Interesting Links for 13-10-2019
Oct. 13th, 2019 02:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- Eliud Kipchoge is the first human to run a marathon in less than two hours!
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- How to Love Your Introvert
- (tags:introversion love poetry video )
- The end of uBlock Origin for Google Chrome?
- (tags:adblock Google Chrome web )
- Meet the Money Behind The Climate Denial Movement
- (tags:money globalwarming fraud OhForFucksSake )
- Old Man Yells At Cloud (Marvel edition)
- (tags:MartinScorsese movies art marvel )
- Is crude oil is a genuine eldritch horror?
- (tags:oil evil satire )
- DUP's Nigel Dodds rejects double customs Brexit solution: "It cannot work"
- I'm not sure why the EU is even trying to negotiate something that the ERG and DUP will vote against...
(tags:europe uk NorthernIreland ) - Some downsides to being in the EEA rather than the EU
- (tags:europe Norway trade )
- New, smaller, banks are all losing money
- (tags:Banking fail )
- How Italians Became 'White'
- (tags:racism USA history )
- Some details on the Brexit withdrawal deal being put together. Can't see it getting past parliament, but we'll see!
- (tags:UK Europe )
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Date: 2019-10-13 03:44 pm (UTC)Surely because they want to bend over backwards to look like the reasonable ones?
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Date: 2019-10-20 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-10-15 07:45 pm (UTC)Not really my type of writing, but if you're interested in exploring the theme:
https://ciudadtecnicolor.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/cyclonopedia.pdf
Negarastani is big in the OOO (Object Oriented Ontology) group of folks (not sure he is OOO himself or what that movement is doing now).
But yeah, he hit on that idea and wrote a novel about it :P
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Date: 2019-10-20 04:13 pm (UTC)New, smaller, banks are all losing money
Date: 2019-10-16 09:48 am (UTC)Re: New, smaller, banks are all losing money
Date: 2019-10-16 09:50 am (UTC)But it would be good to see their pathway to doing so.
Old Man Yells at Cloud
Date: 2019-10-18 06:44 pm (UTC)The scene is about 15 years ago, in Kresge Auditorium at MIT. On the stage are Peter David, Neil Gaiman, and Harlan Ellison. Needless to say, the place is packed.
Peter reads his But I Digress column from right after 9/11, still recent enough to be a somber moment.
Neil reads "My Crazy Hair", and for the first time I understand that all Neil Gaiman stories are better when heard with Neil's voice. Ever since, even when I'm not listening to him on audiobook, I find that his stories work best when I mentally plug his voice and cadence in as I read.
Harlan -- launches into a rant about why the Internet is evil, and all of You Students Who Upload Things are evil, because you are destroying the economic forces that allow creativity to exist. Which, mind, has a *bit* of truth to it, but he then spends the next *hour* arguing with members of the audience, even while most of us are cringing and quietly going, "Shut up and let Neil say something we actually want to hear".
So yeah -- it isn't unusual for brilliant creators to become quite vividly cranky old men when their pet peeves are in question...