2022-07-20 (Wednesday)
Links
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The Balletic Millennial Bedtimes of ‘Normal People’ | Lorrie Moore | The New York Review of Books
From 2020. I liked, about millennials, “They have no authentic counterculture…”. If all culture is easily accessible, can there be any counter? (I don’t know if this is right, but interesting.)
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Open Lecture at CIID: “Keeping up with the Kardashevians” – Petafloptimism
Matt Jones on stuff done at BERG and Google, and our anti-anti-utopian future. (Video plus slides & transcript.)
Tweets
@Zoonie Yup, ta.
@palingjenkins @emmerdale @Ivy_Davies Brilliant, congratulations Ivy!
Liked tweets
As I watched that clip of Mordaunt being interviewed by the Spectator, I was reminded of a very similar detachment from reality that was exhibited by David St Hubbins at the end of the film Spinal Tap