Saturday, 10 April 2021

Canada: Making Money out of Myanmar.

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Friday, 9 April 2021

Science Fiction.

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Sunday, 21 March 2021

[Autobiographical:] Economic incentives, authorship and cultural production.

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One of the last attempts to glamorize the publishing industry, 1988's Bright Lights, Big City. You ask whether or not I think these econ...

On the Paucity of Educational Video Games (Language Learning Software Especially)

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[Torn from the middle pages of a conversation with a Patreon supporter, i.e., this isn't the first message in the dialogue.]  I come to ...
Saturday, 23 January 2021

MEANWHILE…

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The long term impacts of merchandizing. The t-shirts spun off by my youtube channel have an intellectual life of their own. 哈哈哈😄
Monday, 18 January 2021

On having political expertise: a polite reply to a puzzled viewer.

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Thanks for taking the time to write in, _______. HMU any time. We live in a world where _some_ people have recognized expertise in diet ...
Sunday, 3 January 2021

"We live our lives in the sunlight of assumptions about the future…" (Coronavirus Diaries)

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One year ago (today) I was bedridden ill with Coronavirus. "We live our lives in the sunlight of assumptions about the future --even ...
Saturday, 2 January 2021

On the cultivation of (dubious) moral characteristics through video games.

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A discussion (naturally much longer than the exceprts you see here) on the extremely limited educational value of video games --and on the ...

A searchable index of my youtube videos (most of them, at least!)

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Special thanks to Araia, who did all the hard work of creating the HTML code. This is a list of most of the videos (not all!) on à-bas-le-c...
Wednesday, 25 November 2020

Is my channel "sexist"? A final reply to Fandar, and other faux feminists.

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[I bothered to type out this reply because, frankly, I can imagine re-using it in future: it was Soycrates , not Fandar, who invented this l...