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I think, for example, that pretty much every question about "cancel culture" is a question poorly phrased because "cancel culture" means at least 20 different things, from celebrities going to jail for sexual assault to viral "karen" videos. It's impossible to be right about cancel culture but very easy to have an opinion on it because every person has a different definition. It is a question, like the math test in the video, seemingly intentionally designed to create conflict.

In which, via a pizzamas miracle, Hank and John are reunited in Indianapolis and play a game called "Got it!"

The art at Pizzamas.com is from actual, real, human artists, and all of it is much better than the AI stuff!

In which John and Hank discuss light, tiktok, cost/benefit analyses of the social Internet, writing books, and how riding is living.

In which John gets curious about when the median human being lived, and along the way learns something surprising about the human story.

The more I think about the hamburger crab, the more amazing it becomes. Yes, it was supposed to be bad, but it’s a work of bad genius.

In which John and his family visit England, look at some art, and visit Plough Lane, the only London fortress* that matters.

In which John discusses "engagement," which is one of those words that gets weirder the more you think about it. Congrats to Kissy Psychiatric Hospital on their accreditation, and to everyone at PIH Sierra Leone on their continued strengthening of the healthcare system in SL

You can get a sample ballot and take it with you to your polling place! Or, in many places you can vote early. There are so many people who really are trying to make this country better, and democracy only happens when we do it.

In which John marries his friend whose painting he once hung upside down, and contemplates the question of whether a Piet Mondrian painting was actually hung upside down for 75 years.

Another delightful thing about my life is that, once per month, a lovely pair of socks designed by an independent artist arrives at my doorstep. And that can be the case for you as well!!

I'm feeling less and less good about being on Twitter. It seems a little bit like Elon Musk thought that the previous owners of the site very intentionally were exercising power over him, and so now he is entirely justified in exercising power over others. Like, he felt like he'd been trolled when he was in fact just interacting with a world that will always disagree with itself, and now he wants to troll back.

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Also, I'd like to point out that almost all biomass on Earth is not humans, cows, or mammals of any kind, but bacteria and insects.

In which John shares some of his favorite books and other gift ideas. LINKS:

In which John expands on a recent Hank video to consider how explore Earth's total biomass, and how the 550 gigatons of carbon in Earth life is divided among different kinds of creatures. From gingko trees to e. coli, it's important to remember that we are rare, fragile, and profoundly interdependent. SOURCES:

Today on TikTok (after I made this video) I saw a guy arguing that we have a very small window between understanding the potential affects of AI and actually deciding what we can and should do with it. I don't really agree, I think that we both have no window at all (in that, you cannot put this genie back in the bottle) and a window that will be open for a very long time.

I'm feeling much better now. I'm also feeling quite good about not being on Twitter right now. It seems quite messy, and also increasingly not that important...but that's probably how it felt to everyone who wasn't on it.

In this imaginary alternate reality we witness a battle featuring the Incredible Hulk vs the Bionic Bigfoot. In our world we viewed Steve Austin the Six Million Dollar Man played by Lee Majors take on Sasquatch the Bionic Bigfoot played by Andre the Giant and later Ted Cassidy. In this world it was the Lou Ferrigno and Billy Bixby Hulk and David Banner that confronted the monster known as Bigfoot first.