Happy New Year? Luckily, we made it to another Friday. Let’s celebrate this win with some links.
The hostile telepaths problem.
The hostile telepaths problem is when you’re dealing with a being (a) who can kind of read your internal experiences and (b) whom you don’t trust won’t make your situation worse due to what they find in you.
There are lots of solutions to the hostile telepaths problem. I don’t claim to know all of them. But recognizing some common ones has helped clarify a lot of my thinking — particularly around self-deception and akrasia.
And getting very clear on the nature of the problem makes identifying real solutions way easier. This fact produces some previously-surprising-to-me predictions, especially for trauma processing and for making emotionally difficult decisions.
Lorna Simpson is iconic.
At Lorna Simpson’s Show, a Constellation of Galactic and Human History. Lorna’s website and instagram. Lorna’s Earth and Sky exhibition runs to January 11th.
With ‘Earth & Sky,’ Lorna Simpson debuts a new body of work exploring our relationships—physical and metaphysical—to unseen forces that work upon us individually and generationally, alternately challenging and empowering our sense of our own humanity. The exhibition encompasses a series of massive paintings inspired by a 1929 textbook ‘Minerals from Earth and Sky,’ along with a pair of monumental paintings depicting the impact of fired bullets.
Tomorrow, January 4th, while you are wearing a few extra layers due to the cold, Earth will be at perihelion, the closest it gets to the sun during its elliptical orbit.
Movie of the week:
Overall, an ok film on space travel. The imagery was amazing BUT … I also laughed a few times because this movie is definitely geared to those people who enjoy sci-fi movies but do not think about the science fiction. For instance, the Neptune sling shot and the killer monkeys. Add in Brad Pitt and Tommy Lee Jones, and this movie could be a real stinker if you care about the overall package. I could get behind a movie, though, about moon pirates, which see a very brief moment of in this movie. Recommended if you just want to be entertained but leave everything else. Also, more Ruth Negga in sci-fi films please!
Listening to:
“Truer, but also darker.” This is the real origin story behind America’s decision to go to the moon.
Trying to wrap my head around:
Have an extra $25,000 laying around?
Celestial Chess & Backgammon Set.
If money is tight, I’ll take this backgammon board instead. Relatively cheap at $8,300.
Fantastic Voyage 