Episode 591: A Closeted Magical Thinker

There are a few odds and sods, but, yeah, it's mostly about adjudicating Peak Cruise.

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Runner-Up Titles

• Bespoke Slime Hole
• Gavin Assumed
• Nom De Repair
• Species-Ending Annoyance
• Mosquito Tasks
• One Set of Footprints
• The Thing You Do Before It Breaks
• Creating Conditions
• Old People Jam-Up
• Don't Give Me Notes
• The Boston Janitor Movie

Links:

• summarize.tech: AI-powered video summaries — Get a summary of any long YouTube video, like a lecture, live event or a government meeting.
• Lexica — The Stable Diffusion search engine
• Crabs and Convergent Evolution: Carcinization Explained
• Animals have evolved into a crab-like-shape at least 5 separate times | Boing Boing
• Maintenance Is Sorely Needed In The Fight Against Global Warming — The noble but undervalued craft of maintenance could help preserve modernity’s finest achievements, from public transit systems to power grids, and serve as a useful framework for addressing climate change and other pressing planetary constraints.
• 'Why Buddhism Is True' Explores Links Between Evolutionary Biology And Meditation : Shots - Health News : NPR — I mean, our feelings were designed to get genes into the next generation. But that doesn't mean they were designed to help us see the world clearly or bring us happiness.
• 'Why Buddhism Is True' Explores Links Between Evolutionary Biology And Meditation : Shots - Health News : NPR — But as a practical matter, Buddhism works at the level of feeling. They don't interrogate the logic explicitly, but you deal with the feeling itself in a way that disempowers it.
• Kids in the Hall - Gavin - Butcher Shop - YouTube
• Kids in the Hall: Funeral Home - YouTube
• Kids in the Hall - Painting a Chair - YouTube
• Tom Cruise
• The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy by A. N. Roquelaure, Anne Rice: 9781101612651 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
• Netflix - "A Futile and Stupid Gesture"
• The Hustler of Money - YouTube
• The H Is O [Adam McKay, 2000] on Vimeo
• Tropic Thunder - Wikipedia