Making Things Up

I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.

Which of the seven deadly sins do you think represents you the LEAST?

Important note from a future nurse: if you are chronically ill, on a lot of medications, even managing conditions on your own, buy a drug guide. Davis's Drug Guide is what they had us buy for nursing school, and I've looked up every single medication I take in it. It helps you understand what the drug is doing to you, helps you understand side effects, reasons why you shouldn't take a medication, things to monitor for while you're taking a medication. It's not perfect by any means, but the thing I've found is that it's helped me guide conversations with providers, nurses, pharmacists, it's helped me figure out what questions to ask. When I've heard people talk about what they didnt know about their meds, what they wish they knew about their meds, it's often in a drug guide.

history fucked me up

You mean like this?

I loved this book! Same for The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science.

okay but here’s an even cooler (free!) visualization that goes a step further and tracks ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power

This is the 85 year old creator of Roger Rabbit:

You watch Leverage and you occasionally go, "hm. it's kinda of silly to set up a room full of people and get them to pretend to be a bustling trading floor. this elaborate act of theater is testing my suspension of disbelief, a little bit!"

It's probably been said already by others, but one of my favorite things about Leverage is how most all the episodes are inspired by real life crimes.