{"id":10546,"date":"2024-11-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-30T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=10546"},"modified":"2024-11-29T22:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-30T03:41:34","slug":"stick-to-baseball-11-30-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/30\/stick-to-baseball-11-30-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Stick to baseball, 11\/30\/24."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I had two columns go up at the Athletic in the last week, one on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5951740\/2024\/11\/27\/blake-snell-dodgers-signing-analysis\/\">the Dodgers signing Blake Snell<\/a> and one on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5941706\/2024\/11\/22\/reds-royals-jonathan-india-brady-singer-trade-analysis\/\">the trade of Jonathan India and Joey Wiemer for Brady Singer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At Paste, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/games\/board-games\/build-your-own-megalopolis-in-the-board-game-nova-roma\">my review of the heavy worker-placement game Nova Roma<\/a> went up just before the holiday. It\u2019s almost certainly going to make my top ten for the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for me on social media, you\u2019re most likely to find me on <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/keithlaw.bsky.social\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@mrkeithlaw\">Threads<\/a>. I\u2019m only posting links on Twitter at this point, but not answering questions or engaging with other content. You can also subscribe to <a href=\"https:\/\/keithlaw.substack.com\/\">my free email newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And now, the links\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Longreads first: This piece from The Verge on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/26\/24303161\/amazon-influencers-lawsuit-copyright-clean-aesthetic-girl-sydney-nicole-gifford-alyssa-sheil\">one Amazon influencer suing another for stealing her vibe<\/a> \u2013 I\u2019m not even being sarcastic \u2013 is both bonkers and extremely thorough in its coverage of the real legal issues at play.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Character.AI is a cesspool \u2013 now Futurism reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/character-ai-eating-disorder-chatbots\">the site hosts chatbots that encourage young people to engage in disordered eating<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2024\/nov\/27\/infant-dies-queensland-whooping-cough-epidemic-death-qld-health\">An infant died of whooping cough in Australia<\/a> in the Queensland state\u2019s worst epidemic of the disease, which is preventable via vaccines, except infants are too young to get the vaccine and enough idiots out there have listened to anti-vaccine misinformation that the disease is spreading all over the west.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The worldwide trend of voters tossing out incumbents has had a few bright spots: an outsider to the political establishment in Botswana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2yx5nk1l0o\">has ended the 58-year rule of the Botswana Democratic Party<\/a> \u2013 the longest current reign of any party in a democracy in the world. The rival Umbrella for Democratic Change won an outright majority in the country\u2019s Parliament, marking the first time in the nation\u2019s history a party other than the BDP will rule.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dorothy Bishop resigned from the Royal Society over the group\u2019s continued affiliation with Elon Musk, who was named a Fellow of the Society in 2018. <a href=\"https:\/\/deevybee.blogspot.com\/2024\/11\/why-i-have-resigned-from-royal-society.html\">Her resignation letter<\/a> is pointed, measured, and I\u2019m sure will be summarily ignored by the group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) <a href=\"https:\/\/ohiocapitaljournal.com\/2024\/11\/27\/ohio-gov-mike-dewine-signs-transgender-bathroom-ban-bill-into-law\/\">signed a bill that bans transgender students from using the correct bathrooms in schools<\/a>, because the cruelty is the point. There is no evidence to support these laws, and they are not solving any actual problem.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The sister of a woman killed by her ex-boyfriend last November in Italy continues <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/26\/we-need-a-cultural-revolution-femicide-victims-family-seek-change-in-italy\">to speak out and lead protests at the country\u2019s culture of violence against women<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Joel Grey wrote an op ed in the <em>New York Times<\/em> saying that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/24\/opinion\/cabaret-trump-joel-grey.html\">we need to heed the warnings of <em>Cabaret<\/em><\/a>, the film for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1972.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The idea that \u201cwoke\u201d killed the Democrats in the 2024 election is wrong, but people are embracing it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/nov\/25\/woke-lost-us-election-patrician-class-identity-politics\">because it allows us to avoid making real, structural changes<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pentagon officials told The Intercept that <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2024\/11\/19\/trump-deportation-plan-military\/\">Trump\u2019s plan to use the military to conduct mass deportations is \u201cabsolutely insane.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Trump\u2019s pick to head the NIH is \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/post\/188864\/trump-nih-jay-bhattacharya\">as bad as it gets<\/a>.\u201d Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was a vocal opponent of measures that helped slow the COVID-19 pandemic, including lockdowns and vaccine mandates, and argued that we should let the virus spread to achieve herd immunity, which would have led to hundreds of thousands or millions of more deaths.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>I hadn\u2019t heard the term \u201cleguminati\u201d before, but I\u2019ve come across those folks, often vegans or environmentalists who preach the power of legumes, pulses, and nuts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2024\/nov\/22\/its-like-a-secret-why-do-the-leguminati-want-to-change-the-way-we-eat\">to feed the world without destroying the planet<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had two columns go up at the Athletic in the last week, one on the Dodgers signing Blake Snell and one on the trade of Jonathan India and Joey Wiemer for Brady Singer. At Paste, my review of the heavy worker-placement game Nova Roma went up just before the holiday. 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