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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…

  • Mirrorball’s night off

  • på järnväg igen

    Been a while.

  • the most animal of all human abilities

    It is perfectly possible, then, that far from being an exclusively human attribute, the narrative faculty is the most animal of human abilities, a product of one of the traits that humans indisputably share with animals and many other beings—attachments to place. Perhaps, then, storytelling, far from setting humans apart from animals, is actually the most important…

  • feral empiricism

    Not sure if the title term is Mark Carrigan’s own coining, here—it seems to be a g**glewhack, so maybe it is?—but I like it enough that I’m stashing it here, with some of the material for context: The phrase “do your research!” is ubiquitous across the subcultures which have popped up amidst platform capitalism’s epistemic…