Jacob MacDonald @jaccarmac@freedom.horse

Literally a special snowflake 😊 https://github.com/keybase/client/commit/cdd6ea8eb168f56c9c71a0473de7770156d0aa94

Thanks to the recent Half Waif release, my playlist of month-songs is closer to complete. Suggestions for January, March, September, October welcome.

#nowplaying Messiaen's "Dieu parmi nous"... on accordion https://youtu.be/FY8rErqsxvE

stream Alpacalypse by Colin Stetson

LE PARADOXE REDNECK

"However, one who answers that power is cumulative and is concentrated in the hands of a few groups or individuals is drawn to very different conclusions: ..."

It's A Wonderful Life season :)

https://daily.jstor.org/meet-john-doe-darkness-american-democracy/ (link to the paper halfway through that article)

"The egg in the lab doesn’t apply. It’s not in a woman. She’s not pregnant"

To no one's surprise, Alabama's abortion law isn't about abortion at all, but about punishing those who are most vulnerable due to their class and the state's lack of sex education. Disgusting, and even Dreher agrees, which I find hilarious.

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/alabama-abortion-ivf/

How is Eldridge Cleaver a real person and how have I never heard of him before.

Lots to digest here and in the pseudo-response by William James. http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/Clifford_ethics.pdf

Magnificent

The more I listen to and learn about this album the more it grows on me. http://vishkhanna.com/2017/10/17/ep-357-protomartyrs-joe-casey/

6 months ago: Apartment complex stopped accepting any packages in the office, outsourcing to a third party.

Today: Said third party began to place advertising on my packages before delivering them.

No way to opt out. Remember, Millennials are the problem, definitely not surveillance capitalism :^)

Some good stuff in here re: today's prison strike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU

If you can't draw a very hard line at isolating children for the crimes of their parents, without due process, with no good way to be reunited, then you have some serious introspection to do. Thank God that the Church recognizes that line. https://oca.org/news/headline-news/metropolitan-tikhon-addresses-president-trump-on-the-separation-of-families

oof ouch owie my sapir-whorf hypothesis http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf

Been researching legal name changes recently. https://freedom.horse/media/HapCSc1IPXYeuDXXDCE

Annihilation is well worth the price of a movie ticket. Excellent score that booms in a theater and a nice surprise for Electric Sheep fans in the end credits.