Travis F W started reading This Is for Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
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Nonfiction audio is my main thing. Autobiographies, parenting, science, social issues, and some business or anything educational.
I consider nonfiction to be a healthier and more useful view of the world than the news.
I have a few Mastodon accounts, like @travisfw@fosstodon.org
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Since I was forced to take ritalin for five years of my chirdhood my endocrine system has been fucked. I have always been at a loss to describe these challenges, and learning about it has always taken a back seat to higher priorities like major depression and paying bills and PTSD triggers. But I have learned that some amino acid supplements can be really helpful at the right times (when I'm deficient) and it is time for me to tackle this. Maybe gain some insight into anhedonia while I am at it.
When #Heinlein illustrated the Martian's maturity by having him kill someone and then have sex, and then go out on his own, and subsequently had the main female character say something victim blaming about rape, my interest in this book dropped to little more than a poorly substantiated drive to finish what I start.
My partner wants to read this to me. Holding up pretty well, except for some tired sexist tropes (nothing too horrific … what do I expect from 40+ years), Heinlein's failure to predict cell phones, and the successful missions to Mars in recent decades. Still quite a few good lines and thought provoking scenarios.
a good long list of #favoriteThings in an appendix in the back. Thank you, Ross Gay.
I have come to appreciate, through this book, the "ethical" in #ENM. Before, I thought it was simply a necessary defense against the seemingly ubiquitous critical assumption that anything other than monogamy is unethical. But as I have listened, I have realized that, of course, #ethics drives the whole movement, and ethics circumscribes mononormativity, and ethical questions are the substance of every individual's decisions about how to love the people they love. It's all ethics! Honestly, maybe ENM could be defined as the ethical study of love and family, and the cultural practices framing them.