2022 Year End Review

28 Dec 2022 - 01 Jan 2025
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    • State: up to Feb 23
    • World

      • Ukraine war
    • Deaths

      • Pope Himmler and Baba Wawa at the very end of the year
    • Books

      • Left Hand of Darkness, March 30 or so
      • Mr. Punch (Gaiman, graphic, WS rec) 10 April
      • How to Talk to Girls at Parties, Gaiman, graphic, 5 June
      • Throne of Jade (Temeraire, reread), 1 July
      • Piranesi, Susanna Clarke, Aug 6th, 2022 (WS red)
      • The Handmaid's Tale, Atwood, Sep 10th, 2022
      • A Study in Emerald, Gaiman (Graphic, based on a short), Sep 10th, 2022
        • Apparently there is a whole subgenre of Cthulu/Sherlock Holmes mashups...
      • Norse Mythology, Gaiman, Sep 26th, 2022
      • The Nightmare Stacks, Stross, Oct 28th, 2022
        • Fun, but meh. Too nerdy, and he's recycling the same ideas
      • When the Angels Left the Old Country Dec 6th, 2022
      • Daemon Voices, Pullman
      • Software Design for Flexibility (working through it with a group at work)
    • Unread books
      • books I looked at and maybe got from library but didn't actually read (note: far too many to list, these are only those I might conceivably get back to)
      • The Knowledge Machine, Strevens
      • Open Democracy
      • When Einstein walked with Godel, Holt
      • The Book of Disquiet
      • If-then, how the simulatmatics corporation invented the future
      • Life 3.0, Tegmark
      • Road to Unfreedom, Timothy Snyder
      • The Extended Mind, Annie Paul
      • The Age of AI, Kissenger, Schmidt, Huttenlocher
        • skimmed a bit, seemed extremely broad and boring, although it's exciting to be only 2 Kevin Bacon-links away from a war criminal.
      • Gene Machine, Ramakrishnan
      • Oliver Sacks, River of Consciousness (2nd time, has a good thing on Freud neurologist)
      • Drunk, Slingerland
      • From bacteria to Back and Back, Dennett
      • A Mind at Play (Claude Shannon bio)
      • Advice Not Given (Mark Epstein)
      • The Last Man Takes LSD, Dean & Zamora
        • Foucault in California tripping out. Explores his complicated relatiomship with neoliberalism and Marxism. Mentions Chris Marker film A Grin Without a Cat I should watch that.
        • I am an experimenter in the sense that I write in order to change myself. – Foucault, 1978
        • Death of the author stuff. "Beyond the sovereign subject". This stuff really seems relevant to my interests (or, makes them seem out of date, this stuff is from 50 years ago)
    • TV

      • Severance!
      • Expanse
      • Succession
      • Cells at Work
      • The Peripheral
      • Outer Range
      • White Lotus S2 (eh)
      • The Bear
    • Movies

      • RRR
      • Everything Everywhere All at Once
      • The Northman
      • Cemetery of Splendor
      • Glass Onion
    • Hacking

      • Goddinpotty slowely evolving. Kind of deliberately not trying to build my dream PKM or anything dynamic, just hack something together with existing tools and simple code.
    • Web presence

      • Fair # comments on LGM, some got some attention
      • Twitter imploded, trying to move to Mastodon
    • Random

      • Dedication vs discipline