Really enjoyed the first few chapters devoted to debunking stuff like alien abductions and ESP, promoting an approach to the world that is both filled with curiosity and wonder but also critical. I was paralyzingly afraid of a lot of this stuff as a kid and still get creeped out when I'm alone or in a bad mental state, so it was a nice comfort read in that regard. The latter chapters were kind of over the place and a bit self-indulgent, from responses to his work on this topic to [mostly valid] whining about not enough science funding, the state of education, and how democracy is definitely gonna collapse if we don't do something ASAP about the widespread culture of superstition and gullibility (RIP)
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0x520 rated The Sunset Route: 5 stars
0x520 finished reading The Sunset Route by Carrot Quinn
Definitely recommend this book highly. Carrot is like the Kerouac of a different generation, except generally much more likeable and authentic. This is a great counter narrative to the idea that crusty train hoppers are just taking a vacation free of charge while sitting on their trust fund nest eggs. It is a glimpse into a subculture that was formed around solidarity in the difficult realities of a hard life. It is an attempt at carving freedom from of the harsh stoic face of conservative AmeriKKKa.
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The One-straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (New York Review Books classics)
Six decades ago in postwar Japan, long before Michael Pollan or Alice Waters, Masanobu Fukuoka, a laboratory scientist who had …
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The One-straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka (New York Review Books classics)
Six decades ago in postwar Japan, long before Michael Pollan or Alice Waters, Masanobu Fukuoka, a laboratory scientist who had …
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Six decades ago in postwar Japan, long before Michael Pollan or Alice Waters, Masanobu Fukuoka, a laboratory scientist who had …
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Carrot Quinn fears that she's become addicted to the internet. The city makes her feel numb, and she's having trouble …
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Le Silmarillion by J. R. R. Tolkien
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative …

after a successful week of harassing campus cops at "coffee with a cop" events, my network of minions (undergrad students) can now turn our collective power towards harassing Socialist Revolution and Socialist Alternative.
the former are wheatpasting bullshit posters all over campus and surrounding neighborhoods including pasting over #StopCopCity posters. The later are tabling "Students for Cornel West" bullshit, cheering on Russian and Chinese ethnic cleansing campaigns, and advocating police 'reform.'