Blogs worth a look

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Maths isn't real you can't debunk it if its not real don't worry Sufi!

maths is the only thing that's real, soz luka

 

[Leo]

https://olivercraner.com

 

[sus]

maths is the only thing that's real, soz luka

How can numbers be real if objects aren't real

 

[sufi]

Nice writeup about @owen here https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/remnants-of-utopia describes the context that the blogs and bloggers came out of, including "forgotten corridors of the internet" like this place

NLR Sidecar itself is worth a look once in a while

 

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@luka this is the guy who used to write the blog Erase the World:

PHILIP MILLER | Author, Journalist and Poet

 

[luka]

i definitely remember the title but nothing else. was it a depression blog?

 

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i definitely remember the title but nothing else. was it a depression blog?

It was a bit, I think he used to call himself 'Baal'. K-Punk loved him.

 

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Almost all those blog links on K-Punk are now empty; it's like a ghost town, quite eery.

 

[john eden]

People who delete their blogs are the worst cowards.

 

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Most of mine still exist, thank you very much.

 

[john eden]

I guess the possible exceptions are

that guy who was prosecuted for his over the top Girls Aloud fanfic,
people who write under a pseudonym who are outed,
people who transition and become a different person, if that is the right way of putting it.

 

[john eden]

Most of mine still exist, thank you very much.

This is one of the many ennervating things about the Craner brand.

 

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This is one of the many ennervating things about the Craner brand.

What do you mean?

 

[john eden]

That you’re not a serial deleter of blogs and this is to your credit!

 

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Oh.

 

[sufi]

I guess the possible exceptions are

that guy who was prosecuted for his over the top Girls Aloud fanfic,
people who write under a pseudonym who are outed,
people who transition and become a different person, if that is the right way of putting it.

mine was self-hosted over broadband! using a domain that didn't belong to me, sadly it collapsed due to a catastrophic hard drive failure
i think that sort of daring technical incompetence should also qualify as a possible exception

a few missing posts, and no mp3s, sadly, but https://web.archive.org/web/20070125035233/http://railtonroad.com:80/6109/

 

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mine was self-hosted over broadband! using a domain that didn't belong to me, sadly it collapsed due to a catastrophic hard drive failure
i think that sort of daring technical incompetence should also qualify as a possible exception

a few missing posts, and no mp3s, sadly, but https://web.archive.org/web/20070125035233/http://railtonroad.com:80/6109/

Your blogs were highly complex multimedia works of art, it's no wonder they crashed the internet.

 

[version]

I've posted a couple from here in other threads and read a bunch more today, so might as well stick the thing proper in here. I think one of the guest writers is a mate of Gus', but I haven't read that one yet.

Archive - Covidian Æsthetics

Full archive of all the posts from Covidian Æsthetics .

covidianaesthetics.substack.com

@Clinamenic There's one attacking Yarvin you might find interesting,

Against the Silicon Leviathan | Elijah del Medigo

A classic from the LapsusLima archive.

covidianaesthetics.substack.com

And another on NFTs via Land and Bataille,

Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: NFTs and the Prohibition of Expenditure | C. N. Jaimes

Guest Column #014

covidianaesthetics.substack.com

 

[woops]

c'mon gus share your mates blogs with dissensus, loads of reading material

 

[luka]

i think ive got indigstion. i had chips, buttered white bread, coleslaw, pickled eggs, mushy peas, curry sauce and 'halloumi fries' plus loads of disgusting 'english ale' which tastes like digestive biscuits and brown bread