Velcro City Tourist Board

Author: PGR

  • this addiction can be overcome

    On the one hand, it’s nice to see the theory’n’philosophy crowd come out swinging for “disruption”: In order to resist disruption it is not enough to demonstrate that its benefits are based on shaky evidence. […] While these analyses are useful to debunk the illusion that innovation is always an improvement, they do not modify…

  • ett bra betyg

    Jag verker passera min språkskurs (CEFR nivå B1). Grattis till mig! (Det är lyckligt för mig att provet fokuserade mer på att läsa och skriva än att lyssna och prata… mycket mer övning behövs!)

  • noot noot, motherfucker

  • notice that wall

    Apropos of nothing but its glorious strangeness, one of twenty images (of what are presumably hundreds more, unscanned) ganked from an old Scientology textbook. Found via an ongoing thing at Metafilter where they’re raking through ancient posts to find forgotten gems.

  • arrogant fidelity

    Looks like the universe is serendipitously feeding my streak of focus on growthism. Clipped from Geoff Mann reviewing William Nordhaus’s new tome at the LRB: Nordhaus attempts to make climate change compatible with ceaseless long-run growth by emphasising the global economy’s ‘carbon intensity’ instead of its carbon sensitivity. The Spirit of Green is most sanguine…