Finished The Talented Mr. Ripley 📚
The interiority is remarkable. I wonder how people in 1955 took this book!? It must have blown minds and caused a controversy of some sort: witch hunt/book-banning/congressional hearings? The travel was super real too, she must’ve lived in Italy. 🤔
Was just doing the math: in a few weeks is the anniversary when I left home and secretly went to Japan as an 18 year old. (There is a whole story there!) Anyways, I am now a year older than my father at that time. Wow! THIS is how young he was! 🤯
From Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social
both the neoliberal consensus and the Palo Alto consensus have collapsed, leading the political economies of Washington DC and Silicon Valley to move in very different directions.
Day 2 of #RevolverCoffeeAdvent and I really like this one! No spoilers, but it is from one of my favourite regions. ☕️
Smooth flight over the Rocky Mountains 🏔️
Current status: Airport, about to fly back to Vancouver. ✈️
A little bit of snow in Kelowna. Just here catching up with fam and friends before the hols. ⛄️
November Newsletter is out, on the theme of making connections #newsletter
OMG this is epic… from the @uncannyjapan.com Discord
Completed my challenge of 35 books! 📚
Picked up my advent calendar from revolvercoffee.ca in Gastown today ☕
Comes with a little booklet for tasting notes! 📝
“He has no fear of cowardice”
Some 🔥 lines in this section of The Saint of Bright Doors by @vajra.me 📚
🚨 THIS WEEK 📢 for the Metagov seminar we are hosting Kaliya Young and Day Waterbury to discuss their new paper “Exploring the Remarkable Regenerative Patterns and Practices of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).”
#Metagov #SummerOfProtocols
In Against the Dark Forest internet writer and thinker Erin Kissane (who has just been killing it recently) re-assesses then challenges the notions of the Dark Forest (and by association the Cozy Web). People in my corner of the internet will already be familiar with the writing of Yancy Strickler, Maggie Appleton and Venkatesh Rao, all cited in the piece. Figure: Maggie Appleton’s now famous illustration of the layers of the web.
In the second bookstore of the afternoon with my kids. They just love going to the bookstore, running around to see what’s available, talking excitedly about which they read and which they want to buy… and then leaving to go to the next one! I think we did well with these girls 🥹📚
4-nil!!! #COYS
Here are some photos and a bit of an overview of our recent, cross-border #DWeb event whtwnd.com/chadkoh.c…
Started listening to The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera 📚
Good morning all! 🙏 🙇♂️
Just watched Wim Wenders 1977 film The American Friend. Beautifully shot and I admire the young Bruno Ganz’s moustache… but this film is MESSED UP 😳 I need to watch it again and make note of all the connections between the scenes.
Why do young content creators scream into their mics and blowout all the sound? When you need to reply to an important email, do you do it on your phone or wait until you get to a computer? What is the internet “megadungeon”? What about Poster’s Disease? Why does nobody use hashtags anymore, and who ruined the Laser Eyes Meme? Is it right to create an AI or generate photos of your departed parent?