Category: real life
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2022 in Review
It feels like the world is getting back to normal in 2022, but with two important caveats. First, it probably shouldn’t feel this way. More people are dying of COVID now than at many times in the past few years when we rightly freaked out. Yet we’ve stopped doing anything about it. The threat of…
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The Upsides of the Death of Privacy
Technology has killed privacy. Even aside from the USA’s latest privacy invasions, most of us are semi-voluntarily leaving a trail of information as we go about our Internet-connected lives. Much is made of the downsides of the death of privacy, but what about the benefits? Like, remember when having an alibi for a crime meant…
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The Best Most Listened-To Albums of 2012: Top 20
Here are the 20 albums that I listened to the most this year. The first part of the top 35 is over here; as I mentioned there, it was an odd year for music. I don’t even own many of the albums below; rather, I streamed them from various places. Once again I’ve bolded some…
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