Punching nazis is probably good, but never be gleeful about violence

There was a period of time where people on Twitter seemed very gleeful about punching Nazis, and the idea of punching Nazis.&n

cultural cosplay: a broader framework for thinking about cultural appropriation

I’ve never quite been satisfied with the overuse of the phrase “cultural appropriation” in all sorts of cont

Talking about cultural things means getting things wrong.

I think cultural things are the most interesting things but they’re also the hardest to talk about with other people A b

different people have different mental models

People typically have high-res models of their own lives and lower-res models of other people’s. We are all born clueless wi

People are tired, and this leads to suboptimal outcomes on many fronts

A thing I didn’t appreciate as a kid, but understand better now, is why so much of the world is suboptimal – it’s no

do you know what you want?

What do you want? Do you really want what you think you want, or did you inherit it from your parents, your peers, from societ

lessons from reflections

2006 sigh im back, may 07 the thoughts that inspired \(n_n)/, Oct ’07 What makes a show? Oct 07 performer’s insecurity, no

Attempting A Reading Into Indian History

What is India? What is Indian? I like to start with words. The name India is derived from Indus, from the Old Persion word Hin

electricity

How electricity works We live in an electric world – lightning is electricity, electric currents run through our bodies. ele

Why I stopped blogging in 2013, I think

Before I start with this, I want to take a moment to summarize a 2014 blogpost, “Why should we blog?“ It allows fo

tedtalks

TED talks

Books I’d like to talk about

I used to have a really old version of this blogpost that was tattered and patchy, until eventually I got sick of it and decid

Narcissist PR works because we can’t shut up about it

WIP I tweeted a more cautious version of this blogpost in July, and it’s been on my mind so I wanted to take some time t

Most people over-tolerate assholes, which lets them get away with it

[Original thread] As I get older I feel this subtle-but-strong pressure to become more “professional” – more “civi

WWE

I remember when I was a young child – maybe five or six years old – when I first watched WWE on TV. (At the time it was ca

Hypothesis: people with uncommon names are likelier to develop uncommon identities

Here’s a nominative determinism flavored hypothesis: I believe that people with uncommon names are likelier to develop u

Helm Of The Arse Gods

Oddball confession: one of my first life-shaping experiences on the Internet was lying on a video game forum (Darkstone, Delph