The epic that is THE SOLAR GRID—the project I've been working on for the better part of the past 9 years—is now 91% complete.
Entering into hyperfocus mode to push through the remaining 9%.
I'm hardly ever on social media, but this reel about Chinese filmmaker Gao Xiaosong's time in an Israeli Kibbutz is too funny.
You know things are messed up when the person responsible for the monitoring and censorship of anti-genocidal material posted across Meta's platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp), a userbase of almost 4 billion people worldwide, is Jordana Cutler, a person who once worked as a strategy advisor in Netanyahu's 2009 election campaign and later as his Advisor for Diaspora Affairs.
Was planning on penciling some TSG today, but the whole day was lost to scanning all 200 pages of THE MEANING OF DEATH before shipping it off to its buyer.
I note that the vibrant pink pigments I used on quite a few pages (including the one pictured), barely turn up at all in the scans. Interesting.
This wouldn't be the first time Egypt enters into military conflict with Ethiopia. An attempt to annex Ethiopia was made by Egypt in 1874, which really didn't go very well for Egypt.
Things may get messy because Ethiopia has some sort of military agreement with Turkiye and an arms deal with Israel in addition to a major mining deal too.
Moved my most-read blog post, THE PALESTINIAN PROBLEM, to the main dot com, and also populated a few of the sections with some work I hadn't yet uploaded. More of that over the next few days.
Penciled one page of TSG and will attempt another right after I break for some excercise.
THE SOLAR GRID #1 is completely sold out. Issues #2-8 are still in stock. I'm sure the time will come when I look upon these single-chapter editions as the strange time capsules that they are.
Started THE PLAGUE by Albert Camus. This being my third Camus, it's now very evident that Camus' writing appeals to me. Adequately sparse, just the right words in exactly the right places in a way that evokes more than what is being said. Something I don't find entirely true of most contemporary authors who lean towards the extra telegrammatic. The buildup of eerie over the first 30 pages in THE PLAGUE is really perfectly paced.
I'm sick of both U.S. presidential candidates popping up on my screen several times a day to ask for money. Is there any other place on Earth where rich politicians not only expect your vote, but have the gall to ask you to pay for it too?
Mangal-Media: Istanbul-based micropress with great looking books.
Matt Alt argues that the TV series Shogun's appeal in America is because” our socio-politically fractured era resembles a culture-war version of Japan's era of warring states.”
Anne Carson: Life is Not Fair – The Louisiana Channel
Stuck: Dana Omar is only $3,200 away from reaching her pilot's production goal, and only a few hours to go until her campaign ends.
Matt Madden on discovering Oulipo.
Right-wing influencers duped to work for covert Russian operation – Or, Russia utilizes America's capitalist tendances against itself.
USPS is rolling out their own fleet of electric trucks apparently.
Free Faces: Free open-source typefaces.
Rain Poems-Ottmar Liebert: Beautiful acoustic guitar instrumentals.
Alleged fraudster got $10 million in royalties using bots to stream AI-generated music that he uploaded.
Newsletter scheduled to send in a few hours from now. This will be issue #213 and its title is The [Inherent] Evil of Techno-Optimism, and just as it says on the tin, its main feature is a [partial] takedown of Marc Anderseen's horrendous The Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
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A snack and dishes before tending to those. Would like to kick the weekend off with a clean slate. Sumud for Palestine tomorrow.
Genuinely surprised there isn't more reporting on Israel remotely detonating handheld devices across Lebanon, and how news of this is not seeping into tech news. This takes the notion of weaponizing handheld devices against its users to a whole new level. Truly terrifying, and we're only seeing the very early stages of its implementation.
Image via Newsmap.
