Month: October 2021
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framsteg med svenska
Well, time flies, doesn’t it? Just a few days out from hitting a 500-day streak on Duolingo’s Swedish course, for which I completed the whole ‘tree’ a few months back. Duo veterans will be aware that a ‘streak’ can have gaps in it—you can buy yourself days off with the in-game currency (the little red…
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Mirrorball’s night off
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07OCT21 / accessions
An assignment for BSFA Review. Looking forward to tucking into this one.
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a Rube Goldberg machine made of fucking corpses
Plenty of critiques of the NFT “art” scene exist, but they—neither unreasonably nor unnecessarily—tend to focus on the (socio)technological side of the phenomenon. These two essays from back in June cropped up on Metafilter yesterday, coming at it from a more art-critical and political-economic angle… and while they’re pretty depressing in many respects, it’s a…
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02OCT21 / accessions