“Book” club meetings
Saving the Horses of Our Imagination
We’ll be discussing Ashley Stimpson’s “Saving the Horses of Our Imagination,” written for The Sunday Long Read. The article examines our evolving relationship with horses, but also speaks more broadly about how humans relate to all animals. How can we co-exist with wild animals? How should we—if we even should—humanely domesticate animals?
"The Day Dawson Cried"
This month, we’re discussing the evolution of the Dawson crying GIF.
"Mark Changed The Rules"
At Facebook, rules around who gets banned from using the platform changed based on Mark Zuckerberg’s whims.
'Who Did J.K. Rowling Become?
This month, we’ll be discussing wtf is up with J.K. Rowling, and her journey from being the world’s most beloved to the world’s most reviled children’s book author. Will we be talking a bunch about J.K.’s Twitter account? You betcha!
'The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free'
At our last meeting, we talked a bit about how the lack of a local news outlet in Stockton, CA, might have lead to the rise of an alternative news platform, which played a part in Michael Tubbs losing his mayoral re-election bit. In that discussion, we briefly touched on the impact paywalls are likely having on people’s access to quality news and information. So this week we’re going to read Nathan J. Robinson’s take on the subject, published in the August 2020 issue of Current Affairs.