Three Quick Links for Monday Noonish

14:53

Sloths just want to have fun. [twitter.com]

The original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick. "This is an ill-compounded mixture of romance and matter-of-fact. The idea of a connected and collected story has obviously visited and abandoned its writer again and again in the course of composition." [lithub.com]

Here's how to spot the methods of moral panic journalism. "Thousands upon thousands of words dedicated to the same arguments, the same low-stakes anecdotes, the same tortured historical analogies." [michaelhobbes.substack.com]

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