Spending some time helping moving my parent’s stuff. Boring stuff like emptying cabinets, consolidating boxes. I wish I had more time to read!
Job Search
The job offer is in and it’s just a matter of waiting. It’s good timing it took them this long to work on the offer since I can spend time helping my parents move.
Things I’m Liking
The Semantics of Racial Epithets: An interesting read by a academic philosopher about the real meaning of racial epithets, aka slurs. It tries to answer questions like “Does the ’n-word’ mean ‘African-American and despicable because of it?’” There’s some interesting vocab like silentists, non-pejorative correlate, radical contextualism, and different features of derogatory terms. After reading about philosophical arguments in religion and belief, it’s interesting to see the same logic applied to something so contemporary and cultural. I’ll admit I found this article on /r/badphilosophy.
Syrmor: This channel became famous from DO YOU KNOW THE WAY, the meme that ushered in 2018. Now the creator uses the platform to interview strangers in VRChat and even met some of them in real life.
AsianTrader: A British trade magazine. Its primary audience is British-Indian storeowners, and I’m making this generalization because the front page of the website has cricket scores. Much like Cranes Today, it’s a fun time to see ads targeted towards a different kind of consumer and see industry trends in an industry you know nothing about.