musings

Leaving more social media

Deleting Twitter, Instagram, Reddit, and Quora accounts!

Review: '999'

Or 'Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors', the Japanese escape-room mystery visual novel video game.

To current humanities students

because it's about the students, not the panelists.

Review: 'Forest of Piano'

ピアノの森 . Available on Netflix, an anime adaption of the manga.

On education and critical thinking against disinformation

Thoughts from Jay Kaspian King's NYT opinion piece: "It's on us to become more discerning"

Notes: 'Crusade for Justice'

Ida B. Wells' recently released autobiography

Review: 'Dune'

Frank Herbert's 1965 classic novel that defined science fiction.

Why I don't use the term "BIPOC"

For me, it does the opposite of what grouping terms for social justice should achieve, which is unity.

Building empathy with emotional fiction

An argument for the power of storytelling as an emotional transporter.

On the Jan. 6 Capitol Attack

These folks represent at least half of the U.S. today and much of its history.