Rhode Island
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Rhode Island is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 4 times across 4 issues between February 24, 2021 and August 29, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “Newport (Rhode Island)”; “about the size of Rhode Island”; “Rhode Island”. It most often appears alongside Baltimore, Berkeley, Boston.
Metadata
- Category: Places
- Mention count: 4
- Issue count: 4
- First seen: February 24, 2021
- Last seen: August 29, 2025
Appears In
- Book Review: Fussell On Class
- I Will Not Eat The Bugs
- Spring Meetups Everywhere 2024
- Meetups Everywhere 2025: Times and Places
Related Pages
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- Baltimore (3 shared issues)
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- Berkeley (3 shared issues)
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- Boston (3 shared issues)
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- California (3 shared issues)
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- Chicago (3 shared issues)
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- Colorado (3 shared issues)
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- Connecticut (3 shared issues)
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- Dallas (3 shared issues)
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- Europe (3 shared issues)
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- Georgia (3 shared issues)
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- Massachusetts (3 shared issues)
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- Nevada (3 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
5. If you have to be in the United States, some places are classier than others. The best places are "those longest under occupation by financially prudent Anglo-Saxons, like Newport (Rhode Island) Haddam (Connecticut), and Bar Harbor (Maine)". The worst are places like Akron and Tampa, but why? Fussell is always somewhere on the border between serious and joking, and I worry he completely loses the plot here. He says you can measure the unclassiness of a place in bowling alleys per capita, megachurches per capita, or (perhaps), some kind of joint bowling alleys plus megachurches index. Getting serious again:
On the other hand, there are 25 million insects per hectare, which means ten trillion insects = 400,000 hectares = about the size of Rhode Island. I'm not sure what to do with this information. It's tempting to say something like "crop farming kills more insects than insect farming, because it occupies way more than 400,000 acres and involves lots of pesticide". But Brian Tomasik, who analyzes this issue heroically thoroughly, says that if you're trying to prevent insect suffering, crop farming is probably net positive, because cropland has fewer insects than wild land, and most insects that exist suffer most of the time, with pesticide-related suffering being swiftly over and not very relevant. It's also tempting to say something like "if the scale of wild insect suffering dwarfs the scale of factory-farmed insect suffering so much, who cares?", but this doesn't really seem right. The scale of the Xinjiang genocide dwarfs the scale of the latest mass shooting, but we are still against the latest mass shooting, and all else equal we would prefer it not happen.
PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, USA Contact: Justin Contact Info: pghacx[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Saturday, April 6th, 1:30 PM Location: DEFAULT OUTDOOR LOCATION: CMU Campus, Jared L Cohon University Center, at the picnic tables outside the east entrance (the side of the building that faces the track). Look for the "ACX" banner. CONTINGENCY INDOOR LOCATION (in case of rain): Jared L Cohon University Center, Danforth Lounge (upstairs, 2nd floor) Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87G2C3V5+6C Notes: The Pittsburgh ACX group meets around once a month, with most meetups taking place around Shady or East Liberty. If you'd like to be notified about future meetups, email pghacx[at]gmail[dot]com to be added to the mailing list. Rhode Island PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Contact: Freya Contact Info: rip[dot]my[dot]inbox[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Saturday, May 04, 01:00 PM Location: Pizza J (967 Westminster St). I’ll be at a table with an ACX sign and some games. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87HCRH9G+27 Additional Notes: Feel free to bring games if you have any!
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87G2C3V5+6C, https://plus.codes/87HCRH9G+27
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND Contact: Freya Contact Info: rip[dot]my[dot]inbox[at]gmail[dot]com Time: Saturday, May 04, 01:00 PM Location: Pizza J (967 Westminster St). I’ll be at a table with an ACX sign and some games. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87HCRH9G+27 Additional Notes: Feel free to bring games if you have any!
Inline links: https://plus.codes/87HCRH9G+27
Contact: Rushi Contact Info: pghacx[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Saturday, September 13th, 2:30 PM Location: City Kitchen at Bakery Square Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87G2F34M+JP5 Group Link: https://discord.gg/6yu [remove this bit] FhsRRJm and https://forms.gle/22YCsXAYFPbBCzvMA Notes: Excited to meet other ACX readers in the 'burgh! Join our Discord to hear about other meetups as well Rhode Island PROVIDENCE Contact: Michael Traner Contact Info: michaeltraner7[a t]gmail[period]com Time: Saturday, October 4th, 4:00 PM Location: Prospect Terrace Park if it is decent weather, the Providence Place Mall Food Court if weather is bad. I'll have a sign saying ACX MEETUP measuring at least three feet diagonally positioned in some conspicuous way. Coordinates: https://plus.codes/87HCRHJV+236 Notes: RSVP to receive weather updates. The fallback location code is https://plus.codes/87HCRHGM+VH, inside the Providence Place Mall.