2026-05-17
Light on links this week. Sorry!
Some guy had a collection of bones bigger than most museums. He worked as an electrical engineer for the Manhattan Project, then decided to LARP as Indiana Jones and start robbing grave sites. You know the "anthropological" difference between humans and animals? Humans are the only species on the planet that bury their dead. Well, at least that's what I remember reading in my AP World History textbook my sophomore year of high school. Before converting to Orthodox Christianity, I used to want to get cremated after I died; many in my family have the same sentiment. But now that I understand that my salvation is on the line, I'm hoping for a good Christian burial after my repose.
Louis Rossman whining about YouTube taking analytics data from his audience while also posting that video onto YouTube, and letting them take more analytics from his audience. I generally support Louis Rossman's main cause, right to repair, and I think his platform has done a fair amount of good work in that space and fighting against enshittification and blah blah blah—but when asked if I think his content is "emotionally manipulative," I am going to answer in the affirmative, honestly. Louis is a classic hard-nosed engineer, a type I've seen many times. His aim is not to stir any kind of emotional resistance, but to solve legitimate problems. Unfortunately, those same types of people get lost in the elusive stew of social signaling, and while they don't intend to be emotionally manipulative, they typically do so by accident through their supposedly "rational" argumentation style. People like Louis seem to have a strict divide in their head between emotional and rational thinking, but they are more overlapped than they are mutually exclusive. I think Louis sees the irony in making a video like this, but I think if his movement is as important as he thinks it is, he'd understand that he doesn't need large platforms like YouTube to reach the right people.
A woman's perspective on a dating crisis in the Orthodox Church. So, you're saying there's a chance?
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