CRISIS ACTORS by Maddison Stoff and Corey Jae White — for Strange Horizons
Becoming Earth by Robin Wall Kimmerer — who coincidentally was recently brought to my attention by Ottmar Liebert
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Contingent Futures and the Time of Crisis: Ganzeer's Transmedial Narrative Art — Dominic Davies for Literary Geographies.
Peter Theil talks AI, Mars, Immortality, and the Anti-Christ — Very strange.
Silicon Valley Insider EXPOSES Cult Like AI Companies — Aaron Bastani Meets Karon Hao in the best takedown of AI I've seen yet.
Trump Bombs Iran: Huge escalation of War, making nuclear weapons more likely — Geopolitical Economy Report
“Brutal Act That Contravenes International Law”: Iran Confirms US Strikes — NDTV World
Explosions in Tel Aviv, other Israeli cities as Iran launches missiles after US Strikes — Hindustan Times
Israel Discovers that Bombing Hospitals is a War Crime — Novara Media
5 Books that Dive into the Drug-Fueled Darkness of the Club Scene — Ivy Pochoda for CrimeReads
Dark Retreats: several days alone in a room in complete darkness and silence. Participants are delivered three meals through a hatch that maintains the darkness in their dwellings, which also each contain a bed, bath, and flushing toilet. They can leave simply by opening the door, and they can also break their silence to chat with the facilitators at two intervals throughout the day when they come to the door to check on them and bring the food. Electronic items like phones or tablets are not allowed inside dark rooms, making it perhaps the ultimate dopamine fast. — Wired
Smearing Writers and Artists with a Red Stain — The Daily Heller
A Writer For Our Time: Why John Le Carre's Work Remains More Essential Than Ever — Rav Grewal Kok for CrimeReads
Israel Tells Airlines Not To Let Israeli Citizens Leave — Haaretz
Ottmar Leibert on culture and its fringes.
Warren Ellis on Jesse Armstrong's MOUNTAINHEAD
“Hollywood assignments had already kept him from new fiction for nearly a year and a half. Since then, Leonard had devoted himself exclusively to screenwriting, considering penning a film’s companion novel—or 'novelization'—only if the money was right. As a result, Leonard had little time to experiment with his fiction, to apply the lessons learned from his year and a half toiling with The Big Bounce. He expressed his growing concerns on the matter to Swanson. Leonard later recalled, '[Swanson] called to ask if I’d read a recently published novel called The Friends of Eddie Coyle. I told him I hadn’t heard of it and he said, ‘This is your kind of stuff, kiddo, run out and get it before you write another word.’ Leonard took Swanson’s recommendation and breezed through George V. Higgins’s critically acclaimed 1970 debut in one sitting, later claiming '[I] felt as if I’d been set free, [thinking] so this was how you do it.'” — COOLER THAN COOL: The Life And Times of Elmore Leonard by C.M. Kushins at CrimeReads.
Live TV Wall: Live TV from across the globe, all on one screen.
Marginalia Search: Discover surprising, content-rich websites from the less commercial, obscure corners of the internet.
Ya Old Blogroll: Curated list of active blogs (where I just discovered Ganzeer.Today just so happens to be listed).
Why Soviet cities are insanely well designed – SovietBorn on Youtube: Not quite actually, she goes off to list many of the cons towards the last third of the video. No need to throw the baby out with the bathwater though, there are ways to address the cons without abandoning everything that ever went into Soviet architecture.
China's City of the Future: Utopia or Dystopia – TechAltar on Youtube: Looks like Shenzhen is kind of out of this world.