What’s with political columnists getting into comics writing? I remember Ta-Nehisi Coates did the same thing. It just seems so weird to spend your whole career on short-form non-fiction pieces and then pivot into an entirely different form of creative writing mostly aimed at teenage boys.

I am once again suffering from technology. So my university has introduced compulsory two-factor-authentication using a Cisco smartphone app in order to access JSTOR and the like, which was already a hassle. I had to hand-write a letter to IT because I couldn’t get to campus to set it up, lol. Now Google has updated their “integrity” standards and my cheap Chinese phone is no longer allowed to use said Cisco app at all, which means I’m forced to buy a new phone and contact IT again to set it up. All this because some IT people got it into their heads that the normal method of JSTOR authentication is nonviable or insecure or something. Frankly, I’m hoping those kickbacks from Cisco are worth it.

Sidenote, but thought experiments are complete nonsense. It’s just something made up by Anglo philosophers so they don’t have to engage with the real world. Trying to ennoble it as a higher form of reasoning just seems like an attack on the kind of political considerations that actually matter. You’re not going to convince a hardcore Catholic that abortion should be allowed by posing them the trolley problem.

I agree. It’s really not that absurd not to find the inner life of an alcoholic cop an interesting premise. And there are hardly any games where you play a witch, much less any set in the Alps. I feel like some people here have a bit of a gamer mindset when it comes to women not liking their treats.