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    #238: We Have a Bowl

    When you go from zero readers to one reader, it's the biggest 100 percent in the world.

    July 5th, 2024 · 98 minutes

    What does it mean to be a young person in the age of ubiquitous capture?

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    Things kick off with Merlin's inspiring Apple success story. Then, there's some consideration of where all these wrecked cars might be coming from.

    In Follow-Up, John learns he's not the only aging auto enthusiast whose magazine has gotten bigger. Also, listeners share more novel, rich-people technologies for making your kitchen look like it's not actually a kitchen.

    The main topic finds your hosts considering what it means to be a young person in the age of ubiquitous capture. John makes a case for the value of having all your ideas challenged, and Merlin learns how little he knew about the ERA.

    In this month’s member bonus episode, your hosts finally address a topic that's been hanging out in the doc for a while now: Mastodon hates threads. After making two distinct piles, Merlin does a terrible job just sticking to the first one.

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    (Recorded on Tuesday, June 25, 2024)

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    American Motors Corporation
    American Motors Incorporated
    Nash Metropolitan Coupe
    200 cars in the woods - YouTube
    What's the Story Behind the Wrecked Car on a Mount Tamalpais Trail?
    Love Island on SNL - YouTube
    Merlin's Mastodon thread about the Portrait of Madame X
    Michael Whelan - Wikipedia
    Michael Whelan on Mastodon
    Why didn’t the Fellowship take a boat to Mordor?
    Feeding a farting wombat - BBC - YouTube
    Flash photography used to be pretty wild - YouTube
    Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach, Kessler, McKenna

    Kessler and McKenna convincingly argue that gender is not a reflection of biological reality but rather a social construct that varies across cultures. Valuable for its insights into gender, its extensive treatment of transsexualism, and its ethnomethodological approach, Gender reviews and critiques data from biology, anthropology, sociology, and psychology.

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