May 21, 2025

I just finished (finally) John Green's new book Everything Is Tuberculosis and found that it wrapped itself up better than I expected. I mentioned in an earlier journal entry that it felt like the book was sold more as a history of TB rather than a personalized experience for Green but he pulled out a solid ending by stressing how important knowing this disease and how to combat it is for all of society. This emphasizing empathy was fitting, especially since I found myself deleting Duolingo from my phone this morning due to its CEO making dumbass statements about AI and education (that owl's been pissing me off lately, anyways...). With all the chatter about empathy somehow being a sin, I'm always heartened when push back against that notion with compassion and sincerity. - A.B. 5/21/25

P.S. There's heavy rain here today and I'm not putting up an album, since I've relocated the Everything is Tuberculosis audiobook from another post about John Green I made last week (if feels more fitting here instead). I'm also including a shorter Crash Course lecture video (about 50 minutes) he made right before the book came out which covers and diverges from what he wrote in the book and an even-shorter Kurtzgesagt video about TB Green narrated. TB is a real hell of a disease and I hope you'll take time to listen to either or both of these.