Sup Dawg?
The Weekly Roll by CME_T is not uniformly funny, but when it is funny, it is really funny.
D&D
Can Christians Play Dungeons and Dragons?
Aaron Irber asked me to write a blog post about the Satanic Panic and Dungeons and Dragons. This is an interesting topic, and one that only got moreso as I delved into it. Even now, almost forty years later, I think there is residual reluctance amongst creedal Christians to accept
A cautionary tale
In the 2022-07-15 Linkfest I linked to a pair of articles detailing rationalist cults:
* My Experience with Geoff Anders & Leverage Research
* My experience at and around MIRI and CFAR
These are well worth reading, as they expose something that is more common than you might think. All of this
The Well at World's End by William Morris
Sometimes, I read books so you don’t have to. The Well at World’s End really is a seminal work, but it is also a slog of a book that I wouldn’t recommend to someone reading for fun. But it is a fascinating story, and the prototype of
Succubi
It’s very perilous.
Linkfest 2022-05-20: The La Sierra System
Art of Manliness: The Insanely difficult standards of history’s hardest PE program
A fascinating read on the La Sierra System, an ultra-competitive PE program that produced the kind of fitness you find in elite operators. I don’t think you could just duplicate this everywhere and get the same