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Month: April 2022

  • always trust your instincts

    Always enlightening to see your own culture through the eyes of an outsider. USian artist James A Reeves is currently tooling round That Septic Isle, and so reminding me of familiarities which I am for the most part glad to have left behind, but seen askance as unfamiliarities. It helps that he has a fine…

  • accumulations (three different ones)

    So much chewy material in this genuine monster of an Evgeny Morozov essay at New Left Review. Absorbing it fully would likely take a number of re-reads, not to mention a greater familiarity with the literatures and debates he’s navigating here; as such, to the only precis I can offer is Morozov’s own, from near…

  • jag har slutat med ugglan

    As previously discussed. 650 days is a pretty good run, but Clozemaster looks like it’s far better suited to my needs going forward.

  • a position of negligible influence

    Given my line of work, I should probably be among the many people who scour the latest missives from the IPCC as soon as they drop. My reasons for not doing so are two-fold. Firstly, I’m very short of time, and scanning 800+ pages of written-by-committee material in order to confirm the details of what…

  • venue rules