faddis, and running on the refactorcamp.org Mastodon instance. You can follow the bot directly if you want the unfiltered firehose.

New Posts

1. The power of explanation ht Foolproof Ink. Link. ht @vgr
2. War like posture and other metaphors by zenpundit. Link
3. The problem with Lindy by @msweet. Link
4. Redecentralize (event report) by @bkam. Link
5. thematic tension by thesublemon. Link
6. Goodbye and hello by @msweet. Link
7. Playing Politics by srconstantin. Link
8. Rupetta pre-read w/ Charlotte Geater: Folk tales & feminist histories (audio). by @adrianryan. Link

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Stuff we Read

1. Whale ear wax and oceanic history .Link. ht @vgr
2. Flash dance in support of euthanesia (video). Link. ht @machado
3. The brain has 2 clocks, one for rhythms, one for experiences. Link. ht @vgr
4. The predatory small-business lending industry .Link. ht @vgr
5. The new Opportunity Zone tax laws allow for a lot of tax-minimization for the rich investor. Link. ht @Harry_Pottash
6. 250 years later, benefits of education near Jesuit missions. Link. ht @dereklh
7. Creative beefs. Link. ht @vgr
8. Gandhi’s reputation is undergoing complexification. Link. ht @vgr
9. On the origins of “Odinnic” sacrifice. Link. ht @msweet
10. The African Middle Ages. Link. ht @dereklh
11. The open office and the spirit of capitalism. Link. ht @dereklh
12. Sweden’s Decades-Long Failure to Integrate. Link. ht @Elmkast
13. Could poetry both freely create and rationally assert? Bonnefoy’s poetry. Link. ht @vgr
14. Can toroid planets exist? Link. ht @nindokag
15. Genetic error led humans to evolve bigger, but more vulnerable, brains. Link. ht @vgr
16. Regenerative capitalism (paper). Link. ht @alec
17. Environmentally mediated social dilemmas. Link. ht @makiaea
18. Four laws of success and status. Link. ht @dereklh
19. New Thomas Sowell interview. Link. ht @vgr

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Short Takes

1. The apotheosis of NIMBYism would involve radical life extension. — @dereklh
2. Opportunities for meaning are abundant. It’s sincerity of belief that is hard to come by. — @msweet
3. The more you want to go against the flow, the more baggage you have to carry — @vgr
4. Technology is human existence compounded. — @msweet
5. The difference between a grand narrative and a narrative is that the former is where surplus middle-class attention preferentially flows — @vgr
6. People think they have 20/20 hindsight. Actually most hindsight conclusions are just another theory that hasn’t been tested against reality yet. — @Harry_Pottash

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