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I've been enjoying longer rides through the frigid airs of winter. People run just a little bit slower, and pockets of sunshine feel especially welcoming to those lucky enough to receive it. Streets are quieter, and shops cozier; there's no greater feeling than shedding layers beneath the heater.

I've always felt comfortable riding in the city. I learned to ride a bike in college, but I never felt uneased in large crowds and heavy traffic. Perhaps it was the sense of exhilaration; of breaking away from earthly tethers. The control of private transport, with the freedoms of open air and loose traffic laws.

Gardens

Terry Barentsen's videos have served as a constant reminder of my love for cycling and all it can be: a social congregator, a solitary meditator, a humbler and free-er and empower-er. An extension of your muscles and emotions, a reminder of what it feels to be and be within.

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Pretend it’s still july and I’m not a week behind

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Advertising Swedish foldable helmets to everyone at the cubano stand.

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Embracing the fluidity of time and space in and around the apartment.

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Tired and weary of our present surroundings, but inspired by the strength of my peers and the throes of your megaphones.

1. I Detransitioned. But Not Because I Wasn't Trans.

There’s something so glaringly obvious about the people Singal interviewed for his feature on detransitioning. Did you catch it? They’re all alive.

In a 2015 study conducted by PACE, an LGBT mental-health charity, 48 percent of trans people under the age of 26 said they had attempted suicide. Additionally, 59 percent reported considering it in the past year. For the sake of comparison, the PACE study also found that only 26 percent of cisgender people under the age of 26 had ever attempted suicide.

2. Jill Soloway on The Female Gaze

YEP, TV and filmmaking and fuck, all culture making -- is people going, I’m okay! And people who are similar to me are okay! Watch this ½ hour then be more on my side! In case of Armageddon! Zika! Trump! Hitler! We all need friends and so we make tribes with our art.

Yes, simply put, Protagonism is Propaganda.

Protagonism is Propaganda that protects and perpetuates privilege.


If Protagonism is Propaganda that protects and perpetuates privilege, then my plan today is to inspire more women to grab hold of the gaze. [v]

3. The Fiction of Optimization

In field settings, decision making and problem solving are usually blended. Typically, I am not just trying to select between the options; I am also learning about the situation, finding gaps in all the options, discovering ways to combine courses of action, and inventing new courses of action.
 

4. Life, Liberty, and Trade Secrets

...compared  to  substantive  trade  secret  law,  [criminal trade secret]  privilege  overprotects  intellectual  property.  Trade  secret  law  protects  secret  information from  “misappropriation,”  meaning  improper  use  or  acquisition. Individuals  who  assert  the  privilege—in  both  civil  and  criminal  cases—already  enjoy  the  standard  ex  post  remedies  that  trade  secret  law  affords  for  misappropriation.  Layering  on  a  privilege  thus  grants  “protection  plus.” 

In  addition,  the  privilege  creates  an  ex  ante  injunction  on  the  use  of  trade  secret  information   without   any   showing   of   actual,   threatened,   or   inevitable   misappropriation—an    extreme    protection    that    is    not    available    under    substantive  trade  secret  law.  Moreover,  the  underlying  theoretical  rationales for   the   existence   of   trade   secret   law—that   it   encourages   innovation   and promotes fair business practices—can’t justify a privilege that overwhelmingly shields  trade  secrets  from  people  who  will  most  likely  never  be  business competitors.

Perhaps the biggest hallmark of epistemic cronyism is exhibiting strong emotions, as when we feel proud of a belief, anguish over changing our minds, or anger at being challenged or criticized. These emotions have no business being within 1000ft of a meritocratic belief system — but of course they make perfect sense as part of a crony belief system, where cronies need special protection in order to survive the natural pressures of a meritocracy.