If you want to know what it’s like to be in Mark Spitz’s shoes, try this!: Rebuild It’s a game called Rebuild, where your goal is to expand your city block by block (or zone by zone, eh?) by eliminating zombies, collecting food, and recruiting survivors each day. It seemed to fit in perfectly with […]
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Gao Yaojie
A New York Times article about AIDS activist Gao Yaojie; she has been advocating for Chinese authorities to address China’s AIDS crisis, and as a result had been put under house arrest multiple times between 2003 and 2007 to prevent her from receiving international awards for her work. “But for a Communist Party intolerant […]
Read More →“We are failing, failing. The Earth and the Angels.”
Who are these angels? And what the hell are they doing in America? Prior Walter first encounters an angel when he hears a commanding voice in his dream (which overlaps with Harper Pitt’s Valium trip), and again hears the same voice while being treated at the hospital for infections. He at first attributes it […]
Read More →For the Practicing Absurdist…
I’ve stumbled upon the Absurdist Monthly Review. They have a nice selection of absurdist quotes, including this particularly relevant one by Eugene Ionesco: “No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human […]
Read More →Social Networks Predict Epidemics
The “gradually swelling rumors” of the future: (I know it’s kind of long, so see approximately 5:53-13:45 for the most applicable/interesting bits if you’d like, though you’ll miss out on a little of the context/terminology)
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