Sparks has a new single out, The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte, and Cate Blanchett guest stars in the video. I’ll bet you dollars to donuts there’ll be fans showing up in yellow suits at the shows from now on.
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Absorb into yourself the world’s full richness and goodness and fun and genius, so that when someone tells you it’s not worth fighting for, you will stick up for it, protect it, run to its defence, because it is your world they’re talking about, then watch that world continue to pour itself into you in gratitude
Let me go ahead and get to the punchline—Anonymous, the hacker group that started Occupy—the radical Leftist movement in America—a good percentage of those folks worked with the Russians on the leaks and disinformation campaigns that put Trump in office
Not sure I buy that there’s more ideologically to Russia’s war on the west other than revanchism and greed, but I can believe that Anonymous helped get Trump elected. A bit like how the Trotskyists of Spiked in the UK has embraced right-wing libertarianism to undermine the UK.
Putin wants to expunge the very idea of Ukraine from history. He believes it to be a fallacy. The Ukrainians hold because of many reasons, including continuing Western support, but in the end they hold because they have no choice. They are fighting for their existence. Even in the age of a supranational Europe, Ukraine shows that sovereignty and national feeling still drives peoples.
“Nations must be able to defend themselves,” writes David Patrikarako.
The story goes that millennials lived, laughed, and loved their way into an unprecedentedly insipid environment, turning once-gritty cities into Instagram-friendly dispensaries of baroque ice cream cones that call back, madeleine-style, to the enfolding warmth of their suburban childhoods. But the contemporary built environment is not the millennials’ legacy; it is their inheritance. They didn’t ask for cardboard modernism — they simply capitulate to its infantilizing aesthetic paradigm because there is no alternative.
From n+1 magazine.
For a long time machine curation felt like the future, but now I think the window of pure machine curation is closing. To the extent that search will still be useful, it’ll be useful for searching human-whitelisted content. […] This is good news for human experts like editors and librarians, who have been treated as obsolete by the tech community for decades. Remember librarians? They’re still around, and their work is more valuable than ever.
Jim Stormdancer on how machine learning will decimate search engines as we know them
I know it’s sacrilegious to say, but I’m kind of digging these new Metallica tracks.
Frank Hammersland er død, bare 53 år gammel. Jeg har hørt mye på Pogo Pops, og har fått oppleve dem et par ganger live også – hver gang en mektig opplevelse, med spilleglede i overflod. Hammersland hadde melodisk teft på nivå med Paul McCartney, og var i tillegg en dritgod vokalist.
Da vi bodde på Vålerenga, oppdaget jeg da jeg tok en øl på Times en sommerdag at han satt på bordet ved siden av – og følte meg litt starstruck. (Jeg turde ikke å hilse på.) Året senere kom Love is the Greatest Compass med bl.a. denne godbiten. Hvil i fred, og takk for alle sangene.
Fascinating:
An unexpected ancient manufacturing strategy may hold the key to designing concrete that lasts for millennia.