And when she goes a bit ’crazy,’ […] no one actually says that she’s gone mad. Everyone understands that she’s in grief and that it will take time, perhaps a long time if the death was sudden and unexpected, for her to rearrange her life again so that the new normal becomes automatic and comfortable and comprehensible. […] But when we have a ‘breakdown,’ when our dissociative coping strategy that has kept our trauma or abuse at bay for years or years suddenly collapses in the lounge and dies on the floor, and we find when we come home from work that it’s not there anymore, people don’t see our resultant behaviour as normal. Even we ourselves think we have just ‘gone mad.’ We don’t have a paradigm for it. And because there’s no corpse in the lounge, no funeral cortège, no life insurance pay-out and a bank statement in a single name, because it’s all intrapsychic and hidden in the undergrowth of our mind, then our outward behaviours do seem ‘crazy.’

Systems validate our madness.

Why do men find it so hard to connect with other people, and their own emotions?

A modern review of a misunderstood and kinda strange book. Man, once you’ve consumed one or two good pieces of “masculinity crisis” media, you kinda realize the rest of them don’t have much of anything novel to say.

see: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29434.Self_Made_Man

Wow, a JREG video I can relate to LOL.

The great irony of this is that people like Merrick Garland think that they’re eschewing politics. The reality is the opposite: the careful avoidance of anything that appears political is itself a political act. It is a performance, intended to convey to your audience that you are neutral and unbiased. It’s an effort in institutional PR.

In 1992 a yoga instructor with a distance-learning PhD had the courage to ask: “Are women not getting help around the house because they’re using the wrong modal verb?”

I hate sexism. I hate the patriarchy. Fucking men, bro.

Sharyn Alfonsi’s Inside CECOT for 60 Minutes, which was censored by Bari Weiss, as it appeared on Canada’s Global TV app.

Wow. And they pulled this shit off the air. Terrifying.

But this is a useful window into Bari’s mind. To her, what’s courageous is standing up to the left, no matter the circumstance. To a dedicated reactionary, the left is an indefatigable social, cultural, and political force. It must be confronted at every turn, and every confrontation is a noble cause. The median Senator taking the median position becomes brave. Mediocrity transforms into heroism.

The Family Red Apple boycott, also known as the “Red Apple boycott”, “Church Avenue boycott” or “Flatbush boycott”, was the starting point of an eighteen-month series of boycotts targeting Korean-owned stores. It began in January 1990 with a Korean-American-owned shop called Family Red Apple at 1823 Church Avenue in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn and extended to other stores, both within and beyond the original neighborhood.

Racial turmoil set up by the white man in my own neighborhood. Harrowing indeed.

via: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032329299027001005

An excellent piece making clear how Asian Americans fit into the tapestry of race in America, and how they’re used as pawns by whites to to further the disenfranchisement of blacks.

This is a playlist covering various topics in Measure Theory

When you sell stock you pay capital gains tax, but there’s no tax if you donate the stock directly. Under a bunch of assumptions, someone donating $10k could likely increase their donations by ~$1k by donating stock.

Intro to Measure Theory covering Sigma Algebras, Measures, Measurable Spaces, and Measure Spaces.

Falling in love with a fictional character is not abnormal. Neither by societal standards based on just how many people do and by psychological standards. It is a normal thing we sometimes do as humans; become attached to someone who doesn’t really exist. Let’s take a journey into the mountain of psychological research and real life pandemonium of fictophilia.

In mathematics it happens at times that one and the same concept is given two different names to indicate a specific perspective, a certain attitude as to what to do with such objects.

via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRTUJoMinuU`

People take what they need and change what they don’t; they read, interrogate, contextualize; in this way, history moves forward. The question is not what the books say. The question is always you, the reader; what you take, what you leave, and how you change the world.