I can’t say I have a general take on the sporadic #gratefuldead performances from the summer of 1973… except for the luminous quality of the improvisation, featuring one of the great improv themes, The Phil Jazz Jam.
If you were waiting to buy my in-depth history of #autism and #neurodiversity, NeuroTribes, it's now really cheap at Amazon. The New York Times called it "Beautifully told, humanizing, and important." https://a.co/d/fDNysnr
Just watched the pilot for The X-Files, and have some thoughts. 1) Cinematography looked better back then. Log encoding of media shot with digital cameras was a blessing and a gigantic curse. 2) I miss self-contained, not serialized episodes. 3) Gillian Anderson was and is great. (But I fear finding out something terrible exists about her that I just haven’t heard yet. Please don’t tell me if there is!)
OF COURSE Bill Barr still supports the criminal GOP, he wouldn't have gone through all that hassle of claiming that Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate had been unexpectedly transferred and both cameras were "malfunctioning" the night Epstein "committed suicide" in prison if he didn't.
@stevesilberman Hi Steve, regarding your FB post about not knowing Taylor Swift’s music: As a fellow longtime Deadhead who shares many of your extended musical tastes (and an admirer of your wonderful “Neurotribes” and that amazing essay on “Nardis”), I would like to recommend “one possible Taylor Swift starter-kit”, which I wrote a few months ago.
One thing social media has taught me, at age 67, is how many parents go through the inconceivable agony of losing a child, and also, how many children go through the agony of losing parents in difficult ways (like me). Social media is basically the Buddhist parable of the mustard seed writ large. https://www.turningwheel.org.uk/buddhist_stories/kisa-gotami-and-the-mustard-seed/
From the Department of TMI: I rarely dream about rock stars, even my favorite ones, and I've never had a crush on Mike Gordon of Phish. But last night I had a dream that we greeted one another like old friends, hugged each other -- having been through a lot in the past few years! -- and told one another everything would be OK. It was nice. Thanks Mike, even though you don't know me.
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I unexpectidly finished Neurotribes today as I figured out that there is a big part with bibliography and index.
I can defintely recommend it.
I have two questions though to @stevesilberman :
I was suprized that there was no mention of Simon Baron-Cohen, beside the acknowledgment. Did you consider to include the "poor theory of mind theory" and the "double empathy problem" into the book?
Secondly, did you have thoughts about including monotropism and the work of murray?
@Dr_Obvious@actuallyautistic Damian Milton's double empathy problem work rose to prominence long after my book was published. I was conservative about SBC but my book was also 300 pages over limit when I submitted it.
Well, this totally made my day. Thank you Neil, and best wishes to everyone who reads "NeuroTribes" seeking to understand certain family members, friends, and co-workers better.
Historians 20 years from now, if there are allowed to be any, will smack their heads over and over about how screamingly obvious it was that Trump is a long-cultivated Russian asset who delivered just what the Kremlin wanted on a silver platter - including SCOTUS and Congress. And unless he's STOPPED and THROWN IN PRISON, the Putinized GOP will finish the job of finishing America. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans