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Month: July 2020

  • the efficient universe

    Synchronicity, serendipity, universal ordering… call it what you want, but sometimes you’re working on something, and out of nowhere a useful bit of info just drops into your lap or, in this case, your inbox. Joanne McNeil’s latest newsletter contains this little aside: I was looking for a quote about efficiency in life…something said by…

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  • it takes a village to hate a capital

    An excerpt from a chewy Will Davies longread about WhatsApp at Teh Graun from a few weeks back: WhatsApp is certainly an unbeatable conduit for circulating conspiracy theories, but we must also admit that it seems to be an excellent tool for facilitating genuinely conspiratorial behaviour. One of the great difficulties when considering conspiracy theories…

  • far from the ideological panoply promised

    Aware that the regulations concerning feedback to the Central Civic Authority limit my initial complaint to one hundred sentences, I am indulging in sentence structures more complex and digressive than would be my inclination otherwise. It is my understanding that the daemon constructed to assess and rout complaints to the relevant authorities is equipped to…

  • the idea becomes a smokescreen for the strong or the lucky

    Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a structureless group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly…