Month: July 2020

Disclosure on Netflix is very good

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After seeing people in my feeds praising the documentary Disclosure last week, I watched half of it on Monday and finished it tonight. Powerful in so many ways, I really really recommend it. Agender is under the non-binary umbrella, which is under the trans umbrella, but as a person without dysphoria and not much motivation … Disclosure on Netflix is very good

Thinking about violence in media

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NPR: Pop Culture Happy Hour re-aired their episode on John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum, and it’s causing me to revisit my cognitive dissonance about these movies (and violent media in general). Over the last few months, I feel like I’ve seen an uptick in people referencing studies that indicate “violent media does not make … Thinking about violence in media

Get ready to live in Mistborn

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Listening to a podcast episode discussion McConnell’s judges, and it made me think of the premise of Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn. In the world’s backstory, a group of heroes went on a quest to defeat the Dark Lord ™. They told the world that they succeeded, and the world celebrated and went back to “normal life.” … Get ready to live in Mistborn