L. Rhodes @lrhodes@merveilles.town

#introduction

Hi, Merveilles! I'm L., soon-to-be-former admin of the https://humanities.one instance.

I'm primarily a writer, as well as an incorrigible reader. I've mostly stopped freelancing, so much of what I write on a day-to-day basis shows up at http://lrhodes.net, if you're curious. Interests include #philosophy, #history, #politics, #religion, #arts, etc.

#introductions

Pete Seeger plays his own mandolin arrangement of the duet from Beethoven's 7th Symphony:
https://peteseeger.bandcamp.com/track/duet-from-beethovens-7th-symphony

My wildly talented friend Chris Devoe has a new album. #theStudio https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-qcHsfGGK8

Searching "moustaches" with safe search off like some kind of badass.

Anyone here familiar with Isaiah Berlin's The Hedgehog and the Fox? I had some thoughts about it after recently reading Tolstoy's final novel, Resurrection:
http://lrhodes.net/readings-workings/resurrection-tolstoy-berlin #theLibrary

Just had a very visceral reaction to getting a notification from an app that I very pointedly do not use.

An archive of scanned Infocom documents, saved by Steven Meretzky (who wrote Planetfall, A Mind Forever Voyaging, Leather Goddess of Phobos, etc) and archived by @textfiles https://archive.org/details/infocomcabinet

I wonder about the relationship to history that produces the desire to plunge oneself into the sort of detail required to make a game like this and still leaves you feeling that it would be fun to play at colonialism. https://waypoint.vice.com/en_us/article/vb9gd9/a-cancelled-board-game-revealed-how-colonialism-inspires-and-haunts-games

Might be time to institute a one-in, one-out policy on buying books for myself.

Please, I'm begging you, find a more informative, challenging, or intriguing way of starting your article than some variation on "Given that this subject is important in some way, it's reasonable that there has been a lot of interest in it."

A fun game to play whenever you see an org's Mastodon account is "bootleg mirror bot or nah?"

Just FYI, Beth Gibbons of Portishead recorded a Górecki symphony, learned Polish to do it, and apparently just utterly nailed it.
http://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/beth_gibbons_and_the_polish_national_radio_symphony_orchestra/

Oh man, this new Rafael Anton Irisarri track…
https://room40.bandcamp.com/track/coastal-trapped-disturbance

I wrote about Kirstjen Nielsen's resignation, and about the nature of forgiveness, both in general and in the specific context of a republic: http://lrhodes.net/agora-polis/forgiveness-republic

Debated whether to use Syncthing or Nextcloud for syncing files, ultimately went with Nextcloud, and tonight I'm very thankful for version control.

To clarify, the entire book was written by me, and I am not many different people.