Navalny

The human spirit is itself the most wonderful fairy tale that can possibly be. What a magnificent world lies enclosed within our bosoms! No solar orbit hems it in, the inexhaustible wealth of the total visible creation is outweighed by its riches!

— E. T. A. Hoffmann, born in 1776

Alexei Navalny: “I am of sound mind. So if something happens to me, don’t believe it was suicide.” A smuggled message, a P.E.N. petition, as thousands take to the streets.

Running a major YouTube channel

“Words in this story.”

Second wave puzzles in Iquitos.  And very useful long piece on Long Covid (NYT)

Pay $2000 to (maybe) write for Rolling Stone magazine.

The phantom time hypothesis.

Interview with Ellen McGrattan.

Bayesian probabilities for more Oumuamuas?

God preserve us from writers who regurgitate what they have learnt from books! It is people's secrets we want to know — it is the natural history of the human heart that we have been trying to put down for a thousand years and everyone must and can leave their contribution.

— August Strindberg, born in 1849