Eric Bowman

Every time a Meta product forces an ad break on me, I kill the app and open Bluesky. I still have reasons for using them that I can’t escape entirely, but it has significantly decreased my usage of all of them.

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action? I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

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Thatcher, Farage and toe-sucking: Adam Curtis on how Britain came to the brink of civil war Chaos, distrust and so many sex scandals … Ahead of his epic new series Shifty, the great documentarian charts the UK’s slide towards Whitehall’s worst nightmare

I am ecstatic over a new extremely depressing Adam Curtis documentary:

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I keep wishing people would be like I wish they were.

In an Uber to LAX. The car is a late model Mustang. I cannot imagine a worse passenger ride experience. I think I hurt my back and lost a filling.

…it seems likely that cooperation between the affected objects of this power play may result in something that is better for them long term than acquiescing, and THAT outcome is definitely not good for business interests.

Lots of ifs as I contort myself to remain optimistic against headwinds!

Absolutely but his negotiation tactics (finite game, zero sum mindset) are weaker tactics than, say, the Chinese negotiators are likely to employ (they live and breath infinite game thinking). So while any individual country does need to consider carefully the downside of not acquiescing…

Danke schön! Es ist eine Ehre und ein Vergnügen, hier zu sein.

To add insult to injury I’m in the UK this weekend celebrating Thanksgiving, so it was a 5am wake up

...are justified in what they do because of what they are. Tony Soprano is a violent sociopath, but his character has depth, and the different dimensions of his moral struggle (and how it juxtaposes with where he has no moral struggle) make him human even in his inhumanity. But the characters...

The level of brutality is not significantly different, and then it becomes clear: the characters are ridiculously one-dimensional. They don't struggle meaningfully with who they are and what they do. They seem to wholeheartedly believe that what they do is part of who they are and that they...

The critical thinking deficit is inconceivably difficult to confront at the scale our civilization has attained.

I have no evidence either way. The main measurable effect seems to be more time in deep sleep.

I have no evidence either way. The main measurable effect seems to be more time in deep sleep.

I am! My wife stopped because she kept getting shocks from her phone. I am using it and my sleep metrics are slightly better. It’s not dramatic and of course it’s correlation but I’m sticking with it and suspect it has a small positive effect.

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