muninnhuginn | Feb. 1st, 2022

Read:

Fiction:

The ending (without giving anything away I hope) does not work on the Kindle due to the impossibility of resizing the last portion of text (which I assume is actually a graphic, for reasons). Irritating. Remedied by downloading onto a laptop and using the Kindle Reader instead.

Shorts:

Werewolf by U. M. Celovska (DSF)
The Ansible Light by Chloe Smith (DSF)
ROCK SOLID MORALITY by LM Zaerr (https://everydayfiction.com/rock-solid-morality-by-lm-zaerr/)
In the Beginning of Me, I Was a Bird by Maria Dong (https://gizmodo.com/lightspeed-presents-in-the-beginning-of-me-i-was-a-bi-1848310636)
Shattered Petals of Celadon by M.K. Hutchins (DSF)
FRUITING BODIES by Kemi Ashing-Giwa (https://www.tor.com/2022/01/12/fruiting-bodies-kemi-ashing-giwa/)
Flesh of my Fin by Shannon Fay (DSF)
Pest Control by SASWATI CHATTERJEE (https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/fiction/pest-control/)
Commuting by S A McKenzie (DSF)
To Make Unending by Max Gladstone (https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/to-make-unending)
Last Flight by Bret Parent (DSF)
Mind the Meniscus by Jason P Burnham (DSF)

Poetry:

Non-Fiction:

What will property look like in the Metaverse Published by Andres Guadamuz (https://www.technollama.co.uk/what-will-property-look-like-in-the-metaverse)
How Academia Undervalues Expertise by Matt Shipman (https://medium.com/@shiplives/how-academia-undervalues-expertise-4eafa08bc639)
The Great Surrender: How We Gave Up And Let COVID Win by Chuck Wendig (https://terribleminds.com/ramble/2022/01/09/the-great-surrender-how-we-gave-up-and-let-covid-win/)
My first impressions of web3 by Moxie (https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html)
Walter Scott, “The Talisman” (1825) by Adam Roberts (https://medium.com/adams-notebook/walter-scott-the-talisman-1825-ba6b3f2fc2a0):

“Humans, this novel suggests, are similar: coat them in clothing, dip them in society — with its joys and frictions, its jockeyings-for-power, it erotic and amicable and inimical relationships — and they become themselves. The disguise maketh the man.”

Intoxicating, insidery and infuriating: everything I learned about Dominic Cummings from his £10-a-month blog by David Runciman (https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/14/intoxicating-insidery-and-infuriating-everything-i-learned-about-dominic-cummings-from-his-10-a-month-blog)

“His rule of thumb for finding interesting people is to search out those who are comfortable being right on the edge of things, including the edge of polite society. That’s where the intellectual action is.”

Walkers of the world unite! The last Clarion House, a radical rest for ramblers and cyclists by Chris Moss (https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/jan/18/clarion-house-lancashire-radical-rest-ramblers-cyclists)

“All the best ideas have an element of utopianism within them. In my dream future UK, there are Clarion Houses dotted all over our regreened, rewilded nation, serving as waystations and watering holes on Slow Ways that join up all our hamlets and villages, towns and cities. That’s my clarion call for today.”

Terraforming The Earth by Gareth L. Powell (https://www.garethlpowell.com/terraforming-the-earth/)
My Berlin meeting with an ex Nazi by Jay Rayner (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jan/23/my-meeting-with-an-ex-nazi)

“Silently I note that he has apologised only for shocking me, not for what he has said.”

The UX of LEGO Interface Panels by George Cave (https://interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Interfaces)

“Two studs wide and angled at 45°, the ubiquitous "2x2 decorated slope" is a LEGO minifigure's interface to the world.”

“I have seen what virtual worlds can do for people. I have spent my entire adult life reporting on them, and what people do in them and the meaning that they find there. So the fact that I’m now the one standing here saying that we don’t want this, feels significant.”

COVID-19: endemic doesn’t mean harmless by Aris Katzourakis (https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00155-x)

“Thinking that endemicity is both mild and inevitable is more than wrong, it is dangerous: it sets humanity up for many more years of disease, including unpredictable waves of outbreaks.”