This page includes resources, by topic, of stuff I know I’ll want to see again. Started because I’m sick of “I know I read about X, but now I can’t find it.”
Might be of interest to others.
Right now it has almost nothing, but I’ll be adding to it as time goes by.
Most of my own articles are not here/will not be here, but the ones I personally need to come back to (that I can find), I will include.
Munin Approves +1
3D Printing
House printed on site for 10K.
America
American individualism and authoritarianism, various studies.
American Care Act, ACA, Obamacare
Twitter thread on how high deductibles make coverage unusable for poor people.
Altruism
The math behind the evolutionary advantage for individuals to be altruistic.
Aviation
Belt and Road Initiative
Deloitte Report, excellent overview with good stats, 2018.
Books
Books I’ve read with useful information
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective, by Robert C. Allan. Data on commons vs. enclosed fields (commons not much behind), argument on cost of transporting coal making early steam engines only profitable near coal mines.
Books I want to read/buy, but probably haven’t
The Memory Code, Lynne Kelly. About how oral cultures used memory of geography and place to remember huge amounts of information.
The Hidden Life of Trees. How trees communicate with each other, keep the trunks of chopped down trees alive, and so on. Sentient?
Radical Embodied Cognitive Science by Anthony Chemero. Minds are not in any way like computers.
Books I should read and may have (but less likely than books I want to read)
Never Let a Good Crisis Go To Waste. How neoliberalism rose and didn’t fall during the financial crisis. Supposedly encylopedic but gloomy and helpless.
Anthro and Archeo
The Crash of Male Genetic Diversity Due To Patrilineal Warfare 17 women bred for every man.
Canada
Canada, Privatization, Trudeau
Capitalism
Global Deaths Under Capitalism.
Kicking Peasants off Their Land / Enclosure / Destroying ability of people to support themselves.
Climate Change
Possibility of negative carbon emissions.
Development Economics
Dire Poverty Reduction Is a Scam / World Not Best Place to Ever Live.
Extreme Poverty is not reducing. Hickel.
Hickel to Pinker – detailed chart ex. China.
Corbyn
Attacks on Corbyn, a long history. (June 18th)
Ecological Collapse
WWF Living Planet Report. From a blog post “We killed 58% of all vertebrate wildlife just between 1970 and 2012, and at a rate of 2% per year we will have massacred close to 70% of it by 2020, just 4 years from now”
75% collapse in flying insect populations in German nature reserves.
Evolution
The math behind the evolutionary advantage for individuals to be altruistic.
Hunter-Gatherers value storytelling more than anything else.
Europe
Poland
Poland’s right wing govt, 2016. Notes on history, and also on their economic redistributionism.
Freedom
Types of Freedom analyzed (transhumanism is the topic, but generally useful)
Great Extinction
WWF Living Planet Report. From a blog post “We killed 58% of all vertebrate wildlife just between 1970 and 2012, and at a rate of 2% per year we will have massacred close to 70% of it by 2020, just 4 years from now”
Health Care
Medical Profession/Treatments
Treatments which simply do not work but are regularly prescribed. (Beta Blockers, Back surgery for pain, cough syrup, antibiotics for ear infections.)
Life Expectancy
US Life Expectancy drops for whole population in 2015.
Hunter Gatherers live almost as long as we do (minus childhood mortality.)
Miscellaney
OHIP VIP program allowing people to skip the lines.
Measurement and Metrics
Measurement and Metrics are bad — Hospital examples.
Inequality
Piketty, Saez, Zucman. Bottom half of US population cut off from economic growth since 70s.
Archeological evidence on inequality, collection of papers.
Inequality in MesoAmerica vs. Eurasia (less, probably due to lack of beasts of burden.)
“Intellectual Property”
How AMD and Nvidia basically own all the video patents and Intel has to pay them to use them.
Incentives and Measurement
How measuring things in academia leads to perversion of those things (Goodhart’s Law)
Mind
Your brain does not process information, retrieve knowledge or store memories.
(Book) Radical Embodied Cognitive Science by Anthony Chemero.
Miscellaneous
How carnival games are rigged.
Academia requires ass-kissing.
Music (I apparently have bad taste, you are warned)
Crockett’s Theme, Miami Vice (Video)
Matrix Soundtrack, Clubbed to Death.
Bee Gees, Australia concert.
Vangelis, Chariots of Fire. Conquest of Paradise. Hymne.
Won’t Back Down, Jason Aldean.
Media
58% of Trump voters say they’d believe him over media if media said he lied.
Poverty
Report showing poverty has actually increased since 1990.
Right Wing, New
Poland’s right wing govt, 2016. Notes on history, and also on their economic redistributionism.
Rules of Prosperity
OHIP VIP program allowing people to skip the lines.
Sharing Economy
Long Form On Why Uber Bleeds $$ And Needs Market Power
Smartphones
Effect of smartphones of children and teenager’s happiness. (entirely negative)
Solar Power
Government role in creating solar power tech and market (below mid way)
Transhumanism
Types of Freedom and Transhumanism.
Trump and Era of Trump
Kushner, Jared
NY Mag profile from 2017 on his rise to Trump’s right hand.
Bannon, Steve
Speech Transcript from Vatican, Summer 2014. Basic populist, right wing, Christian, anti-Muslim views.
Bannon making sure there is no paper trail. Also lede is buried: NSC council leaked, Bannon cut them out.
A fairly detailed analysis of Bannon’s ideology from Quartz.
Media & Trump
58% of Trump voters say they’d believe him over media if media said he lied.
USSR
An argument, with sources, that citizens of USSR supported it and would still prefer to return. (Points are questionable, including economic argument ignoring consumer goods/food.)
Violence
Pinker and Violence, rebuttal: Part 1, part 2.
Wikileaks
Assange statement to Swedish prosecutors on sex crime allegations.
Windows, PC
Service for setting up new PCs, Ninite.
The results of the work I do are free but food is not, so if you value my work, please DONATE or SUBSCRIBE.