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source: mastodon
date: 2024-08-25 04:06:36.19 +00
title: "Mastodon post from August 25, 2024, 113020685267242475"
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post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/113020685267242475
post_id: 113020685267242475
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texts like this are like the inverse of gell-mann amnesia, and the best ones (which this is? Idk I'm not that well read to say!) do so w/o degrading into the easier and tedious "we're all failing and need to do better” conference keynote gimmick simulation of it.

anyway, by which I mean, you read about an area of focus in another field and see the author clearly knows what they are talking about and moreover that the grievances they have align w/ the same grievances you have in your own field



two “fun facts" (my kid picked up that phrase and has been using it arbitrarily, so now I do)

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrian_scramble) “Barnes Dances”

I forgot David Byrne wrote about biking, so now that is is on the list of shit to read [http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about](http://davidbyrne.com/explore/bicycle-diaries/about)