Weekly Whimsies

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Joe Maceda

How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined The Modern World

Jason Pargin cracked.com

Source: Inc.com

Mark Fisher • Exiting the Vampire Castle

NaNoWriMo Organizers Said It Was Classist and Ableist to Condemn AI. All Hell Broke Loose

Meghan Herbst wired.com

There are many things to take from this story — about beginner's mind, the diversity of human experience, and the interoperability of language

Elan Ullendorff • Should This Be a Map or 500 Maps?

The Problem with Nostalgia

Michael Musto open.substack.com

Source: The A.V. Club

Watch The Avengers re-assemble to record The Avengers in Lakota

I read new fiction, as I knew writers must, but the stuff that everyone was talking about back then was written by men - Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, John Updike, Philip Roth. I read them dutifully, and admired them, but I couldn’t see any way into that world.

(3) Niagara Falls All Over Again

Does 'Avatar' Have No Cultural Footprint? A Statistical Analysis

Daniel Parris statsignificant.com

Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones

Maria Popova themarginalian.org