2020-09-15
We watched Boys State this week. It’s a documentary that follows a cohort of Texan teenage boys going through an intense one-week political bootcamp at the Texas state capitol. They’re divided randomly into two parties*, given lessons in the state constitution, and then they run a compressed set of elections for party chairmen, gubernatorial candidates, and ultimately for state governor. I really enjoyed it, though I felt myself predictably enamoured with the charismatic and thoughtful liberals Steven and René.media
Week Notes - 7th September 2020
2020-09-11
Ideally all the books in the API should stay in the store even if they haven’t been included on any of the named shelves in the last Goodreads scrape. When a new scrape is run it would add any books that don’t appear, shift any books that are in the store but don’t appear in the latest scrape to a no-shelf status (representing books I know about but have no relation with, I guess).Rich writers showing themselves up about COVID-19
2020-08-12
The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free
2020-08-04
2020-07-15
2020-07-08
2020-07-08
The Bosses Are In Their Country Houses
2020-06-22