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https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n19/john-lanchester/document-number-nine "‘Digitalisation has brought the Chinese people the historic opportunity of the millennium,’ the plan says. What does that mean? It means that China feels that it fell behind the West by missing out on the industrial revolution...

My friend just sent me this Got me thinking about a quality of modern pop music that I don't think there was so much of in the past - I'll now struggle to describe it but it would include qualities like "darkness" atmospherics filtered chords, hinting at barely suppressed emotions...

I know this is old news, but the tag system on here has given me a small taste of what it must be like posting on 4chan. (Only - hopefully - without the racism.) It's an interesting concept, isn't it? I wonder what discussions on dissensus would be like without stable identities to defend and...

Was scoping the aphex thread and thinking about how I could never cultivate a mystique like that if I was a musical genius now cos I've splurged my confessions all over the internet. Got me wondering if there are famous people online under pseudonyms, living out secret lives. And about secret...

SCURRILOUS https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-48990549 A churchwarden has been found guilty of murdering an author after tricking him into changing his will. Benjamin Field, 28, manipulated 69-year-old Peter Farquhar for financial gain and tried to make his death look like...

I'm a tarantino sceptic - I loved reservoir dogs and pulp fiction when I was a teenager (I group those movies with grand theft auto) but I didn't like kill bill much at all. I revisited Jackie brown fairly recently and thought it was GREAT. But I've not seen his recent films cos they sound a...

Entertaining, crazy, intense film, great mushroom trip visuals.

I'm reading a book of V.S. Pritchett's travel writing, and one thing I like about his writing is how he notes down conversations he's overheard, and captures something of the regional characteristic use of language or just of human oddity in general. I hate starting a thread like this without...

Overeducation - where does it all go? In Men's Health, mind you! https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/lifestyle/a750266/how-cristiano-ronaldo-became-the-best-in-the-world/ Eight years and one transfer later, even the most diehard followers of St George must acknowledge that Ronaldo, as our...

http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html Sorry#notsorry if this has been posted before.

Where were you in 92? the thread. I'm interested in how now legendary times in music e.g. hardcore, acid house, uk garage, grime - have become misrepresented in the media and collective imagination. Obviously even people who were at Rage or whatever only had a partial view of something much...

Watched Saturday night. Isn't this movie now more sinister and scary than it was in the past because of all the mass shootings that have happened in the US? To me it's now less a horror movie about AI gone mad, more about gun control. It gives me a frisson similar to Taxi Driver.

I'm sharing the wealth. Maximum one a day. Can I keep it up? Who knows? July 5th 2019 An Arctic Summer: Boring Through the Pack in Melville Bay,1871 William Bradford American In 1861 the marine painter William Bradford made the first of his eight expeditions to the Arctic. This painting...

Come here to say hi and log your highs. 11.26am and I'm high on one flat white and one cortardo drunk on a nearly empty stomach with a good night's sleep.

What have you got on the walls? Have you got a garden? What's your favourite piece of furniture?

There's more poetry on Spotify than you might expect, so I sometimes listen to it for a larf. I like this one because I don't really know what it's about and I haven't even tried to figure it out, I like the sound of the words clanging together. I think this brings me closer to an appreciation...

As I walked home on this pristine summer evening, the sky a gorgeous milky blue, planes gliding silently in the distance, the trees murmuring, etc. This came on shuffle and I wondered why it's trancey synths were so perfect for the weather. It seems to me that these synths "appear" absolute...

I floated this idea to Luka and he gave it the thumbs up. Craner's top 100 was of course very sexy but in a quite sophisticated, man-of-the-world, bed-sprinkled-with-rose-petals way. This list, I hope, will be more like one of those British shagcoms from the 70s about cheeky, perpetually...