Month: August 2018
August 31, 2018
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Thought
The air show is happening in Toronto which means it is VERY noisy right now.
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Review
The Price You Pay (Aidan Truhen (pseudonym), 2018)
Whoa. This is one in-your-face crime novel. Not for the faint-of-heart. That said, it can be fun to get inside the head of a charming sociopath every now-and-then. As long as you can get out again.
I saw someone guessing this is a Nick Harkaway novel and I’m pretty sure it is.
I am a fucking asymmetric criminal startup. I got limited expertise in criminal strategic warfare. I hotdesk and I outsource and I franchise, but what I mostly have is a core concept, forward momentum.
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From Errol Morris, a list of 10 things you should know about truth & photography
“In 2011, writer and filmmaker Errol Morris summarized the main points in Believing Is Seeing , his book on the nature of truth, belief, and reality in…”
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The New Science of Seeing Around Corners | Quanta Magazine
algorithms The New Science of Seeing Around Corners By Natalie Wolchover August 30, 2018 Computer vision researchers have uncovered a world of visual signals…
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Thought
Isn’t this poster gorgeous? Those fonts!
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I’ve been working on my blog for most of the summer (with help, I’m not a WordPress geek by any stretch of the imagination). My next goal is to automate distribution of posts from the blog to social media.
August 26, 2018
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Review
Ball Lightning (Liu Cixin, Joel Martinsen (Translator), 2005/2018)
Liu Cixin really is a worthy successor to A.C. Clarke – the first author I became obsessed while a mere wee tike). This is a new English translation of an older novel that doesn’t quite have the expansiveness of Three-Body Problem, but was still a joy to read.
August 23, 2018
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Photo
Good morning!
August 22, 2018
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Review
The Beyond (Hasraf Dulull, 2017)
None of this makes any sense at all!
August 21, 2018
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Review
The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2018)
Dumb. Fun.
August 18, 2018
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Thor: Ragnarok (Taika Waititi, 2017)
Not a fan – at all – of superhero movies, but this was fun. As with Deadpool, if they go for humor I can get behind it easier.
August 17, 2018
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Review
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (Mike Newell, 2018)
An old-timey romance that features beautiful shots of the Guernsey island landscape but otherwise is weak and problematic. We’re still making movies about women falling for their Nazis captors in 2018?
August 11, 2018
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Review
The Incendiaries (R.O. Kwon, 2018)
A great debut novel by R.O. Kwon. Cults and terrorism examined from a new angle. Maybe it’s “cult adjacent” more than about cults.
August 4, 2018
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Online Hate Is Rampant. Here’s How to Keep It From Spreading
Back in the last presidential campaign season, reporters on the tech and politics beats began noticing a rise in far-right memes that supported Trump. Memes…
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The glitzy menace of 1950s nostalgia threatens the world
When I search for the origins of today’s angry, backward-looking politics, I can’t help thinking of a specific August morning almost 50 years ago, on the final…
August 1, 2018
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Review
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh, 2018)
Moshfegh writes wonderful stories about damaged women doing terrible things. This fantastical story of a woman going to extreme lengths to avoid the consequences of her life didn’t please me as much as her earlier novel Eileen, but it was satisfying nonetheless.