You look like you’re having a tough day so here is a video of Jennifer Garner freaking out on a roller coaster. www.instagram.com/p/B7WnSXA…
Micro.blog is making me better at social media in general. Instead of just mindlessly tapping “LIKE,” say something. “Beautiful photo – I love the reds.” etc.
Our cat Sammy has far more confidence in my ability to avoid stepping on him when he’s sprawled out on the floor than I do.
It’s 84 degrees in my office, I just started drinking a blazing hot cup of strong coffee, and I can’t find the remote control to turn on the ceiling fan.
[Boonton New Jersey, circa 1960])reddit.com/r/TheWayW…)
On the 50 Things That Made the Modern Economy podcast: Pornography: Examining claims that pornography helped develop the Internet, and every other form of new media for several centuries. (Photography was so expensive in the 19th Century that a pornographic image cost more than time with an actual prostitute.) The Internet initially made it possible for pornographers to make money, but now it’s making it more difficult. (I almost said “making it harder” there.)
On the Our Opinions Are Correct podcast: Science Fiction Explains Our Messed Up Economy. Economist Noah Smith discusses how different theories of economics show up in science fiction, and how economics is itself an exercise in speculative worldbuilding. Also, the economic theory of “rational actors” pervades classic midcentury space opera, and everybody’s obsessed with game theory. And discussion of the most influential science fiction writer of the past century: Ayn Rand.
Interview with Carol Downer and Francie Hornstein, who helped women get safer abortions in the 1960s before the procedure became legal in the US.
The abortion underground: Downer and Hornstein helped women provide a safer alternative to brutal back-alley butchers to end unwanted pregnancies. Downer herself suffered a traumatic back-alley abortion in 1963, which inspired her to help other women.
Father tricks his toddler daughters into stopping crying by telling them to take turns. I thought it was cute but the comments are harsh on Dad.