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post by party girl (party-girl) · 2023-02-17T17:59:50.037Z · LW · GW · 6 comments

This is a link post for https://onthespectrumontheguestlist.substack.com/p/nebula-i

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A few rationalist-adjacent friends have told they treat my newsletters as link posts, and largely ignore the content itself (thanks, guys). I get it, gonzo party journalism isn't everybody's cup of tea. 

But most people love a good, long link post. So, I wanted to run an experiment.

I counted, and there are 48 hyperlinks in my most recent post alone, linking to all manner of content. Here's a quick sample, chosen at random:

• An excerpt from C.S. Lewis's A Preface to Paradise Lost, regarding ceremony and religious ritual,
• An analysis of the realism of Bruce Willis's acting in Die Hard's barefoot-glass scene,
• A really good yoga studio, if you happen to live in NYC,
• An obscure Chet Baker record,
• A kabbalistic Hayim Nahman Bialik poem,
• A McMansion Hell post,
• And finally, the Raven Paradox.

So, read my newsletter, linked above. But skip the content, if you wish—you're allowed to!—and go directly for the links! Pretend the title is, I dunno, September Links, or something similar. The links themselves are highlighted in an eye-searing neon green, against a black background, and white text. You can't miss them:

Some Vim wizard could probably show me how to grep my markdown files and spit them out as a bulleted list, to published as-is. Or perhaps I can ask ChatGPT to do it. If there's enough interest, I'll give it a try with my next post.

But still, two posts, for the price of one! That's not bad...

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