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No, she is trying to work out how to give as much freedom as possible to as many people as possible. Since then, she's been deploring university censorship, of anti-genocide voices for now -https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/there-can-be-no-critique?

I got around to reading the essay by Terry Eagleton Bookish Boy recently added to the Strange thread, and it says this: With revolutionary nationalism, culture in the sense of language, custom, folklore, history, tradition, religion, ethnicity and so on becomes something people will kill for...

From what I've read, one side put out their interpretation of the situation and their reactions, which continues to circulate as gospel for some, without fair inquiry into all factors involved.

Photos full of character. The serious business of going to the beach! Did you see this post as well from the Strange thread about a piece in The Times the other day referring to Everyday Is Like Sunday when looking at UK politicians' plans to do up seaside towns...

A fascinating essay, and something for some reason, we keep needing reminding about. Same for AI, according to the Operaismo movement people - "...the inner code of AI is shaped not by the imitation of biological intelligence, but the intelligence of labour and social relations..."...

Techradar's general overview, with an Interlude mention https://www.techradar.com/audio/record-store-day-2024

I Never Promised You A Rose Garden &

Instructions for repeat actions characterise modern life, putting more distance between decisions and results. At an extreme end, take the unfortunately not fictional new make of weapons for controlling brains...

Founder of XR mocks the Guardian for glibly failing to face facts - https://rogerhallam.com/the-guardian-facilitates-genocide/?ref=roger-hallam-newsletter Marina Hyde was really vulgar in her smearing of Assange as well. You'd wonder if she occasionally comments on Solo! Hallam also told the...

So well said. This article covers the same ground and draws similar conclusions - https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/will-big-trans-be-held-to-account-3ad? :tiphat:

I disagree, gashonthenail. She name-calls and berates, based on her perception of message content and intent; but not based on personality. Is time-out given for too many posts, or too many posts of a particular type, or what? I'm always trying to catch up with the rest of you. Here's...

Words so lightly thrown, with no substance except malice, being... The response to the very last question of this interview pertains to Morrissey's position on being known and remembered - https://illnessasart.com/2020/10/10/the-face-march-1990/ :love: He seems to be incredibly aware of his...

Hard watch indeed, but the teenage perspective and animal victims of war made it feel like a Morrissey take. The only let down for me was stereotyped portrayal of the Germans, which detracts from the message that this horror at minimum is what all war means. Malarkey would have your guts for...

There's a story about Detroit rock group Sponge covering songs for a 30th anniversary and possibly including one by Morrissey:

Perfectly apt reference to Everyday Is Like Sunday in Patrick Maguire's report for The Times on UK politicians' plans to do up seaside towns https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/can-labour-turn-tide-on-battered-english-coast-h3jvxfs9x & https://archive.is/IYQzA